damn !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:00 (seven years ago) link
lol, who voted for p control and acknowledge me.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link
kind of weird that this album is all either '85-'86 or '93-'95 (with a couple exceptions).
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Thursday, 12 May 2016 11:04 (seven years ago) link
As noted upthread, the version on P Control on this is absolutely amazing.
And yes, there is a distinct lack of anything '88-92 on this. Was most of that era already released?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
Maybe it's because both of those eras were marked by Prince amassing tons of material for megareleases that didn't happen (crystal ball, the dawn) generating a lot of important to him castoffs
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 12 May 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
well there were no more plans for triple lps after "crystal ball", but there was an unreleased album between "sign" and "lovesexy" and another between "lovesexy" and "batman". the former was released before "crystal ball", and most of the songs that would've been on the latter were reworked for "graffiti bridge". it's true that even with crystal ball out there's still way more '85-'86 stuff that hasn't seen the light of day- he was pretty possessed during those years. but the alternate (superior) versions of the "graffiti bridge" material would still be nice!
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Thursday, 12 May 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link