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Superdeluxe Box Of Prince’s “1999” Proves Nothing Succeeds Like Excess [part 10]

[…continued from this post] So the ante had been upped on “1999” Super Deluxe with a second disc of Vault Tracks. At first as these SDLX editions of of “Purple Rain” and then “1999” were released, I was assuming that … Continue reading

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Superdeluxe Box Of Prince’s “1999” Proves Nothing Succeeds Like Excess [part 9]

[…continued from last post] We are halfway into disc three and we’ve finally hit a track that was less than compelling. “Colleen” was an scanty instrumental vamp [the middle name of his engineer, Peggy McCreary, by the way…] that was … Continue reading

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Superdeluxe Box Of Prince’s “1999” Proves Nothing Succeeds Like Excess [part 8]

[…continued from last post] When I bought the “Purple Rain” DLX RM I found that the tracks from the legendary Vault were pretty darned hot. Then came the “Originals” album of Vault tracks written for other artists. That nearly topped … Continue reading

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Superdeluxe Box Of Prince’s “1999” Proves Nothing Succeeds Like Excess [part 7]

[…continued from last post] Prince : 1999 SDLX box disc 2 –Promo Mixes + B-sides – US – CD  [2019] 1999 [7″ stereo edit] 3:36 1999 [mono promo-only edit] 3:35 Free [ promo-only edit] 4:35 How Come U Don’t Call … Continue reading

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Superdeluxe Box Of Prince’s “1999” Proves Nothing Succeeds Like Excess [part 6]

[…continued from last post] When the time came to wrap up the “1999” album, Prince decided to use a pull-out-the-stops slow jam that had the whiff of material originally written for The Time, but for reasons of his own, he … Continue reading

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Superdeluxe Box Of Prince’s “1999” Proves Nothing Succeeds Like Excess [part 5]

[…continued from this post] As we dive into the final side of “1999,” we’ve got three long songs that were not singles as the almost unstructured second half of the album came to a conclusion. “Lady Cab Driver” was the … Continue reading

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Superdeluxe Box Of Prince’s “1999” Proves Nothing Succeeds Like Excess [part 4]

[…continued from last post] The third virtual 12″ single in the album sequence following on from “Let’s Pretend We’re Married” at 7:20, “D.M.S.R.” at 8:05, was the 9:24 track “Automatic.” The longest song yet on this double album. This song … Continue reading

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