Prince The Versace Experience Rar

  • Emancipation, Chaos and Disorder and The Versace Experience reissued In September, Sony Legacy will reissue three mid-nineties Prince albums on CD and vinyl, including 1996’s triple album Emancipation.
  • 2020 Up All Nite With Prince The One Nite Alone Collection Cd1. 2020 Up All Nite With Prince The One Nite Alone Collection Cd2. 2020 Up All Nite With Prince The One Nite Alone Collection Cd3. 2020 Up All Nite With Prince The One Nite Alone Collection Cd4. 2019 Ultimate Rave Cd1. 2019 Ultimate Rave Cd2. 2019 The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold).
  • Listen to Prince’s rare cassette tape The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold), which dates back to 1995. It's now available to stream in full.
  • Released ahead of 1995’s The Gold Experience, the first album credited to Prince’s infamously unpronounceable symbol, The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was a gift to attendees of the designer’s collection at Fashion Week in Paris.
2018: Piano & A Microphone 1983 ◄ All Prince AlbumsAll Related Artists Albums ► 2019: The Versace Experience
(Prelude 2 Gold)
His Majesty’s Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club

Album details

Released: Late 1985 (Promotional - Japan only)
13 April 2019 (Special re-release for the Record Store Day - Worldwide)

8 July 2020 (wider commercial release in Japan)

Length: 72:20
Label(s):Paisley Park Records / Warner Pioneer (1985 Release)

NPG Records / The Prince Estate / Warner Bros. Records (2019 Reissue)

Studio(s):Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA; Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA; The Warehouse, St. Louis Park, MN, USA; Kiowa Trail Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA; Unknown venue

Charts, Certifications & Awards

Charts
America
Country: ChartEntry DatePeak PositionWeeks in Chart
USA: The Billboard 200 27 Apr. 2019 184 1
USA: Billboard Top R&B Albums 27 Apr. 2019 19 1
USA: Billboard R&B Album Sales 27 Apr. 2019 4 2
USA: Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album Sales 27 Apr. 2019 5 1
USA: Billboard Top Current Albums 27 Apr. 2019 24 1
USA: Billboard Top Album Sales 27 Apr. 2019 25 1
USA: Billboard Dance Electronic Albums 27 Apr. 2019 2 1
USA: Billboard Vinyl Album 27 Apr. 2019 7 1
USA: Billboard Tastemaker Albums 27 Apr. 2019 6 1
Certifications
This album has not received any certifications in the USA
Awards
This album has not received any awards in the USA

Singles released

  • None.

See also

Strange Tales From the Rain
(album)

参照 The Versace Experience - Prelude 2 Gold, Cass, Ltd, RE, 4S1, 4 My playback device is a Nakamichi Dragon (some refer to it as.the. cassette tape deck) which has an auto azimuth control and plays everything in the best possible way.

His Majesty’s Pop Life (subtitled 'The Purple Mix Club') is a compilation album of Prince’s studio work, initially released in 1985 as a promotional record in Japan only, following the commercial release of Around The World In A Day and its associated singles. At that time, it was Prince’s second promotional compilation album (after Strange Tales From the Rain). His Majesty’s Pop Life was re-released worldwide in a limited quantity (14 000 copies) for the Record Store Day on 13 April 2019, becoming Prince’s eight compilation album and the fifth posthumous release. In 2020, the album received a wider retail release in Japan only, including its first release on CD.

The first disc includes versions of the tracks released as singles from Around The World In A Day (only America is included in its album version, while the others are remixes originally included on the various 12' single vinyl releases).

The second disc includes versions of some of the single releases from the previous two albums, 1999 and Purple Rain, with the addition of the extended version of Erotic City, which had been released as the b-side of Let’s Go Crazy.

As such, the double-disc album comprises recordings from three Prince/Prince and the Revolution studio albums (although mostly in different versions) and one single, all released originally between 1982 and 1985. Because of the separation of tracks from different eras over the two discs, the second disc is almost double the length of the first, and, as such, the first is played at 45 rpm (which was standard for singles), and the second at 33 ⅓ rpm (the standard for LPs).

Of note is that both Prince and Sheila E. had created remixes of Pop Life, and the version included on the record is billed as Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) (the one created by Sheila E.) while it is the Extended Version created by Prince instead.


Promotion

With a limited number pressed and distributed only to DJ’s in Japan, the 1985 release of His Majesty’s Pop Life became a collectible item. The 2019 reissue was a special release for the Record Store Day, with 14 000 copies available worldwide (on the same day as a cassette replica of The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)). The cover of the reissue bears the NPG Records inprint as well as The Prince Estate and Warner Bros. Records logos and a “WRECKA STOW DAY EXCLUSIVE” sticker referring to a scene in the Under The Cherry Moon film.

The compilation reached number 184 on The Billboard 200 and 19 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums charts.



Track listing
CD

The album was initially available only on vinyl.

  • Side one:
  1. Pop Life (Extended Version) (9:07)1,2
  2. America (Album Version) (3:40)1
  • Side two:
  1. Raspberry Beret (New Mix) (6:33)1
  2. Paisley Park (Remix) (6:56)1
  • Side three:
  1. Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) (7:35)1
  2. Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix) (8:22)
  3. 1999 (Album Version) (6:22)
  • Side four:
  1. I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version) (10:15)1
  2. Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive) (7:24)1
  3. When Doves Cry (Album Version) (5:52)1

All songs written by Prince, except where noted.
1 Written by Prince (credited to Prince and the Revolution)
2 Although billed as Fresh Dance Mix, this is actually the Extended Version



Personnel
Musicians
  • See individual tracks for credits.


Production
  • See individual tracks and respective albums for credits.


Thanks



Releases
LP, CD, Cassettes and Other versions
CountryFormatCat. NumberCommentsFrontBackLabel 1Label 2
Japan LP x2 PS-272-3 Promotional

Variants, Special Editions and Reissues
CountryFormatCat. NumberCommentsFrontBackLabel 1Label 2
Record Store Day 2019 release
EU LP x2 0349-78558-5 Wrecka Stow Day Exlusive (sticker)
Images courtesy of Sleevographia
Additional Information
Promotion (at time of release)Trivia
References
2018
Piano & A Microphone 1983		All AlbumsAll Related Artists Albums2019
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(Prelude 2 Gold)
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Prince The Versace Experience Rar

The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was as sampler cassette produced for the promotion of his two then upcoming albums The Gold Experience and Exodus. The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) was given to each attendee at the Versace collection of Paris Fashion Week 8-10 July 1995, when Prince was under the name Prince love symbol. The release of The Gold Experience followed that September.

Sony Legacy reissued it, again in cassette format and for one day only, on 13 April 2019 to mark Record Store Day – the first time The Versace Experience actually received a commercial release, albeit still limited. However, a full commercial release (on CD and vinyl) followed that September.

The song Chatounette Controle is spoken track/remix of The Gold Experience‘s P. Control, the title translating into French as ‘Little kitten control’. And despite the original artwork announcing the release of The Gold Experience for 12 September 1995, that was to be delayed until September 26.

Data

Prince the versace experience tracklist
Producer
Prince
Label
NPG Records
Distribution
Sony Legacy
Released
1 years, 8 months ago on 13 April 2019
Reissued
13 September 2019
Running Time
32:44
US Chart Peak
170
UK Chart Peak
-
Orig. Formats

Tracklist

  1. Pussy Control [Club Mix] [Edit] (3:04)1
  2. Shhh [X-cerpt] (3:55)1
  3. Get Wild In The House [The NPG](2:15)2
  4. Eye Hate U [Remix] (3:29)1
  5. 319 [X-cerpt] (1:28)1
  6. Shy [X-cerpt] (2:23)1
  7. Billy Jack Bitch (2:31)1
  8. Sonny T. [X-cerpt] [Madhouse](0:28)3
  9. Rootie Kazootie [Edit] [Madhouse](2:38)3
  10. Chatounette Controle (2:25)1
  11. Pussy Control [Control Tempo] [Edit] (1:23)1
  12. Kamasutra Overture #5 [The NPG Orchestra](0:44)4
  13. [The NPG](1:47)
  14. Segue (0:50)
  15. Gold [X-cerpt] (3:34)1

1 Original mix available on The Gold Experience album
2 Original mix available on The Good Life maxi-single (from the NPG's Exodus album)
3 Intended to be released on Madhouse 24 album
4 Original mix later released on the Kamasutura album

The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) – review

Given away in cassette at Paris Fashion Week in July 1995, The Versace Experience became both a legendary and rare gem, and one that is essentially although is much more than merely, a sampler tape. This is the prelude to the magnificent The Gold Experience and contains rare remixes of Pussy Control (before becoming P. Control), Get Wild and Eye Hate U, albeit there are some annoyances. The repetition of announcing “The Versace Experience” throughout (overdone in Shhh) is obstructive and reminiscent of the green copyright protection in the VHS tapes of old – leaving the flow disjointed. But that was its point – this is not a conventional album. This was a giveaway spliced to fuse together a range of projects Prince was cooking at that time: Kamasutra, Madhouse album #3, The Gold Experience, The Hate Experience (a.k.a. Eye Hate U) and Exodus. The most interesting track is Free The Music a funky mix that journeys the listener through Exodus’ tracklist. Least of note is Chatounette Controle, chiefly a roll call of the models in Versace’s catwalk show. The 2019 CD reissue is gloriously repackaged by Sony Legacy, and full props to them for dusting down this long lost and highly limited cassette and putting it to CD, plus giving it a proper wide distribution. For that reason, its legend front and centre The Versace Experience is one to own and a crucial addition in any decent Prince collection.

The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)is rated 2.5 out of 5 by Goldies Parade.

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