I'm not talking about a song or two by a certain artist. I mean who's been in the game for a lengthy while that always features at least one baby makin' cut on all of their cds? Or do you feel the the sexuality Prince brings/brang to the table is unmatched?

sitruk7 said:

I feel it's unmatched--just because it's so unique. Sure, slews of R&B acts have great baby makin' songs on their albums. Marvin, Luther, R Kelly, Barry White,etc. However, Prince's stuff is quite artfully nasty. Prince is a dirty ol' freak, but he is beautiful about it all.

What I mean by this is that R. Kelly tries to be a freak, but it all comes off as contrived, half sincere, and clumbsy. R Kelly is a big poser when it comes to being nasty. He says something dirty just to say it-with Prince you feel as if he sincerely means it.

Agreed Skywalker, Prince can take a sexual song and make it sound spiritual so well that you almost want to sing it in church. Some artists on the other hand often sound down right silly.

I've always enjoyed 'Ready For The World', 'Keith Sweat', and 'Mint Condition'.
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Luther!

Oh yeah, if you wanna a little nasty Barry White.


But truth be told each of them is in a class of their own, Prince especially, so there really isn't a comparasion.

The Stylistics
Blue Magic
The Delfonics
Earth, Wind, & Fire
Ray, Goodman, and Brown
Heatwave
Switch
Enchantment
Norman Conners
The Dramatics
Main Ingredient
Special Delivery
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The funk groups also had some great slow jams. Groups like:

Rick James
The Barkays
Cameo
Lakeside
Average White Band
Midnight Star
O'Bryan
The Commodores
One Way
Roger & Zapp
The Ohio Players
Shalamar
The Isley Brothers

Easy, going to one of my other favorite artists: Van Morrison

While Princes slow jams are mostly sexually oriented, Vans slow jams are spiritually orientated, contemplative, working like transcendal mediation. Some beautifull examples:
- Take me back (from 'Hyms to the silence')
- In the garden (from 'No Guru, No Method, No teacher')
- Listen to the Lion (from 'Saint dominics preview', one of the deepest, most soulfull cuts ever released)

Vainandy, i might sound a bit arrogant / blatant, but what music you are listening to since 1982?

This cat probably had the most sensuous album within the last 10 years...I think his shit rivals Prince's sex shit:



Maxwell (Urban Hang Suite)



That's a pussy-get-wet CD if I've ever heard one. Then add the monster sex-balled "Fortunate" (Written by the Pedophile himself, R. Kelly) and then SOME of the stuff off 'Embrya' (Luxury: Cococure, Matrimony: Maybe You) and 'Now' (Lifetime, Woman's Work) ...Dude's shit is as close at it comes to rivaling Prince's abilities on sex/slow jams shit.
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I feel it is unmatched as well...Prince always related to women on a level that no other male artist has been able to. The way he expresses his sexuality through his voice is quite original.

Riverpoet31 said:

For me, love is not only an expression of sexuality but also of spirituality and wonder, Van Morrison is an artist for me who seems to understands that, and has regularly blowed my mind and soul with his ruminations about those subjects...

Prince has down some great slow jams, on a sexual or partly spiritual level (adore), but he doesnt seem to have the ability to express the richness of 'love' compared to Van Morrison

Sade.

Eroticist said:

Co-sign! Maxwell has mastered the "sexual salvation" lover man role quite well.

Marvin Gaye

just listen or read the lyrics to Sexual Healing,
and Distant Lover

I listened to basically all the R&B and funk that was out in the early 1980s. I also listened to a little rock and new wave. In the late 1980s, when R&B starting slowing down and funk died out, I got more and more into house music. In the early 1990s, the only thing I listened to was house music. Nothing else was worth a damn. Around 1996, when techno had almost completely taken over house, I stopped listening to current music alltogether.

BOOTSY COLLINS ....

Prince can never ever match his funky ballads!!!!!
Listen to Bootsy’s 70’s classics:

I'd Rather Be With You
Vanish In Our Sleep
Munchies For Your Love
What's A Telephone Bill?
Can't Stay Away
Very Yes

Only "Do Me, Baby" comes close to Bootsy ... but Prince didn’t write that one alone (Pepe Willie has cowritten it).

BOOTSY RULES IN THE FUNK-BALLAD-LAND

"Ask Of You" by Raphael Saadiq could go head-to-head with "Adore".

OnionJuice said:

That's not even a proper comparison!! Different tempos and everything. If you're talking just about pure feeling, it's not even in the same league as "Adore".

Luther Vandross (by FAR!)
Isley Bros.
Sade
Norman Connors
...just to name a few!

Riverpoet31 said:

No new funkateer can match the classic 70’s funk ...

So ... you can listen to the new wankers, but they’ll never match
James Brown
Sly Stone
Bootsy Collins
Parliament / Funkadelic
Ohio Players
Curtis Mayfield

If you’re a newbee .. indeed .. Prince can’t match them neither!!
I hope that even you will someday discover the real FUNK

So don't you ever tell a funkateer to listen to the newer FUNK .... we do try, but they can't match he godfathers of funk

prince ad infinitum!

Thank you. I wouldn't be caught dead listening to none of these new bullshit artists.

ThataintFunky said:

alexnvrmnd said:

Yes it is. Fuck a tempo. I didn't say they sounded similar.
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mrwigglesdaw1rm said:

I second that motion

vainandy said:

ThataintFunky said: