prince

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

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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.

I for one do not need flacs. Decent bitrate mp3 is more than enough for me.

Yeah, not a flac fan. Perfect copy of imperfect source, etc.

i've only got the 1999 homemade deluxe thang, but it is great. always meant to grab the rest... if there is a d-box thing, keep me posted!

another on the "fuck flacs" bandwagon, good mp3s preferred

i demand flacs! FLACS!!! (no just kidding, realllllly don't care.)

the original Dream Factory record, which I ripped about six years ago, is as magnificent as SOTT. The world is a sadder place for not hearing "Teacher Teacher" and "Train."

Yes, Train is AMAZING and not in the Mavis Staples version which gets rid of the lovely percussion that sounds like clickety clack.

What is your Dream Factory tracklist Alfred - mine doesn't have Teacher Teacher on it.

Was general consensus SOTT Deluxe/Camille/Dream Factory?

It begins with "Visions," an instrumental piece composed by Wendy and Lisa, then segues into "Teacher Teacher."

That's the other thing: Wendy and Lisa are full-fledged collaborators in this iteration of the album.

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.

I have 320 bit or FLAC copies of all of Prince's 12" mixes (except for "America", where the rip with the best sound quality that I've found is 256 bit; unfortunately I can't rip my own vinyl copy of it) and B-sides, and of some of the unreleased stuff too. Obviously filesharing is WRONG AND AGAINST ILX RULES, but if you drop me an email at tuomast {dot} alho {at} gmail {dot} com, we can "discuss" the issue.

i managed to get all those "homemade deluxe editions" except for, i think, diamonds and pearls, which was the last one. they are indeed amazing. they also did deluxe edition of some prince-produced albums like vanity 6 and the time.

that vanity 6 album is great cheap fun btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DewZ0nvMw7A

Not the Rockpile song, I guess.

damn i need these homemade deluxe edtions in my life

dream factory stuff >> sott

i think this is a pretty common outtake, but i posted "purple music" from the 1999 sessions a while back if anyone doesn't have it: http://ow.ly/8HQ3m

sign me up as someone interested in homemade SOTT box sets plz!!!

We could send Alex In MTL a purple thumb drive to fill up, then it could get sent around to all of us in turn. Like old fashioned tape networks...

a purple thumb drive in a thong

it will need a tiny smoke machine

and the ability to jizz on the audience at the end of "purple rain"

*cries*

sign me up as someone interested in homemade SOTT box sets plz!!!