Prince - Transmission Impossible (2017)

CD SET FEATURING RARE PRINCE MATERIAL RECORDED LIVE More than a year after the tragic passing of Prince, the music world remains as eager as ever to hear previously unreleased material by this genius of composition and performance.

This triple CD set includes just such material, featuring on Disc One in the set the entire album Purple Rain recorded live at various venues in the years since the original record release in 1984. Including too, as bonus cuts, some of the non-album b-sides of singles taken from PR, this disc gets the set off to a flying start. Disc Two includes television appearances made by Prince across the decades, during which he performs numbers relevant to the time or the subject of the appearance. Featuring the great man s musical spots on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show, The VH1 Fashion Awards, Solid Gold, and even a rare 1979 appearance on Soul Train, among numerous others, this collection features the finest and least heard appearances he made throughout his career. Disc Three concludes the set in style, with a rare small club/aftershow party from 1988, when Prince performed in front of a by invitation only intimate crowd, playing the kind of funk-driven set he would never perform in front of a regular audience. With all tracks and sets throughout featured in fine audio quality, all taken from broadcast recordings, this collection will surely end up among the standard Prince live collections out there.

Tracklist

CD1
1. Let's Go Crazy (Live At The Carrier Dome, Syracuse, Ny, 1985) (5:52)
2. Take Me With U (Live At The Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, 1990) (4:38)
3. The Beautiful Ones (Live At The Carrier Dome, Syracuse, Ny, 1985) (5:25)
4. Computer Blue (Live At The Carrier Dome, Syracuse, Ny, 1985) (4:29)
5. Darling Nikki (Live At The Carrier Dome, Syracuse, Ny, 1985) (4:53)
6. When Doves Cry (Live At The Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid, 1990) (5:48)
7. I Would Die 4 U (Live At The Carrier Dome, Syracuse, Ny, 1985) (3:26)
8. Baby I'm A Star (Live At The Grammy Awards, 1998) (6:07)
9. Purple Rain (Live At The American Music Awards, 1985) (6:34)
10. 17 Days (Live At The First Avenue, Minneapolis, Mn, 1984) (5:24)
11. Erotic City (Live At The First Avenue, Minneapolis, Mn, 1984) (8:04)


CD2
1. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? (Live On American Bandstand, 1979) (3:42)
2. Little Red Corvette (Live On Solid Gold, 1983) (3:29)
3. 1999 (Live On Solid Gold, 1983) (3:51)
4. Sign O The Times (Live At The Mtv Video Music Awards, 1987) (5:12)
5. Play In The Sunshine (Live At The Mtv Video Music Awards, 1987) (4:05)
6. The Christ (Live At The Essence Awards, 1988) (5:03)
7. Electric Chair (Live On Saturday Night Live, 1989) (4:11)
8. Gett Off (Live At The Mtv Video Music Awards, 1991) (6:32)
9. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Live On Soul Train, 1994) (3:49)
10. Now (Live On Soul Train, 1994) (7:28)
11. Love Sign (Live On Soul Train, 1994) (4:44)
12. Peach (Live At The Mtv European Music Awards, 1994) (5:42)
13. P Control (Live At The Vh1 Fashion Awards, 1995) (5:57)
14. Starfish And Coffee (Live On Muppets Tonight, 1997) (3:34)
15. Free/Sweet Thing (With Chaka Khan & Larry Graham) [Live On The Today Show, 1998] (5:42)
16. Release Yourself (With Chaka Khan & Larry Graham) [Live On The Today Show, 1998] (3:39)
17. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker (Live On The Tonight Show, 2001) (3:55)


CD3
1. Instrumental In G (Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988) (13:21)
2. D.M.S.R. (Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988) ( 8:24)
3. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) [Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988] ( 8:09)
4. People Without (Incl. Six) [Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988] (10:09)
5. Housequake (Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988) ( 5:21)
6. Blues In C (Incl. Down Home Blues, Kansas City & Billie's Bounce) [Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988] ( 8:19)
7. Cold Sweat (Incl. Transmississippi Rap) [Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988] (10:20)
8. Forever In My Life (Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988) (11:38)
9. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (Live At The Paard Van Troje, Netherlands, 1988) ( 1:55)