KingSausage said:

Fine, fine. We'll talk about Prince again. Do you guys like the Lovesex?

It is okay, but the Power Generations is my jam.

P.S. Batman.

[Edited 11/15/14 8:52am]

SuperSoulFighter said:

Okay, a serious response this time. Diamonds & Pearls and Musicology showed that if Prince wants to promote an album, he will do so. But everybody knows the slump the music industry is in these days, so doing a big promotional campaign might sell no more than a few thousand albums so maybe Prince doesn't think it's worth it. And tours don't sell albums. Bob Dylan doesn't tour to sell albums, but because he feels music belongs onstage before an audience. And as for live dvds and such, yes of course we would love those, but once again Prince may feel there is no money to be made there. And that is a shame, because the longer he waits, the less people will be there to buy 'em. [Edited 11/15/14 9:57am]

Good point... Even though Diamonds & Pearls and Musicology weren't the strongest sounding albums, with the proper promotion they were a success.

D&P with the promotion blitz by Warners, the vids, the singles, the Aresenio Performances, etc... D&P sold over 6.4 million world wide.

Musicology 3m worldwide and sold 2m in the U.S. alone.

I agree with proper promotion, videos, singles, performances, Prince could easily have another hit album. Remember Lotusflow3r went GOLD in the U.S. just selling at TARGET. That's pretty incredible.

KingSausage said:

I remember at the time feeling like Rave had an unusual level of promotion. Has time clouded my memory?

Rave had a ridiculous amount of promotion, both here and overseas. He even did TRL for chrissakes! He hasn't really promoted anything fervently since Musicology.

KingSausage said:

I remember at the time feeling like Rave had an unusual level of promotion. Has time clouded my memory?

Rave was promoted every way shape or form, the only thing I can say about RAVE was it wasn't a Prince record at all, he was completely out of his element with that era and album...

Many great ideas on your list.

But it's just another "if i were Prince"-post.

Why can't anyone just let him do his do?

just so you can say to that nieghbor of yours, "see, i told ya he was the greatest!"

Prince IS the greatest. Why do you feel the need to re-write his history/future movements?

Do you have your own regrets?

I used to come here to talk to great fans.

They are very hard to find at the moment.

nayroo2002 said:

Many great ideas on your list.

But it's just another "if i were Prince"-post.

Why can't anyone just let him do his do?

just so you can say to that nieghbor of yours, "see, i told ya he was the greatest!"

Prince IS the greatest. Why do you feel the need to re-write his history/future movements?

Do you have your own regrets?

I used to come here to talk to great fans.

They are very hard to find at the moment.

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I agree with you, but I didn't initially respond because I try not to respond on threads that are not meant for me. I can't complain about others being negative if I'm negative on someone else's thread. There's a lot we could wish for our favorite artist to do, but it's his journey so I just embrace what I like and ignore what I don't like. With the way music sells today, I don't know if any level of promotion would cause either AOA or PlecElec to sell a million copies, and I really like (B+) both albums. Then, again, Prince is batshit crazy so to second guess him is to ask why the crazy man ate peanut butter off his hat rather than on bread or crackers.

SuperSoulFighter said:

Okay, a serious response this time. Diamonds & Pearls and Musicology showed that if Prince wants to promote an album, he will do so. But everybody knows the slump the music industry is in these days, so doing a big promotional campaign might sell no more than a few thousand albums so maybe Prince doesn't think it's worth it. And tours don't sell albums. Bob Dylan doesn't tour to sell albums, but because he feels music belongs onstage before an audience. And as for live dvds and such, yes of course we would love those, but once again Prince may feel there is no money to be made there. And that is a shame, because the longer he waits, the less people will be there to buy 'em. [Edited 11/15/14 9:57am]

The thing is, if you look at my list, NOTHING on it is going to cost him millions. It's pretty much a wash. Even if he did all of that and only got a few extra sales, the push for the shows would be bigger. In no way, shape, or form, would him doing my entire list cause him to lose money if executed correctly. Worst case would be maybe not making that big a difference, but one 78 minute cd over two totalling 93 minutes would have helped in a small way...it's not like he would have to fork over big money to be on Fallon for a week. This is easy stuff to do, but he is not willing to do easy stuff...He'd rather do basically nothing.

2014 was a huge "wasted opportunity".

what a crying shame, Prince has failed once again.

stillwaiting said:

laurarichardson said:

. 2014 was a big year for Prince you just missed it.

There was no world tour. A quickly trhown together hits and run tour does not count.

Playing 2 or 3 shows a night in small rooms does not count. Aftershows? Gone.

The albums came to our hands slower than hinted upon by mr Prince.

Hinted yes as he never communicates in proper sentences with actual information.

(remember him being in London celebrating the release of the 3rdEyeGirl album? The album remained unreleased until the WB thing....)

Then for some reason a deal with WB happens. Hoopla over PR without even a proper release date, details over the packacing.

Two more recent albums released in cheap manner. Minimal promotion.

.

Loads of leaks of mostly older material: that made the year nicer.

I doubt mr Prince was involved.

SuperSoulFighter said:

This also explains why he doesn't give a damn about the Purple Rain reissue.

Yes, but WB on the other hand does care about the reissue as they want to make money from that.

So how and when will they release it?

Maybe not in 2014.

Maybe not a sa three disc set.

udo said:

thedoorkeeper said:

udo said:

So how and when will they release it?

I have read on this site that the PR reissue would
be released in November 2014. This was stated as a
fact many many times. Are you telling me that people
post info on this site as facts when they actually
know nothing? I just can't believe that!!!!

SuperSoulFighter said:

Yeah, Prince seems to have a strange fascination with promoting albums that aren't out (yet). Here's what I think of it: what counts for him is the joy, the thrill of creating music. Once an album is out, in his mind it's already old news, so he starts looking for the next thrill. This also explains why he doesn't give a damn about the Purple Rain reissue.

From 2013-14 he had nearly 12 release parties for albums that had not been released. Spending all that time promoting a big bag of NOTHING. Album comes out, and Prince does nothing. The people who went to those "Relase Parties" were there for the event, but he could have just done TV shows the week of release to promote SOMETHING...but no. And this is the first time he ever went on a continuous promo push for something that did not exist. But it is the ten billionth time he ignored a new release....and trust me, he will bitch about them not selling to WB at some point, and will take no responsibility.