The Time kicked ass, Prince knew it from the start, why do u think he only gave them 6 songs on each of their "albumettes".
Forget the Quantity its the quality, all 3 of their albums rock. Get It up introduces their jive ass manifesto from lick one. Also Cool, After Hi School and the Stick from that first album rule. The stick I think is a great song, but arent the lyrics a little gay, see Prince did have something for us gay fans after all. The second album has no bad tracks on it at all, but Oneoimgonnabesomebody is my favourite. The third album not so good, but The Walk and Jungle Love do their jobs well. My Drawers and Chili Sauce are amusing too. Pandemonium just kicks ass and well the best songs on Grafitti Bridge are the Time ones.
So lets all show some love:-D
Morris Day and the Time kicked ass
By 1983, Prince was scared of being upstaged by The Time so they were left out of the bill in the bigger cities. I mean The Time did better than Dirty Mind.

'The Stick' is the jam!!!

I don't think you are alone. The Time was a GREAT band with GREAT songs. Prince really had something with them.

Yeah, I'm afraid you're not going to get a lot of posts on this one. Mainly cuz this is common knowledge. Everybody on here is hip to this fact. Plus, soooo many threads have been written about this. The dead horse has been beaten by soooo many sticks.

Yup! The Time were the proto side project can't fault those first three albums

Pandemonium is a bit hit and miss for me but still has some good tracks.

tane1976 said:

I have always felt that the Time never really reached their full potential. And that's because of two reasons. First of all Jimmy and Terry should never have been fired. No disrespect to the guys who filled in, but there was real camaraderie between the six original members. Jesse Johnson said that with Jimmy, Terry and Monte Moir gone, He Morris and Jellybean felt separated from the other three. Second, When Purple Rain blew up, the Time should've had their own tour apart from Prince. They would've sold-out just as many arenas as the PR tour, and it would've strengthened their following. It's too bad we'll never know.

Go over to housequake.com and check out Morris and the guys performing "The Walk" and "777-9311" on American Bandstand. Man, they were even cool as hell lip-synching

That group was BAD!!!

JesseDezz said:

Yeah did you see the smirk on Jesse's face in that clip and Jerome wiping the fake sweat off of Morris's face. Too cool and the choreography is on point!

ThePunisher said:

Punisher, I agree with u, but I reckon there are other reasons too. Prince was controlling them too much, i am sure if they had some say they would have more than 6 songs an album and write the lyrics too. Prince (Jamie Starr) did all the work and only let them do vocals (written by Prince) and the photo sessions. But these were some talented cats who didnt need to be bossed around.I reckon they could have made more cuts by themselves, Maybe Morris should have said, "nip off pipsqueak, this is my album" And definitely the Time should have toured with their first album. Prince also controlled them by telling them what to sing on stage, what cities not 2 play and provide backing music for Vanity 6.

ThePunisher said:

I totally agree.It was foolish for The Time to break up at the height of their popularity.There were tentative plans for a headlining tour in which they would be joined by Apollonia 6 as the opening act.But egos got in the way,and they decided to split up.When they finally re-formed in 1990,it was too late.The thrill was gone.


And I agree...Jam and Lewis should have never been fired.Prince should have allowed to produce other artists on the side,while still remaining in the band.It's likely that they would have stayed together throughout the 80s,releasing more kickass albums.


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About a month ago, I was doing sum work at Kinko's. I over heard two employees talking about the Time and one of 'em referred to 'em as the biggest 80's group that never made it big.
At least it's cool to hear that they get props even if they didn't really get the mainstream success that they deserved.

Illustrator said:

I remember being highly ticked off when Kool & The Gang beat them out for best RB group at the American Music Awards (83 or 84) I just couldn't believe it. But looking back. K&TG had that cross-over audience at the time. I'm sure that helped.