does anyone know if there are any prince acapellas available. i can't seem to find any at all.

There's only one - Face Down, he's never released any others
(and no others have surfaced 'unofficially' either)

thanks boris.

There's also 'Come On (acapella)' 3'26" on the 'Come On' maxi xingle.
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1999 the New Master had an Acapella version but it was just the vocals without the backing tracks if I recall (and I'm not about to dig up that piece of garbage to check )

I am sure that Prince is really happy he never did those back in the day. He'd be sampled way more than he is now.

"Solo" on the Come album?

"For You" and "The 2nd Coming" (Controversy Tour 1981) were acapella.

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about 'Come On' and '1999 (The New Master)'.

I'm pretty sure it's just those 3 though

Face Down
Come On
1999 (The New Master)

lovemachine said:

which qualifies it as acapella

I'm sure Mani here's alot of acapella from Prince

I think, as has been suggested, 'For You' should qualify - it's a vocal perfomance without accompaniment, albeit that the vocals are multi-tracked.

'Solo', however, like the Crystal Ball version of 'An Honest Man', has some accompaniment.
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[This message was edited Thu Jun 24 0:04:13 2004 by langebleu]

i wish he would do more strictly vocal songs too. For You was so awesome!! even if he would incorporate more vocal arrangements into his new stuff - i could dig that too. in If I Was The Man Of Your Life when he says "... i'll do whatever you SAAAYYYY" - i LOVE it - i love the "say" part and long for him to do more of that style singing . . .

also, does he even play the piano anymore? ;O)

HE did so many times these multi layers vocals, i guess he stopped a little after teh back street boys and the boy bands started. And as for the piano. I dig him as a guitar player now. He played too much keys in his career.

Yall beat me to it with "For You".

It's not an acappella, but "7 (Acoustic Version)" has a lot of the instrumentation taken out, making it suitable for remixing. (If you're into that kind of thing...)

I wonder why he decided to release acappellas of "Face Down," "Come On," and "1999 The New Master." Do you think he did it to encourage fan remixes? To get more mix-show radio and club play?