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2045: Radical Man I saw this on MusicMatch's download service the other day...I must have been living under a rock because I always pick up every official release.
Can anyone tell me anything about this track? Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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teller said: I saw this on MusicMatch's download service the other day...I must have been living under a rock because I always pick up every official release.
Can anyone tell me anything about this track? 2045 was the b-side of the "Peace" hit n run single and can be found on the Bamboozled soundtrack  | |
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strangely, this was the b-side of "peace", a new single by the NPG promoted at npgonline back in march 2000. but before that single was released in a very limited pressing in the spring of 2001 (hit n run tour), it was included on the soundtrack to bamboozled in the fall of 2000, now credited to prince!
the song itself is mid-tempo, easy funk, not unlike emale. prince takes the soapbox, talking a lot about how non-musicians control what gets played instead of musicians. he rants on about how this matrix of corporations has for iits goal "the destruction of the so-called radical man by 2045." lots of soundbites and weired noises going on. definitely worth getting the soundrack, as this is one of the few songs from that period (post-rave, pre-npgmc) to see the light of day on an official CD release. Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths...(Jeremiah 6:16) www.ancientfaithradio.com
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fms said: strangely, this was the b-side of "peace", a new single by the NPG promoted at npgonline back in march 2000. but before that single was released in a very limited pressing in the spring of 2001 (hit n run tour), it was included on the soundtrack to bamboozled in the fall of 2000, now credited to prince!
the song itself is mid-tempo, easy funk, not unlike emale. prince takes the soapbox, talking a lot about how non-musicians control what gets played instead of musicians. he rants on about how this matrix of corporations has for iits goal "the destruction of the so-called radical man by 2045." lots of soundbites and weired noises going on. definitely worth getting the soundrack, as this is one of the few songs from that period (post-rave, pre-npgmc) to see the light of day on an official CD release. Sounds like a must-have to me! Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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yeah, i can tell you its crap. a half decent message lost in a boring melody. it just goes nowhere. YUK!. As for Peace, its P by numbers. YUK again. | |
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javed said: yeah, i can tell you its crap. a half decent message lost in a boring melody. it just goes nowhere. YUK!. As for Peace, its P by numbers. YUK again.
I agree Peace is average but 2045 is amazing... i love the sound effects, the voice layers, the "james brown, chuck D and jimi" bit towards the end... its mellow and funky at the same time. | |
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I like the song too! RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Warning: The Promo version of Bamboozled has the "cuss words" removed with a machette. Find the one with the parental advisory sticker. If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot. | |
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Ewww, this song smells. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm a sucker for a major chord | |
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funkyfine said: 2045 is amazing... i love the sound effects, the voice layers, the "james brown, chuck D and jimi" bit towards the end... its mellow and funky at the same time.
This track gives me quite a chuckle everytime I hear it and some of the programming is highly inventive. I have never been able to work out some of the lyrics, though. Does Prince actually say "it's the GREEN LION"??? Somebody clarify, please... 
. "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person." | |
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giotto said: I have never been able to work out some of the lyrics, though. Does Prince actually say "it's the GREEN LION"???
I think he says 'Oh no, it's the Green Mile', like the Stephen King book-series and movie starring Tom Hanks. No idea why that makes sense, but the movie came out around the time the song was written/recorded. | |
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booyah said:[quote] giotto said: I think he says 'Oh no, it's the Green Mile', like the Stephen King book-series and movie starring Tom Hanks. No idea why that makes sense, but the movie came out around the time the song was written/recorded. No more sleepless nights for me thinking about this one then
Thanks, man! . "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person." | |
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2045: Radical Man is a very cool song. It's quite funky and
has a nice mellow feel to it. I like the semi-spoken vocals and the message isn't too screwed up either. The intro and outro always make me chuckle, but I still do think it's a cool way to begin and end a song. Especially some of the multi-tracked vocals remind me very much of Camille. ["Come On" vox meets "Scarlet Pussy"] The soundbites are cool. Some of which actually hadn't been used to death in a hoard of other Prince songs. The Green Mile "solo" if that's what you can call it is
so fucked up I don't even know what to think of it. But it was a breath of fresh air in a time when a majority of the tunes he churned out ran a predictable paint by numbers kind of course. Only thing I don't understand is why it was a slated b-side for "Peace" sing it is lightyears better than "Peace" imo. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: 2045: Radical Man is a very cool song. It's quite funky and
has a nice mellow feel to it. I like the semi-spoken vocals and the message isn't too screwed up either. The intro and outro always make me chuckle, but I still do think it's a cool way to begin and end a song. Especially some of the multi-tracked vocals remind me very much of Camille. ["Come On" vox meets "Scarlet Pussy"] The soundbites are cool. Some of which actually hadn't been used to death in a hoard of other Prince songs. The Green Mile "solo" if that's what you can call it is
so fucked up I don't even know what to think of it. But it was a breath of fresh air in a time when a majority of the tunes he churned out ran a predictable paint by numbers kind of course. Only thing I don't understand is why it was a slated b-side for "Peace" sing it is lightyears better than "Peace" imo. Thanks, IstenSzek...
Now if I can just find a copy of "Bamboozled" somewhere at my local Best Buy store...  Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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Fuckin' LOOOVE Radical Man. It was such an amazingly funky indication that Prince was still alive...interestingly, I don't know that I've heard anything he's done since that made me feel quite that excited.
At any rate, The Green Mile solo is DELISH. I love when he goes, "WAY DOWN!" and then the fixes the distortion on the keyboards or whatever. "20 million people right now are being wiped off the face of the planet by a disease they CLAAAIM they have no cure!!" How ya gonna play, Necca? Brilliant. No confusion, no tears. No enemies, no fear. No sorrow, no pain. No ball, no chain.
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booyah said: giotto said: I have never been able to work out some of the lyrics, though. Does Prince actually say "it's the GREEN LION"???
I think he says 'Oh no, it's the Green Mile', like the Stephen King book-series and movie starring Tom Hanks. No idea why that makes sense, but the movie came out around the time the song was written/recorded. He's referrin to death row (which is what the Green Mile was in the film)... the whole song is basically talking about all the things that bringing death to humanity and it's a call to wake up. "That...magic, the start of something revolutionary-the Minneapolis Sound, we should cherish it and not punish prince for not being able to replicate it."-Dreamshaman32 | |
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NuPwrSoul said: booyah said: giotto said: I have never been able to work out some of the lyrics, though. Does Prince actually say "it's the GREEN LION"???
I think he says 'Oh no, it's the Green Mile', like the Stephen King book-series and movie starring Tom Hanks. No idea why that makes sense, but the movie came out around the time the song was written/recorded. He's referrin to death row (which is what the Green Mile was in the film)... the whole song is basically talking about all the things that bringing death to humanity and it's a call to wake up. or is it that he is saying green mile is a distortion of the truth??? Isn't the green mile supposed to be based on acctual events, but could quite possibly be distorted as to advocate some(wrong) message?(to make some one look good) I thought that was the point of mentioning it and the nerve racking guitar afterwards (distortion of the truth) but I love the song it is an anthem for the problems of the world an anthem for as NuPwr said to WAKE UP!!! "right now 20 million people are being wiped off the face of the earth by a disease that they claim is no cure! We don't care what albert einstien did rather know rather know how'd they build the pyramids???" They claim Miles Davis, Micheal A'ngelo... ooo he sayin alot in this one that why its one of my favs like Crystalball...little babies in make-up terrorising western world...hehe this is when he is genius with a political message..bob marley .. [This message was edited Wed Oct 1 13:11:49 PDT 2003 by GIOVANNI] | |
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GIOVANNI said: NuPwrSoul said: booyah said: giotto said: I have never been able to work out some of the lyrics, though. Does Prince actually say "it's the GREEN LION"???
I think he says 'Oh no, it's the Green Mile', like the Stephen King book-series and movie starring Tom Hanks. No idea why that makes sense, but the movie came out around the time the song was written/recorded. He's referrin to death row (which is what the Green Mile was in the film)... the whole song is basically talking about all the things that bringing death to humanity and it's a call to wake up. or is it that he is saying green mile is a distortion of the truth??? Isn't the green mile supposed to be based on acctual events, but could quite possibly be distorted as to advocate some(wrong) message?(to make some one look good) I thought that was the point of mentioning it and the nerve racking guitar afterwards (distortion of the truth) When he says "oh no it's the green mile," I always took it as his critique of the prison industrial complex...like oh no here's another thing that's been put in our way to survival. "That...magic, the start of something revolutionary-the Minneapolis Sound, we should cherish it and not punish prince for not being able to replicate it."-Dreamshaman32 | |
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Great message, but I've never liked the song itself Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
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NuPwrSoul said: GIOVANNI said: NuPwrSoul said: booyah said: giotto said: I have never been able to work out some of the lyrics, though. Does Prince actually say "it's the GREEN LION"???
I think he says 'Oh no, it's the Green Mile', like the Stephen King book-series and movie starring Tom Hanks. No idea why that makes sense, but the movie came out around the time the song was written/recorded. He's referrin to death row (which is what the Green Mile was in the film)... the whole song is basically talking about all the things that bringing death to humanity and it's a call to wake up. or is it that he is saying green mile is a distortion of the truth??? Isn't the green mile supposed to be based on acctual events, but could quite possibly be distorted as to advocate some(wrong) message?(to make some one look good) I thought that was the point of mentioning it and the nerve racking guitar afterwards (distortion of the truth) When he says "oh no it's the green mile," I always took it as his critique of the prison industrial complex...like oh no here's another thing that's been put in our way to survival. could be  | |
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NuPwrSoul said: GIOVANNI said: NuPwrSoul said: booyah said: giotto said: I have never been able to work out some of the lyrics, though. Does Prince actually say "it's the GREEN LION"???
I think he says 'Oh no, it's the Green Mile', like the Stephen King book-series and movie starring Tom Hanks. No idea why that makes sense, but the movie came out around the time the song was written/recorded. He's referrin to death row (which is what the Green Mile was in the film)... the whole song is basically talking about all the things that bringing death to humanity and it's a call to wake up. or is it that he is saying green mile is a distortion of the truth??? Isn't the green mile supposed to be based on acctual events, but could quite possibly be distorted as to advocate some(wrong) message?(to make some one look good) I thought that was the point of mentioning it and the nerve racking guitar afterwards (distortion of the truth) When he says "oh no it's the green mile," I always took it as his critique of the prison industrial complex...like oh no here's another thing that's been put in our way to survival. I always thought that "Green Mile" solo was kinda scary, cuz to me it sounds like someone resisting being led to a place and pushing the soles of their feet on the floor whilst others drag him across it. So for me, it's the sound of someone being dragged to deathrow, the last few yards, and they resist heavily. It does sound like shoes on linoleum. Weird. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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