2 CD
Label : Sabotage Records
Catalogue : #SAB 012-013
Disc Length : 72:51 / 73:58
Source : Soundboard / Broadcast
Sound Quality : EX
Year Of Release : 1996
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Disc 1
Saturday Night Live : 24th September 1989
1. Electric Chair
American Music Awards : 22nd January 1990
2. Accepts Award
International Special Olympics - Metrodome, Minneapolis : 19th July 1991
3. Diamonds And Pearls 4. Let's Go Crazy (intro) - Baby I'm A Star 5. Push
MTV Video Music Awards : 5th September 1991
6. Gett Off
Arsenio Hall Show : 9th September 1991
7. Diamonds And Pearls (intro) - Let's Go Crazy 8. Kiss 9. Cream 10. Purple Rain 11. Daddy Pop
Soul Train Music Awards : 10th March 1992
12. Accepts Award
The Ryde Dyvine Broadcast : 19th December 1992
13. Sexy MF 14. Love 2 The 9's 15. Damn U 16. Eye Wanna Melt With U (including 3 Chains O' Gold) 17. The Sacrifice Of Victor
Arsenio Hall Show : 23rd February 1993
18. My Name Is P 19. The Morning Papers
Disc 2
Arsenio Hall Show : 23rd February 1993
1. Blue Light 2. The Max
Top Of The Pops : February 1994
3. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Mustang Mix)
World Music Awards : 4th May 1994 (Broadcast 31st May 1994)
4. Accepts Award
Nulle Part Ailleurs : 5th May 1994
5. Endorphinmachine
Celebrate The Soul Of American Music Awards : 7th May 1994
6. Accepts Award
VH1 Honors : 26th June 1994
7. Interactive 8. Endorphinmachine 9. Accepts Award
The Today Show : 12th July 1994
10. Love Sign
MTV European Music Awards : 24th November 1994
11. Peach
The Late Show w/ David Letterman : 13th December 1994
12. Dolphin
American Music Awards : 30th January 1995
13. Accepts Award
Brit Awards : 20th February 1995
14. Accepts Award
Sunday Show : 1st April 1995
15. Billy Jack Bitch
Top Of The Pops : 15th March 1995 (Broadcast 16th March 1995)
16. Get Wild
The White Room : 5th April 1995 (Broadcast 8th April 1995)
17. Count The Days 18. Get Wild
The Late Show w/ David Letterman : 8th July 1996
19. Dinner With Delores
The Today Show : 9th July 1996
20. Dinner With Delores 21. Peach
COMMENT
The second volume of the Sound & Vision series and a vastly superior release to the first in terms of the quality of the sources used. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you are a completist) the acceptance speeches have been left intact, and I find it spoils the flow of the musical performances, although it's completely understandable why they are on here. Again, I take issue with this release being subtitled "The Second Decade" as it covers the period 1989-1996 which is not a decade. Quality-wise, there are only a few glitches worth me pointing out. Both the acceptance speeches from American Music Awards (1990) and the Soul Train Music Awards (1992) suffer from horrendous crowd noise and at times it's impossible to hear P - thankfully his speech is short and sweet and we don't suffer too long. Added to this there appears to be a tape chew on the video recording used by Sabotage to source the Arsenio Hall 1991 recording version of 'Purple Rain' - it lasts barely a second, but it's noticeable. The outro on 'The Sacrifice Of Victor' from The Ryde Dyvine 1992 broadcast suffers from some serious crackling which lasts approx 5 seconds and is shockingly bad - nobody picked up on this before it was released? The editing between tracks also leaves a little to be desired and could be smoother instead of the "jump" which affects the way one performance flows into the next. Disc 2 is slightly more focused as the time frame consists of 1993-1996. The quality is overall very impressive, but yet again the digital crackling is back, this time for the closing 5 seconds of 'Billy Jack Bitch' from The Sunday Show - a real annoyance and completely ruining it. The source used for the VH1 Honors broadcast is the censored version meaning the word "bitch" has been edited out, and is a slight pity. The remainder is very enjoyable, but there are one too many award acceptance speeches for my liking.
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