Camille

Prince has almost as many unreleased albums as released ones. The most interesting ones were made around the time of Sign 'O' the Times. Around 1986 he was fooling around in his studio and produced the now classic Housequake. He was so thrilled with the result that he produced an entire album worth of material with a sped up vocal that sounded like a female voice. He even invented a character to go with it, Camille [named after the French hermaphrodite] and planned to release it under that name. But he didn’t. Instead he started an ambitious 3 LP project called Crystal Ball which was later cut down to the double record Sign 'O' the Times. Many of these lost tracks reappeared later on on bootlegs [the famous outtakes] and semiofficial records like the Black Album but most of them made it to Sign 'O' the Times because he was very pleased with the Camille material and rightfully so. For me the prizewinner is If I Was Your Girlfriend which is also one of my all-time favourites. It’s the sound and atmosphere, the theme and lyrics but most of all the vocals. The version here is the original Camille version right from the Master copy. Thanx to http://www.rawlikesashimi.blogspot.com/ you can find the entire album at http://rapidshare.de/files/22477119/Camille.zip.html

010 Prince –If I Was Your Girlfriend