GiGi319 said:

according to ticketmaster, prince and his whole band are cats, so it's only natural that our feline friends listen to him

did i really just justify that comment with a reply?

Have sex to it.

Only then will you understand.

N.E.W.S. & Xpectation r love making albums and I love P's instrumentals.

A friend of mine is a recovering heroin addict n alcoholic. He thinks it's amazing!

cloudguitar said:

Cloudguitar, it's perfectly ok to lighten up a bit. Have some fun! We don't have to be serious here all the time.

Maybe u are not ready for it. Some things take a certain level of maturity to appreciate. I find this to be one of the most defining CDs of Prince's career and pretty much seperates the shallow from the deep. In other words Prince's talent goes much deeper than his voice. I would think most fans would find it a fantastic collection of songs.

Given the state of music and how many younger people have grown up in an era that is pretty empty in real music terms I wonder if that plays a part in the response to this work. So much of nusic created these days lacks complexity and true musical skill.[/quote]

I 100% agree with your assessment. NEWS is an awesome display of mucisianship.

unfortunatly prince's music has suffered over the past 15 years because of his religious fundamentalism. obviously his new music is controled by his being a jehovah's witness. have you ever heard of smooth jazz, well now we have smooth funk. prince shines when he plays live, but i leave the cd in the bin at the store. it's not worth the money.

GiGi319 said:

Ever heard of instrumental albums, by any chance?
Gah, you pop fans...

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Here we go again, Funkenstein is being hateful!

GiGi319 said:

You shouldn't bash an album just because it has no vocals

PurpleLove7 said:

I agree wiv that! I love P`s instrumentals...Xpectation is the only one I haven`t got...

The last time I listened to NEWS I litterly fell asleep.

I'm listening to it for the first time right now and I can't understand why people bash it so much. I'm loving it! So beautiful.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

You are so right.

I'd love it if Prince put an instrumental track on his albums, but of course his ignorant pop-loving fans would say "Why aren't there any vocals?!"

Nowadays, I think he could use a few instrumental tracks, because his lyric-writing is wearing thin.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

I'm not bashing it, but is it wrong if I like Prince's voice? I mentioned in an earlier post, that I would give the album another spin. Call me stupid, but I just didn't know that it was going to be instrumentalonly.
By the way, I do have the madhouse albums and like them.
I would just appreciate it, if some people could be a little nicer, when voicing their opinions.
After all, we're all here using up a lot of our time, because we like and appreciate Prince's music.

GiGi319 said:

Cmon now, I wasn't being that mean, was I?

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Ok Funkenstein, I'll forgive you!

Gohi said:

I wish you love and I wish you heaven, even though you called me an ignorant pop-fan.

GiGi319 said:

All the crazy purple-kool aid drinking mothafuckas around here just generally piss me off and I sometimes take it out on people who don't necessarily deserve it.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Yeah, and fake funksters from fuckin' Finland absolutely drive me up a fuckin' wall, actin' like they are the authority on funk.

Now, if you start breaking down the in's and out's of Nordic folk music, then I just might start taking your opinions seriously.

GiGi319 said:

I didn't include you in that group I mentioned.

vainandy said:

Yep, I agree and I wish people would accept that, rather than make ridiculous comments like some particular music isn't 'complex' enough when those people making those comments clearly haven't got a clue what they're talking about. I'm no musician at all, and I do feel that as a consumer and appreciater of any kind of art form I'm in a position to say whether or not I like something and I'm also able to say why.
It's the old restaurant parallel; I'm no chef, but I know whether the food I'm eating and paying for is good or not and I'm perfectly within my rights to say whether or not I'm enjoying it. I know where you're coming from and generally, people who say that music is 'crap', or make some other shallow criticisms deserve to come under the label you're seeing me as.

However, for someone to go so deep as to say that a particular piece of music isn't complex when I, personally think it's very, very multi-layered, then that person has to convince me that their 'observation' is valid. And this particular person's criticism that NEWS isn't complex needs to be more explicitly explained (which they subsequently didn't do).

Again, back to the chef/restaurant thing. Saying that the food is bad/good is one thing, but saying that the food isn't 'complex' is a criticism that they need to explain deeper and prove that they know what they're talking about. Simply saying that they've eaten more 'complex' food elsewhere isn't a satisfactory way of explaining their shallow criticism.

truefunksoldier said:

You sound way more defensive than me. See my previous post - if you're going to go deep in your criticisms, at least try to explain them rather than just casually toss off some other artists that you like and expect me to see the light. Your comments that the arrangements are bland and the progressions are predictable, etc. carry no weight because they're very easy comments to make, especially as you haven't given actual examples of how NEWS doesn't work in those contexts.

music waaay cool... unique. Mix it with some good luviN=S A T I S F I E D

Like it or Like something else with vocals, it's all okay...no one here should ever be ashamed of their music preferences.

I love N.E.W.S.
As well as The Rainbow Children and The Truth.
I am a musician and maybe because of that I dig his more musical/experimental side. I'm like that with alot of music I like but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy some pop stuff too.
Those albums I mentioned are my faves since mid-90's to present.
I will also add that I really like Planet Earth. Holding up very nicely.

Haystack said:

Actually, I gave pretty specific examples. If you choose not to see them because you're looking at life through purple colored glasses, more power to you.

How about this....why don't you explain to me what it is that makes N.E.W.S. complex to you?

Accujack said:

Fake?
So, I'm not allowed to listen to or comment on funk just because I was born in Finland? That's probably some of the most retarded shit I've ever heard. And you are 34 years old? Jesus H Christ...

I've done a lot of research on the genre and listened to a lot of funk music. I feel I am qualified to comment on it. Now, if we were talking about, say prog rock, I wouldn't 'act like I was the authority' on the subject since I know nothing about prog rock.

Now piss off.

Tha fuck happened to this thread?
always some drama goin down round here