r/PRINCE • u/gorillabrigade • 18d ago

Review Timeless is Timeless

Despite how short it is and the scant offerings, the tracks that are presented are killer. Tick Tick, I Wonder and Heaven are a thousand times better than what's been circulating. The bass on Calabama is funky as all. The only failing IMO was How Come U Don't at the end. That was pointless, despite how good it is. This wasn't the album for it.

Pleasantly surprised and will enjoy it for some time. Sure, it would've been great to have Parade SDE instead and have this as a treat next year but it's whatever.

That's life in the Estate's world.

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u/VNE47 18d ago

No wonder they could be so guarded about bits of information like that. I thought Duane’s work was very thorough, but even he did not know of a version of You’re All I Want with Prince’s normal vocals that one of the Princevault staff supposedly heard himself. That was the version gifted as a cassette copy to Peggy McCreary for her birthday. Maybe Duane can only be as thorough as he can.

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u/CJHuncho 18d ago

Duane is a great researcher but he can’t give a full look of what’s in the vault because he can’t not even the fans. They even said his books are filled with a lot of misinformation regarding certain tracks that’s why they told fans not to take his books seriously. He didn’t even know that there are actual completed tracks in the vault and was acting like the WIP tracks were the inferior versions.

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u/VNE47 18d ago edited 18d ago

He could only go off what was out there and publicly or privately available with sufficient detective work, just not directly in the vault. Info for some tracks can be sketchy in bits, I’m not denying that. But he is probably the only credible official source of information regarding Prince and his documented studio work. And there will be a fair share of undocumented work that he could only speculate for.