Prince October 11 & 12, 2009 Paris, France @ Grand Palais & La Cigale unknown audience > ? > "All Day, All Night - The Complete Paris Recordings" Sabotage Records #SAB 374-379 > flac > CDR Disc One: Show #1, Grand Palais, Paris - 11th October 2009: 01. No Photos Allowed! 02. Intro 03. All Day, All Night 04. 1999 05. I Feel For You 06. Controversy Pt.1 (incl. All Day, All Night) 07. I Like Funky Music 08. Sexy Dancer - Le Freak 09. Controversy Pt.2 10. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 11. Take Me With U 12. Anotherloverholenyohead 13. Guitar 14. Raspberry Beret 15. Girl* 16. All Day, All Night* 17. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man* 18. The One U Wanna C* 19. Sometimes It Snows In April* 20. Mountains (incl. Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)) 21. Everyday People (incl. I Wanna Take You Higher) 22. Long Train Runnin’ 23. Play That Funky Music 24. What Have You Done For Me Lately 25. Partyman 26. Thunderstorm 27. Uptown 28. Let’s Work 29. Cool Disc Two: 01. Prince Speaks 02. Kiss (incl. All Day, All Night) 03. All The Critics Love U In Paris 04. Thunderstorm 05. Cream 06. U Got The Look 07. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? (instr. soundcheck edit) Show #2, Grand Palais, Paris - 11th October 2009: 08. Intro 09. 1999 10. I Feel For You 11. Controversy (part 1) 12. Sexy Dancer - Le Freak 13. Controversy (part 2) 14.Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 15. Take Me With U 16. Anotherloverholenyohead (incl. Rock Lobster) 17. Guitar 18. Raspberry Beret 19. All Day, All Night (acoustic) 20. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (acoustic) 21. The One U Wanna C (acoustic) 22. Sometimes It Snows In April (acoustic) Disc Three: 01. Mountains (incl. Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)) 02. Everyday People (incl. I Wanna Take You Higher) 03. Long Train Runnin’ 04. Play That Funky Music 05. Purple Rain 06. Prince Speaks 07. Kiss (incl. Miss You - Sex Machine - Partyman - All Day, All Night) 08. Segue 09. Honky Tonk Women 10. All The Critics Love U In Paris 11. A Love Bizarre 12. Interview - Press Conference, Paris - 12th October 2009 Disc Four: La Cigale, Paris - 12th October 2009: 01. Ol’ Skool Company incl. Purple Rain Intro - Also Sprach Zarathustra 02. Crimson & Clover 03. Stand 04. Turn Me Loose 05. I Want You Back 06. Dance 4 Me incl. (Not Just) Knee Deep 07. No More Candy 4 U 08. Guitar Solo 09. Shhh 10. Stratus 11. Girl 12. Forever In My Life incl. Single Ladies (Out A Ring On It) 13. Baby Love 14. Peach 15. Sexy Dancer - Le Freak incl All Day, All Night 16. All Day, All Night (chant) Disc Five: 01. I Want To Be Free 02. Sing A Simple Song 03. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) 04. Be Happy 05. 7 06. Come Together 07. Dreamer 08. The Bird 09. Jungle Love 10. The Glamorous Life 11. 3121 - All Day, All Night (chant) - Shake Your Money Maker 12. Purple Rain Disc Six: Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux - 18th July 2009: 1. Eye Love U But Eye Don’t Trust U Anymore (show #1) 2. Interview - Le Grand Studio RTL, Paris - 12th October 2009 3. Interview - Press Conference, Paris - 12th October 2009 4. Interview - NRJ Radio, Paris - 14th October 2009 ----------- "From Montreux To Paris" Confusion Records Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux - 18th July 2009: 5. When Eye Lay My Hands On U (show #2) 6. Little Red Corvette (show #1) 7. Eye Love U But Eye Don’t Trust U Anymore (show #2) 8. Peach (show #2) Rehearsal, Paisley Park - 21st September 2009: 9. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? Show #2, Grand Palais, Paris - 11th October 2009: 10. 1999 Le Grand Studio RTL, Paris - 12th October 2009: 11. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful 12. Mountains 13. Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) Le Grand Journal Canal+, Paris - 12th October 2009: 14. Dance 4 Me 15. No More Candy 4 U 16. 1999 17. I Feel For U (aborted) 18. Controversy Joshua Dunham - bass; Cora Colemand-Dunham - drums; Morris Hayes - keys; Cassandra O'Neal - keys; Shelby Johnson - vocals, electronic snare; Liv Warfield - vocals, cowbell, tamborine; Elisa Fiorillo - vocals and tamborine. *Review* Sabotage’s take on the recent Paris shows finally lands and it’s a monster of a set. Encompassing all 3 main performances (with show #1 featuring in its entirety for the first time) as well as various interviews and TV slots from Prince’s 2 week stay. As far as the performances themselves, I shall only be commenting on Show #1 as I don’t wish to repeat myself, having covered this already for Eye Records release All Day, All Night, All Week As mentioned above, Disc 1 kicks off with the only complete, currently circulating version of the first performance at Grand Palais. We all should know by now about the various acoustic problems that occurred that day so for any taper to get a half decent recording is something to be thankful for. This one I would rate as probably one of the better one’s I have heard so far, including the recordings of the other performances, and it’s certainly the best of the bunch on here. It’s very clear, bass rich and the vocals are sharp (albeit a little distant sounding) so remains an admirable effort. The show is pretty much the same as show #2, content wise, although I tend to favour the latter out of the two. Only the encores offer any real changes with renditions of Uptown, Let’s Work and Cool being the the most notable differences. I may sound a little low on enthusiasm for these shows and maybe it’s down to having heard it all before from Prince this year....hard to call really, maybe I’m just getting grumpy in my old age. So, we have a quality comparison to make as we progress through Discs 2 and 3 which cover the second show from Grand Palais. I’ll cut to the chase and state that, in my opinion, Eye Records version is better. This recording, for me, seems much duller and lifeless than Eye’s effort and although it’s not a bad recording by any means, I’m struggling to rate it better than I have. I also get the feeling that this could have been better but for whatever reason, it just isn’t. Disc 4 & 5 cover the 3rd show at La Cigale and I should state now that this recording is taken from Free Boot Generation’s More Free Candy 4 U albeit with some unnecessary tweaking at the high-end. Sourcing other peoples recordings happens all the time and, for sure, it goes both ways but my gripe here is that at least others acknowledge their sources. For me, that little gesture is sorely missed here. See, told you I was grumpy...... The final disc gathers together all of the various TV spots and interviews from Prince’s stay in Paris and rounds off the package nicely. On the whole, this is (despite my mutterings) a very solid release for Sabotage and one of their best efforts in sometime. As a document of Prince’s visit to Paris, I can’t fault it and despite my feelings that Eye Records hold the better version of show #2, if you’re going to part with your hard earned cash then it is this set that I would suggest you go for. The accompanying booklet is extremely well put together and thorough in its content containing in depth reports and some great pictures. It certainly adds to the whole appeal of the set but I’m sure Sabotage won’t thank me for pointing out that they have incorrectly dated the La Cigale show as the 14th on the back cover. Other than that, I think this would make a fine addition to your collection and after some mediocre releases of late from the pressed fraternity it’s stands as a rare return to form for Sabotage.