prince

It's appropriate the anthology has godawful cover art in spirit with the period's albums

now everyone will get on the Musicology train with me & love Cinnamon Girl :D

that Ani DiFranco collab is something https://open.spotify.com/track/6ymv3Che2utTDRiICwaDwN

Can't think of a single situation where playing Sign O the Times would be inappropriate.

::SPOILER ALERT::
I thought his song in the closing credits was the best part of BlackkKlansman.

I'm sure I could think of a few.

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is there anyway to hear that blackklansman song without seeing the movie? (it's not in theaters here)

it's his version of Mary Don't You Weep that surfaced a few months back

it's on Piano and a Microphone, yeah?

that's the one

aah ok, thx

oh sick, I'm seeing that today. psyched

was watching that WMGGW RRHoF solo again and had never thought of before how ballsy a move it is to not only throw the guitar after the solo, but Prince is wearing a hat while doing this, and how easily could it have tipped his hat, but of course no, because Prince can somehow by sheer will pull these things off

like the way he enters the car at 1:30 in this video, which surely is a first take, but how does he know that he can do this and it won't go wrong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqf9fJM6JsQ

cause he's really short!

"How do you feel tonight, Prince?"

"I feel with my hands, Martha."

FINALLY

https://soundcloud.com/prince/17-days-1

is this the best thing i've ever heard

relatedly i recently realized that the b-sides disc of the hits/the b-sides is my favorite prince album

Damn.

relatedly i recently realized that the b-sides disc of the hits/the b-sides is my favorite prince album

― lowercase (eric), Thursday, September 6, 2018 1:10 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great choice tbh

this is gonna be on the piano & mic alb, right?

it's amazing, such a deep groove

it is indeed voodoo. I've been listening to this in terrible quality for several years.

this is so great, totally sold on the album

KEXP replaying Kevin Cole’s 4-hour tribute right now, really wonderful.

New collection of demos for songs he wrote for other artists out June 21 (two weeks earlier on Tidal):

https://pitchfork.com/news/prince-album-of-unreleased-demos-announced/

oh that's great !
although on some of these songs you can basically hear him already...

Awesome. Shame they didn’t include G-Spot but great looking release nonetheless

This should be a fun one, even to hear mastered versions of the ones I've heard already.

My wife and I visited Paisley Park yesterday. While there's no way it could have lived up to expectations, the whole thing seemed particularly bittersweet.

Our tour guide had moved from Tennessee two years ago presumably when Graceland got involved and it seemed she hadn't a particularly passionate fan. She kept blankly saying things like "Yeah...how about that? Isn't that cool?" about whatever item or room she described, which was maddening. There were some basic questions that she didn't seem to know the answers to. That said, the few display cases were great to see -- a cassette demo w/ "Andre Prince Bobby Matt" written on it, the lyrics to "Soft and Wet" handwritten in neat teenage cursive, the Linn (!), an original drawing for the 1999 cover, the "Dreams" notebook that turned into Purple Rain...

A while back I remember reading that they'd only been like 5 or 10% of the way through archiving, cataloging, etc. Also that the tax implications of not having a will meant that the process of turning it into a museum was sped up to generate revenue for the estate. Two years in, it still felt kind of thrown together. There's so much that they didn't cover, I have to think it's still a work in progress that will be built out over time. I hope to get to go back in a few years for a proper tribute.

Thanks for sharing that! My partner and I have been considering making the pilgrimage.

We saw Princess (Maya Rudolph's Prince cover band) the other night and while the singers definitely could have put more energy into it it was still a great show. The band was super-tight and they played mostly upbeat stuff from 80-83, including the extended live version of Lady Cab Driver and a really funny version of Cool by Morris Day and the Time.

Oh my!

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/prince-sign-o-the-times-1987-concert-film-reissued-as-4-disc-deluxe/

Eh. Where's the super deluxe version of the album itself, with b-sides and outtakes and alternate tracks and stuff? The fan-made version of that is awesome. Don't think I need or want a DVD set with duplicate DVDs/blu-rays and commentary and docs.

Auro-3D 11.1 mix though!

"I Would Die 4 U" popped up on shuffle while I was driving to work this morning, and I turned it up and just thought, "Not only did nothing sound like this in 1984, nothing sounds like this NOW."

i will prob buy this bc it's one of the greatest concert films of all time

no US version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnPX-uI7ivM

As much as I love Sheila's percussion, the minimalism of the Glamorous Life demo is really nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkV-EOvoqiE

Bummed this is a Tidal exclusive

That was just temporary - out on all platforms today

as of friday actually!
i like the boot copy of glamorous life with prince's vocals dialed down a bit, female vox up and the general production more out of control

Wow, this is so remarkably un-Princely!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37k0JufZ3iM

oh sick! thanks for the heads up

Really good piece here based around a new interview with Magnoli.

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/prince-batman-at-30-how-film-saved-his-career-1203251356/

In theory I should love this comp but I basically find it... meh...
Some of the tracks I already knew, some nice, some so-so.
I’m not sure I’ll listen to it a lot.

It's mostly crap.

I don't know how much replay value it'll have in the long run, but I'm enjoying it at the moment. His "Love...Thy Will Be Done" effectively renders Martika's unnecessary, for me.

Worth it for “Make-up” in pure coldwave arrangement, with a listless male voice.

Otm. I like the opener, “Blecch Shooter,” which seems to be the same track as the hit but with different vocals.

Wait, was it a hit? Don’t have chart info handy.