Prince RIP

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)

Yessssssss

Holy craaaaaap

That left me speechless

I've never seen that. I think I was too cool to watch the Grammies that year

Dortmund '88 is back up (if it ever was completely?)

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

haha @ prince blowing up the grammys

yeeeesss

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.

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.

holy shit at that grammys performance

His guitar work is getting just praise, but let's talk about his keyboard skills. As 1999 showed, he knew how to play synths.

his AMA perf of "Purple Rain" equally mindblowing.

the synths in 80s Prince were spellbinding. part of what made me sidle up to 1999 so quickly.

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!

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.

Prince can sue from beyond the grave, he's that mystical

i'm goin to a karaoke night to sing only Prince songs tonight

Eye'm going 2 type in Prince speak 4 the whole week.

eye know!

i'm goin to a karaoke night to sing only Prince songs tonight

Good luck nailing that falsetto!

I've done I Wanna Be Your Lover before.....(spliffs hair)

listening to "Delirious" now. I love that squeaky sine-wave

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i'm goin to a karaoke night to sing only Prince songs tonight
Good 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

instant gulag for that shit

Wish Bob had sung it.

If anyone comes across a watchable link for the SOTT concert movie pls post it here

http://youtu.be/KkOxeKA2WNE

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.

If anyone comes across a watchable link for the SOTT concert movie pls post it here

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.

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.

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/04/22/defying-description-zz-tops-billy-gibbons-on-prince-the-sensational-guitarist/

Yeah, that is kind of cool.

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.’

I'm really digging the sneaky shadow funk in "Graffiti Bridge," like "Joy in Repetition" and "Thieves in the Temple."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqkS-9PHbu0

a live "America" with Prince on drums.

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.

god shed his grace on thee

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.

lol

It's more than possible Prince stipulated that posting these clips and whatnot was perfectly OK with him once he passed.

Eye was just thinking that the Lovesexy show posted above would be a great video 2 show 2 somebody who wanted 2 c what the fuss was about. Eye imagine there's a whole generation 'o' Prince fans who have absorbed the albums who r having a great time on U Tube checking out things they've not seen b4.

Wait which link was the lovesexy show? This was a video or a DL?

There was a U Tube embed of it above.

You could also search for Dortmund 88, I think

Maybe not. Maybe it's not indexed or something. Anyway http://www.youtube.com/etMqfDsFIKw

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

prince died so the world could see his bootleg videos

the bruce cover is emotional