prince

GODDAMN, we can work it out; never heard this! very symbol era awesome!

i mean, it sounds earlier than that but the motifs and approaches are there

wowowowoww "I Wonder"!

yeah, "i wonder" was the immediate standout for me as well, it's quite a 1-2 punch with "train" following immediately after

thanks for this, can't wait to listen.

this is tremendous! thanks thanks thanks

such a great mix of things i've only heard once or twice at super low bitrates and brand new shit

oh man I came too late

me too. Can we email you?

i never knew he covered "love is a losing game" - cant wait to hear it

i think he's just doing the guitar...? did i mislisten?

If the link itself if still live I can fwd it to ppl.

this is so great - really appreciate the high sound quality throughout as well

@Alfred y

and others, soz i just got paranoid a bit

cracks me up that Prince actually insisted on nicknaming one of his sidemen "Brown Mark".

stop talking about it!

sorry it was the shoutout in extra lovable that brought it all back

man Wouldn't You Love to Love Me #2 totally has that Sly/Riot-period keyboard and percussion sound

"Makin' music naturally, me and WB" LOLOLOL

I haven't even been able to get all the way through this yet cuz I keep going back to and re-listening to tracks

I haven't made it past "Wonderful Ass" :/

not many people do

so big you can't get over it
so wide you can't get around it

Ok! I have 'Dream Factory', 'Camille' and the Homemade Deluxe Bonus Disc from Sign O the Times up on my Dropbox. Those who were interested maybe send me a shout at 4lex4n✧✧✧.0str✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.✧0m and I'll forward you the public links.

The Homemade Deluxe of 1999 was mostly covered by what Tracer uploaded.

Oh. Wait. that didn't work.

Ok. well - it's my first name in full, followed by a period followed by '0str0ff' at gmail.

But with "o" instead of "0"

request sent

And ... sent. Thanks Alex!

ditto

Request sent!

Wow I think "Train" is about to send me down a rabbithole of chasing Prince rarities. See you in a few years, thanks Alex.

ty alex

Can't request until I get home later--so psyched! Thanks Alex

Train is the best. Like, literally, actually, forever, the best.

The Mavis Staples version off of 'Time Waits for No One' is ok but it's nowhere near as great as Prince's which uses this train-on-a-track noise as the percussion line.

also just wait til you get to 'all my dreams' because DEAR GOD.

Man I have a terrible sounding recording of 'All My Dreams', that is an amazing amazing song. Can't wait!

(did u get my email btw?)

i replied to all the emails that i got. :/

luk4s, d0n and dayo

Sent it again, once I realized what first name in full meant ...

I didn't get a reply...? :(

maybe I went in yr spam place. This is me, remove the dashes: j-o-n-c-r-o-a-k-e-r @ gmail.com

Sorry folks - was busy writing stuff and not checking gmail. Replied to everyone new. :)

and yeah. just to clarify. name in full = 4lex4nder with As and then "." and then o-s-t-r-o-f-f

uh does he really sing "I will rape you if I must" on "Lust 4 U Always" or am I mishearing things...

Thanks Alex. Just saw that the dude at There Are No Kings just upped all his deluxe editions again as torrents, but in flac form. Alas, not only can I not successfully download the torrent links, but I don't want flac, but maybe someone else is interested ...

xpost i heard(?) that too o_O

Ooh! Good to know. I'm not a flac person but they're there.

Also, some folks were reporting issues with the SOTT - has anyone gotten that link to work proper?

worked for me