From: 00bbharris@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
Subject: Prince -- PARADE OUTTAKE 85/86
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:53:23 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

WELCOME 2 1985/1986...
You think the songs on Parade were the only things Prince did
in that time period? WRONG!

Welcome to the PARADE OUTTAKE!
1986!

Imagine, if you will, the darkest, gloomiest series of songs since...
well, never.  Imagine, if you will, a near-suicidal self-examination of a
fallen career and de-throned king of artistry.  Can you possibly do it?
If you did, then your half-way to imagining this outtake.  It's saddistic
and oooh, so excellent.

PARADE
Little Girl Wendy's Parade
i wonder u
Under the Cherry Moon
There are Others Here with Us
Life can be so Nice
Sometimes it snows in April
Old Friends 4 Sale
All My Dreams
Girls and Boys
Love or $
Kiss (instr)

Well, with all the different bootlegs with the same title as this one, I hope
there's enough unheard stuff to keep you interested. If not, read it anyway..
It's Prince and you should, anyways....

Litttle Girl Wendy's Parade is much like the song that made the final cut for
the UNDER THE CHERRY MOON move,, except for the obvious.  it was around the
time of teh creation of the ...CHERRY MOON concept when Prince told Wendy and
Lisa, supposedly, to write a soundtrack and he'll base the movie around it.
This was one of the  songs and it is sort of the mainstay behind the finished
product.  Exceptions include some extraneous tracks being excluded, such as 
the ensemble of muted horns, some hindu-isque instrumentation, and alot
of vocals.  Still, like the released PARADE, the outtake leads into [i Wonder
u]  which is also very much alike, save minus some percussion tracks, and this
time you can actually hear Prince, though in a high falsetto voice, a poor
attempt (if any was made) in trying to disguise his voice.  And from there,
it goes into [Under the Cherry Moon], which is exactly like the PARADE-Lp
version.  

	This is where things get interesting, folks.  The next song is the
truly wacked-out [There Are Others Here With Us], which sprouts his fascination
with the number seven:
	7 month old baby/died in her sleep/Parents wentt crazy/Cried for a week
This fascination would extend all of the rest of his career, up untill the 
most recent song [7], which may deal with te 7 images of Prince, or the 7 
deadly sins, or the 7 rivals that he considers to be.  Who knows.  

	[There Are Others....] features more African woodwind-isque instruments
and percussion, as well as synthesized coyote howling and what not. 
Supernatural in content, the song is a gloomy one at that, whose meaning 
escapes even me.... 8-)

	The next original piece is entitled [Old Friends 4 Sale], which gives
Prince's side to what happened within the Prince tie, during the dissonant
pre-Purple Reign era, especially in regards to the dismissal of Jimmy Jam and
Terry Lewis from the Time.  Officially, the reason was that the two parties
involved had creative and career  differences.  Unofficially, Pricne supposedly
fired the two because they were trying to further their own career by producing
other acts, such as the SOS band.  And, with the intro to this song, the reason
could very well be that the two were on drugs.  We all know Prince's aversion
to alcohol and drugs.  We all know the official statement was that JJ and TL's
couldn't make a show because bad snow delayed their flight back home.  We all
know of Morris Day's bout with drug addiction.  Now, read this lyric:

	The Sun set in my heart this afternoon/2 friends of mine got stuck 
	in the snow/Uptown, winter's alarming(???)/Cocaine becomes charming/
	U talk about things you don't....But i know...
Hmmm..... Snow flights cancelled?  Career differences???  Makes you wonder what
really happened.  
	Musically, the song begins (or, seems to, at least) Prince's 
favoritism to the middle east and their chord structures, relying on minor
thirds only.  The beginning music line contests to this.  If you're
at a piano, play a G# once, and then a B, three times and you have the
beginning flute line.  That interest, probably brought on by Wendy & Lisa
(who, by the way, performed a song of TOYS, the Robin Williams movie) and
extended to such songs as [Strange Relationship], [Thunder], [7],and others...

	The last orginal piece is [All My Dreams], an electro-30ish styled
piece, probably more the result of dealing with Lisa in past compositional
pieces than anything else, and features Prince's journey to the place where he
dreams hjis dreams, a safe haven for him and his lover.  Hyper long in form,
the song reaches a climax and ends with a powerful blow to the psyche.
Remember the note Prince was reading in the movie that we could barely see,
well, its from this song...
	Goodness will guide us/if love is inside us/the colors are brighter/
	the pockets much tighter....

	Other songs present are [Love or $], which appears as a B-Side in two
forms ("normal" and extended play), and [Girls and Boyz], whose only difference
is a percussive ending, instead of, like the Lp, merging into the next song.
[Sometimes it Snows.....] is also no different in this outtake than in the
released form, so there's no point mentioning it. 

	Overall, the question is:  Is it worth trying to find, brandon...
And i will say... depends.  PARADE, is my personal favorite Lp Prince has
released to date, so the outtake is especially nice.  But, as always, its
fun to try and figure out why one song was released and another was not.  Me?

I just sit back and digg the funky sounds of the Purple Underground....
can anybody tell me what that line was from???

U in the front row....

brandon
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