2 The Wire (Creamy Instrumental)

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Hello. Welcome to Alphabet Suite podcast for the Prince Songbook. There are hundreds of songs to choose from. You have chosen to the Wire. [00:00:11] Speaker B: Okay, we are back. And this is Alphabet Suite. And we are here to. Oh, wait. We are here. We are here. [00:00:23] Speaker C: We are here. [00:00:24] Speaker B: I'm Tim. [00:00:24] Speaker C: I'm Pat. And we are here to do the next episode. [00:00:29] Speaker B: The next episode. It's. [00:00:32] Speaker C: What is it? [00:00:33] Speaker B: Wire. [00:00:34] Speaker C: To the Wire. [00:00:34] Speaker B: To the Wire. This is the wire? [00:00:36] Speaker C: No, it says to the wire. [00:00:38] Speaker B: I didn't see the two. Look. I thought it was like number know. And then you put a number two and then the song, then number three. [00:00:46] Speaker C: Okay, but we're doing it alphabetically. We're in the numbers. Where is the one, two, three, the six, seven? [00:00:56] Speaker B: Got some popcorn over there? I can throw at them. [00:00:59] Speaker C: Okay. [00:01:00] Speaker B: To the wire. Creamy instrumental creamy. [00:01:04] Speaker C: Not sexy. [00:01:05] Speaker B: Not sexy. [00:01:06] Speaker C: It's creamy. [00:01:07] Speaker B: Just creamy. [00:01:08] Speaker C: Okay, so what is that even creamy. Instrumental smooth. [00:01:15] Speaker B: Smooth. I don't know why I was thinking thick. Maybe it was two C's. [00:01:23] Speaker C: With two C's. [00:01:24] Speaker B: You got it. There you go. [00:01:27] Speaker C: So to the wire. [00:01:28] Speaker B: To the wire. Creamy. [00:01:30] Speaker C: Instrumental, creamy Instrumental do you remember this song? [00:01:37] Speaker B: No. [00:01:38] Speaker C: Because part of the whole thing of doing this is you're supposed to listen to the song before we do the epic. [00:01:44] Speaker B: Yes, very. Sorry. Is this. Let me see. Yeah, I know this song. [00:01:56] Speaker C: You're just saying that. [00:01:57] Speaker B: It's like a B side. [00:01:58] Speaker C: It was not an episode on iCarly. [00:02:00] Speaker B: No, it's part of the new kids on the Block experiment. [00:02:04] Speaker C: That's Prince and new kids. [00:02:08] Speaker B: I'll tell that one later. [00:02:09] Speaker C: New Prince on the block. [00:02:10] Speaker B: Yeah. New Prince on the block. That's good. [00:02:14] Speaker C: So, do you remember this song? [00:02:16] Speaker B: I do. I don't like it. [00:02:19] Speaker C: You don't like the song? [00:02:20] Speaker B: I don't like. [00:02:21] Speaker C: Why? What is it you don't like about the song or you just don't like the song? [00:02:29] Speaker B: I don't care much for Tony is rapping. [00:02:35] Speaker C: You mean Tony as a person? [00:02:36] Speaker B: Not as a person. [00:02:37] Speaker C: Do you know Tony? [00:02:38] Speaker B: I do. [00:02:41] Speaker C: I know Tony and Tony go back a long ways. He used to beat me up and take my lunch money. [00:02:47] Speaker B: He did, man. [00:02:47] Speaker C: He did. [00:02:48] Speaker B: He was one of the big bullies, you know, man. No. [00:02:54] Speaker C: You were the new kid on the block and he beat you. [00:02:59] Speaker A: So? [00:03:00] Speaker C: So what I hear you saying is you don't like Tony'S voice. I can't rap or him. Will you speak to me? [00:03:08] Speaker B: I can't get past his not. Dude, I'm a TCLs kind of guy, okay? I'm not a Tony. He's got. He's got that deep. Don't. It's like if you were to hear. [00:03:24] Speaker C: Barry White rap, I mean, really, you never might. He might rap better than anything you've ever. [00:03:31] Speaker B: No, no, that's just not my cup of know. [00:03:36] Speaker C: I remember when Tony first joined the group, and there is a lot back in the day, there was a lot of flak about having Tony rap, at least in the circles I ran know both of know the people we were around. There was a lot of flak about Tony. I never minded Tony. I like the way he flowed. I like the tone of his voice. Now, I don't know Tony as a person, but he's probably a nice guy. He seems like a pretty cool dude from everything I've seen. So this is where we disagree a lot. And I think we've always disagreed on this, on Tony. And to be honest, it was rough at that time being a Prince fan, because I was like, yeah, I like Tony. Even my wife, Melissa, she is not a fan of Tony. She's like, yeah, I not a fan of that rap. And it's funny because when rap first started making it big, Prince was against rap. [00:04:37] Speaker B: He thought it was horrible, right? [00:04:38] Speaker C: From everything I've heard, yep, I read the same thing. Everything I read, even in his interviews, he was not a fan of rap music. And I think it just took him a little bit to understand it, maybe because at first he started bringing Tony into rap on his albums. But then, if you remember Jughead, the song Jughead, prince rapped on it. That was like the first time I remember Prince rapping on a song was on know. So it's kind of weird. I didn't mind this. I liked, especially the music. This is one of the first times that I recall when he started doing the Maxi CDs. Remember Maxi CDs? [00:05:26] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:29] Speaker C: For those of you who don't remember. So single releases have taken a trip through the years. Man, when we were growing up, back. [00:05:38] Speaker B: In 1955, in my day. [00:05:43] Speaker C: Songs were on the little 45s on vinyl, and you got one song per side, and that was a single. Most of the time, the song on the B side was if there was an album out, it would have been another song off that album that they didn't plan on releasing as a single. They then started trying to sell more singles. They then started putting the B sides on there, which would be unique songs that you could not get on the album to try to help also promote the sales of the singles. Because the only way to get that song is buy the single. It's not on the album, then cassettes came out and they would make cassette singles. Same principle. You'd get both songs on both sides, or maybe one song on each side of the cassette. Then you'd get the extended versions. When extended versions started coming out, the twelve inch versions, you would get more music on that because you would then get that same song, but instead of it being four minute song, it'd be eight to ten. They'd remix it, you'd get different things. And then CDs happened and CDs started creating the maxi singles, the huge singles. And Prince took advantage of that by doing, like, multiple mixes of the song. And, I mean, not just mixes, but he would create whole different songs based on that single. So when you bought the cream maxi single, it had like six different songs, unique songs, but they were still based off of cream, if that makes sense. [00:07:25] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:07:26] Speaker C: Do you remember that? [00:07:27] Speaker B: I remember this. [00:07:31] Speaker C: I remember buying the Cream maxi single and I had. Or even get off. I think get off was first. [00:07:38] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:07:39] Speaker C: Remember that? And he had Gangster Glam and you had all this stuff anyway, so I remember this. That's all I'm trying to say. I said all of that so I can say, I remember when this single. [00:07:52] Speaker B: Came out, you were very long winded today. [00:07:57] Speaker C: Go ahead, take a drink. [00:07:58] Speaker B: Excuse me. [00:07:59] Speaker C: You feel better? Me and my RC. [00:08:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:07] Speaker C: So you weren't really a fan? [00:08:10] Speaker B: No. [00:08:11] Speaker C: So this came. When did this come out? This came out because it was around diamonds of her. [00:08:16] Speaker B: Oh. [00:08:17] Speaker C: It said recording in 1991 and released in 1991. [00:08:25] Speaker B: So. Yeah. [00:08:27] Speaker C: And this was also, I believe. Wasn't this his first album with the new Power Generation? So this is like his second band now? [00:08:44] Speaker B: Correct. [00:08:45] Speaker C: And as popular as the revolution was and as big as they were and did some of his biggest hits, the new power generation, I think he was with longer time wise, even though the personnel changed through the years, he was huge on the new power generation. Yeah, go ahead, talk to me. [00:09:08] Speaker B: I'm more of a revolution guy. [00:09:10] Speaker C: I think all the classic people are. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Loved it, man. [00:09:14] Speaker C: The revolution was. [00:09:15] Speaker B: He changed to me when he went with the new power generation, it changed a lot. [00:09:25] Speaker C: Well, he always changed, though. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. [00:09:28] Speaker C: And no matter how you look at it. Yes. Who he was with influenced and impacted the music he wrote. It was easy to see that. However, it was still Prince. He was still the band leader through everything. [00:09:42] Speaker B: Right. [00:09:44] Speaker C: But each person he brought in would bring something new to him that he might not have been exposed to otherwise. So, I mean, it was cool to see how everything evolved, right? In my opinion. I'll give you Tony. [00:10:02] Speaker B: Sure. He's a nice guy. [00:10:03] Speaker C: I'm sure he is. And like I said, I like the way his rat flowed. I had no problem with this. When you look at, you can see he did the cream MPG mix. He did. Things have got to change. Get some solo. Do your dance house bangers. These were all cream based songs that were on this maxi single, so I thought that was kind of interesting. [00:10:32] Speaker B: The get off maxi single was way better. [00:10:37] Speaker C: Think so? [00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:38] Speaker C: I guess we'll discuss that when we. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Hit the G. We will. Because we're talking about all these other songs. [00:10:44] Speaker C: Why you keep bringing all this stuff up? [00:10:46] Speaker B: I don't know, man. [00:10:47] Speaker C: What are we talking about? What's that say? [00:10:49] Speaker B: Our producer is saying, let's wrap it up. Yeah, wrap it up. [00:10:56] Speaker C: Always blaming the producer. Anyway, it was a B side. Technically, it would be classified. [00:11:04] Speaker B: Very B side. Very B. [00:11:07] Speaker C: So what are you saying? It was like a C or D side? [00:11:09] Speaker B: No, just A. Very B. Very low grade B. It's like the worst of. [00:11:19] Speaker C: If you took Tony's voice out of it, would you like it if we. [00:11:22] Speaker B: Put TC in there? Oh, man, that would. [00:11:24] Speaker C: So it's not the song. So you can't say it's not the song. [00:11:27] Speaker B: It's him. Not him. [00:11:29] Speaker C: It's his. Just don't attack Tony. [00:11:32] Speaker B: No, I'm not. I don't want to talk about Man Tony. [00:11:35] Speaker C: If you ever watch this dude, he. [00:11:37] Speaker B: Knows where I live. He knows where I live, man. [00:11:40] Speaker C: Well, next time you have dinner with Tim, let him know. [00:11:43] Speaker B: Yeah, we're cool. [00:11:47] Speaker C: So, yeah, first B side we talked about. So now we've kind of hit them. All, right. We've hit. No, we haven't even hit a major release yet. [00:11:57] Speaker B: No, we have not. [00:11:58] Speaker C: What the hell? [00:11:59] Speaker B: We are slow poking right now. [00:12:00] Speaker C: We are slow poking. So anyway, we're not going to do it if we keep rapping. So we're going to end this episode on to the Wire. Creamy instrumental. [00:12:09] Speaker B: I'm complaining about his rap. I mean, creamy instrumental. I mean, is it really just an instrumental? Is he not rapping? [00:12:17] Speaker C: No, because Tony, he does like take. [00:12:19] Speaker B: It to the Y. Yeah. Okay, so I thought so I don't remembered myself. [00:12:26] Speaker C: It's not like lyrically explosive, but he does talk. [00:12:31] Speaker B: But it isn't just. [00:12:33] Speaker C: Not just music. [00:12:34] Speaker B: Okay, that's cool. [00:12:36] Speaker C: But anyway, again, if you got more information, want to share anything, let us know if we're wrong. Let us know if he's wrong about Tony. Let him know. [00:12:45] Speaker B: Let me know. [00:12:46] Speaker C: Yeah. On that note, I think we're going to hit it right? We're going to be out of here. [00:12:51] Speaker B: We're out of here. [00:12:52] Speaker C: All right? Till next time. Peace. [00:12:54] Speaker B: Peace. [00:12:56] Speaker C: All right. Tony's going to kick your ass.