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Thread started 07/13/05 3:53am

Anji

Quality CONtrol

b4 the 90s, Prince's output was, by n large, CONtrolled around 9 songs or so per album.
do u blieve Prince's 90s output would b CONsidered as gr8 as b4, if he had CONtrolled his projects 2 around 9 songs or so?

eye mean, was there really a decline n the quality of those best 9 songs or so n the 90s? eye'm not sure...
what do u think?

love
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Reply #1 posted 07/13/05 4:01am

organgrinder

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dont really know but i dont have a problem with most of Prince's 90's work, in fact at the moment im listening 2 the more recent / 90's stuff more so that the 80's work!. its just a matter of taste i guess.

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Reply #2 posted 07/13/05 5:20am

KAB

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If you take the case of IMO the vastly over-rated Lovesexy, this includes the following very average songs:

When 2 R in love
Glam Slam
Positivity and
Dance on

that's nearly half the album!

The same 'could' be said of SOTT, tracks such as

It
Hot Thing
Beautiful night
Play in the sunshine

are hardly classics either.

I think the only album where you could say all tracks are near perfect and you would't change it is Purple Rain, by no means a favourite of mine, but I think it tops the charts in terms of the ratio of greats songs to bad.


I'm sure Graffiti Bridge [all the Prince tracks], D&P, certainly the Symbol album and TGE and 'just about' Emancipation all contain at least 9 high quality tracks.

I'm less sure all the 80s albums have 9 great songs on them.

Just my opinion.

I am biased though, as I love the period 92-95, great LIVE instruments, great guitars.
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Reply #3 posted 07/13/05 5:21am

MetroArea

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Anji said:

was there really a decline n the quality of those best 9 songs or so n the 90s?


Yes.
Don't worry, I can't get pregnant - my ovaries are diseased......
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Reply #4 posted 07/13/05 7:24am

eleven

KAB said:

If you take the case of IMO the vastly over-rated Lovesexy, this includes the following very average songs:

When 2 R in love
Glam Slam
Positivity and
Dance on

that's nearly half the album!

The same 'could' be said of SOTT, tracks such as

It
Hot Thing
Beautiful night
Play in the sunshine

are hardly classics either.

I think the only album where you could say all tracks are near perfect and you would't change it is Purple Rain, by no means a favourite of mine, but I think it tops the charts in terms of the ratio of greats songs to bad.


I'm sure Graffiti Bridge [all the Prince tracks], D&P, certainly the Symbol album and TGE and 'just about' Emancipation all contain at least 9 high quality tracks.

I'm less sure all the 80s albums have 9 great songs on them.

Just my opinion.

I am biased though, as I love the period 92-95, great LIVE instruments, great guitars.



I will state the obvious here...KAB- U must die now.
booty!

Lovesexy lover.
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Reply #5 posted 07/13/05 7:35am

eleven

Anji said:

b4 the 90s, Prince's output was, by n large, CONtrolled around 9 songs or so per album.
do u blieve Prince's 90s output would b CONsidered as gr8 as b4, if he had CONtrolled his projects 2 around 9 songs or so?

eye mean, was there really a decline n the quality of those best 9 songs or so n the 90s? eye'm not sure...
what do u think?

love


Anji, with all due respect I'm really strugglng to see the value in your question- due largely in part that all feedback on this topic will solely be OPINION, as has been illustrated thus far (which, by the way is perfectly fine, that's what's great about Humans; we're all different...but does having a bunch of people voice opinions really accomplish anything in the end? In the end, Prince should do what he feels is necessary: 9 songs or 19...it's his call).

I also think that your observation of him being "CONtrolled" is diffused due in fact to two wonderful double-albums from the eighties (1999 and SOTT).

I'm not trying to throw any negativity your way, I just really got to wondering what your true intentions were with this thread (BTW- I rarely post, but this pulled me out of my cave wink
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Reply #6 posted 07/13/05 7:38am

AsianBomb777

Shit, with no music released in the last year, I'll take quantity control. shrug
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Reply #7 posted 07/13/05 9:15am

KAB

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eleven said:

KAB said:

If you take the case of IMO the vastly over-rated Lovesexy, this includes the following very average songs:

When 2 R in love
Glam Slam
Positivity and
Dance on

that's nearly half the album!

The same 'could' be said of SOTT, tracks such as

It
Hot Thing
Beautiful night
Play in the sunshine

are hardly classics either.

I think the only album where you could say all tracks are near perfect and you would't change it is Purple Rain, by no means a favourite of mine, but I think it tops the charts in terms of the ratio of greats songs to bad.


I'm sure Graffiti Bridge [all the Prince tracks], D&P, certainly the Symbol album and TGE and 'just about' Emancipation all contain at least 9 high quality tracks.

I'm less sure all the 80s albums have 9 great songs on them.

Just my opinion.

I am biased though, as I love the period 92-95, great LIVE instruments, great guitars.



I will state the obvious here...KAB- U must die now.
booty!

Lovesexy lover.



I'll just need to make peace with my God and inform my next of kin - say 10 minutes is that ok.
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Reply #8 posted 07/13/05 9:40am

eleven

KAB said:

eleven said:




I will state the obvious here...KAB- U must die now.
booty!

Lovesexy lover.



I'll just need to make peace with my God and inform my next of kin - say 10 minutes is that ok.


Yep! Ya better call People Magazine, and Rolling Stone, call your next of Kin, cuz yer ass is gone. I got a 57 mag with a price tag still on the side- huh!
--Cousin, when Spooky say dead, U better say Died.

Hee hee lol
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