I really hope the remaster sounds great,I know that if it doesn't we can always go back to the originals but please do a proper remaster
Not that my opinion matters, but I'd take a release like Originals any day over cassette dubs. I'd much rather hear a properly mixed track from the original multi-tracks rather than a cassette dub of a rough mix that was never released in the first place.
I know I can click-through princevault myself, but anyone who's well-versed in this stuff might know off-hand: anything on discs 3 or 4 appear to be super-rare or uncirculating entirely?
Yes. Amazing stuff. Will have kittens no doubt when I see the price of the 10 LP set, but glad it's an option on CD and vinyl with no.compromise. Only downer...frigging DVD in a box set. A lowly DVD...
Hopefully the audio is great, at least. We can hope for multi-track, but a great soundboard feed would be fine with me, as long as it's mastered nicely.
Colleen, ******, Rearrange, Bold Generation are all uncirculated aa far as I know. Other tracks have circulated with varying quality - mostly very good - or not in full.
There is always a point in having a Bluray Better audio, better menus and navigation. And they don't mark as easily as DVD
It's on the official Prince Facebook page now. Prince On November 29th the Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Records, will reissue Prince's landmark album 1999, remastered for the very first time, along with 35 previously unreleased tracks from Prince's legendary vault. Considered one of the most iconic and influential double albums in rock history, #Prince1999 was released at a major turning point in the Prince's career. After years of struggling to break out of the R&B charts, he scored major crossover hits with "Little Red Corvette" and "1999." The success helped Prince to introduce his iconic Minneapolis Sound to the world: a revolutionary blend of rock, funk, R&B and new wave pop that shattered barriers in the industry. The songs on 1999 were just a small sampling of the work pouring out of Prince in this intensely prolific period. In addition to his own material, he was also working up tracks to give to his protégés Vanity 6 and The Time, and storing countless unreleased songs in his vault. Many of those unreleased tracks are included in the Super Deluxe Edition of the 1999 reissue, and on November 29 they will be heard by the public for the very first time. “I didn’t want to do a double album, but I just kept writing," Prince told Rolling Stone in 1982. "I always compare songwriting to a girl walking in the door. You don’t know what she’s going to look like, but all of a sudden she’s there.” In addition to the remastered album and studio tracks from the vault, the Super Deluxe Edition includes two complete live performances from the 1999 Tour: an audio recording captured on 11/30/82 in Detroit; and a video recording from 12/29/82 in Houston, presented on DVD. In the liner notes for the Super Deluxe Edition, Rolling Stone critic David Fricke calls the 1999 reissue “an unprecedented immersion in the frenetic momentum and private working world of Prince in 1981 and 1982." The Super Deluxe Edition features Prince's never-before-seen handwritten lyrics from the era, tape reels from the legendary vault, and rare photography from #AllenBeaulieu, plus liner notes by longtime Rolling Stone critic David Fricke, revered Guns N' Roses bassist and author Duff McKagan, and Prince scholars Andrea Swensson and Duane Tudahl. The 1999 reissue will be available in Super Deluxe and Deluxe Editions, and as a stand-alone remastered album. It will be issued on LP, CD, and digital formats on November 29.
One of the problems with the Purple Rain reissue was the third disc -- some of those edits are literally just shorter versions of the already single-length album tracks. Looks like this reissue doubles-down on that approach on disc 2. It's nice to have everything from the singles in one place, but if it's just taking up space with no new elements, I would rather have more tracks from the vaults. Just my $.02.
$249 for 10 vinyl album set. This should be sub $200 Someone's on drugs (This will mean about £350...)
What are your thoughts about the "reloaded" version that he released as a single in the 2010s and eventually ended up on HitNRun2? THAT is one of my absolute favorite Prince tracks.
Bowie vinyl boxes have been priced the same way. Not too hard to run into one at 45% off from the right place at the right time.
A tweet from the official Prince account puts the release date as November 29th, as opposed to the earlier date in the original article (repeated in this thread title). Meanwhile Questlove tweeted: “Prince fans rejoice: 10 lps/5 cd/1 DVD 40+ songs (can't wait for y'all to hear "Vag*na" haha) excited to hear what i lived w on lo-fi hiss quality for like 3 plus decades. and happy to play this stuff (finally) w/o getting the ("where u get that from???") calls”
I hope it’s not directly off the video master from the Summit. The Who from The Summit in ‘75 is semi-official, but audio and video quality are just too fuzzy to truly enjoy it.
