R U Ready Paris (2CD)

Live at Le Zenith/Paris, 25.Aug.86

Label

Rocks 92074/92075

Review

• Grade: A
• Includes recording of "It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night"

Rare Mixes

Label   : Collector's Pride Cat # : NA
Released: 1992              Format: 1 CD
Source  : Extended remixes of studio tracks
Type    : Soundboard Recording

Rating

Sound: EX-/EX

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Mountains
2. Hot Thing
3. Alexa de Paris
4. Raspberry Beret
5. Love or $
6. Housequake
7. I Would Die 4 U
8. Scarlet Pussy
9. Hello

Total time: 68:19

Review by udbrooks@king.mcs.drexel.edu [David Brooks]

This is an excellent CD with extended remixes of studio tracks (released singles and B-sides) from 1984 to 1988. Great remixes of Love or $ and Hello. Packaging: Not very good! Just a picture of Prince on the front single-sheet CD insert.... the back side is blank. Collector's Edition - 1000 copies only!

Recommendation

Buy this CD -- you'll love it!

Rare Prince (2CD)

Outtakes

Track listing

• Disc 1
  1. she's just a baby
  2. turn it up
  3. feel u up
  4. irresistible bitch
  5. i wonder
  6. g-spot
  7. euphoria highway
  8. expert lover
  9. crystal ball
  10. joy in repetition
  11. big tall wall
  12. alphabet st.
• Disc 2
  1. 17
  2. 18, r u legal yet?
  3. 19
  4. 20
  5. dopamine rush suite (21-24)
  6. my summertime thang
  7. get blue
  8. old friends for sale
  9. the voice
  10. 5 women

Red (1CD)

Review

• European Outtake CD
• This is the follow-up to the brilliant releases YELLOW and BLUE. RED has also a beautiful cover (red roses) and includes great new songs - all in excellent quality!
• Unfortunately the extended version of Thunder is incomplete.
• A collection of Graffiti Bridge outtakes, MC Flash songs, Martika, and Carmen Electra outtakes. This is the best copy I've found on disc so far of these songs, esp. the GB outs: Come Outside & Play, Oobey Doop, Thieves Acoustic, etc. The audio is bass heavy and the disc as a whole was mixed too softly. I have to raise the volume past my normal listening level to get acceptable sound off the disc. All that aside, I wish they would have left the MC Flash stuff off the disc. I listened to a little bit of each song and didn't hear any Prince except for the music which wasn't too remarkable. I skip these tracks. I really like the extended version of Thunder that appears in the Billboards show. I don't know why, because it's basically the same song drawn out for 10 minutes, but it makes good background music. Listen to "Red" before buying, if possible. If you don't have the GB outtakes, then this is a good disc to get.
• For Red, most tracks do not feature O{+> directly, and the sound quality is micted. I was particularely pissed at the Thunder track! The video tape is out, the Laser Disk is out, they could have taken the track out of one of them with a direct plug, but apparently, it is more like someone taped it during the show, live.... sound is disappointing.

Track listing

1. Come Outside And Play [Graffiti Bridge outtake]
2. Oobey Doop [Graffiti Bridge outtake, vocals by Elisa Fiorillo]
3. Thieves In The Temple Blues [similar to the Alphabet Street Blues!]
4. God Is Standing On Your Side [ These songs are from the group
5. Boys Will Be Boys MC FLASH, all vocals by the lead
6. Goodbye singer Margarete Cox. I don't know
7. Brand New Boy if these are official versions nor
8. Good Man if Prince has written all of them.]
9. My Tree [Graffiti Bridge outtake, feat. Mavis Staples and Robin Power - but Prince sings lead vocals]
10. Eliminate The Negative [ Graffiti Bridge outtake, vocals by Robin Power]
11. Brother With A Purpose (Tony's Iggnant Mix)[different mix]
12. Love... Thy Will Be Done [feat. both, Prince AND Martika!]
13. Juice [Carmen Electra outtake]
14. The Ryde Dyvine [studio outtake]
15. Thunder [11 min. version]

The Red Album

Live at Charlton Hotel/Minneapolis on 20.May.86 + live at the Arsenio Hall show on 9.Sep.91

Review

• Very lousy sound, avoid it.

Track Listing

1. Raspberry Beret
2. Girls And Boys
3. Life Can Be So Nice
4. All Day All Night
5. Controversy
6. Mutiny
7. Holly Rock
8. Kiss
9. Love Or Money
10. Purple Rain [live at the Arsenio Hall show on 9.Sep.91 (from TV)]
11. Let's Go Crazy
12. Kiss
13. Cream
14. Daddy Pop

Rock 2 The Flow (2CD)

Review

• 2-CD about 110 min. Diamonds & Pearls concert in Tokyo (i believe). Quality is Good, but recorded too loud (distortion in drums..)

Roseland (1CD)

Aftershow at Roseland Club/New York on 2.Oct.88, features Patti LaBelle

Review

• Incomplete!
• A short version of the after-show (complete version with a bad sound exists on tape). Patti Labelle guests on one or 2 songs, he plays 'The ballad of Dorothy Parker', plays drums on 'Cold Sweat'. The sound is VG+, with occasional talks. I'd say if U have Small Club think and listen to it before buying it.

Track Listing

1. Positivity
2. Wade In The Water
3. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
4. 4
5. Just My Imagination
6. Jack U Off
7. Sister
8. I'll Take You There
9. Down Home Blues
10. Cold Sweat

Rude Boy (1CD)

Misc. outtakes

Label

GEMA - Nr. P 1093

Review

• OK sound some songs very close to released versions. Tricky is a parody of Morris Day.

Track listing

1. My Lord
2. People Without
3. Paisley Park
4. Manic Monday
5. Underground
6. Still Would Stand [... All Time]
7. Sleazy
8. Elephants & Flowers
9. Inside Of U
10. Alphabet Street
11. Livin' In America
12. Do Yourself A Favour
13. Tricky
14. Glam Slam '91
15. If I Luv U Tonite
16. I Wish U Heaven
17. Positivity

The Ryde Dyvine

Live from Glam Slam West/L.A., 19.Dec.92 (from "The Ryde Dyvine" TV special)

Label

GEMA

Review

• US TV Special[?], disapointing sound quality but great songs.

Track listing

1. The Ryde Dyvine (Explore Your Mind) [by The Crayons]
2. Everybody Get On Up [by Carmen Electra]
3. Let's Get Satisfied [by George Clinton]
4. Tender Heart [by Rosie Gaines]
5. U Will Be Moved [by Mavis Staples]
6. Sexy MF
7. Love 2 The 9's
8. Damn U
9. Eye Wanna Melt With U
10. 3 Chains O' Gold
11. The Sacrifice Of Victor
12. A Question Of U [Nude tour, live from Tokyo, 31.Aug.90]
13. Housequake [Nude tour, live from Tokyo, 31.Aug.90]
14. Live 4 Love [Live from the off. Diamonds & Pearls Video]

The Rythm of your Heart (2CD)

Paris, 7-11-92, DAT-Recording, Limited 1000 numbered copies

Track listing

• Disc 1
  1. Thunder
  2. Daddy Pop
  3. Diamonds and Pearls
  4. Let's go crazy
  5. Kiss
  6. Dead on it
  7. Jughead
  8. Purple Rain
  9. Live 4 Love
  10. Bambi
  11. Villanova Junction
  12. Lively up yourself
• Disc 2
  1. Delirious
  2. Willing and Able
  3. Nothing compares 2 u
  4. Sexy MF
  5. OrientaUc Intro
  6. A night in Tunesia
  7. Strollin
  8. Insatiable
  9. Gett Off
  10. The Flow
  11. Cream
  12. Chain of Fools
  13. 1999
  14. Baby, I'm a star
  15. Push
  16. A love bizarre
  17. My name is Prince