baltimore is great
in general i quite like hitnrun volume 2
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 24 February 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
"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
― niels, Saturday, 25 February 2017 10:15 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Baltimore and Breakdown are his best in many years, IMO.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 26 February 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Cognition (Remix) (Jon not Jon), Monday, 27 February 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Hey! Come and join us in the
Wanna Be POLLIN' Somethin' ~~~ It's the ILM 80's R&B TRACKS POLL! ~~~
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 11:58 (seven years ago) link
Is it really gonna be a year this friday? What a shit year.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
otm
― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
Still utterly utterly unacceptable.
I'm going to purple rain screening on Friday. Been listening to a lot of prime protege stuff (1st Sheila LP, Martika stuff, etc)
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Here's hoping that the material from the Vault's start seeing the light of day, but as with all prime era Prince I expect we'll be teased with a release for years.
― DavidLeeRoth, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
That Purple Rain deluxe set is probably never coming out either, I guess, huh.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
at least i'll have a better birthday this year unless someone equally beloved dies
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
It's supposedly got a June release date, but no info has leaked re: content, and there are no pre-order links anywhere.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link
i believe in pr deluxe edition, don't burst my bubble
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Thought the revive was because of this: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/record-label-says-it-didnt-get-what-it-paid-for-in-deal-for-princes-music-rights-2017-04-14
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
Two months away and no preorder? Nope, not happening.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
silence damn u
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
re marketwatch article -- yikes that is a big clause to overlook, UMG!!!
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Was hoping more details about the Purple Rain reissue would be announced Friday until I saw that Marketwatch article.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Warner, which released Prince’s first 18 albums containing most of the hits, signed another record deal with Prince in 2014 that secured its ownership of all of those albums in perpetuity overseas, while giving it the right to block future releases from Prince’s storied vault—the centerpiece of Universal’s deal—if the tunes were recorded while he was under contract with Warner.
surprised Prince went for this deal after all the acrimony for all those years
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, but maybe there were new people who made it worth his while to come back. Hell, even John Fogerty re-signed with Fantasy in 2005 (after everyone who was responsible for his shitty deal were no longer with the label or dead).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
thought the revive was about the aspiriin bottle hullaballoo or the revolution tour.i still miss him.
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
There's gonna be an RSD vinyl remaster of What Time Is It?.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
God I wish I could afford to go to one of those Revolution shows
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
it's fucked up and wrong that prince is still dead
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah-ah-ah17 DAYS
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9zZ73KWAAArxoz.jpg
(possibly not real?)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
there is a negligibly legal new release this week
http://www.spin.com/2017/04/prince-deliverance-ep-new-music/
― akm, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
Variety is running with the track listing story as well, saying that this Violet Reality person tracked down the ISRC codes (the 12 digit codes used to ID songs for iTunes, YouTube, and everywhere else).
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
This comes out and I'm totally buying it, but several of the songs on the original album were longer in the movie - I think "The Beautiful Ones," "Baby I'm A Star," maybe one other. Why on earth wouldn't they include the unedited movie versions in the reissue? And why not also throw in the Time songs that were in the movie and (on Ice Cream Castles) but not on the soundtrack?
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Thursday, 20 April 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
If this is true, I'm bummed the longer "Beautiful Ones" isn't on the tracklist.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
It'd be kind of neat if they had included some of Michel Colombier's original score, but that's more of a 'we got five discs to fill up' kind of item.
I really wish we could have the weird sex music he has playing on his stereo when apollonia comes over to his pad.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Isn't that "God"?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:24 (seven years ago) link
no, the SFXy moaning stuff when he puts on a cassette.
http://prince.org/msg/7/355260
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
RIP
― Len's flares (stevie), Friday, 21 April 2017 09:11 (seven years ago) link
Still miss u dammit.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 21 April 2017 11:20 (seven years ago) link
A wound that ain't healin
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 April 2017 11:39 (seven years ago) link
sometimes it snows in April
― Len's flares (stevie), Friday, 21 April 2017 11:45 (seven years ago) link
http://www.thecurrent.org/playlist
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Friday, 21 April 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
^all prince all weekend
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Friday, 21 April 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
Stereogum ranked his albums. Lots of highly questionable choices (Batman > 1999??!), but at least it's interesting.
http://www.stereogum.com/1936246/prince-albums-ranked/franchises/counting-down/
― J. Sam, Friday, 21 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
so far for me this morning
around the world in a dayfirst avenue benefit show 8-3-83 (just finishing)
next up, i think the 'perfect unreleased prince' comp
wearing my dorky tshirt
entry of wendy & lisa backing vox on chorus of paisley park made me cry again as it has reliably done since 1 yr ago
children on seesaws
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 April 2017 15:54 (seven years ago) link
wow parade below graffiti bridge? brb i'm gonna yell at brad on facebook
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
i can't trifle with some listicle rn tbh
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
The article has an annoying habit of not even mentioning my favorite songs on most of those albums.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
it's so mind boggling that the 83 benefit show was wendy's FIRST TIME ONSTAGE with prince. Total fucking warrior.
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Watching the video of that show with him singing the version of "Purple Rain" that ended up on the album was mind-blowing.
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 April 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Eh I'm so bored of and with Canon that I appreciate the contrarian takes.
Brad's at this conference now, Brad. BRB gonna yell at him
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
no i really find the order fascinating if completely inexplicable
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
apparently the revolution have never played at paisley park before now?
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
brad vs brad in the world series of love
― gimmesomehawnz (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 April 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link