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Thread started 10/18/10 2:12pm

thebanishedone

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Simple or complex?

What kind of music you like created by Prince?

Songs that contains repetitive bass lines with drum machines

with sparse production and two or three chords

or you are fan of Prince's more complex matrial with

many chord changes,more complex arangments and organic sound?

I am fan of both but i think Prince works the best when he keeps it simple.

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Reply #1 posted 10/18/10 2:37pm

dalsh327

I think whatever fits the tone of the song, but I'd still want to hear "When Doves Cry" before he stripped it down.Sometimes multilayered works if you want to give it a full sound, sometimes it's overkill.Sometimes a song can be too stripped down....

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Reply #2 posted 10/18/10 7:34pm

motherfunka

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It seems like the stripped down songs were some of his biggest hits, When Doves Cry, Kiss, and Sign O' The Times. They probably woudn't have turned out the way they did had he used the whole band to record them.

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Reply #3 posted 10/18/10 7:41pm

blacknote

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The Funk. Radical drums, blazing horns and a heavy heavy rhythm section.

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Reply #4 posted 10/18/10 7:53pm

hhhhdmt

Both. Depends on the song. But yeah having a #1 hit without a bass line is pure genius and i am glad he didnt use the bass line in wdc

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Reply #5 posted 10/19/10 4:32am

irreverence

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The genious of Prince is that he can master both.

I do enjoy the complexities of Around the World in a Day and Parade, but really think his 90s songs suffered from overproduction and could have contained unnoticed gems if it had been stripped down mor (e.g. Emancipation).

And his ballads of late also in my opinion suffers greatly from too much cream.

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Reply #6 posted 10/19/10 12:10pm

littleredcorve
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if it ain't funky. no tnx.

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