Prince RIP

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

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

Check out the mix on Crystal Ball with the gospel choir singing the chorus.

Momus dayo & the Tim F

Ha, sorry wrong thread

i was gonna say, what a strange choir

This has to be bullshit, right?

Yes

Duane train on WFMU today bumped four Billy Paul cuts (including very funny customization of "Let me in") and then 2:30 of PRN rarities, starting with what sounded like a very very rough pass at "the screams of Passion" which would be credited to the Time on Graffiti Bridge (calls out the chord changes to whomever) and then a STAGGERING rehearsal of "something in the water…" evidently from '84 and with a monstrous solo…was not familiar with the provenance of many in the next two hours, but thought they sounded like they would have been recorded in the past 20 years…nope, most from the '80s…finished up with a live "17 days," "1999" and a demo for the Mavis "dog in heat" tune.

all here…http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/66350

a bunch (most?) of those tracks are on the Perfect Unreleased comp that's been circulating around here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPGQicX-UZY

Love this version

everybody needs a thrill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMkayXy_7JM

Which Prince would famously not let him record and release as a b-side. Wasn't Prince also one of the only ones who said no to "Weird" Al?

Think so.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/weird-al-prince-is-one-singer-who-consistently-said-no-to-parody-so-2014247

EC recycled his "Pop Life" backing track to make this (which is not nearly as good): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGhlUBtY8_I

Has Al ever talked about what the parodies would have been?

I have to admit that the other day I was making some sourdough in the breadmachine and came up with "Now morning, noon, and night/I bake you BREAD". I was ashamed though because I knew Prince wouldn't have wanted it that way.

weird al was in the partyman video...

this is from the ivan julian benefit last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucV8xNPazk

"Purple Rain" is turning into the next "A Change Is Gonna Come"

By next year it'll be up there with "Imagine" and "Redemption Song."