susan rogers should be in charge of the vault!
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 25 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
okay, if you are only gonna watch ONE mega over the top version of purple rain....yikes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vCS_iKITCY
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:00 (eight years ago) link
jeez...thx for that
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
the entire show is up ~for now~ and it's amazing
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 03:05 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/user-353868239/prn1999
Here's 2.5 hours of Prince demos
― fgti, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
holy fuck i am losing my mind over these demosFucking crush my skull
if only i could download them
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:08 (eight years ago) link
oh my god
There's a plugin for Firefox that lets u
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
http://anything2mp3.com/
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
thank you so much!!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
"Do Yourself a Favour" fuckkk
Also
http://soundflush.com/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m56fBgL.jpg
That's Charlie Murphy on the concrete there, in case you couldn't tell.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
i feel like i just opened a treasure chest
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/magazine/prince-andthe-competition.html?_r=0
To mount a proscenium in the company of Prince, who died Thursday at age 57, was to bask in greatness and to risk humiliation. On occasions like this one, Prince’s performances had a way of shifting from show business as usual — a star’s prerogative to entertain and strut his stuff — into the realm of pure blood sport. He aimed not only to put on a great show but also to show others up, to singe lesser mortals with pyrotechnic displays of musicianship and charisma. His competitive instincts could overwhelm his gentler, courtlier ones. A month before the Rock Hall gig, he appeared on the Grammy Awards, charging through a medley of his hits alongside Beyoncé. You could see him straining to be courteous, to cede the spotlight a bit. But after a few minutes, he appeared to lose patience and cranked up the virtuosity — dancing, shredding on guitar, sliding from the depth-sounder bottom end of his vocal register into an otherworldly falsetto. The spectacle concluded with another guitar toss, and Beyoncé, one of the world’s more unflappable performers, was left looking rather windblown, teetering on her high heels.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 07:50 (eight years ago) link
was travelling when I heard the news and could not believe it
such a powerful soul, his curiosity in music has given me so much inspiration, his musicality was mindblowing, his sense of humour contagious
we had a very uncommon level of snowfall this april
rip :'(
― niels, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
I love how that soundcloud mix *starts* with Extra Lovable. Like, right off the bat, here's a jam that could have been a hit for anyone.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link
seriously anyone in this thread not listening to that demos mix needs to GETT ON ITT STTATT
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:53 (eight years ago) link
Several years ago, a local virtuoso tribute band (in recent months they've tackled both Bowie and Earth, Wind & Wire) did a Prince set. This was the setlist:
Sexy M.F.Alphabet St.When Doves CryNothing Compares 2 USign 'O' The TimesSevenHousequakeP ControlHeadLittle Red CorvetteElectric ChairPop LifeStarfish & Sometimes MedleyDarling NikkiLady Cab DriverCall My NameLet's Go CrazyPurple Rain
Songs were apparently chosen democratically, which is why I think the setlist was maybe a missed opportunity. So, question: if you could choose two (and only two) songs to go, which would they be, and what would you pick to replace them? I'd probably kill "P Control" and swap it for "Erotic City" and swap "Electric Chair" for "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
(Ha, Earth Wind and Fire)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
No, do not tell me there's no such crossover band as "Earth, Wind and Wire" and that means they don't do "Boogie WonderDrill"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
Wire ... now with horns and Afro-futurist pyramid lyrics!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
Interrupting my love train of thoughtWhite lines of latitude and longitude
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
i think 'erotic city' could have been a huge hit had prince been willing to sanitize the lyrics for radio play
it's certainly his stealth greatest hit, if you know what i mean
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
i wonder, what do we think is prince's worst album, excluding some of the web-only and concert-only releases? i suspect there aren't many qualified to answer that question, since it requires close familiarity with all this albums, including those from the last 10 years. conventional wisdom says his nadir was around the turn of the millenium, with rave un2 the joy fantastic and (the very different) rainbow children.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:07 (eight years ago) link
that's about right
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
I like The Rainbow Children, but it's probably the biggest outlier in the whole Prince catalogue.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
Didn't he issue two VHS cassettes at one point, in the middle of the "Slave" business, wonder what they were about..?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link
N.E.W.S. is the worst by a wide margin.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
Rainbow Children had The Everlasting Now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXcERc3N0zc
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
Man, John Blackwell is pretty much the best drummer Prince or anyone ever had.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, this was one of them..
https://www.discogs.com/Prince-The-Undertaker/release/2186861
Had a soundtrack CD as well..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
awwww man was that demo thing taken down already?
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Prince-Live-The-Sacrifice-Of-Victor/release/4443065
and this was the other one.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
Lotta (all?) those demos were on those Perfect Unreleased Prince comps.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
watched that SNL special and i dug that double guitar jam about losing your job at McDonalds. don't know what album that was on.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
rainbow children and rave are def not his worst. rainbow children is actually his most inspired since lovesexy. those would be HITnRUN Phase One and Two, Plectrum Electrum, and NEWS. hard to pick really, but its def the ones from the last decade.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
Art Official Age was great though
― niels, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
prob his best since 3121. his new co producer helped a lot. prob his most 'modern' sounding album in a long time in various ways.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
Is the 'Work It' bootleg anthology the best way to hear all the unreleased stuff which is currently circulating? Found some (but nowhere near all) on Soulseek. Where can it be found?
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link
It's not the best way because it's, what, 32 CDs long? I think you can find a lot more compact/collated compilations.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Someone on ILX years ago was kind enough to burn me CDs of at the time all his 12"s to date.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
PaulTMA, I'm only interested in Prince up through Lovesexy--Work It 2.0 for those years is Nos. 1-14...I am digging it immensely
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
a while ago, some super-fan put together "homemade deluxe editions" of all of prince's albums through the love-symbol album, with bonus tracks -- outtakes, demos, 12" versions, remixes, etc. the sign of the times deluxe edition ran to 7 (!!) discs. there were even "homemade deluxe editions" of the vanity 6 and the family albums. they were pretty amazing, but seem to have disappeared from the web. (hmmm maybe i should upload those somehow?)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, amateurist, I cherish those "Foefur"'s editions too!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
oh I'd go away up to The Gold Experience at least
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
that album RULES
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
was there ever a DVD release of his Warner Bros era videos? Once upon a time I had the VHS video comp that came w the Hits/B-Sides but that's long dead and I am especially annoyed these days that it's basically impossible to re-watch things like the Alphabet St or Little Red Corvette videos, which are burned into my brain
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Prince-The-Hits-Collection/release/2730730
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:11 (eight years ago) link
that DVD is Europe-only
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link