prince

And the new album announcement:

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/prince-announces-new-album-plectrum-electrum-and-tour-dates.html

that is a tough title there

worst discarded RHCP title ever

what are those weird things on his ears, is he wearing expensive backwards sunglasses or something

that is a tough title there

Well, it is better than Prostate Apostate.

perineum millennium

Taint Saint

Rejected Pavement b side song titles

haven't seen this posted on ilm yet:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/72887/prince-covers-prince-with-unexpected-new-version-of-lets-go-crazy

referencing artists "covering" themselves always drives me insane. it's his song, it's not a cover!

but yeah that was posted

whoops search-fu let me down

Prince fans might enjoy this:
http://www.datpiff.com/Maya-Vik-On-It-kapow-Mixtape.475379.html

Maya Vik was recently featured in the Playboy 2013 Music Guide, and she's doing some shows in NYC right now. Linn drums galore. Also, she plays the bass.

also, some good recordings out there from his shows at the Dakota earlier this year

most recent setlist looks awesome:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/prince/2013/dna-lounge-san-francisco-ca-7bd82ab4.html

was talking to a friend who was there and said "lets go crazy" was done in the stoner style as in the recent vimeo

I can only imagine how awesome he'd be in a room that small. Like the Dakota shows.

thoughts arrive like butterflies, yeah

http://www.drfunkenberry.com/2013/05/24/exclusive-a-taste-of-prince-3rdeyegirl-covering-even-flow-by-pearl-jam/

lol whut

wow Prince. Just...wow.

can I hire Prince and 3rdEyeGirl to be my karaoke backup band?

probably?

sweet, brb

They played a new song called Fixurlifeup, featuring his horrific new band, one of the worst songs I've heard in ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZyii-zfaic&feature=youtube_gdata_player

he should have hooked up with Savages

(I think "Fixurlifeup" is boring rather than terrible)

yeah really just totally middle of the road nothingness

that evenflow is pretty funky

The 'Ads by Google' that popped up for me during that video was 'Comedy Week Is Happening'.

yeah really just totally middle of the road nothingness

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, May 24, 2013 9:53 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is the thing, I'd almost prefer it if Prince was making offensively bad shlock, but he's just treading on nothing now - I can't believe actual thought processes go into making tunes like this. It's like a demo song on Garageband.

brb, blasting I Feel For You at maximum volume

I'd rather see The Revolution reunite than The Smiths. I saw Prince with these 3 chicks a few weeks ago and while the guitar player was decent the drummer was awful. Basically sounded like a bar band playing very boring rock music for 60% of the show and a bad rock band covering Prince classics the other 40%.

h8 this band but i can't blame them, it seems like exactly what prince wants atm.

god if the Revolution reunited I would eat broken glass for a ticket

I'd rather see The Revolution reunite than The Smiths.

oh yes ...
totally ..

I saw Prince with these 3 chicks a few weeks ago and while the guitar player was decent the drummer was awful. Basically sounded like a bar band playing very boring rock music for 60% of the show and a bad rock band covering Prince classics the other 40%.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, May 24, 2013

weird. when i saw them the drummer was very good, the bass player was fantastic, and the guitar player was technically quite capable but either didn't have or wasn't hired to demonstrate any interesting musical ideas. It's like we saw a completely different show. Crazy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sI6q7vDHKA

"omg we're playing with prince this is the highlight of my life!"

"omg we are the worst band prince has ever worked with!"

Ha garageband is totally it

Some of the guitar effects sound like cheap little garageband efx too

More like 'this is what someone with too many studio toys and not enough time to learn how to use them sounds like'. It's Manufacturer's Preset City.

LOL, exactly the charge Cecil and Margouleff leveled at Stevie Wonder after he stopped using their services.

shhhprince with sunglasses on that fixurlifeup video looks like the head of a penis rising from the play now icon

Wasn't Songs in the Key of Life the first album Stevie did post-C&M? I think he knew what he was doing with that one. o_O

Yup. One of them accused him of just sticking with presets for everything. The songs and sequencing are strong enough to mask it, but there's no doubt that from a production standpoint the album is a big sonic step down from the four preceding it.

Well, maybe a "BIG" step down is overstating it. It just has a notably tinnier feel.

This is a Prince thread but you people are talking shit. Cecil and Margouleff were pissed that they didn't get credit for the work they did on Key of Life before they fell out with Stevie. Plus, that record makes brilliant use of the Yamaha GX-1 a.k.a. "The Dream Machine," which didn't have any presets IIRC. To the extent that Stevie did start using presets, it was in the 80s.

yamaha gx-1 - definitely no presets on that thing. analogue didn't do presets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG7OIKT61Y4

Lots of clueless talk on ILM these days. So depressing.

Haha I mean : more than the usual.

This new song of Prince's is probably the last time I listen to any new thing he does. Pretty terrible.
I wish he would just retire - or do an all acoustic solo tour or something - just a guitar and piano.

this is pretty good

http://vimeo.com/63025947

he should do a tour of Famous Dave's locations, would fit his new sound