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Printablepeppeken said: the name change definitely....regarding G. Bridge...made him look self-obsessed and silly.. all this 'prince is dead' rubbish ...I recall the album getting very good reviews
Are you talking about GB or the name change here? They were a few years apart. | |
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renfield said: vivid said: I know this album gets slated a lot but were you around during the couple of years leading up to Musicology? The album and tour got some great reviews and following on from the failure of Rave... his star critically at first, began to rise. Even if you disagree with this, TRC can't have been a derailment as Rave.. and the previous six years or so had made sure that his career was well and truly off the tracks already. Like it or loathe if TRC was the beginning of the career resurrection we have seen over the last few years. I can see what you're saying Vivid. After the "plastic production" years TRC returned Prince's credibility to a lot of critics and fans. But i can also see what GottaLetitgo meant. TRC only reached no.108 on the charts and was gone two weeks later. It wasn't viewed by the public as a bomb, it just wasn't viewed at all. After that album, and NEWS and ONA, I thought Prince was going to go 100% off the mainstream radar. Even Chaos & Disorder and NewPowerSoul made the top 30, and generated a little publicity. With TRC, I thought he was going completely underground. Which I was cool with, 'cause he did some really interesting work in the last few years. But I also have to admit it's nice to see Prince on television and magazine covers. With his current contract deals, I think he may finally be able to do both. Release whatever he wants to the freaks like us over his website, then crank out a 'Musicology' for the mainstream every other year or so. His personal, experimental releases don't have to be viewed as 'bombs' by the public, who will never know they existed, and his big releases don't have to be seen as 'selling out' by the NPGMC crowd. Maybe 'Musicology,' as a business model, will expand into a whole new creative/commercial era for Prince. I'm not even sure we can include anything Post Rave. I really think that nothing he has done or could do could derail him. Unless he committed a crime or something. But even then...we will still get songs from the Cell. Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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