Moonbeam said:

What’s everyone’s rankings of the songs on discs 3-4? Here are mine so far. 10/10: 1. Moonbeam Levels 2. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute) (original) 3. Purple Music 4. Delirious (full length) 5. Rearrange 6. Possessed 7. Do Yourself a Favor 8. Turn It Up 9. No Call U 9.5/10: 10. Bold Generation 11. How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore (Take 2) 12. Yah, You Know 9/10: 13. Teacher, Teacher 14. Vagina 15. International Lover (Take 1) 8.5/10 16. Feel U Up 17. Irresistible Bitch 18. Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Head / Little Red Corvette (tour demo) 19. Don’t Let Him Fool Ya 8/10: 20. Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got 21. You’re All I Want 7/10: 22. Colleen 23. Money Don’t Grow On Trees 6/10: 24. If It’ll Make U Happy

Here are my rankings.

CD3
Feel U Up = 7/10
Irresistible Bitch = 7/10
Money Don’t Grow On Trees = 8/10
Vagina = 9/10
Rearrange = 10/10
Bold Generation = 10/10
Colleen = 8/10
International Lover (Take 1) [Live In Studio] = 8/10
Turn It Up = 8/10
You’re All I Want = 7/10
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) = 9/10
If It’ll Make U Happy = 9/10
How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Take 2) = 8/10

CD3 gets off to a slow start, but it quickly ramps up to awesome. 1-2 punch of Rearrange and Bold Generation continues to be on repeat. Colleen is cool, although a bit repetitive. As an overall set, 9/10.

CD4
Possessed (1982 Version) = 8/10
Delirious (Full Length) = 8/10
Purple Music = 9/10
Yah, You Know = 9/10
Moonbeam Levels (2019 Remaster) = 9/10
No Call U = 8/10
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got = 7/10
Do Yourself A Favor = 10/10
Don’t Let Him Fool Ya = 7/10
Teacher, Teacher = 8/10
Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Little Red Corvette (Tour Demo) = 10/10

CD4 suffers a bit for me because I've heard almost all of it on boots/shares. Trying to be objective, I would say that the highs aren't as high as CD3, but the lows aren't as low. Overall set, 8/10.

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And if I never heard any boots, these would probably change:
Turn It Up = 9/10
Something In the Water (Does Not Compute) = 10/10

Purple Music = 10/10
Teacher, Teacher = 9/10

mushmackalenta said:

This set has been on heavy rotation since I downloaded it a couple weeks ago. I am absolutely loving the whole thing. This is the album that made me a fan back in 83 and I still have my original vinyl. But this set has made me fall in love with it all over again.

Merry Christmas to me!

LoveGalore said:

Trump, fascism, and everything else is irrelevant to this thread. The issue was, speaking of discretion, about someone being a dickhead about transgender people and ranting about transgendered children of all things. Somehow that has morphed into y'all going tit for tat on a non-issue. Can this thread be brought back into some semblance of relevance?

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Transgenders are a manifestation of Darwinism.

Be happy for them and that.

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These are the facts.

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Now about the music:
Are we looking forward to the next release(s) or are we spinning 1999 Deluxe still?

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The outtakes (excluding Moonbeam Levels) don't sound terribly amazing with a good pair of headphones. I'm sure they did the best they could do, but the quality is a bit shakier than I had hoped.

Mikado said:

Mikado said:

The outtakes (excluding Moonbeam Levels) don't sound terribly amazing with a good pair of headphones. I'm sure they did the best they could do, but the quality is a bit shakier than I had hoped.

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Can you pelase be more specific than 'the quality'?

What is the problem? Hiss? Tonal balance? Stereo separation c.q. the stereo spread of the mix, distortion, clipping, etc, etc, etc...

Mikado said:

LoveGalore said:

Mikado said:

The outtakes (excluding Moonbeam Levels) don't sound terribly amazing with a good pair of headphones. I'm sure they did the best they could do, but the quality is a bit shakier than I had hoped.

Huh? More specifics would be nice. While a few could've been given a bit more love in a different direction than what they got, these outtakes sound incredible to me.

Agreed, while not off the chart quality what we got is prettuy damn good. Now release the aftershow footage before I die plse...

Prince has mentioned a few times in interviews that a 1999 part 2 exists in the vault. We now probably have most of the tracks that he was referring to.

Do you guys think what he was referring to is an actual sequenced album, or just miscellaneous songs that he felt 'could' make up a 1999 part 2?

How would you guys track it? Here is my list of what would be a cohesive sounding sequence. I realize some great tunes are missing, but for me, these 10 tracks would all compliment one another nicely as a set.

Extraloveable

Rearrange

Turn It Up

Possessed

No Call U

Lust U Always

Don't Let Him Fool Ya

You're All I Want

Purple Music

Moonbeam Levels

leadline said:

Ok guy's I know I'm late but I finally have the super deluxe set and Tonight heard the remaster 1999.audio wise a lot better than the vinyl and CD I got in the 80's.... One track "free" I remember him doing that radio city music hall in 83.....tomorrow it's the unreleased tracks....

leadline said:

Very happy with this release. Beautiful packaging and great content - if they use this model for the rest of the 80s albums I think his legacy will be given proper care and treatment

TrevorAyer said:

(This made me laugh)

I was listening to D.M.S.R

loudly

and I thought:

I want to see Duff Mc update from opening his UPS package on his kitchen counter,

to getting funky down dancing D.M.S.R

I know you're sober now c'mon

Laughed at myself drunk on the dance floors way back when

(Just a laugh)

Back on topic:

I did not purchase 1999 in 2019.

However, I have a Spotify account,

and to me/my ears, phone Spotify Bluetooth ear phones,

the 2019 release does not sound nearly as 'good' as the original

let me be clear

Spotify let's me choose exact same songs but the different year released revised remastered re whatever

1999 release in 2019

is slower, it doesn't 'capture' me

like the original

1999 album.

Sorry, it's the sound and speed (again, online stream compare)

.02 cents peanut gallery review

mnfriend said:

Back on topic:

I did not purchase 1999 in 2019.

However, I have a Spotify account,

and to me/my ears, phone Spotify Bluetooth ear phones,

the 2019 release does not sound nearly as 'good' as the original

let me be clear

Spotify let's me choose exact same songs but the different year released revised remastered re whatever

1999 release in 2019

is slower, it doesn't 'capture' me

like the original

1999 album.

Sorry, it's the sound and speed (again, online stream compare)

.02 cents peanut gallery review

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It appears you high-tech streaming setup warps the audio quite a bit as nobody had complaints like yours.

Play the CD and use wired headphones to be sure.

I do enjoy the live Detroit D.M.S.R., heard that a few times today, I didn't see that offered the other day.

The remastered from the original 'recorded' track differences were not due to audio quality, rather tempo changes, etc.

The live show releases are great fun, appreciate these, thanks.

I take it all back Spotify

Thank You for the

1982 Masonic Hall, Detroit MI live concert release. What a show.

Incredible architecture and feel to these old Masonic buildings (I've been in Mpls., but not this Detroit building)

current info about Detroit Masonic Building

'Construction of the structure, which includes more than 1,000 rooms, started in 1920 as a meeting place for Detroit's Freemason organizations, but they bit off more than they could chew. The Great Depression halted the project, and to this day its top three floors remain unfinished, which include a swimming pool and yet another theater. As of 2014, Detroit's Masonic Temple had just 3,3000 members, less than half of which paid membership dues — hence the need for public entertainment deals like the one with AEG Presents.

The investment from AEG Presents is in addition to the $3.7 million renovation project announced at the venue last year, its first major renovation since 1990. In 2013, Jack White, whose mother worked as an usher at the Masonic and who has performed there numerous times with his band the White Stripes, anonymously donated $142,000 to pay off the building's back taxes.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/...nic_Temple

My insta-kharma for poking fun of Duff's staid album opening of 2019 1999,

I am dancing like a fool to Detroit 1982 release

UK music monthly Classic Pop, January 2020 issue: 1999 Deluxe is the number one in their list "Best of 2019: Reissues".

BartVanHemelen said:

UK music monthly Classic Pop, January 2020 issue: 1999 Deluxe is the number one in their list "Best of 2019: Reissues".

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The album is also mentioned in "Best of 2019: Editor's Choice" in the same issue of Classic Pop:

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On the soul and R&B front, a fair slice of my attention was given over to various Prince-related offerings this year, from the intriguing Originals album to the exhaustive 1999 boxset. The Purple One's unfinished autobiography The Beautiful Ones was a glimpse into what could have been and further underlined just what an extraordinary, much-missed talent Minneapolis' most famous son was.

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https://variety.com/2019/...203451459/

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The answer to how prodigious a single one-man-band can get is answered in the kind of vault-emptying exercise Prince fans have dreamed of before and since his passing. The two discs’ worth of songs that didn’t make the cut for “1999” won’t convince you he was making the wrong choices at the time, but most of the discarded cuts come awfully close to being top-flight, and in a few cases — like “How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore,” duh — achieve it. And it’s fun to hear him messing with ideas that emerged more fully formed later, like a rough draft of “New Power Generation.” A live album and concert DVD further establish that, however much we loved the Revolution joining in for “Purple Rain,” the “1999” era was a peak for Princedom in its purest form.

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https://www.superdeluxeed...s-of-2019/

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SDE’s Best Reissues of 2019

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2020 is but hours away, so before we hit a new decade, SDE takes a look at some of the best reissues and box sets from this year. There are seven categories, each with one winner and ‘special mentions’ for other worthy releases.

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BEST SINGLE ALBUM BOX SET: Prince ‘1999’ (Warner Records)

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A near-perfect reissue of Prince‘s 1982 album, the 5CD+DVD set and 10LP+DVD box offered an enormous amount of bonus material, including two CDs (or four LPs) of vault tracks. The quality of this material is unreal, from early versions of eventually released songs (‘Irresistible Bitch’, ‘Feel U Up) to tracks that Prince kept fiddling with that were ultimately never issued (‘Possessed’). It’s the sheer number of unheard songs that boggles the mind and they are all good; from the funky ‘Bold Generation’, the breezy ‘Money Don’t Grow On Trees’ to the ultra-poppy ‘Rearrange’. Add to this the remastered double album, every edit, remix or B-side issued at the time and two live performances (one on CD and one on DVD) and you’ve got the making of something quite special. The wonderful packaging is also worth a mention. Naysayers can point to the lack of 5.1 mix and promo videos but for around £55 for the CD box that’s fairly easy to forgive.

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I got my copy today of the Superdeluxe 5CD/DVD I liked how they posted his written lyrics on page 15-24 of the booklet, especially Purple Music where Prince made a point of using black texter to highlight "better try our best to get along". Sure I would have loved it had they included concert footage of The Time and Vanity 6 to the DVD, but I can overlook that because its packaged beautfully and the vault songs are amazing. 1999 is my all-time fav Prince album and I give this a 4 out 5