What is Come then?
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
fucking great iirc
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicology_(album)
^^^ went platinum
― Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
With roughly 95% of those copies (if not more) having been given away to concertgoers.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
was that the newspaper giveaway?
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
He debuted two albums as free newspaper giveaways in the UK; Musicology was just given away on the seats for that year's tour.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
^ Planet Earth (2007) and 20Ten.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
musicology had "call my name" on it so i'm sure plenty of ppl actually bought it rather than a concert ticket lol
― dyl, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 03:16 (three years ago) link
Reflection on musicology (with wendy on guitar as it happens) was the best thing on there.
― candyman, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 05:37 (three years ago) link
Batman is too weird and good to qualify as a NJ
― lukas, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 05:55 (three years ago) link
I feel like Lovesexy is his New Jersey
it had a huge hit in Alphabet Street, still felt like a new Prince album was an event, but also felt like the end of the classic era, he'd have hits after that but it always felt like a legacy artist having hits
at the time Love Symbol almost felt like a comeback
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
some of this is "how old were you when you first watched SNL"
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
Lovesexy was my first Prince LP and is often still my favourite
― anecdotal certainly but not nothing (stevie), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
i'm not saying it's bad, it's a good album
but it's the end of the era
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
hmm tho diamonds and pearls is messing up my theory..i forget how big that album was just because i think it pretty much stinks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
It does stink
― Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
Eric Weisbard got it right re Lovesexy: "more okay God pop."
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
D&P remains an excrescence
Lovesexy is the end of the imperial run; even if it is overused, “1980-88” will probably be a part of Prince conversation til the end of time
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Releasing it as one long track was easily one of the biggest mistakes he ever made.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
At least on vinyl you can drop the needle
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
There's actually quite a bit I like on D&P when looking at the tracklist again. But yes, the overall impression is that it's very ungood.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
Diamonds and Pearls is high school to me so i don't get the hate. I still unreservedly love most of the album, particularly Money Don't Matter 2 Night, Strollin, Thunder, Insatiable, Get Off, Willing and Able...
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
High school for me too, and I still l thought it sucked aprt from the second and fourth singles and "Walk Don't Walk." Prince wanted R&B hits again, he got them.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Walk Don't Walk is good too! Cream ain't bad either! It's just a handful of zonkers on there imo.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
I think you all are underestimating exactly how bad "Jughead" is
― Dana Jel Pey (DJP), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
Ranking the singles:
Money Don't Matter 2 NightCreamInsatiableGett OffThunderDiamonds and Pearls
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
Gett Off is embarrassing. Otherwise otm
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
Songs i will not readily rep for on D+P: the title cut, jughead, push. Live 4 Love is sprawling but has some good batman energy and Daddy Pop is totally a too-long b-side but I have some nostalgic love.Three bad tracks out of 13 on a prince album is to be expected!
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
My main memory of the album will always be this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-h4UK2G8B0
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
This was the first "maxi-single" i ever bought and it kinda blew my little teen age mind.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-CHzzvJTMg
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
@DJP - MN only reference but the title track always had a Lorie Line vibe
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
what’s that link, forks?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
"Violet the Organ Grinder" off the Gett Off maxi-single
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
merci
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
love the title track, it sounds like it was mixed/mastered for those crappy stereos at gas pumps
― brimstead, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
We got a new album in July:https://store.prince.com/product/5QCDPR047/welcome-2-america-cd
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 April 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
I hope it's good. I didn't like 20Ten from the same year but it had a pair of keepers that I put on a personal compilation of Prince's later work.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 8 April 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
Wouldn't mind seeing your tracklist for that compilation tbh.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 April 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
I really liked much of 20Ten for its one-man-band vibe. He sounded like he had fun making it. Doubt this one will have that same feel with the list of collaborators involved but who knows?
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
Sure. I burned this a few months after Prince died. Covers the studio work following Emancipation (1996).
FWIW I have Musicology, 3121, Art Official Age and Hit n Run Phase Two, so even though they're covered, there's other stuff I like on them that I left out for space.
Wasted Kisses • 1997 - 2016
Disc One 1. The Truth 03:34 2. Don't Play Me 02:47 3. Circle Of Amour 04:43 4. Wasted Kisses 03:03 5. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold 05:30 6. Baby Knows 03:18 7. Prettyman 04:24 8. The Work Pt. 1 03:46 9. She Loves Me 4 Me 02:49 10. A Case Of U 03:32 11. Musicology 04:24 12. A Million Days 03:50 13. Cinnamon Girl 03:56 14. 3121 04:31 15. Lolita 04:06 16. Black Sweat 03:11 17. Deliverance 03:45 18. Guitar 03:46 19. The One U Wanna C 04:29 20. Chelsea Rodgers 05:41
Disc Two 1. (There'll Never B) Another Like Me 6:01 2. Chocolate Box 6:14 3. Dance 4 Me 4:58 4. Colonized Mind 4:47 5. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful 3:52 6. $ 3:58 7. Future Soul Song 5:08 8. Laydown 3:07 9. Breakfast Can Wait 3:54 10. FunknRoll 4:09 11. Breakdown 4:04 12. Way Back Home 3:45 13. 1000 X's & O's 4:28 14. June 3:22 15. Black Muse 7:22 16. RocknRoll Love Affair 4:02 17. Baltimore 4:34
― birdistheword, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
Actually it was a year after Prince died. "Deliverance" didn't come out until then.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
Nice!
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 April 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
welcome 2 america is pretty terrible
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 April 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
hope it reaches the heights of the Vikings fight song from that year
― JoeStork, Saturday, 10 April 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
Sadly I agree, it is an embarrassing track
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 10 April 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
Okay instrumental though!
Disappointing but not surprising. Based on what's out there (which is probably a good sampling of his archives, even if it's arguably a small fraction of it), it just seems unlikely that Prince would bury a good album in the vault while putting out something as disappointing as 20Ten. If it is good, it's usually picked apart and reconfigured into something else. The closest thing to a lost classic is The Black Album which did go to press and was released six years later anyway, so it's a fairly atypical case.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 10 April 2021 06:12 (three years ago) link
Facebook ad:
"Welcome 2 America. The unreleased studio vault album that documents Prince’s concerns, hopes and visions for a shifting society. Available July 30th. Pre-Order Now."
Some snippets here from CBS at the weekend -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vjB9fgjfg0
If I were the estate I'd have made an album of his political songs over the last two decades and released it as a compilation.
― candyman, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 08:27 (three years ago) link
More here, though cant say I'm super excited about this 2010 album. I think they're just trying to market it to reposition prince as more of a thinker than most people see him as being.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN0Lw8NebDI
― candyman, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 09:22 (three years ago) link