Groove Into The New Year Like Sexy Muthafuckas...

Alright, long-standing One Buck Heads might remember that I drafted in Prince and a very special guest star (cough*MilesDavis* cough) in 2023 to groove you guys into the new year, last year I called on the original Boston Bad Boys - the J.Geils Band - to get the party going and now we're back to Prince Rogers Nelson to head the Saint Sylvester's Eve party. We are of course more than 25 years removed from that Prince feat. Miles concert, and Prince's heyday. Then again, this isn't a New Year's bash, but a normal concert from the Motor City in 2014, where Prince is backed by his all-female group 3rd Eye Girl. This is one of the cleanest sounding sound boards you'll ever hear, to the point where you can only hear the crowd faintly in the background 

The person preparing this bootleg went to the trouble of breaking every single song into its own track, even if it's just a couple of seconds of a song, sometimes only a single line that Prince incorporated into a medley. As with the Miles concert, I left this as is, only tagging the tracks correctly and adding the cover art. One track ("Sign O'The Times") is missing from the track list, probably because I got this from the Big O website years ago, and they would notoriously have a couple of links not working, and not bother to reset them corrcctly. Any way, with such a cornucopia of funky goodness from His Princeness you won't miss it. 

Notable tracks on here include tributes to Sly & The Family Stone (totally expected) and his supposd to be bitter rival Michael Jackson (less expected), as well as Wild Cherry's one hit wonder "Play That Funky Music". I personally am a little miffed that one of my favorites of his ("The Most Beautiful Girl In The World") is done with after a single line, but as the man says right after 'how many hits I got?' before launching into the next one. Either way, there's a ton of funky goodness in here. Prince also retakes "Nothing Compares To U" and of course wheels out warhorses like "Purple Rain", "When Doves Cry" or "Kiss".

Prince's power might have been diminishing in the latter part of his career, but this is still a lot of fun. 3rd Eye was a sympathetic backing band to the man, and he felt rejuvenated after spending the first decade of the new millenium flaling around quite a bit. Here he is back to the kind of futuristic funk that made his reputation in the first plae. So, get the party started with Prince and 3rd Eye Girl...