Prince makes peace with Warner Bros. Remasters and a new album on the way!

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Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

New Song Clouds on Soundcloud http://www.vibe.com/article/premiere-prince-new-single-clouds :siren:

Call Me Charlie posted:

The mega announcement is two albums releasing 9/30

A Prince solo album called Art Official Age and the 3rdEyeGirl album

1 ART OFFICIAL CAGE
2 CLOUDS
3 BREAKDOWN
4 THE GOLD STANDARD
5 U KNOW
6 BREAKFAST CAN WAIT
7 THIS COULD BE US
8 WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
9 affirmation I & II
10 WAY BACK HOME
11 FUNKNROLL
12 TIME
13 affirmation III

http://preorder.artofficialage.com/

1 WOW
2 PRETZELBODYLOGIC
3 AINTTURNINROUND
4 PLECTRUMELECTRUM
5 WHITECAPS
6 FIXURLIFEUP
7 BOYTROUBLE
8 STOPTHISTRAIN
9 ANOTHERLOVE
10 TICTACTOE
11 MARZ
12 FUNKNROLL

http://plectrumelectrum.3rdeyegirl.com/

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quote:

Prince and Warner Bros. Records today announced a new agreement that will see the release of long-awaited, previously unheard material, while giving the artist ownership of the master recordings of his classic, global hits. At the same time, the deal extends Prince's relationship with Warner Bros. Records, through an exclusive global licensing partnership that covers every album released from 1978 into the nineties. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

For Prince fans worldwide, the new partnership will open a veritable gold mine. The surprise announcement comes just in time for this summer's 30th Anniversary celebrations of the artist's breakthrough album and film, Purple Rain, which were released in 1984. For the first time, Prince will be releasing a digitally re-mastered, deluxe version of this classic album. Other planned projects will follow.

Prince said, "A brand-new studio album is on the way and both Warner Bros Records and Eye are quite pleased with the results of the negotiations and look forward to a fruitful working relationship."

"Everyone at Warner Bros Records is delighted to be working with Prince once again: he is one of the world's biggest stars and a truly unique talent" said Cameron Strang, Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros. Records. "We are also very excited about the release of new and re-mastered music from one of his greatest masterpieces."

This is some shocking news.

For people out of the loop, Prince has been working on an album (Plectrum Electrum) with his new all girl rock band 3rd Eye Girl and another album of solo stuff that I guess Warner Bros is going to release now. He's been touring around, experimenting with his own online store, livestream, doing more TV apperances and even releasing a song through the record label Epic.

http://3rdeyegirl.com/
http://3rdeyetunes.com
http://soundcloud.com/3eg
https://www.youtube.com/user/3rdEyeGirl

Prince on Arsenio Hall
FUNKNROLL = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-VnglGuJfE
She's Always In My Hair = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgm1qWOGYEY
Mutiny = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxaz_L7RIgA

I'm curious to find out what will be added to the deluxe edition of Purple Rain. The full version of Computer Blue? Father's Song? Wednesday? Electric Intercourse?

Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Aug 25, 2014

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SgtScruffy: Dec 27, 2003; Babies.

I HOPE THIS MEANS HE COMES TO WASHINGTON DC DAMNIT

# ? Apr 18, 2014 21:23

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

SgtScruffy posted:

I HOPE THIS MEANS HE COMES TO WASHINGTON DC DAMNIT

Florida reunited with the Revolution or bust :colbert:

# ? Apr 19, 2014 01:10

Surfingelectrode: Jan 17, 2006; Yeah, I know it's a drag...
but wastin' pigs is still radical.

Call Me Charlie posted:

I'm curious to find out what will be added to the deluxe edition of Purple Rain. The full version of Computer Blue? Father's Song? Wednesday? Electric Intercourse?

The 30 minute version of I Would Die 4 U :allears:

Super excited about this news.

# ? Apr 19, 2014 01:14

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

Well then! This is some poo poo right here. Exciting times.

I've seen Prince with 3rdeyegirl four times now, they're absolutely incredible shows, maybe even rivaling the Sign O' The Times era. Small, intimate venues, guitar heavy sets, tons of obscure rarities. The good stuff.

Not so keen on the newer music he's done with the group, but the thought of remastered albums and unreleased stuff has me foaming at the mouth. Something tells me it's gonna be a good year.

# ? Apr 19, 2014 04:13

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

This is great news. Purple Rain is a terrible film but it's my favourite soundtrack of all time.

# ? Apr 19, 2014 04:21

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

Oh poo poo, new Prince song.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-breakdown-single/id866402885

The Breakdown

You can listen to it for free at http://www.audiomack.com/song/dayandadream/the-breakdown

Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Apr 19, 2014

# ? Apr 19, 2014 16:03

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

Call Me Charlie posted:

Oh poo poo, new Prince song.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-breakdown-single/id866402885

The Breakdown

You can listen to it for free at http://www.audiomack.com/song/dayandadream/the-breakdown

He opened with this during one of the shows I saw. It was awesome.

# ? Apr 19, 2014 17:43

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

Prince apparently played Electric Intercourse last night for the first time since 1983. I think it's pretty safe to say that it'll be on the deluxe edition.

Here's the original if you've never seen it before.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTczODEzMjI4.html

# ? May 16, 2014 23:48

Obsidius: Nov 18, 2009; If you ever drop your
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lava, let 'em go, because
man, they're gone.

Psyched for him rereleasing Purple Rain and although I haven't followed his more recent music I'm going to have to grab his album with 3RDEYEGIRL although why things can never be simple with him and be on a mainstream store like iTunes I'll never know. Just seen him and his band at Leeds in the UK and drat he still rocks the house, his band was awesome too. Strange that there was very little merchandise choice which surely should be a big earner I'd have thought. �190 on tickets, 4 hour round trip and thanks to a gently caress up at a roundabout the car now needs a new passenger-side wing and it was all worth it.

# ? May 24, 2014 03:09

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

Some new details about his upcoming solo, not 3rdEyeGirl, album.

tl;dr - The Gold Standard, "a complex electronic discourse", This Could Be Us, remix of FUNKNROLL and an untitled track with Rita Ora so far.

quote:

Prince marches to his own time. We�ve known that for years.

His guy called late Saturday night while I was reviewing the Bruno Mars concert at Xcel Energy Center: Prince wants to play you his new album tonight.

When you arrive at Paisley Park, you switch to Prince time. After nearly an hour�s wait, I was ushered into Studio B about 1 a.m. All three members of 3rdEyeGirl were there, as well as two of their spouses, who work for Prince, plus Prince�s road manager and a reporter from Fox 9. But no Prince.

This is a new Prince album, not to be confused with the one he made with 3rdEyeGirl, �Plectrum Electrum,� which hasn�t been released. The ever-prolific Rock Hall of Famer hasn�t issued an album in the United States since 2009.

My next two hours at Paisley Park would be filled with funk, frustration and funny lines � all courtesy of Prince.

Engineer/producer Joshua Welton, husband of 3rdEyeGirl drummer Hannah Ford Welton, sat at the Studio B console, pushing the buttons. The long, opening tune, �The Gold Standard,� was percolating electro-funk, an update of classic Prince with a lyric that referenced the notions of �wild and rude� from his previous days. The second selection was a complex electronic discourse that was hard to grasp first time around.

Suddenly, the phone rang. It was Prince. Via speaker phone, we chatted. He said he believed in albums, not singles. �I�ve finally got something that is a cohesive statement,� he explained.

He didn�t mention the album�s title or release date, but he did discuss the difficulties of getting a hold of top executives at Warner Music Group, with which he signed a new deal this spring. Then he whined about how slowly wheels turn in the record business. �Every No. 1 song, every Top 10 song, every song in the Top 40 is at least six months old,� he said. �We should be able to make music and put it out now.�

He also carped about radio, wondering if program directors really direct their programs. �I don�t need to be on the radio,� he said. �I�ve been on the radio all my life.� But he wants to hear new, young artists on the radio.

Those are old complaints from Prince. At least, he was happy that this new project was made without a record label looking over his shoulder. The album was recorded mostly with just him and Welton, whom he touted as a rising producer.

Prince explained that the next song, �This Could Be Us,� was inspired by a meme of him and Apollonia riding on a motorcycle, clearly a scene taken from the 1984 movie �Purple Rain.� It�s a joyful ballad with some ecstatic Prince vocalizing.

The ensuing number was a remix of �Funk �n� Roll,� a single he made with 3rdEyeGirl this year that they have performed live. This remix lived up to the song title, only it�s funkier and nastier than the original.

After hearing me praise his new recording, Prince asked if I had any money in my pocket and would I spend it on his new album.

�I spent most of it at Bruno Mars,� I said. �But I have plastic.�

�We don�t take plastic around here,� he said.

Rapping with Rita

Ever impatient, Prince asked Welton to next play a tune they recently made with British pop sensation Rita Ora. It�s a rare rap song on which the music was as aggressive and menacing as the rapping.

Prince talked about the urgency of releasing that tune because with Ora �time is money.� As a celebrity with lots of endorsements, she makes money walking out of the house wearing a certain kind of makeup or sunglasses, he explained.

Before Prince invited everyone to go to another room to watch a video of his recent Paris performance with 3rdEyeGirl, our ever-gracious but unseen host asked if anyone was hungry. The answer around the room was �No.�

�Good,� he said. �Then I don�t have to come cook for you again.�

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/264172601.html

Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jun 23, 2014

# ? Jun 23, 2014 02:35

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

Finally some news. Prince and 3rdEyeGirl are going to be on Good Morning America Monday to give a "mega-announcement"

# ? Aug 23, 2014 09:23

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

Haha, Prince no showed Good Morning America.

The mega announcement is two albums releasing 9/30

A Prince solo album called Art Official Age and the 3rdEyeGirl album

1 ART OFFICIAL CAGE
2 CLOUDS
3 BREAKDOWN
4 THE GOLD STANDARD
5 U KNOW
6 BREAKFAST CAN WAIT
7 THIS COULD BE US
8 WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
9 affirmation I & II
10 WAY BACK HOME
11 FUNKNROLL
12 TIME
13 affirmation III

http://preorder.artofficialage.com/

1 WOW
2 PRETZELBODYLOGIC
3 AINTTURNINROUND
4 PLECTRUMELECTRUM
5 WHITECAPS
6 FIXURLIFEUP
7 BOYTROUBLE
8 STOPTHISTRAIN
9 ANOTHERLOVE
10 TICTACTOE
11 MARZ
12 FUNKNROLL

http://plectrumelectrum.3rdeyegirl.com/

- edit New song Clouds on Soundcloud

http://www.vibe.com/article/premiere-prince-new-single-clouds

Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Aug 25, 2014

# ? Aug 25, 2014 15:54

Colonel Corazon: Feb 12, 2011; A faction armed to the teeth hardly seems friendly to me.

I am pretty thrilled to hear about the remasters!

STUNNING

# ? Aug 26, 2014 02:17

Platypus Farm: Jul 12, 2003; Francis is my name, and breeding is my game. All bow before the fertile smut-god!

Holy poo poo clouds is funky as gently caress

# ? Aug 26, 2014 02:19

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

Platypus Farm posted:

Holy poo poo clouds is funky as gently caress

Seconded.

# ? Sep 1, 2014 23:26

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

Here's "U Know"

http://www.vibe.com/article/premiere-prince-gets-funky-futuristic-u-know-0

If nothing else this is a lot fresher and exciting than prince's recent albums.

# ? Sep 1, 2014 23:35

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

'Whitecaps' from the 3rdeyegirl album is available now for anyone who's preordered from itunes. Probably streaming like 'Clouds' is but haven't seen it anywhere else yet.

# ? Sep 2, 2014 03:00

Cinderful: Feb 12, 2006

Not sure how I feel about the new stuff, but I'll gladly pay twice for a crack at those unreleased tracks :shepface:

# ? Sep 2, 2014 11:34

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

The current rumor is that Prince is planning to drop a surprise NPG album in October

So it's possible we'll get

September - ARTOFFICIALAGE/3RDEYEGIRL
October - Untitled NPG collection
November - Purple Rain remaster

Pretty wild.

Also if you were looking to preorder the new albums in September, Amazon finally dropped the price on them down to $11.88 each.

Cinderful posted:

Not sure how I feel about the new stuff, but I'll gladly pay twice for a crack at those unreleased tracks

I just heard his cover of Cookie Jar a few days ago and it blew my mind to hear that he recorded that 1988.

I'm hoping that the rest of his back catalog gets the deluxe treatment.

# ? Sep 11, 2014 03:20

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

Give me a remastered Dirty Mind out of this that's all I want. Still his best album.

# ? Sep 11, 2014 20:00

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

precision posted:

Give me a remastered Dirty Mind out of this that's all I want. Still his best album.

I was going to direct you to HDTracks but it looks like they pulled all the Prince stuff ~~for some reason~~ because Prince now owns the masters.

They had Dirty Mind, Purple Rain, 1999, Around The World In A Day, For You, and Controversy which were all sourced from the vinyl remasters Warner put out a few years ago.

# ? Sep 11, 2014 21:58

misterKeith: Feb 9, 2014; You have used 43 of 300 characters allowed.

Call Me Charlie posted:

- edit New song Clouds on Soundcloud

http://www.vibe.com/article/premiere-prince-new-single-clouds

Ooof. Yes please. More of this. All of it.

That funky bass...

# ? Sep 14, 2014 00:16

Brexit the Frog: Aug 22, 2013

Preorder link: http://preorder.artofficialage.com/

It has LPs on the cover, but you can't order it as an LP.

welp

# ? Sep 15, 2014 19:44

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

FUNKNROLL remix from Art Official Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9R1E4y7_Js

# ? Sep 19, 2014 01:31

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

If you're an idiot like me and you preordered the digital versions of both albums from Amazon for $10.49, you'll want to contact them because they just dropped the price of the CD down to $9.99 and added autorip.

And it looks like Art Official Age is getting a vinyl release somewhere because a import option has been added directly from Amazon for October 7th (but you won't want to buy it from there because they want $58 for it)

- edit Oh, and I guess the albums ~~leaked out~~ were released overseas first because the people on prince.org are going insane. Apparently Art Official Age is his best album since The Gold Experience and Time is the greatest song ever released.

Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Sep 25, 2014

# ? Sep 25, 2014 04:17

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

Call Me Charlie posted:

If you're an idiot like me and you preordered the digital versions of both albums from Amazon for $10.49, you'll want to contact them because they just dropped the price of the CD down to $9.99 and added autorip.

And it looks like Art Official Age is getting a vinyl release somewhere because a import option has been added directly from Amazon for October 7th (but you won't want to buy it from there because they want $58 for it)

- edit Oh, and I guess the albums ~~leaked out~~ were released overseas first because the people on prince.org are going insane. Apparently Art Official Age is his best album since The Gold Experience and Time is the greatest song ever released.

sounds exactly like when 20ten came out

# ? Sep 25, 2014 09:11

CortezFantastic: Aug 10, 2003; I SEE DEMONS

Call Me Charlie posted:

FUNKNROLL remix from Art Official Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9R1E4y7_Js

god drat

Hot fire right here

# ? Sep 25, 2014 13:43

Vince MechMahon: Jan 1, 2008

Both Art Official Age and PLECTRUMELECTRUM have leaked.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 16:39

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

They're up on iTunes now anyway. Woke up this morning to both albums already downloaded to my phone.

Art Official Cage is insane.

# ? Sep 25, 2014 23:46

Vince MechMahon: Jan 1, 2008

Art Official Age is very much the more sexy, slow jam, R&B album, while Plectrumelectrum is more rock and roll Prince. Both good, but I prefer the 3RDEYEGIRL album.

# ? Sep 26, 2014 00:59

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

First impression: don't like it. It sounds like he's trying too hard to be "club" and it's embarrassing. The attempt at funk is nice but it's too sparse and overdubbed to be appealing for me. Also lol at the 90s hip hop air horn sample in the first track.

Hopefully plectrum electrum is more to my taste but I wasn't really digging that material either when I saw them

I dunno, it basically sounds like prince had a protools power hour. I don't dig it

MarioTeachesWiping fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Sep 26, 2014

# ? Sep 26, 2014 05:41

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

Changed my mind, this album is great. Really slick production and totally funky in the weird way only Prince can do. Feels like a bonafide creative album straight out of his better work. I could do without one or two tracks but The Gold Standard is basically off of the black album and then segues into the fantastic U Know. Gonna be spinning this one for a while to come.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 01:03

Vince MechMahon: Jan 1, 2008

Have you listened the the 3RDEYEGIRL one yet? I prefer it to Art Official Age, but I do like both.

# ? Sep 27, 2014 04:12

MarioTeachesWiping: Nov 1, 2006; by XyloJW

TheJoker138 posted:

Have you listened the the 3RDEYEGIRL one yet? I prefer it to Art Official Age, but I do like both.

Absolutely. It's basically the sequel to lotusflower and I'm totally down with that. Really great output by prince

# ? Sep 27, 2014 18:52

Creature: Mar 9, 2009; We've already seen a dead horse

Been listening to the two albums all weekend. Can't decide which one I like better. All I know is 'Art Official Age's 'FUNKNROLL' is the superior version, and 'AINTTURNINROUND' is killer.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 06:22

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

Live stream happening tomorrow!

quote:

We just received this exclusive info from Warner Bros. Records, Yahoo, & Live Nation! PRINCE & 3RDEYEGIRL
TOMORROW (09/30) ON THE LIVE NATION CHANNEL ON YAHOO Live Stream Celebration on Tuesday, September 30th.

Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) today announced that music icon, Prince and his band 3RDEYEGIRL will appear tomorrow evening at 9:30 PM/CT on the Live Nation Channel on Yahoo for PLECTRUMELECTRUMARTOFFICIALAGE an exclusive album release party.

In addition to the live stream, fans will get an exclusive behind the scenes look at Prince's legendary Minnesota studio complex, Paisley Park, the creative sanctuary where Prince has recorded many of his most recognized musical creations. Fans around the world can watch the free live stream on mobile via the Yahoo Screen app or online at https://www.yahoo.com/live.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 06:41

AkaiNami: Sep 2, 2011

I listened to both albums and I think they're both great albums.

In my opinion Art Offical Cage is a bit better but maybe because it's just so smooth and sexy. Especially "U Know", "The Gold Standard" and both Affirmations + The Way back.

From the 3rdeyegirl album I like Pretzelbodylogic, Wow, Whitecaps and aintturninaround.

Both Funknroll are great but the remix is better than the original.

I'm so glad Prince is back. The new albums are so wonderful to listen to.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 20:53

Call Me Charlie: Dec 3, 2005; by Smythe

Call Me Charlie posted:

Live stream happening tomorrow!

Cam is live and there's instruments set up. Live performance incoming.

But they haven't even let people in the building yet so I imagine we have a long time before it starts. They're at least playing Prince songs while they randomly change camera views of the stage.

edit: and now some lady is wandering around Paisley Park. Prince's birds upstairs. Through the lobby. Into the recording studio. Some crazy mural outside where Prince is the center. Into a little booth with some guy who works there. He's showing the original Plectrum Electrum video.

edit 2: Whoa, some weird acoustic 3rdEyeGirl video. Pretty cool.

edit 3: Now the producer guy has played a NPGQ slow jam (Revelation?) and Prince called in to tell them to play some Rita Ora. Another Prince song called the Absence (or Axis?) Of Space. Goddamn, it's good.

Into the green room for fans giving questions to 3rdEyeGirl

edit 4: This is hilariously staged but I'm loving it. Now the lady wandered into a room with Liv Warfield and ~~some band~~ NPGQ just happened to start playing jazz with a multicam set up on them. I guess Paisley Park is always jumping.

Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Oct 1, 2014

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Thirdeye: May 2, 2006; Agaetis byrjun

I wish this stream was just of the bass player 24/7

edit: I have no idea what I'm even watching right now with the awkward dancing/crowd shots

Thirdeye fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Oct 1, 2014

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