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skywalker said: Name me a groundbreaking album after 1999? PR used funk, ballads and rock... hmm, think they've been done before... ATWIAD ditto Parade ditto, plus some lounge-jazz... no, someone else had thought of that. Just because it was all done supremely well does not make it groundbreaking. Seriously? If you have to ask what Prince albums after 1999 are groundbreaking, then you haven't been paying attention. Purple Rain lit the whole fucking world on fire. People hadn't seen or heard anything like that before. It was familiar, yet something new and unique. Sure, the albums after it had elements that had been done before, but not the way Prince was doing it. Dig this, Prince took/takes shit that had been done before and branded in his own way. He took the history what had come before in pop music and turned it into his own, purple, unique thing. Groundbreaking. He was then and is now. Enough said. [Edited 9/22/06 15:09pm]  Exactly, Purple rain may have been done b4 but the ballads, funk and rock are hardly cliche, its all given the Prince treatment which was something else.
AND THE CHEEK OF CALLING PARADE SOME LOUNGE JAZZ 
Very few artists in the world previously and into the future could dream of making an album as great as Parade, he covers virtually every musical genre there is on the market including classical. Yeah u can lounge to it in Venus De Milo but u have 2 get up and dance 2 Girls and Boys and not forgetting the pop perfection of Kiss. Come on if that song wasnt a groundbreaker what was????? 17 Years ago I made a commitment to Prince | |
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bublebath said: by Prince?
 His last music-wise groundbreaking album was Sign O The Times. His last personally groundbreaking album was The Truth. The last industry groundbreaking thing he did was write slave on his face and start selling his music himself on the internet. That stuff is only becoming viable in a commercial sense now, P was way ahead of his time with this move. | |
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It depends what you mean by groundbreaking.
Just because Purple Rain 'lit the whole fucking world on fire' doesn't make it groundbreaking, unless mass-popular-reaction is groundbreaking. If so, then, fair enough, I concede your point. However, groundbreaking in the form of artistic creativity, well then, I think Prince had Purple Rain in the bag after the 1999 album - he'd given us rock and lewdness on Dirty Mind and demonstrated his mastering of the art of synth-pop on 1999. Purple Rain is a sublime combination of the two. Superbly crafted, not groundbreaking. Parade's jazz is lounge-jazz. As I say 'done supremely well' - just not groundbreaking. You could argue that two songs off PR and Parade are groundbreaking - When Doves Cry and Kiss, but then again, Kiss's inception as a stripped down minimalist pop-song relies on Prince having discovered how to do this with Doves, so even Kiss isn't that groundbreaking - a truly mesmeric song, yes, just not groundbreaking. | |
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