His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club
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Late 1985 |
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August 7, 1982 - December 7, 1984 |
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| Label (s) | Paisley Park / Warner Bros. Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
72:18 |
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| occupation | All songs were produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince. His band members added the following to the recordings:
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Studio (s) |
Kiowa Trail Home Studio ( Chanhassen ) |
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His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club ( English for The Pop Life of His Majesty / The Purple Mix Club ) is the second promo - compilation album of the US musician Prince . It was released at the end of 1985 by the music label Paisley Park / Warner Bros. Records and was only released in Japan in a double LP limited to 500 copies . The album includes nine maxi versions and a single version from 1982 to 1985.
The music belongs to the genres of electronic dance music , funk , pop music and rock music . Sheila E. and Prince 's band, The Revolution, are guest musicians . Also are Jill Jones and Susannah Melvoin represented as guest singers.
On April 13, 2019 The Prince Estate brought (dt .: The Princeton discount ) the double LP officially re-release out, this time in a limited edition of 14,000 copies worldwide. Music critics did not rate the double LP in 1985 and showed little interest in its re-release in 2019. From a commercial point of view, the re-release could reach the top 200 of the US album charts.
His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club was also released on Compact Disc in July 2020 , but only as an import from Japan.
Emergence
After Strange Tales from the Rain (1984) His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club , the second promo - compilation album by Prince. The album was only released in Japan at the end of 1985 and had a circulation of only 500 double LPs. When the annual in April 2019 Record Store Day was held in the US, brought The Prince Estate (dt .: The Princeton estate ) His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club out again in its original output. This time the album is limited to 14,000 copies worldwide.
The earliest recorded song that Warner Bros. Records placed on His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club is the 1999 album version . Prince recorded the piece on August 7, 1982 at his private recording studio, Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen . The max version of Little Red Corvette , which was originally over twelve minutes long, he recorded on January 7, 1983 in Sunset Sound in Los Angeles , California. A week later, Prince added overdubs and finished the final version of Litte Red Corvette (Dance Mix) in Sunset Sound.
1984 Prince worked again several times in Sunset Sound in Los Angeles and recorded songs there. Sheila E. created the "Fresh Dance Mix" for Pop Life on February 19th, and Prince completed the album version of When Doves Cry on March 3rd. On March 25th Sheila E. sang the vocals for Erotic City and on April 4th Prince mixed the song and added overdubs. He recorded the album version of America on July 23, 1984 at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie , Minnesota, and produced the "Special Dance Mix" of Let's Go Crazy on August 5, 1984 at Sunset Sound. Prince completed Raspberry Beret on September 13, 1984 in the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse. It is not publicly known when the “New Mix” was produced. Prince mixed the song Paisley Park on October 11, 1984 in Sunset Sound. It is not known whether this was the “remix”. The "Extended Version" of I Would Die 4 U was recorded live by Prince with The Revolution and Sheila E. on October 25th in Minneapolis in the Arena Minneapolis Auditorium, and was completed on December 7th, 1984 in Capitol Studios in Los Angeles.
Design of the cover
The record cover of the double LP His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club is designed as a gatefold cover. On the front cover, the upper body of Wendy Melvoin is shown in a surrealistic representation and shows her as a crying old woman with white hair. Her lower body can be seen on the back cover in a surrealistic form, and the album's tracklist is also printed. The pictures are taken from the album cover of Around the World in a Day , which Doug Henders (* 1957) had created. The front cover of His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club is identical to that of the single Pop Life , released July 10, 1985.
When the flip cover is open, the inside shows a photo of Prince and The Revolution performing live on a stage, but it is not depicted in a surreal way. The lyrics of the individual songs are not printed on either the double LP or the CD.
The CD contains a "Prince Chronological" created by Masaharu Yoshioka with dates from June 7, 1958 to July 1985, which can, however, be read entirely in Japanese. Yoshioka is a Japanese music writer, translator, and DJ who specializes in black music .
music
The music from the album His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club can be assigned to different musical genres; For example, the three songs 1999 , Little Red Corvette (Dance Mix) and Erotic City come from the field of electronic dance music , Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) from the genre Funk , Raspberry Beret (New Mix) can be assigned to pop music and America can be assigned to rock music .
Guest singers are Jill Jones in 1999 and Sheila E. in Erotic City . She also plays drums in Pop Life . Susannah Melvoin , the twin sister of Wendy Melvoin, sings the backing vocals for America .
List of titles and publications
LP I
| No. | song | author | length |
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| A-1 | Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) | Prince | 9:04 |
| A-2 | America (Album Version) | Prince | 3:42 |
| B-1 | Raspberry Beret (New Mix) | Prince | 6:36 |
| B-2 | Paisley Park (Remix) | Prince | 7:00 |
LP II
| No. | song | author | length |
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| C-1 | Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) | Prince | 7:35 |
| C-2 | Little Red Corvette (Dance Mix) | Prince | 8:18 |
| C-3 | 1999 (album version) | Prince | 6:19 |
| D-1 | I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version) | Prince | 10:18 |
| D-2 | Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive) | Prince | 7:23 |
| D-3 | When Doves Cry (Album Version) | Prince | 5:51 |
His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club was released in late 1985 exclusively as a double LP in an edition limited to 500 copies, which was only released in Japan. On April 13, 2019, The Prince Estate re -released the double LP in the USA, this time in a limited edition of 14,000 copies worldwide. Both with the original album and with the re-release, the playback speed of LP I is 45 revolutions, as is usual with singles, while that of LP II, as with conventional long-playing records, is 33 ⅓ min. At the end of July 2020, The Prince Estate released His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club on compact disc , but only as an import from Japan.
Four maxi versions are also known under different names, but do not differ from one another; Little Red Corvette (Dance Mix) is identical to "Dance Remix", Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) with "Extended Version", I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version) with "US Remix" and Raspberry Beret (New Mix) is identical to both the "12" version and the "Extended Remix".
There are two different maxi versions of the song Pop Life ; once the “Fresh Dance Mix” with a length of 6:19 minutes and an “Extended Version” that is 9:04 minutes long. The maxi version on His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club is titled as “Fresh Dance Mix”, but that's wrong - you can hear the longer “Extended Version”.
Except for Pop Life (Extended Version) and Paisley Park (Remix) , all versions of His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club have also been released on Compact Disc ; 1999 (album version) on 1999 , When Doves Cry (album version) on Purple Rain and America (album version) on Around the World in a Day . The three maxi versions of Little Red Corvette , Let's Go Crazy and Raspberry Beret were placed on Ultimate (2006), and Erotic City and I Would Die 4 U are present on Purple Rain Deluxe (2017).
Single releases
With the exception of Erotic City , all songs were released as singles . The respective maxi versions appeared on:
- September 24, 1982: 1999
- February 9, 1983: Little Red Corvette
- June 13, 1984: When Doves Cry
- August 29, 1984: Let's Go Crazy with B-side Erotic City
- December 19, 1984: I Would Die 4 U
- May 24, 1985: Paisley Park
- June 19, 1985: Raspberry Beret
- July 31, 1985: Pop Life
- October 2, 1985: America
Music videos
There are music videos for eight songs , but five of them can be heard in the respective single version. A music video in the album version was only produced for When Doves Cry . The videos for I Would Die 4 U and America are played by Prince in a live version, and no videos have been produced for the songs Erotic City and Pop Life .
reception
Press
In 1985, His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club was not rated by music critics , and in 2019 some music journalists mentioned the re-release but did not give a rating.
Only Stephen Thomas Erlewine from the US online music database Allmusic reviewed His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club in 2019 and awarded three out of five stars. He noted that many of "these exclusive remixes" had already been published in new editions such as Ultimate (2006). Erlewine concluded that “this special combination” is of particular interest to collectors.
Charts
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 United States (Billboard)
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184 (1 week) | 1 |
1985 His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club could not place in the international charts. The mentioned chart placement results from April 2019, when the double LP was released again and could only reach the US album charts for one week.
literature
- Per Nilsen: DanceMusicSexRomance - Prince: The First Decade. Firefly Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 0-946719-23-3 .
- Duane Tudahl: Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition). Rowman & Littlefield, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-5381-1462-9 .
- Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X .
Web links
- Princevault.com , information about His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club album
Individual evidence
- ↑ Booklet of the Prince and the Revolution CD 1999 , Warner Bros. Records, 1982
- ↑ Booklet of the CD Purple Rain by Prince and The Revolution, Warner Bros. Records, 1984
- ↑ Booklet for the CD Around the World in a Day by Prince and The Revolution, Warner Bros. Records / Paisley Park, 1985.
- ^ Prince - His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club. In: discogs.com. 2019, accessed on April 29, 2019 .
- ↑ 1999. In: Princevault.com. April 19, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), pp. 6-17
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 272.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 286.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 300 and P. 308.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 365.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 377.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 410.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 433.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), pp. 440–443.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 459.
- ↑ Susannah Melvoin : Susannah Melvoin's Twitter account. In: twitter.com. February 1, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Masaharu Yoshioka. In: discogs.com. 2020, accessed on July 29, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Nilsen (1999), p. 280.
- ^ Prince: His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club. In: recordstoreday.com. April 13, 2019, accessed April 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 6.
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 37.
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 41.
- ^ Uptown (2004), p. 49.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 378.
- ↑ Tudahl (2018), p. 461.
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 60.
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 61.
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 62.
- ↑ Uptown (2004), p. 63.
- ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Prince - His Majesty's Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club. In: Allmusic.com. 2019, accessed on June 10, 2019 .
- ^ Prince - Chart History. billboard.com, accessed April 29, 2019 .