Prince RIP

After Eric What's-His-Name played, Wendy asked if their old friend Prince wanted to join them onstage.
He did not.

reminds me he was an asshole too, especially when it came to Wendy and Lisa.

Been struggling to find some music to listen to, and can't really listen to Prince right now. Settled on "Nilsson Schmilsson," which is just the salve.

That time he tore it up on American Idol

http://www.jukebo.com/prince/music-clip,lolita-satisfied,suv0l.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChFHq2Xkfs

just discovered this. goodness what a groover.

im in denial. my most favourite musican ever. havent really computed this yet.

and he was just in the middle of writing his memoirs. i was genuinely looking forward to reading what princes biography might be like.

interesting to see how people will canonise him. he often ended up being cast aside by all sides. not black or hard enough for funk fans. not enough soul for R&B fans. not really rock or masculine enough for rockers. etc etc. he was best before he started to worry about all of that.

ill be honest, i fell out of love with his music (and even live shows - god i wish he got some better bands in recent years, and i think he got into the habit of over-souling his vocals a bit in recent years, but hey, i can cut him some slack) over the past decade or so, but i never stopped being a fan of him. i just loved prince. even his shitty songs were listenable cos HE made them.

but i love that you cant stream his music or get it on you tube (though i imagine a lot of uploads might happen tonight) - not like hes losing money from spotify's meagre royalty rates. not even the beatles held out like he did. he never gave in to the shitty internet model for distributing music.

i smiled a little when i read he died in the studio. i cant imagine prince dying anywhere else. he was obsessive and a workaholic til the end. i sometimes wonder what state his personal life was in, cos all he seemed to do was record or play.

strange though - i just assumed he would be around for a long time. maybe his health wasnt as good as most of us thought. i hope there arent any suspicious circumstances.

i was really interested to see how he would age. in that recent guardian interview he seemed quite aware that critics were now giving him an easy ride (sometimes i wish they gave him as fair/rough/serious a ride as other artists, but i think a lot of critics just didnt quite know how to evaluate prince) so he had to think of ways to challenge himself. id have loved to see where that would have taken him.

RIP.

fuuuuuuuck

Prince was probably the first musician i ever rocked out to. When I was 7 or 8 I wanted the Batman soundtrack so my parents bought me it on cassette only it wasn't the score it was the Prince album. Some of my earliest memories are dancing on the little table in the playroom and miming along to "Party Man". He's been in my life ever since and he never stops surprising me. Thankfully we are blessed with a giant treasure trove of music.

RIP

http://eil.com/images/main/Prince+For+You+3397b.jpg

actual photo of Prince in heaven rn

Listening to Sign O the Times, funny how this such a perfect analogue to Physical Graffiti's "real heads know the deal" place in the Prince canon (compared to Purple Rain's Led Zep IV) it's not the biggest hit but it's all his most "Prince" instincts and interests taken to the farthest degree on a near perfect sprawling double

Damn I'm cut, which is standard but only now realizing I don't really know any hardcore Prince fans to commiserate with. Feels a lot more lonely than I could've expected.

Anyway while it's up.
Always found this shit religous comforting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfFXM6I8Sg4

https://twitter.com/alexanderbolton/status/723257547197677569?s=09

I mentioned that Joni cover in my obit.

from this interview with Joni:

But even when you were somewhat obscure, so many musicians were citing you as an influence or even name-checking you in songs. Of all the musicians and rappers who have cited you as an influence, whose work do you appreciate most?

Prince. Prince attended one of my concerts in Minnesota. I remember seeing him sitting in the front row when he was very young. He must have been about 15. He was in an aisle seat and he had unusually big eyes. He watched the whole show with his collar up, looking side to side. You couldn’t miss him—he was a little Prince-ling. [Laughs.] Prince used to write me fan mail with all of the U’s and hearts that way that he writes. And the office took it as mail from the lunatic fringe and just tossed it! [Laughs.]

he was really great at the covers.

/After Eric What's-His-Name played, Wendy asked if their old friend Prince wanted to join them onstage.
He did not./

reminds me he was an asshole too, especially when it came to Wendy and Lisa.

Did he mistreat/throw over Vanity? Weird they died so close in time to each other

Oh no

http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-treated-drug-overdose-dead/

Tampa Bay arena PA played a little bit of "Kiss" just now during a stoppage in the Red Wings/Lightning game

I feel like this story is about to get real sad real fast.

Damn, 'Sometimes it Snows in April' has always been my favorite P song. Just playing Parade now and it's like it builds and builds up to that as the best thing, saved for last. Just heartbreaking, beautiful music.

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jeez, i had always thought he stayed away from that stuff :(

"Sometimes It Snows in April" always used to give me chills, now it's going to carry this weight with it too. very tender, understated vocal performance. the "He used to stay so strong, unafraid to die" part always gets me

its TMZ. how legit would that be?

i thought he was as clean living as could be.

i hope this story doesnt get sad.

this does suck, RIP

Prince was always a dude I knew of tangentially until I was college aged, then I bought most of his albums in a year span and wouldn't shut up about him. This is such shit. if he made a guest appearance on some garbage show I never watched, I would tune in.

I was beside myself with excitement before his Super Bowl appearance and he didn't disappoint.

thank God for Tidal free trial to give me easy access to my favorite Prince shit cos I can't find any of my cds and none of them are ripped.

on the Dirty Mind album now, which I've always loved.

aww man, I love "When You WEre Mine" so much

minneapolis station is streaming nonstop prince:

http://www.thecurrent.org/listen

its TMZ. how legit would that be?

TMZ is often first to the scene w/ a lot of legit celeb stories these days. they're not always right, but hard to immediately cast aside.

hoping it's not the case - but we'll find out soon

TMZ also broke the story of his death today

Michael Jackson too I think?

hang tough, children

on "Uptown" now, god the synths all over this fuckin' album are so fuckin sweet

I'm going to put on "Condition of the Heart", will probably immediately regret it but his ballads are callin to me now

Gossip sites are right way more than they are wrong :(

TMZ in particular is otm and ahead of the curve way too often to be dismissed

Didn't get into Joni until a few years ago and that track was my way in. (Well probably more so that I was dating a huge Joanna Newsome stan and like a pass-aggressive tool decided to undercut via Joni, but that track was one of the few reference points I had that wasn't a sterile James Blake cover, a Velvet Rope sample or Help Me, which at the time I didn't know was by her.)

But that cover man, pure gospel. Been making a playlist of songs working with that church aesthetic without being beholden to it and that was one of the first thing that came to mind. The range of things he could assimilate whilst remaining so effortlessly true was mind-boggling. The irony is, to me who was born in the 90's and didn't really get to experience him as a vital artist outside the odd time Diamonds and Pearls or The Most Beautiful Girl was on mtv, he never quite felt real; like, how could this guy exist?

I still remember my mom buying me the "Batdance" single.

Vicki Vale
Vick-vicki Vale

Yo Jackie...let me stick the seven inch in the computer

on "Head" now.

"I think you like to go down
You wouldn't have stopped
But I, I came on your wedding gown"

man I'm gonna miss him for lines like this.....

home now. listening to a 2-CD boot of a 1988 show, "live in dortmund." amazing. amazing. amazing.

check this set list: http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/1988/westfalenhalle-1-dortmund-germany-63d856bb.html

omg

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODMwMDY2ODQ=.html

thank christ for sketchy chinese video streaming sites.

opening with Erotic City, damn nice

So after feeling curiously non-gutted most of the day (I'm guessing because I've spend most of the day listening to Prince, and his music makes me happy), I finally lost it when my husband showed me this photo:

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/musician-prince-and-actress-eva-longoria-watch-the-2007-nba-all-star-picture-id73364583

Maybe it's because I've been looking at older stuff all day, and here is looking happy in a (relatively) recent photo, but...wow.

guys

play the second disc of Emancipation.

The string bit in "Soul Sanctuary" is killing me.

I've always loved the twosome of "The Holy River" and "Let's Have a Baby."

the problem I'm having right now is as soon as I put anything on I'm already thinking an album ahead

tho I'm on Sign O' the Times now and the guitar solo on "Play in the Sunshine" = fuuuuuuuuuuuck yea

guess you could say he had to gett off this mortal coil

hey guys

tell me

who on this board

know about the QUAKE?

and I don't mean sexually satisfy to completion the members of musical group This Mortal Coil, but I wouldn't have put it past him

if there's one thing we know about Prince, it's that he loved music. if there's two things we know, it's that he loved music and ejaculating.

he sounds so great at his last show! and so funny. just a week ago. definitely didn't sound sick.