Birthday Parade (Sabotage) CD/CDrom

Birthday Parade CD/CDrom

Sabotage
Catalog # SAB 056/57
Release Year 1998
CD/CDrom Length 76:23 | 72:39 video
Date/Venue 1986 Birthday Concert & UTCM Premiere Party
Source Soundboard Recording / Broadcast
Quality EX

Rating 4.5/5.0

Track Listing
Disc 1 (Audio)
Hit & Run Show - Cobo Arena, Detroit : 7th June 1986
1. Around The World In A Day 2. Christopher Tracy's Parade 3. Interlude 4. Raspberry Beret 5. Controversy 6. Mutiny 7. Holly Rock 8. Happy Birthday 9. How Much Is That Doggy In The Window - Lady Cab Driver (instrumental) 10. Automatic 11. D.M.S.R. 12. Anotherloverholenyohead 13. Soft And Wet 14. I Wanna Be Your Lover 15. Head 16. Pop Life 17. Life Can Be So Nice 18. Whole Lotta Shakin' 19. Mountains 20. Kiss

Warfield Theater, San Francisco : 8th March 1986 (Guests w/ Sheila E)
21. A Love Bizarre

Disc 2 (CD-Rom Video)
Hit & Run Show - Cobo Arena, Detroit : 7th June 1986
1. Around The World In A Day 2. Christopher Tracy's Parade 3. Interlude 4. Raspberry Beret 5. Controversy 6. Mutiny 7. Holly Rock 8. Happy Birthday 9. How Much Is That Doggy In The Window - Lady Cab Driver (instrumental) 10. Automatic 11. D.M.S.R. 12. Anotherloverholenyohead 13. Soft And Wet 14. I Wanna Be Your Lover 15. Head 16. Pop Life 17. Life Can Be So Nice 18. Whole Lotta Shakin' 19. Mountains 20. Kiss

MTV Under The Cherry Moon Premiere - Holiday Inn, Sheridan : 1st July 1986
21. Intro 22. Raspberry Beret 23. Delirious 24. Controversy 25. Mutiny

Comments
Fink's Comments (rates this release 4.5/5.0)
Sabotage's release of the broadcast from Prince's 28th birthday concert. The broadcast is heavily edited down from the original show. It's very hard to distinguish between the many, many releases of this heavily booted show, however this is certainly amongst the best of the bunch. As you would expect from a broadcast video (which the audio is sourced from), the sound quality is extremely high and has been edited very smoothly. There is a nice mix of audience level throughout with Prince's performance being loud, clear and upfront. The show itself certainly deserves the "classic" status it has received even though this is only half the complete performance. Disc 1 contains the audio with added bonus of the appearance with Sheila E from March 1986.

Disc 2 is a video CD-Rom of the Detroit show with added bonus footage from the Under The Cherry Moon Movie premiere performance. The quality of the video is certainly impressive when viewed on a PC screen, however it has since been surpassed since this was originally released back in 1998. The picture tends to be a little choppy in places and when viewed in "full screen" mode the glitches become rather evident. The accompanying artwork contains passages lifted from Uptown along with various decent pictures from the Parade era - not Sabotage's best artwork, but nicely packaged. Overall this is certainly one of the best (if not the best) release of one of the Prince's best broadcasts.