Prince: The Albums - #20.3, Crystal Ball (Done!)

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Rank 1-10
Days of Wild
Last Heart
Poom Poom
She Gave Her Angels
18 & Over
The Ride
Get Loose
P. Control - Remix
Make Your Mama Happy
Goodbye

Crystal Ball, Pt. 3


Can we PLEASE get this over with?!

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{Make Your Shooter Happy}
newpower tim Sir Benji .indulgecountry Mirago @antigonerising Linnethia Monique LBTrocks samo🦕

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Crystal Ball Pt. 3 (Let's Please Get This Over With!)

I was hoping to start 2021 off with a FRESH Prince album but we're so close to being done with this. The faster y'all rank these 10 songs, the faster we can be done!

newpower tim Sir Benji .indulgecountry Mirago @antigonerising Linnethia Monique LBTrocks samo🦕

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Crystal Ball Pt. 3 (Let's Please Get This Over With!)

1. SHOOTER
2. 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾
3. .indulgecountry

The faster y'all rank these 10 songs, the faster we can be done!

newpower tim Sir Benji Mirago @antigonerising Linnethia Monique LBTrocks samo🦕

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

This was the easiest of the 3. Despite everything coming from different sessions and times, this felt far more cohesive.

[LBTrocks]

I’ll do this tonight!

[.indulgecountry]

Dec 30, 2020 14:30:45 GMT -5 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 said:

This was the easiest of the 3. Despite everything coming from different sessions and times, this felt far more cohesive.

Agreed!

[Linnethia Monique]

Doing this now since I'm keeping my ass in.

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Crystal Ball Pt. 3 (Almost there...)

1. SHOOTER
2. 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾
3. .indulgecountry
4. samo🦕
5. tim
6. Mirago
7. newpower
8. Linnethia Monique

All 3 of y'all claimed to be working on this and yet... Sir Benji @antigonerising LBTrocks

[Sir Benji]

Oh shit let me type up my list

[LBTrocks]

Dammit lol. I'm not home tonight but first thing in the morning I'll do this rq!

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4:58 and I'm hard straight
Licorice and goldenseal is all I ate
If you were here I wouldn't masturbate
Wishing I was kin to your...





*4th-highest SD*

A Choice...
LBTrocks : 1


newpower : 8
@antigonerising : 9
Linnethia Monique : 9
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 9
tim : 10
.indulgecountry : 10
SHOOTER : 10
samo🦕 : 10
Mirago : 10

Audience (Bye Craig)
Sir Benji

Poom Poom was recorded in Spring of 1995 mostly for Prince's amusement and to celebrate his 2nd birthday as .

"Never intended 4 any album, just a funny track 2 make a female laugh - What yo name is?

All sounds by ." - Crystal Ball liner notes

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Billy got a test in geometry
He didn't study night before
He wants a steady job and a salary
So I guess he got to study more
That's why we are saying...





*LOWEST SD*

tim : 6
newpower : 6
@antigonerising : 7
Linnethia Monique : 7
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 7
LBTrocks : 8
Mirago : 8
.indulgecountry : 9
SHOOTER : 9
samo🦕 : 9

Audience (Bye Craig)
Sir Benji

Make Your Mama Happy was recorded in August 1986 during Sign o' the Times sessions but there's no evidence it was ever considered for inclusion on that album.

"This was recorded after listening 2 Fresh by Sly and 2 prove a point 2 Susannah that Mpls was in the house. She sings background on this. Eric is on sax. Terry Lewis gets ugly while listening 2 this!" - Crystal Ball liner notes

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Let me see that body
Let me see that
Let me see that body...





*2nd-Lowest SD*

@antigonerising : 3
LBTrocks : 4
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 5

Linnethia Monique : 6
samo🦕 : 6
tim : 7
.indulgecountry : 7
SHOOTER : 7
Mirago : 9
newpower : 10

Audience (Bye Craig)
Sir Benji

This is the full remix of Loose! from 1994's Come that was first included as a snippet on the NPG Records Sampler Experience given to some audience members during The Ultimate Live Experience tour.

"GET LOOSE & P CONTROL, played back 2 back, were favorites of the Erotic City Dancers in L.A. Carmen, P. Control, Shockadelica, and the others packed the club and shook what their mamas gave them 2 these 2 bombs!" - Crystal Ball liner notes

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That's what we laying for in the nine-five
As long we know it's safe, we ain't risking no lives
My Doctor's name is Feelgood, making it so I do
And if your name is "Healthy" then it's cool with me and you...





*5th-highest SD*

LBTrocks : 3
.indulgecountry : 3
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 4
newpower : 4
SHOOTER : 4
Mirago : 4

@antigonerising : 6
samo🦕 : 8
tim : 9
Linnethia Monique : 10

Audience (Bye Craig)
Sir Benji

18 & Over was recorded in the summer of 1994 and originally created to be a remix of Come for a planned remix EP that was ultimately abandoned. It was also placed on the unreleased Playtime By Versace project in mid-1995.

"Party favorite. Check the flo. Kirky J. and B. hooked up this loop. Mike Scott played guitar." - Crystal Ball liner notes

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The lyrics on this set leave something to be desired.

That's really all I have to say about Crystal Ball III.

[.indulgecountry]

Off to a good start, except "18 & Over." That one coulda stayed in a lil longer.

[SHOOTER]

I could manage a week or two without those kisses
It'd be hard, but something tells me I could try
For that matter, whatever to make you reconsider
Is there truth when you make love to a lie?
Excuse me, but is this really...





*2nd-highest SD*

@antigonerising : 2
Linnethia Monique : 2
.indulgecountry : 2
tim : 3
samo🦕 : 4
Mirago : 5

newpower : 7
SHOOTER : 8
LBTrocks : 10
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 10

Audience (Bye Craig)
Sir Benji

(Excuse Me Is This) Goodbye was first recorded in December 1991 and spruced up in 1995 after Prince had Clare Fisher create orchestral arrangements for it.

"Parting with the moon and the rian and looking 4 the sun. Intended 4 Emancipation and replaced by The Holy River. Orchestration by the everbeautiful Clare Fischer." - Crystal Ball liner notes

[SHOOTER]

If you like it real slow, baby, I got days
If you like it real slow, I got days
But if you want some good lovin', baby
I know the way...





*3rd-highest SD*

The Taste Jumped Out
@antigonerising : 1
.indulgecountry : 1
SHOOTER : 1

Linnethia Monique : 5
tim : 5

LBTrocks : 6
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 6
Mirago : 6
samo🦕 : 7
newpower : 9

Audience (Bye Craig)
Sir Benji

This version of The Ride was recorded live in October 1995; in 1993, a rehearsal take of the song was used for The Undertaker video special and a different live version was used for The Sacrifice Of Victor home video.

"Performed on numerous occasions, but never worn out. This particular version is not necessarily the best, but the overdubs and the live vibe keep it in check. The version from The Sacrifice of Victor is a bit more riverting, only because of its inspiration being present at the concert. She knows who she is!" - Crystal Ball liner notes

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Before soda pop had fizz
Don't blame it on your jockstrap full of jizz
Mentality so insane
I got a TEC-9, too, and it's called my brain...





*HIGHEST SD*

newpower : 1
Mirago : 1
tim : 2
LBTrocks : 2
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 2
SHOOTER : 5
samo🦕 : 5

Linnethia Monique : 8
.indulgecountry : 8
@antigonerising : 10

Days of Wild was first recorded in January 1994 and went through several incarnations in the studio as Prince considered using it for The Gold Experience; it didn't make the final cut and the studio version of the song remains unreleased to this day. The live version included on Crystal Ball was recorded in December 1995.

"The spirit of the late-nite Love4OneAnother jams in Paisley Park were best captured by this song and particularly this performance. Peace 2 the friends' "Free the Slave!". The NPG stomped on this. They now hot beyb!" - Crystal Ball liner notes

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Pussy got bank in her pockets
Before she got dick in her drawers
If brother didn't have good and plenty of his own
In love Pussy never did fall...





*3rd-lowest SD*

🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 1
samo🦕 : 1
newpower : 3
@antigonerising : 4
Linnethia Monique : 4
LBTrocks : 5
.indulgecountry : 5

SHOOTER : 6
Mirago : 7
tim : 8

This version of Pussy Control was the Club Mix first teased as a snippet on The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold) promo cassette given to attendees of the Versace collection of Paris Fashion Week in July 1995; the full version was included on the cassette single given to attendees of the VH1 Fashion and Music Awards in December 1995.

"Get Loose & P. Control, played back 2 back, were favorites of the Erotic City dancers in L.A. Carmen, P. Control, Shockadelica and the others packed the club and shook what their mamas gave them 2 these 2 bombs!" - Crystal Ball liner notes

[SHOOTER]

How many times have I kissed you
And smelled another man's perfume?
How many lonely nights I missed you
Wishing for ya body in my lonely room?





*5th-lowest SD*

newpower : 2
SHOOTER : 2
samo🦕 : 2
Mirago : 2
Linnethia Monique : 3
tim : 4
.indulgecountry : 4
@antigonerising : 5

🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 8
LBTrocks : 9

Last Heart was first recorded in January 1986 after sessions for Parade had ended and was included on one of the many configurations from the abandoned Dream Factory album.

"This was intended as a demo, which is usually unheard of in Prince's mind. He had always intended on re-recording this track, but never got around 2 it. Eric Leeds is on sax." - Crystal Ball liner notes

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Fate as she designed it took her from her man
Destiny and love don't always go hand in hand
As the world lay waiting like an embryo in a womb
She gave her angels that night in June...





*4th-lowest SD*

Linnethia Monique : 1
tim : 1
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 3
SHOOTER : 3
samo🦕 : 3
Mirago : 3
newpower : 5

.indulgecountry : 6
LBTrocks : 7
@antigonerising : 8

She Gave Her Angels was recorded in the spring of 1996 for use in Happy Tears - a multimedia project Prince had announce he and Mayte were working on that was to include a children's album, storybook and read-along cassette. The album was also to include a newly recorded version of Starfish & Coffee; Prince performed both during an appearance on The Muppets Tonight TV show that fall. However, the project was abandoned after their son passed away that October.

"A true story about Mayte." - Crystal Ball liner notes

We made it!

[LBTrocks]

Glad we got this done. Really wouldn't revisit anything from this, lol.

[tim]

I’ll gladly take a perfect ranking for what is the finale of this album! I do agree that this was one of the more cohesive sets even if that wasn’t Prince’s intention. Anyways, next!

[newpower]

Unexpected winner. I remember liking the song when the album was released but it was meh for me when I listened last week. Thanks for hosting SHOOTER

[Sir Benji]

I’ve been slacking on the rank downs smh