Yes.
Really missing the videos rn.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 April 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
Agreed about Emancipation, a few standout songs but mostly just great vibe all the way through.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 23 April 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
Human Body!
― ulysses, Saturday, 23 April 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
So the last song of the final show that he played (2016-04-14 - Late Show, Fox Theatre, Atlanta) was Purple Rain.
― doug watson, Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/hYp0j1G.jpg
Prince passes by a pee-stained wall while holding a scepter
― calstars, Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
Has Bob Dylan made a statement?
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
He's recording a covers album.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
He's still figuring out what to say about Merle Haggard.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
He's still figuring out what to say about Merle Haggard. Glenn Frey
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 April 2016 01:56 (eight years ago) link
The fella from Warner Brothers who usually takes down all the Prince stuff from You Tube within minutes, appears to have taken the weekend off, so watch this and grab it before he's back at the coalface on Monday morning. Arguably the absolute peak of the absolute peak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SINtBF4_dHA
(apols if this has been posted already)
― piscesx, Sunday, 24 April 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
Yessssssss
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Sunday, 24 April 2016 02:34 (eight years ago) link
Holy craaaaaap
That left me speechless
I've never seen that. I think I was too cool to watch the Grammies that year
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 24 April 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
Dortmund '88 is back up (if it ever was completely?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etMqfDsFIKw
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 24 April 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
haha @ prince blowing up the grammys
― real orgone kid (NickB), Sunday, 24 April 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
yeeeesss
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Sunday, 24 April 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
Sign o the times is a incredible film. But the lovesexy show IMO is Prince at his live performing peak. Or his greatest show at least. Not one weak second.
I'm finding myself more preoccupied with Prince than maybe any time since my teen years. After MJ who was my childhood favourite, Prince was my all time musical hero. I fell out of the obsession in my late teens as I got into hip hop but its only now strangely that I realize just how much energy I put into thinking about Prince back then and how much I read about him! Still maintain that the Pop Life book is the best book written on him.
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 24 April 2016 07:46 (eight years ago) link
the way I see it is, Michael Jackson was the universal pop superstar that even casual fans of music loved. but there were always limitations to what he would do because he was confined within a very specific bubble (an awesome bubble mind you), whereas Prince was this also-huge pop culture icon who didn't mind fucking with his audience and going into left field and giving them a whole bunch of gifts they didn't know they wanted.
interestingly for me, I got into Prince right on the tail end of an MJ obsession. Invincible had just come out (and it kinda sucked), so I picked up History, and was spinning that, and I wanted something a little funkier, so I got 1999 was kinda blown away by the expansiveness of it, 8 minute funk songs! rockabilly done w/ synths a la "Delirious". his guitar playing though just added so much flavor to the songs, giving a rock edge where it was needed. just trying to imagine "Let's Go Crazy" without that driving riff underneath is impossible.
I think I bought 10 to 12 of his albums over the next year, it was an obsession. friends got tired of me talking about him. i wish I had pulled the trigger to see him live. never getting to see him is now going to be one of my biggest regrets.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
holy shit at that grammys performance
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 24 April 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
His guitar work is getting just praise, but let's talk about his keyboard skills. As 1999 showed, he knew how to play synths.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:04 (eight years ago) link
his AMA perf of "Purple Rain" equally mindblowing.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
the synths in 80s Prince were spellbinding. part of what made me sidle up to 1999 so quickly.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
It's amazing how much Youtube has been flooded with Prince content now that he's not around to sue anyone. We'll see how long that lasts!
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link
Right, watch it while you can!
The 2008 Coachella creep cover video actually has relatively extensive documentation of the paperwork of if going down and back up again.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
Prince can sue from beyond the grave, he's that mystical
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
i'm goin to a karaoke night to sing only Prince songs tonight
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
Eye'm going 2 type in Prince speak 4 the whole week.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
eye know!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Good luck nailing that falsetto!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
I've done I Wanna Be Your Lover before.....(spliffs hair)
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
listening to "Delirious" now. I love that squeaky sine-wave
Flag Post Permalinki'm goin to a karaoke night to sing only Prince songs tonightGood luck nailing that falsetto!― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, April 24, 2016 1:50 PM (2 minutes ago)
i'm goin to a karaoke night to sing only Prince songs tonightGood luck nailing that falsetto!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, April 24, 2016 1:50 PM (2 minutes ago)
Don't be like this guy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv3Q61Da1CQ
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
instant gulag for that shit
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 24 April 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
Wish Bob had sung it.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
If anyone comes across a watchable link for the SOTT concert movie pls post it here
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
http://youtu.be/KkOxeKA2WNE
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
bah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOxeKA2WNE
Great to remember that from July 7, 1984 to Feb. 9, 1985, Bruce and Prince had the #1 albums in the country. 31 weeks between the two of them.
― T.L.O.P.son (Phil D.), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
I am still quite upset.
Walked home the night after he passed away, "Purple Rain" on the headphones. It'd been a warm day, but a strong breeze was coming through. Walking down the street in this breeze, wind blowing into me as that ridiculously brilliant guitar solo kicks in, a perfect moment. But there was so many perfect moments in Prince's discography.
"Raspberry Beret" was one of the first songs that I loved, which I did as a small child. (I didn't know it was about the s-e-x then, of course. Turned out a few of his songs were about that.)
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" was an important song to me, for reasons that I have forgotten.
Some people dislike the full version of "When Doves Cry" but no, the last two minutes are immensely terrific.
Listened to "Black Sweat" last night, relentlessly my favourite Prince song of this particular millennium.
"When 2 R in Love" was confrontational, I appreciate that.
"I Would Die 4 U" was immensely glorious, joyful, life-affirming.
"The Cross" was more spiritual than any hymn.
"Uptown" was necessary, still necessary.
"Cream" was absurd brilliance, of funk and unapologetic tongue (at least) in cheek.
"Anotherloverholenyohead" was driving, was funk into static.
"Jam of the Year" was a lack of filter, but he's done enough to not need a filter.
"Little Red Corvette" was another of those s-e-x songs that I loved as a kid before I knew about the s-e-x.
"It" was one of those s-e-x songs that I love as an adult.
"Alphabet St." was light and joy.
"Sometimes It Snows In April" was of passing, is of passing. Of that he stayed in Paisley Park, in Minneapolis, as The Kid and everything after and yet touched even boring white boys far away like myself - and only a song could come from there, even that I know. I listened to it after I heard the news and it was utterly devastating. For me, it is autumn - fall, to you - and there is loss. That breeze again.
And that's only some of the songs.
― David Goey (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_Wp4vVlB8
This is the only tribute cover I've seen so far that's been a welcome interpretation.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
man the wealthy of material FINALLY emerging on YouTube.
Check out "Pop Life" and "Life Can Be So Nice" from the Parade tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcYEKH28MY0
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/04/22/defying-description-zz-tops-billy-gibbons-on-prince-the-sensational-guitarist/
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that is kind of cool.
― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah. In fact, that entered the conversation. He asked me, ‘Does your beard get in the way like some of my costumes?’ And I was stunned momentarily and I thought about it and said, ‘You know, perhaps so.’ But then he grabbed my arm and said, ‘Don’t get me wrong, I’m okay with it.’
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
I'm really digging the sneaky shadow funk in "Graffiti Bridge," like "Joy in Repetition" and "Thieves in the Temple."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqkS-9PHbu0
a live "America" with Prince on drums.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
I don't know how I feel about all the YouTube uploads. Feels kind of shitty to immediately go against his wishes as soon as he's dead.
― Position Position, Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
god shed his grace on thee
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
Eye no, but at the same time it's great for fans 2 c videos they may not have seen b4 and also it helps non-converts 2 c what the fuss was about. Eye think the slew of videos on U Tube r helping 2 keep the memories alive and may help others 2 get in2 Prince. Eye have a feeling that those U Tube videos may not last long, though.
― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link