prince

Don't do it

whoever did it UNDO IT

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what the fuck

No.

why do you guys want to remove the rip?

because Prince can't ever really die. (no sarcasm, whatsoever)

got a lot of strength from PRINCE's music. helped make life better.

thinking about the first time I saw the video for Little Red Corvette, the first time I heard Darling Nikki and my next door neighbor friend's older sister explained what "grinding" was, picking out "Starfish and Coffee" on the piano as a kid and years later playing it at some uber-rich friend's Halloween part on a big white grand piano, my girlfriend/future wife's extensive collage of Prince posters/ephemera in her walk-in closet wall

fuck

so gutted

i think having a separate thread to mourn, as we did with Bowie, is the best solution, so i started one.

i feel like i'm going to vomit, like i'm surrounded by ppl stabbing me or beating me w/ clubs. i had the weirdest feeling about this, there was the illness and this year, but i shrugged it off. i've listened to prince more than anyone else in my life and it's not close. i loved him as a fanatic and as a nerd and then in a more casual way like breathing. his music is a part of me in a much more concrete way than anyone else's. every second just feels like i'm learning it again, just a shock wave after shock wave. i loved that man so much.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl/0ap3000000633788/Prince-rocks-out-Super-Bowl-XLI-halftime-show

xps because if we keep doing this every single artist's thread will have RIP after it.

use a separate thread IMO (like the one Morbs just made)

^^^

removed the rip. not sure who put it in there but I'm sure it was only with the best of intentions.

Balls otm
I cannot begin to articulate how important prince is to me
This is intolerable

go here: Prince RIP

Did that party at Paisley Park take place night? I knew there was on scheduled. This is unreal. RIP

When he was hospitalized with the flu I had this thought 'what if he is like Jim Henson and won't slow down and stop working to recuperate'

Prince in the "Batdance" video, the assless pants dance on the MTV awards, audio taping half of my collection for an old lover while my new lover disapprovingly watched, dancing across college campus to "Pope", blowing fifty dollars on my first boot, watching bad "Kiss" karaoke, wearing a 0+-> earring in high school and having it ripped out in a fight, being overjoyed to discover that my new dorm room was #319, shaving lightning bolts into my goatee after seeing the "Slave" portrait, crying over "Another Lonely Christmas" after my girl left me, having my first doubts after buying the 1999 Remix CD, digging through piles of thousands of cassingles looking for "Cream" and the "Horny Pony" B-sides, fingering an until-then platonic high school girlfriend at her house while we were both listening to the Diamonds and Pearls album, exploring Prince bulletin boards in a pre-google greenscreen internet, loudly shouting the words to "Billy Jack Bitch" out the window of a moving van on the way to Queens, asking my folks for the "Hits and Bsides" box for Xmas (didn't get it), discussing the grammatic disorder of "Darling Nikki" with a flirty man at a bar, meticulously practicing the accompanying sign language for I WOULD DIE 4 U, falling in the shower while jumping up and down to "Housequake", spending two days unsuccessfully P2P hunting for the extended version of "Shockadellica", "what the fuck is Kirstie Allie doing on this?", ecstasy when I found the Prince Interactive CDRom in the remainder bin (where'd I put that damn thing?), lost in the suburbs for hours looking for a party with "A Love Bizarre" playing on the Walkman, going through a brief period in which all email communication of "you" was spelled U and "for" spelled "4", numerous frustrating redneck confrontations over a mostly naked Prince Parade-era Tshirt, calling for a taxi in New York while listening to "All the Critics Love You In New York" just as Prince yelled "Taxi!", bargaining a copy of the "Bright Lights, Big City" OST off of a friend in exchange for my stolen Fu-Schnickens CD (so worth it), a few years in the mid nineties where all first dates would begin with the litmus: "So do you like The Simpsons? Do you like Prince?"

my first kiss was to "Erotic City"

http://www.thecurrent.org/listen

Thank u for that list <3

nice list <3

was your first sex to "kiss"?

funny you mention it but the first time i got head was on a bed with the parade poster hung on the ceiling

funny you mention it but the first time i got head was on a bed with the parade poster hung on the ceiling

dirty mind poster would have been more appropriate but i'll let it go

morning noon and night

i had the poster from purple rain taped to my bedroom closet doors, with a split right down the middle, where the doors opened and shut

new links for Perfect Unreleased Prince, #1 & #2 (liner notes upthread)

https://www.sendspace.com/file/i7xjpd
https://www.sendspace.com/file/xu6kvx

thanks! this is so good. "beautiful ass"! "I can't love you anymore"! "electric intercourse"! good lord.

lisa!

extra loveable!

Downloading those Unreleased comps right now, but Holy Shit at the existence of "Manic Monday!"

sadly, it's a watery recording... still wanna hear a nice crisp prince manic monday recording before i die.

god yes

and a good recording of his demo of G-Spot

linked on the RIP thread, but this is his final public performance.
https://soundcloud.com/misterpancakes/princelives

also a great hilton als piece from Harper's about Prince and sex
http://harpers.org/archive/2012/12/i-am-your-conscious-i-am-love/1/

The "Manic Monday" demo, though hardly perfect, sounds cleaner than i'd expected. Who's singing it with him? It sounds like Vanity, but I'm guessing not.

It's Brenda Bennett. Same as the Bangles version.

I love how, in her review of Purple Rain, Pauline Kael wrote "He's a cutie when he dances."

man "Visions" is so good, such pretty understated playing

These two unreleased comps are really blowing my mind

Wonderful Ass is all time great

Train is also just ridic

No lie-- after I charged it my iPod shuffle mysteriously deleted every song on it except for 1: Joy in Repetition. I listened to it all day yesterday bc it was the only song on there and I think it might actually be a year long now.

That is amazing

I unplugged it a few days ago and finally listened to it yesterday on my walk to the train. It was a super cool coincidence when that was the first song that popped up, and then when it played twice I thought I had a weird setting wrong (and I was thinking it was still a pleasant coincidence but maybe one I didn't want to let persist for the rest of the day). But I pressed all of the buttons (2) multiple times and turned it off/on many times and it was the only song that came out of that thing all day. What a guitar solo! Dang.

Wonderful Ass is all time great

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, April 23, 2016 11:39 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Train is also just ridic

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand),

And 'I Wonder' is, while not quite 'Kiss', almost at that level

"Emale" from Emancipation is dope. I like his cover of "I Can't Make You Love Me" and "Betcha By Golly Wow" on there too.

Come underrated as well.

Gold Experience is uneven but "Gold" is a helluva pop tune.