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A classic YouTube clip of Prince dazzling his peers at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony has been re-cut by the original director.
A classic YouTube clip of Prince dazzling his peers at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony has been re-cut by the original director.
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Music lovers around the world are in shock today at the sad news of Prince’s passing. Here are just a few of the highlights of an amazing career – an artist who single-handedly made it safe for artists to cross and mix genres and to be totally original and humble – not to mention to stand up to the record industry. RIP Prince, the master genre-bender. Influence on indie rock? Immeasurable.
Check out Prince’s guitar solo of George Harrison’s ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ during 2004 RNR Hall of Fame. And don’t miss Sandra Bernhard’s revealing dance video for “Little Red Corvette.”
Rare – Extended Live Performance of ‘Purple Rain’ in Syracuse, NY in 1985
(suitable example of Prince’s stellar guitar playing abilities; audio is much better than video; it was 30 years ago)
Rare video of Prince in 1978 on American Bandstand – six years before Purple Rain.
Full interview of Prince on CNN in 1999
Prince talks to Tavis Smiley in 2011 about his music and other stuff
British Documentary about Prince
(VH1 Behind The Music apparently never did one because Prince wouldn’t let them)
Quote of the Week: Caitlin Jenner, eat your heart out grrl – you could never be half the woman Prince was
Prince would laugh at that because part of what made him so great was that he was not afraid to be outrageous and express himself in such a flamboyant way at a time when it was not OK at all (height of the AIDS epidemic) to dress like he did. Prince, though, made it cool.
NOTE – By the way, YouTube: Please remove the karaoke tracks of Prince’s songs. Let’s have one thing that’s scared. He wanted his music shared, but he didn’t want it bastardized.
We have an obsession with creating playlist mixes that feature great songs about a specific subject, theme or other categorization. Over many years, we’ve amassed hundreds of these playlists, and update them regularly. Sunday is the day we take off from putting out new music in order to bring you all another one of our special.
But the original, and still existing, name for this series – The Sunday 25 Mix (aka, S-25), is admittedly not one of our best names we’ve come up with, so we are taking suggestions. The name for this weekly mix series needs to somehow convey the Sunday aspect as well as the fact that it’s a special series with a particular focus and not restricted to one genre or one era of music.
This week we chose 25 tracks from our huge “Time Travel” playlist, including tracks from Phoenix, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Submarines, The Radio Dept., The Clash, The Smashing Pumpkins, and many others. This mix is the first volume of what will be a re-occuring playlist mix series over the next year or so. Currently, we have more than 300 ‘time travel’ songs, so it’ll take time to whittle them down into 25 tracks per volume.
We are sure that there are plenty of great ‘time travel’ themed songs that are not included in this volume. In that case, it means they’ll be published in subsequent volumes in this series, or that we don’t have such and such a song (but probably did at one time). Somehow believing that Apple hard drives were indestructible, we failed to back up hundreds of playlists that had been in on-going development over the years.
One day last fall, we turned on the Mac to just a blue screen. Slowly but surely we were convinced that the hard drive was indeed fried. That broken hard drive is sitting in a box as we try to figure out if it’s worth hundreds and hundreds of dollars to try and do data recovery just to see what playlists can be salvaged.
So, in many ways, we had to start from scratch. It was a traumatic loss but we only have ourselves to blame for not backing them all up to an independent external hard drive. A loss like that you never really get over, especially when you know that you had so many amazing playlists that constituted probably hundreds of hours of organizing, updating, and reviewing songs and their appropriate playlist home. Lesson learned the VERY hard way.
That said, we hope you dig this first volume of the Time Travel Playlists series. Don’t forget to make your own lists in the Comments section because it’s very possible they’ll be included in subsequent future volumes of the Time Travel Playlists series.
“1901” – Phoenix from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
“1999” – Shout Out Louds from Work (2010)
“1999” – Prince from 1999 (1982)
“1977” – The Clash from Super Black Market Crash (1977)
“We’ve Been Friends Since 1989” – Boat from Setting The Paces (2009)
“Oh What A Night (December 1963)” – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (1976)
“1979” – The Smashing Pumpkins from Mellon Collie (1989)
“1969” – Iggy Pop and The Stooges from The Stooges (1969)
“Class of 2000” – Amida from Arts & Crafts EP (2004)
“Holland, 1945” – Neutral Milk Hotel from In the Aeroplane over the Sea (1998)
“1940” – The Submarines from Honeysuckle Weeks (2010)
“1940” (The Submarines) – The Morning Benders from split tour only single (2009)
“1995” – The Radio Dept. from Lesser Matters (2009)
“2012” – 60 Watt Kid from We Come From The Bright Side (2009)
“1917” – Fiery Furnaces from Blueberry Boat (2004)
“20th Century Man” (Live) – The Kinks from One For The Road (1980)
“7th September 2003” – The Elected from Me First (2003)
“1993” – The Great Nostalgic from Hope We Live Like We Promised (2011)
“Moscow 1980” – Javelin from No Mas (2010)
“August 12, 1992” – John Blaze from Introductions EP (2010)
“1985” – Paul McCartney and Wings from Band on The Run (1975)
“Boy 1904” – Jónsi & Alex from Riceboy Sleeps (2010)
“1985” – Bowling for Soup from A Hangover You Don’t Deserve (2004)
“Late Nineties Bedroom Rock For The Missionaries” – Broken Social Scene from You Forgot It In People (2002)
“The World In 1984” – Shearwater from Winged Life (2004)
“1983” – Pelle Carlberg from The Lilac Time (2008)
