loving the way

I am / Touch Me / Sunrise Sunset / No One Else

all flow into one another.

rogifan said:

😔

JudasLChrist said:

To (not so) briefly weigh in on the "putting his music on Spotify against his wishes" etc etc argument...

P's issue was always "they wasn't in the studio", regarding folks profiting off of his creations.

Who is there left to protect??

Do we not all benefit from allowing his music/performances to reach anyone and everyone from now un.til.the.end of time??

Spotify, Youtube, wherever. Let's see it. Let people hear it.

How many thousands (millions?) of folks have been exposed to live performances, rare tracks, OFFICIAL tracks, that they otherwise never would have been, and have come away in awe.

Isn't that what we want? To spread the word? His message? Let it be known?

People are like, WOW! I never knew!!

Who are we protecting? The estate?? Those that opened up his house and had people parading though, what, nine months after he left us??? Oh, I think they'll do just fine. For better or worse.

They wasn't in the studio.

Let the man's creativity breathe. Finally! Spread the love. The world needs it. The example, if nothing else.

...................

And again, the idea of anyone not named Prince "finishing" tracks, as in writing/arranging/producing withOUT him... oh, man. Has he ever had that arrangement with ANYone?? He'd never allow it. Especially not now. Not there to approve the finished product? No way. None. Ever.

blizzybiz said:

bluegangsta said:

At least they exist.

Here's the thing. I'm agnostic. I don't believe everything that Prince says about God, Jesus, etc., but I'm acrutely interested in hearing someone like Prince sing about something he is obviously very passionate about. Without that passion I don't think that Prince would be the artist he was.

I'm secure enough in my belief, or lack thereof, to be openminded and listen to what he has to say and try to understand why he is so religious/what drove his beliefs. I just can't understand people who are so closed to anything outside of what they believe.

Absolutely agree.
This was a pretty emotional listen to. The guitar is pretty good and the lyrics are pure spiritual Prince. It was an emotional moment listening to this and then learning about the lawsuit...

Please start getting his music out. Spotify, new releases, videos, the lot. Get him to younger people, some of which have no idea who Prince is. Us fans can only do so much, passing this onto our kids and hoping they will pass him onto their friends too. But this is limited. Get him out there. Let the kids hear real music by real musicians.

I'm grateful for this song. I needed this. It's been a rough month and it's gonna be an even rougher week...

Paisley Park, Prince Estate File Lawsuit Against Sound Engineer Holding Unpublished Tracks

http://kstp.com/news/prince-estate-lawsuit-engineer-unpublished-tracks/4457793/

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Holy moly.

Stunned by not in the least surprised. I KNEW the situation sounded off.

Not that I have much confidence in them, but kind of a relief to know The Estate isn't having random clowns inserting themselves into his work, giving themselves co-writing/co-producing credits, claiming to be Lennon to his McCartney (or vice versa).

I buyed it. It is more or less 15 minutes of music.

What to say: he is Prince, it is nice to hear he again. Hello Prince.

This is a "dirty" release, but it is a release.

The songs are all good, "Sunrise Sunset / No One Else" is more a single song than two. Very interesting one. Deliverance is a solid good tune. I Am can remember PFunk or something similar.

ilo said:

They just played a snippet on 6music.

of course they did. if warners don't get their foot out of their ass and release at least
a tracklist for the PR Deluxe or better yet a single, this EP is all that will be mentioned
in write ups for friday.

purplerabbithole said:

TrivialPursuit said:

absolutely adore this song...hearing his voice and screams on new material makes me miss him even more. We gotta celebrate...

.

'This is not religion but common sense
It's time 4 U 2 get down, get down, get off the fence
No son should die, no mother should cry
All n favor, say aye (aye)'

...

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scratch said:

rogifan said:

scratch said:

I'm surprised no one is mentioning what, to me, is the obvious elephant in the room: that Prince would absolutely despise the idea of people finishing unreleased tracks of his and releasing them without his final approval. Surprised he didn't do anything to make sure that wouldn't happen, but, then again, he didn't make many preparations for his death at all, it would seem. I think death was a topic he avoided, and kept putting it off until it was too late. Still, the arrangement was tasteful and the song was very good. I like it more than most tracks from that period. Hopefully, if they feel they have to "finish" more incomplete tracks, they'll stick to similarly tasteful arrangements. I really hope we won't see anything like Thriller 2.0 with will.i.am or Timbaland mixes. Still, bizarre to see tracks from this era as the first to release. Can't we get something from his golden period?

Well and this is the question...what if there are a lot of unfinished tracks in the vault? What if some of the best stuff in the vault is like Deliverance? That's why they need the right people overseeing the vault so if there are songs that need to be 'finished' the right people are doing it. While I think this EP is shady as hell listening to Deliverance it sounds like a Prince song to me. It sounds like something he could have released. I am enjoying it a lot and on social media a lot of people are like "wow this is good". I prefer that over another search warrant story...

This is a very poignant question. Deliverance sounds like a Prince track to me also, but who's to say he'd want the choir in it? Whoever works on those unfinished tracks (and here's hoping there are far less unfinished ones than not) needs to be the right person. I remember orgers discussing the possibility of songs bering worken on by specific collaborators from specific times, like The Revolution working on tracks form their era, etc. That would probably make sense.

rogifan said:

I bought the whole EP off the www.princerogersnelson.com website.

While it is very short, I thought it was pretty awesome, much better than what I was expecting and well worth the $6.99 price to get it today (and I was worried that the EP might not be available for long).

"Deliverance" is a solid track but it's actually my least favorite.

"I AM" is a great, rockin' tune that I assume has 3rd Eye Girl on it. Religious lyrics which I personally love.

My favorite part of the EP is "Touch Me/Sunrise Sunset/No One Else." They are listed as 3 seperate songs but they are all short and seem to flow into one another effortlessly so that they almost sound like one entire song. In fact, the end of "No One Else" has a reprise of "Touch Me" but from the sound of it, I'm not sure if that's the way Prince intended it or whether it was just edited that way by the person who put the EP together. Whatever the case may be, it works and the 3 tracks are excellent.... For reference, these songs sound similar in style to "I Will."

Personally, I had no qualms buying the EP... As far as the quality of the songs and music, I feel it's a definite buy for any hardcore Prince fan. With the possible exception of "Deliverance," all the other songs sound like 100% Prince to my ears. And it is absolutely crazy that the first significant batch of unreleased Prince songs have come out in this fashion.

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[Edited 4/19/17 2:45am]

I think this material is fantastic, challenging and interesting. This is exactly the kind of music that I've been wanting to be released. I want more of this obscure, unheard of stuff from the 2000s - keep the 80s demos.

Good stuff, even if the release seems a bit sketchy. Sounds like what I wished ThirdEyeGirl would've sounded like.

E319 said:

I bought the whole EP off the www.princerogersnelson.com website.

While it is very short, I thought it was pretty awesome, much better than what I was expecting and well worth the $6.99 price to get it today (and I was worried that the EP might not be available for long).

"Deliverance" is a solid track but it's actually my least favorite.

"I AM" is a great, rockin' tune that I assume has 3rd Eye Girl on it. Religious lyrics which I personally love.

My favorite part of the EP is "Touch Me/Sunrise Sunset/No One Else." They are listed as 3 seperate songs but they are all short and seem to flow into one another effortlessly so that they almost sound like one entire song. In fact, the end of "No One Else" has a reprise of "Touch Me" but from the sound of it, I'm not sure if that's the way Prince intended it or whether it was just edited that way by the person who put the EP together. Whatever the case may be, it works and the 3 tracks are excellent.... For reference, these songs are on the "I Will" tip.

Personally, I had no qualms buying the EP... As far as the quality of the songs and music, I feel it's a definite buy for any hardcore Prince fan. With the possible exception of "Deliverance," all the other songs sound like 100% Prince to my ears. And it is absolutely crazy that the first significant batch of unreleased Prince songs have come out in this fashion.

[Edited 4/19/17 2:42am]

Agree.

That sequence is also my favourite, although I really like Deliverance. No One Else is pure gold.

Enjoying the extended version of "I Am" the most so far.

Rolling Stone magazine is even saying this is coming out on Friday. http://www.rollingstone.c...ce-w477578

At least this guy, all alone, was able to release something really new.

Not like the estate. In one year, they only released a well known track - Moonbeam

bonnie184 said:

3stori3s said:

I think this material is fantastic, challenging and interesting. This is exactly the kind of music that I've been wanting to be released. I want more of this obscure, unheard of stuff from the 2000s - keep the 80s demos.

well i wouldn't say 'keep the 80s stuff', but i am definately one of those people who
will buy post 1996 material just as gladly as anything from the wb period. i am just
as exciteda about stuff like 'madrid 2 chicago' or 'welcome 2 america' as i am about
roadhouse garden or whatever. and i'm sure many, many other fans are too.

having said that, though, i'm hoping that with all this drama going on
someone will manage to slip wally in under the radar