When I listen to it, I get a visualisation of 1990, of GB - which is of course expected.

But the song, it's structure and form seems quite different to that of any of track I've heard from 1986, it seems quite alien to put it against the tracks from that era.

Whether that's the fact that it was released in 1990, and will always have that tag with it, I don't know, but I find it so different from anything else we've (generally) heard from the time-frame it was recorded.

It's timeless to me. It sounds like he could've released it last week.

I got the song in 87 (the full version, which is still the best), so I always associate it with the 86/87 period. To me, it was just criminal it took so long to get released. I felt it was another "The Beautiful Ones" classic waiting to happen. I could not understand why it remained unreleased.

When it finally surfaced, I was gutted it was cut, but glad I had it in such good quality.

I found it funny how it was virtually ignored until Prince pulled it out of the bag, live, at the end of 96. Suddenly, it was now excepted as a classic!

I thought, Duh! Where have you been!

I was lucky enough not to have heard it until 1990 and loved it at first listen. The drums kinda remind me of "Noon Rendezvous" (1984) though -- do they you too?

SquirrelMeat said:

Same here. I would be happy if Prince put it up on NPGmc. Original intro and all...

I never listen to the released version. On the other hand, like you, I had the original in 87 and to me it's very much THAT era, together with Crystal Ball, The Ball, Last Heart, Rebirth Of The Flesh etc.

All these songs are imprinted on my mind. Maybe it's better if it stays unreleased, so not to tarnish my memory of a great song.
Cuz what would he do? Edit. The four letter word remark.

SquirrelMeat said:

I agree completely. I'll always associated it with '87 because that's when I first heard it. I never listen to that fucked up cut version of it on Grafitti Bridge...damn Prince and his reckless editing/reworking.