prince

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.

This is great!

this comp is the epitome of robbing of dead people. what i heard was abominable crap.

Watching them work out the choreography for the "When Doves Cry" video in that "Manic Monday" clip is cool as hell though.

I had forgotten how much I love "The Glamorous Life"

^Can understand the words better on this one too.

Wow, I never realised how similar "Manic Monday" and "Money Don't Matter 2 Nite" are.

here's the aforementioned rougher mix of glamorous life; i much prefer this to the cleaned up one on originals

also: twice as long!

this comp is the epitome of robbing of dead people. what i heard was abominable crap.
what exactly is so offensive about this collection? are you 100% against any prince vault releases?
maybe i just have a higher tolerance for demos / rough drafts.

yeah I do NOT, and I'm surprised I prefer the versions sung by his clients.

these are really polished demos. If they were low quality, sounded tossed off, sure; but I'm really impressed by how much work Prince put into these pieces (I assume there was no recent overdubbing done).

yeah it's clear he wasn't just like "here's an idea for a song" with these recordings — he was like "HERE'S THE WHOLE THING" (for the most part).
if there's a weakness to my ears it's that occasionally his vocals are less stellar than usual. but i think it's an interesting listen overall.

most of these are great

"Manic Monday" is the only one that seems demo-y and off to me, Bangles really polished that

but yeah some of it like Glamorous Life or the Time, it's so close even little things he came up with

it's a good comp and i'm glad it exists. it's in the cultural interest to have original versions of "nothing compares," "glamorous life," "jungle love," and "manic monday" out in the world. and the martika and kenny rogers songs are genuinely revalatory.

but yeah some of it like Glamorous Life or the Time, it's so close even little things he came up with

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:57 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

even the "somebody bring me a mirror" line in "jungle love"!

and the martika and kenny rogers songs are genuinely revalatory.

what exactly is so offensive about this collection? are you 100% against any prince vault releases?

I'm not against things he never got around to releasing, or got distracted and moved onto something else, being released while branded as vault material. This is a bunch of stuff he very specifically never intended the public to hear, and absolutely did not intend to be regarded as the "original" version of these songs, being spruiked with painfully gross lies:

In the spirit of sharing Prince's music with his fans as he wanted, the album will also be available to stream in Master quality via TIDAL's HiFi subscription tier. Members will be able to hear the recordings just as the artist intended the tracks to sound.

He dead

that last sentence is just TIDAL hype about their sound quality. Poorly worded IMO but I don't think anyone is going into this album believing that these are songs Prince worked on for himself.

ha well yeah, that's a pretty dumb way of promoting it

but yeah some of it like Glamorous Life or the Time, it's so close even little things he came up with

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

With The Time stuff it's literally his track with Morris singing over it. So yeah.

That's what I like most about this, hearing the little details of his playing on the tracks, and how he didn't treat it much/any differently from cutting album tracks.

Also at this point I honestly don't care much about what he would have wanted released (maybe I'll feel differently once they start hitting the bottom of the barrel and releasing terrible Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic c-sides).

I had forgotten how much I love "The Glamorous Life"

My favourite track on this is clearly "Love thy Will Be Done" but I already had it...
And the choice of "Manic Monday" as a "single" is dubious since it's a pretty basic demo (and far from the greatness of the "official" version).

that last sentence is just TIDAL hype about their sound quality. Poorly worded IMO but I don't think anyone is going into this album believing that these are songs Prince worked on for himself.

I wasn’t even thinking of that last interpretation as a possibility: congratulations, you have lowered my opinion of this hype by defending it

what exactly is so offensive about this collection? are you 100% against any prince vault releases?
maybe i just have a higher tolerance for demos / rough drafts.

Oh my gosh...sounds like he'd had three or four books in mind. I cried reading this.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-book-of-prince

that's a great piece, i miss prince

yeah, that’s a wonderful piece

The idea of mixing his autobiography with a handbook on approaches to music-making may not have ever panned out, but what fascinating framework to organize his insights. Kinda like the David Byrne book, but could have been so much more.

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https://www.musictap.com/2019/09/10/prince-classic-1999-reissues-in-remastered-5cd-dvd-10lp-dvd-boxes/

CD1/LP1&2 (Original Album with 2019 Remaster)
01 1999
02 Little Red Corvette
03 Delirious
04 Let’s Pretend We’re Married
05 D.M.S.R.
06 Automatic
07 Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
08 Free
09 Lady Cab Driver
10 All The Critics Love U In New York
11 International Lover

CD2/LP3&4 (Promo Mixes and B-sides, 2019 Remaster)
01 1999 (7″ Stereo Edit)
02 1999 (7″ Mono Promo-Only Edit)
03 Free (Promo Only Edit
04 How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore
05 Little Red Corvette (7″ Edit)
06 All The Critics Love U In New York (7″ Edit)
07 Lady Cab Driver (7″ Edit)
08 Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix Promo Only Edit)
09 Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix)
10 Delirious (7″ Edit)
11 Horny Toad
12 Automatic (7″ Edit)
13 Automatic (Video Version)
14 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Edit)
15 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Mono Promo Only Edit)
16 Irresistible Bitch
17 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (Video Version)
18 D.M.S.R. (Edit)

CD3/LP5&6 (Vault Tracks Pt 1, recorded between November 1981 and April 1982)
01 Feel U Up
02 Irresistible Bitch
03 Money Don’t Grow On Trees
04 Vagina
05 Rearrange
06 Bold Generation
07 Colleen
08 International Lover (Take 1) [Live In Studio]
09 Turn It Up
10 You’re All I Want
11 Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
12 If It’ll Make U Happy
13 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Take 2)

CD4/LP7&8 (Vault Tracks Pt 2, recorded between April 1982 and January 1983)
01 Possessed (1982 Version)
02 Delirious (Full Length)
03 Purple Music
04 Yah, You Know
05 Moonbeam Levels (2019 Remaster)
06 No Call U
07 Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got
08 Do Yourself A Favor
09 Don’t Let Him Fool Ya
10 Teacher, Teacher
11 Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Little Red Corvette (Tour Demo)

CD5/LP9&10 (Live In Detroit at Masonic Temple Theater, Masonic Hall (Late Show) – November 30, 1982, Previously Unreleased)
01 Controversy
02 Let’s Work
03 Little Red Corvette
04 Do Me, Baby
05 Head
06 Uptown
07 Lisa’s Keyboard Interlude
08 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
09 Automatic
10 International Lover
11 1999
12 D.M.S.R.

DVD (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, – December 29, 1982, Previously Unreleased)
01 Controversy
02 Let’s Work
03 Do Me, Baby
04 D.M.S.R.
05 Keyboard Interlude
06 Piano Improvisation
07 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
08 Lady Cab Driver
09 Automatic
10 International Lover
11 1999
12 Head

WHY NO I WILL NOT ENJOY THIS.

fuck

... man, two discs of vault tracks

blurgh

04 Vagina

lots of exciting looking cuts in there