| Identifier | 9122109 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Reference Number | 1299 |
| Note | Sound & Vision Volume 1
1 CD & 1 CD-Rom Label : Sabotage Records Catalogue : #SAB 016-017 Disc Length : 77:24 / 70:00 Source : Soundboard / Broadcast Sound Quality : G / EX Year Of Release : 1998 Subtitled "The First Decade : Complete Live TV 1980-1988", but we shan't get into semantics regarding 10 years being a decade (this release only covers 8 years), nor the fact that the opening American Bandstand performances are lip-synched and thus NOT live. What sets this first volume apart from the many other releases of this kind (including the rest in this Sound & Vision series) is the award acceptance speeches, etc have not been included here - which makes the release flow far more smoothly. The release begins with a decent quality version of the American Bandstand broadcast introduced by Dick Clark. This is evidently a re-broadcast from the mid/late 1990's as it includes a commentary intro from Dick Clark where he refers to Prince as "The Artist Formerly Known As". The performances are lip-synched to the released versions which is of zero interest and rather pointless on an audio disc, however it also includes the non-interview-interview. This is followed by Prince's first Saturday Night Live appearance with 'Partyup' which again is decent, if a little grainy. The trio of live performance promos follows including the complete 13 minute 'Baby I'm A Star'. The quality of the American Music Awards performance of 'Purple Rain' is the first low point of the release and there is a distracting loud humming throughout, and the audio is rather thin and slightly piercing - not the best source recording I've heard. Onwards and upwards, we come to the unedited lengthy 10 minute version of 'America' which is slightly wavy during the beginning, but settles down nicely and is of a pretty high quality. The only real disappointment of this release comes with the MTV Video Music Awards which is appallingly bad. 'Sign O' The Times' itself has a few slight glitches, but in comparison to the following 'Play In The Sunshine' they are minor. 'Play In The Sunshine' is tinny, thin, grating, piercing and very, very poor quality - I'm surprised this ever made it past Sabotage's quality control and it has to be one of the worst source recordings I have ever heard. Disc 2 is a CD-Rom and features the professionally filmed (in)famous Benefit Show for the Minnesota Dance Theatre at First Avenue and I'm puzzled as to why it was included on this release as it was never broadcast, and cannot be classed as "TV material". The quality is average at best, and since this release it has been surpassed greatly which makes this particular version obsolete. Overall this is not a great start to Sabotage's "Sound & Vision" series, but the releases do get better and this is the only volume with some serious flaws in the source recordings. The horrendously flawed 'Play In The Sunshine' is pretty much unforgiveable, however look past that (and the pretty woeful quality of the First Avenue 83 CD-Rom) and it's not a bad release for it's time...I guess. |
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| Prince 1939-??-?? #SAB 016-017 Sound & Vision Volume 1, Compilation, Compilation | |
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| Set 1 | Disc 1 (Audio): American Bandstand 26th January 1980: I Wanna Be Your Lover Interview Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? Saturday Night Live 21st February 1981: Partyup Live Promotional Video 1984/1985: I Would Die 4 U Baby I'm A Star Take Me With U American Music Awards 28th January 1985: Purple Rain Grammy Awards 26th February 1985: Baby I'm A Star Theatre De Verdure, Nice 27th October 1985 (Promo Video): America Under The Cherry Moon Premiere - Holiday Inn, Sheridan 1st July 1986: Raspberry Beret Delirious Controversy Mutiny MTV Video Music Awards 11th September 1987: Sign O' The Times Play In The Sunshine |
| Set 2 | Disc 2 (CD-Rom Video): Minnesota Dance Theatre Benefit Show - First Avenue, Minneapolis 3rd August 1983 Let's Go Crazy When You Were Mine A Case Of You Computer Blue Delirious Electric Intercourse Automatic I Would Die 4 U Baby I'm A Star Little Red Corvette Purple Rain D.M.S.R. |
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