Wow! I didn't know that he flipped his car over. Whoo--dude liked to drive fast, though. He was lucky at that incident to have escaped injury or death.

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It's amazing that Symbol was the genesis of his industry tumult and his end-product for the imprint. He had to deal with high pressures dealing with the P.P. imprint, which he wasn't really desirous to run in the way the parent company needed it to function and the substantial economic demands of his big physical studio/soundstage on top of that. If we're to imagine that he would have toed the line with Warner Bros. or whichever corporation partner, his recording output (guessing 2/3 the stuff we're waiting to hear that's boxed up) would likely not exist in such a mass. However you want to look at it, curse or blessing, dude had way too much creative drive to just sit back and let time creep along. I wonder what his ex- bandmates of the day thought about that album. I'd imagine they couldn't begin to fathom the pressures that Prince faced with all of the given responsibilities of his career development--probably that if anyone could have pulled off that kind of activity it would have to be him!

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I loved all that creative stuff that came through him througout that 92-95 period, the NPG Records indie stuff and series of one-off projects with the major labels. There were only a hadfull of songs in all that were turkeys for me. Like Pete said earlier, he was really just ahead of his time in his productions and desire to distribute. I kinda' feel bad for the folks who appreciate his post-80s output less--folks let their tastes get themselves stuck in a timewarp sometimes, and pop music always moves on. We can't accuse Prince of getting stuck like that, just blame his super ambition to create and fund his business. It'd be hard for me to say that this ambition diminished the quality of his work as he always kept an eye on it, and making the next thing was alwasy his goal.

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PeteSilas said:

i don't know if he was too happy in those years, there is the od story that we all know of, he also flipped his car completely over at one point and fortunately wasn't hurt. And probably a good half of the folks here would say he really lost it during those years, mentally and musically. I always liked his music so it didn't make a whole lot of difference to me, I loved emancipation, the symbol album diamonds and pearls but not everyone does. just yesterday i was watching the eye hate u vid, what a song, what a group of talent as well.

databank said:

Well if Prince had decided to 1/ sell out and release radio-friendly, mainstream audiences-friendly music only and 2/ reduce his output to one album every 2 years and promote each properly, reaching 5M copies could probably have been achieved. What was insane was to believe that he could keep releasing a record a year and make whatever music he wanted to do and sell those 5M. But I'm glad Prince didn't sell out and become a charts whore, and I'm even glad he tripped on WB not selling enough and that the whole name change/WB wars episode happened because those years were epic.

SoulAlive said:

"And God Created Woman" is heavenly just a wonderful track

My wife loved that song too. Will always be special to me.

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I loved all that creative stuff that came through him througout that 92-95 period, the NPG Records indie stuff and series of one-off projects with the major labels. There were only a hadfull of songs in all that were turkeys for me. Like Pete said earlier, he was really just ahead of his time in his productions and desire to distribute. I kinda' feel bad for the folks who appreciate his post-80s output less--folks let their tastes get themselves stuck in a timewarp sometimes, and pop music always moves on. We can't accuse Prince of getting stuck like that, just blame his super ambition to create and fund his business. It'd be hard for me to say that this ambition diminished the quality of his work as he always kept an eye on it, and making the next thing was alwasy his goal.

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Completely agree and relate. I only become a fan in 91 aged 15 so 92-95 will always be my favourite era. Clearly a lot of the older fans from the 80's didn't like him being funky fresh for the 90's

MattyJam said:

PeteSilas said:

I don't get why people hate some of the music from this period.

I'll give you a clue:

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Yesterday I found a sinature of Tony M (and the other members of the NPG) on a few Prince concert tickets i have of a show they did in 1992 here in Belgium.

Anyone want it ? For free ? lol

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The keyboards sounded so weak, cheap, cheesy and terrible (it started on Strolling on D&P and carried on for a decade or so).

The rapping was embarrasing, I mean really embarrasing.

The concept was what? Prince likes very young girls? Or Prince is honourable because he waits until they're 16?

Most of it is over produced, trend chasing tosh.

There are a few good songes on there too. SEXY MF, 7, etc.

RicoN said:

The keyboards sounded so weak, cheap, cheesy and terrible (it started on Strolling on D&P and carried on for a decade or so).

The rapping was embarrasing, I mean really embarrasing.

The concept was what? Prince likes very young girls? Or Prince is honourable because he waits until they're 16?

Most of it is over produced, trend chasing tosh.

There are a few good songes on there too. SEXY MF, 7, etc.

I picked that up too