leecaldon said:

TrivialPursuit said:

How is that a deadline?

But I have zero faith in the estate to do anything other than some cheap ass output like ATWIAD with Parade.

Fuck you Charles Spicer and Londell McMillian. You're leeches. Nothing else.

It's not. Releases are about anniversary years, not months.

Yeah, I know. This is the year I'm most disappointed - and I mean sorely so - that no Parade SDE has even been hinted at. If I had the chance, I'd slap the teeth out of both those people.

psyche2 said:

In my opinion, part of the problem (if we acknowledge this is a problem to the estate to begin with) is the very "super deluxe" concept that, let's reckon, doesn't really fit that well with Prince's vast vault catalogue. I'd much rather stand alone relases with previosuly unreleased stuff well conceived and curated. Having to go through X album remastered, and then every edit, B-Side and extended version that we already own just to get two or three discs of previously unreleased stuff only creates mammoth sets

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LMAO. Five discs is a "mammoth set"? My dude, there are sets with dozens of discs for artist who have sold a fraction of Prince's sales. There are artists where entire tours get released on disc.

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shakalakaboom said:

but dates are frequently used as a commemorative marker for interesting news, or hints, or hype; any other artist (or estate), if they were paying attention to the fan reception of the ATWIAD release, might think to throw a bone to the very people who could spread the word about an upcoming release.

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ATWIAD drowned in the end of the year deluge of releases, in part because it was so unremarkable.

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I'm kinda amazed a couple of magazines did some multi-page articles on it, but those were the usual suspects. In most other publications the release got an unremarkable review at best.