Music You Love

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RIP Keith Emerson 1944 – 2016

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Ever since you mentioned feeling a million miles away Sky, I also felt that way and continue to drift farther all the time. (Is it any wonder with what I have to put up with?    )

My forum comments and taste in music clearly show that! LOL 

4 Strings - Take Me Away (A million miles away from here)

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I probably already posted this one here, but it's one my favourites and one of the few I can listen more than once in succession.

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and we've lost another talent....r.i.p. prince r.i.p.

"Let's Go Grazy"


Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
2 get through this thing called life

Electric word life
It means forever and that's a mighty long time
But I'm here 2 tell u
There's something else
The afterworld

A world of never ending happiness
U can always see the sun, day or night

So when u call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
U know the one - Dr Everything'll Be Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby

'Cuz in this life
Things are much harder than in the afterworld
In this life
You're on your own

And if de-elevator tries 2 bring u down
Go crazy - punch a higher floor

If u don't like the world you're living in
Take a look around u
At least u got friends

U see I called my old lady
4 a friendly word
She picked up the phone
Dropped it on the floor
(Sex, sex) is all I heard

Are we gonna let de-elevator
Bring us down
Oh, no Let's Go!

Let's go crazy
Let's get nuts
Let's look 4 the purple banana
'Til they put us in the truck, let's go!

We're all excited
But we don't know why
Maybe it's cuz
We're all gonna die

And when we do (When we do)
What's it all 4 (What's it all 4)
U better live now
Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door

Tell me, are we gonna let de-elevator bring us down
Oh, no let's go!

Let's go crazy
Let's get nuts
Look 4 the purple banana
'Til they put us in the truck, let's go!

C'mon baby
Let's get nuts
Yeah
Crazy

Let's go crazy

Are we gonna let de-elevator bring us down
Oh, no let's go!
Go crazy

I said let's go crazy (Go crazy)
Let's go, let's go
Go
Let's go

Dr. Everything'll be alright
Will make everything go wrong
Pills and thrills and dafodills will kill
Hang tough children

He's coming
He's coming
Coming

Take me away!

edit to add..that I can't find a good copy of the song with prince as the actual performer

but if there are fans I found these









from 4 thur 7 min is dick gregory..but the rest is verrrrrrrrrrrrry interesting

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sorry missed the time line to modify previous post


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prince-internet-music_us_5719264ae4b0d4d3f722b567?ir=Entertainment&section=us_entertainment&utm_hp_ref=entertainment

Sara Boboltz
04/21/2016 05:21 pm ET

Prince Hated What The Internet Was Doing To Music

And that's why it's hard to listen to Prince on streaming services.

Prince left a pop music legacy when he died Thursday at age 57, but you can't listen to his work everywhere online. In July, he pulled all but one solo track from Spotify. Meanwhile, he has a sparse Vevo presence and nothing on Apple Music. Tidal and iTunes offer his music to stream and download, respectively, but otherwise, there's something of a "Purple Rain" draught on the Internet.

That's because Prince did not much care for it.

In 2010, the artist declared that "the Internet's completely over" in an interview with the UK's Mirror. Although he believed "in finding new ways" to distribute his music, he compared Internet distribution platforms like iTunes to MTV — once hip, now outdated.

"They [Apple] won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it," Prince told the Mirror. "Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."

Prince didn't just object to Internet companies' payment structures. He also hated the computerized format itself.

"I personally can't stand digital music," he said the next year. "You're getting sound in bits. It affects a different place in your brain. When you play it back, you can't feel anything. We're analogue people, not digital."

The artist eventually pulled his catalog from most streaming services — including Spotify, Deezer and Rdio — in July and later expressed his concern for musicians' futures. But perhaps his issues with the Internet should be seen more as an extension of his decades-long battle with the music business.

Famously, Prince fought with Warner Brothers over the terms of his publishing contract throughout the '90s. In 1993, he changed his name to a symbol in an ill-fated attempt to disrupt his contract, which prevented him from releasing albums more often and from owning the master tapes of his work. In 1996, he left the label, and in 2000, changed his name back to Prince. Finally, in April 2014, he re-signed with Warner Brothers and regained control of his catalog.

But through his final years, Prince remained a voice for artists' rights in a time when artists became increasingly critical of its online distribution.

Speaking to a small group of journalists in August, Prince advocated in favor of streaming services paying artists directly, cutting out record companies, whose contracts he likened to "slavery," NPR reported.

Asked whether he still thought the Internet was "over" in a November interview with The Guardian, Prince further clarified his stance.

"What I meant was that the Internet was over for anyone who wants to get paid, and I was right about that," he said. "Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?"

As of this writing, "Purple Rain" was the top-selling single on iTunes, and "The Very Best of Prince" its top-selling album.

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Jase Thirlwall - Airborne

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Plastic? Why not?