prince

Ha garageband is totally it

Some of the guitar effects sound like cheap little garageband efx too

More like 'this is what someone with too many studio toys and not enough time to learn how to use them sounds like'. It's Manufacturer's Preset City.

LOL, exactly the charge Cecil and Margouleff leveled at Stevie Wonder after he stopped using their services.

shhhprince with sunglasses on that fixurlifeup video looks like the head of a penis rising from the play now icon

Wasn't Songs in the Key of Life the first album Stevie did post-C&M? I think he knew what he was doing with that one. o_O

Yup. One of them accused him of just sticking with presets for everything. The songs and sequencing are strong enough to mask it, but there's no doubt that from a production standpoint the album is a big sonic step down from the four preceding it.

Well, maybe a "BIG" step down is overstating it. It just has a notably tinnier feel.

This is a Prince thread but you people are talking shit. Cecil and Margouleff were pissed that they didn't get credit for the work they did on Key of Life before they fell out with Stevie. Plus, that record makes brilliant use of the Yamaha GX-1 a.k.a. "The Dream Machine," which didn't have any presets IIRC. To the extent that Stevie did start using presets, it was in the 80s.

yamaha gx-1 - definitely no presets on that thing. analogue didn't do presets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG7OIKT61Y4

Lots of clueless talk on ILM these days. So depressing.

Haha I mean : more than the usual.

This new song of Prince's is probably the last time I listen to any new thing he does. Pretty terrible.
I wish he would just retire - or do an all acoustic solo tour or something - just a guitar and piano.

this is pretty good

http://vimeo.com/63025947

he should do a tour of Famous Dave's locations, would fit his new sound

I wish he would just retire - or do an all acoustic solo tour or something - just a guitar and piano.

I think of his awesome 2004 tour as his farewell. He's been a different creature since then.

do we have a thread on older pop musicians losing their ear?

The problem with Prince is that while he never gave a shit, he's now living the wrong sort of don't give a shit.

Back in the day it was ok because he seemed to not give a shit about anything except the music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Genius_Theory

1999. Don't you wanna go?

http://www.soulculture.co.uk/music-blog/newmusic/prince-f-ledisi-aint-gonna-miss-u-when-ure-gone-new-music/
i like it! maybe more black album than i'd prefer but my expectations were pretty low and this is way above my hopes.

So wtf, Prince is rumored to be playing George Lucas's wedding reception maybe right now, down in Hyde Park, on Chicago's south side? And he's definitely playing a show at City Winery tonight, later. I couldn't care less if I ever see him live again - his a dick to his fans and so far from a sure thing - but always fun when these things pop up.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-lucas-wedding-party-hollywood-577318

Vid for breakfast can wait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHbyNrGXpAA

as soon as i saw that (on the sidebar for some other video) i was super impressed that prince had actually put a video on youtube

The woman in Prince drag is....doing things to me.

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play ball!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyjSUBQs4U#t=33

not sure if this has been posted already - princes duet with zooey deschanel. ill take prince doing corny 90s euro house over 3rd eye girl.

nagl

Saw him on her New Girl tv show back in January

That still image is hilarious, don't want to spoil it by playing the song. Prince looks like he just farted and Zooey is enchanted w a unicorn frolicking in the distance.

GUH. Press release just out:

Prince and Warner Bros. Records today announced a new agreement that will see the release of long-awaited, previously unheard material, while giving the artist ownership of the master recordings of his classic, global hits. At the same time, the deal extends Prince's relationship with Warner Bros. Records, through an exclusive global licensing partnership that covers every album released from 1978 into the nineties.

So we're trading the possibility for remasters in exchange for pristine boots?

I'm very cool with that.

i'm happy with the old LPs and CDs i've got and remasters have never really excited me that much so im interested to see what archive releases they do. warners will probably do a better job of it than prince (eg - crystal ball), just as long as it isn't a case of him reworking old material and giving them that stuff, like his recent version of extra loveable etc.

got tired of hearing relatives remind him that David Byrne's catalog got remastered.

Yum Yum...

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.

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.

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.

Will. Not. Happen

(hope it happens, but ...)

Will. Not. Happen.

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.

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.

I heard they are readying an expanded reish of PR...true?

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.

Otm.

yeah those are amazing. prince should just put those out (as if)

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.

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.

I honestly didn't think this would happen in my lifetime.

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.