prince

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.

Morrissey's a dangerous lunatic tho

just checking, in case i missed something along the way, is the only official live prince album then the cd that came with 21 nights book ?

no, there's that one night only... live box set that I believe was official albeit a limited edition. it's great too.

never heard of that, but i thought i must have missed something.

the 21 nights is a cracking live album.

In this regard Prince does not seem unlike Morrissey, always hitching his water skis to the wrong boat then complaining when he sinks.

picturing Prince waterskiing in full purple ruffled regalia

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/18/questlove_on_roller_skating_with_prince_an_excerpt_from_his_new_book_mo.html

wow

amazing

I predict that nothing good will come of this

so 'the breakdown' is kind of a jam, huh?

e clicked the lock and opened it, and took out the strangest, most singu­lar pair of roller skates I had ever seen. They were clear skates that lit up, and the wheels sent a multicolored spark trail into your path.

I knelt and kissed the skates passionately.

damn, missed the brief moment that the August 1983 First Avenue concert, the benefit where he debuted Purple Rain songs, was on you tube....anyone else know where to find it?

it also went around on facebook last week, at least the 'purple rain' segment, but it looks like that got taken down too. :( it's a great video, with annotations about where all the album edits and overdubs happen.

there should be flashmob-style online events where cool Prince stuff gets uploaded to YouTube and everyone watches it at the same time before it gets taken down

damn! i feel like i've seen other clips than the purple rain song...have to keep my eyes peeled

Im amazed my "Kiss" de-autotuned mutation remix is still up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYog1bj4gMc

ha that's awesome

esp the part where prince appears to kiss himself on the neck

Thanks! Yeah it sort of sounds like a cassette tape player - the machine itself - is performing the song.

awesome

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6070123/prince-a-guide-to-his-complex-web-of-label

this 3rd eye girl band he's with is the fucking worst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eToW9Bvd2EE

live endorphinemachien, blech, prince enters his "solo sammy hagar" phase i guess

I agree. Saw them live and couldn't believe they were on stage with Prince. It was a terrible racket.

just heard Letra de Irresistible Bitch for the first time in this Electrifying Mojo mix and omg https://soundcloud.com/detroitsoundconservancy/mojo-1983-b

What's "Letra de Irresistible Bitch"? Is it a different version than the "Irresistible Bitch" (no "Letra") that's on the B-side of "Let's Pretend We're Married"?

the same i assume - i could only identify by googling prince + a snatch of the lyrics

at 12.32 on that mix btw

Yeah, that's definitely "Irresistible Bitch" on the mix. I think you thought it was called "Letra de Irresistible Bitch" because you found the lyrics on some Spanish lyrics site? "Letra de" translates to "lyrics of"... :)

Eve did a nice remix/cover version of the tune, called "Irresistible Chick", it's on Eve-olution.

lollll

:D

https://warnermusic.zoopcommerce.com/products/art-official-age-12-vinyl.html

40 dollars for an album, wtf?!

The cover looks cool, though the same pun was already used by De La Soul years ago:

http://www.zupes.com/img/De%20La%20Soul%20-%20Art%20Official%20Intelligence%20Mosiac%20Thump.jpg

I'm more interested in it being his first Warners album since 1995 than anything else. Hoping they might make him step up his quality control (though I'm not that optimistic, he might have negotiated it so they have no input).

It's australian $, I think, which represents around 28€.
Still expensive, though !

Money don't matter tonight.

Not expecting much. Even "instant grat" tracks (see below) won't get many to order early, I don't think

Music icon PRINCE today announces not one, but two, brand new studio albums to be released globally via Warner Bros. Records. The much-anticipated albums are 'ART OFFICIAL AGE' and 'PLECTRUMELECTRUM', set to release on September 30th 2014 in the US. 'ART OFFICIAL AGE' is a solo album and 'PLECTRUMELECTRUM' is by Prince's new band 3RDEYEGIRL.

Both albums, which are sold separately, are now available for pre-order via digital retailers and from http://www.artofficialage.com. Early buyers will be able to unlock 'instant grat' tracks from each record. The album releases will also be marked by a series of very special events taking place globally, to be confirmed shortly.

2014 has been one of the most exciting years yet for the prodigious musical talent. Together with 3RDEYEGIRL, he rocked UK and European audiences into a frenzy with his sell-out 'Hit & Run' tours, generating some of the most significant critical acclaim of his career so far. In April, NPG Music Publishing was launched, marking the first time Prince's vast publishing catalog has been independently controlled and administered in over twenty years. All of this in addition to headlining and curating the Essence Festival on July 4th in New Orleans and a much talked about appearance on hit TV show 'New Girl'. 2014 has underlined that Prince continues to innovate and surprise, thrilling his fans and welcoming a whole new audience in the process.

The brand new studio albums mark a historic return to Warner Bros. Records, Prince's original label home. The renewed partnership came after the announcement that Warner Bros. Records returned to Prince the master recordings of his pioneering '80s albums, including Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain and Sign 'O' the Times.

Why are his album covers so tasteless these days?

Album covers are the least of his problems these days.