prince

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.

I see something called the Temple of ECK on Google Maps now, looks like a pyramid thing. That it?

Sit in an easy chair with your eyes closed, and chant the word Gopal. Gopal Das is one of the guardians of the Temples of Golden Wisdom. He guards the fourth section of the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad. This is the holy book for those who follow Eckankar.

The word is chanted in two syllables. It is a sacred name and must be sung as GOH, then pahl.

Keep this up with a clear mind, and you will suddenly find yourself out of the body. You will be accompanied to the Temple of Golden Wisdom where you can listen to Gopal Das speak on the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad.

Davey - you're thinking of this weird cult church in Eden Prairie

holy crap, that ECK thing is definitely it! thank you to the homies for answering this. i'm so glad to know what it actually was. i guess it was on the map and i had missed it. :)

cool building but what a super weird thing their religion is.

Ha, yeah, it is weird. I don't know that I'd have looked into it any further if the name "TEMPLE OF ECK" hadn't popped up on google maps. Too intriguing not to, honestly.

Is anyone else flipping out over the vault tracks on the 1999 super deluxe reissue? It's like an alternate universe version of the album that's just as good. Unreal that tracks like Purple Music, Rearrange, and If It'll Make U Happy have been unreleased for so long

Tried to buy it at rough trade on Friday but they’d sold out. Gonna check back today

Purple Music is fantastic.

Is anyone else flipping out over the vault tracks on the 1999 super deluxe reissue?

I came here to more or less literally post the exact same thing, as I got a text from a pal asking *me* almost literally the exact same thing this morning.

Uh, Previously unreleased tracks are kinda a mixed bag, but still great to hear them all plus the live ones

imagine 1982 prince releasing a song called "Vagina" with a chorus of "half boy/half girl/best of both worlds"
this demo version of Irresistible Bitch is out of control

a lot of the unreleased have been circulating for years in various forms. And I'd argue that 1999 is perfectly compact and not much would add to it. It's a great box tho.

Shocked by "Vagina," in a good way; his most explicitly queer song?

That said, the song sounds way more like a Dirty Mind track than something off the more expansive 1999. Great to have this stuff finally out there, though.

lots of this was on some bootleg chaki posted once, love moonbeam levels

Shocked by "Vagina," in a good way; his most explicitly queer song?

― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko)

He wrote "If I Was Your Girlfriend"...

True. "Vagina" is just more direct about the gender (presentation) of the song's subject.

True - it's also third person, an appreciation of someone else... for me the first person directness of "If I Was Your Girlfriend" hits harder with me.

"if i was your girlfriend" is '''''queer''''' if you look at the title but don't actually listen to the song i guess? never understood that take on it

well, it's a tricky thing for me to talk about because i fully support the right to self-determination and i don't think prince did ever, or would ever, have identified as genderqueer. all i can tell you is that, speaking as a genderqueer person, i find "if i was your girlfriend" extremely relatable. regardless of what he may have intended by such actions, adopting (and recording a record as) a female persona known as "camille", dressing in a less than completely stereotypically "masculine" fashion, changing his name to a combination of the symbols for "male" and "female"... there is a lot about prince that i find extremely relatable, and having lived through those times, knowing how much it didn't accept gender nonconforming people, it's hard not for me to be inspired by his courage.

i understand, that makes sense. i never actually knew about the camille persona and am intrigued that that song was originally going to be released as part of that project -- i suppose it's fair to say that he imbued the song/recording with more meaning(/s) and ambiguity than i may be attuned to in the course of my usual experience. i appreciate you sharing how his presentation, art and actions resonate with you and apologize for the perhaps excessive flippancy of my prior post

Dyl, if you have not already, listen to shockadellica a few dozen times as it is a song i love super dearly

it's cool, i took it as a serious question that deserved a serious answer!

I've heard "1999" the album 100 times of course, but I've never listened so closely as to recognize it as his most explicitly sexual album, not just the sex noises but lines like "I sincerely want to fuck the taste out of your mouth." I never noticed that before!

Wow, “Do Yourself A Favor” contains within it the roots of “Bob George.” Kind of amazing that he let that idea simmer for another five years before recording it.

Great news, everyone! Duff McKagan wrote the liner notes to the new Prince reissue! https://youtu.be/K8fTK-h5_Ls

everywhere in my neck of the woods has sold out of the five disc set (i.e. the only one i'm interested in). was really hoping to not have to amazon it. curses.

My 14yr old self is loving the vault tracks