The Telegraph review: https://www.telegraph.co....ling-star/

rdhull said:

sulls said:

Well, I ended up postponing my trip to Target until tomorrow. I did try to convince the wife that we should go, and when I told her why, she lost her shit. BUYING TWO OF THE SAME CD?! I told her about the Target exclusive song. WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST WAIT AND BUY IT AT TARGET??? She just doesn't understand... Actually, I've been trying to score the Japanese SHM mini lps from ebay as of late and that's what's really drawn her ire. Me and my Prince collection are about to be homeless.

Target had 14 on the floor but nobody could find them, even in the back. I tried to be slick by having them sell it a day early but no dice. The 24 year old associate hadn't heard of Prince music and I played some overplayed songs on my phone for him. Still nada. He also stated he appreciated Princes's fashion sense but thought he copied Michael Jackson. I asked him if anyone heard of Prince and another young associate who came by said he had just was listening to SOTT and that the new one or the SOTT was a black cover. Jesus (and I) wept.

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OMG. The Estate should hear this! Their cash cows are getting older and close to death.

Susannah Melvoin talks about Originals in this podcast, The Frame: https://www.scpr.org/prog.../18/19834/

JorisE73 said:

udo said:

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Great time for a beer!

The 'normal' originals CD should arrive here (Netherlands) today.

I'll try to locate a preview to decide whether I need the Japansese/Target release.

I pre-orderd the Japanese version and got a shipping confirmation last sunday.
Usually it takes about a week to get here in the NEtherlands, so hopefully I'll have it around early next week.

Starting with acappela and first verse is vocal and orchestration only, and from second verse with drums and other instrumentals but orchestration is much more prominent... It is very clear sounding and no tape hiss at all. This is very strange remix but beautiful and more dramatic...

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they album is on the official YT channle.... (just 15 songs not the 2nd version on NC2U)

BartVanHemelen said:

Susannah Melvoin talks about Originals in this podcast, The Frame: https://www.scpr.org/prog.../18/19834/

Thx Bart 4 all the links

BartVanHemelen said:

Variety review: https://variety.com/2019/...203249946/

“Sex Shooter” (...) Prince’s falsetto, the buzzing synthesizers, the Roland TR-808 drum machine

Roland TR-808?!

Wasn't it the Linn?

Drfunkenberry twitter: THE PRINCE ESTATE RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR BELOVED "MANIC MONDAY" ONLY ON APPLE MUSIC Watch the brand new "Manic Monday" music video in full and catch up on all things Prince on Apple Music here: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/prince/155814 … (It appears to be for sale for $1.99) #PrinceOriginals

Here is also a preview clip (the full clip is $1.99 through @AppleMusic ) https://embed.apple.media/public/assets/player.html?id=5d0bd3bcef5b82000cb8bf93&src=https://embed.apple.media/public/embeds/5d0bd3bcef5b82000cb8bf93.json …

Yet another Peggy McCreary interview: https://www.ilikeyourolds...y-mccreary

banishedones666 said:

Drfunkenberry twitter: THE PRINCE ESTATE RELEASES NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR BELOVED "MANIC MONDAY" ONLY ON APPLE MUSIC

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What is the strategy here?

Stream on tidal.

Then a video on apple.

While they have ayoutube for the Prince stuff anyway....

Embedded preview clip of the video in this article: https://www.iconvsicon.co...ple-music/

BartVanHemelen said:

Yet another Peggy McCreary interview: https://www.ilikeyourolds...y-mccreary

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Thanks, but WTF?

The set also includes Prince’s studio draft of “Nothing Compares 2 U”, initially released by The Time and subsequently a 1990 number one hit for Sinead O’Connor.

BartVanHemelen said:

databank said:

I've wanted to hear official versions of these for years! Now that we actually have them I feel ashamed to listen to them. Lol

Prince's version of Jungle Love is almost indistinguishable from Morris' version!! Gosh all Morris had to do was follow the guide vocal and get paid.

TrivialPursuit said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Who even buys CD’s?

I do, but only with those few artist I want to support in that way. MJ, Prince, Madonna, Janet. I bought the Motley Crue soundtrack for The Dirt. That was the first CD since the Purple Rain Deluxe stuff when I did an "Unboxing Prince" video. So needless to say, it's a rare occasion.

Oh, I did buy Man of the Woods on CD and the wood grain orange vinyl.

Yea i buy CD's only for certain albums that I want to have a physical backup of.

From the official Prince channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/w...mTqS2IBkTc

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udo said:

BartVanHemelen said:

Yet another Peggy McCreary interview: https://www.ilikeyourolds...y-mccreary

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Thanks, but WTF?

The set also includes Prince’s studio draft of “Nothing Compares 2 U”, initially released by The Time and subsequently a 1990 number one hit for Sinead O’Connor.

It was in the alternate timeline created by Tony and Steve when they traveled back to 1970 to get the tesseract and the Pym particles. In that timeline, strangely (it's hard to see how this influenced that), Jesse accepted Prince's offer to replace Morris as the Time's lead singer and some of the songs that Prince wrote for The Family in our timeline were, then, written for The Time, so it's Jesse on vocals, and wait until you hear Jesse singing "Hey Morris, did you pay?" on Mutiny, the first single from The Time's 4th album titled..., well, Mutiny.

Sad shit is Pandemonium never happened in that timeline, and Jerk Out is still unreleased to that day, with only the Mazarati version circulating in poor quality. Another weird shit is that, in that timeline, because there never was The Family, Prince never got to work with Eric Leeds/Atlanta Bliss and had Eddie M. being the lead sax player on his records from 1985 to 1988. So you got Eddie playing horns on Parade and SOTT and Lovesexy and it sounds weird as fuck when you know the Eric/Atlanta versions!!

And Paul never released any of his solo albums either, but still was successful as a session musician.

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databank said:

udo said:

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Thanks, but WTF?

The set also includes Prince’s studio draft of “Nothing Compares 2 U”, initially released by The Time and subsequently a 1990 number one hit for Sinead O’Connor.

It was in the alternate timeline created by Tony and Steve when they traveled back to 1970 to get the tesseract and the Pym particles. In that timeline, strangely (it's hard to see how this influenced that), Jesse accepted Prince's offer to replace Morris as the Time's lead singer and some of the songs that Prince wrote for The Family in our timeline were, then, written for The Time, so it's Jesse on vocals, and wait until you hear Jesse singing "Hey Morris, did you pay?" on Mutiny, the first single from The Time's 4th album titled..., well, Mutiny.

Sad shit is Pandemonium never happened in that timeline, and Jerk Out is still unreleased to that day, with only the Mazarati version circulating in poor quality. Another weird shit is that, in that timeline, because there never was The Family, Prince never got to work with Eric Leeds/Atlanta Bliss and had Eddie M. being the lead sax player on his records from 1985 to 1988. So you got Eddie playing horns on Parade and SOTT and Lovesexy and it sounds weird as fuck when you know the Eric/Atlanta versions!!

And Paul never released any of his solo albums either, but still was successful as a session musician.

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Avengers Assemble!

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I was at Target at 9:15 (they open at 8) and they didn't have it out yet. Had to wait for them to bring it from the back for me. Oh well, at least I got my pick from all they had.

Sex Shooter video in Prince Youtube Channel (I don't know if it is the same Bart share, I can not see it).

BartVanHemelen said:

From the official Prince channel on YouTube:

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all 15 are on the official channel

The Google Play Music version sounds more "alive" than the Tidal version (hi-res). I'm sure the files are the same, maybe GPM does some equalizing along the way.

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Or, the conspiracist in me says they used Tidal to gauge reaction and tweaked levels before sending them out

fabriziovenerandi said:

Sex Shooter video in Prince Youtube Channel (I don't know if it is the same Bart share, I can not see it).

I saw 2 versiosn both are just an image of the album cover... just one is a close up... weird

fabriziovenerandi said:

Sex Shooter video in Prince Youtube Channel (I don't know if it is the same Bart share, I can not see it).

While they were at it they should have overdubbed P's vocals to the Apollonia 6 music video, so we'd see Apples sing but hear Prince. After them turniing Prince into a pathetic clown by overdubbing NC2U to a video of him rehearsing other songs and making -in that context- ridiculous dance moves, I really expected them to reach a new low. So disappointing... Maybe they could photoshop Prince in an Apollonia underwear using new Hollywood technology and make a new music video?

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databank said:

fabriziovenerandi said:

Sex Shooter video in Prince Youtube Channel (I don't know if it is the same Bart share, I can not see it).

While they were at it they should have overdubbed P's vocals to the Apollonia 6 music video, so we'd see Apples sing but hear Prince. After them turniing Prince into a pathetic clown by overdubbing NC2U to a video of him rehearsing other songs and making -in that context- ridiculous dance moves, I really expected them to reach a new low. So disappointing... Maybe they could photoshop Prince in an Apollonia underwear using new Hollywood technology and make a new music video?

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Well it looks like the video for “Manic Monday” is exactly what you expected.

This album is making me wanan go listen to Shiela E's albums again.

TheSilentMikey said:

databank said:

While they were at it they should have overdubbed P's vocals to the Apollonia 6 music video, so we'd see Apples sing but hear Prince. After them turniing Prince into a pathetic clown by overdubbing NC2U to a video of him rehearsing other songs and making -in that context- ridiculous dance moves, I really expected them to reach a new low. So disappointing... Maybe they could photoshop Prince in an Apollonia underwear using new Hollywood technology and make a new music video?

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Well it looks like the video for “Manic Monday” is exactly what you expected.

You mean the original Bangles vid??

djThunderfunk said:

I was at Target at 9:15 (they open at 8) and they didn't have it out yet. Had to wait for them to bring it from the back for me. Oh well, at least I got my pick from all they had.

Right on! Did you pick up just one?