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Baltimore named one of best songs of the year by USA Today Basically everybody but the purists on the org like the song ... Go figure
http://www.usatoday.com/s.../29177959/ Baltimore, Prince "Are we gonna see another bloody day?" Prince wondered in May, as he mourned the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Like everybody else, he had no idea what was coming in Charleston, S.C. Possibly the best Prince track in years, it got no traction on the radio, but it already sounds more poignant, more powerful than it did just a few weeks ago. — Brian Mansfield [Edited 7/2/15 14:52pm] | |
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I really like the song,so there |
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I'm usually quite positive ab about Prince's new music but really didn't love this one... I think it's the vocals: Prince's were too mellow, the backing singer's a bit annoying... | |
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I do not care for it
it sounds like some other song (like actionable close)
and then the foolish "take all the guns away" line... (when in the case the song was about no gun was used and he basically defends his running from the police... and the mike brown case seems to ignore that mike tired to take a cops gun... maybe he was going to melt it? LOL) "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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I agree. I love the version with strings. I'd possibly put this on a list of my top 50 Prince tracks... possibly. Change it one more time.. | |
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I've liked it even before the awesome final mix came out
Its a great track and once again shows Prince's ability to go from politics to sex in his music seamleseely and amazingly!
Party Hard P! The greatest live performer of our times was is and always will be Prince.
Remember there is only one destination and that place is U All of it. Everything. Is U. | |
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Hate it. The only song of his that I haven't purchased because of the michael brown lyric. Face Down seems more appropriate. | |
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This song is pure PC garbage. It doesn't even speak to the facts of the case and the Michael Brown mention is really ridiculous. The writing as well as the singing seems lazy. I've purchased every piece of music Prince has officially released aside from this stinker. I doubt Ptince has any idea about what's happening in communities like Baltimore. If he did, he'd write a song about how these communities are destroying themselves from within. | |
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Baltimore?? Really?? Prince 4Ever.  | |
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I'm not too impressed by it either. Maybe USA Today was simply happy that somebody took the trouble of commenting on this situation? Because I don't hear a lot of social/political commentary in music anymore.
And I haven't listened to this song very often, but at least I remember how it goes. I can still sing "Baltimohohore..." to myself and that's more than I can say for most of P's new tunes. I can't even remember how The Ex's Face sounds. Even Hardrocklover, as great as it sounds, is more a whole lotta noise than an actual soung. [Edited 7/3/15 0:56am] | |
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Great job, Prince. Love the song. Love when the shakers come in, too. | |
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being from Baltimore and hearing and seeing him perform it at the rally for peace Will always be a highlight for me. It's a hopeful song... Not supposed to be we march, family name or dreamer. | |
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Fury said: being from Baltimore and hearing and seeing him perform it at the rally for peace Will always be a highlight for me. It's a hopeful song... Not supposed to be we march, family name or dreamer.  What? | |
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After a few listens, "Baltimore" is still reasonably mediocre in the same vein as his charity single "S.S.T". | |
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Eye like ANYTHING  will ALWAYS think of  like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. |
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"It's not supposed to be any good", yeah, when you look it at like that... Stop the Prince Apologists ™ | |
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"It's not supposed to be any good", yeah, when you look it at like that... "Hopeful songs are not good songs". I disagree with you. Like, for forever and a day. What? | |
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One of my favorite songs in years, what's not to like? "You always get the dream that you deserve, from what you value the most" -Prince 2013 | |
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Stop the Prince Apologists ™ | |
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Prince doesn't know what's going on in "those" communities really? Have you forgot about Dance On and Sign O' the Times he talksabout those communities in those songs. I don't love this song either but Prince proved us wrong he does still know how to market himself. | |
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The song is misunderstood in my opinion.
It was never meant as a groundbreaking incursion into new lyrical and musical terrain, but as an instant, immediate musical reaction to the events of Baltimore. From the back-of-a-napkin lyrics to the simple yet perfectly evocative and appropriate music, it was first recorded live then redone in the studio where much of its immediacy survived despite the studio polish that might well have killed it a decade ago, through overproduction. I think Prince has improved in terms of not succombing to the devils of overproduction these last few years with 3EG and Josh. [Edited 7/3/15 14:05pm] | |
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. Yeah, that explain the huuuuge sales numbers. And the massive radio play. . Oh wait. © Bart Van Hemelen
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Oh wait with this song, Prince had next to zero commercial ambitions as it was an activist statement he initially streamed for free on a situation on which he wanted to comment in his own way through his music..
Reactions elsewhere than on the Org were indeed positive, for the song and what it represented -- following it up with a concert (also partly streamed for free) only added to the feeling that here was one of the greatest musicians of our time uncharacteristically raising his voice to be heard. Sure, he paraphrased Black Lives Matter at award shows, but this was more deliberate and the end result was that a widely respected and admired artist added his voice to the chorus in a very effective way -- he was in the press for weeks first with the news the new song had been recorded, then the song streaming, followed by the concert , then for us Canucks there were very successful and acclaimed Hit N Run concerts, it was a great few weeks.
Did I mention 3EG got many great comments from almost all reviews of live shows I read? I had not but let's add this to the pile of evidence reactions outside of our little Org world have been positive. So he's not moving units like hot cakes but if that is your only criterion, then you have no business liking any of his songs that were not big hits (hint: most of his greatest songs were not hits). | |
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BartVanHemelen said:
. Yeah, that explain the huuuuge sales numbers. And the massive radio play. . Oh wait. Lol... Must be a great feeling to be such a negative nancy for so long.  | |
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BartVanHemelen said:
. Yeah, that explain the huuuuge sales numbers. And the massive radio play. . Oh wait. Independent releases do not get radio airplay in America.This was a creative manner to discuss the issue occurring at the time. Are you really this stupid? | |
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