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derim said: Wow... I mean... after "purple&gold" here we have another gem!
GODDAMN!! In Italian I'd say: "Bella,bella... bella merda!" Unhappy... as usual in the last 6 years! Google translator isn't perfect so does that really mean in English: Beautiful, beautiful ... shitheap?  I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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luv4u said: Hero0101 said: Listening a second time...Prince always demands multiple listens for me to judge it accurately.
=0P Me too  With out question ...you need at least 3 plays of any Prince song to get into it...one thing he does is put alot (maybe too much) into his music...and his lyrics always have hidden messages I did not like the start of the song on first play ...liked the music but lyrics did seem all over the place in my view...  Da, Da, Da....Emancipation....Free..don't think I ain't..! London 21 Nights...Clap your hands...you know the rest..
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luv4u said: TwiliteKid said: This song will NEVER be played live. I guarantee it.
Of course Prince will play it live. And it might just sound even better. You want to bet? | |
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NeoGeo24bit said: It was definitely embarrassing to hear so many great songs on The Current (Sloop John B!) and then hear this dreck from Prince, a rock 'n roll hall of famer. they played this earlier this morning: and here i was, hoping the prince songs might be even half as good.  and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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Dang!!! Not diggin it!!!
It's probably slamming live just from sheer volume and energy but I'm not feeling this. Lately he's been singing in this nasal tenor and cramming alot of lyrics into small timing.  "If you wanted to buy a Sam Cooke album, where would you go?" | |
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RakelRosalita729 said: I did WHAT was it??!!  Just played it back and its: "I am a washed up rock star and this is all I got. Oh and I hate all my fams" | |
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IstenSzek said: NeoGeo24bit said: It was definitely embarrassing to hear so many great songs on The Current (Sloop John B!) and then hear this dreck from Prince, a rock 'n roll hall of famer. they played this earlier this morning: and here i was, hoping the prince songs might be even half as good. Prince does not have it in him to write a song of that quality. Sad but true. Prince's day is done. | |
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IstenSzek said: NeoGeo24bit said: It was definitely embarrassing to hear so many great songs on The Current (Sloop John B!) and then hear this dreck from Prince, a rock 'n roll hall of famer. they played this earlier this morning: and here i was, hoping the prince songs might be even half as good. i love you for putting this up, however it just makes me more depressed, P really is running on empty!, empty of ideas, empty of pride etc. | |
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I like this song  | |
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Holy shit, the verse sounds like "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton! Studies have shown the ass crack of the average Prince fan to be abnormally large. This explains the ease and frequency of their panties bunching up in it. |
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TwiliteKid said: luv4u said: Of course Prince will play it live. And it might just sound even better. You want to bet? Depends what the bet is  
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Hmm... several people here like the music but aren't digging the lyrics. I'm the other way around, I guess. in the end, it's an OK song -- nothing great, but nothing horrible. 
the most interesting thing about this song is... why? The subject matter seems so... random. I wonder why he'd give us this sort of retrospective/prescriptive take on life right now? I wonder what's precipitated this. [Edited 2/26/10 6:28am] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Why couldn't he give The Current a nice, clean copy of the studio version of Empty Room... preferably a newer studio version with a killer guitar solo... not the video version with Mayte. Or damn, give them a studio copy of Cosmic Day and tell them it was new. | |
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IstenSzek said: it doesn't really remind me of a prince song all that much anymore,
it's more like 'just another rock song'. the guitar playing is fine but it's starting to sound like a hair metal band at this point. the guitar fierceness and tightness reached an ultimate form on a few of the lotusflow3r tracks but now it's starting to be like ehm well like it's just guitar madness for the sake of madness. whole lotta screamin' goin on with little substance. don't get me wrong, i love the lotusflow3r title disc to death and play it almost every day. but i could take of leave this tune. like "purple and gold" i feel no need to even track this down or to add it to my folder. didn't download "purple and gold" at all and the same will probably go for this. that's an alarming trent to me, i'm not used to that. usually i'm super excited about new prince music. i even like the songs that most people piss on. but this is just veering into a very weird direction. I'm surprised you say that - its your opinion, of course and I respect that, but I had expected you to like this. To me, it was great = particularly the lead breaks - and I wouldn't say its starting to sound metal....its more progressive rock, a la LF - its dark, heavy, psychedelic and floating over a deep middle-eastern inspired string riff. That's classic space/psychedelic/progressive rock! I happen to love the genre, so maybe I'm feeling this track more than most! I've got no problem with the lyrics and I'm one who can't stand the preaching. But, have people really had time to digest the lyrics yet? Probably not - but this is Prince talking about regrets, its unusually open. Particularly the line about wishing he could "Leave a note, you know one like husbands and fathers wrote" - to me, that's him regretting not being married and being a father....quite touching. However, as always, he is defiant because he has his beliefs and he isn't the "subject" of anyone else - meaning, in part, a lot of the shit that's typed about him round here has no meaning to him. You gotta love that FU attitude, whilst still maintaining a compassionate outlook. Oh, and yes, distracting us from the court case!! Lol - however, COULD he really have timed the airing of this track so precisely to "cover up" the news (which, is readily available anyway, so its not really a distraction, is it? Its not like you'd miss it!) ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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MrSquirrel edited: RakelRosalita729 said: I did WHAT was it??!! Just played it back and its: "Cut tracks just make you smaller" i think. | |
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Mars23 said: Holy shit, the verse sounds like "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton!
 Quit trying to force me to listen to it!  I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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NouveauDance said: SPOOKYGAS said: Come on dude...what U heard it once and that was it U critique it on the spot WTF...is this some kind of Anti Prince site or what? It's a first impression, end of story. If my opinion on the song changes at any time in the future, I hearby give you the express and sole right to drag me out into the street dressed as Sheena Easton in the Sugar Walls video and flog me until I beg forgiveness. U dressed or me dressed as Sheena E? That girl has had half of Central Scotland up its minge so not so appealing an image. |
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TwiliteKid said: luv4u said: Of course Prince will play it live. And it might just sound even better. You want to bet? yeah, just like he would never play In a large room w/no light or WHen I lay my hands on U live....sure...go ahead bet him--- Stand Up! Everybody, this is your life!
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IstenSzek said: "cause and effect"
i am here. where are you? ladies and gentlemen..... cause and effect hey, hey, hey if had the chance to do it all again i wouldn't change a thing, except my next of kin there's something on the tip of my tongue -got a taste for sin but if you stamp your passport full of regret you have nothing to remember but a lot to forget leave no enemies, leave no dead made in the image of god and the lamb to no other man am i the subject i am what i am because & effect cause & effect hey, hey, hey if i could talk to myself again right now i'd say 'son you might wanna stick around something amazing is about to go down' if i could leave myself just 1 little note one that husbands and fathers wrote it'd say 'you need to be a superstar or grow up, but not both' made in the image of god and the lamb to no other man am i the subject i am what i am because & effect cause & effect hey, hey, he cause and effect ladies and gentlemen rock/roll rock/roll i am here. where are you? ooooh oooh. haha. hey eh heh oh hoh don't let them say your paper's worth more than gold i see a generation lay down before they get old and getting endlessly sold you need compassion for one another righter than wrong that's what needs to be at the heart of every past and future soul song made in the image of god and the lamb to no other man am i the subject i am what i am because & effect cause & effect hey, hey, he look at y'all. brains splattered all over...moneyapolis ladies and gentlemen rock/roll rock/roll .. [Edited 2/26/10 6:03am] Thanks Very much just what i need before i play the track again ....now the lyrics don't seem so bad at all.... lots of hidden meaning....that's our Prince... Da, Da, Da....Emancipation....Free..don't think I ain't..! London 21 Nights...Clap your hands...you know the rest..
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Love33 said: IstenSzek said: "cause and effect"
i am here. where are you? ladies and gentlemen..... cause and effect hey, hey, hey if had the chance to do it all again i would change a thing, except my next of kin there's something on the tip of my tongue -got a taste for sin if you stamp your passport full of regret you have nothing to remember but a lot to forget leave no enemies, leave no dead made in the image of god and the lamb to no other man am i the subject i am what i am because & effect cause & effect hey, hey, hey i could talk to myself again right now i say 'son you might wanna stick around something amazing is about to go down' if i could leave myself just 1 little note one that husbands and fathers wrote it say 'you need to be a superstar or grow up, but not both' made in the image of god and the lamb to no other man am i the subject i am what i am because & effect cause & effect hey, hey, he cause and effect ladies and gentlemen rock/roll rock/roll i am here. where are you? ooooh oooh. haha. hey eh heh oh hoh don't let them say your paper's worth more than gold i see a generation lay down before they get old and getting endlessly sold you need compassion for one another righter than wrong that's what needs to be at the heart of every past and future soul song made in the image of god and the lamb to no other man am i the subject i am what i am because & effect cause & effect hey, hey, he look at y'all. brains splattered all over...moneyapolis ladies and gentlemen rock/roll rock/roll Interesting lyrics; quite soul-searching! Guitar on fire! This song played live, especially in an arena/stadium setting will be truly aaaawesome  I REALLY LIKE THIS SONG. HE IS RITE ON POINT. GUITAR IS SLAMMING. LYRICS.....OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!! HE SO FAR BEFORE HIS TIME. (IT'S ALL ABOUT THE WORDS) [b] U R NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE NOR R U PERFECT!! | |
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Lammastide said: Hmm... several people here like the music but aren't digging the lyrics. I'm the other way around, I guess. in the end, it's an OK song -- nothing great, but nothing horrible.
the most interesting thing about this song is... why? The subject matter seems so... random. I wonder why he'd give us this sort of retrospective/prescriptive take on life right now? [Edited 2/26/10 6:23am] Im diggin the lyrics. Lot of folks on here hate it when he trys to put any straight up biblical references in his lyrics, offensive to some of them or awkward maybe. But yeah, im diggin the lyrics. Stand Up! Everybody, this is your life!
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Mindflux said: I've got no problem with the lyrics and I'm one who can't stand the preaching. But, have people really had time to digest the lyrics yet? Probably not - but this is Prince talking about regrets, its unusually open. Particularly the line about wishing he could "Leave a note, you know one like husbands and fathers wrote" - to me, that's him regretting not being married and being a father....quite touching. i agree with you there. i don't have a problem with his 'preachy' lyrics at all if the songs are strong. stuff like "the word" or "lion of judah" are songs i simply like and i don't care about the lyrics at all. even though 90% of the time the lyrics in songs are very important to me. but backed by good music, lyrics can fit a certain mood, no matter if they are full of curse words or full of deep religious belief. some of the lines in this songs are very interesting. i just wish they would have popped up in something more special, lol. but hey, i'm glad a lot of folks seem to like it. we can't all like the same thing. it's not like i have personal beef with prince because i'm not feeling his current song or anything. i'm just a bit bland faced at the moment because i was hoping for something nice to listen to over and over again. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: cause and effect
"if i could talk to myself again right now" Thanks for the transcription, IstenSzek. But I think I heard this line as such: "if i could talk to myself back then right now" What do you think. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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I think the last line of the first verse is "Leave no enemies, leave no debt" - makes more sense that way too. ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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Thanks Very much just what i need before i play the track again ....now the lyrics don't seem so bad at all.... lots of hidden meaning....that's our Prince... [/quote]
----- indeed, the lyrics are really good and deep in my opinion. I have to listen to the music again, but I liked it at the first listen | |
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SPOOKYGAS said: NouveauDance said: It's a first impression, end of story. If my opinion on the song changes at any time in the future, I hearby give you the express and sole right to drag me out into the street dressed as Sheena Easton in the Sugar Walls video and flog me until I beg forgiveness. U dressed or me dressed as Sheena E? That girl has had half of Central Scotland up its minge so not so appealing an image. I was thinking me, but we can both do it if you like. I'm pretty sure it won't come to that though!  | |
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I also like the lyrics more than the actual song.
I'm feeling a lot like I did when C&D first came out - a mix of satisfaction that he was going a dirty rock route with disappointment that he couldn't go it all the way and had to mix in cheesy synths and bells and whistles.Both end up sounding a little embarrassing and make you squirm a bit. But I've always liked C&D more than most, so that mayhappen here too... "We've never been able to pull off a funk number"
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