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{{song|
{{song|
|song name                = Strange Relationship
|song name                = Strange Relationship
|album image              = [[File:sott.jpg|100px|link=Album: Sign O’ The Times]] <br><small> from the album <br>[[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]] </small> <br> [[File:sottDeluxe.jpg|100px|link= Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe'']]<br><small> from the album <br>[[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe'']]
|album image              = [[File:sott.jpg|100px|link=Album: Sign O’ The Times]] <br><small> from the album <br>[[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]] </small> <br> [[File:sottDeluxe.jpg|100px|link= Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]<br><small> from the album <br>[[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]
|single image              = [[Image:Piano&amicrophone1983.jpg|100px|link=Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983|Piano & A Microphone 1983]]</small>   
|single image              = [[Image:Piano&amicrophone1983.jpg|100px|link=Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983|Piano & A Microphone 1983]]</small>   
|performer                = [[Prince]]
|performer                = [[Prince]]
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A brief solo piano rehearsal of the track was released on the 2018 posthumous album [[Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983|Piano & A Microphone 1983]], preceded by [[Mary Don’t You Weep]], which also includes some lyrics from '''Strange Relationship'''.
A brief solo piano rehearsal of the track was released on the 2018 posthumous album [[Album: Piano & A Microphone 1983|Piano & A Microphone 1983]], preceded by [[Mary Don’t You Weep]], which also includes some lyrics from '''Strange Relationship'''.


Initial tracking is believed to have taken place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 14|14 March 1983]] at [[Prince]]’s [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. [[Wendy Melvoin]] and [[Lisa Coleman]] reworked the track heavily in one or more sessions in mid-late June 1985, adding Fairlight CMI sitar and other overdubs at [[The Complex Studios]], Los Angeles, California.
Initial tracking is believed to have taken place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 14|14 March 1983]] at [[Prince]]’s [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. [[Wendy Melvoin]] and [[Lisa Coleman]] reworked the track heavily in one or more sessions in mid-late June and July 1985, adding Fairlight CMI sitar and other overdubs at [[The Complex Studios]], Los Angeles, California.


This overdubbed version was edited down in a later session and included as the seventh track on a late April 1986 configuration of [[Album: Dream Factory|Dream Factory]], and as the album expanded, it was included as the sixth track on the first disc on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 3|3 June 1986]] and [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/July 18|18 July 1986]] configurations.  
This overdubbed version was included as the seventh track on a late April 1986 configuration of [[Album: Dream Factory|Dream Factory]]. The song was edited down as the album expanded and was included as the sixth track on the first disc on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 3|3 June 1986]] and [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/July 18|18 July 1986]] configurations.  


When [[Prince and the Revolution|the Revolution]] disbanded, [[Prince]] remixed the song at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California, to minimize [[Wendy Melvoin]] and [[Lisa Coleman]]’s involvement. [[Eric Leeds]] recorded a saxophone overdub, but [[Prince]] removed it from the final mix, which was included as the third track on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 5|5 November 1986]] configuration of the [[Album: Camille|Camille]] album (to be credited to [[Alias: Camille|Camille]]).  
When [[Prince and the Revolution|the Revolution]] disbanded, [[Prince]] remixed the song at [[Sunset Sound]] in Hollywood, California, to minimize [[Wendy Melvoin]] and [[Lisa Coleman]]’s involvement. [[Eric Leeds]] recorded a saxophone overdub, but [[Prince]] removed it from the final mix, which was included as the third track on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 5|5 November 1986]] configuration of the [[Album: Camille|Camille]] album (to be credited to [[Alias: Camille|Camille]]).  
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A few weeks later, it was included as the sixth track on the second disc of the triple-album [[Album: Crystal Ball 1986|Crystal Ball]] on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 30|30 November 1986]] configuration, which was eventually pared down and became [[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]].
A few weeks later, it was included as the sixth track on the second disc of the triple-album [[Album: Crystal Ball 1986|Crystal Ball]] on the [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 30|30 November 1986]] configuration, which was eventually pared down and became [[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]].


Probably after its release on [[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]], [[Prince]] commissioned [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shep_Pettibone Shep Pettibone] to remix the song, possibly around the same time he also remixed [[Hot Thing]]. The ''Club Mix'' remained unreleased at the time, but was released on [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe| Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe'']] in 2020. The ''Super Deluxe'' set also included the initial [[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] & [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]] overdubbed version, called ‘Original Version’ here, even while the true original version was recorded in 1983 and remains unreleased.
Probably after its release on [[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]], [[Prince]] commissioned [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shep_Pettibone Shep Pettibone] to remix the song, possibly around the same time he also remixed [[Hot Thing]]. The '''1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix''' remained unreleased at the time, but was released on [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe| Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']] in 2020 as the thirteen and final track of ''Vault Tracks part 3'', one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks. The [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|''Super Deluxe Edition'']] set also included (as the sixth track of ''Vault Tracks part 1'') the initial [[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] & [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]] overdubbed version, called '''Original Version''' here, although the true original version was recorded in 1983 and remains unreleased.


|recording info            =
|recording info            =
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 14|14 March 1983]] (estimate)
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 14|14 March 1983]] <small>(estimate)</small>
|studio                    = [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|studio                    = [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|additional info          = Basic tracking
|additional info          = Tracking
}}
}}
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = August 1983 (estimate)
|date                      = Late Summer - Autumn 1983
|studio                    = [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]], <br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|studio                    = [[Kiowa Trail Home Studio]], <br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|additional info          = Rehearsal recording
|additional info          = Rehearsal recording - '''(Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version)'''
}}
}}
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Late April / early May 1984
|date                      = Late April / early May 1984
|studio                    = [[Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse]],<br>Eden Prairie, MN, USA
|studio                    = [[Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse]],<br>Eden Prairie, MN, USA
|additional info          = overdubbing
|additional info          = overdubs
}}
}}
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Mid June 1985
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 15|15]] & [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 17|17 June 1985]] <small>(estimate)</small>; <br>  [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/June 21|21 June 1985]];  [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/July 1|1 July 1985]]
|studio                    = [[The Complex Studios]],<br> Los Angeles, CA, USA
|studio                    = [[The Complex Studios]],<br> Los Angeles, CA, USA
|additional info          = Overdubs and reworking by [[Wendy Melvoin]] and [[Lisa Coleman]]
|additional info          = ([[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] & [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]]) Overdubs, mix (15th), Overdubs, edits (17th);  Overdubs, mix (21st, 1st),
}}
}}
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Late June 1985
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March 15|15 March 1986]]
|studio                    = [[The Complex Studios]],<br> Los Angeles, CA, USA
|studio                    = [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|additional info          = Overdubs and reworking by [[Wendy Melvoin]] and [[Lisa Coleman]]
|additional info          = Mix
}}
}}
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Mid March 1986 (assumed)
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/April 17|17]] or [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/April 18|18 April 1986]]
|studio                    = [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|studio                    = [[Galpin Blvd Home Studio]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA
|additional info          = Editing, mixing
|additional info          = Mix
}}
}}
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Late October - early November 1986
|date                      = [[25 August 1986]]
|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]],<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
|studio                    = Dierks Studio Mobile Trucks @ [[Le Zénith]],<br>Paris, France
|additional info          = Remix minimizing [[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] & [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]] contributions & recording of later discarded saxophone overdub
|additional info          = Live soundcheck recording
}}
}}
{{RecordingLine|
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = mid- late 1987 (assumed)
|date                      = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 3|3 November 1986]]- [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November 5|5 November 1986]]
|studio                    = [[Sunset Sound]]- Studio 3,<br>Hollywood, CA, USA
|additional info          = Mix, minimizing [[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] & [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]] contributions (3rd); Guitar and saxophone overdub, creating instrumental (4th); overdubs, mix (5th)
}}
{{RecordingLine|
|date                      = Mid-Late 1987 (assumed)
|studio                    = Mastermix Studio, New Jersey
|studio                    = Mastermix Studio, New Jersey
|additional info          = remix, additional production, editing; Shep Pettibone
|additional info          = remix, additional production, editing by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shep_Pettibone Shep Pettibone]
}}
}}
|recording personnel      =  
|recording personnel      =  
'''Released versions'''
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted (credited as [[Alias: Camille|Camille]] for vocals)
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments, except where noted (credited as [[Alias: Camille|Camille]] for vocals)
*[[Wendy Melvoin]] - tamborine, congas
*[[Wendy Melvoin]] - tamborine, congas
*[[Lisa Coleman]] - sitar, wooden flute (both from Fairlight)  
*[[Lisa Coleman]] - sitar, wooden flute (both from Fairlight)  
<hr>
<hr>
*[[Don Batts]] - engineer (basic tracking)
*[[Susan Rogers]] - engineer
*[[Susan Rogers]] - engineer  
 
'''Piano & A Microphone 1983 version'''
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and piano
<hr>
*[[Don Batts]] - engineer
 
'''Unreleased original 1983 recording'''
*[[Prince]] - all vocals and instruments (assumed)
<hr>
*[[Don Batts]] - engineer
 
|released versions        =
|released versions        =
{{Songchart|
{{Songchart|
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|1= '''Strange Relationship'''
|1= '''Strange Relationship'''
|2= 4:04
|2= 4:04
|3= [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe| Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe'']]
|3= [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe| Sign O’ The Times ''(Super) Deluxe Edition'']]
|4= Studio
|4= Studio
|5= Remastered in 2020
|5= Remastered in 2020
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|1= '''[[Strange Relationship]] (Original Version)'''
|1= '''[[Strange Relationship]] (Original Version)'''
|2= 6:41
|2= 6:41
|3= [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe'']]
|3= [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]
|4= Studio
|4= Studio
|5=  
|5=  
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|1= '''[[Strange Relationship]] (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)'''
|1= '''[[Strange Relationship]] (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix)'''
|2= 7:07
|2= 7:07
|3= [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe'']]
|3= [[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']]
|4= Remix
|4= Remix
|5=  
|5=  
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|1= '''Strange Relationship'''
|1= '''Strange Relationship'''
|2= Studio
|2= Studio
|3= 1985 mix with saxophone by [[Eric Leeds]] (removed for release)
|3= ’sitar' version, edit, as placed on [[Album: Dream Factory|Dream Factory]]
}}
}}
{{Unreleasedline|
{{Unreleasedline|
|1= '''Strange Relationship'''
|1= '''Strange Relationship'''
|2= Studio
|2= Studio
|3= ’sitar' version, edit, as placed on [[Album: Dream Factory|Dream Factory]]
|3= 1986 mix with saxophone by [[Eric Leeds]] (removed for release)
}}
{{Unreleasedline|
|1= '''Strange Relationship''' (instrumental)
|2= Studio
|3= instrumental
}}
{{Unreleasedline|
|1= '''Strange Relationship'''
|2= Live
|3= [[21_March 1987|21 March 1987, First Avenue, MN, USA]]; full live and uncensored 13-minute version before editing for download.
}}
}}
}}
}}
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*[[One Nite Alone... Tour]]
*[[One Nite Alone... Tour]]
|performed occasionally in = [[All Concerts#1986|1986]], [[All Concerts#1987|1987]], [[All Concerts#1988|1988]], [[All Concerts#2002|2002]], [[All Concerts#2003|2003]], [[All Concerts#2007|2007]], [[All Concerts#2011|2011]], [[All_Concerts#2013|2013]], [[All Concerts#2016|2016]] <small>''(solo piano)'' </small>
|performed occasionally in = [[All Concerts#1986|1986]], [[All Concerts#1987|1987]], [[All Concerts#1988|1988]], [[All Concerts#2002|2002]], [[All Concerts#2003|2003]], [[All Concerts#2007|2007]], [[All Concerts#2011|2011]], [[All_Concerts#2013|2013]], [[All Concerts#2016|2016]] <small>''(solo piano)'' </small>
|trivia                    =  
|trivia                    = The ''“yeah-yeah”'' in the song is sampled from the song ''The Visitor'' of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Fleetwood Mick Fleetwood]’s 1981 album [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visitor_(Mick_Fleetwood_album) The Visitor]. Probably added by [[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] and [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]]’s reworking in June 1985.
* Notably some of the drums sounds, best audible in the [[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] and [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]]’s 1985 reworking in June 1985 are from the LinnDrum (sometimes also referred to as LM-2), the successor, of the LM-1. [[Wendy Melvoin|Wendy]] and [[Lisa Coleman|Lisa]] have stated they received the song with the drum parts in place,  as well as vocals & piano, and it is unclear if these included the LinnDrum, or that was added by them.
|see also                  = [[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]] album
|see also                  = [[Album: Sign O’ The Times|Sign O’ The Times]] album
*[[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe'']] album
*[[Album: Sign O’ The Times Deluxe|Sign O’ The Times ''Super Deluxe Edition'']] album
*[[Album: Dream Factory|Dream Factory]] unreleased album
*[[Album: Dream Factory|Dream Factory]] unreleased album
*[[Album: Camille|Camille]] unreleased album
*[[Album: Camille|Camille]] unreleased album
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|references                = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]] ''
|references                = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]] ''
* ''[https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Purple-Rain-Studio-Sessions/dp/1538114623/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)]''
* ''[https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Purple-Rain-Studio-Sessions/dp/1538114623/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983 and 1984 (Expanded Edition, paperback), Duane Tudahl (2018)]''
|categories                = [[Category:1987]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Recorded 1983]]
* ''[https://www.duanetudahl.com/prince-book Prince and the Parade/Sign O’ The Times Era Studio Sessions 1985 and 1986, Duane Tudahl (2021)]''
|categories                = [[Category:1987]][[Category:2020]][[Category:Recorded 1983]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]]
}}
}}

Latest revision as of 15:46, 2 September 2024

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Strange Relationship

from the album
Sign O’ The Times
Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition
from the album
Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition
from the album Piano & A Microphone 1983
Song details
Performer: Prince
First Released: 30 March 1987 - Sign O’ The Times album
Album(s): Sign O’ The Times

One Nite Alone... Live!

Writer(s): Prince
Producer(s): Prince
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
Performed regularly on tour:
Performed occasionally in shows:

Strange Relationship is the third track on the second disc of Prince’s ninth album Sign O’ The Times.

In 2001, a 1987 live version was included as part of NPG Ahdio Show # 4, and the same version was offered as an individual download in 2005.

In 2002, a live version was also included as the sixth track on the second disc of One Nite Alone... Live!, Prince’s first live album (along with Muse 2 The Pharaoh, Mellow and The Other Side Of The Pillow from the same show).

A brief solo piano rehearsal of the track was released on the 2018 posthumous album Piano & A Microphone 1983, preceded by Mary Don’t You Weep, which also includes some lyrics from Strange Relationship.

Initial tracking is believed to have taken place on 14 March 1983 at Prince’s Kiowa Trail Home Studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman reworked the track heavily in one or more sessions in mid-late June and July 1985, adding Fairlight CMI sitar and other overdubs at The Complex Studios, Los Angeles, California.

This overdubbed version was included as the seventh track on a late April 1986 configuration of Dream Factory. The song was edited down as the album expanded and was included as the sixth track on the first disc on the 3 June 1986 and 18 July 1986 configurations.

When the Revolution disbanded, Prince remixed the song at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California, to minimize Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman’s involvement. Eric Leeds recorded a saxophone overdub, but Prince removed it from the final mix, which was included as the third track on the 5 November 1986 configuration of the Camille album (to be credited to Camille).

A few weeks later, it was included as the sixth track on the second disc of the triple-album Crystal Ball on the 30 November 1986 configuration, which was eventually pared down and became Sign O’ The Times.

Probably after its release on Sign O’ The Times, Prince commissioned Shep Pettibone to remix the song, possibly around the same time he also remixed Hot Thing. The 1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix remained unreleased at the time, but was released on Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition in 2020 as the thirteen and final track of Vault Tracks part 3, one of the discs with previously unreleased tracks. The Super Deluxe Edition set also included (as the sixth track of Vault Tracks part 1) the initial Wendy & Lisa overdubbed version, called Original Version here, although the true original version was recorded in 1983 and remains unreleased.


Recording Information
Recording Sessions
Date Studio Additional info
14 March 1983 (estimate) Kiowa Trail Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA 		Tracking
Late Summer - Autumn 1983 Kiowa Trail Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA 		Rehearsal recording - (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version)
Late April / early May 1984 Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse,
Eden Prairie, MN, USA 		overdubs
15 & 17 June 1985 (estimate);
21 June 1985; 1 July 1985 		The Complex Studios,
Los Angeles, CA, USA 		(Wendy & Lisa) Overdubs, mix (15th), Overdubs, edits (17th); Overdubs, mix (21st, 1st),
15 March 1986 Galpin Blvd Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA 		Mix
17 or 18 April 1986 Galpin Blvd Home Studio,
Chanhassen, MN, USA 		Mix
25 August 1986 Dierks Studio Mobile Trucks @ Le Zénith,
Paris, France 		Live soundcheck recording
3 November 1986- 5 November 1986 Sunset Sound- Studio 3,
Hollywood, CA, USA 		Mix, minimizing Wendy & Lisa contributions (3rd); Guitar and saxophone overdub, creating instrumental (4th); overdubs, mix (5th)
Mid-Late 1987 (assumed) Mastermix Studio, New Jersey remix, additional production, editing by Shep Pettibone
Recording Personnel

Released versions

Piano & A Microphone 1983 version

Unreleased original 1983 recording

  • Prince - all vocals and instruments (assumed)

Versions
Released Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Strange Relationship 4:04 Sign O’ The Times Studio
Strange Relationship 4:04 Sign O’ The Times (Super) Deluxe Edition Studio Remastered in 2020
Strange Relationship 2:38 Piano & A Microphone 1983 'Rehearsal' a.k.a. Strange Relationship (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version)
Strange Relationship (Live '87) 4:41 NPG Music Club .wma download Live 21 March 1987, First Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota; edited from full live version
Strange Relationship 4:24 One Nite Alone... Live EP promo Live 11 March 2002, Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA; longer version than below; begins with spoken intro from previous song, slightly longer audience noise at end without spoken transition
Strange Relationship 4:12 One Nite Alone... Live! Live 11 March 2002, Murat Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, USA; slightly alternate edit than above
Strange Relationship (Live In Las Vegas) 3:52 Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas promo Live 15 December 2002, Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Strange Relationship (Original Version) 6:41 Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Studio
Strange Relationship (1987 Shep Pettibone Club Mix) 7:07 Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition Remix
Video Versions
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Strange Relationship 2:30 Lovesexy Live 1 VHS Live 9 September 1988, Westfalenhallen, Dortmund, West Germany
Strange Relationship T.B.C. Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas DVD Live 15 December 2002, Aladdin Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in...
Title Length Released Version Additional info
Mary Don’t You Weep 4:42 Piano & A Microphone 1983 album pre-order download Rehearsal Contains lyrical interpolation of Strange Relationship
Unreleased Versions
Title Version Additional Info
Strange Relationship Studio Original 1983 recording
Strange Relationship Studio ’sitar' version, edit, as placed on Dream Factory
Strange Relationship Studio 1986 mix with saxophone by Eric Leeds (removed for release)
Strange Relationship (instrumental) Studio instrumental
Strange Relationship Live 21 March 1987, First Avenue, MN, USA; full live and uncensored 13-minute version before editing for download.
 
Additional Information
See also Trivia
  • The “yeah-yeah” in the song is sampled from the song The Visitor of Mick Fleetwood’s 1981 album The Visitor. Probably added by Wendy and Lisa’s reworking in June 1985.
  • Notably some of the drums sounds, best audible in the Wendy and Lisa’s 1985 reworking in June 1985 are from the LinnDrum (sometimes also referred to as LM-2), the successor, of the LM-1. Wendy and Lisa have stated they received the song with the drum parts in place, as well as vocals & piano, and it is unclear if these included the LinnDrum, or that was added by them.
References
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