prince

OTM.

That late-career playlist posted upthread ("Wasted Kisses") made me realize how many Prince albums I've not only never heard, but actually never heard of. "MPLSoUND"? "One Night Alone"???

(the selections from the 2 HITNRUN albums are amazing, btw. thanks for sharing that list!)

I bet I could fairly easily put together an unranked top 400 tracklist from prince without having to resort to side projects

And most fans could!

Tbh, at this point I might be more excited about an album where Prince didn't get to choose the tracks.

Dylan has the best archival series in large part because he doesn't give a fuck and let's them do it

I get that a recent album might have more impact and help to look at prince beyond the 80s, but I doubt this one will show he was making brilliant, overlooked music in the 2010s. and now that hes gone, its ALL in the past, so why would you opt for what is likely to be just another okay ish modern prince album? Surely we had enough of those from 2004 to 2015?

I bet I could fairly easily put together an unranked top 400 tracklist from prince without having to resort to side projects

(Of all the artists who deserve an ILM ballot poll redux.)

Also his quality control, or awareness of what was good about his music seemed to go really askew in the later years, so you just know this will have maybe 2 to 3 rough gems and the rest borderline duds.

even Chaos and Disorder had "Dig U Better Dead"

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/a9101e9b631a11a3d73cec0d5dec8e5420210418084148/358b79

Npr/radio 4 Ann powers doc on prince.
Asks what prince might have made if he was alive during last years BLM protests which makes me wonder if maybe he would have gotten better at the recent social commentaries in his songs as he was looking outward more. Or maybe songs like Baltimore or act of God are better than I remember.

or... you could listen for free here? i’m assuming this is what you’re talking about?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v75j

i put the DL link for ppl who might not be able to access BBC sounds due to not being in the uk.

Sounds is available everywhere now apart from Russia, China, North Korea and Vietnam

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/international

"political prince? in MY era? it's more likely than you think" is a simple narrative that serves the new album so i'm not surprised there's a lot of these kinda pieces

I didnt actually know Prince didnt believe in voting or that it was against his faith.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-04-21/every-prince-single-ranked

Anniversary of his death today. Lot of content around it seems.

already furious at this list

Recently had the big idea that parade would be better if it ended after do u lie. Not cos the last three songs are bad but just that they dont seem to fit. #blamespotify

Either way,wendy and lisa posted this on Facebook from a big new prince book due soon, about the making of sometimes it snows in April

https://www.facebook.com/musicbywendyandlisa/posts/312206346929831

Really surprised to find out SISIA dates back to his pre-warners years.

things i don't care about #1: a ranked list of prince's singles from someone I've never met or heard of

https://audioboom.com/posts/7848858-barney-hoskyns-on-prince

Idk if you will hate this then but I enjoyed it, even if BH is an old rockist crit guy through and through

OK I saw "I Wish U Heaven" in the bottom 15 of the LA Times list, and that's a hard pass.

i learned from sheila e's twitter that prince didn't like people to watch him eat and also made undercooked eggs :D

U so dislike eating in front of people. But u could throw down when u wanted too. U always cooked eggs for me and I made the pancakes. The eggs weren’t always done 😳 that’s why I made the pancakes to cover up the eggs. 🥰 💜 #prince #eggs #memories pic.twitter.com/S6jJZsZCDH

— SheilaEdrummer (@SheilaEdrummer) April 21, 2021

#prince #eggs #memories the best series of hashtags ever?

Sometimes It Snows At Easter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febeHW4EO4o

'70s soul pastiche is not at all what I expected. I don't know how to feel about him having a band & production that actually sounds, idk, tasteful?

prince was always tasteful gtfo

(but yeah, this is great)

it's a good track, dunno how it will hold up to repeat play

am I crazy or does this sound like P influenced by D'Angelo rather than the other way around?

prince was always tasteful gtfo

(but yeah, this is great)

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Thursday, June 3, 2021 4:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Wat?

the “Prince was always tasteful” statement

hi jay, i was being a silly guy. hope you're having a nice day, friend.☺

My first thought when I listened to this was “everyone who hears this is going to end up pregnant”

well whoops: i listened to it twice yesterday.

O_O

CONGRADULATIONS ;) :) ;) ;)

hai guys

I'm pregnant

congrats Alfred!!! :)

this is good! I see the D'Angelo thing, but my first thought was Curtis Mayfield, the strings and percussion etc

Indeed.

xpost to austin Yeah, friend. Had a wonderful day. Wine and friends I hadn't seen in a while. Nice weather. One friend was wearing a sweet 1999 tour t-shirt, natch.

“Born 2 Die” is the second single made available from Prince’s upcoming unreleased studio album Welcome 2 America and is available now. The song was recorded during a flurry of studio activity in the spring of 2010, when President Obama was just a year into his first term and Prince was reflecting deeply on the issues affecting the Black community and the role he hoped to play. As happened countless times throughout his career, Prince ended up shelving the song and the rest of Welcome 2 America in his legendary vault, and the full album will be released from the vault for the first time on July 30. The slow-burning song was first recorded by Prince, the bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, and the drummer Chris Coleman, and then accentuated by the vocal harmonies of Shelby J., Liv Warfield, and Elisa Fiorillo, and topped off by a melody sung by Prince himself. He then tapped his longtime music director Morris Hayes to add final production to the track—and shared some of the inspiration behind its sound. "We got to 'Born 2 Die,' and Prince said, 'I'll tell you how that came about,' Morris remembers. "He had been watching videos of his friend Dr. Cornel West on YouTube, and during one speech Dr. West said, 'I love my brother Prince, but he’s no Curtis Mayfield.' So Prince said, "Oh really? We will see."

lmao that is a great story

haha wow

I am really looking forward to meeting the children that DJP, Alfred, and Austin will shortly give birth to.

one of mine will be named "prince curtis" btw

also yes, that little tidbit story is wonderful.☺

thanks for giving me the image of a pregnant cornel west in demi moore vogue cover pose

Aah so that’s why Cornel West didn’t get tenure

I am really looking forward to meeting the children that DJP, Alfred, and Austin will shortly give birth to.

― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin)

Nicki Minaj will record our kids' theme "Negronis in the Bottle"

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— sherilynfenn (@sherilynfenn1) June 4, 2021