TrivialPursuit said:

Poplife88 said:

I friggin love the tap dancing! J2J is one of my fave tracks on Emancipation BECAUSE its so sprawling! Another example of Emancipation being something else to everyone!

Then you're gonna love the 12" single. It includes sounds of the Canon copy machine, a fax machine mashup with a 9600 baud modem, Prince's heels click-clacking down the hallway, and a coffee maker in the kitchen. If you listen near the end fade, you can hear Mayte screaming "Hey, Hannigan!" from the parking lot when she was using Steve Parke's jeep to make a hummus & pita chip run to Rainbow Foods.

It hasn't dated well, which I could have predicted then.

TrivialPursuit said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

I finally dug out the magazine I was thinking of. Minnesota Monthly. Here is the relevant quote: “Responding to an observation that his current thinking seems reminiscent of John Lennon's when he went into semi- retirement with Yoko Ono to raise their son and bake bread, he says: "Now lors of people say, Oh yeah, Lennon lost his edge when he came out of that whole domestic scene and started to record again. Man, what does that mean, lost his edge? It usually means some kind of dysfunction of some sort," he laughs, get- ting amped up. "The guy goes through whatever it is that makes him angry or alone or upset and comes out being able to manage it at a personal level and what happens to his music? They say it's "become domesticated.' Hey, I hope they'll say that about my music. I want my music to become domesticated." Rising to his feet to make a point, he paces excitedly to the soundboard and leans on it. "John Lennon would have never written the beautiful music he wrote at the end of his life if he hadn't gone through what he did with Yoko and himself. He would have never written 'Imagine.' And 'Imagine, thank God, is going to be around in 2,000 years, but a song like I Am The Walrus' isn't. You know why? Because John wasn't the wal- rus, he was John. Imagine' is a song about truth and the truth will always win out in the end. If John had never climbed up that ladder in that art gallery to see what Yoko had written there when he first met her, his life would have been completely different. What he found was the word 'Yes,' and to me that defined the beginning and the ending of their lives together as people and artists. To me that one little word says it all.” https://www.minnesotamont...ver-story/ TrivialPursuit said:

Very good points. The idea of his music becoming domesticated feels very correct for this. It certainly remained that way through the remainder of his career.

I wasn't even aware Prince knew the Beatles story so well. Fascinating.

I wish he would have kept on talking like that, instead of going all weird and cryptic again
more than half the time in the years after that.

i am a fan, not a hater. this record... it's a good record. i'll sit and listen to all three discs at once i don't care.

didn't someone here say electric intercourse was going to originally be in the spot let's have a baby is in? picture that why don't you.

the run of sex in the summer to holy river is the strongest imo, BUT the opening tracks of disc 3 are the best songs on the record, slave and new world in particular

slave 2 the system should've made the cut

if maroon 5 had put out "van gogh" in the mid 2000s it would've been a massive, massive, massive hit

leecaldon said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

I finally dug out the magazine I was thinking of. Minnesota Monthly. Here is the relevant quote: “Responding to an observation that his current thinking seems reminiscent of John Lennon's when he went into semi- retirement with Yoko Ono to raise their son and bake bread, he says: "Now lors of people say, Oh yeah, Lennon lost his edge when he came out of that whole domestic scene and started to record again. Man, what does that mean, lost his edge? It usually means some kind of dysfunction of some sort," he laughs, get- ting amped up. "The guy goes through whatever it is that makes him angry or alone or upset and comes out being able to manage it at a personal level and what happens to his music? They say it's "become domesticated.' Hey, I hope they'll say that about my music. I want my music to become domesticated." Rising to his feet to make a point, he paces excitedly to the soundboard and leans on it. "John Lennon would have never written the beautiful music he wrote at the end of his life if he hadn't gone through what he did with Yoko and himself. He would have never written 'Imagine.' And 'Imagine, thank God, is going to be around in 2,000 years, but a song like I Am The Walrus' isn't. You know why? Because John wasn't the wal- rus, he was John. Imagine' is a song about truth and the truth will always win out in the end. If John had never climbed up that ladder in that art gallery to see what Yoko had written there when he first met her, his life would have been completely different. What he found was the word 'Yes,' and to me that defined the beginning and the ending of their lives together as people and artists. To me that one little word says it all.” https://www.minnesotamont...ver-story/ TrivialPursuit said:

I wasn't even aware Prince knew the Beatles story so well. Fascinating.

Interesting...Lovesexy's "Yes" maybe inspired by Yoko's performance art?