Prince RIP

I have tried and tried again with the Love Symbol album but it still sounds damn patchy to me.

I love it and it still sounds patchy!

that RS issue contains the Freddie obit: squint and you can see the cover line. this was right before Wayne's world, and so there was some restraint, as mainstream rock press continued to be discomfitted by Queen.

there can be no doubt that "3 chains of gold" was him customizing "boho rap," and indeed that record was right after Wayne's world and that annoying "BR" video where you had to watch Carvey and Myers instead of unexpurgated Queen.

that nutsoid falsetto trill on "Pussy Control": probly the last time I said "I can't believe how great that is."

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probly the last time I said "I can't believe how great that is" about anything he did.

I think "Diamonds and Pearls" was where I got off the bus, if I remember correctly the singles past "Gett off" and "Cream" were quite luscious where i preferred the more spartan arrangements.

I did get Chaos and Disorder recently, 50p Oxfam, again not got round to hearing it yet.

I think the lyrics of "Gett Off" are the funniest thing Prince ever recorded.

Ribs

man the Discogs prices for the Lovesexy LP are INSANE, gonna wait for a couple of months.

I bought all my Prince vinyl years (if not decades) ago, but the two I never ever saw were Lovesexy and Around the World in a Day

Lovesexy makes sense, it was in the CD era and I bet they pressed a lot less. I've had a beautiful clean copy of ATWIAD for a long time, think I got it from a thrift store.

I left behind a box of records by accident during a move in 1996 and it had all the 80s Prince LPs and almost all the 12"'s to date in it. I almost cried

IIRC, Lovesexy had some distribution issues because some chains wouldn't stock it or at least display it prominently because of the cover.

on the last huge tour (welcome 2 america) prince did the most amazing cover of dont stop til u get enough into the time's cool.. i think he did it at every show. it was amazing.

While we're talking about Prince vinyl, one of my favourite silly Prince things is the way his bellybutton is perfectly framed on the spine of Parade.

Wait how is "When You Were Mine" not on The Essential Cyndi Lauper?

― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 24, 2016 6:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Unless it is on non-streaming version.

― PiL Communication (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 24, 2016 6:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah Prince actually even kept most of the COVERS of his songs off of Spotify so you get Cyndi albums/comps with only "When" missing, Sinead albums with "Nothing" missing, etc.

Prince, Around the World in a Day, Parade, Sign 'o' the Times, The Black Album, Lovesexy, Batman, Graffiti Bridge, Love Symbol and Come all getting vinyl reissues in the coming months.

yesss if they do those the same way they did the previous four that will be awesome, my remasters of 1999 and Purple Rain sound really good

Maybe that means the download versions will get remastered as well...?

man the Discogs prices for the Lovesexy LP are INSANE, gonna wait for a couple of months.

― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:12 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not so bad on eBay, I just got a copy for 20 bux. got around the world in a day for 15

Position Position otm, that spine's p cute/funny.

around the world in the day is a staple of used record stores! it's the easiest prince album to find in my experience (1999 is easy, too).

maybe not this week, but at any point in the last 20 years...

prince singles are also in literally every record store

at least............they were

yea i see 1999 everywhere. purple rain only prince vinyl in stock when i checked last weekend

Pop Life is such a creepy, eery song.

did anyone post this? damn, dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7ny4xxLnA

makes sense that there would be a ton of copies of around the world... since it was the less successful follow-up to a huge, huge album.* they probably printed a gazillion copies of it and sold slightly less.

*wikipedia sez purple rain sold 13 million (!!!) and around the world sold 2 million

no one will EVER sell 13 million records again

wait, adele sold 30 million records? nevermind. wow.

Was gonna say..

unless you're looking for a very specific press of lovesexy it shouldn't be expensive at all https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?sort=price%2Casc&master_id=22006&ev=mb&format=Vinyl

only 80s album that should be a bit pricey (but not very) is black album, on then it looks like Come (1994) and records onwards can be expensive on vinyl

there are so many prince records I don't see the need for reissues but if it makes people happy it's good

Amateurist, you're comparing US sales for one album to worldwide sales for another. 21 in all likelihood sold 10+ million more worldwide but it's 11 times platinum in the U.S. to Purple Rain's 13x platinum. Sorry to be pedantic but I'm a total geek for chart/sales stats and it still raises my hackles when everyone mixes this stuff up, even though no one cares (actually, it's probably because no one cares).

But yeah, Purple Rain was totally huge. Together with 1999 - at 4x platinum the runner up sales-wise in the U.S. at least - that was his moment. There's a reason why the singles from those two (plus "Kiss" of course) so thoroughly and irritatingly dominate all the tributes and the post-mortem public conversation around Prince; through "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" each record was good for one or two top 10 hits, but he never had a true blockbuster album again. Even Diamonds and Pearls stopped short of 3 million.

santana paying tribute with something that isnt purple rain (its a song from the rainbow children instead, which is surprising, but very cool (though santana gets the title wrong)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7TlFgj9jZ8

On the face of it, it was something of a drop off post PR...3 million, 4 million, 2million..of course we're talking an album a year+ protégé + numerous singles...a lot of product up to the end of the decade

a weird list of vault contents -

http://www.aux.tv/2016/05/99-items-found-in-princes-secret-vault/

some interesting collaborations i never knew existed.

Batdance Project — Remixes and expanded versions featuring Roxette as Catwoman.

I presume this means Roxette the Swedish band? I guess the writer doesn't know that "Roxette" isn't the name of the lead singer... Unless Per Gessle also plays Batwoman, which would certainly be interesting.

Oh, after reading the list a bit further, it's obviously a joke item. Still, get your artist names right, parody writer!

i worked a U.S. Dream Academy event last night, and they revealed that Prince had once quietly donated a large sum to their organization.

Well, now I have "Life in a Northern Town" stuck in my head.

re Diamonds And Pearls; that was his biggest UK album; triple platinum! Purple Rain only went double. baffles me that. D&P sold about 10 times as many copies as Sign O The Times.

Double albums be expensive.

Also, D&P was very CD.

"a weird list of vault contents -

http://www.aux.tv/2016/05/99-items-found-in-princes-secret-vault/

some interesting collaborations i never knew existed."

hahaha, cute troll.

Some real things mixed in with the fake in that vault article.

http://pitchfork.com/news/65243-prince-died-one-day-before-scheduled-meeting-with-opioid-addiction-doctor-report/

fuuuck

god dammit

niels, all those copies of Lovesexy are outside the US, and shipping is around $20

kinda blows my mind that almost every single copy of the US pressing that's on sale has been bought by ppl in other countries, I see this with other records as well

and yeah that doctor appointment thing is so sad

My heart is broken

Fuck

U should read the star tribune story by the way, it is more detailed

The fucking opioid doctor's son went to the house carrying the first fucking dose of the detox drug, and found Prince dead.

How the fuck did this story get even sadder

Having crying at work reprise 4/21 part 2 right now

http://m.startribune.com/addiction-doctor-was-to-have-seen-prince-just-before-his-death/378051471/

Mauzy said that Andrew Kornfeld told him that the others “screamed” when they found Prince and “were in too much shock” to call 911.

Unfamiliar with Paisley Park, Andrew Kornfeld simply told the dispatcher, “We’re at Prince’s house.”

Asked again to give an address, he said simply: “The people are just distraught. … We’re in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and we are at the home of Prince