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In honor of the passing of Prince, this is a reconstructionof what would have been his final album with The Revolution, 1986’s Dream Factory, which eventually evolved into Sign o' The Times. Originally conceived as a double album with asignificant amount of creative input from the band (at least compared toprevious Prince releases), the album was scrapped after Prince broke up TheRevolution in 1986. Prince then turnedhis attention to a solo concept album Camille, which was also scrapped and combinedwith the Dream Factory material to create the unreleased triple album CrystalBall.

Warner Bros Records then askedPrince to whittle the 3LP down, and the result was the double album Sign o'The Times, which many consider to be Prince’s masterpiece. This reconstruction attempts to present whatPrince originally intended the Dream Factory album to sound like,volume-adjusted and using the best possible masters—EQd to match a virgin vinylrip of Sign o’ The Times—to make themost natural-sounding album possible.

Prince was truly the reigning star of the 1980s. Armed with both worldwide smash hits, musical chops and the artistic credibilityto back it up, Prince also had the vision and determination to prove himself amodern music legend But let's not forget he also had the band to back it up. Even though Prince was a great songwriter,producer and multi-instrumentalist who had the ability to mastermind his ownworks and retain both commercial and critical success, his output throughoutthe 1980s grew to allow more collaboration from his backing band he formed in 1979. The lineup of The Revolution seemed to be influx at times, but after the transcendent success of Purple Rain in 1984 and theirsubsequent albums Around The World in a Day and Parade, the classic core of theband coalesced as guitarist Wendy Melvoin, keyboardist Lisa Coleman,keyboardist Matt Fink, bassist Brown Mark and drummer Bobby Z. In working on the follow-up to Parade beforeit was even released, Prince invited members of The Revolution—although mostlyMelvoin and Coleman—to contribute backing vocals, songwriting, instrumentationand even lead vocals to the material. Reworkingolder songs as a starting point—the 1982 recordings of “Teacher, Teacher”,“Strange Relationship” and “I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man”—as wellas the project's title track in December 1985, most of the work occurred in Prince’snewly built home studio on Galpin Boulevard.

By April 1986, Prince had created a rough cut of an album called DreamFactory that elevated both Wendy and Lisa as major players (although they laterclaimed they didn’t receive the credit they thought they deserved!). At this point in time, Dream Factory was asingle-disc album that included: “Visions”, “Dream Factory”, “It’s a WonderfulDay”, “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker”, “Big Tall Wall”, “And That Says What?”“Strange Relationship”, “Teacher, Teacher”, “Starfish and Coffee”, “A Place inHeaven” and “Sexual Suicide”. Work on the album continued throughout the summer withPrince often tracking all the instruments himself, although he also continuedto work with Windy and Lisa in the studio.

A mountain of tracks began to collect and by June a double album hademerged. Although songs such as “BigTall Wall” and “That Says What” fell to the wayside, great and interesting newtracks such as “It”, “In A Large Room With No Light”, “Crystal Ball”, “PowerFantastic”, “Last Heart”, “Witness 4 The Prosecution”, “Movie Star” and “AllMy Dreams” were added to the running order as well as linking tracks “Wendy’s Interlude”and “nevaeH ni ecalP A”, the later based around “A Place In Heaven” playedbackwards and meant to introduce the title track. Now a double-album, this sequence of Dream Factory went throughfurther refinement over the month when more work was done to the songs.

By July, Prince had dropped “Teacher,Teacher”, “In a Large Room With No Light”, “Sexual Suicide” and “PowerFantastic” and replaced them with newly completed tracks “Train”, “Slow Love”,“I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man”, “Sign o' The Times” and “TheCross”. A master was prepared on July 18th and Prince concentrated on the Hit n Run Tour, which would signal the closingof the Dream Factory. For the summer’s Parade/Hit n Run Tour, The Revolution wasexpanded to include former members of The Time as well as The Family—jokinglydubbed The Counter-Revolution. Thiswould include a full horn section, Melvoin’s twin sister Susannah (who wasromantically involved with Prince) and a set of former-bodyguards-turned-dancers. Thiscreated a strain in the relationship between Prince and his band members, whowere questioning Prince’s artistic direction—why did the band nearly double insize? Why are on-stage dancers gettingmore attention than the musicians proper?

Wendy was especially annoyed at the addition of her sister as anofficial member of the band and most of the core members of The Revolutionattempted to quit, only for Prince to convince Wendy, Lisa and Mark to stayuntil at least the remainder of the tour in October. As fate would have it, the growing animosity between Princeand his Revolution was at least reciprocated. At the end of the tour, Prince called in Wendy and Lisa to Paisley Parkand fired them. Bobby Z was replaced by SheilaE. Allegedly out of loyalty to the restof his band members, Mark quit.

With TheRevolution over, the collaborative Dream Factory was shelved and Prince wentback to his roots—being the sole maestro. Prince promptly began work on a concept album called Camille, in which avocally-manipulated Prince would perform as the character Camille. Intending to fool the public, the album was never to be credited directly as Prince and the cover art was to be blank! A master to Camille was prepared in Octoberbut that album too was scrapped and Prince rethought his strategy.

In a bold move, Prince combined the best ofboth the scrapped Dream Factory and Camille albums into one triple-albumentitled Crystal Ball (not to be confused with the 1998 rarities boxset of thesame name). With The Revolution no longer existing, Prince generallymixed-out Wendy and Lisa’s contributions from the Dream Factory tracks destined for Crystal Ball: “The Ballad ofDorothy Parker”, “It”, “Starfish and Coffee”, “Slow Love”, “Crystal Ball”, “I CouldNever Take The Place of Your Man”, 'The Cross' and “Sign o' The Times”. In a final turn of events that makes the Dream Factorymythos even more complex, this 3-LP Crystal Ball album was ultimately rejected by WarnerBrothers Records, and in December Prince was tasked to pair the album down to atleast a more marketable double album. Afteradding a more commercial single “U Got The Look”, the result was retitled intoSign o’ the Times and released as a Prince solo album in 1987. Although not quite hitting the commercialpeak that Purple Rain had three years earlier, Sign o’ The Times wasuniversally critically acclaimed and recent revaluations fairly state it as hismasterpiece. But to be fair, the album wasthe culmination of three other scrapped albums— Dream Factory, Camille andCrystal Ball—so it’s glory should come as no surprise.

But to truly see how Sign o’ the Times was manufactured,we must first see what it’s like in the Dream Factory. While there were three different masters of Dream Factoryprepared throughout the summer of 1986, my reconstruction will focus on itsfinal iteration, using those specific mixes and track sequence; luckily all thetracks are available on both official and high-quality bootlegs. In the name of creating the mostnatural-sounding reconstruction, I choose to use a pristine needledrop of anunplayed virgin vinyl copy of Sign o’ The Times (by thesnodger) for the songsalso found on that release. Furthermore, all of thetracks taken from bootlegs were EQd to match themastering and EQ parameters of that unplayed copy of Sign o’ The Times. The result is anattempt to preserve the sound originally intended by Prince in 1986 and toavoid the temptation for anachronistically maximizing specific frequencies (such as a certain, unnamedDream Factory remaster with exaggerated bass frequencies). Side A begins with “Visions” taken from the collector's edition of Wendy & Lisa’sEroica album, which hard edits into the unlisted “nevaeH ni ecalP A” taken fromthe Work It bootleg.

The original mix of“Dream Factory” appears here taken from the Work It bootleg but EQd to matchthe released version from the 1998 compilation Crystal Ball. Following is the fantastic “Train” taken fromthe Work It bootleg but EQd to match the aforementioned vinyl Sign o’ The Timesparameters.

Concluding the side are “TheBallad of Dorothy Parker” and “It”, both taken from thesnodger’s needledrop ofSign o’ The Times since the Dream Factory mixes are identical to the official Signmixes. Side B begins with the superior originalmix of “Strange Relationship” that features Wendy & Lisa’s overdubs thatPrince exorcised for the Sign album, here taken from the Work It bootleg. “Slow Love” and “Starfish and Coffee” follow,mixes identical as heard on Sign so again taken from the needledrop (but with “Starfish”’salarm removed, as per what is heard on Dream Factory).

“Interlude” follows,taken from the Work It bootleg and Side B concludes with “I Could Never ReplaceYour Man” a longer mix than on Sign, taken from the Work It bootleg but EQd tomatch the shorter Sign version. Side B opens with the single version of “Sign o’ the Times”,taken from The Hits/The B-Sides compilation. Theclosing drumbeat is hard edited into the opening beat of the jaw-dropping “CrystalBall”.

The Dream Factory version isunfortunately an early mix that lacked Clare Fisher’s extraordinaryorchestration. Regardless, this mixtaken from the Work It bootleg, is EQd to match the final version from theCrystal Ball rarities compilation.

Theside closes with the original mix of “A Place in Heaven” from the Work Itbootleg featuring Lisa on lead vocals. Side Dopens with the original mix of “Last Heart” from the Work It bootleg, EQd tomatch the final mix on Crystal Ball. Theadmittedly less-than-stellar “Witness 4 The Prosecution” and “Movie Star”follow, both taken from the Work It bootleg and re-EQd.

The album closes with the double-punch of the fantastic 'The Cross' from Sign and the legendaryunreleased track many claim could have been a hit—“All My Dreams”, here takenfrom the Dream Factory bootleg on Sabotage Records, but EQd to match my ownreconstruction. Thank you for the big work. Better mix than in the castrated albums. Movie Star looks better and the iconic Sign of the Times lower, but I'm too lazy to compare. Funny thing, that Prince decided that his sister 'will be a member of the band whenever they want it or not' (quote from a Zappa's composition where a musician wants to enforce a line-up). I have a low tolerance about the slow Prince songs and some producing choices (some are regular mainstream and he made nice-to-hear statements about this pressure, but even his 'emancipation' free-wheeling is sometimes even worse), but his (and band member's, you're right to mention this) funk is really great, not only 'like in the old James Brown albums' (as he sing in one song, in despite of the fact that his music his more related to George Clinton's bands), but truly original (meow voice, and that incredible funk power of a single knock on a drum stick in a loop, for exemple).

Few compositions are really enjoyable for their freak-outness, too. Well, that's the way I see it, sorry for the hardcore fans. I can understand the pain cause I'm that sort of listener about Zappa. Anyway, I will not like an album written by Ahmet, sung by Moon Unit, even with Dweezil's guitar, Frank producing and Gail's fake sex noises.

Well, thanks, I'll have to get together with my other sad friends who aren't ready to do this yet. Just listened to Bowie last night, things I didn't know. My Dad & I listened to Blackstar the weekend it came out, at least once before we heard the news. All this mournful reminiscing of lost days when our favorite sounds were new seems like the new aging process, focusing on the latest obit.

Daddy says his personal loss at the start of this series was Allen Toussaint (or B.B.),then there were too many to pay tribute to. The Grammys would better devote their time to honoring lifetime achievement rather than the latest thing. Next year's award shows can't help but ignore too many lost ones of all ages, how much time can they give Frank Jr or Lonnie Mack or Maurice White when you have champions like Haggard & George Martin leaving us as well? The year's not yet halfway gone, and so many of our lifelong soundtrack composers are like grandparents we need to cherish while they're with us. My Daddy, Madonna, Michael Jackson & Prince were the same age!

He has friends who went to Graceland to mourn Elvis. Just about everybody who made a record since the fifties is worthy of respect while we have them to honor.

Sorry, this was just too close to home, Cheers, All! Awesome, hopefully enough lossless source material is available.

I know that most of the material intended for the double album ended up on the retail 'I Am.' , 'Nastradamus', 'The Lost Tapes', and a few other compilations. The rest (or most of it) was from an advance version of 'I Am.' That was leaked to the internet months before the album's planned release. It's actually one of the first major label releases to fall victim to internet piracy. I'll look around for sources, though I think a few songs will be harder to find, like the original versions of 'Fetus' and 'Project Windows' with uncleared samples.

Just wanted to thank you for what may be your best work yet. I was blown away by your reconstruction of the Smashing Pumpkins' 'Machina', but this effort is even better.

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I don't think the actual Warner Bros. Releases sound as good as your remixing and EQ'ing work does. Awesome, awesome stuff. Oh, and your 'liner notes' are excellent reading as well. You know your stuff!Prince is one of my favorite artists ever, so discovering this gem helps ease the pain of his incredibly untimely passing. Keep up the good work. I can't wait to see what you've got for us next!Don.

Prince Originals Album Rar

Artist: PrinceTitle Of Album: DiscographyYear Of Release: 1978-2015Label: Warner Bros/Paisley Park/NPG/EMI/Columbia/AristaCountry: United StatesGenre: Funk, R&B, Pop, Rock, DiscoFormat: FLAC (tracks)Quality: LosslessTotal Size: 29.50 gbWebSite:STUDIO ALBUMS:1978 - For You1979 - Prince1980 - Dirty Mind1981 - Controversy1982 - 19991984 - Purple Rain1985 - Around the World in a Day1986 - Parade1987 - Sign 'O' the Times1988 - Lovesexy1989 - Batman1990 - Graffiti Bridge1991 - Diamonds and Pearls1992 - Love Symbol Album1994 - Come1994 - The Black Album1995 - 94 East Feat. Prince - Symbolic Beginning1995 - The Gold Experience1996 - Chaos and Disorder1996 - Emancipation1998 - New Power Soul1999 - Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic2001 - The Rainbow Children2002 - One Nite Alone. (Solo Piano and Voice by Prince)2002 - One Nite Alone.