prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJH-nLejSIg&feature=player_embedded

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh.

I've never taken the time to track down unreleased Prince stuff, but this is convincing me I should.

heard an incredible prince bootleg the other day - 20 min set, live in bbc studios in '92. just insane, especially the transitions.

you absolutely should rev, although the homemade bootleg series someone linked to in one of the polls threads does a pretty good job at collecting the best of it and grouping it by era.

never seen these clips--watch while you can!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abjN6NvaXx8&feature=youtu.be

Apparently there was a Revolution reunion show sans Prince at First Avenue tonight? Classic lineup + Dez + Eric Leeds with Wendy as frontwoman.

uh.... fucking hell that video

The recorded version comes from that show (edited down a bit, with the coda added later). First time they ever performed it.

has that video been out there?

yeah wow

i'm just trying to imagine being one of the kids in the front row there... like it would take me possibly my entire life to comprehend being in that position

Not sure how long that video's been out there, but I watched it a few months back at least. There's other first performances of Purple Rain material from that show out there.

Oh, and it was Wendy Melvoin's first show in the band.

Whoa, "When You Were Mine" in his natural register is like a whole different (but still amazing) song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WadJVLlS9Jw&feature=related

hard to believe that's the same show, i don't like that at all

uh.... fucking hell that video

― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Sunday, February 19, 2012 8:12 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

xp Really? I think that's my favorite performance of that song I've seen.

i dunno, seems tossed-off to me? is he even singing in the same key as the rest of the band? idk, i'm back to the purple rain clip

super pissed the "delirious" clip got its audio removed

several other uploads from that show by "jamiestarrevolution". unfortunately the most intriguing have disabled audio tracks ("delirious", "let's go crazy"). there is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NFGphNOpU

not much cop, but there you go

some disagreement as to key in that version of "when u were mine", plus crippling A/V glitches, but shit that smokes. goddam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ha60kFHU_U&context=C3bfe5bfADOEgsToPDskIvV4Iw8yGO6r7yRCW2pX6e

I don't think he's out of key, just playing with the melody. xps

going through dude's videos, did MPLS ever release anything else?

crazy animate video in an 80s, kinda-sorta rock and rule style, badass.

uh, "animated"

Oh wow, this Prince wiki: http://www.princevault.com/index.php/Main_Page

Yeah, that wiki is great!

There's also a really great online project floating around that arranged the best of unreleased prince stuff and released stuff as proper deluxe albums.

maybe the death of megaupload etc. killed it, tho.

his case of you is epic, although i think i prefer the solo acoustic version i saw him do over the summer.

uh.... fucking hell that video

― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Sunday, February 19, 2012 8:12 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's also a really great online project floating around that arranged the best of unreleased prince stuff and released stuff as proper deluxe albums.

maybe the death of megaupload etc. killed it, tho.

― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, February 19, 2012 10:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Where is this?

I think you can still find that stuff floating around, at least in Soulseek. They're called "Foefur's remasters", and they're all in FLAC format.

I don't think the remastering work this Foefur fellow has done to album tracks is that impressive, but these are a great way of getting hold of rare and unreleased tunes.

I wasn't thinking of Foefur's remasters. Was thinking of this - http://therearenokings.blogspot.com/

Apparently all his files got taken down, but he's working on alternative distribution.

Shoot me an e-mail, Rev and we can find a way to get you it via snailmail or something?

Oh shit. He doesn't even have the track listings up anymore. Hm.

yeah, i been looking around, there's no foefur's remasters around as far as i can see (damn!)

Just gonna list the extras/bonus discs b/c the regular album tracklisting is normal for the albums.

Prince (1979)
Wouldn't You Love to Love Me?
Down a Long Lonely Road
Miss You
Baby, Baby, Baby
Donna
Nadeara
K-FUNK Interview

Dirty Mind (1980)
Lisa (only bonus track)

Controversy (1981)
The Second Coming
Broken
She's Just a Baby
Tick, Tick, Bang
Feel U Up/Irresistable Bitch
Strange Way of Saying Eye Love You

1999 (1982)
Purple Music
Turn It Up
Moonbeam Levels
Possessed
No Call U
Baby, You're a Trip
Extra Lovable
Delirious (Alternate)
DMSR (Alternate)
Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) (Alternate)

Purple Rain (1984)
Bunch of alternate versions
All Day, All Nights
the other non-prince tracks from the movie, including Dez Dickerson's Modernaire

Parade (1986)
Old Friends 4 Sale
All My Dreams
Others Here With Us
Little Girl Wendy's Parade

Sign O The Times (1987)
(Bonus Disc 1) - Bonus Disc
Power Fantastic Intro
Power Fantastic
It's a Wonderful Day
Neon Telephone
Wonderful Ass
Sexual Suicide
Teacher Teacher
Big Tall Wall
Data Bank
Girl o' My Dreams
Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
We Can Funk
In a Large Room With No Light
Movie Star
A Place in Heaven
Witness 4 the Prosecution (Hornless Version)
Crystal Ball
Joy In Repetition

Bonus Disc 2 - Camille (original tracklisting for the 'Camille' album)
Rebirth of the Flesh
Housequake
Feel U Up (Long Stroke)
Shockadelica
Good Love
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Rockhard in a Funky Place

Bonus Disc 3 - Dream Factory (final version of Dream Factory c. 1986)
Visions
nevaeH ni ecalP A
Dream Factory
Train
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
It
Strange Relationship (Alternate Version - extra sitar/tabla)
Starfish and Coffee
Interlude
Slow Love
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Sign O The Times
A Place in Heaven
Crystal Ball
The Cross
Last Heart
Witness 4 the Prosecution
Movie Star
All My Dreams

Of the later albums I think he's also done Graffiti Bridge and Diamonds and Pearls but I didn't see anything there I was super excited about.

The real treasure trove is the Sign o the Times package, which includes a disc worth of amazing bonuses, plus Dream Factory which is secretly sometimes my favourite Prince album.

one of my friends was at the Revolution reunion last night. sounds like p was there, but didn't play?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AK_UuvBrDU

Holy crap those SOTT-era tracklists! If someone does a dropbox-type thing please to ILXmail me...

xpost <3 Wendy so much

echoing what jon lewis said; that stuff looks AMAZING

It really is. Um. The blog says that they're going to figure out some other way of distribution. But there must be a better way.

Oh also, I think those packages include the 12" singles and their b-sides also? But I keep those separate from the albums as their own singles in iTunes.

I have that huge comp a dude did years ago of all the 12" mixes (vinyl rips at 160 bitrate) which is a fkin monument though the sound lacks impact. Would be interesting to hear what the latest vinyl-ripping science could do for them.

It was on an ILX thread somewhere, maybe '06 or '07.

Holy crap those SOTT-era tracklists! If someone does a dropbox-type thing please to ILXmail me...

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, February 20, 2012 7:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Holy crap those SOTT-era tracklists! If someone does a dropbox-type thing please to ILXmail me...

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Monday, February 20, 2012 7:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, February 20, 2012 1:38 PM (11 minutes ago)

Pretty please!

Oh lord. Ok.

Trynna figure something out.

Ditto, even though I think I have almost all this material.

I don't have the FLACs though - they were available at the time, but I didn't think to get them etc. etc.

Wow, I'd never seen those Homemade editions.