i never listened to this cd...as far as I know is a single...please help me out getting an ideea

it's really long.

is an instrumental...???

alessandres said:

No.

It's almost 30 minutes long, though.

it goes on and on

Personally, it's my favorite post-Gold, pre-TRC track.

Maybe. Ask me in 10 minutes, and I'll have another one. It changes all the time.

It's very good, and different to anything else he's done. I love the guitar work on it, mmm, a style which he's used more recently in songs such as The Rainbow Children. You know, that really 'dirty' sound he gets out of the guitar? Try to get your hands on it! Does anybody know whether it has it ever been widely available on CD? I seem to remember the CD always being sold out at 1800NewFunk.

Tune in2 my station and have a listen.

sabaisabai said:

The CD was only available for a short while through the website, and it has been suggested that very few were sold.

The tape though is still available through NPGMC, isn't it?

moonshine said:

clever !

alessandres said:

Its awesome imo---moody slow tempo --Prince doing his Ravel's Bolero purple style with his paranoid be careful the evolution will be televised dogma lol buidling up to a cresecendo then falling to a refractory period..its experimental for him (kind of) and it is essential listneing ..at least once..you have to hear it

Think Ravels Bolero but Prince style

i like his voice on The War, it sounds cool from deep within'.

I love at the beginning when he starts laughing while he's chanting...and I love the drums at the end. The whole thing is trancey and gloomy and funky. Took a while for me to get into, but toss it in the middle of a compo of shorter Prince stuff and you'll fall right into it.

I love it. It kept my fires burning through the shit years.

He was doing this in 1998, whilst releasing New Power Soul!

I see The War as the genesis of TRC.

It's a cool 26-minute funk-jam. Not comparable to the jams on It Ain't Over! though. But it does have some things in common with Rainbow Children (the song).

It's really worth listening to.

It was played through the speakers at the New Power Soul concert in Brussels in 1998. Many people were eagerly listening and discussing it. Very cool song.

langebleu said:

Yeah, the tape is. Does anyone know what the sound quality is like and if the track is uninterupted or if it's split over 2 sides of the tape?

daned said:

it plays the whole song on both sides. sound q. is fine. in fact someone made me a CD-R back in early 1999, back when they had that distribution chain. tape sounds good, CD sounds the same, but it's way rare. get u the tape from retail at npgmusicclub while they got 'em.

antoon said:

Not comparable at all...for starters, The War is worth listening to and won't put you to sleep like It Ain't Over. That's in my opinion EASILY the most boring disc of Prince music ever assembled. Yawn.

familygroove said:

Sounds spontaneous too, and simultaneously laid back.

The War will go on and on, but the musical arrangment is very good. He makes reference to James Byrd, who was murdered in Texas after coming home from family party, and being tied to the back of a truck and dragged.

alessandres said:

It's in ABMP, go get it

It's Princes attempt at hypnosis.

rdhull said:

damn,i gotta find bo derek.i wanna lick her braids.

Reminds me of Jim Morrison Live on a roll...