prince

it is indeed voodoo. I've been listening to this in terrible quality for several years.

this is so great, totally sold on the album

KEXP replaying Kevin Cole’s 4-hour tribute right now, really wonderful.

New collection of demos for songs he wrote for other artists out June 21 (two weeks earlier on Tidal):

https://pitchfork.com/news/prince-album-of-unreleased-demos-announced/

oh that's great !
although on some of these songs you can basically hear him already...

Awesome. Shame they didn’t include G-Spot but great looking release nonetheless

This should be a fun one, even to hear mastered versions of the ones I've heard already.

My wife and I visited Paisley Park yesterday. While there's no way it could have lived up to expectations, the whole thing seemed particularly bittersweet.

Our tour guide had moved from Tennessee two years ago presumably when Graceland got involved and it seemed she hadn't a particularly passionate fan. She kept blankly saying things like "Yeah...how about that? Isn't that cool?" about whatever item or room she described, which was maddening. There were some basic questions that she didn't seem to know the answers to. That said, the few display cases were great to see -- a cassette demo w/ "Andre Prince Bobby Matt" written on it, the lyrics to "Soft and Wet" handwritten in neat teenage cursive, the Linn (!), an original drawing for the 1999 cover, the "Dreams" notebook that turned into Purple Rain...

A while back I remember reading that they'd only been like 5 or 10% of the way through archiving, cataloging, etc. Also that the tax implications of not having a will meant that the process of turning it into a museum was sped up to generate revenue for the estate. Two years in, it still felt kind of thrown together. There's so much that they didn't cover, I have to think it's still a work in progress that will be built out over time. I hope to get to go back in a few years for a proper tribute.

Thanks for sharing that! My partner and I have been considering making the pilgrimage.

We saw Princess (Maya Rudolph's Prince cover band) the other night and while the singers definitely could have put more energy into it it was still a great show. The band was super-tight and they played mostly upbeat stuff from 80-83, including the extended live version of Lady Cab Driver and a really funny version of Cool by Morris Day and the Time.

Oh my!

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/prince-sign-o-the-times-1987-concert-film-reissued-as-4-disc-deluxe/

Eh. Where's the super deluxe version of the album itself, with b-sides and outtakes and alternate tracks and stuff? The fan-made version of that is awesome. Don't think I need or want a DVD set with duplicate DVDs/blu-rays and commentary and docs.

Auro-3D 11.1 mix though!

"I Would Die 4 U" popped up on shuffle while I was driving to work this morning, and I turned it up and just thought, "Not only did nothing sound like this in 1984, nothing sounds like this NOW."

i will prob buy this bc it's one of the greatest concert films of all time

no US version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPX-uI7ivM

As much as I love Sheila's percussion, the minimalism of the Glamorous Life demo is really nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkV-EOvoqiE

Bummed this is a Tidal exclusive

That was just temporary - out on all platforms today

as of friday actually!
i like the boot copy of glamorous life with prince's vocals dialed down a bit, female vox up and the general production more out of control

Wow, this is so remarkably un-Princely!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37k0JufZ3iM

oh sick! thanks for the heads up

Really good piece here based around a new interview with Magnoli.

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/prince-batman-at-30-how-film-saved-his-career-1203251356/

In theory I should love this comp but I basically find it... meh...
Some of the tracks I already knew, some nice, some so-so.
I’m not sure I’ll listen to it a lot.

It's mostly crap.

I don't know how much replay value it'll have in the long run, but I'm enjoying it at the moment. His "Love...Thy Will Be Done" effectively renders Martika's unnecessary, for me.

Worth it for “Make-up” in pure coldwave arrangement, with a listless male voice.

Otm. I like the opener, “Blecch Shooter,” which seems to be the same track as the hit but with different vocals.

Wait, was it a hit? Don’t have chart info handy.

This is great!

this comp is the epitome of robbing of dead people. what i heard was abominable crap.

Watching them work out the choreography for the "When Doves Cry" video in that "Manic Monday" clip is cool as hell though.

I had forgotten how much I love "The Glamorous Life"

^Can understand the words better on this one too.

Wow, I never realised how similar "Manic Monday" and "Money Don't Matter 2 Nite" are.

here's the aforementioned rougher mix of glamorous life; i much prefer this to the cleaned up one on originals

also: twice as long!

this comp is the epitome of robbing of dead people. what i heard was abominable crap.
what exactly is so offensive about this collection? are you 100% against any prince vault releases?
maybe i just have a higher tolerance for demos / rough drafts.

yeah I do NOT, and I'm surprised I prefer the versions sung by his clients.

these are really polished demos. If they were low quality, sounded tossed off, sure; but I'm really impressed by how much work Prince put into these pieces (I assume there was no recent overdubbing done).

yeah it's clear he wasn't just like "here's an idea for a song" with these recordings — he was like "HERE'S THE WHOLE THING" (for the most part).
if there's a weakness to my ears it's that occasionally his vocals are less stellar than usual. but i think it's an interesting listen overall.

most of these are great

"Manic Monday" is the only one that seems demo-y and off to me, Bangles really polished that

but yeah some of it like Glamorous Life or the Time, it's so close even little things he came up with

it's a good comp and i'm glad it exists. it's in the cultural interest to have original versions of "nothing compares," "glamorous life," "jungle love," and "manic monday" out in the world. and the martika and kenny rogers songs are genuinely revalatory.

but yeah some of it like Glamorous Life or the Time, it's so close even little things he came up with

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:57 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even the "somebody bring me a mirror" line in "jungle love"!

and the martika and kenny rogers songs are genuinely revalatory.

what exactly is so offensive about this collection? are you 100% against any prince vault releases?

I'm not against things he never got around to releasing, or got distracted and moved onto something else, being released while branded as vault material. This is a bunch of stuff he very specifically never intended the public to hear, and absolutely did not intend to be regarded as the "original" version of these songs, being spruiked with painfully gross lies:

In the spirit of sharing Prince's music with his fans as he wanted, the album will also be available to stream in Master quality via TIDAL's HiFi subscription tier. Members will be able to hear the recordings just as the artist intended the tracks to sound.

He dead

that last sentence is just TIDAL hype about their sound quality. Poorly worded IMO but I don't think anyone is going into this album believing that these are songs Prince worked on for himself.

ha well yeah, that's a pretty dumb way of promoting it

but yeah some of it like Glamorous Life or the Time, it's so close even little things he came up with

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

With The Time stuff it's literally his track with Morris singing over it. So yeah.