No need for any remasters, at least of his 80s stuff. Those CDs sound great. But wow, it'd rock if he released the whole Purple Rain show (with "A Case of You") or a DVD of the Sign 'O' The Times movie.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 18 April 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Oh, come on. There is no way Prince will release live albums or quality rarities. I mean, I wish he would, but half of his latter day catalog seems to consist of shit from the vault that should have stayed there. Even a friggin' five disc Crystal Ball dropped the ball. So the idea that he would suddenly relent and release expanded editions of his albums, or live sets or comprehensive archive release ... just seems unlike him. What's more likely is after re-signing with WB he'll find some other reason to renew his feud with them. Prince is all promise and no payoff when it comes to this shit. He's been consistently inconsistent about this for decades, whether via his pay websites or re-recording his back catalog for release or who knows what.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 April 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
I think Purple Rain at least needs a remastering. But the most urgent thing is to get all those 12" mixes out from the tapes. Or even carefully taken from vinyl.
― hundreds-swarm-dinkytown (Jon Lewis), Friday, 18 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Will. Not. Happen
(hope it happens, but ...)
Will. Not. Happen.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 April 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
there's a LOT of great Warners-era stuff that's only been bootlegged but never officially released on Crystal Ball or anything else, and i'm sure there's interesting stuff that never even reached the bootleggers. Prince does seem to have a way of mucking these things up, but this is still good news, i'm curious to see what happens.
― posi riot (some dude), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
The closest Prince came to releasing any of the good stuff was back with the three disc Hits set, where the bonus third disc was b-sides. He has had soooo many opportunities to do this, so many times, via WB, by himself, direct to fans, online, via subscription, whatever. And he has not. He is one of the few (only?) acts who has spent considerable effort stomping out live footage, bootlegs and the like, online, in stores, etc. For decades. I suspect if he released any live stuff it would be only recent stuff. And as for unreleased, the odds of getting, I dunno, "Vibrator" or "Electric Intercourse" or "Purple Music" or demos or his versions of songs done by others ... no way. Maybe contemporary re-recordings of unreleased stuff, that wouldn't shock me. Prince is into re-recording stuff.
Again: prove me wrong, Prince, you little purple punk.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
I heard they are readying an expanded reish of PR...true?
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
those "homemade deluxe editions" of his WB albums are the shit. mastered from CD/vinyl of course, but still the shit. 7-disc Sign O' the Times! y'all should get those, b/c there's no way whatever reissue campaign this development bodes will live up to any of our hopes.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
Otm.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah those are amazing. prince should just put those out (as if)
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 18 April 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
the new album thing is important, prince doesn't want to seem like has-been, there will be as many reissues as there are new albums i suspect.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 18 April 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
I just hope and pray he keeps his hands off the old stuff as far as excising content he may find morally questionable. This is all gonna be interesting. I'm excited to see what happens.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 18 April 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
I honestly didn't think this would happen in my lifetime.
― Popture, Saturday, 19 April 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
The only specific that's been offered is a remastered "Purple Rain." There's no confirmation of a reissue campaign or anything like that, just a lip-service press release announcing Prince and WB are work buddies again, implying that the aforementioned is not out of the question. But honestly not sure if Prince hooking up with WB again is a good thing or a bad thing. He probably just wanted an influx of cash and/or a promise that the new album will be made to look like a hit. In this regard Prince does not seem unlike Morrissey, always hitching his water skis to the wrong boat then complaining when he sinks.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 April 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Morrissey's a dangerous lunatic tho
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 19 April 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
just checking, in case i missed something along the way, is the only official live prince album then the cd that came with 21 nights book ?
― mark e, Saturday, 19 April 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
no, there's that one night only... live box set that I believe was official albeit a limited edition. it's great too.
― espring (amateurist), Saturday, 19 April 2014 13:04 (ten years ago) link
never heard of that, but i thought i must have missed something.
the 21 nights is a cracking live album.
― mark e, Saturday, 19 April 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
In this regard Prince does not seem unlike Morrissey, always hitching his water skis to the wrong boat then complaining when he sinks.
picturing Prince waterskiing in full purple ruffled regalia
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/18/questlove_on_roller_skating_with_prince_an_excerpt_from_his_new_book_mo.html
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
wow
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 19 April 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
amazing
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 19 April 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
I predict that nothing good will come of this
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 19 April 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
so 'the breakdown' is kind of a jam, huh?
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
e clicked the lock and opened it, and took out the strangest, most singular pair of roller skates I had ever seen. They were clear skates that lit up, and the wheels sent a multicolored spark trail into your path.
― RSD-rolled (sleeve), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
I knelt and kissed the skates passionately.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
damn, missed the brief moment that the August 1983 First Avenue concert, the benefit where he debuted Purple Rain songs, was on you tube....anyone else know where to find it?
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
it also went around on facebook last week, at least the 'purple rain' segment, but it looks like that got taken down too. :( it's a great video, with annotations about where all the album edits and overdubs happen.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
there should be flashmob-style online events where cool Prince stuff gets uploaded to YouTube and everyone watches it at the same time before it gets taken down
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
damn! i feel like i've seen other clips than the purple rain song...have to keep my eyes peeled
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
Im amazed my "Kiss" de-autotuned mutation remix is still up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYog1bj4gMc
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
ha that's awesome
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
esp the part where prince appears to kiss himself on the neck
Thanks! Yeah it sort of sounds like a cassette tape player - the machine itself - is performing the song.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
awesome
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6070123/prince-a-guide-to-his-complex-web-of-label
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
this 3rd eye girl band he's with is the fucking worst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eToW9Bvd2EE
live endorphinemachien, blech, prince enters his "solo sammy hagar" phase i guess
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 June 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
I agree. Saw them live and couldn't believe they were on stage with Prince. It was a terrible racket.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 30 June 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
just heard Letra de Irresistible Bitch for the first time in this Electrifying Mojo mix and omg https://soundcloud.com/detroitsoundconservancy/mojo-1983-b
― ugh (lukas), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
What's "Letra de Irresistible Bitch"? Is it a different version than the "Irresistible Bitch" (no "Letra") that's on the B-side of "Let's Pretend We're Married"?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
the same i assume - i could only identify by googling prince + a snatch of the lyrics
― ugh (lukas), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
at 12.32 on that mix btw
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 04:37 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that's definitely "Irresistible Bitch" on the mix. I think you thought it was called "Letra de Irresistible Bitch" because you found the lyrics on some Spanish lyrics site? "Letra de" translates to "lyrics of"... :)
Eve did a nice remix/cover version of the tune, called "Irresistible Chick", it's on Eve-olution.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 07:14 (ten years ago) link
lollll
― ugh (lukas), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
:D
― love is how's life tonight (how's life), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
https://warnermusic.zoopcommerce.com/products/art-official-age-12-vinyl.html
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 August 2014 11:01 (ten years ago) link
40 dollars for an album, wtf?!
The cover looks cool, though the same pun was already used by De La Soul years ago:
http://www.zupes.com/img/De%20La%20Soul%20-%20Art%20Official%20Intelligence%20Mosiac%20Thump.jpg
― Tuomas, Monday, 25 August 2014 11:06 (ten years ago) link
I'm more interested in it being his first Warners album since 1995 than anything else. Hoping they might make him step up his quality control (though I'm not that optimistic, he might have negotiated it so they have no input).
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 August 2014 11:16 (ten years ago) link
It's australian $, I think, which represents around 28€.Still expensive, though !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 25 August 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
Money don't matter tonight.
― DavidLeeRoth, Monday, 25 August 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link