There are two new Prince albums coming out in a few days (1 Viewer)

[Denny Oubidoux]

What was he supposed to do for the 12 or so years between 1987 and Kid A? Is The Rainbow Children Prince's Kid A?

 

[Lili Marlene]

What was he supposed to do for the 12 or so years between 1987 to kid a? Is The Rainbow Children Prince's Kid A?

Listen to grunge and britpop I guess

and then go through a brief Jon Spencer Blues Explosion period before finally deciding that At the Drive-In and Refused were the future of purple funk.


What does a Kid A album constitute? Rainbow Children might be it, yeah.

 

[shitepipe]

I only recently came across this demo given a full release in 2018- the medley that takes the whole first side is so so fine-

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[ann post]

I thought you might be interested

I am I just can't read anything till tonight

 

[rettucs]

are the Prince podcasts any use?

I'm sure its mentioned in this thread but I can't be arsed

 

[rettucs]

are the Prince podcasts any use?

I'm sure its mentioned in this thread but I can't be arsed

 

[Lili Marlene]

The official ones are worth a listen for the non-obsessive, yeah. Would recommend the recent Sign O the Times series on it.

 

[rettucs]

The official ones are worth a listen for the non-obsessive, yeah. Would recommend the recent Sign O the Times series on it.

thanks, I spotted that one and it caught my eye alright. I only started listening to podcasts about a month ago. I find them great for helping you get back to sleep when you wake up in the night. This is going on the list. I am also going to listen to Price now. Bye.

 

[ann post]

Been thinking about this, trying to work out what bugged me about the above article so much, I think it's the blatant separation of people into black and white fans, in a fucking race war of fandom; but I suppose as an Irish person they're barely even including me in this, it's almost an entirely US-centric discussion.

But up on my feed popped some very white (english) critics opining as fact that Prince did nothing of worth after 1987 because he wasn't listening to enough Radiohead:

Maybe he would have heard Kid A and entered a musical arms race with Radiohead, like Lennon and McCartney did with Wilson There could have been an Appalachian folk album, or a twinkling Americana period. He could have teamed up with Jack White to rip out some raw blues or dragged hip-hop into new territories.

Literally, "why didn't Prince listen to more music by white people"?

The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | Memories Of Genius: 40 Years On Prince's Dirty Mind Revisited


A very well written piece that sums up the standard critical consensus on his career can be found in the London Review of Books and is well worth a read despite it's blatent, wilful inability to comprehend that Prince wasn't interested in following (white) critic trends:

Ian Penman · The Question of U: Prince

One evening recently I was in the local supermarket, which always has a surprisingly tasteful collection of old pop and...

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The algorythms over at the guardian are reading thumped no doubt

Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times

Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lili Marlene]

The algorythms over at the guardian are reading thumped no doubt

Why Radiohead are the Blackest white band of our times

Radiohead released Kid A 20 years ago today. It pointed a new direction for rock music – and mirrored radical Black art by imagining new spaces to live in amid a hostile world

www.theguardian.com

awful.

Defund all music writing, give it all to the Needledrop.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Hmm, might buy this, start living purple #vanlife

Prince's Purple Rain Tour Bus Is For Sale

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen many of us spend much of 2020 in full or partial lockdown, this has of course led to an increased interested in adventures

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[ann post]

If you went round that with a swab you could engineer something akin to a new motown.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Decent watch for how Prince wrote Sign O the Times @ann post I know you like these things

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very glossy and obviously a bit too uncritical (prince is amazing at everything in all ways at all times!!!), but still good

 

[Lili Marlene]

FFS

 

[ann post]

FFS

I liked the video - all people who were actually there so cool. Also my first big exposure to prince was in minneapolis in my friends car which added to it a bit.