prince

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.

DJP, you interviewing Prince would be all kinds of hilarious/great because it would eventually be half an hour of shit-talking about mentally incompetent Minnesotans you've encountered.

"I went in intending to ask a musical genius questions about his art and his future. I ended up attempting to horrify him with stories about home town."

tempted to go with "mentally incompetent Minnesotans i have encountered" as a dn, but

Welcome 2 Hastings

xp The problem is his conversation jumps all over the place and you can't record it so you're just sat there scribbling down what he says and by the time you've got it together to quibble with a point like that he's on to something else. Except the Islam one where I had time to pull a "Bloody hell, really?" face.

then there was that time when Prince was the unpronounceable symbol, and his managers gave the specific font to use to journalists when writing about him in print, and then he tried to sue them when they tried to use it as directed...

Live review of Friday's show, courtesy of me, but since I have *no* idea how to do live reviews, it's pretty much a partial setlist plus commentary:

http://roverarts.com/2011/06/purple-reign/

The fourth encore began with Prince spot-lit at centre stage, performing an ethereal version of Joni Mitchell’s A Case of You

OMG

ddddaaammn

WOW Alex that gig sounds incredible!

holy hell

not saying it wasnt good but doesnt he play that kind of show pretty regularly these days? his aftershows/jams arent rare like they used to be.

No, Alex, you did very well indeed.

Entirely possible. He hasn't come to Montreal in a decade and in comparison the Saturday show was pretty much nothing but hits. They have a setlist for that over at prince.org and I was kind of jealous at first because we got maybe 8 recognizable prince hits and most of those were partial/medleys. But...there was a looseness to the set on Friday. Kind of felt like anything could happen.