Prince Would Like To Remind You Of His Greatness

After yesterday’s flurry of new Prince songs and hints that he wanted to go a non-traditional route to distribute his next record, a new track from the Purple One has emerged: “There Will Never B Another 1 Like Me” is currently streaming from the very #6600cc MPLSound.com. It’s a compact, six-minute funk workout with a beat that recalls the coda to “Alphabet St.” and what I’m pretty sure is the first time Prince has ever used the word “e-mail” in a lyric. (UPDATE: According to Matos, he actually had a song called “E-Male” on Emancipation, which was released all the way back in the Mosaic-era year of 1996.) [MPLSound.com; HT RS]

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16 Responses to “Prince Would Like To Remind You Of His Greatness”

  1. by ragandboneshop at 1:17 am

    I don’t hear anything at mplsound.com.

  2. by Maura Johnston at 1:24 am

    @ragandboneshop: it’s gone! and so is the embed:

    [www.google.com]

  3. by ragandboneshop at 1:34 am

    Well these other 4 are fun. Between the Crimson & Clover / Wild Thing and the Hendrix-y thing, he’s sounding more classic rock-y than usual, but it’s still really fun.

  4. by T'Challa at 8:36 am

    The Urb link is still live, so hit it asap. Good look, “yussel”

  5. by bburl at 9:11 am

    Careful, or the Internet sheriff will come in and shut you down.

  6. by Bong14 at 11:44 am

    Do I detect Auto-Tune?

  7. by at 11:46 am

    Actually Prince has a song called “Emale” from Emancipation all the way back in 1996! It even has the “Goodbye!” AOL sample in it. I realize most people didn’t embrace Prince’s 3-CD opus so it is easy to overlook this gem.

  8. by at 11:50 am

    Maura! How could you forget the track “EMale” on the Emancipation record? The purple one has been cyber-savvy from the get-go, even if his attempts at e-commerce have been ill-advised and clunky.

  9. by Michaelangelo Matos at 11:52 am

    There’s a song called “E-Mail” on Emancipation, from 1996.

  10. by Chris N. at 11:52 am

    I’m thinking that would have been “Emale” from ‘Emancipation’ way back in 1996.

  11. by Michaelangelo Matos at 11:53 am

    actually it’s “Emale,” sorry. Prince sang a LOT about the Internet back then–and then the disastrous web-distribution scheme for Crystal Ball happened. sigh.

  12. by Michaelangelo Matos at 11:54 am

    haha Chris N. and I have each xposted.

  13. by Chris N. at 12:00 pm

    I should have known you’d be on that.

    I dig the track. The “Whoo!” is straight out of “New Power Generation.”

  14. by bcapirigi at 12:20 pm

    My website used to be that color!

  15. by yussel at 12:33 pm

    all the Jonesy Jukebox MP3 are @ [www.urb.com]

  16. by at 12:45 pm

    @Bong14:

    yep.

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