The perennially prolific Prince is set to release not one, but two new albums on Sept. 30 (read more at the following link: http://www.soultracks.com/story-prince-two-albums). And in July of this year, "Purple Rain" marked its 30th anniversary.
On the eve of the groundbreaking movie and soundtrack album's anniversary on July 4, I had the pleasure of seeing Prince live at the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
As a loyal Prince fan since my aunt Cathy took me and my prepubescent cousins Darlene and Stacy to see the groundbreaking rock and roll musical in the summer of '84, I was elated when I recently discovered a special-issue "Purple Rain" double CD on Amazon.
For my fellow "PR" devotees out there, I highly recommend picking up "Purple Rain: The Complete Soundtrack." It not only has rare extended mixes of Prince and the Revolution classics like "Computer Blue," it also features songs that were performed in the movie but did not appear on the original soundtrack, such as The Time's "Jungle Love," Apollonia 6's "Sex Shooter" and "Modernaire," by former Prince sideman Dez Dickerson.
For those of you who are true music geeks like me, you'll really get a kick out of listening to the "Computer Blue" extended mix. If you've seen the movie (if you grew up in the '80s, how could you have not?), you may recall the scene where Prince enters the First Avenue Club to find Revolution members Bobby Z., Matt Fink and Brown Mark working out a funky keyboard riff. This riff is included in the "Computer Blue" extended mix, as is a computerized female voice that sounds like Revolution member Wendy Melvoin filtered through some kind of digital blender.
"Purple Rain: The Complete Soundtrack" also features the infamous "backwards masking" ending of "Darling Nikki," remixed so that you hear Prince uttering the words, "How are you? I'm fine/The Lord is coming soon..."
SPOILER ALERT: The second CD features a hidden bonus track: a full-length version of "Love Theme from Purple Rain," a beautiful instrumental track that played during Prince and Apollonia's love scene in the movie and served as the underpinning for Prince's classic B-side, "God."
Since it's a rare special-issue, "Purple Rain: The Complete Soundtrack" doesn't come cheap. But for anyone who's a fan of the movie and/or His Royal Badness himself, this collector's item is priceless.
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