The Virtual US
7-Inch Singles Vol 2 (Fun With Vinyl Vol 20)
4CD
A Polyvinyl
Acetate Release (djrichiep) Catalog # 20
Release
Year 2015
4CD Length Source Studio Soundboard Vinyl Recordings Quality
EX+
Rating 5.0/5.0
Track Listing CD1
01 Alphabet St. (Edit) (2:25)
02 Alphabet St. (Cont.) (3:14)
03 Glam Slam (Edit) (3:28)
04 Escape (Edit) (3:30)
05 I Wish U Heaven (2:43)
06 Scarlet Pussy (Edit) (4:10)
07 Batdance (Edit) (4:06)
08 200 Balloons (5:05)
09 Partyman (3:11)
10 Feel U Up (Short Stroke) (3:44)
11 The Arms Of Orion (Edit) (3:52)
12 I Love U In Me (4:12)
13 Scandalous (Edit) (4:12)
14 When 2 R In Love (4:02)
CD2
01 Thieves In The Temple (3:20)
02 Thieves In The Temple (Part II) (1:41)
03 New Power Generation (3:39)
04 New Power Generation (Part II) (2:57)
05 Gett Off (Single Remix) (4:31)
06 Horny Pony (4:17)
07 Cream (4:12)
08 Horny Pony (4:17)
09 Insatiable (Edit) (4:01)
10 I Love U In Me (4:12)
11 Diamonds And Pearls (Edit) (4:20)
12 X-cerpts From The Songs: Thunder, Daddy Pop, Strollin’, Money Don’t Matter 2
Night, Push, Live 4 Love (5:04)
13 Money Don’t Matter 2 Night (Edit) (4:12)
14 Call The Law (4:19)
CD3
01 Sexy M.F. (5:25)
02 Strollin’ (3:46)
03 My Name Is Prince (Edit) (4:05)
04 Sexy Mutha (3:55)
05 7 (Album Edit) (4:23)
06 7 (Acoustic Version) (3:54)
07 Damn U (4:04)
08 2 Whom It May Concern (4:01)
09 The Morning Papers (3:57)
10 Live 4 Love (6:58)
CD4
01 Pink Cashmere (6:12)
02 Soft And Wet (3:01)
03 Peach (3:48)
04 Nothing Compares 2 U (Edit) (4:17)
05 Letitgo (Edit) (4:15)
06 Solo (3:48)
07 Space (Universal Love Radio Remix) (3:58)
08 Space (4:28)
09 Purple Medley (Edit) (3:14)
10 Kirk J’s B-Sides Remix (7:00)
11 Eye Hate U (Edit) (4:27)
12 Eye Hate U (Quiet Night Mix by Eric Leeds) (3:55)
13 Gold (Edit) (4:43)
14 Rock ‘N’ Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis) (4:34)
Comments
Fink's Comments(Rates this release 5.0/5.0) From the Fun
With Vinyl Website: "While putting the Fun With Vinyl series together and doing
research on it, I took an interest in putting together a complete set of singles
released by Prince, spanning his entire career. Of course, if you have ever
researched the single releases by Prince you know that you will eventually find
yourself going off on a tangent here, a tangent there, never really
accomplishing anything because there are just so many commercial releases,
promotional releases, a slightly different release in this country vice that
country, an edit here, a different edit there and it just goes on and on and on.
So, I decided to set some boundaries and come up with a particular slice of
those releases that could be completed and be definitive without needing to be
updated in years to come. So, here are my parameters… Concentrate only on
releases from the United States, only include singles that were released on
vinyl, those singles would only be 7 Inch/45RPM releases and, finally, only
commercially available releases would be considered.
This box set is being released in two 4CD volumes. Volume 1 covers the years
1978-1987, ‘For You’ through ‘Sign ‘O’ The Times’. Volume 2 picks up from there
and goes from 1988-1995, ‘Lovesexy’ through ‘The Gold Experience’. 1995 saw the
last release of a mass-produced, commercially available 7 Inch/45RPM records
bearing Prince’s name and thus ended an era. Vinyl has made a comeback in recent
years but, I don’t think the 7 Inch/45RPM single will ever be mass produced in
the way it was prior to the development of the Compact Disc. “Singles” are now
available all over the internet from iTunes to Amazon to your favorite P2P or
torrent site. It will never be economically viable for record companies to mass
produce these little vinyl nuggets ever again.
Once again, all kudos for the artwork go to squirrelgrease. Another professional
job on the artwork. Thanks, also, to an anonymous donor of some lossless digital
rips from some CDs that I didn’t have… Research sources: MoQuake (since closed)
and Sleevographia.
Volume 1 was released a week ago and now, here’s Volume 2. The Virtual U.S. 7
Inch Singles Box has been compiled from various sources, official vinyl,
official CD and unofficial CD. Digital sources were given top priority and vinyl
sources were used only if a digital source had never been available. No
“remastering” or tweaking has been done on any of these tracks, they are direct
rips from original sources and have been converted to a lossless format. The
FLAC files were converted using dbPoweramp and were compressed using Compression
Level 5 (Default) option.