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“When Doves Cry” (1984) by Prince and The Revolution

29 Friday Apr 2016

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486px-Prince-when-doves-cryLUMPENPROLETARIAT—Dig, if you will, a picture of you and I engaged in a kiss…

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“When Doves Cry” by Prince and The Revolution

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“When Doves Cry” dominated the consciousness, or the proverbial id, of the USA for a hot minute.

The song was #1 in the U.S. for five weeks, from July 7, 1984 to August 4, 1984, keeping Bruce Springsteen‘s “Dancing in the Dark“, from reaching the top spot. “When Doves Cry” was voted as the best single of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics’ poll. Billboard ranked it as the #1 single of 1984. In 2016, after Prince’s death, “When Doves Cry” re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 20.

The B-side was the cult fan favorite “17 Days“, which was originally intended for Apollonia 6‘s self-titled album. A 12-inch single issued in the UK included the album track, “17 Days”, and two tracks from Prince’s previous album, 1999, namely the title track and “D.M.S.R.” The entire title, “17 Days (the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose, if U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose)”, is now the longest titled flipside of a Hot 100 #1, with 85 letters and/or numbers.

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[3 MAY 2016]

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“Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” (1980) by Prince

28 Thursday Apr 2016

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PrinceWhyYouWannaTreatMeSoBadLUMPENPROLETARIAT—Why you wanna treat me so bad when you know I love you?

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“Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” (1980) by Prince [1] [skip to c. 3:36 to bypass muted portion] [censored by a capitalist motive as of 00:40 PDT 2 MAY 2016]

There’s some talk going ’round town
That you really don’t give a damn
They say you really put me down
When I’m doing the best I can
I gave you all of my love
I even gave you my body
Tell me, baby, ain’t that enough?
What more do you want me to do?
I play the fool when we’re together
But I cry when we’re apart, yeah
I couldn’t do you no better
Don’t break what’s left of my broken heart, baby

Why you wanna treat me so bad
When you know I love you?
How can you do this to me
When you know I care?
Why you wanna treat me so bad
When you know I love you?

You know, I try so hard
To keep you satisfied
Sometimes you play the part
Sometimes you’re so full of pride
And if it’s still good to ya
Why you wanna treat me so bad?
You used to love it when I’d do you
You used to say I was the best you’d ever had

I play the fool when we’re together
I give you everything I can, yeah
And if it’s still good to ya
There’s something that I can’t understand

Songwriters:  ROGERS NELSON, PRINCE

“Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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[1]  “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” (recorded in 1979; released in 1980) is the U.S. follow-up single to Prince‘s first big hit, “I Wanna Be Your Lover” (1979).  It is also Prince’s first rock and roll-inspired single release.  It did not make the Top 40 of the charts, although it did reach #13 on the R&B Singles charts.  The lyrics are self-explanatory from the title, and deal with a cruel lover.  The song prominently features guitar and bass, with the keyboard featured in a less prominent role.  A highlight of the song is a soaring guitar solo at the end, played by Prince, himself.

The song was played live on Prince’s first three tours, always being the second number.  The extended lyrics on the live version continue the main theme, although, later on the Dirty Mind tour, these were replaced by screaming “bitch!” and following this with a blazing guitar solo.  The B-side of the song was “Baby” (from For You) in the U.S. and “Bambi” in New Zealand.

Prince’s music has not been as freely available online as that of others.  You can’t blame an artist for protecting one’s livelihood.  (Of course, online scrubbing of Prince content may change posthumously, as Prince’s estate shifts hands and his body of work progresses toward the public domain.  Although, as of 2 MAY 2016, 00:38 PDT, this video has been censored from public view.  The capitalist swine somehow controlling Prince’s body of work must get paid with the currency of choice before the people’s humanity may benefit from this life-affirming human expression.  All apologies.  In the words of Christopher Tracy:  We had fun, didn’t we?)

But we can hear (prior to 2 MAY 2016) most of this 1979 televised American Bandstand broadcast, including “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?”  The first song, “I Wanna Be Your Lover”, which was Prince’s first big hit, is muted from minute 0:54 to 3:36.  But you can hear a brief interview with self-described 19-year old Prince (actually aged 21) admitting to refusing record deals from different record labels since he was 15 years old because they wouldn’t allow him artistic control of his musical recordings.  Indeed, Prince initially experienced record company bidding wars over the opportunity to exploit him.  Price refused.

Unlike most recording artists (and their profit-driven, capitalistic, record companies), who seem to have long-surrendered, at least tacitly, their copyrights to video sites, such as YouTube, when it comes to Prince, you’ll have to go out and purchase a copy of the music to listen to the artist’s brilliant work, unless your local library has some Prince recordings you can check out.  I wish I could share with you all of my favourite Prince songs because they have been so meaningful over so many years for so many of us.  But a few archival clips must suffice.  At least, here, in this American Bandstand broadcast, Prince was forced to lip synch, so we can hear the album version of “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?”

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Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History (2013) by Dr. Suzanne Humphries & Roman Bystrianik

27 Wednesday Apr 2016

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400px-VaccineLUMPENPROLETARIAT—On today’s episode of free speech radio’s Guns and Butter, host Bonnie Faulkner continued her conversation from the last two weekly hour-long broadcasts with Dr. Suzanne Humphries, this time joined by Roman Bystrianik (co-author of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History) to discuss further questions surrounding vaccines, their efficacy, the pros and cons, and compulsory state vaccination of individuals.  Listen (or download) here. [1]

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[Working draft transcript of actual radio broadcast by Messina for Lumpenproletariat and Guns and Butter]

Guns_and_butter_logoGUNS AND BUTTER—[27 APR 2016]  “This is Guns and Butter.  [intro theme plays]

DR. SUZANNE HUMPHRIES:  “The history of polio is very dark.  It’s very strange.  And it really began the beginning of the vaccine religion in the United States, as far as I’m concerned, because, once the public supported the polio campaign, all vaccines kind of followed.”

BONNIE FAULKNER:  “I’m Bonnie Faulkner.  Today on Guns and Butter:  Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianik.  Today’s show:  ‘Dissolving Illusions: Vaccinations, Past and Present‘.

“Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianik are co-authors of Dissolving Illusions:  Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History.

“Dr. Suzanne Humphries is a medical doctor, internist, and board-certified nephrologist, currently in private practice.  Roman Bystrianik is a medical researcher and author.

“Currently, the California legislature is fast-tracking two vaccine senate bills.  SB 277 will eliminate the personal belief and religious exemptions from vaccinations required for children to attend public and private school.  SB 792 will require CDC-prescribed adult immunisation of child care workers, with the exception of flu vaccine.

“Today, we review some of the history of disease and vaccination covered in Dissolving Illusions:  Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History.

“Dr. Suzanne Humphries, thank you for joining me, again.”  (c. 2:06)

DR. SUZANNE HUMPHRIES:  “Thank you for having me back, Bonnie.”

BONNIE FAULKNER:  “And, Roman Bystrianik, thank you for joining us.”

ROMAN BYSTRIANIK:  “Thank you for having us.”

BONNIE FAULKNER:  “You are co-authors of the book, Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History.  How did the two of you come together to write this—shall we call it—history of disease and the practice of vaccination?  Dr. Humphries, let’s start with you.”

DR. SUZANNE HUMPHRIES:  “Well, I think it all started when Roman heard me on Gary Null’s show when I was floundering in my very early months trying to talk about polio because early on I realised that polio and smallpox were the two things, that were tossed at me whenever somebody had a doubt about what I was saying about flu shots to my sick patients.

“So, I went deep into polio, thinking:  Polio is still in the consciousness of people today.  So, let me go with polio.

“And, to me, smallpox was really interesting.  But it was so long ago.  So, I really focused on polio.  And Roman, meanwhile, had been focusing on smallpox.

“So, he heard me on Gary Null talking about polio; and he said: Ha! That’s the person I need to write my book with.  [SNIP].”

BONNIE FAULKNER:  “And, so, how about you, Roman?”  (c. 3:40)

[SNIP]  (c. 59:59)

Learn more at GUNS AND BUTTER.

[This transcript will be expanded as time constraints, and/or demand or resources, allow.]

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ALSO SEE THESE RELATED ARTICLES:

  • “Why De Niro is backing the MMR doctor hounded out of Britain […]” by Tom Leonard, The Daily Mail, 22 APR 2016
  • Guns and Butter, 20 APR 2016:  “Dr. Suzanne Humphries: Challenging Conventional Thinking About Vaccination”, Lumpenproletariat.
  • Guns and Butter, 13 APR 2016: “Dr. Suzanne Humphries: Honesty Versus Policy: Vaccines and the Medical System”, Messina, Lumpenproletariat.

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[1]  Terrestrial hour-long radio transmission, 94.1 FM (KPFA, Berkeley, CA) with online simulcast and digital archiving:  Guns and Butter, this episode hosted by Bonnie Faulkner, Wednesday, 27 APR 2016, 13:00 PDT.

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