djThunderfunk said:

if only we could get out of our minds to believe in this

I love Prince's voice and I love Sheena's voice, so it's a win win song 4 me. It's my favourite track from the Batman soundtrack.

jungleluv said:

rdhull said:

ufoclub said:

rdhull said:

It is. Thank god Nolan came along.

Well, Burton took it further into fairy tale fantasy with his sequel, and I kind of like it. Nolan has great aesthetic and characters (or at least the Joker is a great character, actually all the others are meh)... but I don’t think his Batman movies are perfect, not even the second one. He has a problem with all his 3rd acts in his Batman movies for my tastes.

And his action scenes and editing are bad at times..we can critique Nolan all day long but my point was he took Batman out of that fantasy Disney style imho. And Im glad for that.

rdhull said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I think I've always been honest about why I like or dislike a song, I think I want to continue with that honesty out of respect.


I hope we don't get a thread where everyone is liking Purple & Gold now lol

Im dishonest because Im liking the song more now? Ive given it the chance and dont automatically change it when it comes on and its a plasant song to me

now jughead

no no, I'm just talking about myself and not letting myself change right now because hes gone.

gandorb said:

rdhull said:

Im dishonest because Im liking the song more now? Ive given it the chance and dont automatically change it when it comes on and its a plasant song to me

now jughead

I agree that it is partly about people listening to some of the songs they rarely listened to in his catalogue while waiting for new releases. I imagine that the rarely listend to stuff is songs that were someof their least favorite Prince songs. They are willing to give it a fresh ear now. I do wonder if some of the negative consensus back them about anything that might not be top notch Prince was also partly due to people not wanted to be demeaned by claiming that they did like it. So many people came and went from the org due to the negativity, and the demeaning tone was probably a factor.

Or maybe people really did look and listen to the song, judge it rationally and explain why they didn't like it. Just because somone doesn't like something doesn't mean it is a negative.

A lot of rarely listened to songs are usually because the person listened to it, listened and listened again and it just did not vibe.

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Some people act like we should just love eveything Prince did. That is just not reasonable.

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Also we are in cyberspace, it is hard to pick up peoples emotions and can be confusing and misjudging. What could be demeaning to someone is joking to another. But I really believe people just were being rational in weighing the song and deamed it not a great Prince song. In cyberspace, I learned a long time ago, you have to have thick skin, and not be emotional. It just isn't the same as talking to someone face to face getting the natural human interaction that really connects people.

OldFriends4Sale said:

gandorb said:

I agree that it is partly about people listening to some of the songs they rarely listened to in his catalogue while waiting for new releases. I imagine that the rarely listend to stuff is songs that were someof their least favorite Prince songs. They are willing to give it a fresh ear now. I do wonder if some of the negative consensus back them about anything that might not be top notch Prince was also partly due to people not wanted to be demeaned by claiming that they did like it. So many people came and went from the org due to the negativity, and the demeaning tone was probably a factor.

Or maybe people really did look and listen to the song, judge it rationally and explain why they didn't like it. Just because somone doesn't like something doesn't mean it is a negative.

A lot of rarely listened to songs are usually because the person listened to it, listened and listened again and it just did not vibe.

.

Some people act like we should just love eveything Prince did. That is just not reasonable.

.

Also we are in cyberspace, it is hard to pick up peoples emotions and can be confusing and misjudging. What could be demeaning to someone is joking to another. But I really believe people just were being rational in weighing the song and deamed it not a great Prince song. In cyberspace, I learned a long time ago, you have to have thick skin, and not be emotional. It just isn't the same as talking to someone face to face getting the natural human interaction that really connects people.

I agree with all you have said while also continuing to believe my viewpoint too. There are multiple reasons why people do the things they do .

It's a good song.

ufoclub said:

I haven't heard 'Orion' in perhaps 25 years. (the Batman-case CD was stolen from me and was never able to get one back at the stores)

When the album dropped, it was a decent song imo, one of the 4 best on there (one of the 4 singles as well). But pretty fast it became a pudding with too much milk and sugar. I still have no intention to listen to it again.

Love U in me was a good surprise, but also that i haven't played in ages. Indeed that surgery line what pulls everybody off....

Classic love song

"I sent him the lyrics 2 the Arms of Orion. He really liked it, put music 2 it and it ended up being on the Batman soundtrack. I'm totally into the stars. Right outside my bedroom window, right over my front guest house, you looked right into Orion. I loved the concept of two lovers apart, looking up at the same stars and wishing they could be together."

OldFriends4Sale said:

"I sent him the lyrics 2 the Arms of Orion. He really liked it, put music 2 it and it ended up being on the Batman soundtrack. I'm totally into the stars. Right outside my bedroom window, right over my front guest house, you looked right into Orion. I loved the concept of two lovers apart, looking up at the same stars and wishing they could be together."----Sheena Easton

so she actually wrote the lyrics,huh?

It's interesting cause for so long I took no notice of this song but in the last few years I have re-discovered it (and the Batman album) and now love it. I think the orchestration of the song and the interplay between Prince and Sheena's vocals is brilliant. Amazing that he could blend so well with such a squeeky white singer but it totally works - like all their collabs. Beautiful song and a highpoint for me now on the album.

Great track. Always has been. It just became cool to not like it on this board, which is dumb.

Fabulous track. Love it !!

OldFriends4Sale said:

"I sent him the lyrics 2 the Arms of Orion. He really liked it, put music 2 it and it ended up being on the Batman soundtrack. I'm totally into the stars. Right outside my bedroom window, right over my front guest house, you looked right into Orion. I loved the concept of two lovers apart, looking up at the same stars and wishing they could be together."

No doubt that Prince connected with the lyrics at that time. I think he was inspired to write the music for the lyrics. Songs usually had a direct connection to his life experiences. The song was recorded in early '89...