rudeboy4711 said:

Omg, just started listening and I'm already vibing.

This sounds great. It adds a lot of extra interest and prestige to what – for me – is one of the artist's less exciting albums.

[Edited 10/25/25 1:52am]

rockford said:

olb99 said:

johnpiex said:

"Rave Church Style" is best. Thou that "rock rock, rock the house!" vocal sample is annoying.
Sad he didn't comply proper gospel music album, all the gospel outtakes been good.


And for me "With This Tear" is really boring - cheesy, unimaginative, and lame instrumentation. That's from a guy who recorded ballads like "God", "I Love U In Me", "Condition of the Heart"...!?

With This Tear is gorgeous

bizzie said:

lustmealways said:

FrankieCoco1 said:

That pre-1983 should have/should be documented and explored. Partly because the people there at that time aren’t getting any younger, plus it’s essentially pre-fame. Duane Tudahl would be the first person in my mind to collate details for that period but seems to have chosen the post SOTT/1987+ era for his next project.

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AFAIK documentation on this era is scant. This is before he went to Sunset Sound (where there are work orders). This is when (presumably) did a lot of his own.

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So you'd need access to whatever is available in the vault, e.g. notes on tapes etc. Which the estate is keeping secret. In the past we've seen that band members etc. can bring up memories when confronted with names and dates and audio, so you'd need that to reconstruct an era where there is a lot of solo work by Prince where there were few people around.

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Hell, so far all we've heard about this era from the estate is a couple of random tracks and a guide saying there is an album where the tapes are partially destroyed due to age or bad conservation. IMHO the estate needs to allow people to go through whatever is in the archives from the pre-1983 era, and allow these people drag in band members and listen to recordings from that era and ask them about them.

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But considering that hasn't even happened with Purple Rain...

NICKthebrick said:

^also a bit bewildering that MPLS was left off, it was the a side wasn't it?

andrewm7new said:

^also a bit bewildering that MPLS was left off, it was the a side wasn't it?

But that's on 1-800-New-Funk, isn't it ?

johnpiex said:

80spfantwp said:

johnpiex said:

His mermaid siren singing in the middle of Dream is absolutely spellbinding.

I agree, an absolute gem. This is my most played track from this set.

Me three

happyshopper said:

Just a thought. Just throwing this out there… but, do we know for a fact that this was the definitive track list? Could this be just a rough selection of tracks, for consideration for the project? Some choices seem a bit odd.

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Afaik the tracklist was shared after the Diamonds & Pearls SDE (or, I never see the complete list of Diamonds & Love outtakes). The list shared contains also unreleased songs from the Diamonds & Pearls period that have been replaced by the current Estate with other songs (for example I Hear Ur Voice replaced by Darkside) and other songs from O)+> era.

I really don't know if Diamonds & Love was ever pressed, or it remains a project until the split in two different project, so I don't know if the Diamonds & Pearls outtakes had a remaster process before the final release.

And afaik, we found photos of Love Symbol DE pressed in vynil, but I never see a photo of the Love Symbol SDE. I don't know if it exists or what unreleased songs from Diamonds & Love project have been chosen to be there.

So, the hypotesis that those outtakes leaked were a part of the raw selection for the Diamonds & Love project could make sense.

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But maybe someone here have a deeper knowledge of the Diamonds & Love history.

Doozer said:

goodbye and baby doll were leaked in lossless .. the mp3s are a rough listen ... would be cool if the full lossless set made it out .. especially if the estate is never going to release any of these tracks