According to the Insta account:

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Let me guess, it'll be just as "expanded" as the ATWIAD set was

GiggityGoo said:

According to the Insta account:

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#mce_temp_url#

That's good news. Hope "expanded" means it includes unreleased/live material, not just B-sides and 7" mixes.

No super deluxe, no outtakes, maybe a live... WTF

dustoff said:

GiggityGoo said:

According to the Insta account:

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#mce_temp_url#

That's good news. Hope "expanded" means it includes unreleased/live material, not just B-sides and 7" mixes.

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They wrote "deluxe edition", not super deluxe. I fear the album, the b-sides and maybe a live. Bah

dustoff said:

MIRvmn1 said:

MIRvmn1 said:

It's insane that Parade won't get a SDE treatment. But we all saw this coming since the current Estate doesn't want our money.

Oh, they want our money. They just want it from us in the form of $1400 per person, once every summer. Anything beyond that is just too much work for them.

ShellyMcG said:

I don't like the fact that they're calling this a Deluxe edition rather than a Super Deluxe Edition because the so-called "deluxe" version of Around The World In A Day was awful. There was nothing "deluxe" about it. The only reason why I'm holding out ANY hope for this is the fact that the reception for ATWIAD was almost universally negative and I doubt it sold well at all. So I'm really hoping that the estate has seen sense and have decided to include actual unreleased material as an incentive to buy it.

People have been criticizing this estate for 3-4 years straight across all platforms, ranging from polite constructive feedback to scathing personal attacks, and not a single word of it has made Londell & Charles change their methods. They don't give a fuck and they never will for as long as they're holding Prince's music hostage.

I wonder which b-side will be remastered at the wrong speed.

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Or shall they make an album track a few seconds shorter like they did on D&P?

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Or perhaps they'll be creative and give us a glitch like the one on Erotic City in 2017 instead. It's been years without a proper glitch.

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Can't wait to see what they'll come-up with this time. This is so exciting!

FrankieCoco1 said:

FrankieCoco1 said:

FrankieCoco1 said:

wasitgood4u2 said:

When they released SOTT SDE (which was great) I kinda felt that they had pulled the carpet out from any Parade SDE. I mean, it feels like most of the Parade era unreleased went into that, no? I’m not an expert on unreleased stuff. What could they put on there that hasn’t been covered? The David Z version of Kiss? Some Prince versions of Family trax? I’m sure there’s stuff that I don’t know about or remember but most of the DF and Parade era Revolution plus stuff went on SOTT SDE. Maybe Madhouse stuff?

Not even getting into the fact that SOTT SDE wasn't fully comprehensive for its own album era, here's the vault material that could be included in a hypothetical Parade SDE:

• Evolsidog
• Others Here With Us
• Tibet
• Old Friends 4 Sale (original mix)
• All My Dreams (as part of OG Parade configuration)
• Stella & Charles
• Come Elektra Tuesday
• Heaven
• The Dawn
• Neon Telephone
• God Is Everywhere
• Call Of The Wild
• Splash (original mix)
• Empty Room
• Sexual Suicide (original mix)
• Go
• An Honest Man (both version #1 & original mix of the CB98 version)

databank said:

I wonder which b-side will be remastered at the wrong speed.

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Or shall they make an album track a few seconds shorter like they did on D&P?

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Or perhaps they'll be creative and give us a glitch like the one on Erotic City in 2017 instead. It's been years without a proper glitch.

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Can't wait to see what they'll come-up with this time. This is so exciting!

Let's make some bets: Funny speed issue award goes to the extended version of Love Or Money, as they couldn't figure out whether that was meant to be like that or what.

FrankieCoco1 said:

What’s annoying is there’s an announcement of sorts without actually anything of substance being said. Almost like they have just remembered to put something together for the 40th anniversary of Parade but aren’t actually sure just yet. A bit like saying you’re getting married in the autumn but not sure who to, where or who is going to be invited.

There is no substantial announcement because this probably will be ATWIAD pt2:

remaster, extended versions, B sides and edits with a shiney gatefold cover.

So even The Estate is not excited about this release

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Trufunksoulja said:

FrankieCoco1 said:

What’s annoying is there’s an announcement of sorts without actually anything of substance being said. Almost like they have just remembered to put something together for the 40th anniversary of Parade but aren’t actually sure just yet. A bit like saying you’re getting married in the autumn but not sure who to, where or who is going to be invited.

There is no substantial announcement because this probably will be ATWIAD pt2:

remaster, extended versions, B sides and edits with a shiney gatefold cover.

So even The Estate is not excited about this release

[Edited 4/1/26 5:34am]

I may have forgotten one or two, but if I'm not mistaken, the only single tracks to have received a CD/digital release so far are Kiss 12'', Love Or Money 7'' and Alexa De Paris 12'', so if they don't fuck it up again, it could at least be nice to finally have the rest.

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Perhaps they could add Girl 12'' at the proper speed as a hidden/bonus track for the poor souls who purchased ATWIAD?

ShellyMcG said:

I don't like the fact that they're calling this a Deluxe edition rather than a Super Deluxe Edition because the so-called "deluxe" version of Around The World In A Day was awful. There was nothing "deluxe" about it. The only reason why I'm holding out ANY hope for this is the fact that the reception for ATWIAD was almost universally negative and I doubt it sold well at all. So I'm really hoping that the estate has seen sense and have decided to include actual unreleased material as an incentive to buy it.

I tend to agree, though it was at least good to get the ATWIAD tracks remastered and the boxset of singles, was as ever a nice touch.

However, there is a major difference between the two - Parade had a tour, we know that was filmed, it had a movie and there are a significant number of out takes from the era.

It is arguably, also the first Prince LP that was appreciated more in Europe than the USA.

The expectations are thus high...

Spicer is already desperately doing damage control on Twitter, replying to people who claim it will be "just a remastered album + b-sides/remixes + a live concert" as "not true".

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Of course, no real info, no clarification if it is an expanded release or a deluxe release (promi video says one thing, promo text says another), no apologies for the amateurish promo video (they used frikking Arial instead of the actual font used for the Parade cover), etc. Just self-righteous nonsense about "facts over fiction". No release date either. No confirmation there will be vault tracks.

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In short: yet another clusterfuck.

bizzie said: