http://eil.com/images/main/Prince+For+You+3397b.jpg
actual photo of Prince in heaven rn
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
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
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
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
― tsrobodo, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/alexanderbolton/status/723257547197677569?s=09
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
I mentioned that Joni cover in my obit.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:19 (eight years ago) link
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.]
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.]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
he was really great at the covers.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:27 (eight years ago) link
/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.
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
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Oh no
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-treated-drug-overdose-dead/
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link
Tampa Bay arena PA played a little bit of "Kiss" just now during a stoppage in the Red Wings/Lightning game
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
I feel like this story is about to get real sad real fast.
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Austin, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:56 (eight years ago) link
xpost
jeez, i had always thought he stayed away from that stuff :(
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 22 April 2016 00:57 (eight years ago) link
"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
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
its TMZ. how legit would that be?
i thought he was as clean living as could be.
i hope this story doesnt get sad.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 22 April 2016 00:59 (eight years ago) link
this does suck, RIP
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:01 (eight years ago) link
aww man, I love "When You WEre Mine" so much
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
minneapolis station is streaming nonstop prince:
http://www.thecurrent.org/listen
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:07 (eight years ago) link
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
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
TMZ also broke the story of his death today
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
Michael Jackson too I think?
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
hang tough, children
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
on "Uptown" now, god the synths all over this fuckin' album are so fuckin sweet
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
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 :(
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link
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?
― tsrobodo, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link
I still remember my mom buying me the "Batdance" single.
Vicki ValeVick-vicki Vale
Yo Jackie...let me stick the seven inch in the computer
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
on "Head" now.
"I think you like to go downYou wouldn't have stoppedBut I, I came on your wedding gown"
man I'm gonna miss him for lines like this.....
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
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
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
omg
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODMwMDY2ODQ=.html
thank christ for sketchy chinese video streaming sites.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 22 April 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
opening with Erotic City, damn nice
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 April 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
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 burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 April 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
the problem I'm having right now is as soon as I put anything on I'm already thinking an album ahead
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link
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
― del griffith, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
hey guys
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
tell me
who on this board
― Neanderthal, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
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
― del griffith, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
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.
― del griffith, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:13 (eight years ago) link
he sounds so great at his last show! and so funny. just a week ago. definitely didn't sound sick.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:44 (eight years ago) link
Fuck
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 April 2016 02:50 (eight years ago) link
Heard a beautiful statement from a radio caller, which normally might not sit well with me but in this case I thought was totally appropriate. I'll paraphrase: We didn't lose Prince. He was a gift to us from God, and now he can be back with his creator, where he belongs, and one day, I hope to see him again.
This might be the toughest for me of all of these so far.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 April 2016 03:15 (eight years ago) link
rumored cause of death was opioid overdone; allegedly he was given a safety shot the other night and didn't have the flu. if I had to make wild guesses, it might be that he had a painkiller problem, probably to deal with his hips and knees which allegedly needed to be replaced ages ago but he never did due to JW prohibitions on blood transfusions. Notably he did just do a huge tour where he was sitting down most of the time.
― akm, Friday, 22 April 2016 04:04 (eight years ago) link
overdose, not overdone.
the problem I'm having right now is as soon as I put anything on I'm already thinking an album ahead― Neanderthal
― MatthewK, Friday, 22 April 2016 05:35 (eight years ago) link
i guess this is a weird thing to think but i feel bad that tuomas is probably asleep and doesn't know yet. hugs 2 u when you wake up tuomas.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), 22. huhtikuuta 2016 1:04
Thank you for this, Jon. Yeah, I woke up to this news, and I can't really imagine any other musician whose death would be more shocking to me than his. Obviousky I was aware of his songs ever since childhood and liked them, but I didn't really delve into his music until in my 20s, and since then he has been one of the three popular musicians I've loved the most, alongside Nina Simone and Herbie Hancock. (You hang with us, Herbie!)
Regardless of what you think about Prince's image and politics, I think it's undeniable that he was a genius songwriter and musician, probably the biggest genius in pop music to have emerged in the last 40 years. But of course that image was a huge part of him too, and like people have said in this thread, he did a remarkable job in helping to break down rigid categories of living in the world, loosening rigid dichotomies such as gay/straight, black/white, man/woman.
I know that in his last years he said some nasty things to Wendy & Lisa (probably others too) about their sexuality, due to his Jehova's Witness faith, and I don't think that should be whitewashed either, it's an example how even the best of us can become bigoted. So fuck him for that, and fuck the JWs and any other religions that preach bigotry. But as a whole, I think his life and career and image in pop culture made being queer easier for countless people, so the positive still far outweighs the negative. Thank you for that, you sweet Prince.
I recently watched the episode of New Girl where he's the guest star, and even though it's not my favourite series, the way he emanates sexuality and mischief and (let's not forget that either) empathy for the broken ones was just awesome. I recommend watching that episode for all Prince fans and lovers, even if it was just fiction (though when it comes to pop stars, what isn't?), that's how I want to remember him.
― Tuomas, Friday, 22 April 2016 07:24 (eight years ago) link