sfinky1 said:

kmama07 said:

sfinky1 said:

I find it curious that he was reading/read a book about Osama bin Laden, he never professed to have much interest in politics, didn't vote, never commented on 9/11... Just seems a curious choice and like it really sticks out among all the other titles

Agreed. I noticed that as well.

prince actually mentioned bin laden in a live performance way before 9/11

callimnate said:

leerix said:

He covered Jailhouse Rock, Love me tender, All shook up & (Let me be your) teddy bear...

"but no one seemed to notice because of the racial disparity........"

black folks always shouted me down when i said P loved Elvis. the threads are buried here some 12 years ago probably. black folks generally hate elvis today but he wasn't always seen like that before those rumors that he said racist things came out. My black stepdad's mom was a huge fan and she hated white people for the most part.

When I was in one of the studios during one of the celebrations there was an Elvis biography on the console. Also keep in mind that he´s played a couple of Elvis songs during his live shows., for example Jailhouse Rock.

PeteSilas said:

i heard one of the most obvious things was a vhs of elvis' 68 special, i always claimed that he was a huge elvis fan although most people couldn't see it.

leerix said:

I'll be adding and updating the list with your collaboration. I can't add photos, because I don't know how, but if you add them, I'm more than welcome. Feel free to correct me. Thank you!

Here's my starting list.

ALBUMS:

- 2046 ost

- Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

-Blue Train - John Coltrane

-Hejira- Joni Mitchell

- Rainbow Bridge - Jimi Hendrix

-Santana III - Santana

- The Best of Missing Persons- Missing Persons

his own: -NPS

- Lotus Flower

BOOKS:

-2001 yearbook of Jehova's Witnesses

- Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations

- Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America [Jossef Bodansky, Nadia May]

- Can Man Live without God - Ravi Zacharias

- Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Däniken

- Everybody's guide to the Law - Melvin Belli

- Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream - Lerone Bennett, Jr

- Imponderables- David Feldman

- Jon Stewart book (?)

- Metamorphosis -Serge Normant

- On love and other difficulties - Rilke (found beside the bed on the green bedroom)

- Pousadas de Portugal

- Technopoly -Neil Postman

- The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible - James Strong

- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary - edited by Clement Wood

- Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis

DVDS - FILMs, documentaries....

-2010 The Year We make Contact

- A League of their Own

-Barbarella

-Bend it like Beckham

- Cabaret

- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

-Dumb and dumber

- Duplicity

- El cantante

-Fellini collection

- For All Mankind

- Gone With the Wind

- Hidden Colors 2

- Ice Age (Number?)

- It's a Wonderful Life

- L'avventura

- Lola (?)

- Memories of a Geisha

- Out of Africa

- Pillow Talk

- Planet Earth (Series)

- Rain (VC Andrew's)

-Serenity (?)

- Some Like it Hot

- Someone to eat cheese with

- The Game

- The Good Shepherd

- The Painted Veil

- The Philadelphia Story

- The sound of music

-The Twilight Zone

- The Way we Were

- The Village

- Turtles Can Fly

- WC Fields Collection

- What the Bleep? Down the rabbit hole

DVDS - Musical

- Help- Beatles

- Soul Train collection

(I've seen many more, but I'm tired of writing for now.... I'll keep updating later on)

Thanks for your collaboration!!

[Edited 4/26/18 13:15pm]

[Edited 4/26/18 13:36pm]

[Edited 4/26/18 13:46pm]

Interesting to see that he read Rainer Maria Rilke.

jaawwnn said:

leerix said:

- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary - edited by Clement Wood

I love the idea of him thumbing through this, "what does rhyme with East of Harlem?"

What rhymes with minnesota? Hmmmm.... let me see.... ah yes.... Purple Yoda.

Rebeljuice said:

jaawwnn said:

I love the idea of him thumbing through this, "what does rhyme with East of Harlem?"

What rhymes with minnesota? Hmmmm.... let me see.... ah yes.... Purple Yoda.

Purple Yoda, junk drink soda, gift card holder, when I'm older, let's be bolder, drink turned colder, find a folder, no hard shoulder.

FullLipsDotNose said:

Rebeljuice said:

What rhymes with minnesota? Hmmmm.... let me see.... ah yes.... Purple Yoda.

Purple Yoda, junk drink soda, gift card holder, when I'm older, let's be bolder, drink turned colder, find a folder, no hard shoulder.

kmama07 said:

sfinky1 said:

I find it curious that he was reading/read a book about Osama bin Laden, he never professed to have much interest in politics, didn't vote, never commented on 9/11... Just seems a curious choice and like it really sticks out among all the other titles

Agreed. I noticed that as well.

Cinnamon Girl is a song that deals with the political and social aftermath of 9/11, and Call My Name also has some lyrics that mention spying on the citizens after 9/11. Like Istenzek said, Prince also mentioned OBL during a concert, too. The Xenophobia video is also about...well, xenophobia and fear after 9/11 and what middle eastern looking people have to deal with after 9/11 and so on.

He´s also talked about 9/11 and the Middle East in many other songs and interviews.

The song Pearls Before the Swine and the line about baklava and a bagel with cream cheese is about Arabs and Jews.

alandail said:

FullLipsDotNose said:

I love he liked Ice Age But Twilight? Oh, Princey...

Not Twiligiht, The Twilight Zone, something completely different and vastly superior.

.

i mentioned to someone at work recently i had got the complete twilight zone on blu ray, they thought i was talking about twilight as well. how can so much information and media be available to everyone and yet so many still only know whatever the current mainstream crap is.

I've just updated the list.

I'm not including cds of his concerts (spread all over the house, I'm not talking about the vault) or of his unreleased projects - too many too mention, and it could be another whole new post.----for example, there's even one printed cd which states "Prince and Andy Allo", unkonwn, at least to me.

I'm neither including computer programs, musical, manual books, at least for now.

A strangely eclectic selection of films and books - L'avventura (a masterpiece) sitting alongside Dumb and Dumber?

fen said:

A strangely eclectic selection of films and books - L'avventura (a masterpiece) sitting alongside Dumb and Dumber?

well he did entertain women less than half his age, at times, so something for everyone

j/k, young ladies, don't shoot me

The books on black feminism though

-

(On a side note, there should be a female masturbation emoji!! How come this website has none if it's dedicated to the author of Darling Nikki?!)

XxAxX said:

FullLipsDotNose said:

I love he liked Ice Age But Twilight? Oh, Princey...

The Twilight Zone

Is that the TV show or the movie version from 1983?

KoolEaze said:

When I was in one of the studios during one of the celebrations there was an Elvis biography on the console. Also keep in mind that he´s played a couple of Elvis songs during his live shows., for example Jailhouse Rock.

PeteSilas said:

i heard one of the most obvious things was a vhs of elvis' 68 special, i always claimed that he was a huge elvis fan although most people couldn't see it.

i wonder which bio it was. I know he was a fan but i also know most of the black fans would deny this just because they don't like what elvis represents to them.

FullLipsDotNose said:

The books on black feminism though

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(On a side note, there should be a female masturbation emoji!! How come this website has none if it's dedicated to the author of Darling Nikki?!)

Why ? They strike me as being among the better items. I wonder what he would have made of someone like Shulamith Firestone?

IstenSzek said:

fen said:

A strangely eclectic selection of films and books - L'avventura (a masterpiece) sitting alongside Dumb and Dumber?

well he did entertain women less than half his age, at times, so something for everyone

j/k, young ladies, don't shoot me

I don’t know… Prince had a pretty broad and goofy sense of humour at times (I leave to the young women to chastise you for the implication that they're necessarily dumb!)

The themes in L'avventura on the other hand are pretty dark, and possibly pertinent to Prince. I wouldn’t read too much into it though - it’s just a great film. Very stylish (and he was also a Fellini fan).

Thanks so much for assembling this list...

leerix said:

Albums, books and dvds found at Paisley

I'll be adding and updating the list with your collaboration. I can't add photos, because I don't know how, but if you add them, I'm more than welcome. Feel free to correct me. Thank you!

Here's my starting list.

ALBUMS:

- 2046 ost

- Bitches Brew - Miles Davis

-Blue Train - John Coltrane

- Cloudbusting- Kate Bush single (?) *

- Elvis vinyl (?) *

-Heavy Weather – Weather Report *

-Hejira- Joni Mitchell

- Innervisions- Stevie Wonder *

-James Brown at the Apollo*

- Mojo presents: Stoned*

- Leva-me Aos Fados – Ana Moura*

- Rainbow Bridge - Jimi Hendrix

- Raise Up- Larry Graham*

-Santana III – Santana

- Schools in- Maceo Parker (?)*

- Solid Gold Soul (?) *

- Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder *

- The Basement Tapes – Bob Dylan*

- The Best of Missing Persons- Missing Persons

- To Pimp a Butterfly – Kendrik Lamar *

his own:

- For You *

- Lotus Flower

-New Power Soul

- Prince and the NPG Live 2002

- The Beautiful Experience *

BOOKS:

-2001 yearbook of Jehova's Witnesses

- 2004 Recording Industry Sourcebook *

- Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations

- Bible -New World Traslation – various copies around the house *

- Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America [Jossef Bodansky, Nadia May]

- California – Gallery Books*

- Can Man Live without God - Ravi Zacharias

- Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Däniken

-Egypt: Gods, Myths and Religion- Lucia Gahlin

- Everybody's guide to the Law - Melvin Belli

- Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream - Lerone Bennett, Jr

- Guide to Motion Picture, Broadcasting, Recorded Sound – Alan Gevinson *

- Imponderables- David Feldman

-In Praise of Black Women- Schwarz- Bart*

- Inside the Music - Dimitri Ehrlich *

- Intellectuals and Society – Thomas Sowell *

-Maat: The Moral Idea in Ancient Egypt - Maulana Karenga *

- Metamorphosis -Serge Normant

- Naked Pictures of Famous People- Jon Stewart *

- On love and other difficulties - Rilke (found beside the bed on the green bedroom)

- Oxford Dictionary of the Bible *

- Pharaohs of the Sun- Rita E. Freed, Yvonne J. Markowitz *

- Pousadas de Portugal

- Technopoly -Neil Postman

-The Complete Rhyming Dictionary - edited by Clement Wood

- The New Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible - James Strong

- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates – Audio book *

-There Goes Gravity- Lisa Robinson *

-The Secret Teaching of All Ages – Manly P. Hall *

- They lived before Adam- Catherine Acholonu *

- What I Know for Sure – Tavis Smiley *

- Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis

DVDS - FILMs, documentaries....

-2010 The Year We make Contact

- A League of their Own

- A Place in the Sun*

-Barbarella

-Bend it like Beckham

-Bowfinger. The Con is On *

- Cabaret

- Dangerous Liaisons *

- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

-Dumb and dumber

- Duplicity

- El cantante

-Fellini collection

- For All Mankind

- Gone With the Wind

- Heartbreakers

- Hidden Colors 2

- Ice Age (Number?)

- It's a Wonderful Life

- La Dolce Vita*

- L'avventura

- Lola (?)

- Memories of a Geisha

- Nutty Professor (number?) *

- Out of Africa

- Pillow Talk-

- Planet Earth (Series)

- Pursue Goals that Honor God – Watchtower film *

- Rain (VC Andrew's)

- Ray *

-Serenity *

- Some Like it Hot (2 copies) *

- Someone to eat cheese with

- Steel Magnolias*

- The Game

- The Good Shepherd

- The Goodbye Girl *

- The Graduate *

- The Painted Veil

- The Philadelphia Story

- The sound of music

-The Twilight Zone

- The Way we Were

- The Wizard of Oz

- The Village

- Turtles Can Fly

- WC Fields Collection

- Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins *

- What the Bleep? Down the rabbit hole

DVDS – Musical

- Average White Band – Live at Motreux *

- Duke Ellington (?)*

- Help- Beatles

- Hendrix (?)*

- Live at Montreux 1986: Anita Baker and George Duke*

- Live at Montreux 1993: Al Green*

- Live at Montreux: Curtis Mayfield*

- Live at Montreux: Earth, Wind and Fire *

- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan*

- Rhythm, Love and Soul *

- The Art of Rap *

- The Best of Soul Train collection*

- The Dick Cavet Show – Rock Icons *

- Tina Turner (?)*

- Woodstock *

Last additions to the list have a *

[Edited 4/28/18 9:58am]

leerix...

Found on ar Piece of Paper amongst his belongings...

a list written at the Intercontinental Amsterdam

containing the words

ENDOGAMY

MATRiLINEAL

Naga Kingdom *interesting to Note that the Nagas are Patralineal..so Prince was exploring BOTH avenues

3 Great Mothers ( cant find anything on 13 Great Mothers But there is reference to Nostradamus 3 Great Mothers )

SOMA ( A hindu Diety, but click the list of other Meanings..take your Pick as to what Prince was studying )

Honey Used as GOld So interesting...

Entheogens An exporation of using psychoactive substances in a spiritual context.

Thanks for compiling this list!

.

I love that he liked "The Goodbye Girl". I only hope it's the SUPERIOR original with Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason and not the horrible remake!

IstenSzek said:

leerix said:

- On love and other difficulties - Rilke (found beside the bed on the green bedroom)

TrevorAyer said:

Chariots of the gods is ancient alien theory .. i love that show

I love Erich von Daniken and have read most of his books because he really does present intriguing theories and ideas despite being called out constantly for years for being a fraud and outright lying in some of his books about various things he's claimed to have seen or researched. I'm both surprised and not surprised that Prince would read von Daniken.

savagedreams said:

alandail said:

Not Twiligiht, The Twilight Zone, something completely different and vastly superior.

.

i mentioned to someone at work recently i had got the complete twilight zone on blu ray, they thought i was talking about twilight as well. how can so much information and media be available to everyone and yet so many still only know whatever the current mainstream crap is.

Agreed!!

Of course he has a Soul Train collection

He bought the remastered Talking Book by Stevie Wonder at Electric Fetus days before he died

This is kinda direspectful to be going through his stuff though..I'm not getting on anybody but If I died I wouldn't want people picking through my things.