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If we could choose the tracklisting of Prince's albums I mentioned the Kaiser Cheifs latest album launch/marketing idea in the 'We want a new Prince album' thread the other day and thought I'd post it here as well.
http://www.nme.com/news/k...iefs/57057
You go to their website, choose your favourite 10 tracks from 20 available, choose the order of the tracklist, choose your custom art and download for £7.50. Plus, you get a link that you can share in order to promote your version of the album and in doing so, earn revenue from every sale. I think this is genius. Plus, if you're chosing your favourite tracks, you're less likely to rant about the tracks that you discarded.
Now, I know that Prince is unlikely to follow suit, him being a control freak and all, but thought it worthy of discussion anyway.
So... as an experiment, if you take all the available tracks from MPLSound & 20ten (plus promo's from around the time), what would your 10 track album be? I picked these two albums because they're both similar thematically, and whilst they both have a few redeeming tracks, they're not exactly universally loved.
Out of the 20+ tracks available, would you have been able to sequence 10 tracks that you'd have been happy with?
Here's the options:
(There'll Never B) Another Like Me Chocolate Box Dance 4 Me" U're Gonna C Me Here Valentina Better with Time Ol' Skool Company No More Candy 4 U
Compassion Beginning Endlessly Future Soul Song Sticky Like Glue Act of God Lavaux Walk in Sand Sea of Everything Everybody Loves Me Laydown
Cause & Effect Hot Summer Rich friends Purple & Gold
Good luck
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I mean, I could make an EP, I guess. | |
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New album....
Track 1 - FUNKEY Track 2 - a little bit more FUNKEY Track 3 - slow sexy number Track 4 - a bit more sex please Track 5 - oh now thats just enough sex thank u - lets have some more FUNK Track 6 - guitar funk Track 7 - drum funk Track 8 - Crazy ALL-IN FUNK - the band goes wild
Track 9 - secret track - Prince goes off on 1 - we get 20 mins of tripped-out bliss
xxx:-D "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift - that's why they call it the present." -RW Emerson
Life is short!Break the rules!Forgive quickly!Love truly,Laugh uncontrollably & never regret anything that made you smile FB Leeds Zoe H | |
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I know.
It's difficult for me too, but I thought it better to use his current output for choice as that's more likely the sort of thing we'd get to choose from it this were to ever happen.
Now if it were 20 unreleased tracks from 1986...
Go on then, what's your EP? blah blah blah |
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but that's a different thread. Maybe later!OK i will try the good album: 01. Laydown 02. Beginning Endlessly 03. Dance 4 Me 04. U're Gonna C Me 05. Here 06. Ol' Skool Company 07. Future Soul Song 08. Sticky Like Glue 09. Sea of Everything 10. Act Of God
the ugly album:
01. Cause & Effect 02. Hot Summer 03. Rich Friends 04. Purple & Gold 05. Everybody Loves Me 06. Walk In Sand 07. No More Candy 4 U 08. (There'll Never B) Another Like Me 09. Chocolate Box 10. Better With Time Prince 4Ever.  | |
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...Then there's the majority of the folks who'll probably just wait until all the tracks are on places like Frostwire and then just download em all for free....
"I don't think you'd do well in captivity." - random person's comment to me the other day | |
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Not a great album, but a fun one...
Laydown Chocolate Box Sticky Like Glue Dance 4 Me Valentina Compassion Future Soul Song No More Candy 4 U Lavaux Beginning Endlessly
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Humm.
I guess:
1. Beginning Endlessly 2. Future Soul Song 3. Here 4. Act of God 5. Lavaux 6. You're Gonna See Me 7. No More Candy 4 U | |
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How's that different to any other release by any other artist? blah blah blah |
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Why would a collection of previously released tracks be his next album | |
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You might want to read the original post again. blah blah blah |
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The user needs to rename the thread's title.
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Sorry.1. Cause And Effect 2. Beginning Endlessly 3. U're Gonna C Me 4. Compassion 5. Dance 4 Me 6. Laydown 7. Sticky Like Glue 8. Future Soul Song 9. Laveaux 10. Ol' Skool Company | |
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1. Cause and Effect 2. Beginning Endlessly 3. Lavaux 4. Better with Time 5. Chocolate Box 6. Laydown 7. No More Candy 4 U 8. Rich Friends 9. Sticky Like Glue 10. Ol' Skool Company
(Only one of them a classic though: No. 10) | |
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Exactly
That whole idea in the first post is basically a gimmick to try and encourage people to NOT steal music and I'm saying that it won't work. "I don't think you'd do well in captivity." - random person's comment to me the other day | |
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armpit said:
Exactly
That whole idea in the first post is basically a gimmick to try and encourage people to NOT steal music and I'm saying that it won't work. thanks for sharing your opinions. You either buy into the idea or you don't, that's the point. Let's just suppose for a second that you did, rather than steal the music via an illegal download. What would your tracklisting be? blah blah blah |
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