Don't U miss the feeling music gave ya back in the day?

Now, dance
Dance

But U're the perfect picture of what love should look like
All the purple hippies bang your heads on the one

Never seen the moon look so lovely as the night I saw it with U
I'd never heard a prayer like this one
Master of the soft, not 2 loud
She's gonna need a pillow case — something 2 put those tears on
And Sunday chocolate on the roof right after his game
Confess, U tease, unless U please (Confess, tease, please, please)
Listen, ain't no sense in voting — same song with a different name
I don't know, I was just thinking bout my... mother

the follow up of the One Night Alone era, called the comeback of Prince
less stage antics, Xpectation, S.S.T. the Chocolate Invasion, the Slaughterhouse,
more focus on the music, the 2nd extension of the coming alive of Prince following Rainbow Children ONA NEWS, and a new wife Manuela Testolini, reconnection with Wendy Melvoin Sheila E. Lisa Coleman & the Time

cool, but wasn't it released in 2004?

released on April 20, 2004

partially recorded in Mississauga, Ontario, was his first to be recorded outside Minneapolis in many years.

At the end of the song "Musicology" snippets of "Kiss", "Little Red Corvette", "Sign o' the Times", "17 Days" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend" can be heard. At the time of release Prince was quoted as saying he wished the album to provide musical education to listeners.

1. Musicology – 4:26
2. Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance – 4:46
3. A Million Days – 3:50
4. Life o' the Party – 4:29
5. Call My Name – 5:15
6. Cinnamon Girl – 3:56
7. What Do U Want Me 2 Do? – 4:15
8. The Marrying Kind – 2:49
9. If Eye Was the Man in Ur Life – 3:09
10. On the Couch – 3:33
11. Dear Mr. Man – 4:14
12. Reflection – 3:04

thedance said:

cool, but wasn't it released in 2004?

 

 the production of it started late 2003

the video 4 Musicology was shot in Oct 2003 the tour started in 2003 before the album dropped

Awesome cd

Awesome boots.

And he never toured Canada, only touched on Vancouver and Toronto and that was it  

Ok, thank u OF4S.. but I was referring to the headline "2005-2006"...

btw Musicology is better than 3121, Planet Earth imho.

thedance said:

Ok, thank u OF4S.. but I was referring to the headline "2005-2006"...

 

btw Musicology is better than 3121, Planet Earth imho.

 omg 40 is upon me, I saw 2003-2005 lol omg thanks

1. When Eye Lay My Hands on U - 3:45
2. Judas Smile - 6:37
3. Supercute - 4:17
4. Underneath the Cream - 4:04
5. Sex Me? Sex Me Not - 5:46
6. Vavoom - 4:40
7. High - 5:09
8. The Dance - 4:45
9. Gamillah - 3:13
10. U Make My Sun Shine - 7:06

What is MUSICOLOGY?

The Musicology Download Store offers u the oppor2nity 2 purchase and download

music by Prince directly from the source.
Both new music and classic trax are available as paid licensed download, legally and securely.

www.NPGMUSICCLUB.com

haha, cool...

I love this pic,

Prince > the Musicology tour made him the Top Money Maker 2004.

The tour earned the biggest amount of $$$$ in 2004: grossing $87.4 million.

credits, from Rolling Stone, 2004/ 2005.

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luv4u said:

Awesome cd

 

Awesome boots.

 

And he never toured Canada, only touched on Vancouver and Toronto and that was it  

 awwwww

since he record half of it in Canada he could have least given Canada some love right?

^

the Musicology band:

^ Excellent band.

OldFriends4Sale said:

 

 

 

the video 4 Musicology was shot in Oct 2003

^

Great video: "Musicology".

^

October 10. 2003
The Tower Theatre-

802 S. Broadway  Los Angeles

1927 by architect S. Charles Lee  | 

 Musicology Video Shoot

http://towertheatrela.com/

  

A magazine from Cleveland when Prince played there in 2004:

A couple of shots from the Gund Arena in Cleveland. I had nose bleed seats so it was easier to take pictures of the big screen:

Rock N Roll Hall of Fame display:

the premiere pic of the Musicology cover artwork:

Credits: from NPGMC.

luv4u said:

 

 

Awesome boots.

 

Yeah!

I really like this dvd....

ps: --- I hope it's ok to post this pic, mods?

^^ It is

Musicology - at Madison Square Garden, 2004:

July 13 , 2004
Madison Square Garden NYC

1.Musicology
2.Let's Go Crazy
3.I Would Die 4 U
4.When Doves Cry
5.Baby, I'm A Star
6.Shhh!
7.D,M,S,R
/Pass The Peas
/The Glamourous Life/D,M,S,R
8.I Feel 4 U (Chaka Khan-vo)
9.Controversy Jam
10.Georgia On My Mind

(Acoustic Set)
11.Little Red Corvette
12.Cream
13.On The Couch
14.Raspberry Beret
15.Dear Mr.Man
16.Telemarketer's Blues
17.I Could Never Take PlaceOf Your Man
18.Sweet Thing
19.Adore

20.7

credits, from Housequake.com

2004, Prince was back as a major artist...

- at least on the cover of RS...

Burning Down the House
Prince has still got that red-hot magic

By Anthony DeCurtis

"Hammering! That's the word. That's it!" Prince folds over in laughter and stamps his high-heel boots on the floor. Those heels, as it happens, are clear plastic, and lights twinkle within them. It's a perfect metaphor for the electricity that seems to be coursing through the singer at the moment.

Prince is responding to a description of the torrid version of "D.M.S.R." -- a jam from 1999 touting the virtues of "dance, music, sex, romance" -- that he and his backing band, the New Power Generation, unleashed earlier that evening at the sold-out Gund Arena in Cleveland. It was a full-on funk stomp that got the house up and shaking. Hammering only begins to convey the performance's pulverizing rhythmic assault. "Pulverizing! That's good, too," Prince says, laughing again. "What you see is people responding to what this band is -- and what we're doing."

It's just twenty minutes after the show, and, at a time when most performers would be just beginning to cool down, Prince is utterly composed. He's crisply dressed in a purple tunic and black pants and looks as if he has spent the evening relaxing in his living room rather than burning down a 20,000-seat house. But that's how effortless things seem to be of late for the forty-five-year-old musician. Everybody in the Prince camp -- most definitely beginning with Prince himself -- bristles when anyone suggests that the current wave of Princemania constitutes a "comeback." The official line is that he never went away. From a strictly literal standpoint, of course, that's true. He's been as busy as ever, using his own label and his Web site, the New Power Generation Music Club, to release CDs such as The Rainbow Children (2001) and N.E.W.S. (2003), as well as the DVD Prince: Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas.

But whether or not you buy the message that Prince never left, it's clear that many of his millions of fans had gone somewhere in recent years, and now many of them are staging a comeback of their own. Suddenly, liking Prince doesn't feel like such a chore; in fact, it's fun. His stripped-down, pleasingly straightforward new album, Musicology, delivers on the promise of his spellbinding performances earlier this year on the Grammy Awards broadcast and at his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. His live shows have become ecstatic parties, sweaty, two-hour romps through the likes of "Controversy," "U Got the Look," "Take Me With U" and a sizzling version of Sam and Dave's classic "Soul Man." Nearly a recluse before, Prince is now all over the media, chatting on talk shows, posing for photographers, being interviewed by reporters.

It's like an old friend has returned. Indeed, the spring of 2004 is beginning to feel like the summer of 1984, when Purple Rain made Prince one of the biggest rock stars in the world. When he sings, "Don't you miss the feeling that music gave you back in the day?" in "Musicology," he might as well be speaking about his own music. After abandoning his name for an unpronounceable symbol, after painting the word "slave" on his face as part of a battle with his record label, after disowning decades of his own work, Prince is enjoying himself again. And, as always, his enthusiasm is irresistible.

I had an epiphany last night," Prince says about his appearance in Columbus, Ohio. He's sitting on a couch in his dressing room, shortly before taking the stage in Cleveland. The room is warm and humid, to keep his throat and nasal passages clear and his vocal cords supple. Candles burn on every available surface.

"I was offstage, listening to Michael Phillips take his solo," he continues, alluding to the instrumental portion of the show in which the saxophonist takes a long, atmospheric excursion during "God" while Prince changes clothes and takes a break. "I was thinking, 'Wow, listen to those people responding, and all he's doing is playing a saxophone.' They can feel that what he's doing is real. So many shows now, they have pyrotechnics, pre-taped vocals and musical parts, and it's so dead. But here's one man breathing into an instrument, and the whole room feels alive. It made me want to rise up to that level when I came back onstage."

Part of the goal of the Musicology album and tour is to connect audiences once again to the power of live music. "Take your pick -- turntable or a band?" Prince challenges on the album, and his concerts are like a clinic in inciting the sort of pandemonium that only a band can create. That's true even for the players themselves. "This is school for me," says Phillips, 27. "Every night I watch how he connects his gift to the crowd. I've spoken to him about it. He told me that playing a solo is like making love. You have to pay attention to the things that make your partner respond -- and space them out so they come at exactly the right time. It's one big, long orgasm."

Prince's deal with Columbia: Because "Musicology" is so listener-friendly, Prince overcame his near pathological wariness about record companies and agreed to allow his lawyer to work out a deal with Columbia Records. Columbia, which is part of Sony Music, will distribute and help the market the album domestically ( and be reimbursed for the costs of doing so) and license it for sale in the rest of the world. It's an arrangement that essentially requires no upfront costs on the label's part, while providing a strong profit incentive for the company to sell as many copies as possible. On his end, Prince gets the enormous reach of an international corporate powerhouse.

According to Sony's president, Don Ienner, the label has filled orders for upward of a million copies of the album worldwide. "And with the first copy shipped, we started making money," he adds. "We have really high expectations for this, and, though there are no guarantees, we hope to remain in business with Prince for a long time. How often does an artist of his stature become available on any terms?"

Prince receives no payment from the label. But retains complete ownership of the album. He also gets a much higher percentage of sales than he would under a more traditional arrangement. "One advantage of writing "slave' on my face back then was that when I meet with a label now, they already know they're not going to be owning anything", Prince says wryly. "Maybe at one time they could get Little Richard for a new car and a bucket of chicken. We don't roll like that no more.

Being at Peace: "I feel at peace. I knew it would take time, and I had to deal with a lot of ridicule. But this feels like peace right now. Spiritually I feel very different from the way I used to, but physically? Not at all. I don't look at time that way, and I don't believe in age. When you wake up, each days looks the same, so each day should be a new beginning. I don't have an expiration date."

About Tom Petty: "It was an honor to play with Tom Petty (at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame ceremony). "Free Fallin'" is one of my favorite songs. I used to love whenever he would come on MTV, because you knew you were going to get a great tune. MTV isn't like that anymore."

"Kiss" Highlight: For a tumultous run of songs at the end of the Cleveland show, Prince invites perhaps two dozen women in the audience onto the stage to dance. One willowy girl wears a purple two-piece bathing suit festooned with the gylph that had become the singer's name for a time. Prince struts over to her, and she becomes his dance partner during "Kiss". After the line "Act your age, not your shoe size", he holds the mike out for her, and right in tune, she sings, "And maybe we can do the twirl!" Prince's eyes widen and he yowls, "Wooo!"

"The security guard wasn't going to let her get onstage", Prince says backstage after the show. " I said, "You can't send that girl home dressed like that!"

German CD single

The B-side of the single is the Musicology track On the Couch, a seductive ballad with a gospel flavor. In addition, Prince released a song on his website titled Magnificent, which was listed as the virtual B-side to Musicology.

Prince released a song on his website titled Magnificent,

which was listed as the virtual B-side to Musicology.

Magnificent
Yeah

So much anticipation
4 this conversation
Such a long time

Life a meeting of two nations
This special occasion
Got us both tongue tied

Let me just say that Eye've respected U
From a distance
Eye've been watching U, sho' been watching you
In the time it took the others 2 say Ur name
We became magnificence

Chorus:
What Eye'm about 2 say will astound U
But Eye can only say it when no one's around U

Magnificent
Magnificent, when it pounds you
Magnificent
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind

The two of us like stardust
We go back, yeah we must
To the dawning of all time
To the nuclear reaction
The only present satisfaction
The sweet and sticky kind

Regardless of what they say 2 U
The moment U hear me speak they're through

Like paradise Eye'm so nice
Eye never lose my effect on U

Chorus

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind

Counting backwards, a thousand 2 one
Everything we do is so much fun
To our time before time began
Before Eye was a woman, before U were a man

Before sex and race ever mattered
Tell me now do U understand?

OldFriends4Sale said:

 

thedance said:

cool, but wasn't it released in 2004?

 

the production of it started late 2003

 

the video 4 Musicology was shot in Oct 2003 the tour started in 2003 before the album dropped

Very true. The first official track he released from the project was "Reflection" through the music club and that was in 03 also.

thedance said:

 

 

^

 

the Musicology band:

 

^ Excellent band.

I dig the suit and I dig the band!! I love the 'Musicology Era' It was so fresh and necessary exactly when it was released! It made him the top earner too! Just a fantastic time! Prince was full of energy, and love! He seemed so genuinely appreciated for all the love he got from everybody. It was an exciting time!

thedance said:

 

 

^

 

the Musicology band:

 

^ Excellent band.

 

ummmmh....excellent is right...I saw Prince 9 times during the Musicology Tour...only time in my life I ever did anything like it...I called it My Healing Tour...thank-you for the excellent pictures and I thank Prince for the blessings...of him

thedance said:

the premiere pic of the Musicology cover artwork:

 

Credits: from NPGMC.

 ...   damn...I don't even cuss...but damn, I love this scenario

daPrettyman said:

 

OldFriends4Sale said:

 

the production of it started late 2003

 

the video 4 Musicology was shot in Oct 2003 the tour started in 2003 before the album dropped

Very true. The first official track he released from the project was "Refelction" through the music club and that was in 03 also.

ahhh didn't know that.

There is the double world we have 2 track side by side, the virtual world and the 'physical' world

thedance said:

 

 

^

 

the Musicology band:

 

^ Excellent band.

 

HOTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!! Prince is so photogenic

thedance said:

 

luv4u said:

 

 

Awesome boots.

 

Yeah!

 

I really like this dvd....

 

 

ps: --- I hope it's ok to post this pic, mods?

Question about this dvd: Do you also have the songs 8,9,10 full band, Life 'O the party, Soul Man and Kiss? I never saw this footage before. My dvd ends after the acoustic set with a short interview.

Anyone can shed a light on this?

Cheers!

Doc.

the Entertainment Weekly cover pic 2004.

I unsure why these 2 are named "Essence", it is the same photo shoot, right?