prince

i went to one of those...Roseland after the Garden, 1987(?)--he played til 5am. i was in the very front row, catching the sweat off his electric blue body suit. WHOA! best show over

best show ever...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJbpv0ZSb4

dope imo

Tweets from my friend Michael at tonight's show:

Prince has been playing for 17 hours, done 104 encores and played every single song ever. Literally, ever. Best show ever? Has to be.

I think there are no more songs left. Someone needs to write a song quick so Prince can come back out and play it.

If Prince ever runs into the problem of an audience just not leaving and demanding encore after encore, he can just come out and do that Vikings song. Guaranteed venue emptier.

that is why prince will never die, and will become a constellation.

I've always loved the covers Prince chooses to do live.

so at Dan's suggestion I got Emancipation and Come cuz both were cheap.

Why is Come so hated on by some? It's definitely one of his more challenging album and it screams of a "fuck you" record, as it isn't as catchy as most of his albums, but by god is it funky and danceable and the title track alone! "Loose!" is great!

It's mostly because Prince himself was nasty about it because it was a contract obligation album.

I will admit, though, that I had owned it for about 3 weeks and hadn't gotten past the title track (which is so so so so good) until a friend told me his favorite song on the album was "Papa"; after playing that song I think I just put the CD player on endless repeat and cycled through the album for the next month.

yea I remember that was his last album as Prince for a while but while I can tell he purposefully made it cluttered and noisy and not very melodious in places and threw in an 11 minute opening track it still sounds damn good!

oh and yes the title track is faaaaaaaaaaaab.

my fave on the album nowadays is probably "Letitgo" but yeah, the whole thing is brilliant

Have you gotten to Emancipation yet?

I recorded a version of me singing Letitgo and doing all the harmonies once. thing is an earworm!

yep I've gotten through 1.5 discs of Emancipation. I'm really enjoying how much variety it has. like "Courtin Time" was a fav from disc 1, "One Kiss at a Time" is what I'm back on now and dear god is this shit smooooth.

oh dude, there's so much more left for you to hit, disc 3 is a MONSTER IMO

awesome. i'm gonna have to hit the last disc up late to night, damn busy schedule. don't suppose 'listening to 13 year old Prince album' is a good excuse to get out of commitments

OH MAN @ "Emale"...........

^_^ yeah, that song = hotness

I am also partial to the "Joint 2 Joint"/"The Holy River"/"Let's Have a Baby" sequence coming up

Come is drastically underrated
SOLO

aw that's gonna be in posts out of context isn't it

i think there's about a great album and a third to be culled from emancipation and a lotta filler but it's well worth the trouble

omg his vesrion of "One of Us" is AWESOME...way better tha the original

Funniest Prince moment--that WTF Germanic Sigmund Freud-sounding accent he does for a couple of lines in the 12" version of Little Red Corvette....LMAO

After last week's discussion, "Let's Have a Baby" promptly went into my iPod. Check out how well he uses space.

i really liked that one on first listen.

u know he wrote one of us rite?

says here some dude from the Hooters wrote it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_Us_(song)

hm. I guess i'm wrong! I always thought he wrote that.

playing hop farm fest in kent this year

stoked!

nowhere seems to have sunday tickets available yet tho...

saw him last night in san jose, it was incredible, well worth the ridiculous ticket price. bonus, leonardo di caprio in the audience caught on the jumbo screen dancing like an idiot

also, cover-wise, we got COOL (the Time), Wanna Be Starting Something (MJ), and we got Nothing Compares 2 U and Shiela E. doing Glamorous Life

Just announced two shows here (Montreal) at a ridiculously small venue... and I'll be out of town.

Fuck. They went on sale at noon. I just found out. I think they're soldout.

I was wrong! And I am seeing Prince! In TEN DAYS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-bQFsRqJI&feature=related

Oh my freakin' god, y'all.

Love it when his stuff makes a fleeting appearance on youtube.

Hey I recognize that interviewer.

His management's pre-interview list of guidelines insisted, "Please do not discuss his views on the internet," but perhaps Prince hasn't read them. "I personally can't stand digital music," he says. "You're getting sound in bits. It affects a different place in your brain. When you play it back, you can't feel anything. We're analogue people, not digital." He's warming to his theme. "Ringtones!" he exclaims. "Have you ever been in a room where there's 17 ringtones going off at once?"

Does he have a ringtone?

"No," he says, looking as offended as if I'd asked him if he drove a clown car. "I don't have a phone."

He's equally put out by covers of his songs, Glee's version of Kiss being the latest offender. "There's no other artform where you can do that. You can't go and do your own version of Harry Potter. Do you want to hear somebody else sing Kiss?"

Prince will happily talk about how much he adores Adele ("When she just comes on and sings with a piano player, no gimmicks, it's great") or Janelle Monáe, but he won't criticise other artists. "The new pushes the old out of the way and retains what it wants to. Don't ask me about popular acts. Ask Janelle. Doesn't matter what I say. We ain't raining on anyone's parade. I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies."

this dude is just bad-ass

He keeps playing down his own stardom and doffing his cap to his band or God or Sly and the Family Stone, but does he ever think, perhaps midway through playing When Doves Cry to 30,000 people: "I'm really very good at this"?

"Well I don't think it," he smirks, raising an eyebrow. "I know it."

BAD-ASS

waht

Sometimes he seems a little too fond of boundaries. "It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that." But what about women who are unhappy about having to wearing burqas? "There are people who are unhappy with everything," he says shruggingly. "There's a dark side to everything."

Agreed with all three previous reactions.

and re: previous covers discussion on truthbomb thread

He's equally put out by covers of his songs, Glee's version of Kiss being the latest offender. "There's no other artform where you can do that. You can't go and do your own version of Harry Potter. Do you want to hear somebody else sing Kiss?"

Except he covers stuff all the time. (Including, apparently Beyonce's Suga Mama, which was on youtube at one point but which I have never heard. :(

you might be missing the raging egomaniac part of the equation

Wasn't space to include the rest of that quote, which might have seemed pedantic to general non-music-mag readers anyway. He says that (a) he plays them live rather than releasing them and (b) he calls up the songwriters to ask if they're cool with it.

yeah, like meshell ndegeocello is doing a full length prince cover tour that i imagine prince is cool with
he seems more snotty about the recorded versions.

me being the snot that I am, I would have asked about the covers on Emancipation

tbf, i now hear only his version of betcha by golly wow as the "real" one.