Past Present & Future II (Sabotage) 2CD

Past Present & Future II 2CD

Sabotage
Catalog # SAB006b/007b
Release Year 1997
2CD Length 74:03 | 72:08
Date/Venue Studio Outakes, Broadcast, Unreleased & Live
Source Various
Quality VG+/EX+

Rating 4/5.0

Track Listing
CD1
Studio Outakes &Amp; Unreleased
1. 2morrow 2. Starfish And Coffee (95) 3. Sarah 4. 5 Women 5. On Your Own 6. The Ryde Dyvine 7. Interactive 8. Endorphinmachine 9. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Mustang Mix 96) 10. Billy Jack Bitch 11. Strays Of The World 12. Dark 13. Somebody's Somebody 14. Calhoun Square 15. 18 & Over 16. Zannalee 17. Empty Room

CD2
The Undertaker (Unreleased CD)
1. The Ride 2. Poor Goo 3. Honky Tonk Women 4. Bambi 5. Zannalee 6. The Undertaker 7. Dolphin

Rehearsal - Paisley Park : 23rd August 1995
8. Pussy Control 9. Letitgo

VH-1 Love 4 One Another Broadcast : 27th January 1996
10. Days Of Wild 11. The Ride 12. The Jam

Dr. Mambo's Combo w/ Prince - Bunkers Bar & Grill, Minneapolis : 12th June 1995
13. Everyday People - I Want To Take You Higher

Comments
Deane's Comments (rates this release 4/5.0)
This is an excellent reworking by Sabotage of the release Past, Present & Future 2CD. It has great sound quality overall and is a good document of studio outakes and alternative versions from the 1993 to 1996 projects. This includes Emancipation, Come and The Undertaker. The Undertaker tracks are not the same as those on many other releases like The Undertaker CD, and are much better sounding. They are prefect. Many of the tracks have been circulating, but this is a nice overall collection with no filler or questionable sound like many outake collections. This is also a nice improvement over the early release. This is a release well worth a listen.

Dale's Comments (rates this release 4/5.0)
As with a fair number of outtake sets from the mid 90's, this seems rather dated, tired and redundant now. The majority of the material has since either been officially released, or is available on other releases. That said this is still a decent collection of material. The first disc contains studio material from 1993 - 1996 with consistently excellent sound quality. Disc 2 is far more interesting and all are sourced from circulating video recordings.

The only slight let-down is that the version of VH1's Love4OneAnother broadcast is slightly gritty, and has been censored. There are far better sets circulating, however this was a nice release for it's time. It should be noted this is a completely different and updated release to the previous Sabotage 'Past, Present & Future' release.