in the early 90's late 80's almost everybody was doing interludes...intros..outros and reprises.

What was the point of a reprise? usually they would last thiry seconds..maybe a minute....it would be of one song (usually one that was a single) with it done in acapella with some different musical elements behind it with a fade out at the end.

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paisleypark4 said:

albums like RN1814 janet and VR told stories. the reprise was use to show a different angle of the songs that were already done.

like in a musical.

ehuffnsd said:

aaaah. Well janet. wasnt really a concept album..although she had some cool jams on it....with :15 second interludes were thrown in everwhere. Actually she never really had reprises..just interludes

seal's reprised are all better then the actual song which would always piss me off cause they are too darn short.

paisleypark4 said:

one day in the life of a lover.

starts with morning ends with sweet dreams.

There was so much "reprising" they even started a label, I think Morris Day recored for them.

paisleypark4 said:

Those interludes of Janet. were terrible. Not to mention the timing on some of them were off by 2 seconds

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Haha. Reprise is a VERY OLD label.

ehuffnsd said:

aaah yeeeah ha?

paisleypark4 said:

even All For You told a story.
Control was coming of age
RN was the world today
janet was a day in the life
VR was a journy through Emotions
A4U was refinding yourself after a relationship

DJ tried to explore characters but fell flat

20YO didn't even try.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

The Reprise label goes way back. Frank Sinatra started this label back in the early 1960s as a subsidiary of Warner Bros.. I think the person who alluded to reprising coming from musicals hit it right on the nose. This is something that has been going on for years. Here the definition from wikipedia:

In music a reprise (IPA rəˈpriz) (pronounced rih-PREEZ; doesn't rhyme with "surprise")[1] is the repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition such as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though it originally (18th century) was simply any repeated section, such as is indicated by beginning and ending repeat signs. (Stein 2005, p.331)

Reprises are common in musical theatre, where earlier songs are often repeated, usually with slightly changed lyrics to reflect the development of the story. Also, it is common for songs sung by the same character or regarding the same literary motif to have similar tunes, or incorporate similar tunes. For example, in the stage version of Les Misérables, a song of the primary antagonist is similar in both tune and lyrics to a soliloquy of the protagonist when he was in a similar emotional state. At the end of the song, an instrumental portion is played from an earlier soliloquy of the antagonist, in which he was significantly more confident. In the musical The Music Man, the love song Goodnight My Someone uses the same basic melody as the rousing march and theme song Seventy-Six Trombones. And in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat, the song Ol' Man River is reprised three times after it is first sung, as if it were a commentary on the situation in the story.

Reprise can also refer to a version of a song which is similar to, yet different from, the song which it is based on. The Beatles had both "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Another example is the acoustic Neil Young song "My My, Hey Hey" being repeated at the end of his 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps in electric form as "Hey Hey, My My". On the Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets, a reprise of the third track, "The Last Stop", can be heard at the end of the final track of the album. Sublime, a ska punk band, has a reprise of the famous song "What I Got" on the 16th track of their 3rd self-titled album. Dream Theater's six studio album Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence had About to Crash and its reprise, About to Crash (Reprise). In Pearl Jam's 8th album, Pearl Jam the song Life Wasted is modified and added as Wasted Reprise. In some musicals, a reprise of an earlier song is sung by a different character than whom originally sang it, and with different lyrics.

My favorite reprise is "You Make Love Like Springtime" on Irons in the Fire by Teena Marie.

Lovesexy82 said:

OH SHIT! I4got about that song!...lawd..let me go turn on my record player and record this to my ipod That was my shit

Don't forget Troop's reprise of "Spread My Wings"