prince

Going back to the box set, why is Dave Chappelle in this thing? Did they think Chappelle show fans would buy it?! The book is more notable for being so huge and heavy than what's really in it (not to downplay the essays, they're good, but I dont much like essays in my box sets, I just like liner notes like what Alan Leeds did in the hits compilations). A nice paperback would have been more practical.

Also I wonder how many units these re releases sell....

He wrote a few things for Miles D.
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1114-inside-miles-davis-prince-obsession-as-detailed-by-davis-family-and-collaborators/

Also - the horn charts alone on Lovesexy make that album a constantly fascinating listen. Incredible considering the short gestation time for the album. It's the peak for me of Prince's musical interplay with his horn players.

The drum machine rework of big tall wall is stone cold classic.

If you like creepy, obsessive prince that is. Which this era is lacking.

Lovesexy has always felt like Prince's most blatantly funky album. I mean, you mention chicken scratch guitars and instantly I think of Alphabet Street.

uh, Controversy would like a word

https://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Can_I_Play_With_U%3F
This also lists the other three songs that Prince wrote for Miles and what became of them.

Lovesexy has always felt like Prince's most blatantly funky album. I mean, you mention chicken scratch guitars and instantly I think of Alphabet Street.

― Just a few slices of apple, Servant. Thank you. How delicious. (stevie), Monday, September 28, 2020 6:31 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

v cherished memory of putting on Eye No at a party of cartoonist nerds c. 1993 upon which it instantly turned into a crazy dance party

(at j4s0n Lut3s' house - this detail for sic)

My favorite thing about Lovesexy is when a friend put it on a college dive bar jukebox, got the whole album for the cost of one play (to the consternation of everyone else in there, especially those who were trying to get the next tune).

hahaa of course

So I'll be the jerk: what would you cut from SoTT? For me, a few easy choices: "It", "Hot Thing" and "U Got the Look" (I know, but it grates).

― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, September 27, 2020 9:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

can't believe this is easy for you, especially "hot thing"

i'm the only person in the world whose favorite song on sott is "it" though

my hot take (which probably isn't so hot) is that the og "strange relationship" with wendy and lisa >>> album version, and that's probably the only adjustment i'd make to sott, which is otherwise perfectly pared down. i actually think it works really well as a sequence, but i'm not sure how much that's due to the movie, which works very hard to create a visual universe where these sounds can coexist (the melted art-deco city edifices and neon signs in the stage setup, modeled after the guys and dolls backdrop on the album cover)

well i also wish "all my dreams" were on an official prince album, but sott is not that one. maybe it would've happened had prince and wendy and lisa actually picked up roadhouse garden again in the late '90s/early '00s

africa
cap'n crunch
norma jean
sex and cheeeriooos

I kind of get the hate for It bc it's so extreme, but it's one of my favorites. Such outrageous ideas--the flurries of orchestra hits, the way the vocals are layers of robotic monotone and unhinged squealing...

If I had to kick anything from SOTT it would be Play in the Sunshine and/or *ducks* Housequake. I haven't absorbed the new tracks enough to pick replacement tracks

who hates "all my dreams," and what is their address, i am gonna drive by their house and stick out my tongue at them

my desire for a cleaned-up "dance with the devil" means i want a batman box next, which i assume no one in the prince estate or warner bros. is considering lol

Who knows! It had hits!

I heard the next expansion is D&P

lol ugh

i listened to my old bootleg version of "the ball" today and boy it sounds like shit, thank god for this set

“Hot Thing” and “It” are phenomenal and anyone who hates them probably hasn’t, you know, ever had that proper, atom-crushing good sex.

hahaha the old school "I am an awesome sex haver" music brag always a good one

Had never occurred to me until listening to this set that “La, La, La, He, He, Hee" is proto-“Doghouse”

i have never had sex and do not believe it is real

Ain’t I awesome?!

"Hot Thing" is in my SOTT Top 5, so funky, that "when you smile" part, I love it

We should poll SOTT for the song we'd leave out.

Me? It's "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night"

I don't worship "Adore" like my fellow Prince-ologists, but it's a jam.

Yeah, ditch "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night."

Thirded.

Thirded.

And fourthed, I guess!

I'd cut "It" and "Starfish and Coffee." And I'd put "Adore" before "It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night" and end the album with "The Cross."

"The Cross" would be a good closer.

I usually skip “The Cross” and “I Could Never...”

What?!? Why you wanna treat SotT so bad, CJV?

I'll always ditch 'Play in the Sunshine'. 'Beautiful Night' is one of my most-listened SotT tracks.

“hot thing” was always the weak link for me, sorry. everything else is the bomb. in the context of an epic double album closer “it’s gonna be a beautiful night” works really well... but putting “adore” on right after is kinda too much, it needs something less completely amazing and perfect to end on lol, like a 2 minute ditty with just prince and an electric guitar.

I heard the next expansion is D&P

― and i can almost smell your PG Tips (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:56 AM (three hours ago)

lol ugh

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 29, 2020 1:57 AM

Definitely a good commercial idea to start spreading the reissues away from the 1980s, so that the decade doesn't get tapped out straight away. And D&P has the hook of being the first album by a new band, was loaded with big international hits*, & has loads of stuff shelf-ready to fill up an expanded edition before they even go digging in the vault. The Gett Off and Cream singles were each getting on for an hour long!


* he toured Australia for the first time on this album, which probably contributed to this, but he basically seemed to be in the charts constantly from Batman through 1994 - Come went to #2!

I can hear in "Crucial" the first ominous, grueling stirrings of the turgid power balladry of the early '90s

lol

Plz let there not be a disc dedicated to gett off and dream remixes. Please.

However plz let there be a disc including daddy pop and live 4 love without Tony m. Plz. I like outtakes schoolyard and grandcprogeession too.

Plz also not let the set include a DVD of the gett off bonus videos.

*cream

Now that they've gone huge with sott u hope they dont go so big on every release

The 7-Plated Gold CD Experience

The drumapella version of Big Tall Wall is real good