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Reply #30 posted 03/10/10 12:49pm

Cravens

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How about No.14?

Yeah..

I know.

It's shit, and it'll open up a can of "..but I don't count Batman as a real album".
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Reply #31 posted 03/10/10 12:54pm

ronnwinter

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ok now wtf is wrong with u prince nuts ... its never been the 'LOVE' symbol . its not a 'love' symbol its a 'sex' symbol ... gawd princ3 fans are DENSE .. its the two sex signs combined how does that make it a love symbol .. that was the joke u know the one that dint work .. prince wanted everyone to call him the sex symbol but even the prince fans were too stupid to figure it out .. so we got tafka .. rolleyes

so the sex symbol record should becalled my name was prince ... there u go there is your title and as for 'the exodus has begun' shouldnt that be either the first song on the record or changed to 'the exodus just ended'

damn mr. strait edge (yeah right) must have been trippin on that halucination rain when sequencing that slab o space funk ..

yes prince did say every great album should have a great title track or something like that ... so lets call it pimp rag tootsie pop N a cane .. cuz thats what it is called anyway in p round about way in fact its funny how much he emphasized his name on that record then dumped it.

Well...actually...Prince made it VERY WELL known that the symbol had NO pronunciation. And it was mostly DJ's that started the whole "love symbol" name.
So, since DJs are suppose to know their stuff, it just kinda caught on.
Its been called Love Sign, Love Symbol, Androgeny, and I even heard one DJ say that you can decipher the symbol to say "Victor".
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Reply #32 posted 03/10/10 1:27pm

lotusflw3r

On My ipod it's called 'Symbol', simple and to the point and not as embarrassing/sad as Love Symbol.

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Reply #33 posted 03/10/10 1:53pm

MacDaddy

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Graffiti Bridge shouldn't have. lol


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Reply #34 posted 03/10/10 2:16pm

NouveauDance

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billymeade said:

I remember when it was on the charts, it was referred to as "Androgynous"

I remember that too, I think I prefer 'Love Symbol'.

prince works for me. Shhhhhwwwwabing!
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Reply #35 posted 03/10/10 2:17pm

BorisFishpaw

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I've never called it "Love Symbol"... if it has to be given a title, I'd call it
"the symbol album" or just "symbol". In much the same way as "the black
album" is titled, or Led Zeppelin's "four symbols".

Though I often used to call it "shhhhhding" too verbally, back in the day!

Neither "androgenous", "androgeny" or "love symbol" were ever used in any
official capacity (they were just terms coined by reviewers and fans etc.).

I do remember that all the official Warner Bros.internal and trade
communications at the time listed it as just "Prince & the NPG - Symbol".

So "Symbol" or "The Symbol Album" are as close to official titles as it gets.
WB reps always referred to it verbally as "the symbol album", though it was
always just written down as "symbol".

But I agree that if it had to be given an actual song title type name, then
the only logical choice is "3 Chains O' Gold" as that was the video-
album title, as well as the storyline name for the video and album-based first
half of the Act I shows.
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[Edited 3/10/10 14:30pm]
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Reply #36 posted 03/10/10 2:32pm

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KoolEaze said:

I don´t really feel the need to give it a name. And I agree with you, it is not really the best name for that album but hey, if it says so on an official WB single release, then who am I to come up with other names? I wonder what Prince called it back in the day because frankly, WB´s opinion doesn´t have the same weight as the artist´s opinion since Prince himself is the creator of it and maybe he´s not even aware of the fact that the "Peach" sleeve says "Love Symbol".

Three Chains of Gold makes more sense because of the video and the symbol consisting of three parts or chains and because there´s at least a track called Three Chains of Gold.
Prince himself used to say that every album should contain a title track.


Then it should be "My Name is Prince" since the symbol was his name for a while?

I always just called it "the symbol album".
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Reply #37 posted 03/10/10 2:35pm

vainandy

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Since it is an actual symbol and has that horn through it which relates to music, continue to call it symbol but change the spelling to fit in with being musical which would be "Cymbol".
Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #38 posted 03/10/10 2:55pm

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There is a radio station in Australia called Triple J, and they had the same problem giving the album...and his eventual name, a title back when it came out, so they ran a national competition to give the symbol a pronunciation...and the eventual winner became "Dave" lol So...you could call this the "Dave" album.... wink
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Reply #39 posted 03/10/10 3:39pm

KoolEaze

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BorisFishpaw said:

I've never called it "Love Symbol"... if it has to be given a title, I'd call it
"the symbol album" or just "symbol". In much the same way as "the black
album" is titled, or Led Zeppelin's "four symbols".

Though I often used to call it "shhhhhding" too verbally, back in the day!

Neither "androgenous", "androgeny" or "love symbol" were ever used in any
official capacity (they were just terms coined by reviewers and fans etc.).

I do remember that all the official Warner Bros.internal and trade
communications at the time listed it as just "Prince & the NPG - Symbol".

So "Symbol" or "The Symbol Album" are as close to official titles as it gets.
WB reps always referred to it verbally as "the symbol album", though it was
always just written down as "symbol".

But I agree that if it had to be given an actual song title type name, then
the only logical choice is "3 Chains O' Gold" as that was the video-
album title, as well as the storyline name for the video and album-based first
half of the Act I shows.
.
[Edited 3/10/10 14:30pm]

Okay, I pretty much agree with you but what about that German "Peach"single where that album is clearly referred to as "Love Symbol"?
I think we both talked about this before, IIRC.
" I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?"
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Reply #40 posted 03/10/10 4:01pm

lotusflw3r

that german record wasn't prince making that decision it was a warner wanker!

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Reply #41 posted 03/10/10 5:01pm

Jestyr

Is it that hard to type out "O)+>"? It's only four characters!!
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Reply #42 posted 03/10/10 5:10pm

cborgman

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might i suggest

calm before the shitstorm?
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
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Reply #43 posted 03/10/10 8:13pm

chewymusic

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HamsterHuey said:

nuthinbuttamuffin said:

Shhhhhting

(From the 1992 concerts)


"From the funky new album entitled..."Shhhhhting

nod LOL That's what we used to jokingly call it back in the day.
From the promos on the Sexy MF video single.
"Shhhhhting"
lol
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Reply #44 posted 03/10/10 9:28pm

udo

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Back in the day we called it 'Zapf boink', inspired by the video that `introduced` the album before the live shows.

Did you ever reverse that sound? And play with the speed?
Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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Reply #45 posted 03/10/10 9:44pm

FunkyStrange

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I knew a guy who was totally convince the album was title 'the jams'

as that is on the back of the cd where it lists the songs
Hard to believe I've been on the org for over 25 years now!
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Reply #46 posted 03/10/10 11:46pm

udo

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'Introducing the funky new album entitled "Zapf Boink!"....'

THAT sample.
Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.
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Reply #47 posted 03/11/10 12:15am

NelsonR

The Muse
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Reply #48 posted 03/11/10 12:48am

BorisFishpaw

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KoolEaze said:

BorisFishpaw said:

I've never called it "Love Symbol"... if it has to be given a title, I'd call it
"the symbol album" or just "symbol". In much the same way as "the black
album" is titled, or Led Zeppelin's "four symbols".

Though I often used to call it "shhhhhding" too verbally, back in the day!

Neither "androgenous", "androgeny" or "love symbol" were ever used in any
official capacity (they were just terms coined by reviewers and fans etc.).

I do remember that all the official Warner Bros.internal and trade
communications at the time listed it as just "Prince & the NPG - Symbol".

So "Symbol" or "The Symbol Album" are as close to official titles as it gets.
WB reps always referred to it verbally as "the symbol album", though it was
always just written down as "symbol".

But I agree that if it had to be given an actual song title type name, then
the only logical choice is "3 Chains O' Gold" as that was the video-
album title, as well as the storyline name for the video and album-based first
half of the Act I shows.
.
[Edited 3/10/10 14:30pm]

Okay, I pretty much agree with you but what about that German "Peach"single where that album is clearly referred to as "Love Symbol"?
I think we both talked about this before, IIRC.


That's just a mistake by someone at WB in Europe. That title was just used as
a placeholder by the person inputting the track credits, with the intention
being that it would be replaced by the time that the artwork went to print. A
mistake was made and this placeholder was never replaced by the actual prince
symbol as intended.
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Reply #49 posted 03/11/10 12:54am

TheEnglishGent

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I'm another that's always called it, "The Symbol Album".

It'a an album with a symbol on it, what more is there? Love symbol has never felt or looked right to me.
RIP sad
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Reply #50 posted 03/11/10 1:21am

KeithyT

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BorisFishpaw said:

if it has to be given a title, I'd call it "the symbol album" or just "symbol".

Although I can't remember the last time I referred to it in conversation, this is what myself and fellow Prince fans that I knew called it at the time.
Just somewhere in the middle,
Not too good and not too bad.
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Reply #51 posted 03/11/10 3:17am

aiden

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I was 11 when I got my hands on this record and was already a massive fan! For quite a long time I thought the album was called "The Jams"

"Still Crazy 4 Coco Rock"
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Reply #52 posted 03/11/10 1:17pm

violett

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ive always called it the glyph album shrug
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Reply #53 posted 03/11/10 5:42pm

HobbesLeCute

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Self-Title # 2
~ I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR ~
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Reply #54 posted 03/11/10 6:13pm

stillwaiting

The symbol clearly means: A bunch of decent to great songs sometimes ruined by Tony M.
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Reply #55 posted 04/10/10 5:53pm

piccolo7

lve always calls it the SYMBOL, album ,,,,
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Reply #56 posted 04/10/10 7:59pm

JesusFreak

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Lovestika?
"Not to sound cosmic, but I've made plans for the next 3,000 years," he says. "Before, it was only three days at a time."
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Reply #57 posted 04/10/10 10:13pm

sro100

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Symbol.
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Reply #58 posted 04/10/10 11:23pm

squirrelgrease

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nuthinbuttamuffin said:

Shhhhhting

(From the 1992 concerts)



lol
If prince.org were to be made idiot proof, someone would just invent a better idiot.
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Reply #59 posted 04/10/10 11:24pm

squirrelgrease

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dnaplaya said:

There is a radio station in Australia called Triple J, and they had the same problem giving the album...and his eventual name, a title back when it came out, so they ran a national competition to give the symbol a pronunciation...and the eventual winner became "Dave" lol So...you could call this the "Dave" album.... wink


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