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|album image = [[File:Unreleased project.png|200px]] | |album image = [[File:Unreleased project.png|200px]] | ||
|date = Late 1998 (assumed) | |date = Late 1998 (assumed) | ||
− | |label = [[NPG Records]] (assumed) | + | |label = [[NPG Records]] <small>(assumed)</small> |
|studios = [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed) | |studios = [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed) | ||
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|next album link = [[Album: Roadhouse Garden|Roadhouse Garden]] | |next album link = [[Album: Roadhouse Garden|Roadhouse Garden]] | ||
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− | |introduction = '''Beautiful Strange''' is an unreleased album by [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], worked on in mid-to-late 1998. Little is known about the album, although it is thought that the album would have been planned for release around the same time as the [[TV Film: Beautiful Strange|Beautiful Strange]] TV film broadcast in late October | + | |introduction = '''Beautiful Strange''' is an unreleased album by [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]], worked on in mid-to-late 1998. Little is known about the album, although it is thought that the album would have been planned for release around the same time as the [[TV Film: Beautiful Strange|Beautiful Strange]] TV film broadcast in late October 1998. Unlike the TV special, which was mostly comprised a lengthy interview and live footage, the album is thought to be a full studio recording. |
Only two tracks are known to have been planned for inclusion on the album: [[Beautiful Strange]] and [[Twisted]], a cover version of a track originally written as an instrumental by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardell_Gray Wardell Gray] in 1949, before having lyrics added by Scottish jazz singer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Ross Annie Ross] in 1952 and being released as a single (later included on the album ''King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings'', the same year). | Only two tracks are known to have been planned for inclusion on the album: [[Beautiful Strange]] and [[Twisted]], a cover version of a track originally written as an instrumental by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardell_Gray Wardell Gray] in 1949, before having lyrics added by Scottish jazz singer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Ross Annie Ross] in 1952 and being released as a single (later included on the album ''King Pleasure Sings / Annie Ross Sings'', the same year). | ||
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[[Prince]] carried around a lyric book titled ''Beautiful Strange'' during the first few weeks of the [[One Nite Alone... Tour]] in 2002, and lyrics to [[Twisted]] were seen inside. The contents of the remainder of the lyric book, and of the album, are unknown, and it is not known how complete the album was before it was abandoned to work on the [[Prince and the Revolution]] album [[Album: Roadhouse Garden|Roadhouse Garden]], and the album [[Album: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic]]. | [[Prince]] carried around a lyric book titled ''Beautiful Strange'' during the first few weeks of the [[One Nite Alone... Tour]] in 2002, and lyrics to [[Twisted]] were seen inside. The contents of the remainder of the lyric book, and of the album, are unknown, and it is not known how complete the album was before it was abandoned to work on the [[Prince and the Revolution]] album [[Album: Roadhouse Garden|Roadhouse Garden]], and the album [[Album: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic]]. | ||
− | While [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]] | + | While [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]’s version of [[Twisted]] remains unreleased, [[Beautiful Strange]] was broadcast as a lyric video during the [[TV Film: Beautiful Strange|Beautiful Strange]] TV film broadcast (released the following year on the [[Home_Video:_Beautiful_Strange|Beautiful Strange]] home video), and a reworked version was released in 2001 on the [[Album: Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic]] remix album (marking the only track to be included on the album that had not been included on [[Album: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic]]). |
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|format = CD | |format = CD | ||
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|see also = | |see also = | ||
{{SeeAlso| | {{SeeAlso| | ||
− | |item1 = [[Home_Video:_Beautiful_Strange|Beautiful Strange<br>( | + | |item1 = [[Home_Video:_Beautiful_Strange|Beautiful Strange]]<br>(Home video) |
|image1 = [[File:HomeVideoBeautifulStrange.jpg|40px|link=Home_Video:_Beautiful_Strange]] | |image1 = [[File:HomeVideoBeautifulStrange.jpg|40px|link=Home_Video:_Beautiful_Strange]] | ||
− | |item2 = [[Album: Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic<br>( | + | |item2 = [[Album: Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic|Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic]]<br>(Album) |
|image2 = [[Image:Ravein2thejoyfantastic album.jpg|60px|link=Album: Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic]] | |image2 = [[Image:Ravein2thejoyfantastic album.jpg|60px|link=Album: Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
|trivia = | |trivia = | ||
|alternative = | |alternative = | ||
− | |references = [[Book:_The_Vault| | + | |references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]]'' |
|categories = [[Category:1998]][[Category:Unreleased Albums]] | |categories = [[Category:1998]][[Category:Unreleased Albums]] | ||
}} | }} |
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1996/97: The Dawn ◄ | Unreleased Albums (Prince) |
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1996/97 The Dawn |
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