Somehow "Manic Monday" managed to find a breach in the perimeter fence.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 April 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
But yeah, there is a 20-track Special Edition of I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got with no "Nothing."
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 April 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEfKAkkszxk/
― Fetchboy, Monday, 25 April 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link
Arto Lindsay cover of the B-sides poll winner somehow escaped notice as well.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 April 2016 03:29 (eight years ago) link
I bet Prince thought that one was cool as fuck and let it slide.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 April 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
From the movie, right? Damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PXSXkZuYw
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 April 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
I can't recommend highly enough the 34 CD "Work It" series--chronological of all the extant demos and outtakes they could find...discs one through 14 are the stuff up through Lovesexy. Google and follow the links, I don't want to link to it.
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 25 April 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
Oh man. I spent pretty much all day yesterday listening to Prince. This morning I put buy music back on album shuffle, which is how I usually listen, and the first thing it gives me out of thousands of potential options is Bowie's "Blackstar." Creepy.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 April 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
i was thinking that while its nice to have his bootlegs and live videos on youtube, i still dont think the official albums should be there. im prob in the minority with this, but i hope his lawyers take them down again.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7341816/prince-number-1-and-2-on-billboard-200-albums-chart-very-best-of-purple-rain-albums
As noted in Billboard's earlier story forecasting the likely No. 1 coronation of The Very Best of Prince, his albums are selling incredibly well not just because of the artist’s extraordinary popularity, but also because his music has limited availability on streaming services and YouTube. The only streaming service with access to his songs is Tidal. And, as noted in Billboard magazine’s cover story about Prince in 2013, finding classic videos or performance footage of Prince on YouTube or anywhere else on the Web is difficult. "I have a team of female black lawyers who keep an eye on such transgressions," Prince said at the time. "And you know they’re sharp," he added with a laugh.
Thus, for many -- outside of listening to his music on the radio -- the primary way to experience Prince’s music is to purchase his albums and songs
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 April 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
i wonder how these are coming along?
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/prince-promises-new-album-and-remasters-after-label-partnership-20140418
― piscesx, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link
My man on the inside claims Prince at least completed remasters of all his back catalog.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
huh I thought there was a Rhino LP remaster of Purple Rain at least, in 2009. I guess that's "old" by today's mastering standards.
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 25 April 2016 14:38 (eight years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3557015/Former-Prince-engineer-wants-vault-music-released.html
"I think that it would be nice for historians and fans and scholars if someone went through that material," said Rogers, who worked as Prince's sound engineer from 1983-1987.
"I'd like to see the music put in the hands of the people who knew him best artistically and that would be the musicians who worked with him through different eras."
Rogers suggested that musicians with whom he worked in the 1980s and 1990s be allowed to finish unreleased songs in the style that they worked back then. "I think that would be lovely," she said.
Regardless of whether Prince wanted his music to see the light of day, Rogers believes there should be a debate.
"Maybe the artist is not thinking clearly about his legacy; there's a moral issue there and it's something we should be talking about."
It was Rogers who started the vault, collecting his tapes and starting to catalog them while Prince was working on "Purple Rain."
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link
Susan Rogers is fucking cool
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 April 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
deejay friend of mine posted on FB about seeing a "secret" show in canada in 2011 in a club with about 150 capacity. anyone who pointed a camera/phone at the stage was immediately escorted out of the club. all female band + maceo parker doing nothing but p-funk and ohio players for two hours. !!!.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 April 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
I was lucky enough to see him play Roseland on the Lovesexy tour. Can't remember how I found out but I rushed over after the show at the Garden to try to get in. I was front and center up against the stage and he played from like 1 to 4 or so. I feel like at the end he invited audience members up one by one to take over on each instrument and then he split but maybe I'm dreaming that.
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 25 April 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
listening to stare on spotify for the first time, it just reminds me how rote so much of his recent material was. you can almost predict how its going to go - unnecessary reference to some of his older songs, slick production, 70s funk, auto pilot jazzy horns, some clunky lyrics which try to be both nostalgic and modern (do i want to hear prince talking about going HAM?). think i will avoid that second hit and run album after all. i think i saw him with amy winehouse at an indigo club aftershow when he did his mammoth run at the O2, but im starting to think i imagined it (i cant be bothered to google it).
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 April 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
i like 'stare', the horn chart is great! it's just a vamp turned into a song really but i don't care
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 April 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link
sounds like just another day at the NPG office to me :|
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 April 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
I'm starting to think that the most annoying thing about YouTube being (largely) Prince-free is that the site keeps suggesting I watch Adam Levine cover "Purple Rain."
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Monday, 25 April 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
it def wasnt prince free at the weekend. there seemed to be hundreds of stuff freshly uploaded.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 25 April 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
He's obviously just happy to use prince to attack the monarchy but I did not expect Morrissey to pay tribute quite so fiercely!
http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_160424_01
― StillAdvance, Sunday, April 24, 2016 5:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Some of his prose is as wretched as ever, but the phrase "somehow the life of his music is just beginning"... that's nice.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Monday, 25 April 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
Morrissey's argument is the same one I had to make to a coworker who was upset that Prince "stole" Friday's Star Tribune top headline from the Queen.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Monday, 25 April 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
if you guys don't like "stare" you should try "screwdriver" on for size :/
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 April 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link
WFMU show today at 11am, Joe McGasko's surface noise, is the first radio sequence re: his passing that has not bored me (Sirius' Groove tribute channel is very repetitive)… heard "can't stop this feeling I got" for the first time since 1990 —completely forgot how it went…
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66190
― veronica moser, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
I happened to be listening in this morning and that really was a good hour. First time I'd heard "Sometimes It Snows in April" in many, many years.
― kills 1.8 percent of household germs (WilliamC), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Eye'm seeing plenty 'o' press reports about how Prince had been working 4 an insane amount 'o' hours be4 he passed away. The guy allegedly hadn't slept 4 over 100 hours. Eye don't no how much truth is in it, though.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:19 (eight years ago) link
that morrissey thing is the only time in years i've felt like saying "yeah, morrissey otm"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Bill Brewster's DJ History tribute has an interesting angle of NY dance hits, edits and general dancefloor tunes by Prince and associates. https://soundcloud.com/billbrewster/dj-history-podcast-352-bill-brewster
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 25 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
Jimmy Jam supposedly wants to get his hands on The Vault. I hope if *anyone* touches the stuff in there it's left unembellished/as is. It would be beyond terrible if all kinds of contempo overdubs/remixing and nonsense gets tacked onto those tracks.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Also -- toooooo soon, Jimmy. Thought you were classier.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 April 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
http://www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/entertainment-news/200601/Jimmy-Jam-I-want-to-produce-the-recordings-in-Princes-Paisley-Park-vault
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 25 April 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
Eye personally think it's a little 2 soon 4 people 2 start looking in2 the Vault stuff, and when the time feels right 2 start going down that route then eye hope nobody fucks with the recordings 2 much, if at all. Besides, it's not as if Prince only put out 3 albums or something, he left behind an incredible amount 'o' music. Eye suspect that, diehards aside, there's still a lot of people catching up on the music that he actually officially released... plus all the side projects!
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Monday, 25 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
susan rogers should be in charge of the vault!
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 25 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
okay, if you are only gonna watch ONE mega over the top version of purple rain....yikes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vCS_iKITCY
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
jeez...thx for that
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
the entire show is up ~for now~ and it's amazing
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/user-353868239/prn1999
Here's 2.5 hours of Prince demos
― fgti, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
holy fuck i am losing my mind over these demosFucking crush my skull
if only i could download them
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:08 (eight years ago) link
oh my god
There's a plugin for Firefox that lets u
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
http://anything2mp3.com/
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
thank you so much!!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
"Do Yourself a Favour" fuckkk
Also
http://soundflush.com/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m56fBgL.jpg
That's Charlie Murphy on the concrete there, in case you couldn't tell.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
i feel like i just opened a treasure chest
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/magazine/prince-andthe-competition.html?_r=0
To mount a proscenium in the company of Prince, who died Thursday at age 57, was to bask in greatness and to risk humiliation. On occasions like this one, Prince’s performances had a way of shifting from show business as usual — a star’s prerogative to entertain and strut his stuff — into the realm of pure blood sport. He aimed not only to put on a great show but also to show others up, to singe lesser mortals with pyrotechnic displays of musicianship and charisma. His competitive instincts could overwhelm his gentler, courtlier ones. A month before the Rock Hall gig, he appeared on the Grammy Awards, charging through a medley of his hits alongside Beyoncé. You could see him straining to be courteous, to cede the spotlight a bit. But after a few minutes, he appeared to lose patience and cranked up the virtuosity — dancing, shredding on guitar, sliding from the depth-sounder bottom end of his vocal register into an otherworldly falsetto. The spectacle concluded with another guitar toss, and Beyoncé, one of the world’s more unflappable performers, was left looking rather windblown, teetering on her high heels.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 07:50 (eight years ago) link
was travelling when I heard the news and could not believe it
such a powerful soul, his curiosity in music has given me so much inspiration, his musicality was mindblowing, his sense of humour contagious
we had a very uncommon level of snowfall this april
rip :'(
― niels, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
I love how that soundcloud mix *starts* with Extra Lovable. Like, right off the bat, here's a jam that could have been a hit for anyone.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link