prince

anyone read/reading this yet?

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/thumbnail/0006/232899/PrinceExternal2.jpg

I'd like to read it but this review is very critical:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/prince-by-matt-throne-8190754.html

Unfortunately, Thorne is a Prince fanatic, once considered for the job of approved biographer. A conventional life story wasn't expected, but this doorstop amounts to a speculative description of every song Prince has recorded – especially the unreleased ones. It is packed with adoring speculation. Every detail, no matter how trivial, is "interesting" or "fascinating". Tedious descriptions of obscure movies and bewildering explanations of the plotlines of forgotten albums take up hundreds of pages.

Prince probably warrants the song-by-song approach, but Thorne is no Ian MacDonald, trained in musical theory, and soon runs out of vocabulary. Any tune that swings with a I-IV-V change is dismissed as "rockabilly", while his use of "hard rock", to describe a guitarist often compared to Hendrix, is extraordinarily vague. Thorne's research into Prince's protégés is impressive, but of relatively limited interest, while his subject's drift into bigotry is barely questioned. In fact, Prince's religious journey is hardly mentioned, despite teasers.

hmm too bad...like the cover though

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/07/prince-biography-matt-thorne-review

This reviewer likes the first half of the book!

He's supposedly doing something for Baz Luhrman's (sp?) "Great Gatsby". The mind boggles.

Hopefully it reaches the heights of his previous soundtrack contribution, BATDANCE.

haha yeah "keep bustin".

Vicki Waiting was good

i like that whole album a lot really

Didn't "Girl 6" come after that?

yes, as did Graffiti Bridge, and everything else on Batman came after Batdance

Girl 6 was filled with stuff predating "Batdance" tho.

primarily

26 minute studio jam of I Woul Die 4 U

http://soundcloud.com/heymamad/prince-i-would-die-4-u-26min

wth

only song on Batman I like is Electric Chair

it's kind of weird how ephemeral so much prince-related stuff is. like you have to listen today cause there's a very real chance it will be gone tomorrow.

download these adorable pictures of kittens http://www.sendspace.com/file/dc8t0s

26 minute studio jam of I Woul Die 4 U

http://soundcloud.com/heymamad/prince-i-would-die-4-u-26min

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds v similar to an extended live-in-studio PR era "I Would Die 4 U" i have that's 'only' 8 minutes or so, so psyched to have one that's even longer -- one of my favorite songs ever that takes on a whole new amazing shape in those live arrangements

even if this isn't real -- i mean i have no reason to believe it isn't, but, you know, "internet" -- and like some modern producer's insane disco-edit, it's still fucking amazing.

no, it's definitely real, sounds like a lot of live arrangements i've heard of the song from that era.

one of the most vivid and cherished musical memories of my life is listening to the the 10-minute version on my iPod on the last day of my honeymoon, standing on the beach in australia

still can't believe this song placed #16 on the Prince tracks poll, unfuckwithable

no it's totally real i mean that is some unified 80s production there

haha maybe i just dont want to think about reams of shit like this existing out there that i'll never get to hear

the vocals that come in toward the 7 minute mark, that's my standing on the beach in Cairns moment

ommmmmmmmmmmggggggg

strongo, some dude, even you rennnavate:

i love you.

I'm pretty sure that that version is featured on The Work bootleg compilation along with the 8 minute version too if I recall correctly.

"even you rennavate" lol

man this is good

"lisa, gimme some kinda spacey chord!"

this is great...

i drove by paisley park the other day, boy that building was designed in the late 80s

so good

who's on sax there? eric leeds? i thought he came later

Well, Leeds was in the Family with Wendy's sister, I think. Which came about right after the Time dissolved. But he was definitely in the MN mix somewhere.

i love you gr8080!!!!!!

I don't have time to listen now but iirc he called out the horns by names other than Eric and Atlanta.

the vocals that come in toward the 7 minute mark, that's my standing on the beach in Cairns moment

― burrito smalls (some dude), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:49 PM (Yesterday)

^^^

wow

moving in circles
won't you rennevate

The 26 minute version sounds a lot like the official 10 minute version that was released on the "I Would Die 4 U" 12-inch 8. Maybe the 10 minute version was edited from that, or it's a different take recorded in the same session? Anyway, no doubt this a totally legit bootleg, not a fake.

i got a 31 min versh which, bizarrely is the same recording but not slower or with any loopage - same beginning, same end, can't figure where the extra time comes from. been around for years. forgot i had it until checking this thread.

Lots of great stuff getting out there in recent months. Seems an old associate may be leaking tracks - at least that's the rumor. Searching for "P3rf3ct Unr3l3as3d Princ3" - for example - will yield some nuggets.

who's on sax there? eric leeds? i thought he came later

― Crackle Box, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:34 AM (Yesterday)

Eddie M.

It sounds like there must be an even longer version tho? It fades out at the end as it sounds like they're shifting into something new.

it's possible they're still playing it in some other dimension. neverendless.

WFMU playing a bunch of Prince demos: https://twitter.com/WFMU/status/266243988263149568

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DEne4AoX_RU#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature

Crap. Anyway, new Prince single/video.

All female band!

this is going to make me sound like a jerk but no wonder it sounds like cheryl crow