Prince RIP

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.

Arguments can and will be made that JW beliefs contributed greatly to his early death, Tomas, so he fucked himself and you don't have to.

^^^ LOGIC.

do JWs not believe in receiving medical treatment?

Blood transfusions.

They don't believe in transfusions. Everything else is OK. xp

fuck :( :( :(

I admire your tenacity, Matt DC, even if absolutely nothing else about you whatsoever is admirable.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1159896994042718&id=162957660403328

This just showed up in my fb feed as my bus is driving past Gallaudet.

― how's life, Thursday, April 21, 2016 5:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Here's another post from them, with better pics.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1058030807562671&id=162957660403328

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11825578_1058026347563117_5880469998232340446_n.jpg?oh=a1c640ae59fd28d66c81d6cf0156af75&oe=57B84844
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/10403485_1058026357563116_6142523207009784325_n.jpg?oh=8670b8c3616ab58e4d57ed8981d89286&oe=5774BD20

bbc4 showing a prince docu tonight but its the wrong one (one of their 'we have schedule time to fill' cheapies) - they should be showing the omnibus docu from the 1990s.

TWU - you realise that speculating on an artist's death and religion when we don't even know the reason yet and concluding "he fucked himself" is pretty dumb, right?

Sure. So's holding grudges against people you don't know over years.

That said, TMZ is reporting an overdose last week, that Prince has needed hip and knee replacement and not gotten it because of the JW prohibition on blood transfusion is common knowledge, so it's not that far to fetch. I was mostly about giving Tomas an out on cursing his favorite artist for religious beliefs -- I'm agnostic on the cause of death.

Tthe crazies are already speculating that because Prince had a history with epilepsy he had an adverse reaction to a flu shot, which is bonkers, so I just want to wait for something closer to the truth to clear the air.

for now I don't give a shit about the why, just leveled that it happened. we can dissect the reason for it, as we did with MJ, after the initial shock has worn off

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.

Was listening to Sign O' The Times on the way to work this morning and thinking about exactly this. Like, "U Got The Look" is basically just a I-IV-V variation in B, but the guitar arrangement (until the solo and outro) is so sparse that it leaves room for so, so much. Same with the title track, or "Forever In My Life" and plenty of other tunes. It's this amazing combination of space and density.

The only thing that catches my attention - and I agree, this is such a huge shock I don't really want to speculate - is that Prince was so smart, so in control, so seemingly healthy and, afaik had no real relationship to addictive drugs, alcohol, even smoking (cigarettes). The guy was always fit like a master. I just can't believe that something as mundane as drugs did him in. MJ was clearly messed up on multiple levels, surrounded by sycophants and enablers and sketchy people. Everyone knew that. Prince was weird, but that was part of who he always was, not something he became, or something he and a huge army of handlers had to surmount. He wasn't isolated, but he was always in control, of his music, image, environment, everything.

"When Doves Cry" barely has chords, right? And "Sign" has all sorts of novel experiments, from no chords, to VU chug, to Beatles pop, to hard funk, just finding his way around the possibilities of music.

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 was born in the 70s and he didn't seem real through his vital 80s! "Vital" is a word I've seen a lot in the past day. I think his vitality on stage is what makes it such a shock that he was ultimately as mortal as the rest of us.

1999 and Purple Rain were huge with me and my friends when we were teenagers. We grew up in a very much white guys with guitars world and I hope Prince managed to open our minds a tiny little bit to other possibilities.

I hadn't listened much to him in recent years (I bought Purple Rain on the train home last night as for some reason it had never made its way onto my ipod!) but like everyone else I assumed he was always going to be around making records and being Prince.

I like that two of the stories I've read of people meeting him and also one from a guy on BBC news last night all mentioned how good he smelled, that there are people all over the world going "I met Prince and he was awesome and funny and he smelled great!"

"The only thing that catches my attention - and I agree, this is such a huge shock I don't really want to speculate - is that Prince was so smart, so in control..."

He was also a complete loon. The crackpots in my FB feed are posting this and also speculating that Sony and Warner Bros have assassinated him and Michael for pulling their stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjefpNkuas&feature=youtu.be