Prince And The Revolution / Purple Rain - Ultimate Collector's Edition
Artist Prince And The Revolution
Album Title: Purple Rain - Ultimate Collector's Edition
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Rock: Funk Rock
Format CD (3) DVD (1)
Released 06/25/1984
Reissue Date 06/23/2017
Label Warner Bros. Records
Catalog No 547374-2
Bar Code No 0 93624 91320 7
Packaging Cardboard Quadruple Gatefold
Tracks
Purple Rain - The Original Album (2015 Paisley Park Remaster)[Disk 1]
1. Let's Go Crazy (4:38)
2. Take Me With U (3:53)
3. The Beautiful Ones (5:13)
4. Computer Blue (3:59)
5. Darling Nikki (4:15)
6. When Doves Cry (5:53)
7. I Would Die 4 U (2:49)
8. Baby I'm A Star (4:23)
9. Purple Rain (8:19)
Purple Rain - From The Vault & Previously Unreleased [Disk 2]
1. The Dance Electric (11:30)
2. Love And Sex (5:01)
3. Computer Blue ("Hallway Speech" Version) (12:19)
4. Electric Intercourse (Studio Version) (4:57)
5. Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden (6:25)
6. Possessed (7:56)
7. Wonderful Ass (6:24)
8. Velvet Kitty Cat (2:43)
9. Katrina's Paper Dolls (3:30)
10. We Can F**k (10:18)
11. Father's Song (5:31)
Purple Rain - Single Edits & B-Sides [Disk 3]
1. When Doves Cry (7" Single Edit) (3:48)
2. 17 Days (B-Side Edit) (3:56)
3. Let's Go Crazy (7" Single Edit) (3:48)
4. Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) (7:36)
5. Erotic City (7" B-Side Edit) (3:56)
6. Erotic City (“Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive”) (7:24)
7. Purple Rain (7" Single Edit) (4:05)
8. God (7" B-Side Edit) (4:03)
9. God (Love Theme From Purple Rain) (Instrumental, UK 12" B-Side) (7:58)
10. Another Lonely Christmas (7" B-Side Edit) (4:54)
11. Another Lonely Christmas (Extended Version) (6:48)
12. I Would Die 4 U (7" B-Side Edit) (2:58)
13. I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version) (10:18)
14. Baby I'm A Star (7" B-Side Edit) (2:49)
15. Take Me With U (7" Single Edit) (3:43)
Purple Rain - Live at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse NY. March 30, 1985 [DVD]
1. Let’s Go Crazy (4:40)
2. Delirious (3:54)
3. 1999 (5:51)
4. Little Red Corvette (3:39)
5. Take Me With U (4:57)
6. [Interlude] (6:46)
7. Do Me, Baby (2:01)
8. Irresistible Bitch (1:53)
9. Possessed (4:25)
10. How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore (5:10)
11. Let's Pretend We're Married (4:20)
12. International Lover (1:50)
13. God (7:44)
14. Computer Blue (4:28)
15. Darling Nikki (5:02)
16. The Beautiful Ones (5:17)
17. When Doves Cry (9:30)
18. I Would Die 4 U (3:27)
19. Baby I'm A Star (10:57)
20. Purple Rain (16:30)
21. [Credits] (3:33)
Date Acquired 09/06/2017
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 24.19

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Notes

8-Panel digifile:
Warner Bros. Records Inc., A Warner Music Group Company.
This Reissue ©℗ 2017 NPG Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.

Hype sticker on shrink:
Ultimate Collector's Edition of Purple Rain 3-CD/1DVD
CD 1 2015 Paisley Park Remaster Overseen by Prince
CD 2 Unheard Rarities From The Vault & Previously Unreleased Songs
CD 3 Single Edits & B-Sides
First Time on DVD Prince and the Revolution Live (Syracuse, 1985)
36-Page Booklet Includes Extensive Liner Notes, a Track-by-Track and Rare Photos
2-547374 (K1)
Clear sticker on back shrink "Disc Made In Mexico"

Spine:
Warner Bros./NPG Prince and the Revolution Purple Rain 547374-2

Art Direction [Original Album Credits Page] – Prince
Art Direction [Reissue Credits Page] – Alex Tenta
Design [Original Album Credits Page] – Laura LiPuma
Design [Reissue Credits Page] – Alex Tenta
Film Director [Directed By] – Paul Becher (tracks: DVD-1 to DVD-19)
Liner Notes [On Recording Purple Rain] – Susan Rogers
Liner Notes [The Revolution Track By Track] – Bobby Z, Brownmark, Dr. Fink, Lisa, Wendy
Mastered By [Originally Mastered By] – Bernie Grundman (tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-9)
Mastered By [Sound Mastered By] – Bernie Grundman (tracks: DVD-1 to DVD-19)
Mastered By [Video Mastering] – Craig Anderson (3) (tracks: DVD-1 to DVD-19), David Dieckmann (tracks: DVD-1 to DVD-19)
Musician, Bass, Vocals – Brownmark
Musician, Drums – Bobby Z
Musician, Guitar, Vocals – Wendy Melvoin
Musician, Keyboards, Piano, Vocals – Lisa Coleman
Musician, Keyboards, Vocals – Matt Fink
Painting – Doug Handers
Photography By [Additional Photography] – Larry Williams
Photography By [Front Cover Photo] – Ed Thrasher & Associates
Photography By [Photographs, Rain Image] – James Goble
Photography By [Photographs] – Larry Williams, Nancy Bundt
Photography By [Photos By] – Larry Williams, Ron Slenzak
Producer [Produced By] – Rob Cavallo (tracks: DVD-1 to DVD-19), Steve Fargnoli (tracks: DVD-1 to DVD-19)
Reissue Producer [Reissue Executive Producer] – Michael Howe
Remastered By [All Tracks For CD 2] [All Tracks For CD 3] – Bernie Grundman (tracks: CD2-1 to CD3-15)
Remastered By [At Paisley Park Studios] – Prince (tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-9)
Remastered By [At Paisley Park Studios], Engineer [Remastering Engineer] – Joshua A. M. Welton (tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-9)
Record Company – Warner Music Group
Copyright © – NPG Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – NPG Records
Licensed To – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Published By – Controversy Music
Recorded At – The Warehouse, St. Louis Park
Recorded At – Sunset Sound
Recorded At – First Avenue
Recorded At – The Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse
Recorded At – Kiowa Trail Home Studio
Recorded At – Universal Recording Corp.
Overdubbed At – Sunset Sound
Overdubbed At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
Filmed At – Carrier Dome, Syracuse
Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Remastered At – Paisley Park Studios
Remastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Remastered At – Craigman Digital

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Reviews
All Music Guide Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Prince designed Purple Rain as the project that would make him a superstar, and, surprisingly, that is exactly what happened. Simultaneously more focused and ambitious than any of his previous records, Purple Rain finds Prince consolidating his funk and R&B roots while moving boldly into pop, rock, and heavy metal with nine superbly crafted songs. Even its best-known songs don't tread conventional territory: the bass-less "When Doves Cry" is an eerie, spare neo-psychedelic masterpiece; "Let's Go Crazy" is a furious blend of metallic guitars, Stonesy riffs, and a hard funk backbeat; the anthemic title track is a majestic ballad filled with brilliant guitar flourishes. Although Prince's songwriting is at a peak, the presence of the Revolution pulls the music into sharper focus, giving it a tougher, more aggressive edge. And, with the guidance of Wendy & Lisa, Prince pushed heavily into psychedelia, adding swirling strings to the dreamy "Take Me with U" and the hard rock of "Baby I'm a Star." Even with all of his new, but uncompromising, forays into pop, Prince hasn't abandoned funk, and the robotic jam of "Computer Blue" and the menacing grind of "Darling Nikki" are among his finest songs. Taken together, all of the stylistic experiments add up to a stunning statement of purpose that remains one of the most exciting rock & roll albums ever recorded.
[Prince returned to Warner Bros. Records in 2014, inking a deal that guaranteed the release of new music as well as expanded reissues of his classic catalog. 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 three CDs and accompanying DVD. First up, the proper album gets a needed remaster -- it sounds fuller and livelier, not simply louder -- and then the DVD is the first digital release of the home video Prince and the Revolution, Live at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY, March 30, 1985, a concert from the tail end of the Purple Rain tour. The third disc rounds up all the singles and B-sides from Purple Rain, including 7" edits and 12" remixes, plus the essential flip sides "17 Days," "Erotic City," "God," and "Another Lonely Christmas." All of this material is welcome but previously released. The real finds are on the second disc, which rounds up ten outtakes from the Purple Rain sessions, adding the movie instrumental "Father's Song" -- a moody variation on the "Computer Blue" guitar solo -- for good measure. A few of these tracks were widely circulated on bootleg -- "Wonderful Ass" in particular, but also "The Dance Electric," "Possessed," and "Electric Intercourse" -- but there are several whose existence has only been rumored, including the nervy little "Velvet Kitty Cat" and "Katrina's Paper Dolls," which foreshadows the whimsy heard on Sign 'O' the Times. "Electric Intercourse," "Possessed," and "Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden" were all played live by the Revolution but they're presented in their studio versions, which are primarily solo vehicles from Prince with some Wendy & Lisa vocals added to the mix. Most of the unreleased material consists of synth-heavy solo Prince cuts -- the exception is a wonderful 12-minute version of "Computer Blue" featuring the full Revolution -- and, because of this, the unreleased cuts feel like a bridge between 1999 and Purple Rain: it's so united in sound and sensibility, it almost feels like a lost album. If nothing on the Vault disc rivals either Purple Rain or its B-sides, thereby proving Prince's skills as an editor, it's still prime Prince -- it's inventive, funky, strange, and playful. Having this music officially available feels like a gift.]
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