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Reply #120 posted 05/09/15 8:50am

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I like it. I'm kind of surprised at the overwhelmingly negative reaction. Wait, no I'm not, this is the Org - the most toxic site on the internet.

[Edited 5/9/15 8:50am]

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Reply #121 posted 05/09/15 8:50am

nosajd

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OnlyNDaUsa said:



nosajd said:



If you think the world is better off with guns than with out, then more power to you, we can agree to disagree.


so is that standard? and if not guns then people would find other ways to kill each other... but I do think we need guns and I am thankful that here ...that is respected and protected.



and as always: if someone want to take away a right they have 3 options: accept it, lobby for change, or go live somewhere else. (and unless you have a 4th I think those 3 are all inclusive)



You clearly love this topic of debate... Great original suggestion: Go live somewhere else, LOL!

Or I can continue my use of freedom of speech and express my opposition to guns as I have and others will continue to do as well... And you can accept it and disagree with it as you have done. We again can agree to disagree!
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Reply #122 posted 05/09/15 8:53am

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SNIP -OF4S
* discuss Freddie Gray & media in the P&R forum
What are you outraged about today? CNN has not told you yet?
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Reply #123 posted 05/09/15 8:54am

dannyd5050

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Not what I was expecting....This song feels so out of place somehow. Cringeworthy. This made someone cry? This song will be forgotten quickly. Another one to throw in the back of the closet. bored

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Reply #124 posted 05/09/15 8:56am

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jasminejoey said:

I like it. I'm kind of surprised at the overwhelmingly negative reaction. Wait, not I'm not, this is the Org - the most toxic site on the internet.

I totally agree with u. This is a song with a message and I think it's great what he is doing. It wasn't designed to be a hit chartmaker. Well done Prince

Love God and I shall 4ever Love u
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Reply #125 posted 05/09/15 8:57am

OnlyNDaUsa

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nosajd said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

so is that standard? and if not guns then people would find other ways to kill each other... but I do think we need guns and I am thankful that here ...that is respected and protected.

and as always: if someone want to take away a right they have 3 options: accept it, lobby for change, or go live somewhere else. (and unless you have a 4th I think those 3 are all inclusive)

You clearly love this topic of debate... Great original suggestion: Go live somewhere else, LOL! Or I can continue my use of freedom of speech and express my opposition to guns as I have and others will continue to do as well... And you can accept it and disagree with it as you have done. We again can agree to disagree!

yeah you using your free speech is covered by "Lobby for change."

"Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!"
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Reply #126 posted 05/09/15 8:59am

udo

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What is the purpose of the song?

What is the purpose iof this release?

A futile attempt at 'streaming'.

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Please explain.

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As the Ferguson/Baltimore/etc problem is pervasive throughout the former US of A the lyrics in the refrain should be changed to `you esss aaaa...`.

Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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Reply #127 posted 05/09/15 9:00am

KCOOLMUZIQ

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

"bAlTiMoRe" Is A FuNkY "OnE MaN BaNd: CoMpLeTe "MaStErPiEcE".........

I like the song alright for what it is, but, you clearly don't understand what the word Masterpiece means. Are you saying this is Prince's greatest work? Because you say that about everything he does, and it's not possible that everything is his greatest.

masterpiece

[mas-ter-pees, mah-ster-]
noun
1.
a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.

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[Edited 5/9/15 8:17am]

"prince , that very same night - all alone in Studio A, played all the instruments on an entire new version of the song."


Eye am COMPLETELY blown away by prince's studio wizardry as a One_Man_Band...To sit down in one setting, in ONE NIGHT, & do this alone is AMAZING! He is so gifted...

eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #128 posted 05/09/15 9:03am

SuperFurryAnim
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OnlyNDaUsa said:



nosajd said:


OnlyNDaUsa said:



so is that standard? and if not guns then people would find other ways to kill each other... but I do think we need guns and I am thankful that here ...that is respected and protected.



and as always: if someone want to take away a right they have 3 options: accept it, lobby for change, or go live somewhere else. (and unless you have a 4th I think those 3 are all inclusive)



You clearly love this topic of debate... Great original suggestion: Go live somewhere else, LOL! Or I can continue my use of freedom of speech and express my opposition to guns as I have and others will continue to do as well... And you can accept it and disagree with it as you have done. We again can agree to disagree!


yeah you using your free speech is covered by "Lobby for change."



Freddie Gray didn't have a right to have a knife, forget about guns.
What are you outraged about today? CNN has not told you yet?
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Reply #129 posted 05/09/15 9:04am

Aerogram

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Some dramatic reactions up there, can't wait for the concert reviews tomorrow.

Hopefully medical personel will be on hand in case one of you hyperventitates from sheer disappointment again.

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Reply #130 posted 05/09/15 9:04am

fusk

I interpret "let's take all the guns away" to mean take literally ALL guns from everyone, law enforcement included. But I have no idea if Prince meant that or not.

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Reply #131 posted 05/09/15 9:09am

OnlyNDaUsa

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SuperFurryAnimal said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

yeah you using your free speech is covered by "Lobby for change."

Freddie Gray didn't have a right to have a knife, forget about guns.

that is not clear yet. He did not have the right to evade the legal attempt by the police to stop and ID him. (but then again the MD may not have that as a law but is it legal under federal law)

Also: let's say that it was a legal knife...but they just thought it was illegal... that is not a crime either.

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Reply #132 posted 05/09/15 9:11am

OnlyNDaUsa

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fusk said:

I interpret "let's take all the guns away" to mean take literally ALL guns from everyone, law enforcement included. But I have no idea if Prince meant that or not.

yeah it is a nonsense line and a bad idea...again it is not going over well at all with many people that would have otherwise been sympathetic to the message

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Reply #133 posted 05/09/15 9:14am

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Good God, this arguement again. Prince is not going to ever again do great music, that is just how it is. He may or will do decent tunes, dittys as I call them. The song is good, not anything great, fun to listen to, but it will not change society. The song is no American Pie or What's Going On, songs Prince can no longer write. Until he drops his idiotic church and comes back to the purple rain he will fail.

He is now about reading the Bible and avoids getting his writing chops up. He wants to make a cheap buck and write dittys every so often, then you guys call them masterpieces. ha.

Prince has lost it, the avantpurple sound is dead.

Baltimore is a good song, but is weak.

I notice the riff is similar to another song but cannot make it out. That's another thing, originality is gone too. Kirk Johnson? Jesus.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #134 posted 05/09/15 9:15am

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It's better than Ronnie Talk To Russia. lol

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #135 posted 05/09/15 9:22am

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This is so dire, that after I heard it, I nearly went out and killed someone!!!! lol lol lol

Its not exactly an anthemic battlecry for peace is it?? I was expecting a blistering, thought-provoking, masterpiece, but instead all I heard was this nursery rhymne!!!

Prince wrote, performed and recorded better social songs in the 80s and early 90s!!

This is utter guttershit!!!mad mad

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Reply #136 posted 05/09/15 9:22am

Pentacle

Frederick96 said:

jasminejoey said:

I like it. I'm kind of surprised at the overwhelmingly negative reaction. Wait, not I'm not, this is the Org - the most toxic site on the internet.

I totally agree with u. This is a song with a message and I think it's great what he is doing. It wasn't designed to be a hit chartmaker. Well done Prince


People please. Had this song been good, you'd be saying: This is gonna be a hit, this is gonna change music! People will be bawling at the peace rally!

Stop the Prince Apologists ™
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Reply #137 posted 05/09/15 9:29am

murph

Meanwhile, in the real world.....

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NPR

Songs We Love: Prince, 'Baltimore'

In a sly way, Prince has always been a political artist. Like Marcel Duchamp upending the art world with his readymades, he stormed the pop scene courting controversy, but always with a wink. Like Bob Dylan throwing down s...ck Blues," he sent out messages – some of them explicit, as in his anti-nuclear plea "Ronnie Talk To Russia" and the more recent call to the streets, "MARZ" – but scrambled them in ways that made them both poetic and prophetic. Like Jimi Hendrix, he's made bold statements within a veil of feedback and funk. Most of all, like his role model George Clinton, he's created a utopian space where partying allows for transcendence that eliminates all –isms and makes us the best people we can be.

Now, with "Baltimore," Prince is trying on a different protest singer's hat — he's playing funky Pete Seeger, leading chants and rousing hearts to inspire activism in a specific place and time. This song personalizes its call for armistice with names we've all come to know, names that press upon our hearts. "Does anybody hear us pray for Michael Brown or Freddie Gray?" Prince sings before offering a philosophical zinger: "Peace is more than the absence of a war."

The chant that anchors "Baltimore" is contemporary, too — not "We Shall Overcome," but "No Justice, No Peace," which arose in response to hate crimes in the 1980s and resonates in Ferguson, Staten Island and Sandtown today. And the song ends with what sounds like a newscaster's fearful mention of a "developing situation in Los Angeles," placing this call for love, reconciliation and respect within a timeline that starts with the L.A. Riots and which lasts another painful day every time a citizen is felled by police.

It's confrontational stuff. But this is Prince, so "Baltimore" is truly a Sly protest – that is, in the style of Sly and the Family Stone, specifically the band's early, joyful, genre-obliterating anthems like "Everyday People." Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL very clearly present music as a path toward the peace for which they long, as well as a means of protest in itself. Prince's guitar solos here blend quick, hopeful licks with poignant, grounding blue notes; near the end, a rock and roll bassline mingles with gospel-choir vocals, turning the song's California sunniness into something more incendiary. At its peak, "Baltimore" presents itself as a new "Dancing in the Streets" — a song that offers a brand new beat in the name of real change.

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Reply #138 posted 05/09/15 9:34am

V10LETBLUES

As an instrumental it's quite good. The lyrics and vocals sound like tacked on afterthoughts, as do most of Prince's newest music. But overall very nice for what it is.
Take out out the lyrics and vocals and Baltimore is a cool little anthem for the city. Love the extended instrumental and production overall
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Reply #139 posted 05/09/15 9:35am

2elijah

babynoz said:



OnlyNDaUsa said:




babynoz said:





Stay on topic.




i think it was: the idea of prince calling to take the guns away and then SFA mentioned the Fed taking over LE. But whatever... it is a political song (the take the guns away line makes it one and a hot button topic at that)

So again if "let's take all the guns away" who is taking and who if anyone will still have them? then think about it. Is that really want you want to see?




What part of we don't want this thread moved to P&R don't you understand?



Please leave Sharpton over there, thanks.

[Edited 5/9/15 6:10am]



Exactly.
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Reply #140 posted 05/09/15 9:35am

thisisreece

Lovely guitar, but I don't really like the song. I wonder what the original 3EG version sounded like, the description sounds quite different.

Hundalasiliah!
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Reply #141 posted 05/09/15 9:37am

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lurking

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #142 posted 05/09/15 10:03am

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PurpleSpirit319 said:

This is so dire, that after I heard it, I nearly went out and killed someone!!!! lol lol lol

Its not exactly an anthemic battlecry for peace is it?? I was expecting a blistering, thought-provoking, masterpiece, but instead all I heard was this nursery rhymne!!!

Prince wrote, performed and recorded better social songs in the 80s and early 90s!!

This is utter guttershit!!!mad mad

You were expecting a "blistering masterpiece"?? My goodness, no wonder you're disappointed. Still, I don't think it quite explains the murderous rage.

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Reply #143 posted 05/09/15 10:03am

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Ya'll got further than I did. Listened to about 2 minutes of it then that chorus came on. Wow, whoever said he lives in Princeland nailed it. Those lyrics are almost childish.

Stay away from social commentary plse.

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Reply #144 posted 05/09/15 10:06am

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jasminejoey said:

PurpleSpirit319 said:

This is so dire, that after I heard it, I nearly went out and killed someone!!!! lol lol lol

Its not exactly an anthemic battlecry for peace is it?? I was expecting a blistering, thought-provoking, masterpiece, but instead all I heard was this nursery rhymne!!!

Prince wrote, performed and recorded better social songs in the 80s and early 90s!!

This is utter guttershit!!!mad mad

You were expecting a "blistering masterpiece"?? My goodness, no wonder you're disappointed. Still, I don't think it quite explains the murderous rage.

And yet when I play The War, it makes me want 2 love everybody!!!! lol lol lol lol

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Reply #145 posted 05/09/15 10:08am

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nosajd said:

bonatoc said:


Can you point me to your Kool-Aid dealer?
I sure need some heavy drugging after wasting 4 minutes of my life on this void.

"Think I'm gonna take a musical suicide".


Get over yourself, surprisingly there are people out there with tastes different than your own.


You mean people with poor taste? Comes as no surprise.
The streets are full of'em. Must be why I don't go out as much as you do.
Your little sermon on "different strokes" does not move me.

Feel free to listen what you want, I don't care. I was simply referring to your "strong work" statement.
Sorry pal if I feel entitled to mock you about it.

Am I supposed to be tolerant? This song is so bad I feel ashamed for the families.
We're talking about serious issues here, people losing their life in the most miserable way.

And here comes Prince, in the ol' american fashion (everything is subject to be entertainment),
thinking that he can turn murders into a poppy refrain?
As if his latest vynil comparison at the grammies wasn't pathetic enough.

Going as far as quoting their names... and then playing a little inept solo for 2 minutes?
Was he running out of things to say?
While being damn quick on alerting all medias that he, the Big Artist, was going to put out a major statement about it.

Well, Prince, Bob Dylan you ain't.

I'm on the edge of being disgusted by the man.
Does dignity ring a bell? I'm okay with being a little disconnected form reality, but that does it.
This attitude, and the ones supporting it, damn right it drives me mad.


The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #146 posted 05/09/15 10:23am

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jasminejoey said:

I like it. I'm kind of surprised at the overwhelmingly negative reaction. Wait, no I'm not, this is the Org - the most toxic site on the internet.

[Edited 5/9/15 8:50am]

razz lol

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #147 posted 05/09/15 10:39am

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r'n'r love affair meets revelation. and it isn't not a compliment

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Reply #148 posted 05/09/15 10:44am

ludwig

fusk said:

I interpret "let's take all the guns away" to mean take literally ALL guns from everyone, law enforcement included. But I have no idea if Prince meant that or not.

"policemen got no gun, y'all don't have to run"

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Reply #149 posted 05/09/15 10:52am

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As an instrumental it's quite good. The lyrics and vocals sound like tacked on afterthoughts, as do most of Prince's newest music. But overall very nice for what it is. Take out out the lyrics and vocals and Baltimore is a cool little anthem for the city. Love the extended instrumental and production overall

Yes!! I love the music, if he took out current events, and did his usual of peace and love it would be a Really nice ode to a city.

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