I want to petition the BFI in London to show the sott movie on 35mm.
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 24 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
I would say SOTT most days, but not when I just listened to 1999. The whole back half of the album is a real career high point, where his weirdness and his virtuosity meet most productively and successfully over track after track. Also I think his funniest album? So many great asides and jokes. I love how he so deliberately frontloaded the record with hits and then just let himself do whatever we wanted for the rest of it.
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
Well, after going through the albums Dirty Mind though Lovesexy, SOTT was the first that seemed underwhelming. It's a lot less of a party record than the early stuff, but to my ears, also less sonically interesting than Parade (and the arrangements sound more dated). I'm guessing people really like the lyrics? Or?
― Dominique, Thursday, 28 April 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
(I should say Controversy also seemed a little underwhelming, but only because it was more of the same with slightly lesser songs -- SOTT just seems like a change to whole other feel)
― Dominique, Thursday, 28 April 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
I kind of hear what you're saying but SOTT has that inscrutable thing of summing to this pocket universe of music
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 28 April 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
SOTT is the quintessential double album, in line with Physical Graffiti, The White Album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Tusk, Blonde on Blonde - if his other albums are a single spoke in the wheel, SOTT is the whole wheel, with all of his proclivities and idiosyncrasies explored to the fullest extent.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 April 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
Except it *sounds* lesser than all the ones that preceded it -- maybe it's a production thing, although for much of it, Prince's vocals seem more subdued as well. Lovesexy beefs things up a bit. At the moment, I'm hearing SOTT more as an introduction to the next phase in his career, one less about reigning over the pop charts/leading the zeitgeist, and more about exploring his own muses. It doesn't sound like a summing up of everything Prince does to me, because nothing on it sounds like it could have been on, say, Dirty Mind or even 1999.
(but then, I only really love The White Album of the ones you mention above, others ranging from good/interesting to not my thing at all)
― Dominique, Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
All CD/digital copies of SOTT sound like shit - way too quiet and flat. I listened to my vinyl copy for the first time in a while last week and thru the weekend, and I was astounded by how much better it sounds. Beefier, louder - that's one you've gotta hear on vinyl.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
All CD/digital copies of SOTT sound like shit - way too quiet and flat.
Have you heard the Japanese remaster from a few years ago? Genuinely curious about this 'cause I was thinking about maybe buying one on eBay or Discogs.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
I haven't, just a US CD and the copy on iTunes I bought last week.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
There was a Japanese SHM CD from 2009 that I would absolutely buy if the price dropped below, say, $60. Right now the cheapest one is $114.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
The Japanese shm are basically just EQ treatments of the existing CDs iirc. But they do sound better. Just not as much better as I want them to.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
Man, I can't understand at all how anyone could be underwhelmed by Sign '☮' the Times. It is quintessential Prince. His crowning achievement.
― Austin, Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/kyOCgW11Ajw
― Brad C., Friday, 29 April 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
not going to embed that, it's DMSR live in Detroit
― Brad C., Friday, 29 April 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link
Lemme get a fruit cocktail, I ain't too hungry.
― Austin, Friday, 29 April 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link