I don't have the big box in the budget, so I settled for the three disc version and I'm really annoyed that the third disc for that package is just the singles and extended versions. I've already got the singles from The Hits/The B-Sides and none of the extended mixes have done a lot for me. I would have much rather had one of the vault discs as the bonus here or, better yet, a curated selection from the vault discs and live stuff.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 October 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
its the shitty book that bumps up the price so much.
― candyman, Monday, 26 October 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
I bought the 3-disc version, but the third disc was messed up, and when I took it back to exchange they had no additional copies to replace it with. So I applied the credit toward the Neneh Cherry Raw Like Sushi reissue. Also 3 discs, also late 80's, and a little more fun.
― henry s, Monday, 26 October 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
shitty book
Spot on. The track and liner notes SUCK. Just reading the Prince Vault entries for free online will get you far more insight into the music, which is pretty fucking sad. This doesn't even rise to the level of David Fricke's hack liner notes, it's well below that.
― birdistheword, Monday, 26 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Three discs of raw like sushi?!
The book is just a coffee table space filler exercise. No photos of real merit and no essays of real interest (though admittedly the andrea Swanson one looked decent and I've not read the Susan rogers one yet. Think I was just put off by some of the others). Just straightforward liner notes would have been nice.
I stopped listening to it a while ago actually. Oddly it made me fo back to the bootlegs lol
― candyman, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
I strongly recommend a live bootleg called wonder boy over this utrecht show, which is ok but feels a bit perfunctory.
― candyman, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
Simon Reynolds with an interesting take on the new edition.
http://blissout.blogspot.com/2020/10/cornucopious.html?m=1
His actual review - https://4columns.org/reynolds-simon/prince
― candyman, Monday, 16 November 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
the only reason I can think of that the estate didn't put on the full "Crystal Ball" recording, "Movie Star" and some other cuts of this vintage on this box is because he threw it out will nilly on the 98 record by the same name? I would think that it would be fundamental to include every recording that was germane to Camille, Dream Factory and Crystal Ball projects…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
I can't remember the details, but yes, they couldn't include those tracks because of some legal business with the rights to those songs. It sucks.
I bet we'll eventually see full releases of those albums.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 31 December 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link