prince

yeah really just totally middle of the road nothingness

that evenflow is pretty funky

The 'Ads by Google' that popped up for me during that video was 'Comedy Week Is Happening'.

yeah really just totally middle of the road nothingness

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, May 24, 2013 9:53 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is the thing, I'd almost prefer it if Prince was making offensively bad shlock, but he's just treading on nothing now - I can't believe actual thought processes go into making tunes like this. It's like a demo song on Garageband.

brb, blasting I Feel For You at maximum volume

I'd rather see The Revolution reunite than The Smiths. I saw Prince with these 3 chicks a few weeks ago and while the guitar player was decent the drummer was awful. Basically sounded like a bar band playing very boring rock music for 60% of the show and a bad rock band covering Prince classics the other 40%.

h8 this band but i can't blame them, it seems like exactly what prince wants atm.

god if the Revolution reunited I would eat broken glass for a ticket

I'd rather see The Revolution reunite than The Smiths.

oh yes ...
totally ..

I saw Prince with these 3 chicks a few weeks ago and while the guitar player was decent the drummer was awful. Basically sounded like a bar band playing very boring rock music for 60% of the show and a bad rock band covering Prince classics the other 40%.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, May 24, 2013

weird. when i saw them the drummer was very good, the bass player was fantastic, and the guitar player was technically quite capable but either didn't have or wasn't hired to demonstrate any interesting musical ideas. It's like we saw a completely different show. Crazy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sI6q7vDHKA

"omg we're playing with prince this is the highlight of my life!"

"omg we are the worst band prince has ever worked with!"

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.

18

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.