rogifan said:

OK this showed up in my Twitter feed. Not sure what I think about it. At least they’re using the Twitter feature where an account can promote a tweet but you never actually see it on their twitter page as something they’ve tweeted. So when you go to @prince this ‘ad’ doesn’t show up. The last tweet you see is the last thing he tweeted.

instead of the usual "ill give MY compilation which is better than most".....let them know if u consider this comp likely to bring in listeners or not

arent the leggers going to contribute???? hype mfers

Harps said:

So, Tidal now only has Newpowersoul, Exodus, HitnRun Phase 1&2, The Most Beautiful on TGE and some random single uploads like If I could get u’re attention, Free Urself etc... over the other streaming services?

The Black Album and Gold Nigga are unavailable on either.

As usual Tidal is a complete mess with duplicate albums, incorrect categories etc. Crystal Ball doesn’t appear in the albums section but like One Nite Alone....Solo is under Live albums whilst One Nite Alone...the Aftershow is under Albums not Live.

It’s never easy being a Prince fan
[Edited 8/17/18 1:02am]

PurpleMedley122 said:

206Michelle said:

dustoff said:

Tracklist:

1. Emancipation

2. Black Sweat

3. P. Control

4. Crucial

5. The Love We Make

6. Eye Hate U

7. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

8. Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore

9. Gold

10. Guitar

11. Dream Factory

12. The Work Pt. 1

13. Call My Name

14. Strays of the World

15. Shhh

16. Dreamer

17. Chaos and Disorder

18. Endorphinmachine

19. Musicology

20. Northside

21. When Eye Lay My Hands on U

22. Beautiful Strange

23. Future Soul Song

24. Empty Room (Live)

25. 3rd Eye

26. U're Gonna C Me

27. Dinner with Delores

28. Ol' Skool Company

29. 4ever

30. West

31. Xpedition

32. Muse 2 the Pharaoh

33. Somewhere Here on Earth

34. U Make My Sun Shine

35. 1+1+1 is 3

36. Chelsea Rogers

37. We March

I don’t want to sound like I’m bitching, but why wasn’t the anthology 1994 to 2010? Dark and The Most Beautiful Girl in the World should be on this anthology. I know that TMBGITW was on the 4ever compilation. . For the most part, I think the tracks selected are good. But Colonized Mind needs to be on here because it is a masterful track. Also, where is Future Baby Mama; He won a Grammy for that song. . Also, why does the album stop at 2010?

TMBGITW was not part of the 4ever release.

fabriziovenerandi said:

rogifan said:

leecaldon said:

Those are all pretty reasonable assertions to make, and fairly mainstream thinking. The comment on Lovesexy would be the only questionable one for me.

Im sorry but IMO these “notes” should be generic and not full of opinion. They shouldn’t include words like unremarkable or bizarre.

Should they include words like "remarkable" or "mainstream"--or, for that matter, "classic" or "among his best work." Honestly, except for tracklistings and recording/release information, almost everything one could say about a musical production is subjective to some degree.

EddieC said:

rogifan said:

leecaldon said: Im sorry but IMO these “notes” should be generic and not full of opinion. They shouldn’t include words like unremarkable or bizarre.

Should they include words like "remarkable" or "mainstream"--or, for that matter, "classic" or "among his best work"? Honestly, except for tracklistings and recording/release information, almost everything one could say about a musical production is subjective to some degree.

Doozer said:

206Michelle said:

206Michelle said:

206Michelle said:

Forgive me if I do not recognize any of these songs from 1995 up until the late '90's. I was in a stupor of San Bernardino Valley College during those years that Prince had his hands full with MAYTE GARCIA!

42Kristen said:

Forgive me if I do not recognize any of these songs from 1995 up until the late '90's. I was in a stupor of San Bernardino Valley College during those years that Prince had his hands full with MAYTE GARCIA!

lastdecember said:

Strange Tracklist. Nice to have something post 1993 out there, but again, what a missed opportunity.

Kicking off with Eamcipation????? One of the weaker tracks on that album.

If they are including 10 minute songs why the hell would you choose WEST over Crystal Ball???

Some glaring omissions -

The Holy River

Somebody's somebody

One Kiss at a time

My Computer

The truth

Don't PLay Me

Other side of the pillow

Man 'o' war

She loves me 4 me

Last December (better closer than We March - weakest track on TGE)

As nobody has pointed it out before: Tidal features a long, well recherched article about the 1995 - 2010 period, that includes new interviews with Michael B, Chuck Zwicky, Alan Light et al, which contain lots of information and anecdotes, some of which are new to me.

- Michael B says, Michael Jacksons HISTory inspired Prince to release Emancipation as a 3 CD Set.

- Alan Light says, Prince hurt his hip while on the ONA tour.

etc. ect.

Read here:

http://read.tidal.com/article/prince-decade-muse

kindofblue said:

OperatingThetan said:

206Michelle said:

OperatingThetan said:

Is Bland suggesting Prince was not a great guitar player here or is that just one possible interpretation of his statement? I'd be interested to see how other people perceived it.

“If you can see the finish line before you start the race, that’s a true artist,” Bland says of the period, and Prince’s ability to capture our attention, even now, with these records. “His greatest gift was his inspiration and his creativity, because it’s not that he was a great guitar player, for instance, it’s what he was able to say with it.” OT, I read it the same way as you did. Michael Bland is suggesting that Prince was not a great guitar player, and I think that MB is out of his damn mind for making that suggestion!!! Seriously, has he lost his mind?!?! Prince was an ELITE electric guitar player, one of the greatest of the 20th and 21st centuries.

It could be read that way... but it could also be that being a great guitar player is not "his greatest gift" or the thing that made him a "true artist," but instead that "it" was his "inspiration and creativity." I don't think that Bland is saying one way or the other whether Prince was a great guitar player... but even if Prince was one, that's not the thing that mattered most.

Dazza said:

Dazza said:

Strange Tracklist. Nice to have something post 1993 out there, but again, what a missed opportunity.

Kicking off with Eamcipation????? One of the weaker tracks on that album.

If they are including 10 minute songs why the hell would you choose WEST over Crystal Ball???

Some glaring omissions -

The Holy River

Somebody's somebody

One Kiss at a time

My Computer

The truth

Don't PLay Me

Other side of the pillow

Man 'o' war

She loves me 4 me

Last December (better closer than We March - weakest track on TGE)

Excellent choice - Last December should have closed Anthology.

I agree that The Truth, Don't Play Me, The Holy River, My Computer, and She Loves Me 4 Me should be on there too. I'd also add Avalanche, When the Lights Go Down, Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic, Family Name, 3121, Cinnamon Girl, Boom, Colonized Mind, Calhoun Square, Reflection... probably some others.

And Emancipation is terrible - if I wasn't a Prince fan, that alone would be put me off listening to the rest of the playlist/album, nevermind digging deeper into his work. To kick things off, I think songs like Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic, 3121, Endorphinmachine, would have been much stronger choices.

EddieC said:

206Michelle said:

thisisreece said:

206Michelle said:

lastdecember said:

It’s interesting that only in Italy are they receiving some sort of royalties for what is a similar part of the song not a sound a like, if you listen to there song it takes a while before you hear a hint of a similar progression but again I am curious why this case was not taking up wider. They called it a slow moving system, um, the song has been out 24 years now and about 22 at the time of this suit.

Arguing that TMBGITW plagiarizes Takin' me to paradise is like saying Ariana Grandés song no tears left to cry plagiarizes Madonna’s Frozen and Christina Aguilera’s Come on Over Baby remix. In other words, it’s a silly argument.

Not to mention that Takin me to Paradise is virtually unlistenable