Prince RIP

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.

Fuck

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

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.

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.

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

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.

i thought this was nice, from the guardian blog, by field music (who i never really listened to, but i might do now)

One of the things Prince does amazingly well – so well that no one really notices – is make songs that don’t have chords. Each instrument plays its own little thing and they come together to make the song, but there isn’t necessarily a piano or guitar leading you through a harmonic pattern. It means there’s a lot of space for little sonic touches and for off-the-chart singing and it keeps things nicely ambiguous. This song might be the most ambiguous of all: a chaste affair with a waitress that sounds like it might all be taking place under water until the phone rings or they turn the radio on to listen to Joni Mitchell. Weird and beautiful.

i dont think i can listen to his music today. it will be too embarrassing at work.