Ever have one of those nights where you’re sitting in a Japanese fast food curry shop in a suit with a pink tie, contemplating the significance of your life and the things you hold dear when you suddenly discover that the best-selling album of 1989 was Bobby Brown’s Don’t Be Cruel and that fact forces you to doubt everything you ever thought you knew about how you view the world?

No? Just me? Okay then.

Prince
Space (Universal Love Radio Remix)
Space (Universal Love Remix)
Space (Funky Stuff Remix)
Space (Acoustic Remix)
Space (Funky Stuff Dub)
Prince never fills me with doubt. He just fills me with funk. Okay, that came out wrong.

Space was a single off of the Come album, and I would be lying to you if I claimed to know anything about that record outside of what’s on the Wikipedia page. I really need to expand my Prince knowledge. I only own Purple Rain, 1999, a greatest hits and a shitload of singles. I’ve also bought his three most recent albums, two of which (PLECTRUMELCTRUM and HitnRun) are actually really fucking great. I recommend them.

This song is good. We need more intergalactic funk.

Liv Warfield
The Unexpected (Live At Blue Note Tokyo)
Speaking of Prince, Liv Warfield is a Prince protege. You can tell because the cover to her latest album, the amazing The Unexpected, has a purple tinge to it.

Seriously though, Liv is an amazingly powerful singer, and the fact that she’s failed to breakthrough at all is downright criminal. “The Unexpected” is an incredible tune (written by Prince), and this live version taken from the Japanese release of her album really showcases how damn amazing her voice is.

And if this track sounds familiar to you, it’s because Prince recorded his own version for the previously mentioned PLECTRUMELCTRUM album. His version is called “Wow,” which is funny as the chorus of the song is “you can call it the unexpected or you can call it wow.”

I guess she chose to call it unexpected. He chose to call it wow.