17. Prince's self-harmonies on "Strange Relationship"
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
19. "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't 2 hungry"
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:18 (eight years ago) link
20. those two huge snare hits at 2:00 in "the cross"
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
21. "crucial!"
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
22. "if it's a boy"
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
23. "When you smiiile, when you smiiile, when you SMIIILE... how your smile's... how your smile's for me"
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
24. "what's this strange relationship-ship-ship-ship"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:35 (eight years ago) link
25. "Let's get outta here" "Yeah"
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
25. "Silly, no?"
oops 26.
27. blast of wedding march organ at start of IIWYG
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
28. The way the acoustic guitar comes in for the last few seconds of 'Forever In My Life', which up to that point is so spare arrangement-wise that you really notice it when it happens.
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
29. The sound of the electric guitar in "The Cross," which Eric Weisbard once wrote rocks like '80s Lou Reed.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
30. "Til a gorilla falls off the wall"
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
31. the very idea that you can take a bath with someone else, so long as you leave your pants on, when you're kinda going with someone.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
32. The spooky detuned DX synths in "If I Was Ur Girlfriend"
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
33. "Would U let me wash UR hair? Could I make U breakfast sometime? Well, then could we just hang out, I mean, could we GO 2 A MOVIE and CRRYYYHYHYHY 2gether?"
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
34. The way the bass plays off the lead hook of 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man', during the "BABY, DON'T WAAAASTE YOUR TIME" part.
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
35. "Did I say an hour? My face is red. I stand corrected."
― woof, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
36. Sheena Easton being quite good.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
37. "GROOVE! UH!"
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
38. Prince playing out his James Brown fantasies on 'It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night'
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
39. "...well, maybe not the ride"
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
38. Acoustic guitar sting during the fade of Forever in My Life
― MatthewK, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
40. Prince's cousin developing a smack habit mere months after smoking weed for the first time. Well, that escalated quickly!
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:23 (eight years ago) link
41. Prince watching the news and reading papers.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
31 wins this walking away
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
42. "ONE TWO ONE WOOO!" at the very end of I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
43. GREEN EGGS AND HAM!
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
44. The piercing shrieks in 'Hot Thing', which make Prince sound like he's auditioning to be the lead vocalist for a grindcore band.
― But... could you imagine a formation in your lemonade? Ho! (Turrican), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
45. The riff at the end of "U Got The Look"
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:45 (eight years ago) link
46. The Pontiac Grand Prix front end on the cover.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
47. The emotional knottiness-unto-creepiness of "If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "Strange Relationship."
― one way street, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
48. That weird pterodactyl shriek that Sheena Easton (?) does at one point in "UGTL"
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 12 May 2016 02:28 (eight years ago) link
49. "Step right this way, ladies"
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 12 May 2016 02:30 (eight years ago) link
50. The beyond genius "Dorothy Parker" drum programming
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 12 May 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, May 11, 2016 1
thought it was Prince himself
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 May 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
51. Prince's shades on the cover
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 12 May 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
Xpost It's been a minute since I watched it but I think in the video / SOTT film she looks at the camera and does it. It's also never sounded like his voice to me.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 12 May 2016 03:06 (eight years ago) link
Shit 49 s/b "Look at the bargains offered here, ladies" . Mods please correct!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 12 May 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
*over here
Sheesh. My memory's failing.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 12 May 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link
They're not shades, they're glasses! As evidenced by the SOTT movie.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 May 2016 05:56 (eight years ago) link
52. The fact that "U Got the Look" is the only hit/single/song ever made to include the word heck-a-slammin'.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 May 2016 05:57 (eight years ago) link
53. for you naked i would dance a ballet
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 May 2016 06:03 (eight years ago) link
54. sometimes i trip on happy we could be....PLEEEEEE-HEEE-HEEE-HEEEEEEEASE!!!!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 May 2016 06:04 (eight years ago) link
*how happy... and the way his vocals distort at the end of that phrase
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 May 2016 06:05 (eight years ago) link
That was already at #15.
(xpost)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 12 May 2016 06:05 (eight years ago) link
55. I just hate 2 see an erection go 2 waste!
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 12 May 2016 08:35 (eight years ago) link
56. The 'Hot Thing' bass note being slightly out of tune.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, 12 May 2016 09:03 (eight years ago) link
57. The self-aware melancholy in I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.
― albvivertine, Thursday, 12 May 2016 09:10 (eight years ago) link
Maybe it’s because the original sounds a bit stale now but I love the spontaneity of the demo...the original sounds a bit thought through?...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 17 July 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
70s maximalist classic rock, like Frampton Comes Alive or the Eagles
both these acts are pretty mellow and I wouldn't say maximalist at all
the early version is interesting but the SOTT version seems more realized to me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 July 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
SOTT version to me is his "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (which sounds good to me, maybe not everyone)
― Chris L, Friday, 17 July 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
SOTT is an anthem, '79 version is a new wave ditty. Albeit an excellent one.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
My take shouldn't be taken seriously, I've always thought ICNTTPOYM was on the lesser side of the SOTT singles.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 17 July 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
the original is def far superior, but i respect the opinion of people who think it drags on for too long
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 July 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
*original meaning the version released with sign in 1987
The half-time section on the LP version actually made me like it a bit more than the single version I was used to.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 17 July 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
i love the halftime section too, so i'm just picking nits.
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 July 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
I love demo Prince usually, but it's interesting to hear it without the keyboard parts that are the biggest hooks of the song.
(I hate the halftime jam section on the original, although the preceding solo is a classic)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 July 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
Listening to the SotT live concert version (or at least this edit without the halftime jam) makes the studio version version sound like a ballad:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Px4jY1TVc
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 July 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
the guitar solo on the SOTT is so hot
― brimstead, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
SOTT version
― brimstead, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Love Sheila E. but she always seems too small for her drum set, I can never figure the physics out. The same is true for all Prince stuff from the '80s, tbh. What I see and what I hear the drummer doing never seems to sync up.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
Well I guess they are miming in that clip, so it may not quite gel convincingly. But although I love Sheila's percussion work I have never enjoyed her as a drummer on a full kit, which puzzles me.
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 17 July 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
unearthed version of 'forever in my life,' with an extended vamp at the end and a fleshed-out arrangement. pretty cool, surprisingly bill withers-esque.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48X95dJQ6A
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
fabulous
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
The more or less official Prince podcast has started up again -- collaboration between the Current and the Estate, and they've been doing little minidoc seasons for each new big reissue, and the _SOTT_ era begins today. Advertorial to some sort of degree, but still enjoyable:
https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/prince-official-podcast/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
I was about to preorder the deluxe box set this on Amazon, but wtf is up with its price? On the German Amazon it's 153 euros (with taxes) and on the US Amazon it's 160 dollars! The 1999 box set had 5 CDs and 1 DVD and it cost 72 euros on Amazon, and I felt that one was already a bit pricey, but this one has 8 CDs and 1 DVD and it costs twice as much? The price is pretty much the same as if you would buy 9 individual albums separately, which is ridiculous for a box set.
Turns out the box only has 3 CDs worth of previously unreleased studio recordings + a live show divided onto 2 CDs. So the amount of actual unreleased songs is the same as on the 1999 box, yet this one costs twice as much. Definitely feels like a scam.
― Tuomas, Friday, 4 September 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link
It has three CDs of other material too. Previously released, sure, but it's still there. I'd prefer if they didnt release remastered albums tbh. 1999 already sounded good. Sott was never meant to sound great as prince didnt care much for that. So I dont imagine it sounding that great regardless. And I'm not sure it should either. Hopefully though the next releases aren't so expensive.
The demos of forever and ICnTTPOYM are interesting but dont see myself playing them that often. He made all the right decisions in what actually made it to stores. That 70s miles Davis-ish ending to ICMTTPOYM is one of the best moments on the album. But for scholars and fans who like comparing versions, it is pretty amazing how many different versions of certain songs there are in the vault. Glad he never released dorothy parker with horns!
― candyman, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's a scam, but part of me thinks they are testing the waters to see how much they can charge for this stuff moving forward. Sadly this seemed to fly off the shelves too, so I have to imagine this will be the more likely price point for future sets than the 1999 box price.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 October 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
I don't have the big box in the budget, so I settled for the three disc version and I'm really annoyed that the third disc for that package is just the singles and extended versions. I've already got the singles from The Hits/The B-Sides and none of the extended mixes have done a lot for me. I would have much rather had one of the vault discs as the bonus here or, better yet, a curated selection from the vault discs and live stuff.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 October 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
its the shitty book that bumps up the price so much.
― candyman, Monday, 26 October 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
I bought the 3-disc version, but the third disc was messed up, and when I took it back to exchange they had no additional copies to replace it with. So I applied the credit toward the Neneh Cherry Raw Like Sushi reissue. Also 3 discs, also late 80's, and a little more fun.
― henry s, Monday, 26 October 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
shitty book
Spot on. The track and liner notes SUCK. Just reading the Prince Vault entries for free online will get you far more insight into the music, which is pretty fucking sad. This doesn't even rise to the level of David Fricke's hack liner notes, it's well below that.
― birdistheword, Monday, 26 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Three discs of raw like sushi?!
The book is just a coffee table space filler exercise. No photos of real merit and no essays of real interest (though admittedly the andrea Swanson one looked decent and I've not read the Susan rogers one yet. Think I was just put off by some of the others). Just straightforward liner notes would have been nice.
I stopped listening to it a while ago actually. Oddly it made me fo back to the bootlegs lol
― candyman, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
I strongly recommend a live bootleg called wonder boy over this utrecht show, which is ok but feels a bit perfunctory.
― candyman, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
Simon Reynolds with an interesting take on the new edition.
http://blissout.blogspot.com/2020/10/cornucopious.html?m=1
His actual review - https://4columns.org/reynolds-simon/prince
― candyman, Monday, 16 November 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
the only reason I can think of that the estate didn't put on the full "Crystal Ball" recording, "Movie Star" and some other cuts of this vintage on this box is because he threw it out will nilly on the 98 record by the same name? I would think that it would be fundamental to include every recording that was germane to Camille, Dream Factory and Crystal Ball projects…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
I can't remember the details, but yes, they couldn't include those tracks because of some legal business with the rights to those songs. It sucks.
I bet we'll eventually see full releases of those albums.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 31 December 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link