Prince RIP

Also, if only all these nu youtube postings had an expiration date posted so we would know in which order to watch them

The City Lights series of soundboard recordings from the various tours is amazing--I had never really heard Dirty Mind shows and they are absolutely sick! Lots of guitar workouts...

God, is 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man' just the most perfect song

yesssssssssssss

also, is that thing abt Sometimes... being recorded 21st april 1985 verified? it's blowing my mind

also, that While My Guitar solo... it's not Prince's most important statement as an artist, but it is undoubtedly a cosmic event - and in a few minutes it shows a lot of the incredible talents and idiosyncrasies that made Prince unique... and it sounds soooo good

I think I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man has my favorite Prince guitar solo, Purple Rain second. Does it kind of seem like there might be a longer version of ICNTTPOYM somewhere? Remember being slightly underwhelmed by the SOTT-dvd live version but probably just bcz studio version is perfection.

is that thing abt Sometimes... being recorded 21st april 1985 verified? it's blowing my mind

according to princevault.com, which lists the recording dates/studio session notes for every track, yes

you know what album is a kinda underrated, "lost" outlier in his catalog is "The Truth". I don't think I'd ever listened closely to the entire thing and while it has some clunkers it's charmingly low-key, doesn't feel like his other stuff from the same period really.

yeah I really like it. kinda like a "what if prince did mtv unplugged" exercise

still haven't heard "Dionne."

after this past week's revelations I can't keep waiting for the ICNTTPOYM solo to segue into Don't Stop Believing... but that doesn't make it any less great

I love that he asked Journey permission...Prince is the best

Sinead O'Connor
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Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades.... Arsenio Hall (AKA Prince's and Eddie Murphy's bitch) Anyone imagining prince was not a long time hard drug user is living in cloud cuckoo land. Arsenio I've reported you to the Carver County Sherrif's office. Expect their call. They are aware you spiked me years ago at Eddie murphy's house. You best get tidying your man cave.

damn

She's a bit cuckoo, no?

kinda curious about what arsenio's man cave looks like...

haha just came to post that

it's a bad look

uh oh

i'd also like to know why sinead was hanging out at arsenio's house. but it's probably party central over there. both arsenio and eddie murphy are gay. that much i do know.

Holy shit.

this is an image I got when I googled "gay man cave":

http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/17997920/aview/nude-man-at-sea-side-caveWE.jpg

Gay. Man. Cave.

very platonic

calling Arsenio somebody's b____ is one of the least revelatory zings i've ever encountered. he carries the rare suckuppitude gene.

he's so unfunny. one of the least funny people who is supposed to be funny.

if he actually spiked sinead's drink fuck him

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/a-final-visit-with-prince-rolling-stones-lost-cover-story-20160502?page=6

I guess RS prepared this for a cover in 2014 but never ran it....until now.

does arsenio hall still have a talk show? he had a new one a few years ago.

sinead o'connor basically seems like a walking, talking cry for help.

In that she is literally often explicitly crying for help? She's done that at least three or so times that I can remember. And that's just what she's posted on social media. This might be the first I've heard from her since there were concerns she was suicidal a few months back. I hope she's OK, or at least around people looking out for her.

CHANHASSEN, MN—Ending rampant speculation regarding the extent of the late musician’s catalogue of unreleased recordings, the executors of Prince’s estate announced Monday that the performer’s famed vault in his Paisley Park residence sadly contains 37,000 hours of Billy Joel covers. “Prince was constantly creating throughout his career, and after finally accessing his vast trove of previously unheard music, we now know that he produced over 40,000 albums’ worth of material that is, unfortunately, made up entirely of songs originally recorded by Billy Joel,” said attorney L. Londell McMillan, reluctantly admitting that Prince had produced at least 9,000 hours of “Uptown Girl” covers alone. “We regrettably found a slowed-down, 40-minute version of ‘Scenes From An Italian Restaurant’ from the late 1980s, as well as a melodic vocal-only version recorded more recently—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It appears he was still recording pulsing, guitar-driven covers of ‘She’s Always A Woman’ up until his death. Tragically, we could be hearing new Prince tracks covering Billy Joel classics for decades to come.” Dejected executors went on to announce they had discovered Prince’s private journals containing hundreds of pages of additional, updated verses to “We Didn’t Start The Fire.”

http://www.theonion.com/article/disappointing-prince-vaults-found-contain-37000-ho-52853 natch

when did the onion stop being funny?

i bet Prince liked a coupla BJ tunes.

xp when all their best writers started working on the incredible and brilliant Clickhole

uptown girl vs. uptown vs. uptown funk

xpost Well, he did write one of the best ones.

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Must read, rambling reminiscences from an engineer who was with him from controversy through lovesexy -

http://www.prosoundnetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=46040

man, that interview was like Prince-nerd heaven

but in a good way, he seems like all the people who knew their shit just loved working with him because he rewarded their knowledge & hard work

Been reading the Rolling Stone interview, and his claim of going days with no food is an opioid addiction red flag. :(

My favorite satellite radio channel The Groove has been playing nothing but Prince and Prince-related stuff since he died. This morning a clip from Quincy Jones came on, with Jones saying that "Bad" was originally written to be a duet with Prince. They even had a meeting at Michael's house, where MJ apparently mispronounced "Minneapolis." Prince decided the song would be a hit with or without him and passed. Still, I'd never heard that!

http://comedyhype.com/chris-rock-found-out-why-prince-turned-down-michael-jacksons-bad-in-1997/

cannot imagine what the video would have looked like

yeah, read about that in the recent Genius of Michael Jackson book ... there was also a hilarious footnote about a show MJ attended in 2007: "prince did not respond to a direct email asking why he played bass in Michael Jackson's face."

I watched one interview (can't remember which) where Prince mentions he would have been the Wesley Snipes character in the video, and then says something like "you know the first line, your butt is mine -- who's it referring to? either you're saying it to me, or I'm saying it to you, and either way, I don't want any part of this song"

haha xpost!

So weird that Michael named his son Prince. And "My Name is Prince" has that line about needing to be a Prince before you become King, which was a direct response to MJ's King of Pop nonsense.

Yeah,but song was nonsense too.

My Name is Prince is epic nonsense.

I listened to all of this album yesterday for maybe the first time ever. It's deeply weird! The back half gets pretty showtunesy/queen-esque at times and the number of tracks with tony rapsalot on them is fewer than I thought. And he only really ruins one or two.