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PrintableEvilWhiteMules said: That was one of the best times to be a Prince fan in my honest opinion.
During the 1993 - 1995 period, Prince , or  as he wanted to be called ws doing some very wild things with his music. He was very prolific at that time, and his material was first rate, if a bit commercial sounding.
It was exciting. I mean, hearing him proclaim "Welcome 2 the Dawn" instead of "may you live to see the dawn" which was on all his pre-symbol era albums. One got the feeling that he really was going to usher in an age of unprecendented musical output. Claims like "music should be free", and news of an upcoming "Opera" and "ballet" score penned by were very exciting. Proclaimations that the old Prince material was dead to him now, and that his new stuff was "so much better" made me lick my lips anticipating the years to come.
Of course, after 1995, I started to realize that it was just the rantings of an unhappy egomaniac. The Dawn ended up being nothing special, the ballet score gives me constipation, and the free music ended up cost 50 bucks on luv4another.com if you were lucky enough not to be doublcharged and have to wait a year to recieve your music. The dream didn't last. And I think most people remember the fallout and associate it to the entire span of the Symbol years. In fact, it was only the later part of the 90s were it got really bad. Early on, Prince put out some first rate albums. COME and GOLD are among his best albums (imperfect but filled with undeniable gems). Great post, and so on point...you sum it up perfectly. Despite its flaws, this was an exciting era and full of promise.It´s a shame really that things went a bit out of control.The CB fiasco left a bad taste but hey, shit happens.Maybe he was a bit too futuristic and ahead of his time. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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KoolEaze said: EvilWhiteMules said: That was one of the best times to be a Prince fan in my honest opinion.
During the 1993 - 1995 period, Prince , or as he wanted to be called ws doing some very wild things with his music. He was very prolific at that time, and his material was first rate, if a bit commercial sounding.
It was exciting. I mean, hearing him proclaim "Welcome 2 the Dawn" instead of "may you live to see the dawn" which was on all his pre-symbol era albums. One got the feeling that he really was going to usher in an age of unprecendented musical output. Claims like "music should be free", and news of an upcoming "Opera" and "ballet" score penned by were very exciting. Proclaimations that the old Prince material was dead to him now, and that his new stuff was "so much better" made me lick my lips anticipating the years to come.
Of course, after 1995, I started to realize that it was just the rantings of an unhappy egomaniac. The Dawn ended up being nothing special, the ballet score gives me constipation, and the free music ended up cost 50 bucks on luv4another.com if you were lucky enough not to be doublcharged and have to wait a year to recieve your music. The dream didn't last. And I think most people remember the fallout and associate it to the entire span of the Symbol years. In fact, it was only the later part of the 90s were it got really bad. Early on, Prince put out some first rate albums. COME and GOLD are among his best albums (imperfect but filled with undeniable gems). Great post, and so on point...you sum it up perfectly. Despite its flaws, this was an exciting era and full of promise.It´s a shame really that things went a bit out of control.The CB fiasco left a bad taste but hey, shit happens.Maybe he was a bit too futuristic and ahead of his time. yeah, or maybe he's just an asshole that didn't care much for how his fans were being treated.  | |
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BananaCologne said: tnt, thought you'd like this (in case you hadn't seen it before)  The Artist and Lenny Kravtiz at The Palladium, New York (14th July, 1994)
© 1994 Nicole Nodlund Thanks, for the pic never seen this before. Look at how cool that is, brother in a dress, jammin. 
I remember Lenny chatted with us on AOL after this show, any one else remember that? I feel what yall are sayin about the disapointment, this is the era that created the Prince grumpy fans because of the high expectations. But I do think he has fixed (or hired people to fix) all the problems he used to have, took a while though. | |
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dude could rock the powder puff back then. | |
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switters said: I'm a diehard Prince fan....am thrilled with 3121...
But I just listened to a cd "The Beautiful Experince" live... and I remembered how I never could stand all the songs that came from that period that he played relentlessly... Interactive Now Days of Wild The Ride I hated these songs!!! The only one I thought was pretty good was "shhhhh". Funny how some eras rub you the wrong way isn't it? No your not a true fan |
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