prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-21ycRGSnM

Should I listen to "This Could Be Us" again? record company pr:

Last December Rolling Stone Magazine named "THIS COULD BE US" one of the "50 Best Songs of 2014" and declared Prince's latest single, "a sparkling sexy jam".

radio stations across the country are following suit as the latest single from his #1 album, ART OFFICIAL AGE, becomes the #1 most added new song on Urban Adult radio.

You should listen to "This Could Be Us" by Rae Sremmurd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q807gM0hco

I grossly underrated Art Official Age based on the last time I played it

it's a genuinely good album, made my ilx list. i image it will place, yes?

I tossed it off of my ballot on the basis of it being pleasantly nostalgic and then I relistened and went "wait this is genuinely good, oops"

Various collaborators and cohorts chime in on Prince's vault:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31962180

Susan Rogers recalls Prince's real-life heartbreak being the inspiration for a particularly magical night of recording: He came into studio and recorded this ballad. It starts with spoken word. Prince is speaking to Wally, a dancer in his crew. He's telling him, "I want go out tonight and meet someone new." He goes into this chorus. It's beautiful, just beautiful. There's a crescendo. The song gets huge. It breaks down. He says, "I'm not going out any more." The background vocal arrangements, the expression of it was just gorgeous. Of course he played all the instruments. We finished recording the song and then Prince said to me, "Erase it."' He said it very calmly. I could feel the fan in me screaming "No!" I said, "Think about it. Wait til tomorrow at least." He reached over and hit record. He erased it. It was gone.

Hasn't Rogers (one of the more outspoken of his cohort) also basically said that what is in the vault isn't really worth its legendary reputation?

BTW, whatever happened with that deluxe Purple Rain, Prince? Waiting for Neil Young to release Archives II first?

He's probably rerecording the backing tracks with Third Eye Girl...

I hated 2014 a whole whole lot and was glad to see the end of it, but I did immediately feel sadness after New Years that it was no longer the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain. And of my favorite pop year in general.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/05/06/prince-announces-rally-4-peace-concert-sunday-in-baltimore-in-aftermath/

the rofo arena is TINY. 14,000 seats. soooo many people will be shut out, tickets will be scalped to hell, most of the people affected by police violence will not be able to go. i wonder if he tried to do an outdoor show and got denied by the city. tickets go on sale in 2 and a half hours and the price hasn't been announced yet....

Prince has a new album called HITNRUN coming out exclusively on Tidal. I haven't been excited by any of his albums since 3121. Does he have another great record left in him?

no but he likely has several more albums where half is great and half is mediocre

Looks like he's dropped 3rd Eye Girl...good...Rather fond of this...and its funny

http://open.spotify.com/track/2eZJ9lrNeSqDt9iOgtft0M

well, he's releasing an album with 3rd Eye Girl in a couple weeks and still tours with them. debuting a song on Spotify (but not Tidal or anywhere else) weeks after pulling his whole catalog from Spotify and putting his music on Tidal is typical weirdo Prince i guess. not clear if this will be on that new album.

'stare' is really good

A solo tour - just prince and a piano - being announced, apparently he will play Denmark

Hyped! Hope I can get tickets

video of a paisley park jam last night feat. p covering billy cobham's stratus. so tite.

x-post-- just in Europe

16 Prince solo dates

http://www.drfunkenberry.com/2015/11/09/new-prince-tour-announced-prince-spotlight-piano-a-microphone-see-tour-dates/

http://www.frequency.com/video/billy-cobham-band-sign-o-times-raidue/25133181

Piano-only arrangement of "My Name Is Prince" is gonna be TITE.

cool tom sound on that cobham thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFXZNt4oLkE

good soloing

his delivery on that second verse
<3 <3 <3

I didn't listen to the entire cover because I got annoyed that he was getting the chord progression wrong.

nerd

:)

look I don't have that many karaoke joints in my rep, if Prince is gonna back me up he has to show he knows the song

loool

it does sound like he doesnt know the song that well. as though he doesnt know how we wants to play it yet. its okay, though i could have done with a bit less of the synths throughout - it softens it unnecessarily.

can't really tell if he's misremembering the lyrics or correcting them

http://tidal.com/us/store/album/50767183

new album

not getting my hopes up

did Joshua Welton work on it? i hated the sound of Art Official Age and the first Hit N Run album so much.

im guessing so. it's called hit n run 2. i hated the first hit n run already so dont think i will bother with this.

now this i would love to hear. solo piano 'Dirty Mind'!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/live-reviews/prince-stuns-at-emotional-piano-and-a-microphone-solo-show-20160122

Was it just one big medley? Because that is the kind of BS he has pulled the last two times I saw him.

cool setlist would love to hear a piano only "breakdown"

Update – Tuesday, February 9th at 3:05 p.m. CT: Prince has denied his interest in doing a Hendrix covers set.

this is his passport picture acc to his twitter

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8eafoVIAABAC0.jpg:large

tickets to his solo voice & piano tour here sold out in 10 minutes at $397 ea.

Hair looks 'frotoshopped to me.

man he was good live last week in oakland.

also, having finally, after all of these years, listened to "Come", I kind of can't believe this isn't widely considered one of Prince's very best albums.

oh man i had a prince week. went to the paramount show and the after show at great american that ended at 4am. holy shit still coming down.

was at oracle. so good.

XP Come is great and arguably ripe for a reappraisal. His mid- to late-90s work, so brilliantly captured on The Dawn bootleg, remains my favourite period.

Me too on the love for that album, it's drastically underrated