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EVOLUTION OF THE ALBUM After the cancellation of the '' Dream Factory '' project, Prince went right back into the studio to record new material. He wrote a track called "Housequake" with a speeded vocal that resembled a woman's voice. He was so pleased with the track that he composed an entire album's worth of material in the same altered vocals. The voice itself began to take on the Persona of "Camille" (named after the French Hermaphrodite ) and an album was configured. The album had gotten to the stage of being given a catalogue number when Prince changed his plans and began work on the 3-LP opus '' Crystal Ball ''. Many of the ''Camille'' tracks were incorporated into ''Crystal Ball'' but when the album was trimmed down to '' Sign 'O' The Times '', only three made the cut. A fourth track, "Shockadelica," was actually written as a tounge-in-cheek message to long-time friend of Prince and former guitarist for The Time , Jesse Johnson , who had released a highly-successful solo album entitled Shockadelica the year prior to Prince releasing '' Sign 'O' The Times ''. It was Prince's way of communicating to Johnson Prince's own belief that an album with an incredible title like "Shockadelica" should have an equally incredible title track. (Johnson's album "Shockadelica" did not have a song with the same name on it; conversely, the only albums that Prince has recorded to date which have not had a track bearing the album's name were his self-titled debut, and the infamous '' Black Album '', which was pulled from release at the last minute by Prince and only saw the light of day years later as a result of contract disputes with Warner Bros. Records .) Despite the project never seeing the light of day in its original form, Prince was reportedly very pleased with the ''Camille'' material, and most of the tracks have since been released on other Prince projects:
Still unreleased is the studio version of "Rebirth of the Flesh", although a live rehearsal version of the song was released on Prince's website in 2001 . TRACK LIST # "Rebirth of the Flesh" # "Housequake" # "Shockadelica" # "Feel U Up" # "Strange Relationship" # "Good Love" # " If I Was Your Girlfriend " # "Rockhard in a Funky Place" SEE ALSO |
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