My favourite track on this is clearly "Love thy Will Be Done" but I already had it...And the choice of "Manic Monday" as a "single" is dubious since it's a pretty basic demo (and far from the greatness of the "official" version).
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
that last sentence is just TIDAL hype about their sound quality. Poorly worded IMO but I don't think anyone is going into this album believing that these are songs Prince worked on for himself.I wasn’t even thinking of that last interpretation as a possibility: congratulations, you have lowered my opinion of this hype by defending it
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
what exactly is so offensive about this collection? are you 100% against any prince vault releases?maybe i just have a higher tolerance for demos / rough drafts.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
Oh my gosh...sounds like he'd had three or four books in mind. I cried reading this. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-book-of-prince
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
that's a great piece, i miss prince
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
yeah, that’s a wonderful piece
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
The idea of mixing his autobiography with a handbook on approaches to music-making may not have ever panned out, but what fascinating framework to organize his insights. Kinda like the David Byrne book, but could have been so much more.
― bendy, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
!
https://www.musictap.com/2019/09/10/prince-classic-1999-reissues-in-remastered-5cd-dvd-10lp-dvd-boxes/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
CD1/LP1&2 (Original Album with 2019 Remaster)01 199902 Little Red Corvette03 Delirious04 Let’s Pretend We’re Married05 D.M.S.R.06 Automatic07 Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)08 Free09 Lady Cab Driver10 All The Critics Love U In New York11 International LoverCD2/LP3&4 (Promo Mixes and B-sides, 2019 Remaster)01 1999 (7″ Stereo Edit)02 1999 (7″ Mono Promo-Only Edit)03 Free (Promo Only Edit04 How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore05 Little Red Corvette (7″ Edit)06 All The Critics Love U In New York (7″ Edit)07 Lady Cab Driver (7″ Edit)08 Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix Promo Only Edit)09 Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix)10 Delirious (7″ Edit)11 Horny Toad12 Automatic (7″ Edit)13 Automatic (Video Version)14 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Edit)15 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Mono Promo Only Edit)16 Irresistible Bitch17 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (Video Version)18 D.M.S.R. (Edit)CD3/LP5&6 (Vault Tracks Pt 1, recorded between November 1981 and April 1982)01 Feel U Up02 Irresistible Bitch03 Money Don’t Grow On Trees04 Vagina05 Rearrange06 Bold Generation07 Colleen08 International Lover (Take 1) [Live In Studio]09 Turn It Up10 You’re All I Want11 Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)12 If It’ll Make U Happy13 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Take 2)CD4/LP7&8 (Vault Tracks Pt 2, recorded between April 1982 and January 1983)01 Possessed (1982 Version)02 Delirious (Full Length)03 Purple Music04 Yah, You Know05 Moonbeam Levels (2019 Remaster)06 No Call U07 Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got08 Do Yourself A Favor09 Don’t Let Him Fool Ya10 Teacher, Teacher11 Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Little Red Corvette (Tour Demo)CD5/LP9&10 (Live In Detroit at Masonic Temple Theater, Masonic Hall (Late Show) – November 30, 1982, Previously Unreleased)01 Controversy02 Let’s Work03 Little Red Corvette04 Do Me, Baby05 Head06 Uptown07 Lisa’s Keyboard Interlude08 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?09 Automatic10 International Lover11 199912 D.M.S.R.DVD (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, – December 29, 1982, Previously Unreleased)01 Controversy02 Let’s Work03 Do Me, Baby04 D.M.S.R.05 Keyboard Interlude06 Piano Improvisation07 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?08 Lady Cab Driver09 Automatic10 International Lover11 199912 Head
CD2/LP3&4 (Promo Mixes and B-sides, 2019 Remaster)01 1999 (7″ Stereo Edit)02 1999 (7″ Mono Promo-Only Edit)03 Free (Promo Only Edit04 How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore05 Little Red Corvette (7″ Edit)06 All The Critics Love U In New York (7″ Edit)07 Lady Cab Driver (7″ Edit)08 Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix Promo Only Edit)09 Little Red Corvette (Special Dance Mix)10 Delirious (7″ Edit)11 Horny Toad12 Automatic (7″ Edit)13 Automatic (Video Version)14 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Edit)15 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (7″ Mono Promo Only Edit)16 Irresistible Bitch17 Let’s Pretend We’re Married (Video Version)18 D.M.S.R. (Edit)
CD3/LP5&6 (Vault Tracks Pt 1, recorded between November 1981 and April 1982)01 Feel U Up02 Irresistible Bitch03 Money Don’t Grow On Trees04 Vagina05 Rearrange06 Bold Generation07 Colleen08 International Lover (Take 1) [Live In Studio]09 Turn It Up10 You’re All I Want11 Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)12 If It’ll Make U Happy13 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore? (Take 2)
CD4/LP7&8 (Vault Tracks Pt 2, recorded between April 1982 and January 1983)01 Possessed (1982 Version)02 Delirious (Full Length)03 Purple Music04 Yah, You Know05 Moonbeam Levels (2019 Remaster)06 No Call U07 Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got08 Do Yourself A Favor09 Don’t Let Him Fool Ya10 Teacher, Teacher11 Lady Cab Driver / I Wanna Be Your Lover / Little Red Corvette (Tour Demo)
CD5/LP9&10 (Live In Detroit at Masonic Temple Theater, Masonic Hall (Late Show) – November 30, 1982, Previously Unreleased)01 Controversy02 Let’s Work03 Little Red Corvette04 Do Me, Baby05 Head06 Uptown07 Lisa’s Keyboard Interlude08 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?09 Automatic10 International Lover11 199912 D.M.S.R.
DVD (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, – December 29, 1982, Previously Unreleased)01 Controversy02 Let’s Work03 Do Me, Baby04 D.M.S.R.05 Keyboard Interlude06 Piano Improvisation07 How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?08 Lady Cab Driver09 Automatic10 International Lover11 199912 Head
WHY NO I WILL NOT ENJOY THIS.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
fuck
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
... man, two discs of vault tracks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
blurgh
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
04 Vagina
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
lots of exciting looking cuts in there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
yeah this looks good
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
holy shit
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Someone should totally do a Mark Lewisohn Beatles style triple volume book series, i mean fuck who on earth *wouldn't* read that?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Ned something v weird is going on with that link? is it just me?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
This is the way I wanted WB to milk me from the get-go!
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
There were gripes about the Purple Rain remaster being crappy sound-wise (brickwalling, etc). I only listened to the extras disc so i've no idea how bad/good it was.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
perfectly happy with my OG vinyl copies, but I do want those extras
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
Moonbeam Levels is great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
I pasted it as a joke, but "Vagina" is one of the few tracks in that collection I don't think I've ever heard of before. I mean, you'd think I'd remember!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
heh
Prince fans rejoice: 10 lps/5 cd/1 DVD 40+ songs (can't wait for y'all to hear "Vagina" haha) excited to hear what i lived w on lo-fi hiss quality for like 3 plus decades. and happy to play this stuff (finally) w/o getting the ("where u get that from???") calls https://t.co/SksRXlLILf— Questlove from @SongsThatShook Oct 13th @AMC_tv (@questlove) September 10, 2019
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
Holy shitWhat news!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
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, 10 September 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
Whoah!!!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Just finished the New Yorker article. It’s really tremendous. The part that brought tears to my eyes:“I trust you. Tell them I trust you”
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
“He once told me that if you ever want to write a hit song, just act as if you’re writing for five-year-olds,” singer Jill Jones, who is featured on the song “1999.”
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
Once, he said, he’d seen one of his former employees on TV saying she thought it was her God-given duty to preserve and protect the unreleased material in his vault. “Now, that sounds like someone I should call the police on,” he told me. “How is that not racist?” People were always casting him—and all black artists—in a helpless role, he said, as if he were incapable of managing himself.
this was hard to read. Because on the one hand he's right about the general pattern of behavior towards black artists, and then on the other hand he is very wrong because he definitely wasn't capable of managing himself. I mean, he didn't even have a will delineating ownership over his work, he routinely made ridiculous business decisions etc.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
Word on Prince.org is that the employee was S---n Rogers which makes it extra sad, if true.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
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"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
haha I had the same thought
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 13 September 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
What? Lolol
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 13 September 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 13 September 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
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
― 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.
― flappy bird, Friday, 13 September 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
we got promo trackPrince - "1999 (Live at Masonic Hall, Detroit, 11/30/1982 - Late Show)" - 10.25https://open.spotify.com/track/1c2Pp5LtfUdqkm9LuKBDs2?si=kWOwa1dgT9OQh1z7-FDqEg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
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...
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
You can watch that entire concert online, I think.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
goddamn this is amazinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X80LChZpCyo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 18 October 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
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.
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
His rhythm playing is all time. The stuff at the end of iirc Lady Cab Driver, for example.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
yes! one of the best examples
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Sunday, 20 October 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
Rhythm playing on Dirty Mind and Controversy is all time
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 20 October 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
yikeshttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/26/prince-private-archive-memoir-comic-strips-snaps-selfieshttp://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ba2d9ca5be3a81119847ab303787a733480133ac/112_323_1603_2098/master/1603.jpg
i will definitely wanna read this book tho
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 October 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link