Prince RIP

yeah man how dare u skip 2 alphabet st

Lovesexy works best when listened to in full. I can completely understand why Prince did that.

It's still irritating tho. I remember reading somewhere there is a later Japanese CD or something that separates the songs, but a while ago I bought a fairly recent Japanese reissue of it, and it's still just one big track on the CD.

ironically, it was sequenced conventionally, as individual tracks, in the format he presumably would have preferred you to have, vinyl.

"The album is designed to be heard in the context of a continuous sequence: LP pressings split the album in two side-long tracks, without visual bands to indicate individual songs. Similarly, early CD copies of Lovesexy have the entire album in sequence as a single track, though some later editions have it as nine separate tracks."

yeah no shit isn't like almost every fucking album?

without visual bands to indicate individual songs

my vinyl is in storage on the other side of the country but i have a distinct memory of it being rather easy to see the beginnings and ends of the tracks on lovesexy, same as on, yeah, no shit, almost every fucking album. is my memory faulty? do i need fact checking?

some later editions have it as nine separate tracks

According to Discogs, the only Lovesexy CD that was ever split into individual tracks was a promo version that was sent to radio. Somebody's selling one for $260.

yeah my copy of Lovesexy is banded

while you may be able to see those, actual banding has coarser grooves in the silent parts irrc, making them have that distinctive shiny/mirror look.

My uk cd of lovesexy isn't one single track. I bought it about 10 years ago.

Same here (I don't have it anymore though).

my vinyl is in storage on the other side of the country but i have a distinct memory of it being rather easy to see the beginnings and ends of the tracks on lovesexy, same as on, yeah, no shit, almost every fucking album. is my memory faulty? do i need fact checking?

My Lovesexy is banded.

Here's the 9 track version that was widespread in the UK

https://www.discogs.com/Prince-Lovesexy/release/905464

i used a lossless file of the one track version and applied a cuesheet someone put together to split it into tracks...

I'm surprised artists don't do stuff like this more often. My copy of Spiritualized's "Laser Guided Melodies" is divided into four long tracks. Can't think of any others.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

*breathes*

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listening to lovesexy now, i think i never listened to this much back in the day because of the annoying track thing

arrested development loved the shit out of this album

feels very "early 90s" even though it was '88, still ahead of his time

anna stesia is great

I'm surprised artists don't do stuff like this more often. My copy of Spiritualized's "Laser Guided Melodies" is divided into four long tracks. Can't think of any others.

― Josh in Chicago, maandag 13 februari 2017 15:13 (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

GY!BE's debut album 'F♯ A♯ ∞' vinyl version has Side A ('Nervous, Sad, Poor') and Side B ('Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful'). The cd-version has three movements called 'Dead Flag Blues', 'East Hastings' and 'Providence', each of which contain multiple parts, but aren't cued as such.

dEUS's My Sister = My Clock counts 14 (?) songs but is a one track cd.

lovesexy is a pretty fun album
but def not as good as the black album

Nah, I def think Prince made the right idea to pull it and that he replaced it with the superior record.

i like lovesexy a lot more

it is def better/more cohesive

and more sonically dense and weirder... The Black Album is mostly party jams apart from one or two tracks.

the only thing the Black Album has that Lovesexy doesn't is Bob George, which tbf would have been out of place on Lovesexy. maybe it coulda been an Alphabet Street b-side or something.

Yeah, that's the standout track on the LP by miles.

ain't that a bitch

I'm surprised artists don't do stuff like this more often. My copy of Spiritualized's "Laser Guided Melodies" is divided into four long tracks. Can't think of any others.

― Josh in Chicago

remember cd subindexes? it's part of the redbook standard but i never had a cd player that supported it, and only one cd that did (the v/a comp "miniatures"). mostly it seemed to be used for "hidden tracks" by putting music under index 0 on a track.

anyway, stupid cd tricks. i don't miss them.

tmbg's Apollo 18 random minitracks come to mind

to wit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcGc1KhlI

Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty had some music in the "negative space" between tracks. I believe it was the only CD I owned that did this, kinda neat.

Rockhard in a Funky Place really loud in a club is better than most things on this Earth

Pregaps (the negative space in front of tracks) are not the same as subindexes. Back in the late 80s a friend had a CD player that showed subindexes, and I can remember just one CD that had them: Pump by Aerosmith. A few of the longer intros had a different subindex than the main song.

They were often used in classical CDs

My friend only had Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses CDs back then...

Classics.

Damn, this Lovesexy sequencing is a pain in the ass when you just want to put "Anna Stesia" or "Positivity" on a playlist

i think the first thing i did with the first music editor i ever got was to track my cd rip of lovesexy

haha pvmic

heh, i suppose so

i think the first thing i did with the first music editor i ever got was to track my cd rip of lovesexy

THIS

relistening to Art Official Age and at 2.45 on "clouds" it gets kind of bummerish
femme brit voice intones: "mr nelson. mr nelson can you hear my voice? sir, we know you're a little bit groggy and you're probably going to find it hard to speak but don't try to talk or persist too much now. we just wanted to let you know that the medication you were given has put you in suspended animation for quite some time... well, in fact, for forty five years. But where you are now is a place that does not require time. That being said, you are completely safe and we are here to help you."

shades of MJ's Morphine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-n_Y-ISkY

yikes

it may be that I have never listened to AOA all the way through?

it's a pretty good album! mostly meat in the middle. "U KNOW" and "BREAKFAST CAN WAIT" and "TIME" hold up as legit classics imo. the "until i /i find my/my way back/home/home" theme weaving through the "WAY BACK HOME" / "affirmation III" is lovely, very throwback to Come. but wooboy, the "in the afterworld" electro-spectral bullshit really stings to hear it now.

"Baltimore" was one of, if not the last, original song he released, right? If so, what a great swansong - beautiful, with a killer guitar lead. Easily my favorite thing he did this century.

baltimore is great

in general i quite like hitnrun volume 2

"Breakdown" is the standout and swansong track off AOA (a fine album) Prince suggested it was his fave in interviews

https://open.spotify.com/track/7K7YEejtHd4rK57J6QkuMr

Yeah, Baltimore and Breakdown are his best in many years, IMO.

So I have a lot of trouble with Art Official Age (i reacquainted myself over the weekend) because it just sounds so fucking terrible. So incredibly thin and bodiless, almost like the effect native to a low bitrate mp3. It sounds like he abused some sort of stereo widening plugin -- synths and rhythm elements are always being spread to the extremes of the field so that they sound incredibly anemic... anytime something is fairly tightly located near the center it has some body and impact to it but so many of the songs have important elements atomized to the winds. It sounds like it could be cool when i describe it in words but it is just an inherently bad sound IMO. Shame because this is a good set of songs and a good set of performances with lots of good ideas in them.

There's a general trend in Prince toward thin DAW-ey terrible synth patches starting from about 1994 on but on AOA it is intolerable to me.

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