Prince
 

Y`know I did a search on him & there`s never been a Prince thread in any forum.Thats just shocking.

I think the fact I had no idea which forum to put him in speaks volumes for his talent. I could have put it in the pop forum , I could have put it in the rap/hip hop forum (As that covers soul & funk).

I could have put it in the Rock forum as I think he`s the most under rated guitarist on the planet and some of his solo piss over some of the more rated rock/metal guitarists whos names usually crop up on any of the 'best guitarists' threads here.

I think the guy was one of the saving graces of mainstream pop in the 80s. Given the choice of having to listen to Thriller & Off The Wall or Purple Rain & Sign O The Times i`d take the Prince albums EVERY time.

Purple Rain was hot sh*t.

never liked princes music though i respect his talent.

Most beautiful girl in the world, subtle.

That darling nickie song ruled...

he's gross. i don't like him. just my opinion, don't get angry

FUCK YEAH! I've been listening to Prince's Purple Rain recently and I cannot BELIEVE that I never took Prince seriously. This guy was bloody brilliant. Why has he been so forgotten by the modern younger music community? You NEVER hear people talking about Prince. This guy, unlike Michael Jackson or whoever, was a real actual artist, and a genius at his craft. I could say so much more but I'll leave it to see if this can generate any interest.

The album Purple Rain is immensely good, get it right now or you're an idiot.

how could anyone not love prince?

Arg, I've given up trying to download Purple Rain - something always seems to go inexplicably wrong. From two different sources on megaupload I've downloaded a .rar file which turned out to be seemingly empty....it's only ever happened to me with that one album.

But yeah, Prince is a great artist and the more I hear of him the more I respect him. Until now I never thought of him as a guitarist.

I've never been able to really get into Prince on that gut level but I definitely respect his talent. There's no doubt the man's a genius. And damn he put on the best Superbowl halftime show I've ever seen.

There are very few pop songs as good as I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man.

I love Purple Rain<3. I can never listen to it around my mom because her friend died in a car accident back in the day, and all her boyfriend would do was play it over and over in the cafeteria :(.

purple rain dvd £3 ftw :love:

they should've had him do the soundtrack to the Dark Knight

I respect Prince and all but that would've been awful.

lol it might have made those 2 and a half hours pass a bit quicker, plus the original Batman soundtrack was nang... ok bad idea

Love Prince. Fantastic guitar player, too.

Prince gets two thumbs up from me as both a recording artist and a musician. He has such an underrated voice, it's almost criminal.

I will repeat myself again-Sign 'o The Times is the 80's best Pop record bar none. A superlative album.

what are everyone's favourite albums? I've only got the two standards (Poiple Rain and Sign) and Batman but apparently that whole late 80's run was brilliant

I like Dirty Mind a lot.

I think the Black album is good too. I think the reason a lot of people were down on it was because they were expecting a bit too much from it.

I bought that one after it was released from the vaults in the 90s. I had heard all kinds crazy stuff about it like it was a forerunner of gangsta rap and whatnot. Needless to say I was really disappointed. It's been years and years since I've listened to it (I have it on cassette if that's any indication) so maybe I should go back and give it another chance.

Yeah...and hopefully without the expectation that it was a "forerunner of gangsta rap" (??)

I liked his casually misogynistic method of courtship in that film, making her take off her clothes before shoving her in a cold lake and pretending to drive off. But that just made her want him more...

What was the name of that rival group? They brought the funk

you can hear alot of hip-hop in Prince actually. His sheer eclecticism the main draw

I never understood that either. Presumably the person who wrote that review was talking about "Bob George".

There's a vast, vast gulf that lies between having some of elements of hip-hop in your music, and being a "forerunner to gangsta rap".

wasn't my implication...:shycouch:

Ok so I'm just starting to get interested in Prince but havent heard him perform many songs. I love When Doves Cry performed by Patti Smith, When you were Mine by Tegan and Sara but I cant see Princes originals on You Tube...well I CAN see them just can't hear them.

Why's that?

some sort of silence order

he is a genius
he can/could play any and all instruments in all of his music
he wrote the music and lyrics to his songs
he performs the songs

too bad no one can hear hin on youtube --

dont know if thats princes wishes or what but i saw that limewire and frostwire supposedly still have his vids available

right. My question to the Prince lovers of MB - which albums are really worth checking NOT including Purple Rain or Sign O' The Times?

dude
theres a bit of choice involved

Prince Disography

1978: For You
1979: Prince
1980: Dirty Mind
1981: Controversy
1982: 1999
1984: Purple Rain
1985: Around the World in a Day
1986: Parade
1987: Sign O' The Times, The Black Album
1988: Lovesexy
1989: Batman
1990: Graffiti Bridge
1991: Diamonds and Pearls
1992: Love Symbol
1993: The Hits/The B-Sides
1994: Come
1995: The Gold Experience
1996: Chaos And Disorder, Emancipation
1997: The Truth
1998: Crystal Ball, New Power Soul
1999: Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic, The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
2000: Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic
2001: The Rainbow Children
2002: One Nite Alone..., One Nite Alone...Live!
2003: N.E.W.S, The Chocolate Invasion, The Slaughterhouse
2004: Musicology
2006: 3121
2007: Planet Earth

choose one? good luck

^^ Not the most helpful post of all time :/.



On the topic of the youtube silence orders, yes, Prince himself is largely behind it according to what I've read. In fact it's been somewhat of a controversial topic. About a year ago Prince decided he was going to sue both ebay and youtube for their failure to filter out unauthorized content.

Well IMO can't really go past Dirty Mind... Personal favourite from the Prince collection.

I was also a fan of Parade.

I think the dude's just massively anti-internet overall, i'm pretty sure he's against his image being used anywhere at all.

thought maybe the entire list would help kick a memory loose for a better than just good recommendation

and no way i could pick just one

he is a genius and he is also a weirdo

funny how that goes together so often

Maybe it's a Jehova's Witness thing.

prince is a jehovahs witness???


Edit: just looked it up

crap

Yep. He converted a couple years ago. He doesn't play a lot of his more sexual songs in concert any more because of it.

ETA: How funny would it be if he came knocking on your door one day with a copy of The Watchtower?

guess thats what happened in 2005 that he didn't put out an album

wonder what happened in 1983?

Haha dude everyone needs a rest every now and again!

you may be right

his girl band Vanity left in 1983

he was at the top of everything for the 1999 album

he still did collaborations

nothing dramatic that i could find