Talking about crazy things Prince has made me to do...
One sunday morning (almost three years ago) I woke up and had nothing to do. So i decided that ill have Prince marathon! I had been thinking about doing it for a while.
I had just bought me new amp so timing was good.

So, I just sat down to my nice soft chair, loudspeakers on front-right and front-left, and started to listen to Prince.
Chronologically ,from For You to Rave. All the official releases, (except Crystal Ball which I dont own).
It took about 22 hours. So after that i watched Lovesexy and SignOTheTimes videos. Altogeter, it took 24hours.

And it was all concentrated listening. No reading, no watching tv. I just sat and listened. I had few half an hour breaks for eating and stretching , and some toilet breaks naturally.

It was good! Good! GOOD! Not tiring, not boring. Every single cd felt refreshing and good. I didnt have any thought like "oh no not another prince cd - still ten to go" i was more like "yihaa - another prince cd! i want more". I must say that the most negative thing was to clearly notice the difference in quality between early stuff and batman/graffiti bridge/some 90's stuff. But, then again, Emancipation felt really good, even it hadnt been my favourite bfore that. it surely has been ever since.

So, anyone had similar experiences???

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Were you being sponsored to do this?

oh dear...

I did broke the record so far.

DarrenMawbey said:

lol
no, too much spare time... i guess.

Some people do this every day. We call them a "fan"

Well I listen to an album roughly 3 times a week but never all of em in one day phewww

thecloud9mission said:

i do recommend u to try.
But i have to say, i am not going to do it again! It would bcome much longer now..

prinssi said:

I thought I had too much time on my hands. Jeez!

Hey that sounds like fun. Maybe I'll try it one day. I probably couldn't get past the first three cds before people start to go crazy around here. Some people don't appreciate great music. They think J.Lo is a great entertainer.

ouch !!

I can also agree that good music never bores ,how many times you may listen to it.
5 times i recall making prince compilations which for the owner are very unique.
Evening and nights i have spend on them. Over and over listening how songs match or not. Making a theme and watch the flow. Not trespassing any timelimits to put as many beautiful prince outtakes on a 100 minutes tape. Listening to the words and sounds very carefully. Prince is not loved throughout and i want to be a good representative of his music. In the meanwhile i listen prince all the time and one gets to hear more. I listen a lot.
So i certainly know and knew i am not the only one doing this. It's a great hobby.

Could there be a scientific "Prince Effect" like the "Mozart Effect?"

prinssi I did something like this about 4 years ago. I had to drive from Texas to NJ and decided to get all the CDs in order and start from disk 1.

I had my kids in the car and we listened to nothing but Prince for three days straight. I was as you said refreshing. The kids really enjoyed it and now they are into Prince too.

It's so interesting to see the evolution of his music in a chronological order.

I don't know If I'd listen for 24 hours straight, but for those hours in the car driving it was good to know that I had something good to listen too and not have to rely on radio stations.

I've also sat down and watched all of the Prince Videos I own in one sitting. PR and UTCM are my all time faves, and most of them only have good music, because the dialog is not there, but still a lot of fun.

Good listening/watching yall.

peace

CocoSweet said:

For me it wasn't only fun, true. I do/did suffer too.
I do live the music and lyrics emotionaly with. Well I was during MONTHS the whole day incl. outthere, then I took my walkman with and big part of the nights listening 99% to Prince's music, sometimes paralell surfing on ciberspace at prince.org (ca.75%) and other music-sites.

Yes. But it's me, you know... I love music! I have always my walkman (now a radio) with. I prefer that noise then the cars and etc. Now more then ever.

Virginhead said:

Can be, can be...

But what is the "Mozart Effect"?