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- Prince Purple Rain Expanded Deluxe Edition Blogspot Edition
- PURPLE RAIN DELUXE – EXPANDED EDITION Includes Disc One and Disc Two as Listed Above Disc Three: Single Edits & B-Sides. When Doves Cry (edit) 2. Let’s Go Crazy (edit) 4. Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) 5. Erotic City (“Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive”) 7. Purple Rain (edit) 8.
- A 30th anniversary edition of Purple Rain was planned as the first of these reissues but it didn't materialize in 2014 or anytime soon afterward. The expanded Purple Rain didn't appear until June 2017, a little over a year after Prince's early death. It was the first major posthumous archival release and it offers plenty of treasures in its.
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
- 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:
Prince - Purple Rain (Deluxe) Expanded Edition Track List: 01. Let's Go Crazy (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) - Prince & The Revolution 02. Take Me With U (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) - Prince & The Revolution 03. The Beautiful Ones (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) - Prince & The Revolution 04.
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
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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)
Prince Purple Rain Expanded Deluxe Edition Blogspot 2017
(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 Purple Rain Expanded Deluxe Edition Blogspot Edition
Prince and the Revolution, Purple Rain (Deluxe Expanded Edition) – 5/5, would go crazy again
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