I suppose the music soothes some, but it's a little too soon for me. Almost every song reminds me of some part of my life. Still, I have played Sometimes it Snows in April and Reflection.

So which songs have you played in rememberance of Prince?

[Edited 4/22/16 16:49pm]

I have listened to Sometimes It Snows In April yet but I have listened to Come Back and Reflection. I had my iPod settle to shuffle only Prince songs, Don't Talk To Strangers came on, "Little darling, gotta go now, don't know when I'll be coming back...." I had to shut it off. Couldn't bear to hear those words from him in that tone of voice.

Everything and anything the man did ... had his whole collection on random shuffle. Sometimes its eased the pain, sometimes its brought tears to my eyes. Suspect it'll be like this for a while.

thing is, i've been listening to hjis older albums for the past month all along.... right now i can't bear it though

Can't stomach much (too soon). But listening to "A Case of You" his obscure yet hauntingly beautiful Joni Mitchell cover.

From the lyrics and ringing so true "Remember u told me love was touching souls? Surely u touched mine..."

still raw.

A lovely Orger recently shared with me a bootleg of Purple Rain - Severe Storms, it was on my iPhone as I got into my car to drive to work yesterday just an hour after waking to the news of his passing (I am in Australia) and the song that came on was "Beautiful Ones" - but I have not listened to anything since - I just cant - not yet..............not ready..............

Ive just had 5 hours of live shows that remain from my once extensive collection of 'unauthorised' recordings.

I used to have 3 x 320Gb HDD's of MP3 and 2 320Gb HDD of Video shows. I lost most of the material in the (not so) great HDD crash of 2008 When my PC decided to go haywire and fry up, taking the CPU, GPU Card and HDD's with it not to mention the Motherboard, I still blame the FBU or CIA lol..............

Sad days as I lost so much stuff. I have less than 200Gb of stuff left and no video material

I have listened to two 1985 Purple Rain shows and Sign of the Times tonight ............With a glass or five of Red wine, toasting Prince with each and every Glass filled.........

I then finished with last December.

and now, time to sleep for me.

It's Gonna Be Lonely

Goodbye

The Ladder

Purple Rain

Empty Room

The Love We Make

Well, wasn't in tribute as such but just heard 'Affirmation III' on random and well.. that was tough to get through. Once a song comes on, i leave it on and listen all the way. It's always been a habit of mine, a bit OCD.

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Back to when I was happiest as a fan it is. Mid 80s. It's all so hard though. Lyrics mean something different now.

I'm not ready to delve into his non-radio stuff. That one sentence in that one song could send me tailspinning right now. Easier to stay in safe territory and just listen to the stuff I've heard everywhere for thousands of times.

EVERY SONG HE HAS EVER RECORDED.

Everything..

currently The Cross

Unfortunately i cannot listen to a note of his music...far too fresh

Time to break out all those boots I haven't listened to in a long time. But, not yet.

A playlist, in this very moment i'm repeatin Way Back Home and then How Come U.

Played HitNrun Phase Two yesterday, PlectrumElectrum this morning, Around The Word In A day and Parade this evening. watching a live performance of Blues in C (If I Had A Harem) right now ...

just listened to his last concert, the Atlanta show.

but for some reason I've been listening to the ballads from 'Prince",

with you and it's gonna be lonely.

Can't do Sometimes In April at all. Thinking about the lyrics breaks me down...

Listened to the first show from Atlanta last week, the Munich Aftershow from 87, the souncheck from Miami 85, The Flesh sessions, lots of instrumentals, jams, aftershows, rehearsals... anything that grooves, no hits, nothing that hits the mark lyrically.

Heaven, Player & Dance Electric

MitchBloodGreen said:

Heaven, Player & Dance Electric

Defintely have to play the extended version of this one.

First song I played after hearing the news was The Holy River. Don't really want to hear much singing right now, so it's N.E.W.S. and the two Madhouses. Listening to Eight with my cat now before going to bed.

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Pulled out all those old boots and Ive started going through them. Super sad there will be no more.

SLP said:

First song I played after hearing the news was The Holy River. Don't really want to hear much dinging right now, so it's N.E.W.S. and the two Madhouses. Listening to Eight with my cat now before going to bed.

i've been playing N.E.W.S. and the Madhouse albums a lot, too. it's just difficult to hear his voice

right now. so the instrumental stuff is better.

tried the september 2001 ahdioshow a few times but it's hard man

XxAxX said:

thing is, i've been listening to hjis older albums for the past month all along.... right now i can't bear it though

I just can't.

But I am sooo glad I got my hands on HitNRun 2 from Electric Fetus. I admit, I think the first one was better, but now this last one will have a whole new meaning. I'm sure I'll get into it someday, but it won't be for awhile.... I just can't hear his stuff now because I don't have fellow fans I'm close to in my city, don't know about the gatherings or listening parties that might be happening. But in my mind - wow - can't get lyrics or images from his videos out of my head. It's like an ongoiung soundtrack playing in my brain - it's comforting and saddening at the same time.