TikiColadas said:

But are they as good as.....

I wanna be your lover, Bambi, When you were mine, Head, Controvery, Do Me baby, Lets work, 1999, Little red corvette, DMSR, How Come U don't call me anymore, When Doves Cry, Lets Go Crazy, Purple Rain, Baby I'm a star, The Beautiful ones, Darling Nikki, I would die 4 u, erotic city, 17 Days, Paisley park, she's always in my hair, Kiss, Girls and Boys, Sign O The times, Shockadelica, Good Love, Housequake, Strange Relationship, The Cross, The Ballad of dorothy parker, U Got The look, Adore, If I was your girlfriend, Bob George, Cindy C, Alphabet Street, Lovesexy, Annastesia, Scandalous, Electric Chair, I love U in Me, Vicki Waiting

Is Girl 6 better than Strange Relationship?

Is Zanalee better than Electric Chair?

??

Maybe a better way to compare the periods is not to look at the strong tracks, but look at the weak ones. Then you get a picture as to the stronger period as a whole.....

Solo, Da Da Da, Arrogance, Daddy pop, Dionne, Push it up, Right the wrong...

or...

Starfish and coffee, take me with you, Dirty Mind, Lady Cab Driver, The Future, Positivity, Raspberry beret, Anotherloverholenyohead, Le Grind.

As a body of work, the 80s was ulimately more solid.


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IstenSzek said:

I think that shows more the poor quality of todays output, rather than the strength of the 90's work.

Any strong track from the 90's sounds better than the majority web site throwaway tracks.

Some of my favorite songs are from the 90's and there is some beautiful work there in the different albums I have.
Exceptional tracks 4 me include:

Diamonds & Pearls: Thunder, Money Don't Matter 2night, Insatiable

: The Morning Paper, The Max, Continental, Damn U
Come: Space, Loose!, Letitgo, Dark and Solo (some people don't really get into it... but I think its by far one of the most brilliant things he's ever done, even if it was in sadness).

The Gold Experience: Gold (of course, my all-time favorite!), Shh (another all-time favorite), Hate U

NewPower Soul: The One (its worth getting the album for this alone, there's nothing else like it anywhere... thu it could be Te Amo Corazon's predecessor)

Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic: The Greatest Romance, Man O' War, Love U, but don't trust u anymore, Strange but True (one of the most unique tracks I've heard from him... nothing else like it).

That's among the most brilliant work he's done in the 90's or even ever in some cases (and those are the only 90's albums I own right now... only need one more).

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

I agree the 90's had many career highlights in it, but as a body or work, its clearly not a solid, or as cutting edge.The 82-88 period was solid to the core (ok, maybe not "Horny Toad"!).

One of the problems with the 90's material was not the strong song writing, but the unoriginal way it was produced. Many of the sounds were dated or even worse, tried to copy current trends.

As the world moved away from scratching on records, Prince finally introduced it. When the world began to get bored with crap rappers filling out the middle eight in pop records, Prince was only just jumping on board. Prince attempted house music 10 years to late.

Alot of the 80's stuff sounds dated now, but at the time, there was nothing around like it. That couldn't have been said for the catch up 90's or the old school 00's.

I would say that the 90's was 50% good, 50% filler. Where the 80's was more 90/10. Thats the mark of a good body of work.

Another big problem in the 90's was Prince's inhability to self regulate the quality output of his work. We got quantity, not quality. From 94 to 2000, there seeme very little strategy or thought going into choosing the best recordings.

Warner did a good job containing him. Warner wouldn't have let him release the likes of Emancipation and New Power Soul. He would have been forced to consolidate, and that can sometimes be a good thing.

Apart from The Truth I haven't listened to any of his nineties albums all the way through, since the nineties.

vivid said:

hah... good point

i haven't listened to any 90's album in full... period.

SquirrelMeat said:

Thank god that Prince got the hell out of that contract(handcuffs)...a fat guy sat behind a desk at warner hasn't got a clue what music is..if he did Prince would never had to battle with them to get Sign of the Time out...

Da Da Da a weak track?...each to their own ...but the lyrics are not 'wannabe' it so not 80's prince that's why it's good

LondonStyle said:

But Warner were behind the pressure that led to SOTT being released in its stripped down form. So you just proved my point.

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LondonStyle said:

Really? must have got it but on the BBC doc they said they never wanted a 2 cd release they just wanted just 1 cd?

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SquirrelMeat said:

No, Prince wanted 3 discs (Crystal Ball) Warner wanted two (SOTT).

As a hardcore fan I would have been happy with the three discs, but Warners intervention lead to prince consolidating and producing his strongest album.

Very few actual classics from the 90's tho.

TikiColadas said:

i think ppl really jus dnt like 90's music bcuz in the 80 is how most ppl became prince fans.....now of course they're gonna b a lil iffy in the 90 bcuz his stuff is great but it was jus sumthing "different". i really have been trying to express that it was different alot of ppl dnt like his 90's stuff bcuz it was a complete sound nobdy had heard especially not from prince. now if u really think prince stuff was better n the 80's i think it was bcuz of who he modeled after in his music how savvy and raw and mysterious in his shows cuz everybdy was like OMG WAT IS PRINCE DOIN I AINT NEVA SEEN DAT!!! plus his age really did sumthing i mean he was free everybdy person can say that they were free in there late teens and 20's....now in the ninties yea he got more professional more religious and wise...so of course his music is gon reflect that....plus since he had an ordeal with his label he got stubborn n said imma do my own thing no matta wat they say so i mean he had problems i guess with wat he believed for as religion and mayb the marriage and the fathership i guess sorta makes u think well its time 2 grow up FA-REAL so...all in all he jus has evolved like now hes even older and his music is still changin