It is mainly unreleased studio tracks and Princes versions of songs released by other artists. Demos and other versions of released songs have been avoided except in certain circumstances explained in brackets. my theories on why theyve been included anyway. The quality for tracks is the best available in most cases. While the Works volumes are briiliant and essential i like this set as it does not suffer from clutter and is a good account of unreleased trax that can be listened to like any album.

What do you all think of the track list?



Open Book Volume 1 1976 -1984

Disc 1 59:18
spending my time
dont you wanna ride
jelly jam
leaving for new york
nightingale
rock me lover
sweet thing
make it through the storm
we can work it out
baby baby baby
donna
downa long winding road
i miss you
nadeara
wouldnt you like to love me
hard to get

Disc 2 59:14
tick tick bang (precedes released version by so many years its a toatlly different sound)
climax
shes just a baby
do yourself a favour
lisa
broken
no call u
moonbeam levels
purple music
strangeway of saying i love you
turn it up
baby you're a trip

Disc 3 56:57
extra loveable
lust you always
wonderfull ass
cold coffe and cocaine
mama
mary dont tou weep
manic monday
chocolate
wet dream cousin
a million miles (i love you)

Disc 4 55:56
computer blue (included as it is the origional long version not available on the album)
electric intercourse (live but great sound and no studio version available)
g spot
possessed
the dance electric
100 mph
feline
all day all night (live but great sound and no studio version available)

Volume 2 1984 - 1989
Disc 1 66:28
billys sunglasses (live but great sound and no studio version available)
u gotta shake something

Disc 2 56:59
all my dreams
heaven
old friends 4 sale (totally different lyrics from later released version)
teacher teacher
can i play with u
its a wonderfull day
high fashion
desire
mutiny
eternity
neon telephone
theres others here with us
witness 4 the prosecution

Disc 3 56:22
baby go go
train
girl o my dreams
data bank
in a large room with no light
a place in heaven
big tall wall
rebirth of the flesh
the grand progression
u
the sex of it
the line
melody cool

Disc 4 54:15
the ball
people without (live but great sound and no studio version available)
if i love u tonight
pickle
the voice inside
god is alive
if i had a harem
we got the power
cookie jar
your love is so hard
well done

Volume 3 1989 - 1999
disc 1 57:50
soul psychodelocide
mindbells
me touch myself
bliss
fuschia light
dance with the devil
good man
the voice
player
i hear your voice
hold me
come outside and play

Disc 2 55:54
heaven is keeping score
martikas kitchen
dont say u love me
love thy will be done
spirit
i wonder
open book
get blue
uh huh
my tree/a positive place
electric man
letter 4 miles
alliegance

Disc 3 59:28
schollyard
glamslam 91 (different song to origional)
work that fat
the ryde devine
poor little bastard
i'll do anything
make believe
i cant love u anymore
be my mirror
the p
1000 hugs and kisses
get on up
days of wild (unreleased studio version)
poem
the lost symbol album sgues

Disc 4 66:05
poor goo (live but great sound and no studio version available)
the undertaker (live but great sound and no studio version available)
come (spoken version totally different from album version)
2020
im the dj
slave to the system
feel good
livin 2 die
stone
empty room (95)
outta space
starfish and coffee (re recorded studio version from 95)
journey 2 the centre of your heart
i;ll never be another fool
still the one
one song(song only)

I'm quite sure "If I Had a Harem" is a fake.

CD or CD-R?



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I'm guessing you made this yourself, right?

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lovemachine said:

no, definately Prince's voice.

If all these tracks were available at the Musicology Store, I would be a pretty happy chappy!

langebleu said:

CD-R

Haystack said:

Oh, and I'd happily pay 77c for each and every one.

thebumpsquad said:

i dont have the time to have done this.

so, where's it come from?
It's obviously a fan-made collection.

Nah, I think I'll keep my 'Works Volumes'.

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What label is it released under? THUNDERBALL????? MOONRAKER????? SABOTAGE?????

Ellectrika said:

Bumpsqaud is right, it's fan made, but then so is 12 inches 2 a yard and that is worth having, in my opinion i prefer Open Book as litening to the works is boring, too many repeated tracks and trax that are barely different to the released versions, dont get me wrong its a must for any fan, but i get put off by having to skip to the trax i wanna hear. this one can be put on and enjoyed as 12 complete discs with all unreleased songs. Plus there are a lot of trax that wernet on the works.

lust said:

Agggh.agggh.agggh.agggh.agggh.agggh.agggh!!!!

DEJA!!!
*hyperventilates*

bananacologne said:

So do u have this set!! what do u think of the rest of it?

Prince's version of Love, Thy Will be Done is fantastic...

lust said:

There's nothing on here that I don't have already. How about some new outtakes please!
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lust said:

There's 2 versions of this track circulating.
The 'acoustic' blues in C version is a fake, but the 'full backing' version
(with totally different music to the Lovesexy Live rendition) is genuine.

and there was me thinking there would be a couple on there I'd never heard of, but alas I have them all

BorisFishpaw said:

yep the second one is the one, not the best sound qulaity but really ggod to have and totally listenable

bananacologne said:

deeeeep breaths, 'nana....deeeeep breaths.....

Hey what's this about IF I HAD A HAREM being fake?

I thought he actually performed the song live once (????) Surely it can't be fake.

And it there is a version people are saying is fake then HOW is it fake? Is it someone else singing it?????

explain

Ellectrika said:

there is an instrumental version circulating which is not performed by prince, just someone who copied it, then there is the one on this set which is with Prince vocals and the rreal macoy, studio version not the lovesexy live version.

I haven´t heard any of the songs on Disc 1. Are they all really early stuff? Any good?

Vibrator said:

yeah i think disc 1 is my favourite as its very early, the sound quality is not great on all of them but its good enough and its worth having as many of them were recorded by Prince on a home tape recorder, plus its cool to here his version of sweet thing

Vibrator said:

Most of that is the early stuff he did to get his contract with WARNER BROS.

I can't remember which track it is (maybe Make It Through the Storm or We Can Work It Out) but Prince says, in a really cheesy voice "Me and WB (Warner Bros) making music naturally!!".....God it's so camp and cheesy it's embarrassing, especially considering after what happened with his relationship with Warner Bros. eventually!!!!!



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and the best part of this set is the artwork...at least it will b when I have done it
good list 'lust' - I lost the original fax u sent me - so I'll b getting on to the artwork very soon - 2 coincide with the DVDs - Hellavison and Hellavison Live I am working on....watch out 4 it soon....BTW its fan made so no - it won't b 'from yr favourite bootlegger

CD-R

Everything is out there already widely circulating.

Therefore not a bootleg release, just more rehash by fans, hopefully not from mp3 source.

Shame about the Pure Funk set though, that looked promising, much better than than the 'add 1 new uncirculating out-take to a 2CD set and call it new' approach that Thunderball adopted for so long.

IF I HAD A HAREM is pretty goofy, but yes, the version with Prince singing it with a light rockabilly feel is true... but that still doesn't make it a very good song.

Romance1600 said:

I was just going to say that I have been seeing the same stuff circulating for years. I think the chances of any outtakes we haven't heard from the vault to pop up are slim.

Meloh9 said:

Good Pussy any1?