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

yeah this looks good

holy shit

Someone should totally do a Mark Lewisohn Beatles style triple volume book series, i mean fuck who on earth *wouldn't* read that?

Ned something v weird is going on with that link? is it just me?

This is the way I wanted WB to milk me from the get-go!

There were gripes about the Purple Rain remaster being crappy sound-wise (brickwalling, etc). I only listened to the extras disc so i've no idea how bad/good it was.

perfectly happy with my OG vinyl copies, but I do want those extras

Moonbeam Levels is great

I pasted it as a joke, but "Vagina" is one of the few tracks in that collection I don't think I've ever heard of before. I mean, you'd think I'd remember!

heh

Prince fans rejoice: 10 lps/5 cd/1 DVD 40+ songs (can't wait for y'all to hear "Vagina" haha) excited to hear what i lived w on lo-fi hiss quality for like 3 plus decades. and happy to play this stuff (finally) w/o getting the ("where u get that from???") calls https://t.co/SksRXlLILf

— Questlove from @SongsThatShook Oct 13th @AMC_tv (@questlove) September 10, 2019

Holy shit

What news!

so great but i'm still disappointed the early take of "i could never take the place of your man" isn't on here :(

Whoah!!!

Just finished the New Yorker article. It’s really tremendous. The part that brought tears to my eyes:

“I trust you. Tell them I trust you”

“He once told me that if you ever want to write a hit song, just act as if you’re writing for five-year-olds,” singer Jill Jones, who is featured on the song “1999.”

Once, he said, he’d seen one of his former employees on TV saying she thought it was her God-given duty to preserve and protect the unreleased material in his vault. “Now, that sounds like someone I should call the police on,” he told me. “How is that not racist?” People were always casting him—and all black artists—in a helpless role, he said, as if he were incapable of managing himself.

this was hard to read. Because on the one hand he's right about the general pattern of behavior towards black artists, and then on the other hand he is very wrong because he definitely wasn't capable of managing himself. I mean, he didn't even have a will delineating ownership over his work, he routinely made ridiculous business decisions etc.

Word on Prince.org is that the employee was S---n Rogers which makes it extra sad, if true.

So torn on this 10LP box. Will there be bundles with a t-shirt / pins etc? I've been burned pulling the trigger to soon before and want to wait and see. I don't think Rhino do limited editions, so I'm not sure this will sell out for several years.

nyer article was great — though I can't help but think if Prince had lived we might be reading a story by the same writer titled "I Was Hired To Co-Write Prince's Memoir — Here's How It All Fell Apart"

haha I had the same thought

I don't think Rhino do limited editions, so I'm not sure this will sell out for several years.

They may not do numbered limited editions, but you can be sure they've done extensive research on exactly how many copies of this thing they absolutely must press to turn a profit. Don't wait too long, is my advice.

Pssht, that's what they said about stuff like the Complete Funhouse Sessions, then they went ahead and reissued it anyway.

My favorite part of the New Yorker article might have been Prince negotiating a clause that would allow him to delete his book at any time for any reason.

They may not do numbered limited editions, but you can be sure they've done extensive research on exactly how many copies of this thing they absolutely must press to turn a profit. Don't wait too long, is my advice.

Hi there -- they do numbered limited editions as desired, believe me. (Says a guy with one of the full Woodstock sets.) They don't always number, certainly.

of all the things to rerelease, The Versace Experience is up for streaming. dunno if there's anything to recommend but I'll certainly replay as the last time i heard this it was on a bootleg audio cassette

What? Lolol

yeah, this is a nothingburger of leftover madhouse and npg drippings plus unnecessary noodling over and excerpts from stone cold Gold Experience classics.
There's some vague amusement to be had hearing Prince list famous models' names ("....Stephanie.... Siezemore...")over a pussy control remix ("Chatounette Control" if you wanna check it out) but the only genuine notable keeper is the lovely 45 second instrumental overture to the Kamasutra ballet and even that is just a wicked tease.

so great but i'm still disappointed the early take of "i could never take the place of your man" isn't on here :(

― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Tuesday, September 10, 2019 7:36 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I had the same thought.

wasn't Do Yourself a Favor already officially released and remastered in the last 3 years? if not, really glad that's coming out, such an amazing song.

we got promo track
Prince - "1999 (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, 11/30/1982 - Late Show)" - 10.25
https://open.spotify.com/track/1c2Pp5LtfUdqkm9LuKBDs2?si=kWOwa1dgT9OQh1z7-FDqEg

i am bracing for the red hot "thought piece" about how some megafan is wrestling with the fact that they would never be able to listen to all this stuff if prince was alive so...

You can watch that entire concert online, I think.

goddamn this is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X80LChZpCyo

I always feel like his (somehow) most underrated skill is as a rhythm guitarist or at very least it gets highly overlooked compared to his work playing lead and he's KILLING that acoustic. Also, there are several good melodies in that demo he didn't even use, that's how overflowing he was.

His rhythm playing is all time. The stuff at the end of iirc Lady Cab Driver, for example.

yes! one of the best examples

Rhythm playing on Dirty Mind and Controversy is all time

yikes
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/26/prince-private-archive-memoir-comic-strips-snaps-selfies
http://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ba2d9ca5be3a81119847ab303787a733480133ac/112_323_1603_2098/master/1603.jpg

i will definitely wanna read this book tho

trying that again:
http://i.imgur.com/yZ7FoBU.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyNQhz-higo

the more i listen to prince as i get older, the more i realize that he was one of the best guitarists ever. he could seemingly play anything as well as, if not better than, the acknowledged best in any given style.

wish he had lived long enough to have a fahey-revival phase because it would have absolutely ruled.

i grew up a couple miles from paisely park in eden prairie, minnesota. we used to marvel at it when we'd pass it on drives in the car—prince lived there and it has some impressive architecture—and i vividly remember there being a golden, square pyramidal temple across the highway. it looked like an incan pyramid, a few stories tall but instead of a couple dozen layers it had just a few. my parents told me it was the headquarters of the satanic church. but i've looked on google maps for it recently, because it just couldn't have been what my parents told me, could it? but according to the maps there's just an empty lot there now, so i wonder what the hell i saw.