From: 00bbharris@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.funky
Subject: PRINCE 1999 OUTTAKES
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:47:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-ucs.1993Jan26.204759.14090
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

Well... well... well....
So you liked 1999, huh?
So you liked Controversy,huh?
WEll, you are gonna LOVE this!

Between the times of 1981-3, Prince hit, what many people consider,
the peak of his creative career.  (Doubt it)  Especially with the
intensity of Controversy, the enigmatic 1999, and commercially successful
PURPLE RAIN.  But there are some songs that you might not know even exist.
And i have 'em right here as

1999-Outtakes

Wow!

Now, be warned, this is a bootleggers compillation, so it may be titled
differently with every BL'r, and it may have some, all, or more of the
songs than i will critique.  Anyways, with that in mind...
Here we go....

The first song present is LET ME FEEL U UP, a song that was released as
a B-Side to the PARTYMAN maxi-single/CD-5 around 1989.  But this is totally
different.  The vocal tracks are sequenced together, and underdubbed over
the instrumentation, so if you don't know the words, then you won't decipher a
great deal of them.  It's a techno-isque version in the style that was 1999/
PURPLE RAIN, unlike the techno-isque version (more mechanized) of BATMAN and
GRAFITTI BRIDGE.  The song immediately merges into what we all know as
IRRESISTIBLE BITCH, but not the B-Side that we know and love, but a
techno-isque version (again) with Prince screaming the words.  That leads into
A BETTER PLACE 2 DIE, which, just by going by the intro (an explosion-like
sound), one can stipulate that it should have followed 1999 (the song) in the
album of the same name.  In other words, it would've been this song and not
LITTLE RED CORVETTE as the second track on the album.  But again, this is
only going by how the song sound.

	Indecipherable with its chorus and some of the verses, you can tell
that it follows 1999's apocylypic frenzy, with conflicting guitars and 
a settling piano.  It's a great song, one of Prince's better ballads, that
does in around 1981/2 what hard rock bands like Bon Jovi didn't do another 
4/5 years later.  (i.e. power ballads).  

	Following that song is DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, a rather ammusing tale
on how Prince has been dogged by his ex because she couldn't understand him and
he didn't have money.  and, tho' he ain't rich, he's a bachelor now....
and, by the sound of it, damn happy about it.  It's a hyper-long song, with
a confrontation monologue with said ex-girlfriend that is right up there with
the likes of DATABANK (off of CRYSTAL BALL boots and re-recorded by the TIME
for PANDEMONIUM) and MOVIE ST*R (also from the CRYSTAL BALL boot.)

	Next is CHOCOLATE, also re-recorded by the TIME for PANDEMONIUM, and
includes many of the dialogue that Morris Day incorporates on their version,
including the  reading of a menu (though the food items are rather different
and there isn't a rude waiter there to pester Prince.).  Prince mentions
other names within the song, asking them to play while he does... various
tasks, but they may or may not be them actually playing.

	Remember the Prince and the Revolution 'live' '85 video that was 
released??? Remember the song that was dedicated to J.Brown, entitled POSESSED?
Well, it's also included here, but you wouldn't recognize it.   Techno-isque
in appraoch, the song has layers uponlayers of drum tracks (usual with Prince
around that time) and even has more verses than what we know of.  

	ELECTRIC INTERCOURSE, the song that was supposedly played during taping
of PURPLE RAIN and supposed to be incorporated into the movie and/or album, is
present, with all it's sexual majesty.  It turns out to be actually a rehearsal
as you can hear Prince making last minute 'request' to the band and even
shortly chastising Wendy for missing her intro on the chorus.  And then,
towards the endig, when Prince plays this closing ditty of the piano, he
screams, "ANNIE M. ... ANNIE M...".  And then it ends....

	Finally is U CALL ME, a DELIRIOUS-like techno-swing groove that
is as rocking as the song i just compared it to.  Excellent in the song itself,
my only problem is that teh song goes from the verse to chorus right to 
a long instrumental, much like DELIRIOUS in that respect.

	1999 OUTTAKES is a particularly excellent tape to gett for Prince fans.
Tho' not a must, still a treasure by far.   

1999 OUTTAKES
Let me feel u up
Irresistible Bitch
A Better place 2 die
Do yourself a favor
Chocolate
Possessed
Electric intercourse
U call me

Note::  This is a compillation that has been known, also, as TIME outtakes,
with some other Time-isque songs, and the FAMILY OUTS, which are the songs that
Prince did for the family with his vocals.  Check teh song listings before
purchasing any compillations....

brandon