Make a quick TIDAL account and you'll have a free subscription for thirty days to listen to most of his music. I wouldn't normally suggest anyone to check them out, lmao, but this is their one big trump they have over everyone else.
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The artist known as Prince has died at age 57
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I know one of the albums is called "Roadhouse Garden". He was gonna release it with Wendy and Lisa, but like many of his projects it got cancelled. I have two songs from that album called "Roadhouse Garden" and "Our Destiny" on dvd. Those songs are amazing. You can tell it was made during his Purple Rain period, due to how the melody and beat is so flawless.
teruterubozu
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I know he did some sessions with Miles Davis too, but they were never released.
uncelestial
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Looks like users have been flocking to DailyMotion, where the copyright takedowns aren't a cancer that kills all joy, to upload TONS of Prince stuff.
I finally got to rewatch the video for 7:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3erej5
And Sexy MF:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xiqz9_7-prince-sexymf-damn-u_music
Hell, I'd never even seen the video for Partyman, even though that's my fave song from Batman 89.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44zgqt_prince-partyman-1989_music
But my favorite Prince song will forever be Kiss.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x463k20_prince-the-revolution-kiss_music
The filthy way he sings that song and the weird instrumentation which is so progressive and inventive are just 100% incredible. Lots of "Pitchfork pop" acts are trying to get into 80s sounds these days but they slather it with reverb because we're in a post-chillwave/pre-shoegaze revival phase. But Prince knew that keeping it super dry and tight was what made the song move and sound funky. Clipped, percussive notes, not avalanches of synth waves. And I love Prince's mastery of ultra-high singing, that makes the ending to Purple Rain to huge. The whole song is in that voice. It's just an amazing track.
Go into the related pane on the right and, finally, mourn through some cool videos. Being able to do that with Bowie tracks helped me process that earlier this year.
I finally got to rewatch the video for 7:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3erej5
And Sexy MF:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3xiqz9_7-prince-sexymf-damn-u_music
Hell, I'd never even seen the video for Partyman, even though that's my fave song from Batman 89.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44zgqt_prince-partyman-1989_music
But my favorite Prince song will forever be Kiss.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x463k20_prince-the-revolution-kiss_music
The filthy way he sings that song and the weird instrumentation which is so progressive and inventive are just 100% incredible. Lots of "Pitchfork pop" acts are trying to get into 80s sounds these days but they slather it with reverb because we're in a post-chillwave/pre-shoegaze revival phase. But Prince knew that keeping it super dry and tight was what made the song move and sound funky. Clipped, percussive notes, not avalanches of synth waves. And I love Prince's mastery of ultra-high singing, that makes the ending to Purple Rain to huge. The whole song is in that voice. It's just an amazing track.
Go into the related pane on the right and, finally, mourn through some cool videos. Being able to do that with Bowie tracks helped me process that earlier this year.
Agent Unknown
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Front page of the local paper:
No, stop trying to blame Prince's health issues by insulting his religion, JWs are advocates for modern medicine and surgery and have helped influence cutting edge forms of bloodless surgical procedures. This has already been pointed out many times earlier in the thread by other posters and in thorough detail here in this post with links to the Johns Hopkins University's Center For Bloodless Medicine which the JWs have worked with:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=201592304
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/bloodless_medicine_surgery/news.html
Lengthy three part article from the New Yorker last year, "How Jehovahs Witnesses Are Changing Medicine:"
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine?intcid=mod-yml
Based on what I have read so far, it was reported that in 2008/09 Prince postponed getting hip replacement because he wanted to get it done bloodlessly not only because of his faith but because hip replacement surgery is a major procedure and he didn't want any complications to occur. Bloodless surgery is not some fringe, fantasy medical practice, advanced forms of bloodless surgery have been around for several decades now. There are many doctors and hospitals where a person can get a major procedure surgically done without blood, not just in major cities. Even open heart surgery can be done bloodlessly. So if Prince wanted to postpone hip replacement surgery both due to not wanting a blood transfusion and also because he personally thought a bloodless procedure would be of better quality then I think his wishes there should be respected and he could have had it done bloodlessly any time he was personally ready for the reasons outlined above. I think it should also be pointed out that hip replacement surgery can be a very scary and emotional decision for some people, I know that firsthand from family experience with a relative who stubbornly put their hip replacement surgery off for a very long time.
Also, JWs are not the only people who seek out bloodless surgery, some seek out bloodless surgery because bloodless procedures are more advanced by their very nature and the person may feel they are getting higher quality care or fear of side effects (even though "rejection" effects the body may experience and blood bank mistakes statistically may not be that common).
Edit: Also read per that New Yoker article linked before, JWs generally don't accept their own banked blood but they widely accept dialysis and surgical procedures where their own blood is pumped and recirculated outside the body in a continuous flow.
No, stop trying to blame Prince's health issues by insulting his religion, JWs are advocates for modern medicine and surgery and have helped influence cutting edge forms of bloodless surgical procedures. This has already been pointed out many times earlier in the thread by other posters and in thorough detail here in this post with links to the Johns Hopkins University's Center For Bloodless Medicine which the JWs have worked with:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=201592304
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/bloodless_medicine_surgery/news.html
Lengthy three part article from the New Yorker last year, "How Jehovahs Witnesses Are Changing Medicine:"
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-jehovahs-witnesses-are-changing-medicine?intcid=mod-yml
Based on what I have read so far, it was reported that in 2008/09 Prince postponed getting hip replacement because he wanted to get it done bloodlessly not only because of his faith but because hip replacement surgery is a major procedure and he didn't want any complications to occur. Bloodless surgery is not some fringe, fantasy medical practice, advanced forms of bloodless surgery have been around for several decades now. There are many doctors and hospitals where a person can get a major procedure surgically done without blood, not just in major cities. Even open heart surgery can be done bloodlessly. So if Prince wanted to postpone hip replacement surgery both due to not wanting a blood transfusion and also because he personally thought a bloodless procedure would be of better quality then I think his wishes there should be respected and he could have had it done bloodlessly any time he was personally ready for the reasons outlined above. I think it should also be pointed out that hip replacement surgery can be a very scary and emotional decision for some people, I know that firsthand from family experience with a relative who stubbornly put their hip replacement surgery off for a very long time.
Also, JWs are not the only people who seek out bloodless surgery, some seek out bloodless surgery because bloodless procedures are more advanced by their very nature and the person may feel they are getting higher quality care or fear of side effects (even though "rejection" effects the body may experience and blood bank mistakes statistically may not be that common).
Edit: Also read per that New Yoker article linked before, JWs generally don't accept their own banked blood but they widely accept dialysis and surgical procedures where their own blood is pumped and recirculated outside the body in a continuous flow.
Go look up that Kevin Smith interview when Prince wanted to hire him to shoot a video. That's some fucked up stuff. There's a part in there about Prince wanting someone to bring him a camel at 3am and he couldn't understand why no one could bring him a camel in the middle of the night, in the middle of winter, in the middle of Minnesota.
MrCunningham
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Yeah, this was done to celebrate Queen Elithabeth's 90th birthday, which coincidentally also happened to be the day Prince died
I always loved his contribution to the 1989 Batman soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWx_sv8MH6Q
It was funky as fuck.
Goldenroad
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There is a great Rolling Stone interview with Paul Westerberg up that you should check out. He talks about his times spent with Prince, but I really loved this part:
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...think-of-anyone-better-20160422#ixzz46bBnz2NV
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...think-of-anyone-better-20160422#ixzz46bBnz2NV
univariate
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Does anyone else find the 911 transcript bizarre? The guy making the call seems so nonchalant about the whole thing.
NihonTiger90
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Megatron
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Ninja Scooter
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That's the cover of an actual Prince single
NihonTiger90
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The album art from above is from one of Prince's singles. Apparently, he never told Dave about using that image on the cover of it until it actually released, and Chappelle admitted that Prince got him back pretty good.
(Also worth noting that per Dave's own telling, Prince invited him back stage after one of his shows, telling him he actually liked the sketch and asked him if he wanted any pancakes.)
Agent Unknown
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That's hilarious, and some people think he didn't have a sense of humor.
Lmao amazing troll by Prince
Ninja Scooter
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This bit on Wikipedia got a chuckle out of me
Doesn't quite roll off the tongue in the same way
Doesn't quite roll off the tongue in the same way
Agent Unknown
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The no eye contact demand thing is actually funny, I wouldn't be surprised if he was just hardcore trolling Weird Al and having fun with him on that one kind of like the album cover with Chapelle.
MisterR
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Yep, he clearly liked to just fuck with people. Everyone who knew him said he was funny as hell.
I got the impression that the camel thing was a crazy example of something he might do, not an actual experience. I didn't take it seriously.
Bobby Roberts
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I dont take anything Kevin Smith related seriously.
That weak ass illustration he posted yesterday was some groan-worthy bullshit.
That weak ass illustration he posted yesterday was some groan-worthy bullshit.
Sutton Dagger
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What's with celebrity deaths and stupid conspiracy theory/woo shit. I have a teacher friend who posted a link to 'truthkings' claiming that the emergency landing was needed so he could get a flu shot... The flu shot subsequently killed him.... I've called her out on it but I hate the spreading of bullshit.
Zen_Arcade
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Because when people don't have a full story filling in the gaps with outlandish shit is usually a lot more entertaining than the truth.
TheExhaustedWalrus
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I don't know if this has been posted but I thought it was extremely touching. Had no idea about any of this.
https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/
https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/
Rollo Lawson
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Gaf still orange...yay
Maybe Prince should have called his movie Rainbow Rain
Fuck this site
Maybe Prince should have called his movie Rainbow Rain
Fuck this site
FeenixRising
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Uhh......
ErnieMcCracken
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The fuck?
beautiful.
uncelestial
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Man, what kind of attitude is that to have?
Agent Unknown
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20/20 special right now!!!
This video was very touching and should be tweeted at every pompous hater on Twitter saying Prince was a selfish recluse and a jerk.
Only line from Van that I think needs to be clarified that people might misinterpret is "He was a Jehovah's Witness so he was not allowed to talk about his charitable acts." JWs do not discourage charitable gifts and encourage generosity both to members and non-members. Based on my understanding Prince would have chosen not to talk about his community work and charitable gifts out of his own personal concern that he would be viewed as having false piety/hypocrisy that sometimes dogs other rich donors and bringing attention and glory to himself.
This video was very touching and should be tweeted at every pompous hater on Twitter saying Prince was a selfish recluse and a jerk.
Only line from Van that I think needs to be clarified that people might misinterpret is "He was a Jehovah's Witness so he was not allowed to talk about his charitable acts." JWs do not discourage charitable gifts and encourage generosity both to members and non-members. Based on my understanding Prince would have chosen not to talk about his community work and charitable gifts out of his own personal concern that he would be viewed as having false piety/hypocrisy that sometimes dogs other rich donors and bringing attention and glory to himself.
Agent Unknown
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20/20 Special is OK so far but they started with a death speculation report from Harvey st TMZ. :/
Great montages so far, man what a virtuoso and an incredible talent.
Great montages so far, man what a virtuoso and an incredible talent.
Not surprising. Prince was a private person, and never felt the need to boast about his charitable acts.
They recently bought Palladia and this morning during their music video block it was nothing but Prince.
What's an Palladia?
teruterubozu
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Music channel.
Agent Unknown
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20/20 special just covered the period when Prince dropped his name and battled it out with WB Records. People used to spoof his behavior during that time with "The Artist formerly known as...." jokes but it all stemmed from his principled rage against WB's garbage treatment of him. I also didn't know he got around CD sales post-WB by including CDs with his concert tickets, guy was brilliant.
I guess it's not available in my city, because I'm searching for it on my uverse, and nothing comes up. *pouts*
teruterubozu
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The Symbol album is probably my favorite. My wife is watching the 20/20 special.
Ninja Scooter
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still Mtv whould be the channel playing his videos since Prince was one of the pioneers of music video. In fact, Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Prince are the Holy Trinity of the Music Video. They helped build Mtv. (or Mtv2)..before they went reality television crazy.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Perfect. Even Prince thinks he's stupid.
redmetal86
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Purple Rain has been on VH1 for over an hour I think.
whitemex88
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Was watching some Simpson's just now and I forgot about this small little joke. Made me sad
I'm an happy Panda, they finally put the full concert music video to America (live) on youtube: https://youtu.be/3efGZMgrLSE
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