Cool!
Matos in the NY Times today on last night's first ave Revolution show. Sweet Jesus I wish I was there.
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 3 September 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
okay, have we grieved enough yet for me to ask when the first posthumous release is coming? I know there are a zillion reasons why not but does anyone have an article about it yet? Or a learned update?
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 3 September 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
this count?http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22338-one-nite-alone-the-aftershow-it-aint-over/
― niels, Sunday, 4 September 2016 17:42 (seven years ago) link
So, uhhmm. . .
http://www.rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=589
The Camille album apparently exists.
― Austin, Saturday, 10 September 2016 06:03 (seven years ago) link
Wonder if all the versions on there are unique.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 September 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
that label makes me feel weird
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 10 September 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
Idk if the version of Camille I have is the same mixes as on that 'genuine' article but it plays really well as an album
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 September 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure that's a bootleg. Camille album was never pressed up. The Black Album was but then all pressed copies were supposedly destroyed after P changed his mind about releasing it.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
nah I used to own an Italian pressing of the Black Album, it went to press over there and a number of them hit the market - I bought it in iirc either December or '87 or January '88. expensive as hell at the time
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
In April 2016, an original promo copy from 1987 was sold on Discogs' marketplace for a record $15,000.00 US.
:( I sold it at some point I'm pretty sure
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
6 of the 8 tunes on that Camille album turned up on official Prince records anyway: "Housequake", "Strange Relationship", and "If I Was..." on SOTT, "Rockhard" on the Black Album, and "Shockadelica" and "Feel U Up" as B-sides. It would've been dope to have them on a proper Camille album though, as they're all among Prince's best tunes in this era.
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 September 2016 07:39 (seven years ago) link
There were other tunes from the late 80s that also used the Camille gimmick and would've fit that album: "Scarlet Pussy", "Partyman", etc. And the ur example of that style is of course "Erotic City". For some reason the chipmunk voice seems to have brought out the most funky side of late 80s Prince. Too bad he gave that up when he tried to form a tougher image with the New Power Generation. (Though arguably "Prettyman" from Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic is a continuation of that style, even though his voice is less chipmunky on it.)
― Tuomas, Monday, 12 September 2016 07:47 (seven years ago) link
And "Cloreen Baconskin" of course. And maybe at a stretch "Bob George".I still remember the total WTF of the first Camille track I heard on SOTT.
― MatthewK, Monday, 12 September 2016 09:06 (seven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/princes-legacy-inside-the-messy-battle-w440966
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
I was reading about the First Avenue show, and I briefly thought, huh, I wonder what Prince thinks of this, and then I got sad.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:50 (seven years ago) link
xpost It's crazy but perfect that he left no will yet left instructions on how to turn Paisley Park into a museum.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
For whatever reason, there have been quite a few nice leaks of unreleased tracks the past week or so. All of them in mono for some reason even though they presumably derive from stereo, but other than that in really good sound quality.
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 22 September 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
man, that was a serious undertaking, but a fun night. 30 songs. haven't been able to find video of any of the funk tracks, presumably because people were dancing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKxMHIyA_HS
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
whatever happened to that Sign 'o' the Times vinyl reissue?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
coming 10/21 w/ more reissues to follow in december, i believe
― dc, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the SOTT reissue has been pushed back a couple of times now. Plus, the last I checked, the others (Lovesexy through Come) now have a Feb '17 release date.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Are these reissues remastered??
― van smack, Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
One assumes so... the remasters done for HDTracks (which are I think the same ones the vinyl is using?) only made it up to parade
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/6053/65/16x9/640.jpgguys
― MatthewK, Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:08 (seven years ago) link
prince should not be dead. with bowie, it's like ok, he was gone for a while, i really thought the next day and the museum exhibitions were actually posthumous efforts, and then blackstar comes out and i'm like alright he's back and then two days later he dies - it's all of a piece. what a brilliant way to go out. prince was just... unnecessary. this is not allowed. wtf. looking at that magnificent urn i'm just struck by the utter pointlessness of his accidental/preventable death... there's nothing poetic or sexy or cool or artistic about it... fuck
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
yeah I feel hit much harder by Prince tbh. I'm still not over it.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
he was writing a memoir! he was still recording and performing like a madman! i fucking saw him a year ago! fuck fentanyl
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
Not over it either. As months and months pass ill periodically be like wait what the fuck, Prince is still dead. Why can't someone fix it.
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Right? Same thing has happened to me several times.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
I saw Hannibal Buress last week and he told a story about seeing "the late great Prince" and it hit me then. he was like "it was the best performance I've ever seen, but this was Prince, so you know some weird shit was gonna happen.....he did 7 encores."
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
so it's not just me then, fuck. i really can't even deal with it even now, so weird.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
It's kind of like for awhile my mind was taking this as just another prince stage -- he changed his name then changed it back, stopped performing dirty stuff then reversed that, died... and that's permanent???? Are you sure? :(
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 13 October 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
I keep telling myself he just went to the store to get some OJ
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 October 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, it still seems really odd to me, to think that Prince is no longer with us, but I think the same with Bowie. With Prince, though, there's still a little bit of a feeling of "wait, this wasn't the way it was supposed to be" ...
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Thursday, 13 October 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7541106/prince-music-vault-shopped-purple-rain-deluxe-edition
Prince’s much-vaunted vault of unreleased music is being shopped for as much as $35 million by estate advisers Charles Koppelman and L. Londell McMillan, a source close to the situation tells Billboard. All three major labels are said to be in talks for rights to the music, the source said.
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 October 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
If anything, I just hope that all of that music ends up in the hands of someone that knows what to do with it all. If there must be posthumous releases, I hope they don't end up being cheap, tacky, shoddily put together etc. and for fucks sake, don't fucking radically remix or add overdubs like some idiot did once to the posthumous Hendrix stuff.
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Friday, 14 October 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
I don't think that will happen. There's kind of a cabal of Prince guardians who all have their heads in straight. I feel like there'd be MORE chance of that kind of 'aesthetic mismanagement' if he had left a will and some weird relative was in sole control of the estate.
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Friday, 14 October 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Susan Rogers should crowdfund a bid. I'd contribute.
― MatthewK, Friday, 14 October 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
along with Questlove and Alan Leeds
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 14 October 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
it seems pretty likely that Rogers, Wendy, Lisa, and Shiela are gonna be involved
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Friday, 14 October 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
they dont have 35 mil
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 14 October 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
if you've followed this circus at all, you'd know that the people running his current estate are wildly fucked. none of the people you mentioned are involved.
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 14 October 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
isn't a bank in charge
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 October 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
idk, Quest might have 35 mil?
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
i have been following this circus, what I'm saying is that when the bank sells the license for the vault to whatever major label, i'm willing to bet the ppl i mentioned will be brought in to consult and oversee the prep of the material
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Friday, 14 October 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
Goddamn, Controversy ruling my house right now. Title track might have the greatest minimal funk riff of all time.
― MatthewK, Saturday, 15 October 2016 02:56 (seven years ago) link
yup, and the chant near the end is my fave lyric
― sleeve, Saturday, 15 October 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
My least favorite Prince 80s album but easily one of the best tracks he ever did
― still lists its address as the recently razed home of “Morris” the (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 15 October 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
Note: least favorite doesn't mean I don't like it a lot
Man, I wish he could have made Purple Rain a double album so he could have got the full version of 'Computer Blue' on there.
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Sunday, 16 October 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link