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Prince's 90's output finally getting some love from the fans In talking with others here at the org, I have noticed a peculiar thing. Prince's 90's work is starting to be more and more appreciated.
Back when I the internet/prince community was relatively new to me--1995/96/97 there was much venom towards anything after 1988. Not all the time, but a good deal of hardcore fans didn't like Prince's newer stuff because of "all the rap". Nowadays I frequently see albums like Come,  , and even Chaos and Disorder heralded as being great albums. It is an interesting trend, and it'll be interesting to see if it continues to albums like Emancipation and Rave.
Do you think that it takes a few years for Prince fans to fully appreciate the "new" stuff and put it into perspective with the "classics" or is it something else? "New Power slide...." |
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skywalker said: Do you think that it takes a few years for Prince fans to fully appreciate the "new" stuff and put it into perspective with the "classics" or is it something else?[/u]
I do!! People tend to glorify their memories. It’s like reminiscing, you know, that ‘those-were-the-days feeling’. In about ten years from now we’ll all love this period in our history. | |
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skywalker said: In talking with others here at the org, I have noticed a peculiar thing. Prince's 90's work is starting to be more and more appreciated.
Back when I the internet/prince community was relatively new to me--1995/96/97 there was much venom towards anything after 1988. Not all the time, but a good deal of hardcore fans didn't like Prince's newer stuff because of "all the rap". Nowadays I frequently see albums like Come, , and even Chaos and Disorder heralded as being great albums. It is an interesting trend, and it'll be interesting to see if it continues to albums like Emancipation and Rave.
Do you think that it takes a few years for Prince fans to fully appreciate the "new" stuff and put it into perspective with the "classics" or is it something else? Yeah, that's why i take what critics and fans say with a grain of salt and just like what i like, people are fickle, one day they love something, the next day they hate. I rely on my own critical faculties to tell me what the quality of stuff is, not consensus. | |
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skywalker said: Do you think that it takes a few years for Prince fans to fully appreciate the "new" stuff and put it into perspective with the "classics" or is it something else?[/u]
I think it's exactly the opposite. I think it's more a matter of newer, younger fans listening to the more recent stuff first -- and reviewing it favorably -- than of older fans coming to appreciate it. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Because as years have gone by, music by artists in general has gotten worse and worse. It makes Prince's worst stuff sound good. Hell, "Karma Sutra" sounds better than the shit hop that is all over the radio today. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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vainandy said: Because as years have gone by, music by artists in general has gotten worse and worse. It makes Prince's worst stuff sound good. Hell, "Karma Sutra" sounds better than the shit hop that is all over the radio today.
Don't say that. Please, don't EVER say that.  "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
-Eugene Tackleberry | |
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skywalker said: Do you think that it takes a few years for Prince fans to fully appreciate the "new" stuff and put it into perspective with the "classics" or is it something else?
Yup, I've noticed this, as well. When I first joined the org people were always talking badly about my favorite album, , and Come, etc... now, years later they get a lot of love. Within the last couple years, I'm seeing more fans of C&D, too.
Hell, for that matter look what happened to LoveSexy. |
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Well, I think that you're right. The 90s are much better than they get credit for and the truth about that will eventually rise to the top.
But it doesn't help that in the 80s Prince might have been better than any popular Western musician on planet earth. That creates a very weird contrast. In my mind the 90s certainly didn't have the amazingly complete albums of the 80s, but he did write a hell of a lot of great songs (especially in the early to mid-nineties). And, an album doesn't have to be a masterpiece to be listened to. Unless that is the extremely high motto one sets for themselves. 
--screw my editor and his children!-- [Edited 7/19/07 16:07pm] | |
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That is Prince in a nutshell, he does underground/fan albums.... then a POP album.. Then all the "new pop" fans go back and check out the 4 albums they missed.
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Everybody loves a winner! He's hot now, where were these people in the 90's? Fair weather fans  They never last! | |
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