Ep029: Prince and The Story of The Black Album + Listener Email
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Black Album is a mysterious album in the Prince catalog, originally recorded, mastered, duplicated then cancelled with all but a handful of copies destroyed. Today we share the story of the LP, the theories about Prince's change of mind & more. Plus we answer listener email, talk about rap / hip-hop records and more talk about the Iron Maiden episode on The Soundhouse Tapes.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey there, record fans and vinyl collectors, the Vinyl Guide podcast is back this week. |
| 0:05.5 | And in today's episode, we are going to pay tribute to the legend of Prince and discuss one of the most mysterious, one of the most rare, one of the most valuable Prince LPs on the market, the Black album. |
| 0:16.9 | It's a record that's shrouded in secrecy, and the Purple One made it and then withdrew it from the market with as few as a hundred copies getting free before the recall. |
| 0:25.6 | Now this week we'll talk all about prints and I'll answer some listener email, and it's all thanks to the vinyl guide sponsor as the record turns.com. |
| 0:33.6 | As the record turns only deals in original issue vinyl. No reissues at all. So if you have a record you've always wanted to add to your collection, go to as the record turns.com or call them direct U.S. Area Code 323, 251, 4895. |
| 0:50.3 | And this week we're also sponsored by Groove washer. You have dirty records, and |
| 0:55.3 | Groove washer will get them clean for you. Protect your stylus and extend your record investment. |
| 1:01.2 | Order Groove washer today by going to groove washer.com. And with that, let's start the show. |
| 1:08.0 | Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. Welcome to the |
| 1:12.5 | vinyl guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. Here's your host, the biggest record |
| 1:18.1 | nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. Well, hello, everyone. Welcome back. Thank you for joining us |
| 1:23.6 | today. That's right. I am back. I took a week off to relax a little bit, catch up on some |
| 1:30.2 | work, hang out with the family, recharge the batteries. In general, I just took a swim in Lake Nate. |
| 1:37.3 | It was nice. I'm all relaxed now. So, look, I'm not complaining, but this podcast does require quite a bit of work, and I do need a break here and there. |
| 1:47.2 | And the other week I was watching. |
| 1:49.7 | I watched a show. |
| 1:51.0 | Some of you may watch it, too. |
| 1:52.2 | It's called Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. |
| 1:55.0 | He's the guy used to be from The Daily Show, the British guy. |
| 1:57.6 | He's got his own HBO news satire show that's once a week. And at the end of each |
| 2:03.0 | episode, he'll say something like, that's it for the show. Join us back again next week. And I was |
| 2:10.3 | watching the program the other week. And at the end of the episode where he generally says that, |
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