prince

which is terrible

I am 44 and ready to embrace Partyman

Perhaps bc I have forgotten what irl partying is like

Batman soundtrack is all about "The Future", "Lemon Crush" and "Batdance"

uh grafitti bridge has round and round, thieves in the temple, still would stand all time, love machine, we can funk, the question of U, Joy in Repetition, tick tick bang
about half classics

I will also rep hard for vicki waiting, trust, lemon crush, the future... and somewhat less hard for electric chair and batdance I suppose.

I owned (still own somewhere?) a "batcan" copy.

parade was always the album that kinda went over my head, maybe i'm due to revisit

yeah, this feels warm immediately.

Parade is an incredible album

i bet you're a few years older than me dan; i missed listening to this until well past its sell by and it hit me cold when i first tried it and continues to be a bit of a struggle.

Yeah, the entire album is an indelible musical suite that really works as a sequence of songs IMO, with "Sometimes It Snows In April" being a personally devastating song (when my brother died, I spent several days camped in front of the record player repeating SISIA for hours and now can no longer listen to it or even really think about it without experiencing intense sorrow)

Graffiti Bridge has the unfair advantage over his other 90s albums that a lot of those songs were made in the '80s peak days. weird mixed bag but still a lot of fun.

Parade is an incredible album

― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP)

Yeah Parade rules really hard. The recordings I've heard from that tour are amazing too.

And the 12" mix of Mountains <3

Parade is like the only album I have listened to all year, that and Beyonce's new one. Every time I put on an album I'm like 'I really should try something new' but then I remember the horn break in 'Mountains' and I give in to PARADE.

plus that is my most dancingest song

also I have watched 'Under the Cherry Moon' 5x this year
it is the best

I've still never seen it!

Wow is a really good song. That's how far I am into these, not disappointed yet.

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2014/10/chris_rock_will_host_saturday_night_live_with_prince_as_the_musical_guest.html

Plectrum Electrum ranges from decent to super embarrassing ('why didn't anyone delete "FIXURLIFEUP" before it got to the mastering stage' is a question that may haunt me until I die) but ART OFFICIAL AGE is pretty damned enjoyable after I listened to it three times.

aoa funkier than a rafflesia

wrecka stow

i feel like you could put tracks from AOA next to tracks from 3121 or Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic or any number of other later albums and they'd all blend into the same waxy Botox version of 'Prince trying to be the cool quirky Prince you used to love.'

― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Sunday, October 12, 2014 4:06 PM Bookmark

3121 is my favorite late-era Prince album and AOA is my favorite since, so this hardly looks like a negative comparison to me.

art official age is pretty great dang

Yeah the more I play AOA, the more I like it

PE... Not so much

3121 is my favorite late-era Prince album and AOA is my favorite since, so this hardly looks like a negative comparison to me.

― goon kabuki (The Reverend), Wednesday, October 15, 2014 3:23 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah 3121 is cool. i'm just saying even the good stuff has a tryhard uncanny valley thing to it. a lot of my favorite later Prince stuff is the more classicist ballad stuff like "Call My Name" because it completely sidesteps the subtext of 'do i use modern drum machines? do i go back to the LinnDrum sounds?' anxiety.

quick quick y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYQUbh8HHA

thx. downloading the audio now.

i guess it's already been up for two months, which is weird.

9:35 "bitch" !

Woah, gonna watch this right now.

haha, epic guitar fucking (in dub) during that 'Head' jam

undoubtedly the best Prince album ever

'Breakdown' his best ever song

this is amazing

damn you guys

I wanted to go ahead and ignore Prince albums released since 2007

The trick with Parade is how it keeps the psychedelia in check by turning up the funk and keeping the songs concise. I love how bits like "I Wonder U" sound innocuous at first but boast a filigree or two to keep you going and listening forever (i.e. the funk guitar and strings over the outro)

I want whatever drugs you guys loving this album are taking! Best Prince album ever? Have you listened to anything pre-1990 by him?

I think they're talking about Parade. Which is still wrong.

I think the Capitol Theatre must have filmed everything. See also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvVj8zj7Oo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdo09kiVsw

undoubtedly the best Prince album ever

'Breakdown' his best ever song

this is amazing

no

parade is my favorite prince album though

I mean, who needs Sgt Pepper when we've got "Christopher Tracy's Parade" and "Girls and Boys"?

Well, that's setting the bar low.

vous etes tres belle

now I just want to spend the rest of the afternoon listening to "Mountains"

The extended version should get you there.

You all can have Parade. I'm keeping 1999.

no, we get that one too

SOTT or GTFO imo