yet continue to stick around, what's keeping us here? Is it a psychological thing? I wonder about this...is it that Prince's live show is still exciting? What is it?

simple: they're waiting and holdin on to the premise of maybe, just maybe, he'll revert to his "old ways".

or it could actually be that a lot of us really DO like his '90s work, and even though some of us can acknowledge that his '80s work is what made him legendary and indeed may carry the most undiluted spark of his musical genius, those brilliant albums still and all get kinda tired to listen to after the 1,000,000th spin, and some of us have discovered that there's actually some interesting material to be had in his more recent output?


















NAAAH!!!

Anxiety said:

AWWWW HAHAHAH HEY that's actually a pretty good summation!!!!! Maybe just MAYBE....some people like his NEWER stuff...perish the thought!!!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

How much you wanna bet that this would still not please them? "Well, he didn't do it the way I was hoping...."

OdysseyMiles said:

"it's not naughty enough!"

He played on TV last year with WENDY and people bitched about it. I mean, people had been clamoring for years that he REUNITE with the old band and then they ripped on how bad Wendy looked etc. If you can't be a happy Prince fan in 2004 then you can't be a happy Prince fan.
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skywalker said:

but you know most of the people who were criticizing the way she looked were younger people, ie idiots, lol, who either DIDN'T CARE whether the Revolution got back together, or didn't want it to happen.

AsianBoi777 said:

LOL you crazy

skywalker said:

you KNOW she wasn't WENDISH enough and it's because larry was using his telekinesis on her and it was all prince's fault because he wanted her to be less wendesque so as to fall into his grand scheme of upsetting us TRUE FANS.

Anxiety said:

HAHAHAHA

or it could be because they enjoy the colors of this website...

or it could be they enjoy the concerts.....

or it could be they enjoy 50 or 60% of his output and hope one day he will be inspired to go full tilt buggy...


what i find just as telling are those invididuals who continually crap on those who dont paint a 100% rosy picture of the lil man....

which attitude is worse?

sosgemini said:

let's stick to the subject of the thread, please...

sosgemini said:

To answer the question of this thread.....

I stopped liking stuff around Batman, and finally stopped buying stuff after Come (which I could never even listen to).

So you can count me as one of the poeple who "don't like his 90's work".

I came here about year ago mainly for the related artist message board, cuz I was getting all geared up for the Family Jamm.

THen in 2004 I saw the Grammy Performance and became intereseted and jazzed enough to buy tix for Musicology tour.... 2 shows.

And yes, it's the LIVE PERFORMANCES That still matter. I don't really listen to the Musicolog album,

I like alot of his ninties stuff but more so the eighties. I just thought he was getting kinda annoying in the ninties. So far I think from 2000 and on he is awsome again! Well with the exception of the Rainbow children

90's material

Great Albums: Gold,

Good Albums : Emancipation, Chaos & Disorder

Tolerable Albums (with flashes of brilliance in them): TRC, Rave, Musicology, The Truth

WTF? ALbums: One Night ALone Piano, One Night Alone Live, NEWS, K-Sutra, Xpectation, the majority of the NPGMC Online stuff

If Warner Bros did anything for Prince, it was probably by forcing him to edit his stuff dishing it out. But I enjoy the high output and I would put up with the bad stuff, so long as the good stuff came out with it. But since the 90's you go for very long stretches of bad stuff just to come up on o.k. stuff.

I think Prince needs to release something that just makes everyone say "Holy Shit--that was crazy."

Even his wierd shit now sounds "been-there, done that"

Seperation anxiety.


Miguel

AsianBoi777 said:

Man, is that analysis ever wrong. Who did not call TRC a Prince masterpeice when it was released? The Truth and One Nite Alone are brilliant throughout and no one else could have made them. Oh well, I stick with my rule that says that anyone who starts a sentence with "What Prince should do..." has to be taken with a grain of salt - or not at all.
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Music is like art... The artist didn't paint the picture for ME, he painted what came from inside.. If I like it, I'll buy it. If I don't, I won't. Sometimes we forget that a true artist isn't gonna worry so much if U dig it, but if it said what HE was trying to say the way he wanted to say it. If ya want nothing but mass-produced hits with no experimentation, start listening to the Back Street Boys or NSync.. they might be more your speed.

randall69nfla said:

and there, as they say, it is.

randall69nfla said:

but what happens when an artist starts creating music just as mass-produced hit sounding as backstreet boys and nsync?

:cough cough: rave :cough cough: nps

newpower4ever said:

randall69nfla said:

CO-SIGN!!!!! I really couldn't have said it any better myself!

There aren't that many people who don't like the 90s stuff.

There are is probably a large slice of people (a majority most likely) of people who's opinion it is that Prince's output since X year hasn't been as good as that which came before - but there aren't that many people who hate all the 90s stuff.

NouveauDance said:

Yup. It's on a scale:

Prince albums compared to, say a Janet Jackson album:

1) Prince = great , translates to Janet's really really sucks
2) Prince = good, translates to being much better than a Janet album
3) Prince = o.k., translates to being like Mozart's requiem compared to Janet
4) Prince = sucks, translates to being a better purchase than Janet's album


so the bottom line is that his bad stuff is still better than most people's good stuff--especially Janet Jackson


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sosgemini said:

The latter is worse. In most cases, those individuals who are continually crapping on those who don't paint perfect pictures are providing compelling objective arguments. When those who don't paint rosy pictures can't come up with a good rebuttal they cry fam... I mean foul.

Huh? Prince is the best. NPS, boring songs: The One, Wasted Kisses ...Good songs:...eye like funky music, Come On ...Rave Un2 boring songs some but most are good, eg. life is a winding road, tangerine... D&P album, all good...Come, all good.....the problem with his 90's work is the language, it's english but it's off, and not easy to listen to if you like your books english better.
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SquarePeg said:

it has nothing 2 do with what u don't like..it has to do with what u DO like.