The upcoming weeks 11 contributors will dissect each track from the 2014 ‘ART OFFICIAL AGE’ album, an album many consider to be his last true masterpiece. As I don’t want to steal anyone’s thunder, I’ll stick to the basics in this introduction.
Jul 28, 2021 • 81 tweets • 32 min read
So in this ‘encore’ we will travel back in time to 1987 to see what was actually going on in both the Paisley world and in the music industry around the release of the Jill Jones album.
Oct 29, 2020 • 71 tweets • 31 min read
So, here we are folks. Another #PrinceTwitterThread interlude. We have had wonderful threads about side 1 to 3 of the “Sign O’ The Times” album the past couple of days. Before we continue with side 4 I want to take a side step and talk about the 1987 tour for a while.
Or actually, to properly tell this story we need to go back to 1986 for a while. As during the final Prince and the Revolution tour songs from the “Sign O’ The Times” era started to surface live.
Oct 6, 2020 • 58 tweets • 29 min read
Oh yeah! #PrinceTwitterThread#SOTTDELUXE
Welcome to #PrinceTwitterThread series 4! Over the next couple of weeks @deejayUMB and myself will be hosting a massive series of 24 Sign O’ The Times themed threads, written by a team of Prince scholars that was recently dubbed ‘The Purple Avengers’. Kinda cool! #SOTTDELUXE
Aug 19, 2020 • 57 tweets • 23 min read
‘Everything in darkness must come out into the light
When we love each other that's the only way that's gonna be right’
Welcome to our last official day of the #3121album#PrinceTwitterThread. Today we’ll talk about ‘Get On The Boat’, track number 12 on ‘3121’ and also the album closer.
Aug 16, 2020 • 54 tweets • 23 min read
Get up, come on lets do something!
Welcome to day 11 of the ‘3121’ #PrinceTwitterThread series. Thanks for sticking around and thanks to all the wonderful contributors thus far! Today we will take a look at track number 9 on the #3121album. I'm talkin' about 'The Word'.
Jun 19, 2020 • 58 tweets • 25 min read
Day 5 of the “Come” #PrinceTwitterThread extravaganza. Thanks to my hosting partner @deejayUMB and esteemed contributors @Miss_EThompson and @CaseyRain for their threads on “Come”, “Space” and “Phermone” the past couple of days. Today… “Loose!”
“Loose!” is the fourth track Prince’s fifteenth album “Come”. There are quite a few versions of “Loose!” and they are all somewhat interconnected. For now listen to the original. open.spotify.com/track/4EzB6yfs…
May 17, 2020 • 74 tweets • 29 min read
Continuing the massive multi-authored Purple Rain album threads with Darling Nikki, track 5 on the Purple Rain album, closing out the first side.
Should you not be familiar with Darling Nikki, check it out first: open.spotify.com/track/0khi86hc…
Apr 2, 2020 • 47 tweets • 18 min read
Part 3 of the Monster #Thread on Prince’s album Parade by @deejayumb and @EdgarKruize. This is the last entry and looks at a possible future for Parade.