I've been so busy in my personal life recently that a number of important things have been piling up. We're going to deal with a few of those things here and now, all of which are specific to you my readers!
I haven't given a schedule for the Prince Homemade Deluxe Editions because I've been kinda playing it be ear, but I've decided to get this down so I have a path to follow. Here is a tentative schedule for the IFM Records releases you can look forward to:
IFM0000004: Prince and The Revolution - Parade
IFM0000005: Prince - Prince
IFM0000006: Prince - Lovesexy
IFM0000007: Prince - Controversy
IFM0000008: Prince and the Revolution - Around The World In A Day
IFM0000009: Prince - For You
IFM0000010: Prince - Batman
IFM0000011: Prince - Graffiti Bridge
IFM0000012: Prince and The NPG - Diamonds and Pearls
IFM0000013: Prince and The NPG - O-+->
IFM0000014: Michael Jackson - The Thriller Companion
IFM0000015: Beastie Boys - The Paul's Boutique Companion V4
Those releases should take me through the summer, after which I'll start working on Prince's side-project releases, but only select albums. The following is not an order of releases, just the ones I intend to do:
The Time - The Time
The Time - What Time Is It?
The Time - Ice Cream Castles
Vanity 6 - Vanity 6
Appolonia 6 - Appolonia 6
Sheila E. - In The Glamorous Life
Sheila E. - In Romance 1600
The Family - The Family
Jill Jones - Jill Jones
Madhouse - 8
Madhouse - 16
There may also be a few bonus discs done up for the Prince albums with additional bonus tracks. I think I have enough good tracks for a third Purple Rain disc, though that's not on my priority list at the moment.
Next up, I've got an incredible interview which I'll be posting either next week or the week after. David Williams, one of the main producers if not THE MAIN PRODUCER for the Jungle Brothers' Crazy Wisdom Masters and J.Beez Wit The Remedy albums was cool enough to answer some of my questions and we're going to talk a little more before I write up the article, but it will answer a lot of questions about his involvement with the JB's, the album in general and lots of other things. David is a super cool guy and I'm sure everyone will be knocked out by how many details he's revealing!
Third, I received an interesting e-mail today from a British merchandising website. Apparently they're having a contest where 200 music blogs were chosen to make a Valentines mixtape. I'm not going to mention the website's name yet because this is unique for me. They want me to make this mixtape and if I get the most comments about it I can supposedly win some very nice prizes. Normally I'm not interested in taking part in such promotions but the prizes are VERY nice. That said, I'd like to know what the people who visit my website think about this. Would it be cool to participate? Could I beg you all to leave an obscene amount of positive comments and ask your friends to leave comments too? Would I be a complete heel for doing this? Seriously, if it doesn't sound good I won't take part but I want your opinions, so please leave me a comment here or send me an e-mail with your thoughts.
Finally, tomorrow I'll be posting three more discs worth of Head Automatica demos and roughs for their second album, Popaganda, and I'll be closing out the week by posting the unreleased, four disc Miles Davis box set Warner Bros. had intended for release in 2001, The Last Word. I was only going to post the unreleased tracks initially, but the entire set was remastered and those new masters haven't been released and may not be, so the whole thing is worth a look. Personally, I don't care for most of Miles' WB catalog, but the unreleased live tracks are nice and the Rubber Band tracks are rather good! WB didn't want him releasing that album and I kind of understand since I can't remember the last edgy jazz record WB has released in over thirty years (seriously, name one!), but in a strange way these tracks are very funky.
So please drop me a line, share your thoughts with me and I'll respond. Oh, one more thing, the above image is the cover I made for the HDE Purple Rain. I'm going to do a post eventually where I just post all the covers for anyone that wants to grab them all.
QUICK UPDATE: Thanks for all the positive responses guys! I've decided I'm not going to take part in their competition because certain things seem iffy. That said, I'll probably make a Valentine's Day mixtape anyway. It won't be anything mindblowing but it'll be my take on sweet songs to play for your loved one. Again, thanks to everyone for your responses! I really appreciate it!
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