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Prince And The Revolution
Purple Rush

Compil. 2008 on Sabotage Records label
(Funk, Synth-pop, Score, Interview, Spoken Word, Dialogue)

The tracklist omit often 'The' from the titles or incorporate minor descriptive informations [like '#1', '#2' '#3', 'incl.' etc. which aren't parts of the songs nor the titles] the most meanderings appear as follows: • Purple Rush 1 1-8 is listed as 'Prince Speaks' 1-11 is listed as 'How Come U Don't Call Me' 6-4 are audio extractions from the movie 'Purple Rain' 6-14 is the audio from BBC's "I Love 1985" - part 6 of the 2001 television mini-series that examines the pop culture of the 1980s 6-7 to 6-32 are outtakes recorded for the film score taken from a cassette [Note: it's not known which title belongs to which track, in the booklet they appear in the following context:] "These Are the individual titles of Colombier’s instrumental pieces, as registered in Washington by means of 45-Minute cassette: Purple Intro; I Like Your Song too; Family Dispute; First Avenue; The Bitches Are Okay; I. D. S. Center; Lake Minnetonka; Puppets; A Little Song And Dance; Thinking About Buying A Guitar; Argument; Join Morris’ Group; Let’s Go Baby (parts I, II and III); Alley; Underpass; Home Again; Light Switch; Suicide; Sheet Music; Memories; Backstage." • Purple Rush 2 9-1 is a description: 'Band rehearses loosely, plays parts of...' 10-13 is listed as 'Let's Go Crazy / The Beautiful Ones-synth' Purple Rush 3 13-7 is listed as 'Free (with long intro)' 14-1 is listed as 'Another Lonely Christmas (instrumental try-out)' 14-2 is listed as 'Another Lonely Christmas (keyboard bassline)' 14-3 is listed as 'When Saints Go Marchin' In (vox rehears.)' 14-4 is listed as 'Another Lonely Christmas (keyboard, bass, guitar)' 14-5 is listed as 'Another Lonely Christmas (all instr. & vocals)' 14-6 is listed as 'Let's Go Crazy (instrumental try out)' 14-7 is listed as 'Instrumental Jam ('sleazy' part of Baby I'm A Star)' 14-8 is listed as 'Let's Go Crazy (instrumental try out II)' • Purple Rush 4 15-6 is listed as 'Heavily distorted guitar' 15-7 is listed as 'When Doves Scream/Drum pattern check' 17-14 is listed as 'God / Prince taking a bath' 18-4 & 18-5 are from 'Washington, DC, November 1984' 18-6 is from 'Houston, TX, January 1985' 18-7 is from the 'AMA's, January 28th 1985' 18-8 is listed as 'aired incompletely; Grammy Awards, February 26th 1985' • Purple Rush 5 19-11 is listed as 'Short Speech (Loyce Houlton, Artistic Director, MDT)' [minnesota Dance Theatre] 20-4 is listed as 'Prince speaks' • Purple Rush 6 23-1 to 23-16 is the audio track from a TV broadcast known as 'HBO Special: James Brown and B.B. King Live at the Beverly 1983' [without the part of Prince's performance] 24-10 is the audio track of a TV interview, first aired on MTV on November 15th 1985 25-10 to 25-12 the liner-notes explain that the tracks are from a '4daFunk' release 25-13 to 25-15 are [not listed but mentioned in the liner notes] the same tracks taken from 'M.P.L.S.' 26-9 & 26-14 are pirated from Another Lonely Christmas [26-9 is listed erroneously as 'Sheila E's Message to Japan'] • Purple Rush 7 "this volume contains Prince songs for the album Purple Rain, for Jill Jones, Apollonia 6, Vanity 6, André Cymone, The Time, The Family, Sheila E, Mazarati & for other projects" "Songs for the Purple Rain album: Disc 1, Tracks 1-10 & 12; Disc 2, Tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 11" [= 29-1 to 29-10 & 29-12; 30-1 to 30-3, 30-5 to 30-8 & 30-11] "Songs for Jill Jones: Disc 1, Track 11" [= 29-11] "Songs for Apollonia 6: Disc 2, Tracks 9, 10" [= 30-9 & 30-10] "Songs for Vanity 6: Disc 3, Tracks 1-7" [= 31-1 to 31-7] "Songs for André Cymone: Disc 3, Track 8" [= 31-8] "Songs for The Time: Disc 3, Tracks 9, 10" [= 31-9 & 31-10] "Songs for The Family: Disc 4, Tracks 1-8" [= 32-1 to 32-8] "Songs for Sheila E: Disc 4, Track 9" [= 32-9] "Songs for Mazarati: Disc 4, Tracks 10-12" [= 32-10 to 32-12] "Other: Disc 2, Track 4, Disc 3, Tracks 11, 12" [= 30-4 & 31-12] 29-3 is listed as 'Computer Blue (#4; Sunset Sound Edit Vers.)' 29-8 is listed as 'Computer Blue (#3; Sunset Sound Version)' 28-9 is a rehearsal 29-12 is the so called 'Hallway Speech', a part extracted from track 29-8 30-3 is listed as 'Computer Blue (#2; Sunset Sound Verison)' 30-4 is only a sample of the full track which remains unreleased. It's taken from a demo tape 30-6 is only the ending of the original album track [listed as 'Mirror Message'] played first backwards following by the original run, stitched together 30-7 is listed as 'Computer Blue (#1; St. Louis Park Verison)' 30-11 is a fan-made edit of a '#2; Sunset Sound Version' [all the versions of 'Computer Blue' appear with fan made version numbers and subtitles - which are simply the names of their recording locations] 31-4 Is often erroneously referred as 'Climax' or 'Jamming Till The Dawn' 31-7 is only the bass track of 31-4 31-12 is only a sample of the full track which remain unreleased. It's taken from the same demo tape as 30-4 32-10 is listed as '100 M.P.H. (Vocal Version Prince)' 32-12 is listed as '100 M.P.H. (Long Vocal Version Mazarati)'

Musicians

	Prince And The Revolution , *1979 album by
	Prince voc, *1958 US performer on track, soloist, guitar, featuring, vocals
	Sheila E. perc, voc, *1957 US performer on track, featuring, featuring, timbales, guest, percussion
	Dez Dickerson voc, *1955 US performer on track
	Michel Colombier p, ep, key, 1939-2004 FR performer on track
	Wendy & Lisa , *1986 US performer on track, conductor
	Matt Fink voc, key, US vocals, sung by
	The Family , performer on track
	No Artist , performer on track
	Loyce Houlton , performer on track
	James Brown voc, 1933-2006 US performer on track
	B.B. King g, voc, 1925-2015 US performer on track
	Danny Ray , performer on track
	James Brown & J.B.'s Internationals Feat. Michael Jackson , performer on track
	James Brown & J.B.'s Internationals Feat. B.B. King , performer on track
	Steven Fargnoli , performer on track
	Jerome Benton perc, voc, bvoc, *1962 US featuring
	Paul Peterson key, bvoc, *1964 US featuring
	Susannah Melvoin bvoc, voc, *1964 US featuring, vocals, sung by
	Eric Leeds fl, *1952 US featuring, saxophone
	Jellybean Johnson g, dr, *1956 US guest
	David Coleman , Suzie Katayama , performer on track
	Apollonia 6 , 1983-1985 US performer on track
	Vanity 6 , 1981-1983 US performer on track
	Vanity voc, *1959 CA narrator, voice actor
	Jamie Starr , voice actor
	Jill Jones voc, *1962 US voice actor
	Morris Day voc, bvoc, *1957 US lead vocals
	Mazarati , 1986-1989 US performer on track

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