Prince - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2017/FLAC)

Despite the tragic passing of Prince, the music world remains as eager as ever to hear previously unreleased material by this genius of composition and performance. 

This triple CD set includes just such material, featuring on Disc One in the set the entire album Purple Rain recorded live at various venues in the years since the original record release in 1984. Including too, as bonus cuts, some of the non-album b-sides of singles taken from PR, this disc gets the set off to a flying start.

 Disc Two includes television appearances made by Prince across the decades, during which he performs numbers relevant to the time or the subject of the appearance. Featuring the great man's musical spots on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show, The VH1 Fashion Awards, Solid Gold, and even a rare 1979 appearance on Soul Train, among numerous others, this collection features the finest and least heard appearances he made throughout his career.

Disc Three concludes the set in style, with a rare small club/aftershow party from 1988, when Prince performed in front of a 'by invitation only' intimate crowd, playing the kind of funk-driven set he would never perform in front of a regular audience. With all tracks and sets throughout featured in fine audio quality, all taken from broadcast recordings, this collection will surely end up among the standard Prince live collections out there.


 
Disc 1:

  1. Let's Go Crazy
  2. Take Me With U
  3. The Beautiful Ones
  4. Computer Blue
  5. Darling Nikki
  6. When Doves Cry
  7. I Would Die 4 U
  8. Baby I'm A Star
  9. Purple Rain
  10. 17 Days
  11. Erotic City

Disc 2:

  1. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad'
  2. Little Red Corvette
  3. 1999
  4. Sign O The Times
  5. Play In The Sunshine
  6. The Christ
  7. Electric Chair
  8. Gett Off
  9. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
  10. Now
  11. Love Sign
  12. Peach
  13. P Control
  14. Starfish And Coffee
  15. Free/Sweet Thing (with Chaka Khan & Larry Graham)
  16. Release Yourself (with Chaka Khan & Larry Graham)
  17. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker

Disc 3:

  1. Instrumental In G
  2. D.M.S.R.
  3. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
  4. People Without (incl. Six)
  5. Housequake
  6. Blues In C (incl. Down Home Blues, Kansas City & Billie's Bounce)
  7. Cold Sweat (incl. Transmississippi Rap)
  8. Forever In My Life
  9. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic