Bumping this post because of the Prince sucks post.
I don't really care for Prince. I don't have a single song of his in my library, I could barely name more than 1 or 2 of his albums and I literally couldn't hum or sing a single lyric from a single prince song. But he's good. I mean, he ####ing kills it in that clip. Just watch the youngish guy next to Tom Pettey who at one point has a giant #### eating grin just watching Prince shred the #### out of that guitar.
Say you don't like his stuff but it is crazy talk to say he wasn't a hugely influential and talented artist.
It's cool how they start the performance very methodical, and structured, and when Prince takes over, he just changes the whole attitude of the performance, and they all just get right into it. Definitely a mic drop moment if there ever was one. Instead he opts to throw his guitar to the heavens instead.
Musician deaths hit me hard because music is my happy place. I have an emotional attachment to so much of it, I get sent back in time when I hear certain tunes.
So far this thread has all my favourite Prince moments, except this one
In a room full of the coolest people in the world, Prince was the coolest person in the room. I don't think Canadians realize how massive Prince is in the states, he once played the Staples center 20 times in one month.
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On his unreleased music:
I've never said this before, but I didn't always give the record companies the best song. There are songs in the vault that no one's ever heard. There are several vaults; it's not just one vault.
Are there full unreleased albums? Yeah, I like time capsule stuff. I have a couple Revolution albums in the vault and two Time albums, one Vanity 6 album … and tons of stuff recorded in different periods. But so much gets recorded that you don't have time to compile everything. In the future you could put all the best stuff from one particular time period together and then you can release it. It'd just be like if we found a Sly and the Family Stone album and they saved their best stuff. If that's even possible!
On his unreleased music:
I've never said this before, but I didn't always give the record companies the best song. There are songs in the vault that no one's ever heard. There are several vaults; it's not just one vault.
Are there full unreleased albums? Yeah, I like time capsule stuff. I have a couple Revolution albums in the vault and two Time albums, one Vanity 6 album … and tons of stuff recorded in different periods. But so much gets recorded that you don't have time to compile everything. In the future you could put all the best stuff from one particular time period together and then you can release it. It'd just be like if we found a Sly and the Family Stone album and they saved their best stuff. If that's even possible!
This is my greatest hope for the future, that Prince actually prepared people to be the proper custodians of his music and start releasing this material over time. That and also pulling back the draconian measures of removing his content from Youtube, etc. via algorithm.
There are so few true rock stars left in the world. Apologies to the stars of today, but the closest that my generation has been able to produce (still with us) are Dave Grohl, Jack White, Josh Homme, Eddie Vedder... and my God, where are the women of that calibre? Do they all have to be pop princesses? (Taylor Swift may have the talent to put out a really meaningful album, but why would she? What she is doing is working for her.)
Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey, Debbie Harry, Tom Petty, Springsteen... there really arn't that many left that when they enter a room, everything stops. And now with David Bowie gone, Prince was the last one that still had it in him to produce meaningful music, that rivals or surpasses the best that he had done in the past. Apologies to all of the still alive rock stars, but Prince was the most relevant.
I'm surprised at how sad I am that Prince passed away.
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The difference is the segmentation of music. There's not as many massive rock stars anymore because there's just something for everyone instead of "Rock" "Country" "Classical" "Jazz".
The difference is the segmentation of music. There's not as many massive rock stars anymore because there's just something for everyone instead of "Rock" "Country" "Classical" "Jazz".
IMO music is now all very focused on singles and it's all quick fixes from one artist to another. Prior to the digital age listeners bought complete albums on vinyl, cassette, CD and listened to entire libraries of artists. Now it's all about downloading singles and it's harder to get emotionally attached to artists when you only listen to their singles and not investing time into their other work which can at times be superior to the stuff that is radio popular.
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It's phases. The 50's and 60's were very focused on singles too. Even in the 90's in the UK during the Brit Pop explosion singles were very popular.
Singles were still popular in the 80's as there were plenty of one and done artists. It's just that there's little incentive to listen to an entire album if you can just purchase the catchy single. I kind of enjoyed how you would give a record a listen and find songs that I preferred over the singles and being able to play an album from beginning to end and feeling a connection to the state the artist was at when they wrote and recorded that album. Now that's going by the wayside because it's easier just to bypass all the stuff that producers didn't choose to market the latest album. Heck I'm guilty of hitting iTunes now and just grazing on the most popular songs of artist. I do try to go through every song in their album but it's one of those things were a lot of great songs need a few plays to stick and you can't get that by listening to a 30 second clip.
But just think of how much of your life you get back now that you don't have to slog through awful album filler
Typically artist record an entire album and don't manufacture filler to surround the singles so I feel the artists that I follow/followed offer a lot more than just the songs hand picked off the album by the record company to be singles. Sure there's a lot of albums where only one or two songs really worked but I think of stuff like Appetite for Destruction for example and there's not a song I don't like or didn't listen to hundreds of times. We are missing that now.
But just think of how much of your life you get back now that you don't have to slog through awful album filler
The opposite is some of what was thought to be filler turned out to be gold and might not see the light of day now.
Prince's music was never really something I listened to when it first came out but I appreciated his talent and I'm keenly interested in what magic is in those vaults.
So far this thread has all my favourite Prince moments, except this one
In a room full of the coolest people in the world, Prince was the coolest person in the room. I don't think Canadians realize how massive Prince is in the states, he once played the Staples center 20 times in one month.
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