For all your QUESTIONS and HEADACHES.....

"These tracklists in most cases only represent one Work In Progress snap-shot of each project, and do not represent any kind of final configuration as it may have been released. In fact, there are often numerous work in progress configurations of any given project Prince has worked on - In most cases, these do not represent any final configuration, only a work in progress."



The Rebels July 1979
Unfinished Band project (not sequenced)

Disco Away (Dez)
Hard To Get (Prince)
If I Love You Tonight (Prince)
Instrumental (Andre)
Thrill You Or Kill You (Andre)
Too Long (Dez)
Turn Me On (Prince)
You (Prince)
Instrumental (Dez)

Purple Rain November 7th 1983
Album sequence: Test Pressing made

01. Lets Go Crazy
02. The Beautiful Ones
03. Computer Blue
04. Darling Nikki
05. Wednesday
06. Purple Rain
07. I Would Die 4 U
08. Baby Im A Star
09. Father's Song

Parade May 1st 1985
First configuration:

01. Wendy’s Parade
02. New Position
03. I Wonder U
04. Under The Cherry Moon
05. Others Here With Us
06. Life Can Be So Nice
07. Sometimes It Snows In April
08. Old Friends 4 Sale
09. All My Dreams

The Flesh January 22nd 1986
Album sequenced:

Side 1:
01. Junk Music
Side 2:
02. Up From Below
03. Y'All Want Some More?
04. A Couple Of Miles

Dream Factory July 18th 1986
Last Album sequence made before it was shelved:

Side 1:
01. Visions
02. Dream Factory
03. Train
04. Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
05. It
Side 2:
06. Strange Relationship
07. Starfish & Coffee
08. Slow Love
09. Interlude
10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Side 3:
11. Sign O The Times
12. A Place In Heaven
13. Crystal Ball
Side 4:
14. The Cross
15. Last Heart
16. Witness 4 The Prosecution
17. Movie Star
18. All My Dreams

Camille November 5th 1986
Album sequenced:

Side 1:
01. Rebirth Of The Flesh
02. Housequake
03. Strange Relationship
04. Feel U Up
Side 2:
05. Shockadelica
06. Good Love
07. If I Was Your Girlfreind
08. Rockhard In A Funky Place

Crystal Ball November 30th 1986
Album Sequenced:

Side 1:
01. Rebirth Of The Flesh
02. Play In The Sunshine
03. Housequake
04. Ballad Of Dorothy parker
Side 2:
05. It
06. Starfish & Coffee
07. Slow Love
08. Hot Thing
Side 3:
09. Crystal Ball
10. If I Was Your Girlfriend
11. Rockhard In A Funky Place
Side 4:
12. The Ball
13. Joy In Repitition
14. Strange Relationship
15. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Side 5:
16. Shockadelica
17. Good Love
18. Forever In My Life
19. Sign O The Times
Side 6:
20. The Cross
21. Adore
22. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

Ingrid Chavez
Heaven Must Be Near
Cry Crystal City
Wintersong
Whispering Dandelions
Slappy Dappy
Candle Dance
Elephant Box
Touch Of Love
Blue Boy
Jadeestone
Sad Puppet Dance
Standing In The Rain

Graffitti Bridge 1 September 22nd 1987
The script mentioned these songs:

Stimulation
Camille
Ruthie Washington's Jet Blues
Grafitti Bridge
Everything Could Be So Fine
Question Of U
XYZ
Crucial
Power Fantastic
Beat Town
Melody Cool
Big Tall Wall
The Grand Progression


Graffitti Bridge 2September 25th 1988
"An early version was assembeled"

Big Tall Wall
Stimulation
Grafitti Bridge
Bloody Mouth
The Question Of U
Beat Town
Pink Cashmere
Melody Cool
The Grand Progression
God Is Alive

"At the same time Pricnce was preparing his next project...it's difficult to determine
if Rave was entirely seperate project from Graffitti Bridge album, or just temporarily evolved into Rave."

Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic 1 Octobert 27th 1988
The Voice Inside
Melody Cool
Rave Un2 The joy Fantastic
God Is Alive
If I Had A Harem
Stimulation
Still Would Stand Alll Time
Elephants & Flowers
Big House
We Got The Power

Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic 2 (late 1988)
Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic
If I Had A Harem
Good Judy Girlfriend
Pink Cahsmere
Electric Chair
Am I Without U?
God Is Alive
Still Would Stand All Time
Moonbeam Levels

These projects were shelved when work when Batman Soundtrack was offered.
Prince also took on another Madhouse project, and work with Cat / Margie Cox with Dr. Mambo's Combo to make the "MC FLASH" album.

Madhouse 24 pt. 1 Dec. 1988
18 (R U Legal Yet?)
19 (Jailbait)
20 (A Girl & Her Puppy)
21 (The Dopamine Rush Suite):
21 – The Dopamine Rush
22 – Amsterdam
23 – Spanish Eros
24 – Orgasm

After work on Batman (Feb / March 1989)
Prince also worked on The Time's next project (w/o Jimmy & Terry, and Jesse Johnson at the time)

The Time: Corporate World Sep. 1989
Set for release inNov. 14th 1989 in this order:

Murph Drag
Nine Lives
Donald Trump (Black Version)
Love Machine
Data Bank
Shake!
Corporate World
The Latest Fashion
Rwelease It
My Summertime Thang

new tracks were made for the MC Flash album

Flash – Margie Cox July 1989
R U There
Brand New Boy
Warden In The Prison Of Love
Bed Of Roses
Good Man
Whistlin’ Kenny
We Can Hang
Curious Blue
Girls Will Be Girls
Good Body Every Evening

Diamonds & Pearls November 1990
Daddy Pop
Walk Don’t Walk
Schoolyard
Strollin
Willing & Able
Diamonds & Pearls
Insatiable
Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
Horny Pony
Live 4 love
Something Funky This House Comes
Call The Law
The Flow

I’ll Do Anything Musical Late 1992
Wow
Make Believe
My Little Pill
There Is Lonely
Be My Mirror
I Can’t Love U Anymore
Don’t Talk 2 Strangers
I’ll Do Anything

Glam Slam Ulysses show August 21 1993
Strays Of The World
Dolphin
Interactive
Pheromone
Dark
Loose!
Space
What’s My Name
Poem
Endorphinmachine
Race
Come
Pope

Madhouse 24 pt. II Mid 1994
17
Rootie Kazootie
Space
Guitar Segue
Asswoop
Ethereal
Parlor games
Michael B
(Got 2) Give It Up
Sonny T

Come March 11th 1994
Poem
Interactive
Endorphin Machine
Space
Pheromone
Loose
Papa
Race
Dark
Solo
Strays Of The World

Exodus
NPG operator (segue)
Get Wild
Slave 2 The System
Acknowledge Me
Super Hero
Count (segue)
Count The Days
Sonny (segue)
Dj Gets Jumped (segue)
New Power Soul
Mad
Love They Will Be Done
Funky
Proud mary
NPG Bum Rush The Ship (segue)
Exodus
Funky Design

The Gold Experience 1
Interactive
Days Of Wild
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Now
Acknowledge Me
Ripopgodazippa
319
Shy
Billy Jack Bitch
Eye Hate U
Gold



The Gold Experience 2
P Control
Endorphin Machine
Acknowledge Me
We March
Days Of Wild
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Dolphin
Now
319
Shy
Billy Jack Bitch
Eye Hate U
Gold

Emancipation
Right Back Here In My Arms
Slave 2 The System
Slave
New World
2020
Fel Good
Journey 2 The Center Of your Heart
Eye Am The DJ
Emancipation

High
Supercute
Underneath The Cream
Golden Parachute
When Will We B Paid?
The Daisy Chain
Gamilliah
High
My Medllion
U Make My Sun Shine
When Eye Lay My Hands On U
[Edited 10/5/04 13:38pm]

And 4 all those times yall ask a question about "what was on this and this and this.." and babblin all the time, no posts..whatever yall

I definately vote for sticky on this, but expand it to include a list of all Prince's unreleased projects, with tracklists where possible. (Like Camille/DF/CB )

List of unreleased projects here: http://www.prince.org/msg...&tid=53806

Thanks! Great info... some things i hadn't heard of before... like that Emancipation configuration??? Would've been quite poor album

- why isnt vavoom on high?
- how about electric intercourse, wasn't it intented on Purple Rain?
- some typos, but thats ok.

STICKY!!!

- i've never heard that All My Dreams was intented for Parade... -edit
[Edited 9/29/04 1:23am]

NouveauDance said:

Look again..they ARE on there!





have always seen that...according to The Vault again ..it was assembeled on May 1st 1985. Sessions took place April 1985 - Mid-March 1986.

The High album..

"The album was finished in early August 2000 (announced on the NPG Online LTD on August 8th). Hish was comprised of 10 tracks in this sequence.. (see above).
Instead of releasing High on a conventional album however, Prince chose to make all the songs avaliable as limited editiion through NPG Online LTD and NPG Music Club, which was launched February 2001.

June 8th 2001 was the premire of Vavoom on KDWB so maybe Vavoom wasnt present at the time of that configuration?

That's not actually the tracklist for 'High' (the real tracklist isn't known).

bloody mouth? hmmmmm...damn u prince! those sound like great would b albums!! purple bitch...

BorisFishpaw said:

Well according to the site at the time it was, but hey we will probably never know...

What if I wanted to know if Prince is gay?

paisleypark4 said:

The tracklist was never posted on the official site (believe me, I know).
This info comes from Uptown, and it's one of the few occasions where they're in error.
This often quoted tracklist is actually from a CDR that Prince made up so he could play some of
his new material in clubs etc. It features tracks from various (at the time) current projects, and
most of the tracks are indeed from 'High', but not all of them. Some of the tracks are actually
from the unreleased NPG album 'Peace'.

althom said:

Ask him!

"Hey Princey, which side you playin' for?"
[Edited 9/30/04 2:35am]

U people make me laugh at times.....

BorisFishpaw said:

Well I would like 2 change it (cuz i believe the same thing), but since i dont enuff info on it...unless there is a "right" configuration of it.

Should Roadhouse Garden be included?

paisleypark4 said:

*WTF????

Taureau said:

We don't know a tracklist, other than a few songs that were mentioned.

Making a list of unreleased Prince albums isn't as easy or straightforward as it appears.
What constitutes an unreleased album? Where do you draw the line? Most of the albums
listed were ideas that were never finished, and therefore can only be considered 'works in
progress' as they would never have been released in the form listed (had Prince decided
to finish them). There are only a few truly 'finished' unreleased albums. With many of the
albums we don't know what the tracklist was, with others we don't know what order the
tracks were sequenced.

It such a shame I can't get CD quality versions of so many of these....

I would LOVE to somhow obtain a copy of songs:

Wonder
Grand Progression
Open Book
Love thy will be done
Electric Intercourse

plus many others but these are deep favorites of mine...

Can anyone email if they know where I can get a copy of these on CD?

I will make a donation to your favorite Charity ala "LilAngelBunny Foundation" ...whatever it takes...

Thank you... and don't forget..."Down the needle, down the spoon..."

BorisFishpaw said:

Is this bothering you that much?


PS>..oh yeah i would love 2 know what "Bloody Mouth" is!!!


"This was a tune about being pissed off at someone" says engineer Joe Blaney, which was recorded winter 1987. Eric Leeds added sax on Nov. 15th 1987. Cat had said that her rap in Alphabet St was originally recorded in Bloody Mouth.
"It was a pretty cool tune" Blaney remembers, "I remember it had a very good bass line, very funky and kind of moving. 'I wanna give you a bloody mouth' that was the chorus. We finished it in one day. I got the impression that it was like having fun, like an excercise or something. I dont think it was written specifically for Grafitti Bridge"


Grafitti Bridge 1's tracks on September 22nd 1987 were in mentioned in the script.
Grafitti Bride second cconfig was assembeled Sep. 25th 1988


Now i wish people would quit hatin and just enjoy lookin at the titles...

i'm quite interested in Slave 2 The System. was it really meant for Exodus?

OK, it's now official to me that Prince indeed is a workaholic. That entire list of songs is overwhelming to look at, or even consider listening too in one's lifetime. Are any of the songs that were subsequently left off the commercial albums available by some other means? I won't mention that dirty " BOO " word, it seems as if he's on a witchhunt, searching out the " Evildoers ". One last thing, how did you compile all of that info, who did you talk to? I'm a bit sad that there is so much of his music that I've never heard.

Yeah right... There's no way there ever could have been really a serious album configuration like this. With the exception of "New World" these are pretty much just all the Emancipation sessions outtakes listed here. The ones that appeared on the actual album are the ones that also are known to have early/alternate versions existing.

Milty said:

There's 2 versions - The Prince version, and the Sonny T. version, meant for Exodus.

89Flowers said:

compiled it from the Vault book. I looked up for all the "configurations"

Novabreaker said:

from the Vault:

"An early configuration was made for Emancipation essembeled in early 1995. At this stage the album only had 9 songs (above)...they were jettisoned as a work in progress only on the project. Emancipation would go through many changes before it was released as a 36 track CD set inNov. 19th 1996."


So i do agree with you, im JUST puttin on what configurations were made for albums i could find.

Okay sure. I should get that book. Think I also need to eat in the coming months too though... But thank you for sharing.

So basically what that means is that Prince (uhm, sorry ) took just several cuts he had recorded recently and did a test pressing of some kind for whatever reason he had in his mind. Some of these other configurations sound equally ropey as well - (MY GOD, look at that running order of Diamonds & Pearls! ). But it's quite interesting to see Moonbeam Levels was considered for the original Rave -album.

paisleypark4 said:

On thedatabank.org...they listed the High album (with cover art) It had the track listing...Was this a fan compilation? THe comments also mention that it would have been a great release too.

superspaceboy said:

Yes, it's a fan compilation.
('High' never got as far as having cover art made for it before it was shelved)

paisleypark4 said:

Oh, it doesn't bother me at all, I love all this kinda stuff about early configurations of albums
etc. It's just that when these kinda things get posted without any explaination, people will
assume that they are all fully realised albums that could or would have been released, and
in most instances that is not the case. A lot of them are merely quick compilations of current
songs with no intent to release them in that form or sequence.

BorisFishpaw said:

Just like the "lost" Kim Basinger album, eh Boris?

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