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Thread started 03/22/15 1:54pm

bobzilla77

Mazarati - Least Rewarding Prince Association Ever?

I was unfamiliar with this group until I started getting into the outtakes. Man, those are some of the big stinkers of the collection! Incredible to hear how flat Kiss could have been in hands like theirs. Jerk Out is a hopping track but it's like the singer was so impressed with the track he forgot to put anything good of his own on it.

I just heard their version of 100MPH, which is OK but no a patch on Prince's.

Am I overlooking something great there or was this one of the least rewarding P related projects of all time?

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Reply #1 posted 03/22/15 2:44pm

Doozer

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I think plenty others have Mazarati beat by a mile. Start with Three O'Clock. Take a left turn at TC Ellis and go straight to Dale.
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Reply #2 posted 03/22/15 2:53pm

SoulAlive

Mazarati is one of the BEST albums that was ever released on Paisley Park Records.

"Stroke","Player's Ball","Suzy","She's Just That Type Of Lady","100 MPH"....Minneapolis funk at its best!! When this album was released,Prince was abandoning this type of funk on his own albums,so I was thrilled to see Mazarati keeping the Minneapolis sound alive.

"I Guess It's All Over" is an intoxicating slow jam...love that bass!

I enjoy this album more than The Family boxed

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Reply #3 posted 03/22/15 2:56pm

SoulAlive

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Reply #4 posted 03/22/15 3:04pm

thedance

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imho... the worst Prince related act is..:

the boyband Good Question....

http://www.discogs.com/Go...ase/458911

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Reply #5 posted 03/22/15 3:05pm

thedance

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Or... Carmen Electra.... neutral

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Reply #6 posted 03/22/15 3:27pm

Poplife88

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I really like that album. It's one of the better Paisley acts imo. Carmen Electra is the worst.
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Reply #7 posted 03/22/15 5:28pm

bobzilla77

It's not fair for me to judge them based on studio outtakes. I will investigate further.

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Reply #8 posted 03/22/15 7:57pm

babynoz

bobzilla77 said:

It's not fair for me to judge them based on studio outtakes. I will investigate further.



What I've heard from them makes me never want to hear anything else from them ever....I hope they were deported, lol

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Reply #9 posted 03/23/15 12:05pm

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thedance said:

imho... the worst Prince related act is..:

the boyband Good Question....

http://www.discogs.com/Go...ase/458911

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That or that reggae act that never got their record released because PPR folded.

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Reply #10 posted 03/23/15 3:46pm

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I like Mazarati's first album too. It's good, hard synth-funk with lots of rock guitar. Of all the Paisley Park releases I've heard, I agree Good Question might be at the bottom. I haven't heard T.C. Ellis' album yet.

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Reply #11 posted 03/23/15 10:33pm

SoulAlive

nod I think it's an 80s funk masterpiece.It deserved much more attention than it got.

sexton said:

I like Mazarati's first album too. It's good, hard synth-funk with lots of rock guitar.

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Reply #12 posted 03/24/15 7:43am

JoshuaWho

thedance said:

imho... the worst Prince related act is..:

the boyband Good Question....

http://www.discogs.com/Go...ase/458911

Is it really a Prince related act if he didnt work on the music? My understanding is that they only recorded an album on Prince's label.

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Reply #13 posted 03/24/15 2:01pm

NouveauDance

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You're overlooking their album which is one of the best things released on Paisley Park, that's what you're overlooking. mad

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Reply #14 posted 03/26/15 5:16am

databank

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bobzilla77 said:

I was unfamiliar with this group until I started getting into the outtakes. Man, those are some of the big stinkers of the collection! Incredible to hear how flat Kiss could have been in hands like theirs. Jerk Out is a hopping track but it's like the singer was so impressed with the track he forgot to put anything good of his own on it.

I just heard their version of 100MPH, which is OK but no a patch on Prince's.

Am I overlooking something great there or was this one of the least rewarding P related projects of all time?

You are basically jusging a band based on 3 songs, one that was rejected, most likely because they felt it wasn't good enough, and that was later turned to a piece of genius by The Time, one that was turned into a piece of genius by Prince when he finalized it, and one single song from the album (on which they don't play much given that they've used P's basic tracks), and then after comparing outtakes to later, finalized versions and hearing a song they almost didn't record at all, you come-up with an opinion on that band.

How more nonsensical can you be? Surprise me!

For your information Mazarati released 2 full-lenght albums, the first one being considered a classic masterpiece of the Mpls sound era by most of those who have it, and the other being a very respectable funk record even though it was less impressive than the first. You are not entitled to have an opinion on them until you've heard both those records in full.

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Reply #15 posted 03/26/15 9:45am

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I would argue that Mazarati was the last good Paisley Park LP. NOTHING Released afterward was even worth releasing. Like mentioned before TC Ellis was one of the worst LPs ever realesed in the history of music itself. I have never heard theor 2nd joint outside of sage of a man. But The 1st one is an outstanding body of funky work.

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Reply #16 posted 03/26/15 10:29am

BigChick

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NouveauDance said:

You're overlooking their album which is one of the best things released on Paisley Park, that's what you're overlooking. mad

Preach !

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Reply #17 posted 03/26/15 10:32am

BigChick

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BartVanHemelen said:

thedance said:

imho... the worst Prince related act is..:

the boyband Good Question....

http://www.discogs.com/Go...ase/458911

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That or that reggae act that never got their record released because PPR folded.

That Belize record was so non-eventful muscially. I dont know what someone at PP was thinking with that project.

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Reply #18 posted 03/26/15 10:34am

sexton

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DecaturStone said:

I would argue that Mazarati was the last good Paisley Park LP. NOTHING Released afterward was even worth releasing. Like mentioned before TC Ellis was one of the worst LPs ever realesed in the history of music itself. I have never heard theor 2nd joint outside of sage of a man. But The 1st one is an outstanding body of funky work.


You don't like the Madhouse albums? Or Jill Jones? Mavis Staples? My favorite non-Prince Paisley Park release came out in 1990--The Time's Pandemonium.

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Reply #19 posted 03/26/15 1:48pm

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DecaturStone said:

I would argue that Mazarati was the last good Paisley Park LP. NOTHING Released afterward was even worth releasing. Like mentioned before TC Ellis was one of the worst LPs ever realesed in the history of music itself. I have never heard theor 2nd joint outside of sage of a man. But The 1st one is an outstanding body of funky work.

Ouch! biggrin And I can't even argue. Though Carmen Electra and Mayte may have TC beat as worst of al time.

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Reply #20 posted 03/26/15 3:46pm

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The best on Paisley Park even more than The Family and Sheila E and I love
E.
Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint
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Reply #21 posted 03/26/15 6:35pm

woogiebear

Mazarati's Album is a GEM in the hot ass mess that was Paisley Park!!! Prince was right tho' 4 pullin' Kiss & Jerk Out!!!!

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Reply #22 posted 04/02/15 6:49am

Graycap23

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phunkdaddy said:

The best on Paisley Park even more than The Family and Sheila E and I love E.

I'd throw Eric Leeds Time Squared into that mix.

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Reply #23 posted 04/02/15 11:13am

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Love this album. Stroke and Stawberry Lover. Gems.

PP top 3.....

Sheila e - Sheila e

The Family

Jill Jones

PP bottom 3.....

Good Question

TC Ellis

Carmen Electra

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Reply #24 posted 04/11/15 6:24pm

CharismaDove

They were funky as FUCK. Their Paisley album blows me away still, it's where Prince probably would have gone had he not gone into psychedelia instead (he plays on some of the songs though, supposedly)

I think the only thing that held them back was Sir Casey Terry's voice... goddamn, the man can't sing to save his life, and sounds horrible trying.

Maybe eye do, just not like eye did before pimp2
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Reply #25 posted 04/12/15 7:41am

OldFriends4Sal
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CharismaDove said:

They were funky as FUCK. Their Paisley album blows me away still, it's where Prince probably would have gone had he not gone into psychedelia instead (he plays on some of the songs though, supposedly)

I think the only thing that held them back was Sir Casey Terry's voice... goddamn, the man can't sing to save his life, and sounds horrible trying.

I enjoyed their period in the camp. Another casualty of the Revolution break.

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It was cool that Sheila E/Eddie M. and BrownMark and some Revolution members would join them

on stage sometimes.
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Sir Casey Terry, I wonder who his (non-falsetto) voice sounds. Because it was too weak. He had the energy definately, almost like Cat. But I think Terry Christian() guitarist might have been a better lead

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Reply #26 posted 04/13/15 9:01pm

phunkdaddy

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woogiebear said:

Mazarati's Album is a GEM in the hot ass mess that was Paisley Park!!! Prince was right tho' 4 pullin' Kiss & Jerk Out!!!!

cool

Mazarati was too hard for Kiss. Bad fit.

Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint
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Reply #27 posted 04/13/15 10:34pm

SoulAlive

"She's Just That Kind Of Lady" should have been a single headbang That song is a JAM...my favorite track on the album.To me,this sounds like a Time song,including Sir Casey Terry's vocals which remind me of Morris Day.

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