Favorite Prince song and album

Favorite deep track has to be The Cross.

His cover of Just My Imagination on the Small Club boot is my favorite live recording.  I went straight to that this morning.

Purple Rain

Tie between Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, and Kiss

Prince coverings "Heroes" from his latest tour….  :-[


http://davidbowienews.com/2016/04/prince-performing-heroes-april-2016-audio/

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If we're including songs Prince wrote for other artists, I'm digging Chris Cornell's cover of "Nothing Compares To U"

http://youtu.be/61XdPtGMErs

bob72 wrote:
If we're including songs Prince wrote for other artists, I'm digging Chris Cornell's cover of "Nothing Compares To U"

http://youtu.be/61XdPtGMErs

you know he wrote this for The Family.. I have never heard that version.. not sure why I have always passed  on their LP…

song: "Sometimes it Snows in April"
album: "Dirty Mind"

very nice words from Paul Westerberg..worth a read

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-westerberg-remembers-prince-i-cant-think-of-anyone-better-20160422?page=2

hutch wrote:
very nice words from Paul Westerberg..worth a read

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/paul-westerberg-remembers-prince-i-cant-think-of-anyone-better-20160422?page=2

This was the first thing I read that actually made me cry.

you know what stinks . . . I want to listen to a prince album before I give some rambling post about how it a/effected me, but I don't have a cd player anywhere in my house and I mainly listened to them in my vehicle, and now I only listen to music via apps or satellite radio, via another app, and there are no prince albums for me to listen to via apps, so oh well.

the album was around the world in a day.  oh, how it grew up with me.

walk,on,by wrote:
you know what stinks . . . I want to listen to a prince album before I give some rambling post about how it a/effected me, but I don't have a cd player anywhere in my house and I mainly listened to them in my vehicle, and now I only listen to music via apps or satellite radio, via another app, and there are no prince albums for me to listen to via apps, so oh well.

the album was around the world in a day.  oh, how it grew up with me.

Tidal is the only app that has his discography at this point for streaming

I wonder if people ever think what a stand - at big personal cost- Prince took against streaming and why…

no, probably they just think "hey this is inconvenient to me….."

Could you please elaborate on your statement?  Big personal cost? 

Prince died with $300,000,000.  I cant imagine the paltry sum he would have added to his fortune from streaming would have made that much of a difference. 

killsaly wrote:
Could you please elaborate on your statement?  Big personal cost? 

Prince died with $300,000,000.  I cant imagine the paltry sum he would have added to his fortune from streaming would have made that much of a difference. 

more like the hit his reputation took over the past two decades due to him being widely considered an anachronistic kook cause he refused to "get with the times" and give away his music for free..

I don't think he took a stand so much because of what it meant to his pockets but because of what it meant for others… as you say, most artists make a pittance from streaming.. streaming means a lot of people feel no need to buy the actual music… people feel they don't need to buy the music so Prince dies and they don't have any and find it hard to access it.. he also was strongly against Youtube etc..

there is I think some sort of irony  to people wanting to listen to Prince's music because he dies and they are reminded how much they love him and yet they can't immediately gratify their need to listen to his music because he was against the platforms/mediums people wish to use to access the music by the musician they love.. Prince's fight against the record labels and the new music "sharing" platforms was a huge thing for Prince..Prince tried hard in his last two decades to find other platforms for getting his music out to the people: free new cd with newspapers, free new cd if you bought a concert ticket etc.. he was definitely searching for something..

walk,on,by wrote:
you know what stinks . . . I want to listen to a prince album before I give some rambling post about how it a/effected me, but I don't have a cd player anywhere in my house and I mainly listened to them in my vehicle, and now I only listen to music via apps or satellite radio, via another app, and there are no prince albums for me to listen to via apps, so oh well.

the album was around the world in a day.  oh, how it grew up with me.

Do you have an optical drive on your home computer or a DVD or Blu-ray player? Any of those should play a CD.

No, alas, i have this hp touch smart envy with no cd drive. Annoying.  But it does have a lite up keyboard.

walk,on,by wrote:
No, alas, i have this hp touch smart envy with no cd drive. Annoying.  But it does have a lite up keyboard.

You can buy a decent USB CD/DVD drive for less than $30.

hutch wrote:
more like the hit his reputation took over the past two decades due to him being widely considered an anachronistic kook cause he refused to "get with the times" and give away his music for free..

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/03/08/469627962/poor-lonely-computer-princes-misunderstood-relationship-with-the-internet

I wonder what is in the vault…

Prince was just like me.. kept buying the same albums over and over again!


interesting he bought the new Santana..


talking book and hejira had to be among his favorites.. the chambers brothers he must of had…maybe they were gifts?

i can't even imagine hanging out at a record store and Prince walks in

In case anyone wants to see purple rain this weekend, it's showing at the old Greenbelt theatre..

https://www.facebook.com/events/1550707951926621/?ti=cl