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The Toure book is a must. Take it from me. The book is really well written and you learn a bunch of new stuff. It's good to read a Prince book about the actual music, not all that hubbub about Mayte's baby and sex parties and the like.
The book is really insightful. A must for any fan. From me this is saying something. All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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I've been thinking about buying it and I've heard good and bad reviews. Why do you say from you this is saying something? | |
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This book rarely talks about the music. The book is pretty much a dissertation about Toure's assertion that Prince was an icon to Generation X because he was supposedly a messianic figure that made music that was highly sexual in nature to make his real message of spirituality more digestible to the masses. Although, it was nice to read Eric and Alan Leeds' thoughts, there was way too many moments where I felt the author crossed some personal lines like talking about P was in bed with women. The book is interesting but I don't think folks should take Toure' word on Prince as gospel. Too many times I felt like he was speaking FOR Prince, instead of laying the facts outright. 3121 #1 THIS YEAR | |
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bashraka said: This book rarely talks about the music. The book is pretty much a dissertation about Toure's assertion that Prince was an icon to Generation X because he was supposedly a messianic figure that made music that was highly sexual in nature to make his real message of spirituality more digestible to the masses. Although, it was nice to read Eric and Alan Leeds' thoughts, there was way too many moments where I felt the author crossed some personal lines like talking about P was in bed with women. The book is interesting but I don't think folks should take Toure' word on Prince as gospel. Too many times I felt like he was speaking FOR Prince, instead of laying the facts outright. I felt the same way about thatpress conference kinda thing a few weeks back when questlove, toure and Leeds spoke about the book and Prince. Toure doesn't seem to reflect on stuff, he tells us if it is the truth. Don't want to read something from someone who writes too prove points, rather than questioning your own views. Research will often both strengthen and weaken ideas one have about a person. My Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tundrah | |
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The book sucks! What is with you people are yall sniffing purple markers? This dude comes off as a conspiracy theorist who just babbles on and on about generation X alot of times not even mentioning prince then theres a chapter he discusses his sex life in detail like wtheck dude are you gay? Lol it was weird he came off as a stalker in alot of it honestly he just over analyzes everything i hated the book. DMSR and possessed was 100x better than this crap. Wow [Edited 4/26/13 15:59pm] welp | |
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I have made some comments about this book in another thread. It is an interesting read as it is not a "and then Prince wrote this song and dated that woman" list but trying to interpret Prince. Toure has this hypothesis about Prince being an icon of Gen X and these individual strands of thought about Prince (the explicit sexuality and Seventh Day Adventist religious imagery and Prince thinking of himself as having a direct line from/to God) but Toure doesn't manage to pull it all together. And the book and talks are a way for Toure to enhance his own brand, piggybacking off Prince's enigmatic status. Nevertheless it made me rethink Prince's music and lyrics and explore things a bit more. Alan Leeds, Eric Leeds and Dez Dickersons comments about Prince are very insightful but not in a sensationalist sort of way. The only inappropriate bit is the page on Prince in bed by an unnamed ex girlfriend. I think Toure used this to emphasise his point that the sexuality expressed in Prince's songs and lyrics are very admiring and affirmative of women and not mysoginist. Which book has all these juicy details about sex parties??? LOL (I have only read Matt Thorne and Toure so far) ...every night another symphony... | |
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Prince by Matt Thorne is better [Edited 4/26/13 17:53pm] | |
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Just started reading this book tonight and everything I've read so far is just ripped from other
Seriously, he steals from all the other books and if you've read any of the decent books on Prince |
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I'm almost finished with this book and although it is well written and and researched, as a fan Kosner drinking his own piss) But it is better than Toure's book by far. |
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8up said: Just started reading this book tonight and everything I've read so far is just ripped from other
Seriously, he steals from all the other books and if you've read any of the decent books on Prince So which books did he copy from and which do you suggest should be read instead? I have only read Matt Thorne and Toure. ...every night another symphony... | |
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DMSR by Per Nielsen. Best Prince book by far.
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I was humming Wally and it doesn't sound that great..lol All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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