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After absorbing Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain (Deluxe Expanded Edition) for a few weeks, I've had fun this week re-organizing the listening experience for myself.
The package has four discs:
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- After absorbing Prince and the Revolution's Purple Rain (Deluxe Expanded Edition) for a few weeks, I've had fun this week re-organizing the listening experience for myself. The package has four discs: The original Purple Rain, remastered in 2015.
- Remastered and accompanied by an entire disc of unreleased tracks from his legendary vault, Purple Rain Deluxe allowed the world to experience the best-selling album of Prince's career in an entirely new way. Work on the reissue of Purple Rain began in 2014, around the 30th anniversary of the iconic album, and was overseen by Prince himself during remastering sessions at Paisley Park in 2015.
- The original Purple Rain, remastered in 2015
- From The Vault & Previously Unreleased, which is entirely non-album tracks except for the 'Hallway Speech' edit of 'Computer Blue'
- Single Edits & B-Sides, just like it sounds
- Live at the Carrier Dome DVD
I prefer listening to my own vinyl rip of Purple Rain to the remaster, so I've combined all of the non-album material (from both From The Vault… and …B-Sides) into one playlist, and made an 'Alternate edits' playlist of the original material using the longest alternate edits available (so dance mixes and the 'Hallway Speech' 'Computer Blue,' and 7″ edits if longer edits aren't included). Here's the result:
From The Vault, Previously Unreleased, & B-Sides:
- 17 Days (B-Side Edit)
- Erotic City ('Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive')
- Love and Sex
- Electric Intercourse (Studio Version)
- The Dance Electric
- Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden
- God (7″ B-Side Edit)
- God (Love Theme from Purple Rain)
- Wonderful Ass
- Possessed
- Velvet Kitty Cat
- Katrina's Paper Dolls
- Another Lonely Christmas (Extended Version)
- We Can F**k
- Father's Song
Purple Rain (alternate edits):
- Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix)
- Take Me With U (7″ Single Edit)
- The Beautiful Ones (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
- Computer Blue ('Hallway Speech' Version)
- Darling Nikki (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
- When Doves Cry (7″ Single Edit)
- I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version)
- Baby I'm A Star (7″ B-Side Edit)
- Purple Rain (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
(The 7″ edit of 'Purple Rain' is just disappointing to listen to. Not through any fault of Prince's; it's just not a song that can be edited and retain anything resembling its musical effect.)
The result is a very good new Prince double-LP (From The Vault…) that sits nicely between 1999 and Sign O' The Times in a universe where Purple Rain never existed. It's not quite as strong as those records (both classics) but it's close, and that's saying a lot. It's raw, it's loose, it's raunchy, and it's a lot of fun. There are a couple clunkers in the second half (I'd say the same of Sign; really every Prince record has them, except for Purple Rain and 1999) but that's part of the deal with Prince's genius. Getting a new peak-era Prince double LP in 2017 is amazing.
Hearing the alternate edits in a Purple Rain tracklist I know incredibly well is a good way to trick my ears into noticing new details in the songs. Worthwhile listening on its own, it also enhances repeat listens of the original album, thoroughly accomplishing the point of releasing a deluxe edition like this.
Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain (Deluxe Expanded Edition) – 5/5, would go crazy again
I couldn't get the CD's yet, but I found a DVD rip which seems to have a much better sound quality than my classic Syracuse LD rip bootleg. I can't judge on video quality with such a compressed file.
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- Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix)
- Take Me With U (7″ Single Edit)
- The Beautiful Ones (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
- Computer Blue ('Hallway Speech' Version)
- Darling Nikki (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
- When Doves Cry (7″ Single Edit)
- I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version)
- Baby I'm A Star (7″ B-Side Edit)
- Purple Rain (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)
(The 7″ edit of 'Purple Rain' is just disappointing to listen to. Not through any fault of Prince's; it's just not a song that can be edited and retain anything resembling its musical effect.)
The result is a very good new Prince double-LP (From The Vault…) that sits nicely between 1999 and Sign O' The Times in a universe where Purple Rain never existed. It's not quite as strong as those records (both classics) but it's close, and that's saying a lot. It's raw, it's loose, it's raunchy, and it's a lot of fun. There are a couple clunkers in the second half (I'd say the same of Sign; really every Prince record has them, except for Purple Rain and 1999) but that's part of the deal with Prince's genius. Getting a new peak-era Prince double LP in 2017 is amazing.
Hearing the alternate edits in a Purple Rain tracklist I know incredibly well is a good way to trick my ears into noticing new details in the songs. Worthwhile listening on its own, it also enhances repeat listens of the original album, thoroughly accomplishing the point of releasing a deluxe edition like this.
Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain (Deluxe Expanded Edition) – 5/5, would go crazy again
I couldn't get the CD's yet, but I found a DVD rip which seems to have a much better sound quality than my classic Syracuse LD rip bootleg. I can't judge on video quality with such a compressed file.
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Is there any way to legally purchase the video show (or an audio rip of it) online (i.e. downloadable) or is physical purchase the only way to get the video? Same question with the booklet (is there a digital version of it?).
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I'm very interested in reading the liner notes to see if there's some explaination regarding tracklist selection and sources, because I can tell at least 3 major apparent problems:
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- Obviously, the OD/RG mashup seems to have been made on Audacity in 5 minutes, so it'd be nice to have confirmation that it was segued as such by Prince (and to know why it's such a lame job).
- From what I've read it also seems that WA is the 86 version, which is good in the sense that it's by far the best version, but ridiculous because it belongs to the DA/C/CB/SOTT sessions. Unless of course that version was, in fact, NOT from 1986, which isn't totally unthinkable (a later version could indeed exist but not be circulating).
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- If Possessed in indeed the March 84 version and is credited as the 83 one, that's seriously wrong... unless (again) we had the wrong info in the first place.
I'd like to know what liner notes have to say about all this.
