Prince RIP

I just looked at Miguel's Twitter for that same reason.

i thank whichever ilxor made those "Perfect Unreleased Prince" comps a few years ago, i listen to those all the time.

not my favorite cover, but cool all the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pIxfGEhM0

probably one the best pop songs ever no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd6JI5MD_cQ

So grateful that I was able to go to the Baltimore show last May. An amazing show, and his song BALTIMORE is fantastic. God, he had so much energy. Completely perplexed because of his straight edge, super healthy life style. Listening to MSNBC right now and one of the guests mentioned that at some point Prince refused a hip replacement because Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in blood transfusions. Just awful. Bowie and Prince were the two biggest rockstars that EVERYONE liked. Insane that we lost them in a three month span.

Saw him on the One Nite Alone tour at a relatively small concert hall. About twelve rows back. Although the seats were plush and comfortable, the audience was on its feet from the moment he was onstage. Played a bit less than 2.5 hours. I've never met anyone more charismatic, regardless of the profession. I actually missed his presence the next day.

Having a difficult time keeping it together this afternoon.

it's just that, having never been to Mpls but understanding it to not be a Afr-Am stronghold, it seems that there isn't a deep bench of black music. Its his scene, which Jam and Lewis were part of, and then… what? anything? Or beforehand? Being that I just finished the Replacements book, that band and its ilk makes sense. Prince's achievement seems all the more massive in that he came out of a vacuum.

my show was in the 90's during one of many retirement tours, mostly just him and a piano
at one point he backflipped off the piano into the splits. In stiletto heels.

http://gawker.com/wolf-blitzer-fondly-remembers-the-prince-classic-purpl-1772313930

it's just that, having never been to Mpls but understanding it to not be a Afr-Am stronghold, it seems that there isn't a deep bench of black music. Its his scene, which Jam and Lewis were part of, and then… what? anything? Or beforehand? Being that I just finished the Replacements book, that band and its ilk makes sense. Prince's achievement seems all the more massive in that he came out of a vacuum.

you ought get that 'purple snow' comp on numero group, has a lot of stuff on the scene out of which prince emerged.

it's unreal and depressing to me that over the past few years we've lost the three biggest iconic solo artists of the '80s (well, three of the five including springsteen and madonna), each of them basically unassailable in their specific skill set and in their performance abilities, and all of them far too young.

also: http://waxpoetics.com/features/articles/prince-and-andre-cymone-formed-the-band-grand-central/

it's unreal and depressing to me that over the past few years we've lost the three biggest iconic solo artists of the '80s (well, three of the five including springsteen and madonna), each of them basically unassailable in their specific skill set and in their performance abilities, and all of them far too young.

I dunno, Bowie at 69 seemed alright - it's just that alongside Prince these are dudes who seem like they're 25 forever

it's unreal and depressing to me that over the past few years we've lost the three biggest iconic solo artists of the '80s (well, three of the five including springsteen and madonna)

wait, when did sammy hagar die?

j/k

well i was talking about whitney and MJ and prince there, as much as i love Bowie his '80s were a shade below the others, status wise

prince was really into recording pretty much everything he ever did, right? like whoever has his estate probably has thousands of hours of recorded material sitting there. wouldn't be surprised if there's a recording of every song he was into by other artists that he covered just for fun

entire closet of tapes of him outdoing every guitar solo that was praised in a review he read

That Purple Snow comp is incredible. So much great stuff there.

the vault was legendary of course; idle speculation of what would happen when he died was always a popular topic on the prince bulletin boards
i guess now we find out

it's unreal and depressing to me that over the past few years we've lost the three biggest iconic solo artists of the '80s (well, three of the five including springsteen and madonna), each of them basically unassailable in their specific skill set and in their performance abilities, and all of them far too young.

OTM. I felt old enough having a birthday this week, but this...yeah.

xp my personal theory was that he was gonna have everything he made posthumously uploaded onto the web for free in perpetuity. seemed the right kind of iconoclastic move. here's hoping.

xp just heard an interview with his engineer circa 87-89 and he said they recorded 10 albums worth of original music in that time and less than 10% of it has been released

yea I've always just assumed Prince had a dozen albums worth of awesome material in the can. hope it doesn't get the Xscape treatment.

i hope those are released in some kind of album form according to the original intent and not just put out there with everything else.

hope it doesn't get the Xscape treatment.

i refer the honourable person to the answer i posted earlier ;-)

xp just heard an interview with his engineer circa 87-89 and he said they recorded 10 albums worth of original music in that time and less than 10% of it has been released

― flappy bird, Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:16 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was this a new interview with Susan after his death or that one from a couple years ago?

Live on the phone with Brian Williams

i hope those are released in some kind of album form according to the original intent and not just put out there with everything else.

― nomar, Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:17 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I trust it'll be a 217-disc set sold in a walk-in closet stuffed with boas and platform shoes.

it should never be released

release the album artwork and the track listing, but not the music

forgotten gems pt1 (album version) : the word.

the underlying beat and bassline with the vocal melody = sonic honey.
yeah i know he lost a lot of love in later years, but there were times he always hit the jackpot.
this is one such track i had totally forgotten about, and loving it.

2016 can seriously go suck a fuck already.

"love bizarre" on Sirius's Groove station right now…god that fucking drum sound…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu273pvAd_w

Wow, such a huge and unexpected loss. Really surprising as he truly did seem ageless and superhuman. He was a masterful writer in his prime, probably among the best writers ever.

Rest in Purple.

on "Muppets Tonight" (not sure of the year...early '00s?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0MSi7Ldxnc

was listening to "A Love Bizarre" (long version) in Seattle last week. I love how you can hear his guide vocal.

xp would have been between '96 and '98.

so did his Jehovah's Witnessing result in antigay outbursts? One of the 'major' gay blogs is saying so.

flappy bird can u post a link to that interview?

was walking to get lunch this afternoon with the guitar solo from "purple rain" (pretty much intact; i've probably heard that song 400 times) wafting through my head.

flappy bird can u post a link to that interview?

― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unfortunately it was live on MSNBC about half an hour ago, will probably surface at some point

ok i'll keep an eye out thx

she is really awesome

xp my personal theory was that he was gonna have everything he made posthumously uploaded onto the web for free in perpetuity. seemed the right kind of iconoclastic move. here's hoping.

Seems unlikely considering how much he disliked his music being available for free on the web.

I saw him in '97 on the Love 4 One Another tour. I seem to recall he had just started going by Prince again.
He hardly played any of his bigger hits, other than snippets.

and it was still one of the best shows I've seen.

I wouldn't be surprised if he has a will mandating all of his unreleased masters to be destroyed

guys around the world in a day is so fucking good

the finger cymbals and strings and that tambourine sound

such a THE REVOLUTION record

Guess Erlewine was right on never seeing Purple Rain reissues.

http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-too-sad-fuck-even-though-its-what-prince-wo-52791

ATWIAD = underrated

remember when hardcore Prince fans would wonder why he coughed at the beginning of the "Raspberry Beret" video

so many great videos tbh - Little Red Corvette, Alphabet St, Raspberry Beret