Prince - Musicology download

What's Musicology like? I hadn't liked anything from the NPGMC up till last year and 'The Rainbow Children' was pap.

The bootlegs are okay, but only cause of the super-tight band he's got at the moment, I love John Blackwell's funky-as-hell drumming to bits, but it just sounds like Las Vegas show style cheese.

If you listen to some live shows, even during the shitty 90s there's still that 'dirty' funk sound, it's all too clean and polished at the moment if you ask me.

Like the dude said in the Guardian, how cool would an album be if he restricted himself to say, just three instruments, all him.

Someone needs to lock him in a studio for a month with minimal equipment, some porn, lots of meat and the new outkast album.

Doesn't that basically describe the "Truth" album? (I'd much rather lock him in with Madvillain than Love Below btw)

Blackwell is a big step up from Kirky J, but I find his drumming too tower-of-powery to truly funk hard. And although the band is tight, it's the times when we get less of them and more of Prince that his shows have really shined in recent years.. the guitar solos and piano medley on the last tour, the solos, slow jam segment and acoustic encore on this one.

What I've seen of this tour has been a big step up from previous shows of the last 5 years or so. Still a little Vegasy on some uptempo numbers, but then again has he EVER really gotten "Kiss" right live?

Good point about guilt-free p2p. All a bit of a frustrating waste of time and energy - much like the great man himself...

"Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance" is pretty swank, though. The production sounds really tightly-contained and minimalist so far, so I'm waiting to hear how this sounds live.

As the one good thing to come from covid is me getting back into prince and playing catch ups I've just discovered how good his 2004 tour was. Funny to hear him censor DMSR yet sing insatiable. But he works in his old funk and soul oldies in really well alongside his own songs. It becomes quite seamless, with a great rnb sound through out. Quite striking actually how non rocky it is. I like hearing prince just do a straight rnb set, but his kind of rnb, not trying to keep up to date. Great band too. This post rainbow children band was prob his best since 87/88.

"Like the dude said in the Guardian, how cool would an album be if he restricted himself to say, just three instruments, all him."

It's more about restricting him to 16 tracks.

Or was. Forget hes gone sometimes.

I am no Prince hardcore but I saw the Asia-Pacific warmup leg of that tour in 2003 (Sydney date) and it was incredible.I was lucky enough to see a small club after show the next night as well and the two gigs combined are a high watermark of live music to me. Like, even a fair way past his peak this guy was operating at an order of magnitude above everyone else.