30 Prince

30 Prince albums in 30 days: An experiment in writing, listening and fandom

Mar 10, 2016

Day 24: The Slaughterhouse

There’s something about the ‘npg’ font on this sleeve (and perhaps the previous record more so as a whole) that reminds me of bad, cocktail-heavy nights at cheesy clubs filled with people who wear a lot of white. Maybe Prince is playing there, but I’m not sure that even they would…

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Mar 8, 2016

Day 23: The Chocolate Invasion

What’s Prince doing for International Women’s Day? I don’t know, but I’m going to pretend for this entire post that the The Chocolate Invasion doesn’t sound like someone trying to give anal sex a cute nickname. Of course, Prince would never be so crude; he’s still annoyed…

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Mar 7, 2016

Day 22: Musicology

For some reason, Musicology has stuck in my mind as the album that Prince gave away with the Mail on Sunday (though this was just a tickets thing, the album after, Planet Earth, was the actual newspaper deal). I would love to see the piece of research that aligns bigotry and over-sexed funk…

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Mar 6, 2016

Day 21: C-Note

An experimental live jazz album and a beautiful thing. Where N.E.W.S steps into the background and stays there , C-Note calmly waits, slowly luring you in before a turn of pace or piano flutter catches you completely. It sounds like a lot of fun and despite being a instrumental, you can just about…

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Mar 6, 2016

Day 20: N.E.W.S

A sneaky track listing here. Four tracks doesn’t actually mean less music. Great for Prince fans, tougher for people trying to listen to one a day (and yes, I missed another day, making for a double today…it was a Saturday-related thing again) as some sort of marathon.

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Mar 4, 2016

Day 19: XPECTATION

I’ve always been interested by the way Prince has treated music videos. Yes, they have been a promotional tool for him (in the golden age of MTV and perhaps when he had less control over marketing) but he’s never been a fan of YouTube, and you’ll struggle to easily find much of his content…

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Mar 3, 2016

Day 18: One Nite Alone…

One of the most powerful things about Action Bronson’s music is the ability of his rhymes (taking in everything from fresh oysters out the sea to slow-cooked brisket) to make you hungry for really good food, even if it’s only on in the background. Brands should get him to write copy for…

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Mar 1, 2016

Day 17: The Vault

Kanye West recently announced that he was still working on his latest album, The Life Of Pablo, despite the fact it had already been released. We live in an age where this is possible as it it was only ever available through Tidal and so no officially released physical version exists (despite…

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Feb 29, 2016

Day 16: The Truth

We’re past the halfway mark, and it’s time to settle in to the second half of this album experiment with an acoustic number. I’ve read that lots of marathon runners use mantras or mental puzzles in order to keep their minds from turning (inevitable) pain into suffering; and while this isn’t quite…

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Feb 28, 2016

Day 15: Emancipation (Volume 1)

I always think it’s a bit risky being so prescriptive about how good your song is in the title, as it’s surely the audience’s right to give this license. The opening track may not be the “Jam Of The Year” it claims to be, but it’s a laid back entry to the album.

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