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I must confess... The first Prince CD I listened to all the way through was actually "The Very Best of Prince." I knew many of his singles but never really was highly interested in his music until I borrowed the CD from someone - then I wasn't sure about it, but once I took a listen I was incredibly interested and wanted to hear so much more. So I did.
But hearing only the singles at first possibly is what made me feel the way I did about "Sign O The Times" when I first heard it. To be honest - and my opinion has changed since then, definitely - when I first heard the album, I wasn't sure if I liked it. I listened to it a second time, and as I put it, "it started to grow on me like a fungus," and the third time I found quite a few songs I enjoyed a lot. But at first I really wasn't sure. Do you think maybe this came from the fact that I started with more often played albums like "1999" and "Purple Rain?" And did anyone else feel slightly unsure about SOTT at first listen? HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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Quite a few Prince albums I didn't like hugely when I first heard them - Lovesexy, Batman, Diamonds & Pearls, Come... but they quickly grew on me.
Music that is challenging/different/intricate often is hard to get into straight off, always worth giving any album by any artist a few listens - but then if you still don't like it, it might be because it is just crap after all! | |
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Most of P's best Lp's are hard to get into at first...but I remember Sign being one of the albums I loved from the get go. Probably cuz most of it is pop/catchy/rock/r&b stuff. I remember Housequake blew me away..it was so fresh and new...I had heard nothing like it before....of course that was 19 years ago...yikes, im old! Stand Up! Everybody, this is your life!
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IMO, the best Prince albums to listen to that have no overt theme or purpose to them are 1999, D&P, Prince, The Gold Experience ( if you can find it ) and Musicology, those are the only one that are singles oriented as opposed to thematic i.e, SOTT, LVSXY, PR, etc... Jeux Sans Frontiers | |
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Yes, SOTT was alot too handle on the first listen.
p.s. As confessions go that sucked ass. Call me when you've got a story that involves a dead hooker and a bottle of Cisco. | |
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