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Yes, getting old my interest for Prince had changed. To be honest, I have only interest in vault music. The SDE photo books with Prince looking at the camera with sexy eyes, today, makes me sad.

Music, music, free the music.

53

Fan since hearing "Controversy" on the radio. Ryde or die since Parade and watching (wearing out my VHS) of the Detroit Birthday Show. Fell off a bit around Rainbow Children. Still a massive love for the man and think about him at least once a day. Fingers crossed for any unseen live footage from the vault but kinda doubtful at this point.

themanfromneptune said:

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Yes, getting old my interest for Prince had changed. To be honest, I have only interest in vault music. The SDE photo books with Prince looking at the camera with sexy eyes, today, makes me sad.

Music, music, free the music.

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Agreed. It should be about the music.
SDEs should be produced with far more emphasis on content (music, music and more music on CDs and BluRays, and then some essays and photos of P working and photos of original tape boxes) and a lot less on fancy packaging (tons of vinyl and pointless, repetitive promo shots of Prince posing). And what's the point of making the booklet hardbound, when it comes inside a rigid box anyway? Just to add shipping weight and cost?
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I'm 55, btw.

Kares said:

themanfromneptune said:

54

Yes, getting old my interest for Prince had changed. To be honest, I have only interest in vault music. The SDE photo books with Prince looking at the camera with sexy eyes, today, makes me sad.

Music, music, free the music.

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Agreed. It should be about the music.
SDEs should be produced with far more emphasis on content (music, music and more music on CDs and BluRays, and then some essays and photos of P working and photos of original tape boxes) and a lot less on fancy packaging (tons of vinyl and pointless, repetitive promo shots of Prince posing). And what's the point of making the booklet hardbound, when it comes inside a rigid box anyway? Just to add shipping weight and cost?
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I'm 55, btw.

I also agree. My interest is solely in Prince's music. I don't care about his personal relationships, religous views, politics, fashion, etc.

Admittedly, to a degree, each of those areas might have informed some of his artisitc choices. And admittledly, some people in the public are interested in those topics. With that mind, I'm willing to tolerate some non-music essays and other artefacts in the SDE collections. But I believe the focus should be on the music itself.

I'd love if each SDE came with liner notes that gave a detailed recording history of each song. If thsoe notes were to include some trivia on personal/social issues that influences the lyrics, great. In that context -- and famed as supplemental info, rather than the focus -- the information would be weclome (so long as it's relaying Prince's true feelings, and not speculating or projecting the opinions of the author onto Prince).

The liner notes should also include explanations for any posthumous editorial decisions made in preparing the track for the SDE. I recognize that the Estate will sometimes need to make tough choices. A tape may be damaged requiring an edit or recreation. Multiple mixes of a song may be in the vault with no clear indication of which Prince perferred, requiringt the Estate to make a judgement call on which version to include. Etc. If the Estate provided that information in the liner notes, it would blunt a lot of the criticism they endure. Fans want that info not only for the transparency, but also because it's interesting.

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45 fan since 88.

would be willing/able to spend up to max $ 50,- per month on prince releases for a couple years.

my main focus woud be music (90%) the other 10 % information on songs and also video stuff.

Old enough to probably be dead by the time the Prince Estate gets it sh*t together (47).

51. But i'll be 52 next month

37. Will probably be in *at least* my fifties by the time this Estate is doing anything interesting with the Come/Gold Experience eras, lol. (and doubtful that they'll still be putting out anything new in the SDE format by then)

Gonna be 50 but started listening when I was 8.

ghostof82 said:

Christonabike I'm currently the oldest on here! Well the odds are stacked against me compared to some of you young uns in yer 40s 😀 [Edited 7/7/24 11:28am]

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Aware of Prince from about as early as possible in Australia due to late night video shows and Double J radio after midnight. Fan since Dirty Mind.

Here's the deal: We fans age, but Prince will stay forever young. That's how it is with musicians. Look at Elvis...that movie came out and a new generation of fans were born. Prince, like Hendrix, The Beatles, etc will always be a global brand (for better or worse). I think the estate gets a bad rap, but they certainly could be maximizing Prince's image/brand/music more than they are. I think once this legal stuff with the family gets wrapped up...we will se exactly that.

I'm 56. Fan since probably 1980 I guess, when I found "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on a K-Tel record, Soundwaves, which I still have a copy of - two actually. The cassette had a slightly different order of songs, and the Canadian verison was 80% different.

ghostof82 said:

I'm currently the oldest on here!

No you ain't!

53. Fan since 1984 when I first heard "When Doves Cry". I knew "1999" and "Little Red Corvette" already, but it was WDC that really changed everything for me.

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59. Been a fan since 1979. I already bought "For You" and liked it but not that much. "Prince" then got me hooked. Then "Dirty Mind" hit us and it just continued from there.