Anji said:

the only thing that really gets on my nerves with reviews of music
by either critics or fans these days is that less than 5% actually
says something about the songs or the lyrics of the new album.

every single review in a magazine starts with half a page of blah
about an artists back catalogue, recounting successes as far back
as 1920, lol. then they drag out some of the latest gossip and in
the very last 2 paragraphs they finally get round to saying some
uninspired things about the new material.

seldom do reviews quote more than half a line from an albums total
lyrics.

with prince reviews it's particularly bad with 99% of magazine and
internet reviews starting about his size, then his WB fight, then
his internet recluse days, some stuff about sex, some stuff about
the name change and the JW and concluding:

"and then we have Planet Earth. granted there is no When Doves Cry
to be found here but the pint sized rocker does deliver his custom
grab bag album full of funk and soul. lead single Guitar is one of
his best singles since 1992's diamonds & pearls and recalls prince
at his peak, adding a splash of modern hip hop mid way through the
album and purple rain's cousin "lion of judah" finds prince "lying
on a floor in an all white room feeling very blue" we've seen better
but with prince even the crumbs are almost a complete meal"

Interesting take on the topic

NDRU said:

is that a very polite way of saying i strayed off topic?



i always start out trying to say one thing and end up on
some rant about nothing at all

I always thought that Another Lonely Christmas was the evil twin to Purple Rain.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

Guitar, and Boys And Girls sound VERY much alike!

Well he quite often references his own stuff years later... for example the chorus of 'Push It Up' on NPS is directly lifted from 'Jam of the Year' on Emancipation. So they're not just similar but literally interlaced!

But soundwise Question of U and The One have a really similar musical feel to them, at the O2 he was playing the intro to ? of U and just segueing into The One. Both fabulous songs I think!

A couple of times I hear something in one of the songs which I recognise from something by someone else... given his stance on copyright I don't imagine it's deliberate but when he goes to such trouble to point out the occasional similarity (like on 3121.com just before it went all black the apollonia thing) it just feels like a reminder that sometimes melodies or musical arrangements can remind you of somebody else's song...