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Elephants & Flowers is the fifth track on Prince’s twelfth album Graffiti Bridge. The song is also featured in the movie Graffiti Bridge.
Basic tracking took place on 6 October 1988 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (during two days off from the Lovesexy Tour, between shows in Toronto, ON, Canada and Hampton, VA, USA, on the same day as Still Would Stand All Time). This version contained different verses to the released version, but contains the same chorus. It was initially included on a configuration of the Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic album, dated 27 October 1988, but was removed for the late 1988 - early 1989 configuration. It was included as the fourth track on a late 1989 configuration of Graffiti Bridge. It is likely that further work was done on the track in late 1989 or early 1990, when the track in its released form switched places with The Question Of U to become the fifth track on a 1990 configuration of the album, where it remained for release.
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Released Versions
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Length
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Released
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| Elephants & Flowers
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3:54
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Graffiti Bridge
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Video Versions
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| Elephants & Flowers
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3:25
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Graffiti Bridge film
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Studio
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Edited version. Released on VHS and DVD.
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Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in...
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| Soul Psychodelicide
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Unreleased 1989 track
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| Number 1
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Initial version
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Recorded late 1989 - early 1990, before vocal overdubs, using drum track from Elephants & Flowers
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| Number 1
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Studio
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Final version after vocal overdubs by Robin Power, using drum track from Elephants & Flowers
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Unreleased Versions
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| Elephants & Flowers
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Studio
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Original 1988 version, featuring mostly different verses
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| Elephants & Flowers
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Edit
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Edit of original 1988 version above
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