Even though The Gold Experience isn't on the level of his classic 80s run, I sometimes think of it as my favourite
I have planned to really get into Come and Gold Experience for a while but never really took the time... Gotta do that now ! Similarly, I KNOW Batman is nowhere near his best 80 albums yet it might be my favourite now. It's the one I go to when I feel like listening to Prince nowadays anyway.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
PARTYMAN
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 June 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
It's such a cool/groovy album (with killer slow jamz too) !I listened to "Gold" and it is nice and catchy. Makes me think of a final song for the happy end of a drama movie in the 90s.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 14 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
yes it is v coming-of-age movie closing credits
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 June 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
Gold was a UK top 10 hit but it's rarely heard anywhere these days. After Prince's death I loved playing the full album version while DJing - always sounded glorious at a loud volume
― PaulTMA, Friday, 14 June 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
i love playing it in class!
― maura, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
"Gold" is awesome, as is most of The Gold Experience.
― Tuomas, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4YVbDCSGAgThis is a deep cut from that album that I really love... Possibly the most explicitly political song he'd ever done up to that point?
― Tuomas, Friday, 14 June 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Ronnie Talk to Russia is p explicit
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
umhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRApCABjMdo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
lol xp
Yeah, I guess. It's so corny and out of place on that album I think my mind subconsciously makes me forget it exists.
― Tuomas, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
why is it out of place? If you're a minority, you're already under siege. Besides, it's short and fun.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
Wait why is « most beautiful girl » not available on the Spotify version of the album (and how come it’s not on any best of) ? Anyway I enjoy Gold Experience a lot so far (Come, less so).
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
And « Gold » might be my favourite song right now !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
I didn't know about this, but from the wiki on most beautiful girl, might have something to do w itThere has been a long running copyright dispute since 1995 and a court in Italy ruled that Prince had plagiarized the song, giving writing credit to those other than Prince. [2]
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Oh ok thanks. Frustrating.« Billy jack bitch » is one funky cut !
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 15 June 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
Wish he was still here to write a song about this hot NBA chick ref
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
On Tuesday April 21 at 9 PM ET, “Let’s Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute To Prince” will broadcast on the CBS Television Network and stream on CBS All Access. The broadcast will include performances of Prince’s hits by collaborators Sheila E., The Revolution, and Morris Day and The Time, plus Beck, Gary Clark Jr., Common, Earth, Wind & Fire, Foo Fighters, H.E.R., Juanes, John Legend, Chris Martin, Miguel, St. Vincent, Mavis Staples and more.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
i'm gonna guess 20% good, 30% meh and like 50% terrible but probably worth taping/youtube
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
his name is chris martin and he is funky
― He is married to Brogmus, Linda. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
Earth? Is Dylan Carlson going to perform a 25 minute drone version of Raspberry Beret
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
Ah EWF
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
Well at least Maroon 5 aren't on the bill.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
lol
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
No Meshell??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
she'll prob be on bass
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
ah! it already happened on 28 january!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 April 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
these questlove sets are a lot of fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twbw6evLLtw
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Sunday, 19 April 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
Questlove playing live stuff, segment of an interview with Electrifying Mojo show in Detroit, jam session with Prince on piano, his photographer Allen B on bass, Vanity on keys, tour manager on drums...
Questlove talks over some of it, and periodically scratches or stops the music, but still fun. I only caught a little of it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 20 April 2020 04:44 (four years ago) link
Questlove had me staying up too late again last night. Jazzy Prince, guitar solos, and then slow jams. Great live version of Temptations “Just My Imagination “ and several “Why don’t u call me anymore “
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
Also enjoying these great megamixes by Quest. He was hinting that they might be ending due to YT copyright flags? He also said that if more people subscribe that YT is more likely to leave the sets up anyway? He's done 3-4 hours every night for 3 weeks I think!
― Psychocandles (Pyschocandles), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
He’s been programming on multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitch , & YouTube for weeks now. I think just been playing lots of Prince the last few nights. Was reading elsewhere that there are suddenly lots of legal issues with these streams. Maybe YouTube pays royalties on streams from large subscribers channels?
FYI. Prince died 4 years ago April 21.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
Looks like Questlove has done at least 5 Prince sessions, maybe more.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
that concept will never be acceptable
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
(xp)
four years, fuck
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
thread title still like a crowbar through the heart
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
;_;
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
:(
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
Liked seeing Sheila E, the Time, and Miguel on that Grammys tribute to Prince that aired last night. I wish Coldplay’s Chris Martin woulda just played the piano and not tried to sing over Susanna Hoffs on Manic Monday
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
https://newsocialist.org.uk/come-2-park-and-play-us-prince-acid-communism-and-sociality/
A similar kinda of piece at times to Penman's write-up (in the way it privileges the 80s heyday) but crosses it with the really wooly dead-on-arrival idea of acid communism. It's being asked to do too much, sorta intriguing how Prince turns up here, the way he is being churned through in a way Michael Jackson (who was more popular in the UK for longer) hasn't yet.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Prince as birds.A thread. pic.twitter.com/XEDIZv7Nbc— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) January 15, 2021
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 January 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
oh shit.. duelling threads. teach the Controversy.
It's here! #Prince / birds mega-thread! 💜💜💜— Judi 💜🖤💜 (@judi722) October 25, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 16 January 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
ayo, thanks for that!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/housequake/videos/707716463468383/?sfnsn=scwspwa
― candyman, Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Prince as minion.
― candyman, Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
Would be nice if his estate release one of his final shows this year.
Yesterday was my birthday and I stopped into a Barnes & Noble store while killing time between work appointments. They had the 3LP set from the remastered Syracuse 1985 show — which I didn't actually realize had been released, though I should have figured with the video being out on Apple TV earlier this year. I was ACTUALLY AT that show, and I already have a bootleg DVD of it. (Ripped from the original VHS release, I think.) But couldn't resist springing for the box set — and it's great! The sound quality is awesome, and the show is just jam after jam after jam. I love that it includes all his playful audience baiting, all sorts of little moments in the show that I remember clearly from the night. It made me think, is there anyone out there who puts on show like this anymore? Tearing songs down, stretching them out, jamming like crazy but all within a clearly coordinated framework so that everyone hits their marks exactly when they're supposed to. It's quite a thing.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 September 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
Also the end of "Purple Rain," which is of course the final track, captures the whole crowd singing "Ooo-oo-oo-oo" over and over even after the band left the stage. What you miss on the recording is that we all kept singing it, thousands of people, all the way out into the parking lot. Nobody wanted it to end.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 September 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link