prince

ha Eric, well at least I agree that both of those tracks bang

sleep around i always thought george michael should have covered

"Sleep Around" with "Star People" production would be pretty great.

or 'outside' type production

it really is the best GM song GM never recorded

could never take the place is still amazing and weirdly the guitar section now makes me think of weather report or return to forever but not nearly as flashy/bloated. very odd hearing an album youre so familiar with after leaving it alone for so long.

this might be my least favorite part of the whole record. the drum programming drives me crazy, that relentless fake open hi-hat over what should be a simmering breakdown

aargh the drums on ICNTTPYM drive me insane, if there was ever a Prince single for proper rock drumming

drums on the Cross are also terrible, as opposed to Sheila rocking out on SOTT live

maybe the Mo Tucker effect on the album was intentional, I dunno

cmon, you think prince really was listening hard to the velvets? thats just something critics assigned to the song in retrospect, no?

Yeah - I also seriously doubt he was listening to the VU. Wishful Critic Thinking.

The beauty of SOTT - and very much spoken about at the time it was released - is the very obvious demo-y quality of many of the tracks. Especially when Prince was always so good at passing off stuff he'd recorded mainly by himself as full band collabs (i.e. "1999", much of Purple Rain)

Love the drums on "The Cross"! They actually sound live.

I also like the sorta crappy drum machine sound.

the drums on the cross are live. its not a drum machine. ICNTTPOYM is a drum machine tho, obv.

prince would not be a VU fan imo... i think he would see them as deficient/too inept in some way.

there's more than one AMAZING cd on emancipation but not much more
still necessary
crystal ball is not as good, but again there's at least one great disc

I really don't think it's that big of a stretch that Prince would be familiar with VU.

In 1987? I do.

there's more to life than Prince you know but not much more

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The VU albums were reissued in 1985 so it's more than feasible that he heard them then if not well before.

well i could believe that wendy and lisa might have played him some

honestly can't see Prince having even the slightest interest in a band that doesn't have "chops" in the conventional sense. and VU did not.

across the board, all his obvious influences - Kraftwerk, P-Funk, Sly, Joni Mitchell - were very slick musos

also just because a song has only two chords /= Velvets

Well, he also loved Cocteau Twins c. the Parade era so maybe chops weren't everything...

uh Elizabeth Fraser definitely has vocal chops

http://www.westendextra.com/news/2011/jul/prince-spotted-berwick-street-purple-rain-superstar-drops-buy-cds-and-dvds-soho-record

who knew this guy went record shopping. seems like a wasteed trip though. hes in soho, hes going to SOTU, and he buys hendrix, curtis, sly and al green (all of which i am sure he knows off by heart). says it all really about where hes at these days!

cementing his legacy/place in the pantheon?

that would be if he went around record shops reshelving his own albums ;)

I would posit that releasing so many albums is the opposite of taking a chance. Dude should cull and concentrate, then drop an album that has more weight to it than "the newest Prince album until he releases two or three more next year."

when Prince culls and concentrates, we end up with Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

culling and concentrating has never really been his forte

when Prince culls and concentrates, we end up with Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

Ha, too true. Musicology sounded like he made an effort, too, and that turned out ... better.

when he culls and concentrates, he also records SOTT.

A handful of rave-ups aside, it might be the quietest rock double album ever recorded.

Musicology sounded like he made an effort, too, and that turned out ... better.

Speak for yourself.

"The opposite of NATO is OTAN"

makes ya think

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lohrzkYyV91qixko4o1_400.gif

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http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj273/mookiebut/funk_convulsion.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJH-nLejSIg&feature=player_embedded

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh.

I've never taken the time to track down unreleased Prince stuff, but this is convincing me I should.

heard an incredible prince bootleg the other day - 20 min set, live in bbc studios in '92. just insane, especially the transitions.

you absolutely should rev, although the homemade bootleg series someone linked to in one of the polls threads does a pretty good job at collecting the best of it and grouping it by era.

never seen these clips--watch while you can!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abjN6NvaXx8&feature=youtu.be

Apparently there was a Revolution reunion show sans Prince at First Avenue tonight? Classic lineup + Dez + Eric Leeds with Wendy as frontwoman.

uh.... fucking hell that video

The recorded version comes from that show (edited down a bit, with the coda added later). First time they ever performed it.

has that video been out there?

yeah wow

i'm just trying to imagine being one of the kids in the front row there... like it would take me possibly my entire life to comprehend being in that position

Not sure how long that video's been out there, but I watched it a few months back at least. There's other first performances of Purple Rain material from that show out there.

Oh, and it was Wendy Melvoin's first show in the band.

Whoa, "When You Were Mine" in his natural register is like a whole different (but still amazing) song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WadJVLlS9Jw&feature=related