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
Ah well.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
The Amazon search term you're looking for is "region-free DVD player." They are surprisingly cheap.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
thx for offering to buy me a new DVD player, yr the coolest
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
omghttp://bigstory.ap.org/91ff5f9a086b4824bca6039f01f5fbc3
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
oh lord.
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
At least that hopefully means there's nothing to stop a flood of vault releases...
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Someone's on the phone to the Hendrix estate right now: "so there's a market for purple liqueurs, you say?"
http://www.houseofhaironline.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/purplehaze.png
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
That's really startling to me given that he had charitable corporations going, I would think he'd have thought of that at least
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
Also the team of female black lawyers. Wouldn't they have suggested something?
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
Prince, always one to welcome suggestions
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
There's just no way this is good news. I hope a document turns up.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is terrible
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
no will /is/ startling. prince seems like he had the broad outlines of his business stuff pretty together.
also both shocking and non-shocking that the estate is valued at "only" 27 million. on the one hand, prince is one of the best-selling artists of all time, and he probably sold $27 million worth of records in any given six months between 1984 and 1994. on the other hand, i imagine the royalties were thinner in recent years, not only b/c of general decline in album sales, but also because a fair amount of his work in the 21st century was really poorly distributed. also, unlike some other stars whose sales had declined, prince kept a full staff at paisley park. that couldn't have been cheap. and if you believe the tabloids, he had an expensive prescription-drug habit.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
i'm sure that like most aging superstars he made way more money touring than album sales -- his willingness to 'give away' his albums in various formats suggested as much. (in fact prince seemed to recognize or anticipate this dynamic even before the bottom fell out of the record industry).
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
That article says $27 in property. I don't know if they mean that literally or not, but I can imagine he has a lot more money than that.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
I was assuming that was primarily real estate.
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
makes much more sense
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
There are worse states to die intestate in than Minnesota -- legally, it'll be complicated because he had a bunch of siblings, but the law is fairly clear generally.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
I wouldn't expect his finances to be anything more than a mess - he obviously spent money as fast as he made it, and the royalties from his biggest stuff probably diminished over time given his relationship w WB and their shitty handling of his catalog. I'm sure he *owned* a bunch of crazy stuff (not the least of which is the rights to everything in his vault), plus real estate, who knows what else.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
― how's life, Tuesday, April 26, 2016
too busy stopping transgressions iirc
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
TMZ estimates his estate is valued between 100 and 150 mil. and yeah, his opiate and speed addiction was a huge shocker to me.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link