i feel like i'm going to vomit, like i'm surrounded by ppl stabbing me or beating me w/ clubs. i had the weirdest feeling about this, there was the illness and this year, but i shrugged it off. i've listened to prince more than anyone else in my life and it's not close. i loved him as a fanatic and as a nerd and then in a more casual way like breathing. his music is a part of me in a much more concrete way than anyone else's. every second just feels like i'm learning it again, just a shock wave after shock wave. i loved that man so much.
― balls, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl/0ap3000000633788/Prince-rocks-out-Super-Bowl-XLI-halftime-show
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
xps because if we keep doing this every single artist's thread will have RIP after it.
use a separate thread IMO (like the one Morbs just made)
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
^^^
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
removed the rip. not sure who put it in there but I'm sure it was only with the best of intentions.
― how's life, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Balls otmI cannot begin to articulate how important prince is to meThis is intolerable
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
go here: Prince RIP
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
Did that party at Paisley Park take place night? I knew there was on scheduled. This is unreal. RIP
― DavidLeeRoth, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
When he was hospitalized with the flu I had this thought 'what if he is like Jim Henson and won't slow down and stop working to recuperate'
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
Prince in the "Batdance" video, the assless pants dance on the MTV awards, audio taping half of my collection for an old lover while my new lover disapprovingly watched, dancing across college campus to "Pope", blowing fifty dollars on my first boot, watching bad "Kiss" karaoke, wearing a 0+-> earring in high school and having it ripped out in a fight, being overjoyed to discover that my new dorm room was #319, shaving lightning bolts into my goatee after seeing the "Slave" portrait, crying over "Another Lonely Christmas" after my girl left me, having my first doubts after buying the 1999 Remix CD, digging through piles of thousands of cassingles looking for "Cream" and the "Horny Pony" B-sides, fingering an until-then platonic high school girlfriend at her house while we were both listening to the Diamonds and Pearls album, exploring Prince bulletin boards in a pre-google greenscreen internet, loudly shouting the words to "Billy Jack Bitch" out the window of a moving van on the way to Queens, asking my folks for the "Hits and Bsides" box for Xmas (didn't get it), discussing the grammatic disorder of "Darling Nikki" with a flirty man at a bar, meticulously practicing the accompanying sign language for I WOULD DIE 4 U, falling in the shower while jumping up and down to "Housequake", spending two days unsuccessfully P2P hunting for the extended version of "Shockadellica", "what the fuck is Kirstie Allie doing on this?", ecstasy when I found the Prince Interactive CDRom in the remainder bin (where'd I put that damn thing?), lost in the suburbs for hours looking for a party with "A Love Bizarre" playing on the Walkman, going through a brief period in which all email communication of "you" was spelled U and "for" spelled "4", numerous frustrating redneck confrontations over a mostly naked Prince Parade-era Tshirt, calling for a taxi in New York while listening to "All the Critics Love You In New York" just as Prince yelled "Taxi!", bargaining a copy of the "Bright Lights, Big City" OST off of a friend in exchange for my stolen Fu-Schnickens CD (so worth it), a few years in the mid nineties where all first dates would begin with the litmus: "So do you like The Simpsons? Do you like Prince?"
my first kiss was to "Erotic City"
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.thecurrent.org/listen
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
Thank u for that list <3
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
nice list <3
― moullet, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link
was your first sex to "kiss"?
― nomar, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
funny you mention it but the first time i got head was on a bed with the parade poster hung on the ceiling
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
dirty mind poster would have been more appropriate but i'll let it go
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 21 April 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
morning noon and night
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
i had the poster from purple rain taped to my bedroom closet doors, with a split right down the middle, where the doors opened and shut
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
new links for Perfect Unreleased Prince, #1 & #2 (liner notes upthread)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/i7xjpdhttps://www.sendspace.com/file/xu6kvx
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:32 (eight years ago) link
thanks! this is so good. "beautiful ass"! "I can't love you anymore"! "electric intercourse"! good lord.
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
lisa!
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
extra loveable!
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Downloading those Unreleased comps right now, but Holy Shit at the existence of "Manic Monday!"
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
sadly, it's a watery recording... still wanna hear a nice crisp prince manic monday recording before i die.
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
god yes
and a good recording of his demo of G-Spot
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
linked on the RIP thread, but this is his final public performance.https://soundcloud.com/misterpancakes/princelives
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
also a great hilton als piece from Harper's about Prince and sex http://harpers.org/archive/2012/12/i-am-your-conscious-i-am-love/1/
― ulysses, Thursday, 21 April 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
The "Manic Monday" demo, though hardly perfect, sounds cleaner than i'd expected. Who's singing it with him? It sounds like Vanity, but I'm guessing not.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 April 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
It's Brenda Bennett. Same as the Bangles version.
― everything, Thursday, 21 April 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
I love how, in her review of Purple Rain, Pauline Kael wrote "He's a cutie when he dances."
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 22 April 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
man "Visions" is so good, such pretty understated playing
― Οὖτις, Friday, 22 April 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
These two unreleased comps are really blowing my mind
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 23 April 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
Wonderful Ass is all time great
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 23 April 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
Train is also just ridic
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 April 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
No lie-- after I charged it my iPod shuffle mysteriously deleted every song on it except for 1: Joy in Repetition. I listened to it all day yesterday bc it was the only song on there and I think it might actually be a year long now.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 23 April 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
That is amazing
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 23 April 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
I unplugged it a few days ago and finally listened to it yesterday on my walk to the train. It was a super cool coincidence when that was the first song that popped up, and then when it played twice I thought I had a weird setting wrong (and I was thinking it was still a pleasant coincidence but maybe one I didn't want to let persist for the rest of the day). But I pressed all of the buttons (2) multiple times and turned it off/on many times and it was the only song that came out of that thing all day. What a guitar solo! Dang.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 23 April 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
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― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 April 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
And 'I Wonder' is, while not quite 'Kiss', almost at that level
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 April 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
"Emale" from Emancipation is dope. I like his cover of "I Can't Make You Love Me" and "Betcha By Golly Wow" on there too.
Come underrated as well.
Gold Experience is uneven but "Gold" is a helluva pop tune.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 23 April 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
wasthiswomanhehadnevernoticedbeforehelosthimselfinthearticulatedmannerinwhichshesaidthem
― ulysses, Saturday, 23 April 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
Love this Prince-sung version of "Dance Electric:" https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=aa84c4b3a0b419f0&id=AA84C4B3A0B419F0!670&Bsrc=Share&Bpub=SDX.SkyDrive&authkey=!AkMHXfqSwGpxnB8
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 April 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
Was thinking today how Prince really only flirted a little with rap, but boy did he dig into New Jack Swing.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 April 2016 00:38 (eight years ago) link
i could use some moonbeam levels right now
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 April 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
just now i listened to Partyman and Gett Off back to back and fuck's sake, they are just monumental. the hard lock of the beats, New Jack Swing with the toughness of the guitars in there too. ffffffuuuuuuck.
it is weird how his dying has completely opened up all these songs for me again.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
Gett Off is unbelievably great
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
It's so dense with information that I don't even ever feel compelled to listen to the long version. It gets (getts) the job done.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 02:44 (eight years ago) link
what is Princes nw album called. thankyou
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 02:50 (eight years ago) link
why, because it look interesting?
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 02:52 (eight years ago) link
prince didnt really do anything approximating new jack swing until acknowledge me around 92/93 or so or love sign. partyman is def not NJS. the drums are too rhythmically straight for that.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 08:01 (eight years ago) link