Welcome 2 the Dawn – A Prince Retrospective
Introduced to the world as something of a one-man funk band with a debut that had him writing, producing, and performing as well as playing all of the instruments, the bashful seventeen year-old from St. Paul became one of few artists to live up to being labeled a prodigy. Curiously prolific, Prince released a new album every year and with each came a reinvention of both sound and style: from the subway flasher sleaze of Dirty Mind, the sexual pageantry of Purple Rain, and the Beatlesesque Around the World in the Day, his prolific peak provided as much quality and quantity of output as any artist in history, a fact made more incredible in light of the thousand or so unreleased songs reputedly stored in his infamous vault, which fans hope will live 2 see the dawn.
As a crash course for the uninitiated, I’ve put together a chronological tour through each of his studio albums, and a selection of my favorite of the unfinished and unreleased songs I’ve collected over the years.
Track List
Interview Excerpt
Soft and Wet
I Feel For You
Sexy Dancer
Let’s Work
Partyup
When You Were Mine
All The Critics Love U in New York
Computer Blue
Take Me With U
Temptation
Paisley Park
I Wonder U
Sign O’ the Times
Bob George
Alphabet Street
I Wish U Heaven
Vicki Waiting
Joy In Repetition
Money Don’t Matter 2Night
Segue
Papa
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother, Wife
Beautiful Strange
The Work Pt. 1
Musicology
Black Sweat
Lavaux
From the Vault: A Selection of Unreleased Songs
Track List
Interview Excerpt
Leaving For New York (Demo)
Turn It Up
Extra Loveable
Possessed
Purple Music
Lisa
G-Spot
Tick Tick Bang (1980 Version)
We Can Funk (Early Version)
Cloreen Bacon Skin feat. Morris Day
Electric Intercourse
Baby, You-re a Trip
All My Dreams
Witness 4 the Prosecution
Sexual Suicide
100MPH
Train
Last Heart
Databank
Movie Star
Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A
Crystal Ball
Old Friends 4 Sale
There-s Others Here With Us
Poem to the Lady in White
Kiss (Acoustic Demo)
