I was just thinking of what would a new album of unheard Prince songs do for me emotionally besides the appreciation?

Would it make me more sad depending on the type of songs even if they were brilliant, and sounded as if he just recorded them secretively somewhere on earth?

Would they be more uplifting of the melancholy that many of us feel, or make em slightly worse?

Just imagine folk like Jimmy Jam with the help of other Prince related artist polishing up his songs into complete gems of brilliance.

And the anticipation of this album(maybe a double album) promoted to release on a certain date.

How do you think any future album if it ever occurs in the near future would effect you? Would the disappointment be towards those who tried to spice his songs up be so aweful til it would make you only long for Prince's special touch in revising his own material?

Even though he obviuosly wouldn't live long enough to revise them all anyway.

There is potential for it to be great, but as MJ's estate have proven, it could all go very wrong.

But it'll never be the same as when he was here. Even if we get twenty unreleased albums over the next 40 years, unless they are released exactly as Prince left them, then they will always feel like "someone-else-doing-Prince", which is exactly how the two posthumously released MJ albums felt (although on one of those albums, it actually WAS someone else doing MJ in places).

I predict it's going to get ugly.

I hope they don't commercialize him. I don't want to hear his music on a Ford commercial

CROWNS1 said:

I hope they don't commercialize him. I don't want to hear his music on a Ford commercial

I hate most adverts so i agree.

a 'new' release would make me feel as if he were still here somehow, so I'd say yes to such a release

I don't know yet, I think it's going to be weird having a new album without Prince here as well. I wonder how many completed unreleased albums there are with the songs/sequence/album artwork all set to go? Maybe they will release those first, it would make sense...

MattyJam said:

There is potential for it to be great, but as MJ's estate have proven, it could all go very wrong.

But it'll never be the same as when he was here. Even if we get twenty unreleased albums over the next 40 years, unless they are released exactly as Prince left them, then they will always feel like "someone-else-doing-Prince", which is exactly how the two posthumously released MJ albums felt (although on one of those albums, it actually WAS someone else doing MJ in places).

I predict it's going to get ugly.

I think that's a bit of a pessimistic point of view. Everyone is pontificating on things to come, and the ink is barely dry on the death certificate. It's been six weeks. MJ's estate has done well and done badly. With the sales in records after his passing, they cleared his massive debt in mere months (not 2 or 3, but a short amount of time in hindsight). Yet their handling of that Michael album is abismal. Xscape was a better project - but then you had the hologram shitfest.

As far as Prince and new music, I'm quite happy to hear it. The different between MJ's vault and Prince's is that people know Prince music. They are more invested in the music. MJ fans are invested in the glove, the eccentricities, the dancing. Prince was music, more than MJ ever could be. (It's apples and oranges really.) With people around like The Revolution, and NPG people that are quite capable of overseeing particular releases, I'm more confident in us fans eventually getting something worthy of a Prince release. MJ's stuff was just songs from projects. He didn't record all the time, and he had different producers, never had a house band. It just seems more of a random shuffle, than 9 or 10 songs that Prince recorded in a 2-week period.

Of course, that also depends on who handles the estate and those releases. MJ was at least smart enough to put a couple of trusted friends and lawyers in charge of his shit. Because let's face it, if Katharine, or Joseph, or any of those brothers were in charge of MJ's estate, it'd be an even bigger shitfest, and it'd probably still be in debt, with no music released in the last seven years.

TrivialPursuit said:

MattyJam said:

There is potential for it to be great, but as MJ's estate have proven, it could all go very wrong.

But it'll never be the same as when he was here. Even if we get twenty unreleased albums over the next 40 years, unless they are released exactly as Prince left them, then they will always feel like "someone-else-doing-Prince", which is exactly how the two posthumously released MJ albums felt (although on one of those albums, it actually WAS someone else doing MJ in places).

I predict it's going to get ugly.

I think that's a bit of a pessimistic point of view. Everyone is pontificating on things to come, and the ink is barely dry on the death certificate. It's been six weeks. MJ's estate has done well and done badly. With the sales in records after his passing, they cleared his massive debt in mere months (not 2 or 3, but a short amount of time in hindsight). Yet their handling of that Michael album is abismal. Xscape was a better project - but then you had the hologram shitfest.

As far as Prince and new music, I'm quite happy to hear it. The different between MJ's vault and Prince's is that people know Prince music. They are more invested in the music. MJ fans are invested in the glove, the eccentricities, the dancing. Prince was music, more than MJ ever could be. (It's apples and oranges really.) With people around like The Revolution, and NPG people that are quite capable of overseeing particular releases, I'm more confident in us fans eventually getting something worthy of a Prince release. MJ's stuff was just songs from projects. He didn't record all the time, and he had different producers, never had a house band. It just seems more of a random shuffle, than 9 or 10 songs that Prince recorded in a 2-week period.

Of course, that also depends on who handles the estate and those releases. MJ was at least smart enough to put a couple of trusted friends and lawyers in charge of his shit. Because let's face it, if Katharine, or Joseph, or any of those brothers were in charge of MJ's estate, it'd be an even bigger shitfest, and it'd probably still be in debt, with no music released in the last seven years.

Speak for yourself. As a lifelong MJ fan, I couldn't careless about the eccentricities, and am just as invested and passionate about his music as I am about Prince's.

both

IDK. It would depend lyrically and musically upon the songs and how they're presented.

If they're some that hard hitting FUNK from back in the Prince and The Revolution days...I'd probably be like...



If they're previously unfinished songs from any era and for some dumb ass reason someone thinks it would be a good idea to have the likes of say Justin Timberfake or Beyawnce added...then uhh...

Guitarhero said:

Well if it sucks then it will be indifferent to me. We still have almost 40 albums to enjoy Purple Yoda with.

If it's good, then AWESOME, one more to the list

I'd snap it up in an instant.

If Wendy & Lisa are involved in polishing the songs they worked on with Prince , then cool. Same with other band members who worked on songs with him in the 90's and 00's. People who actually were involved will know more how Prince would have wanted them finished.

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Empress said:

New music would be fantastic! I will be grateful for any unreleased music from Prince. I'm also hoping for some live concerts too.

Yes please

It's not the same guys. It feels kind of hollow and tinged with sadness. You won't give any posthumous releases the same kind of love, maybe not that many listens either. It'll surpise you how that works. The enjoyment is just not the same. Trust me.

CROWNS1 said:

I hope they don't commercialize him. I don't want to hear his music on a Ford commercial

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You can be sure that's going to happen. There's not even a question.

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But new albums of old material would be just about the same as it always was, although I will appreciate them even more. I was just listening to Lovesexy and cherishing that album more than I have in a long time. All of Prince's songs just seem extra special now.

I'd love a new release soon. I personally think the first official release or 2 could be something he pretty much had in the pipeline to come out anyway.

I would love to think that the Vault is lovingly collated and released without others 'completing' songs. However, I don't think that there is big bucks in releasing this material. The big wrekka sales came immediately after Prince's (blessed are we by his memory) death. There is a community (us) who would buy releases from the Vault, but I suspect that they would need to be deluxe packages to make it profitable. I'd love to see someone of the calibre of Alan Leeds oversee the project.

HITNRUN PHASE THREE

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I'm dealing with the quandrum of 2 generations that experienced 2 different Princes (does that make sense?). I pulled up after Emancipation due to his drastic changes and the fact that I then had my own band to be concerned about, so anything after 1999 really did not get my full, undivided attention. BUT you release the CDs based on the year, I'm in. I WILL cry, I WILL get mad all over again, but I will be grateful that even though he didn't leave a will, he left his music for this world to explore. That's what's up...

CROWNS1 said:

I hope they don't commercialize him. I don't want to hear his music on a Ford commercial

What about a Corvette commercial?

Better - If it was an album of old unreleased material.

Worse - If it was HitNRun III

GoldStandard said: