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
― nomar, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
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
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
entire closet of tapes of him outdoing every guitar solo that was praised in a review he read
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
That Purple Snow comp is incredible. So much great stuff there.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
the vault was legendary of course; idle speculation of what would happen when he died was always a popular topic on the prince bulletin boardsi guess now we find out
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
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.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
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, 21 April 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link
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, 21 April 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link
hope it doesn't get the Xscape treatment.
i refer the honourable person to the answer i posted earlier ;-)
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
― 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?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
Live on the phone with Brian Williams
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― Trash Sandwich (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link
it should never be released
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
release the album artwork and the track listing, but not the music
― nomar, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
2016 can seriously go suck a fuck already.
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
"love bizarre" on Sirius's Groove station right now…god that fucking drum sound…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu273pvAd_w
― MaresNest, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
on "Muppets Tonight" (not sure of the year...early '00s?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0MSi7Ldxnc
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
was listening to "A Love Bizarre" (long version) in Seattle last week. I love how you can hear his guide vocal.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
xp would have been between '96 and '98.
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
so did his Jehovah's Witnessing result in antigay outbursts? One of the 'major' gay blogs is saying so.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
flappy bird can u post a link to that interview?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
ok i'll keep an eye out thx
she is really awesome
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
Seems unlikely considering how much he disliked his music being available for free on the web.
― Position Position, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― campreverb, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:03 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if he has a will mandating all of his unreleased masters to be destroyed
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
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
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Guess Erlewine was right on never seeing Purple Rain reissues.
― campreverb, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-too-sad-fuck-even-though-its-what-prince-wo-52791
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
no. no. no.that's a suggestion too far ..
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
wow none of his videos are online are they
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link
max brod to thread
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
xpost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDuGjMwsow&index=7&list=PL8cFaF2b783Ls-_n2LcW25VzdHXJphxSx
― mark e, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
sorry if it's already been posted but this show: http://www.panicstream.net/vault/prince-8191988-the-hague-netherlands/
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:42 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I remember hearing this, though I cannot confirm it. Anyway, it feels a lot like when the SJWs dragged out some of Bowie's more questionable sexual antics immediately in the wake of his death. Legends die, but perpetual outrage never can.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:24 (eight years ago) link
re: his masters. I'm sure I read this story on ILX. An engineer working with him, Prince came in one night, supposedly heartbroken, recorded this beautiful song top to bottom, engineer was floored, 8 hours later they're listening to the final mix and Prince just says "Erase it."
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
frankocean
i'm not even gonna say rest in peace because it’s bigger than death. i never met the man (i was too nervous the one time i saw him) and i never saw him play live, regrettably. i only know the legends I’ve heard from folks and what i’ve heard and seen from his deep catalog of propellant, fearless, virtuosic work. my assessment is that he learned early on how little value to assign to someone else’s opinion of you.. an infectious sentiment that seemed soaked into his clothes, his hair, his walk, his guitar and his primal scream. he wrote my favorite song of all time, ‘when you were mine’. it’s a simple song with a simple melody that makes you wish you thought of it first, even though you never would have - a flirtatious brand of genius that feels approachable. he was a straight black man who played his first televised set in bikini bottoms and knee high heeled boots, epic. he made me feel more comfortable with how i identify sexually simply by his display of freedom from and irreverence for obviously archaic ideas like gender conformity etc. he moved me to be more daring and intuitive with my own work by his demonstration - his denial of the prevailing model...his fight for his intellectual property - ‘slave’ written across the forehead, name changed to a symbol... an all out rebellion against exploitation. A vanguard and genius by every metric I know of who affected many in a way that will outrun oblivion for a long while. I’m proud to be a Prince fan(stan) for life.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
wow @ frank ocean tribute
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:43 PM (3 minutes ago)
― flappy bird, Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:47 PM (50 minutes ago)
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/prince-driven-by-his-ideas-singularity-of-vision-670978115897
― Sushi and the Banchan (Spectrist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
i have to go nowi don't know when i will returngoodbye
forgot about this LP ending like that...
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's great
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
oops referring to frank ocean