Purple Rain: The Official Prince Thread.

[LetMeSleep]

The first two seconds of "Kiss" are the greatest thing ever.

I don't know, dude. The first ten seconds of When Doves Cry are transcendental.

[MadTIGERmaN]

The first two seconds of "Kiss" are the greatest thing ever.

I don't know, dude. The first ten seconds of When Doves Cry are transcendental.

I honestly prefer the acoustic version of Kiss (It might even be the demo version? its barely over a minute long)
really reminds me of the Musicology tours solo / acoustic sets.

[PryTo]

This song is somewhat obscure, but I always thought it contained some of his most tasteful playing. This is a live version, not sure from when. I saw him in Holland about five years ago and he played this -- showed up a lot in the live sets around that time. The studio version is great, too. Wonderful to see a veritable avalanche of live material hit YouTube. Too bad it took him passing for that to occur.

[evenslow]

^^great shit. welcome back.

[bune]

http://www.aux.tv/2016/05/99-items-foun ... ret-vault/

Some of my favorite wtfs:

Pure Energon — Transformers-themed concept album with the Information Society.

Untitled EP with Kim Basinger, Ween, and Ozzy Osbourne.

Replica Batsuit — Michael Keaton era design, built to scale, matte purple finish.

T.C. Bear outfit — Built to scale.

Robin — Concept album dedicated to Robin to coincide with the Batman And Robin film release.

“Mr. Freeze” — Concept maxi-single Batman And Robin/Arnold Schwarzenegger tie-in for a promotion with Dairy Queen.

“It’s Morris Time” — Morris Day and Jason Mewes rap track intended for the Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back soundtrack. Never released*

PnP 242 — Industrial project with Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum.

PxP — Hardcore project with Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum.

PP — Chuck Berry tribute album with Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum.

Neil Young’s Homegrown album.

Untitled Kevin Smith-directed documentary (It does exist!)

Purple Rain 2: The Purpling. (wat)

“Batdance” 20th Anniversary Nike+ Remix For Runners.

Joker — Tribute album to Heath Ledger.

Joker 2 — A collection of songs written for Jared Leto, including the focus track “Thirsty.”

* You'd think K.Smith would have mentioned that one once or twice.

[evenslow]

This is just terribly, terribly depressing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... l-20160504

After receiving the April 20th emergency call, Dr. Kornfeld dispatched his son Andrew Kornfeld to Prince's Paisley Park compound to discuss a treatment plan with the artist. Andrew Kornfeld arrived the following morning and Prince was found alone and unresponsive in his elevator. It was also Kornfeld who made the 911 call to Minnesota police alerting them of the situation.

"We're at Prince’s house," Andrew Kornfeld told 911 dispatchers, unsure of the address. "The people are just distraught… We're in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and we are at the home of Prince." At the time, Kornfeld was carrying a small amount of buprenorphine, a medication that helps curb addiction to painkillers.

"The plan was to quickly evaluate his health and devise a treatment plan," William Mauzy, the Kornfeld family's lawyer, told the newspaper. "The doctor was planning on a lifesaving mission."

[Strat]

So good. Fuck
[YouTube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zByhN9Raa7Y[/YouTube]

[William Bloke]

So good. Fuck

[Strat]

[VinylGuy]

That list is amazing...i mean, songs for Jupiter Ascending? with a video?? A concept album for Robin? A free jazz album??
....And Purple Rain 2 : the purpling.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

I can't believe that he recorded stuff with Ween and Dave Pirner. Mind blown.

[evenslow]

The Prince-relevant part of McCready's interview with Rolling Stone:

I still can't believe this news about Prince.
I keep getting texts. It's devastating and shocking. I remember one time we met him. He was really cool. I asked him a silly guitar question, and he said he didn't know what he did to get his sound, but his tech would know. And then he said he was very into our Ticketmaster battle. I think this was at a party in 1995. It felt really good to know he was behind our Ticketmaster battle.

I must have seen him four or five times times in concert. Every time I was like, "OK, he is the best guitar player I've ever seen." I'd go to his show and get completely blown away by his technique, and mostly just his feel and how fast he could play. He can stop and just milk the notes. He was just so phenomenal on the guitar. And then a year would pass and I'd forget and I'd see him again and go, "He's still the best guitar player I've ever seen in my life." And I've seen a lot. He just blew my mind.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... z48JGML5A7

[VinylGuy]

Got the rolling stone special of Prince....man, i miss him. Im listening to Nothing Compares 2 You...wow, those lyrics. Goddamn.

[Strat]

Was listening to Tom Petty talks to cool people with susanna Hoffs of the bengals and they played Manic Monday. Never realized how much the melody is similar to Prince 1999. And then they told me that Prince actually wrote manic monday.

Ill be damned.

[evenslow]

Was listening to Tom Petty talks to cool people with susanna Hoffs of the bengals and they played Manic Monday. Never realized how much the melody is similar to Prince 1999. And then they told me that Prince actually wrote manic monday.

Ill be damned.

Pretty sure he gave this one away cuz he wanted to bang Susanna Hoffs.

[Strat]

Was listening to Tom Petty talks to cool people with susanna Hoffs of the bengals and they played Manic Monday. Never realized how much the melody is similar to Prince 1999. And then they told me that Prince actually wrote manic monday.

Ill be damned.

Pretty sure he gave this one away cuz he wanted to bang Susanna Hoffs.

She is still beautiful

[VinylGuy]

Is anything better than 2morrow? Man, what a cool little song.

Crystall Ball is full of this little treasures.

[Simple Torture]

My wife and I were in a record store today, and she suddenly shouts out, "RIBS!" She's a much bigger Prince fan than me, and I didn't even realize he was playing on the stereo system--she told me it's her favorite Prince lyric of all time.

[evenslow]

My wife and I were in a record store today, and she suddenly shouts out, "RIBS!" She's a much bigger Prince fan than me, and I didn't even realize he was playing on the stereo system--she told me it's her favorite Prince lyric of all time.

Ha, toy, I don't serve ribs.

[VinylGuy]

His catalogue will be in Spotify again this month.