The War -- delivered to my home without me knowing it was coming, straight from Paisley Park.

It is what separates prince from all other pop acts and makes him the coolest musician of multiple generations. It's those last 12 minutes. It's edge, funk, rawness; combining guitar, crazy african/cuban drums, blues - and for it to feel so underground....from the same guy who did Rasberry Beret. Awesome.

as far as im concerned...........tis the shit!

Great jam!

Kind of a "People without" of the 90s. Makes me think of an album with jams of this calibre only. Could be interesting with more energy and cohesion than NEWS for example.

But what to expect from an artist like Prince these days? At the very most another boring by-the-numbers-album with songs not coming close to the ones he came up with in the 80s.

Oh yeah. This dude puts NPS out there and makes this a CD-R trading giveaway. Twisted logic indeed.

I remember playing that real audio stream over and over before I got my physical copy.

It's great.

I'd like to hear the unedited version in tip top quality.

KingSausage said:

I'm still waiting for my tape. It's only been 14+ years. Perhaps someday my Prince will come...

The post-it note your address was written on probably fell down the back of the lavatory cubicle that doubled as the 1800-NF offices in those days.

He played it at the Hippodrome aftershow in 98, and it was the best thing of the night - moody, serious, quite breathtaking really. I rmemeber Prince being at the keyboard while he sang / rapped it.

I was quite underwhelmed by the version that came out though...

I like The War a lot.

those tribal drums at the end,... cool.

meisme said:

I remember one day I checked the mail one afternoon and there was a yellow envelope. I had no idea what it was.Inside was a sony tape with The War wrote on it. I put it in my stereo and it was Prince. After The War was some mix of a lot of different Prince songs. Not the purple medley. It had obscure stuff like Big Fun. A good day indeed. Later I bought the cd.

The Remix Experience by DJ Brother Jules?

I never knew that...

1/ The War cassettes sent to people were "hand-made"

2/ There was something else on it

Great song. P did this techno-version with "their is a war going on here, their is a war going on in my mind" once at Atlantic City. NPS tour.

databank said:

meisme said:

I remember one day I checked the mail one afternoon and there was a yellow envelope. I had no idea what it was.Inside was a sony tape with The War wrote on it. I put it in my stereo and it was Prince. After The War was some mix of a lot of different Prince songs. Not the purple medley. It had obscure stuff like Big Fun. A good day indeed. Later I bought the cd.

The Remix Experience by DJ Brother Jules?

I never knew that...

1/ The War cassettes sent to people were "hand-made"

2/ There was something else on it

Not my copies. I was sent 2 of the tapes. They only had 1 song, repeated on side 2, and that was The War. They weren't hand-made either, although, they were designed to look like they were... sort of an official bootleg like the NYC Live tape.

I didn't come across DJ Brother Jules' The Remix Experience until he (Jules) released CDR singles of it along with a couple remixes from Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic a couple years later.

YES! The War is such an amazing song! The guitar is so off the edge!

I concur that it is one of these pieces which seperates Prince from all other artists! It's perfect in that their are many sounds and textures within it. I remember looking SO hard for it, and when I finally got it it blew my head OFF!

The War + One Song; are such amazing pieces of work from Prince!

Prince once again predicts a world where we are in war with the government. He asks the question; "Do we love our country more than God?' His questions and predicition of future events are very interesting to look into; if you consider the framework of mind he had at the time. It's SLAMMING!

I'm slamming it now!

EyeJester7 said:

Wow this sounds absolutely bonkers - i know my bro's got the cassette, was there a bootleg amnesty like the gun amnesty from the Love Sign video?

PS: 4% spandex

Cx

KingSausage said:

EyeJester7 said:

YES! The War is such an amazing song! The guitar is so off the edge!

I concur that it is one of these pieces which seperates Prince from all other artists! It's perfect in that their are many sounds and textures within it. I remember looking SO hard for it, and when I finally got it it blew my head OFF!

The War + One Song; are such amazing pieces of work from Prince!

Prince once again predicts a world where we are in war with the government. He asks the question; "Do we love our country more than God?' His questions and predicition of future events are very interesting to look into; if you consider the framework of mind he had at the time. It's SLAMMING!

I'm slamming it now!

Isn't One Song just him talking? [Edited 8/10/12 16:37pm]

Doesn't One Song turn into a whole heap of Oprah Winfreh style self help manual after the speaky bit?

Cx

The War is great. But, I have a question, although I downloaded it in MPEG layer 3 audio file format why won't it play on my stereo CD player? I have burned other CDs in the same format--but this particular one won't play. And my lap top speakers aren't worth shit. Can anybody enlighten me on how to solve this problem? I'm scratching my head right now...

BTW The War on headphones is something else. First time I ever listened to it on headphones and yeah the last few minutes are just blowing me away...

[Edited 8/11/12 1:48am]

Harlepolis said:

To be honest, I've never heard this song at all. Maybe because I'm not that crazy about his 97/98 output.

You should track it down. It's a million miles away from the other bile he was spewing out in 97/98.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Harlepolis said:

To be honest, I've never heard this song at all. Maybe because I'm not that crazy about his 97/98 output.

You should track it down. It's a million miles away from the other bile he was spewing out in 97/98.

I'll definitely take your words for it Nothing to lose anyway, since I've seen "it" out there a couple of times

Harlepolis said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

You should track it down. It's a million miles away from the other bile he was spewing out in 97/98.

I'll definitely take your words for it Nothing to lose anyway, since I've seen "it" out there a couple of times

"It" is a little harder to find these days...

purplethunder3121 said:

Harlepolis said:

I'll definitely take your words for it Nothing to lose anyway, since I've seen "it" out there a couple of times

"It" is a little harder to find these days...

Not to me, "it" ain't

Harlepolis said:

purplethunder3121 said:

"It" is a little harder to find these days...

Not to me, "it" ain't

Hope you enjoy experience it like I did!

Harlepolis said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

You should track it down. It's a million miles away from the other bile he was spewing out in 97/98.

I'll definitely take your words for it Nothing to lose anyway, since I've seen "it" out there a couple of times

*gasp* Defo track it down - It's nothing like anything else from 97/98.

It's precursor to TRC IMO. It's trippy and spaced out like Colonized Mind and Hallucination Rain.

purplethunder3121 said:

The War is great. But, I have a question, although I downloaded it in MPEG layer 3 audio file format why won't it play on my stereo CD player? I have burned other CDs in the same format--but this particular one won't play. And my lap top speakers aren't worth shit. Can anybody enlighten me on how to solve this problem? I'm scratching my head right now...

BTW The War on headphones is something else. First time I ever listened to it on headphones and yeah the last few minutes are just blowing me away...

[Edited 8/11/12 1:48am]

Ur file is somehow corrupted or something like that. Burn it as a real CD not an mp3 CD, that should do the trick.

KingSausage said:

EyeJester7 said:

YES! The War is such an amazing song! The guitar is so off the edge!

I concur that it is one of these pieces which seperates Prince from all other artists! It's perfect in that their are many sounds and textures within it. I remember looking SO hard for it, and when I finally got it it blew my head OFF!

The War + One Song; are such amazing pieces of work from Prince!

Prince once again predicts a world where we are in war with the government. He asks the question; "Do we love our country more than God?' His questions and predicition of future events are very interesting to look into; if you consider the framework of mind he had at the time. It's SLAMMING!

I'm slamming it now!

Isn't One Song just him talking? [Edited 8/10/12 16:37pm]

Well he does have a long talk about creation, choices, and God for about 5 minutes and some 45 seconds..Then he starts one of the most beautiful songs ever. IMO.

I just want to say to all of those who heard 'It' ; it will blow your head off! Especially with some headphones on!

Also; the sound above in the cloud; HELP your search a great deal!

-If you know what I mean..

Ohhhh boy, this song is something else. I remember when I heard it for the first time this year, I was at school in my TV Production class searching various video sites for a song to do a music video to for the class. I stumbled onto a really low quality 240p video of the song and was blown away. When I showed the song to my group, they scoffed at the 25 minute song and said not only that they didn't wanna make a video to the song, but that the song was BORING! I was heartbroken to say the least. Although, I found the song in much higher quality recently and I'm loving it. I might make that music video alone just for kicks now.