Purple Rain Deluxe
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January 14, 1983 - December 7, 1984 |
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Double album , 3 CD set + DVD |
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35 |
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198: 34 |
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First Avenue ( Minneapolis ) |
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Purple Rain Deluxe is a reworked new edition based on Prince 's sixth studio album Purple Rain and was released posthumously on June 23, 2017 as a double album on the Warner Bros. Records / NPG Records label. Prince had already recorded the total of 20 songs in 1983 and 1984; 11 of them were first released on Purple Rain Deluxe . In addition, the new edition appeared in the Expanded Edition as a triple album with a DVD .
The music belongs to the genres of funk , pop , rock and R&B . The lyrics are about love, spirituality , sex and lust . Guest singers include Apollonia Kotero , Lisa Coleman , Sheila E. and Wendy Melvoin , and Prince's former companion band The Revolution is also featured on the album. Music critics rated Purple Rain Deluxe very positively in some cases.
Prince's most commercially successful album Purple Rain was released in June 1984; he digitally remastered the songs on Purple Rain Deluxe in 2015 .
Emergence
On April 28, 2017, a year after Prince's death, the music labels Warner Bros. Records and NPG Records announced that they would be releasing the Purple Rain album in June 2017 in a deluxe edition. It is the first reprint to be published posthumously by Prince ; previously, the labels had released a greatest hits compilation by the musician in November 2016 with 4Ever . At Warner, Prince had been under contract from 1978 to December 31, 1999 and in 2014. NPG Records is the music label he founded in 1994 and still exists today. In 2014 Prince got back all copyrights to the songs that he had previously recorded for Warner in his career.
Prince finished the original Purple Rain album on April 14, 1984. According to the liner notes of Purple Rain Deluxe Prince has in 2015 in his Paisley Park studio in the nine songs of the original album Chanhassen in Minnesota in the role of supervisor digitally remastered . Michael A. Welton (civil: Joshua Aaron Michael Welton, born October 21, 1990) was responsible for the mastering , the husband of 3rdEyeGirl drummer Hannah Ford-Welton.
Recorded in 1983
On January 14, 1983, Prince recorded the song Electric Intercourse in Los Angeles , California on Sunset Sound, which he had previously rented. He recorded Wonderful Ass in September 1984 according to the Purple Rain Deluxe liner notes . But Duane Tudahl and Per Nilsen, authors of several Prince books and observers of his musical career, date the recording to early to mid-January 1983. According to Tudahl and Nilsen, Prince recorded the piece in his then private recording studio called Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen .
On March 1, Prince recorded the song Katrina's Paper Dolls in Chicago , Illinois at the Universal Recording Corporation recording studio, and on April 20, he recorded Velvet Kitty Cat on Sunset Sound, which he had rented again at the time. Possessed resumed Prince on May 15 at his private recording studio, Kiowa Trail Home Studio.
On August 3, Prince and his backing band Prince and The Revolution played a benefit concert in Minneapolis , Minnesota at the First Avenue Music Club. This concert, at which he played the then unreleased song Computer Blue , was recorded by sound engineers David Leonard and David Z. Rivkin. On August 8, Prince reworked the previously recorded piece with sound engineer Susan Rogers in a warehouse called The Warehouse in St. Louis Park in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, and on September 21, he finally put it on with sound engineer Peggy McCreary in Sunset Sound the "Hallway Speech" version is finished, which is ultimately 12 minutes long.
The exact recording date of 17 Days is unknown to the public, but Prince recorded the song in August 1983 at The Warehouse and the Kiowa Trail Home Studio. At the time, he was planning to put 17 Days on Vanity 6's second studio album . On September 12th, he added overdubs to the track Electric Intercourse and remixed it. Prince recorded the track Father's Song again on October 24th at his private recording studio Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, but not until a month later in November according to liner notes by Purple Rain Deluxe .
From December 27, 1983 to April 25, 1984 Prince rented the Sunset Sound in Los Angeles again and recorded the song We Can Fuck there on December 30 , which was called either The Dawn or Moral Majority as a working title .
Recordings 1984
On January 8, 1984, Prince revised 17 Days and decided to publish it under his own name. 17 Days serves as the B-side of the single When Doves Cry , released in May, and is the first song to be credited to Prince and The Revolution. On February 7th, Prince revised Father's Song and recorded the instrumental piece God (Love Theme from Purple Rain) , which can only be found on the B-side of Purple Rain's maxi single, which was released in Great Britain in September . On February 18, Prince recorded Another Loney Christmas , which was released in November as the B-side of the single I Would Die 4 U , and on February 27, he recorded Love and Sex . Possessed revised Prince on March 17th; this version, dated from 1984, can be heard on Purple Rain Deluxe , although the song is titled Possessed (1983 Version) . On March 25th, Prince recorded the song Erotic City with Sheila E. , which he named as the working title Electric City . Erotic City was released in July as the b-side of the single Let's Go Crazy . On April 19, Prince reworked the two songs Another Lonely Christmas and God (Love Theme from Purple Rain) , and on April 25, he finished work on the song Possessed in Sunset Sound in Los Angeles.
In early May, Prince recorded the two songs Our Destiny and Roadhouse Garden in Eden Prairie , Minnesota at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse. On June 7, 1984, his 26th birthday, Prince gave another concert in Minneapolis at the First Avenue music club, where he played the two pieces, among other things. Similar to the live concert on August 3, 1983, he had sound engineer David Z. Rivkin record the concert. On July 8, mixed Prince, the maxi-single of Erotic City at Sunset Sound from that on August 29 as a B-side from the maxi-single from Let's Go Crazy was released. On August 17th, Prince recorded The Dance Electric in the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse , but according to Purple Rain Deluxe's liner notes it was already in July 1983. Originally, he passed the song on to his former school friend André Cymone, who did it on July 16th Released as a single in 1985. On August 19, 1984, Prince recorded a vocal version of God at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse , which served as the B-side of the September single from Purple Rain . He revised God and God (Love Theme from Purple Rain) on August 22nd. On September 27th, Prince reworked the two songs Our Destiny and Roadhouse Garden in Sunset Sound and added overdubs. In particular, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman reworked Our Destiny , with Coleman taking over the lead vocals. Prince also recorded a version of Our Destiny with Jill Jones as the main singer on September 29th , which has not yet been released to this day (as of 2020).
The Extended version of I Would Die 4 U , which differs significantly from the album version, played with Prince The Revolution and Sheila E. on October 25 in Minneapolis in the Arena Minneapolis Auditorium live a revised this on December 7 and was then Officially released in the United States on December 19, 1984.
music
The music of Purple Rain Deluxe is a stylistic combination of the music genres pop , rock , R&B , funk and soul . In addition, Prince uses synthesizers and the Linn LM-1 as a drum computer on the album , with which he penetrates music genres such as electronic dance music and electro funk . Ballads and two instrumental pieces can also be heard on the album . In addition to his characteristic falsetto singing , Prince also uses lower voices on the album. In addition, he sings in the song Erotic City (1984) for the first time in a voice effect he created, which he called "Camille" from 1987; the tape runs slower than normal during the vocal recording. Playing the tape at normal speed creates a pitch-shifting effect that speeds up Prince's voice and makes it sound a little higher.
In the lyrics , Prince addresses the themes of love, spirituality , sex and lust . Guest singers include Lisa Coleman , Sheila E. and Wendy Melvoin as well as Prince's former companion band The Revolution .
The Dance Electric is from the genres of electronic dance music and electro funk. The sometimes spiritual lyrics have a mantra- like touch in phases and the melody is amplified by monotonous music. The lyrics have an apocalyptic theme; Prince describes fears of the end of the world , which the "master" did not want. In the chorus , Prince demands, “We have to dance the dance electric. Listen to the rhythm of your soul ”. It is better to love one another as it is "almost time to go". In addition, the enemies should be forgiven and hatred should be put aside so that people can be open to something new.
The up-tempo song Love and Sex has a pounding beat from the Linn LM-1 drum computer and peppy-sounding synthesizers, generated by a Yamaha DX7 . The melody and the groove play a subordinate role. The piece begins with a scream from Prince, reminiscent of the song Endorphinmachine from his album The Gold Experience (1995), and continues with the chorus "sha-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-boom". The lyrics are about joy and pain in a sex relationship; for example, Prince says to his girlfriend, "Come on, baby, hurt me when you're in the mood". Prince performs the song in an unusual, almost screaming way. Sound engineer Peggy McCreary said you could hear Prince's "high spirits" in the song.
Computer Blue (Hallway Speech Version) is the original version of the song and contains longer instrumental and guitar parts as well as additional lyrics compared to the version released on Purple Rain in 1984 . Prince describes a house full of hallways, which stand for different feelings, such as "lust", "insecurity", "fear" and "hate". In addition, Wendy Melvoin sings in the lyrics that the computer should stop viewing women as butterflies and recognize them as computers too.
The note “Studio Version” in the song title Electric Intercourse (Studio Version) is given because the song was previously only heard as a live version. The ballad, which is dominated by Prince on the hybrid piano , comes from the genres of soul and pop music. In the lyrics he meets a woman and confesses his love to her, although he does not know her name. Nonetheless, he demands "Come on, take advantage of it and strip me off" and sings about the "sexually extraordinary electricity" that prevails between the two. Prince originally placed the song on the original album Purple Rain (1984), but replaced it with The Beautiful Ones .
Prince originally recorded the two songs Our Destiny and Roadhouse Garden as separate pieces, but on the released version of Purple Rain Deluxe, the two merge together; after 2:52 minutes, Our Destiny goes straight to Roadhouse Garden . Our Destiny is an up-tempo song with a pounding beat and dynamic guitar playing by Prince. A haunting synthesizer game serves as the leitmotif . Lisa Coleman took over the main vocals on Our Destiny , which is not mentioned in the liner notes of Purple Rain Deluxe . The Roadhouse Garden , sung by Prince himself, is from the genre of rock music and is based only on a chord consisting of a recurring guitar phrase . In 1999, Prince announced in an interview that he would release an album called Roadhouse Garden , which he ultimately did not.
Possessed (1983 version) is a tribute to Prince of James Brown , which in the credits of VHS and DVD of The Revolution: Live is to read. The song is from the genres of electronic dance music and electro funk and has a synthesizer theme that recurs again and again. Prince's vocals are at times reminiscent of James Brown's and the lyrics, typical of Prince in the 1980s, are about a girl; he is possessed by her and cannot resist her. “Why can't I stop this satanic lust? I don't want to hold you, but my body says I have to, ”Prince sings, for example.
Wonderful Ass is a funk and pop song with distinctive synthesizers as a leitmotif. The Linn LM-1 drum computer dominates the arrangement that a funk-like rhythm guitar has. In 1983, Prince had an affair with Vanity that inspired him to write the lyrics; he describes a young woman who is jealous of his friends because she thinks he is going to bed with them. Prince can only endure the woman because he is fascinated by her bottom. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman took on the backing vocals .
Prince originally planned to place the song Velvet Kitty Cat on the album Ice Cream Castle (1984) of his side project at the time, the band The Time . Why he ultimately did not do this is not known to the public. Sue Ann Carwell, Prince's backing vocalist from 1976 to 1981, recalled that Prince recorded a song called Mink Kitty Cat , which was also intended for Vanity. Prince never commented on whether the songs are identical.
Katrina's Paper Dolls is a typical Prince song based on a Linn LM-1 drum computer and synthesizer. Vanity again inspired him to write a song text; "Katrina" was the middle name of her real name Denise Katrina Matthews.
The original version of We Can Fuck , which is censored as We Can F ** k on Purple Rain Deluxe , comes from the funk genre. The song has monotonous drumming paired with distinctive synthesizers. As is clear from the song title, the lyrics are about sexual intercourse that Prince would like to have with an unnamed woman. In the sometimes very suggestive lyrics, he wants to have sex with her five to six times in one night. A less lewd version, We Can Fu n k , was released by Prince, sung in a duet with George Clinton , on his 1990 album Graffiti Bridge .
The ballad Father's Song is a calm instrumental piece that Prince plays on the piano . The melody, which sounds sad, is partly borrowed from the song Computer Blue . Co-author is Prince's father John L. Nelson (* 1916; † 2001); according to keyboardist Dr. Fink wrote the bridge melody to Nelson and presented it to Prince. Prince Father's Song also plays the piano for about a minute and a half in the film Purple Rain .
17 Days is from the field of pop music and funk. Prince sings the melody over two alternating guitar chords , based on a Linn LM-1 drum computer with a repeating electric bass as a monotonous figure . Synthesizers serve as hooklines . In the lyrics, Prince is disappointed that his girlfriend left him 17 days ago. He calls her, but she doesn't answer, which leads him to believe that she is with another man. Prince demands rain as if it could wash away his problems. In September 2018, an acoustic version of 17 Days was released on the album Piano & A Microphone 1983 , which Prince recorded in October 1983 and only plays on the piano . This version is very different from the one on Purple Rain Deluxe .
In the song Erotic City , Prince played all the instruments himself. The piece is again from the genres of Electronic Dance Music and Electro Funk and the groove of the Linn LM-1 drum computer is based on a three-note bass figure. Prince also plays rhythm guitar and lively synthesizers. The chorus, recites the Prince with Sheila E., states in part: "We can fuck until the dawn" (dt .: "We can accommodate up to Dawn fuck "), but what the singer denied jokingly 2017; she herself sings “We can fu n k until the dawn”, while Prince sings “fuck”. In a previous interview, Prince said George Clinton was the inspiration for Erotic City .
God is a gentle and contemplative ballad that begins with the sound of howling wind. Muted instrumentation sets in, to which Prince makes various noises with his voice. In the first line of text he mentions, “In the beginning there was God, ” who created heaven and earth. Prince also sings, we have to dance the “Dance Electric” because there is not much time left. He mostly uses the melody of the instrumental piece God (Love Theme from Purple Rain) , but focuses on the refrain "God created you, God created me too, he created us all". The song is reminiscent of a lullaby at times . Prince's piano playing in combination with synthesizers serves as a musical framework. His voice is very sensitive at times. In the lyrics, however, Prince does not reveal a personal belief in God; it is a rather poetic confirmation of his belief.
Similar to Father's Song , the ballad God (Love Theme from Purple Rain) is an instrumental piece, but this time Prince's guitar playing dominates, which in phases is reminiscent of Carlos Santana 's. The music begins calmly, with synthesizers taking up a sad-sounding melody as their theme . The theme is taken over from Prince's guitar playing and further expands the melody. Just before the song ends, there is a musical showdown before Prince returns to the opening theme. The piece can be heard in the film Purple Rain . God (Love Theme from Purple Rain) is sometimes very different from God .
The song Another Lonely Christmas belongs to the rock music genre. The arrangement seems a bit overloaded at times and Prince recorded the drums in mono recording style. The slow tempo and the reverb effect in Prince's voice give the song the impression of a nostalgic mood. Unusually for a Prince song, the piece begins with the chorus. In the lyrics he tells of a friend who died on December 25, 1977. The cause of death was either pneumonia or streptococcal angina . Prince reminisces and sings the two of them bathing naked in their father's swimming pool . They also both played Pokeno, a card game similar to bingo, for money . It is not known to the public whether Prince is telling a true or an imaginary story.
List of titles and publications
| title | Purple Rain Deluxe | Duration | Original sound carrier | ||||||
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| Let's go crazy a | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 1 | 4:39 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| Take Me with U (Duet with Apollonia Kotero ) | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 2 | 3:53 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| The Beautiful Ones | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 3 | 5:14 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| Computer Blue B | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 4 | 3:59 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| Darling Nikki | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 5 | 4:13 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| When Doves Cry | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 6 | 5:51 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| I Would Die 4 U A | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 7 | 2:49 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| Baby, I'm a Star A | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 8 | 4:23 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| Purple Rain A | Original album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) # 9 | 8:40 | 1984: Purple Rain | ||||||
| The Dance Electric | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 1 | 11:29 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Love and sex | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 2 | 5:00 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Computer Blue ( Hallway Speech Version) B. | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 3 | 12:18 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Electric Intercourse (Studio Version) | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 4 | 4:57 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 5 | 6:25 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Possessed (1983 version) | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 6 | 7:56 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Wonderful ass | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 7 | 6:24 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Velvet Kitty Cat | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 8 | 2:42 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Katrina's Paper Dolls | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 9 | 3:30 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| We Can F ** k | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 10 | 10:17 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| Father's Song C | From the Vault & Previously Unreleased # 11 | 5:30 | 2017: Purple Rain Deluxe | ||||||
| When Doves Cry (7 "Single Edit) | Single Edits & B-Sides # 1 | 3:48 | 1984: vinyl single | ||||||
| 17 Days (B-Side Edit) A. | Single Edits & B-Sides # 2 | 3:55 | 1984: B-side of When Doves Cry | ||||||
| Let's Go Crazy (7 "Single Edit) A. | Single Edits & B-Sides # 3 | 3:49 | 1984: vinyl single | ||||||
| Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) A. | Single Edits & B-Sides # 4 | 7:35 | 1984: vinyl maxi single | ||||||
| Erotic City (7 "B-Side Edit) A | Single Edits & B-Sides # 5 | 3:55 | 1984: B-side of Let's Go Crazy | ||||||
| Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive) A | Single Edits & B-Sides # 6 | 7:23 | 1984: B-side of Let's Go Crazy maxi single | ||||||
| Purple Rain (7 "Single Edit) A. | Single Edits & B-Sides # 7 | 4:05 | 1984: vinyl single | ||||||
| God (7 "B-Side Edit) A | Single Edits & B-Sides # 8 | 4:02 | 1984: B-side of Purple Rain | ||||||
| God (Love Theme from Purple Rain ) A. | Single Edits & B-Sides # 9 | 7:58 | 1984: B-side of Purple Rain UK maxi single | ||||||
| Another Lonely Christmas (7 "B-Side Edit) A. | Single Edits & B-Sides # 10 | 4:52 | 1984: B-side of I Would Die 4 U | ||||||
| Another Lonely Christmas (Extended Version) A. | Single Edits & B-Sides # 11 | 6:47 | 1984: B-side of I Would Die 4 U maxi single | ||||||
| I Would Die 4 U (7 "Single Edit) A | Single Edits & B-Sides # 12 | 2:56 | 1984: vinyl single | ||||||
| I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version) A | Single Edits & B-Sides # 13 | 10:18 | 1984: vinyl maxi single | ||||||
| Baby, I'm a Star (7 "B-Side Edit) A | Single Edits & B-Sides # 14 | 2:49 | 1985: B-side of Take Me with U | ||||||
| Take Me with U (7 "Single Edit) | Single Edits & B-Sides # 15 | 3:42 | 1985: vinyl single | ||||||
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| Notes: Prince is the author of all songs unless otherwise stated
A.Authors: Prince and The Revolution
C. Authors: Prince, John L. Nelson
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Purple Rain Deluxe was released on June 23, 2017, almost exactly 33 years after the original album from June 25, 1984. It is available for purchase in four different editions: as a double CD , as a 3-CD set including a DVD in digipak , as a single vinyl LP and as a single limited picture disc . The vinyl LPs only contain the nine songs from the original album.
The first CD is called Original Album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) and contains the nine songs from the original album, which were digitally remastered by Prince in 2015 . On the second CD From the Vault & Previously Unreleased , eleven previously unreleased songs from 1983 to 1984 can be heard. The third CD is called Single Edits & B-Sides and comprises fifteen songs, four of which are Another Lonely Christmas (Extended Version) , Baby I'm a Star (edit) , God (Love Theme from Purple Rain) and Purple Rain ( edit) were first released on a CD from a Prince album. The remaining eleven songs from Single Edits & B-Sides can already be found on compilations such as The Hits / The B-Sides (1993), The Very Best of Prince (2001), Ultimate (2006) and 4Ever (2016).
The songs Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive) and I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version) were released in Germany in 1989 as a maxi single on CD. The live concert on the DVD dates from March 30, 1985 and was released on VHS in July 1985 under the title Prince and the Revolution: Live .
DVD: Prince and the Revolution: Live
| No. | title | Duration | Original sound carrier |
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| 1 | Let's go crazy a | 6:20 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 2 | Delirious | 2:52 | 1982: 1999 |
| 3 | 1999 | 5:50 | 1982: 1999 |
| 4th | Little Red Corvette | 3:39 | 1982: 1999 |
| 5 | Take Me with U A | 4:57 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 6th | [Interlude] A | 6:46 | 1985: Prince and the Revolution: Live (VHS) |
| 7th | Do me baby | 2:00 | 1981: Controversy |
| 8th | Irresistible bitch | 1:53 | 1983: B-side of Let's Pretend We're Married |
| 9 | Possessed | 4:25 | 1985: Prince and the Revolution: Live (VHS) |
| 10 | How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? | 5:10 | 1982: B-side from 1999 |
| 11 | Let's Pretend We're Married | 4:19 | 1982: 1999 |
| 12 | International lover | 1:50 | 1980: 1999 |
| 13 | God | 7:43 | 1984: B-side of Purple Rain |
| 14th | Computer Blue B | 4:26 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 15th | Darling Nikki | 5:06 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 16 | The Beautiful Ones | 5:13 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 17th | When Doves Cry | 9:29 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 18th | I Would Die 4 U A | 3:26 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 19th | Baby, I'm a Star A | 10:57 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 20th | Purple Rain A | 16:29 | 1984: Purple Rain |
| 21st | credits A | 3:28 | 1985: Prince and the Revolution: Live (VHS) |
The " Expanded Edition " of Purple Rain Deluxe also includes a DVD entitled Prince and the Revolution, Live at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY, March 30, 1985 . The DVD is 116 minutes long and includes 21 titles, but Track 6 [Interlude] and Track 21 credits are not listed on the album cover. As part of his Purple Rain tour at the time , which only led through the USA and Canada, Prince and The Revolution played a concert on March 30, 1985 in Syracuse (New York) in the Carrier Dome . It was the 93rd of a total of 98 Purple Rain concerts and was broadcast live on television across Europe by the German TV broadcaster WDR as part of the Rockpalast Nacht program . The concert was followed by 12 to 15 million viewers in Europe.
On July 29, 1985, this concert was released on VHS and Laserdisc under the title Prince and the Revolution: Live . On August 9, 1988, the VHS edition was awarded platinum status in the US for 100,000 copies sold. The concert has only been available on DVD since the album Purple Rain Deluxe ; it has not yet appeared on Blu-ray Disc .
Singles, music videos and covers
No singles were released from Purple Rain Deluxe , but three songs could be downloaded from various music streaming providers before the album was released ; Electric Intercourse on April 28th, Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden on May 12th and Father's Song on June 16, 2017. In addition, the following five singles were released between 1984 and 1985; When Doves Cry , Let's Go Crazy , Purple Rain , I Would Die 4 U and Take Me with U . There are also music videos for the single releases mentioned and for Baby, I'm a Star , no music videos were produced in 2017.
All tracks on the original 1984 album, including B-sides 17 Days and Erotic City , had at least one cover version produced, which the musicians released on one of their respective studio albums. Of the previously unreleased songs on Prince Purple Rain Deluxe a cover version of is We Can F ** k known, the Princeton protégé Andy Allo in 2011 under the title Oui Can Luv in an acoustic version recorded; However, she has omitted the suggestive passages in the lyrics. In 2012 the band Nero covered the song Electric Intercourse . So both songs were reinterpreted at a time when the songs hadn't even been officially released.
reception
Press
Purple Rain Deluxe received similar praise from music critics as the original album in 1984. In particular, the first CD Original Album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) received excellent reviews. The second CD, From the Vault & Previously Unreleased , received mostly positive ratings and the third CD, Single Edits & B-Sides , was mostly rated slightly lower. The live DVD was generally referred to as a "legendary concert".
Will Hermes from the US music magazine Rolling Stone gave the album the maximum number of five stars; in his opinion, Prince will be "missed even more" after listening to the album. The Dance Electric is an "11-minute party jam" and the orchestra in Our Destiny is "fabulous". The "charm" of the song Velvet Kitty Cat lies in its brevity (2:42) and "simplicity". We Can F ** k is "outrageously good" and as " harmful to young people " like no other song by Prince on his previously released records . 17 Days describes Hermes as a “two-cigarette-and-broken-heart hymn ” - Prince sings in the lyrics, among other things: “All I've got is two cigarettes and this broken heart of mine”.
Joe Lynch from the US trade and industry journal Billboard named Purple Rain Deluxe "Album of the Week". In 1984, Prince and The Revolution were at the "creative peak" of their careers. The CD Original Album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) “sounds beautiful” and the “outstanding songs” on From the Vault & Previously Unreleased are Computer Blue (Hallway Speech Version) and Possessed . The best song on the CD single Edits & B-Sides is, according to Lynch, Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) .
Brad Nelson of the music website Pitchfork Media was delighted with the album and gave the highest score ten. The songs of From the Vault & Previously Unreleased sound like "fully elaborated Prince songs - animated, dynamic and fluid". He particularly praised the tracks Love and Sex , Electric Intercourse , Possessed and We Can F ** k .
Cameron Adams from the Australian website News.com.au also gave the top rating with five stars. She described the original album as "probably the best soundtrack of all time" and the songs on From the Vault & Previously Unreleased are labeled with "real purple gold", although some people would already know these from bootlegs . "Genius at work" wrote Adams as a conclusion about Prince.
Lukas Luger from the national daily newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten distributed the maximum number of six stars. The CD From the Vault & Previously Unreleased is a “real gem” and Prince's companion band The Revolution is “splendid”. He described the song The Dance Electric as a “dance floor anthem” and Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden would “smoothly merge”. Electric Intercourse is a “fantastic coitus ballad” and the pieces Wonderful Ass , Velvet Kitty Cat and We Can F ** k were not “blown off the album in the last one” because of the quality, but because of the sexual suggestions in the lyrics. In conclusion, Luger said that Purple Rain Deluxe was “a must” for “every real music fan”.
Ben Greenman of the US magazine The New Yorker was more cautious about praise. Anyone interested in Prince probably already owns the original album in "different editions". The CD From the Vault & Previously Unreleased received weaker reviews from Greenman than the previously described receptions. In his opinion, Electric Intercourse is "a boring sex piece". Other songs on the second CD would not meet the requirements either. The melody and the vocals in Katrina's Paper Dolls were successful, but the song was " paralyzed by an unfortunate couplet in the chorus". The "peppy" Velvet Kitty Cat is reminiscent of the previously released Prince songs Gotta Stop (Messin 'About) (1981) and Horny Toad (1983). Greenman praised the “moody instrumental” Father's Song , and he described the songs Love and Sex , Possessed and Wonderful Ass as “dynamic funk jams”. The three best songs are the ones with the longest playing time; The Dance Electric , Possessed and We Can F ** k . We Can F ** k in particular is one of the “fascinating additions of the Purple Rain era”. In Greenman's opinion, the songs on the third CD single Edits & B-Sides are already on record by most Prince fans, but it is "nice to have them all on one CD". Greenman did not give an overall grade for Purple Rain Deluxe .
Sassan Niasseri from the German edition of the music magazine Rolling Stone gave four out of five possible stars. He said that “for beginners” “the set is a pleasure, for fans who have been triggered for decades it's a bit of a disappointment” because the song selection “doesn't seem economical”. He described the songs from From the Vault & Previously Unreleased as “eleven great outtakes ”, but the tracks on the CD single Edits & B-Sides left “perplexed”; " Edits " means " fadeouts after the middle of the song" in Prince songs , which you can "create yourself". Niasseri concluded that there was “still room for improvement in the extras”.
Helmut Brasse from WDR praised the album and chose Purple Rain Deluxe as "Replay of the Month for July". One shouldn't expect any sonic miracles from the CD Original Album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster) , because Prince was “never a sound fanatic” and still supervised the mastering himself. The second CD is “the highlight” of the album and the songs are influenced “by the sound of the early 1980s, when drum computers and keyboards shaped pop music”. The third CD was "especially interesting for collectors", but the "new DVD transfer" of the live concert could not save the "poor picture quality from back then" either. In return, the concert is "a musical highlight and from today's perspective a document of the times". The 34-page booklet provided anecdotes from Prince's companions and fellow musicians, which Brasse described as “another plus” of the album. The “only weak point” is the packaging; the “four panes” would not be very well protected by the hinged cardboard cover.
Michael Köhler from the German edition of the music magazine Classic Rock gave seven out of ten possible points, but did not give reasons. He only provided facts such as, for example, the original album had sold 22 million copies worldwide, the song Electric Intercourse could be heard as a "studio version", Father's Song was five minutes and We Can F ** k was ten minutes and Katrina 'paper Dolls can be heard for the first time as "Finished Master". In addition, there are 15 songs on the CD single Edits & B-Sides and the concert recording from March 30, 1985 has been “refreshed” on DVD.
Philipp Holstein from RP Online described Purple Rain Deluxe as “worthwhile” and wrote as a conclusion: “Exemplary new edition. A little treasure ”.
Charts
The original album from 1984 to 2020
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
5 (50 weeks) | 50 |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
8th (26 weeks) | 26th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
7th (35 weeks) | 35 |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
4th (104 weeks) | 104 |
 United States (Billboard)
|
1 (24) (123 weeks) | 123 |
Re-entry through Purple Rain Deluxe in 2017
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
|
Germany (GfK)
|
18th (4 weeks) | 4th |
|
Austria (Ö3)
|
9 (2 weeks) | 2 |
|
Switzerland (IFPI)
|
12 (4 weeks) | 4th |
|
United Kingdom (OCC)
|
7th (3 weeks) | 3 |
|
United States (Billboard)
|
4th (6 weeks) | 6th |
literature
- Jason Draper: Prince - Life & Times (Revised & Updated Edition). Chartwell Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7858-3497-7 .
- Per Nilsen: DanceMusicSexRomance - Prince: The First Decade. Firefly Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 0-946719-23-3 , OCLC 40610683 .
- Matt Thorne: Prince - The Biography. Edel Germany GmbH, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8419-0523-9
- Duane Tudahl: Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition). Rowman & Littlefield, London 2018, ISBN 978-1538114629 , OCLC 1020588348 .
- Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X , OCLC 186521364 .
- Steve Wide and Alice Oehr: Prince A to Z: The Life of an Icon from Alphabet Street to Jay Z. Smith Street Books, Melbourne - Australia 2017, ISBN 978-1-925418-38-5 .
Web links
- Princevault , information about the album Purple Rain Deluxe
Individual evidence
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