But who wouldn’t want to hear “Bob George” on vinyl? Have three decades dulled the mystique of this forbidden masterpiece? Or is this thing just too damn evil to safely unleash on mere mortals? Would a vinyl pressing lead to a Ghostbusters -style plague, with little green things swooping around and stealing our hot dogs? I got mine on Mediafire, that treasure trove of sketchy rarities whose loss was a crushing blow to everyone outside the music industry. Maybe that’s because all the really hardcore fans already have The Black Album. Even with Prince’s death opening up a trove of archival goodies, the reissue campaign has so far amounted to an expanded Purple Rain and a bunch of his Piano & A Microphone shit. It’s one of the great lost albums, and though it’s on Tidal and was briefly available in 1994, it’s, for the most part, still pretty lost. A divine vision yanked him back out and the forbidden masterpiece has been shelved ever sinceĪh, yes: the Dark Funk. Prince stepped into the mouth of evil when he recorded The Black Album in 1987.
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