While I'm on a roll, here's another killer. There used to be this legend about Purple Rain being a double album on acetate. Although this is a slightly different order and track selection, this would make for a kick-ass 2nd disk. Here you go:

1. God (instrumental)
2. A Case of U (old version)
3. Electric Intercourse
4. Roadhouse Garden
5. Our Destiny
6. 100 MPH
7. G-Spot
8. Lust U Always
9. Computer Blue Part 2
10. All Day, All Night
11. The Dance Electric
12. Noon Rendezvous

Hey! You seem to have a great understanding of Prince's career, particularly his unreleased stuff- Keep posting, maybe with enough support we can submit these to the man himself and they will come out in this fashion!

In the first edition of Per Nilsen's 'Prince: A Documentary' book,it was reported that the 'Purple Rain' album was originally planned to be 2-LP set.It was gonna include:

"Let's Go Crazy"
"Take Me With U"
"The Beautiful Ones"
"Computer Blue" (long version)
"Darling Nikki"
"My Special World"
"2 Late Darling"
"17 Days"
"When Doves Cry"
"I Would Die 4 U"
"Erotic City"
"2 Many 2 Soon"
"G-Spot"
"Electric Intercourse"
"Baby I'm A Star"
"Jamming Til' The Dawn"
"The Loser In Life"
"God"
"Purple Rain"

Please note,this information has been verified to be FALSE! The unfamiliar song titles do NOT even exist.Prince himself confirmed that the album was ALWAYS just one record,with no plans of a 2-LP set.However,there is one song ("Wednesday",to be sung by Jill Jones) that supposedly appeared on an early acetate of the album,dated November 1983.

Btw,the rumors of a 2-LP 'Purple Rain' soundtrack originally came from an early issue of Controversy magazine,which is where Per and the Uptown staff got the info from.
[This message was edited Wed Mar 6 4:55:39 PST 2002 by DavidEye]

I've read that too, DavidEye. The legend is interesting, even if it is false! Good to see you back, haven't heard from you in awhile-

When you think about it,there is no way Prince could have fit all those songs in his movie.Consider this...

***The 19 Prince songs from the 2-LP set
***Jill Jones' song "Wednesday"
***The two Time songs ("Jungle Love" and "The Bird")
***The Apollonia 6 song ("Sex Shooter")
***The Modernaires song ("Modernaire")

That would have been 24 songs,in a movie that was barely 2 hours long! That's why I belive the 2-LP concept was just a rumor.
[This message was edited Wed Mar 6 5:29:49 PST 2002 by DavidEye]

DavidEye said:

Yes, but it's fun to speculate!

It still would be great to have a bonus disc from 1984, even if it isn't tied to Purple Rain!

The frustrating thing is,Prince can easily release his unreleased recordings in a creative way.Instead of the unfocused 'Crystal Ball' set (which featured a bunch of unrelated songs thrown together on 3 CDs),he should compile the songs in a neat,organized fashion.Imagine this...

***"Purple Rain: The Outtakes"---a CD containing songs like "Electric Intercourse","G-Spot",the long version of "Computer Blue",the original version of "When Doves Cry" with the bass left on,"Wednesday","Father's Song"(the piano demo that we hear briefly in the film),and alternate versions of the songs that made the album.

Now,how many of us wouldn't "go crazy" over a CD like that?

That does sound nice DavidEye. I "go crazy" thinking about the tracklist posted by Tron too...All Day, All Night, The Dance Electric and Noon Rendezvous make a GREAT trilogy!

This makes absolutely no sense. For one thing, Roadhouse Garden, Our Destiny, and All Day, All Night DID NOT EXIST when Purple Rain was compiled. Why would you include them on a fake "test pressing"?

For another, you've never heard "Lust U Always", "Evolsidog" "Love and Sex" and any more than a crappy sample of "Go". Why are you including them on your tracklists, and how would you know it'd be "killer" if you've never heard them?

They might suck...

I created the original Crystal Ball cd from all the outtakes that I have and it is completely focused and its sounds incredible. We all know that Sign O The Times was probably the greatest beacause of its various sounds, but the CB is mindblowing, especially if you add outtakes from that which include Big Tall Wall, Baby Go-Go, There's Others Here With Us,and many others. If you have the time to put it together you will be licking your chops asking why this never came out.

TheDawgCatcher said:

On one of my bootlegs,I have a long,Purple Rain-era instrumental that I believe is "Lust U Always".It's about 10 minutes long,really repetitive.Is that the correct title? It is somtimes referred to as "Divinity" or "Jamming til The Dawn".Is there a version of "Lust U Always" with vocals??

DavidEye said:

The Lust U Always "instrumental" has nothing to do with the studio outtake of the same name. Some bootlegger just took the "Divinity" instrumental and slapped a new name on it. I never understood that. Jamming Til the Dawn is something different altogether.

Lust U Always IS a legitimate outtake, but it is not circulating.

It's only a couple of years until it's the 20th Anniversary of Purple Rain (is that scary.. or what!)
It would be great if they made an 'anniversary' edition of 'Music from the motion picture Purple Rain'.
I suggest the following tracklist...

Disc 1: Songs From The Movie

Let's Go Crazy (Extended Version)
Jungle Love (Movie Version) - The Time Take Me With U
Modernaire - Dez Dickerson & The Modernaires
The Beautiful Ones
When Doves Cry
Computer Blue (Extended Version)
Darling Nikki
Sex Shooter (Movie Edit) - Apollonia 6
The Bird - The Time
Purple Rain
I Would Die 4 U
Baby I'm A Star

Disc 2: Instrumentals & Outtakes

God - Instrumental (Love Theme From Purple Rain)
Father's Song - Instrumental
'Crying' (un-named instrumental, sounds a bit like the intro to Noon Rendezvous, played just before God in the film)
Slow Groove (the demo of Purple Rain that Jill gives to Prince in the film)
Wednesday - Jill Jones
G-Spot (replaced by Darling Nikki in film)
Electric Intercourse (replaced by The Beautiful Ones in film)
& Any other incidental music from the film

I made my own CD of disc 1 ages ago (minus Modernaire) and it works really well.

Last year, I made a Purple rain "companion CD" that I listen to all the time.

It features the extended mixes of most of the tracks, plus the B-sides Erotic City, God and 17 Days. It sounds great.

I think there are extended or alternate mixes of nearly every song from the original Purple Rain.

I like trying to compile releases with outtakes, but usually the sound quality varies too much to make it really listenable over and over.

heard the 13 minute version of 17 Days for the first time last just last year.

DavidEye said:

It's about time they started to re-release the 'old'stuff! Like Jill Jones and MADHOUSE!
Doesn't any1 remember the SOTT tour --> MADHOUSE made that tour!

chewy that's just a fan's work which turned out to be a cool remix. It's on a cd i forgot the title.. but it got songs with mad loops of chocolate, erotic city, love bizzare, anotherloverholeinyourhead, lady cab driver and a few more i think.

chewymusic said:

Really? Was that a remix not done by Prince or an extended version?

I have a loong version but it just loops the main groove and adds a guitar solo at the end from Controversy.

oh my god, not anothee tracklist

well, in my humble opinion that would make an awful record. no wonder so very few are actually making records and the rest are buying them.

noon rendezvous didn't exist either. plus if you wanna know what was on the actual acetate why don't you just look i up from DMSR?

just... you know, be less enthusiastic with all this too personal preference stuff.

or otherwise I'll be forced to post my own CD-R tracklistings.

There are also some instrumentals on this so-called traclkosting, called "Wednesday" "The Loser in Life" and...I forget...anyone ever heard those?

Bob

The only problem with this, that Prince may have is that he'd be resting on his laurels. There's a reason he took the songs out, right?

Even if they didn't fit, he'd find a place for them in the future. Look at all the Camille tracks...they all ended up on SOTT and Lovesexy...the fact that we heard the songs, as they were stolen, doesn't mean he likes them better.

Of course I wish he would release them, I'd love to have killer versions of these tracks, but Id also be disappointed if he didn't continue to release new stuff..


See, the NPGMC is a perfect venue for this unreleased, outdated material, don't waste consumer money, let them have the regular material.

Am I making sense? It's early.

Bob

DavidEye said:

NewPowerNorth said:

The song "Wednesday" is not an instrumental.It is a little piano number,to be sung by Jill Jones in the movie.Her character has a crush on The Kid (Prince),and the song includes lyrics like "If you don't call by Wednesday...".

As for "The Loser In Life"....go back and read my post above.That song title is a fake! There was a rumor that the album was originally planned as a 2-LP set,but that's not the case.

NewPowerNorth said:

Oh no,I'm not saying he should STOP releasing "new" music and focus entirely on the outtakes we so desperately want...lol...I think he could do both.If he released CDs containing outtakes and demo versions,it would primarily appeal to the diehard fans anyway.Sorta like an extra "bonus" in addition to the new stuff.We Prince fans are so spoiled,aren't we?

FlyingCloudPassenger said:

That's a fan remix, but there's a long version (8:07) that was edited down to the release on the doves b-side...

My nipples explode with delight!