Prince RIP

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.

^^^ that was re love symbol album

But it's got ... Kirstie Alley?

Lol which track?

in retrospect, it's kind of weird Queen and Prince didn't collaborate. I can imagine Freddie Mercury loving the guy (and the intro to For You practically screams Queen)

Kirstie Alley plays frustrated reporter Vanessa Bartholomew in the two included segue tracks.

Xpost prince + queen really is a good gut level fit

You forget that Queen were despised by black musicians in the '80s because they played Sun City.

My Name is Prince is epic nonsense.

― Josh in Chicago,

the love symbol album and the gold experience are two of prince's strangest albums (and IIRC the interludes make them hard to listen to all the way through too often). i like them a lot, though. for me they are the last of his albums that i've spent a lot of time engaging with. i just found "emancipation' too exhausting, and never really found my way back to him after that.

btw "pussy control" is one of the great undersung (?) prince songs.

I don't see any connection between Prince and Queen, what a weird comparison

"3 Chains of Gold" earned the comparisons because "Bohemian Rhapsody" became a hit again that year.

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they are both royalty obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bTb-3HvSLU

I got the most disappointment out of my relisten to The Gold Experience. I used to love "P Control," now the rap annoys me. I didn't care for "Shy," "Billy Jack Bitch," "I Hate U," or "The Most Beautiful Girl..." "Gold" has a lovely melody but in its album form is too long. YET..."319" and "Endorphinmachine" and "Dolphin" still rule.

am, you need to spend time with Emancipation – one kiss at a time, as its creator said. Start with the second disk. I've lived with it almost 20 years by taking bite-sized samples and am never disappointed.

I don't remember a prince + little steven collab

Maybe it's still in the vault

I mostly see it between Freddie and Prince -- introverted musical prodigies who used a public persona to realize their wildest dreams, and who, talent-wise, vision-wise, seemed to be in different stratospheres than their peers. They also seemed to have zero interest in conforming to particular styles, and attempted new stuff even when their fans might have just wished they released stuff like the old days. And of course, they kept any kind of personal weakness/illness under wraps until almost the very end.