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Whats the Best and Worst Prince book Hey lets choose your favourite 3 Prince books, and your least favourite Prince books.
Try not to include Magazine articles, pamphlets, news items or anything that was not a global release. That leaves authors like Dave Hill, Per Nilsen, Alex Hahn, Steven Ivory, and Liz Smith to make a few. My favourite 3 are Per Nilsen, The Vault Dance Music Sex Romance I find his style concise, fairly accurate and sincere. He brings that Scandinavian like efficency to his publications. He may be Norwegian but possibly Swedish as Lysekil, the Home of his Uptown magazine is a few miles from the Norwegian border near Oslo. Per is easily the most informed person writing about Prince. Being a big fan himself, his natural curiosity, fascination and respect for Prince comes through in his writings. It would be great for him to rerelease the Vault, or write a companion volume to DMSR, Perhaps the whole 1988-2008 period, with a refresher chapter for those who didn't read DMSR My third favourite "Prince a Pop life, by Dave Hill" came out in 1989. The book is also excellent as its well written and covers his early life well especially with Interviews with Chris Moon and Bernadette Anderson. It also came at a time of change in his career. It would interesting to see what a follow up would sound like if he made one. The Worst book I have is "Prince by Stephen Ivory" which was a cheap paperback that came out in 1985 merely to cash in on the Purple Rain craze. The chapters are a disjointed mess and theres no real direction. It was clearly aimed at a non discriminating teeny bopper audience. I think it was a Black Beat or Right On spin off publication, and a cheep ass Mills and Boon type design, still an interesting period piece. The picture section is quite amusing though. So what do you guys think are great and what is hideous [Edited 6/13/08 23:09pm] 17 Years ago I made a commitment to Prince | |
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i enjoyed reading Possessed- by Hahn
i had had a P holiday 4 a few yrs- and it bought me back up to date worst- thief in the temple  [Edited 6/13/08 16:33pm] seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before   | |
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tane1976 said: Hey lets choose your favourite 3 Prince Books, and your least favourite Prince books.
Try not toinclude Magazine articles, pamphlets, news items or anything that was not a global release. That leaves authors like Dave Hill, Per Nilsen, Alex Hahn, Steven Ivory, and Liz Smith to make a few. My favourite 3 are Per Nilsen, The Vault Dance Music Sex Romance I find his style concise, fairly accurate and sincere. He brings that Scandinavian like efficency to his publictions. He may be Norwegian but possibly Swedish as Lysekil, the Home of his Uptown magazine is a few miles from the Norwegian border near Oslo. Per is easily the most informed person writing about Prince. Being a big fan himself, his natural curiosity, fascination and respect for Prince comes through in his writings. It would be great for him to rerelease the Vault, or write a companion volume to DMSR, Perhaps the whole 1998-2008 period, with a refresher cahpter for those who didn't read DMSR My thrid favourite "Prince a Pop life, by Dave Hill" came out in 1989. The book is also excellent as its well written and covers his early life well especially with Interviews with Chris Moon and Bernadette Anderson. It also came at a time of change in his career. It would interesting to see what a follow up would sound like if he made one. The Worst book I have is "Prince by Stephen Ivory" which was a cheap paperback that came out in 1985 merely to cash in on the Purple Rain craze. The chapters are a disjointed mess and theres no real direction. It was clearly aimed at a non discriminating teeny bopper audience. I think it was a Black Baet or Right On spin off publication. The picture section is quite amusing though. So what do you guys think are great and what is hideous I like he Pop Life book by Dave Hill but I havent had the chance to peep any others | |
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DMSR is probably my favorite, followed very closely by The Vault
"possessed" is probably my least favorite, and that "purple reign" book, or "slave 2 the system", whichever it's called...that one's no picnic either. | |
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Prince's worst look, is when he'z running around town doin' a whole lotta nuthin' and Prince's best look, is knowing His best friend is bored to tears, waiting, and turning so damn blue that I am drowning in my own wonderful personality. Now...I'm about to get upest....Do u know what that means Mister? It means that I will sleep in a Parka 4 the resto of our lives...Now better get steppin' or else. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight... | |
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They're all the same I think his best will be the one that comes out in September.  | |
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Dayclear said: They're all the same I think his best will be the one that comes out in September.
 [Edited 6/13/08 19:49pm] seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before | |
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Oooh Possessed! Prime and I could talk for hours on this one, in fact we were thinking of writing our own book  I didn't like the constant droning negativity of it at all, desperately looking for 'something'!
I really liked DMSR - excellent book and a lot more objective (also a few positives things about Prince in there too  ) I've just got 'A Life in Music' which I'm going to read next!
Oh, and I definitely think Blackguitaristz should write a book  [Edited 6/14/08 12:06pm] | |
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Best - DMSR. SO damned comprehensive.
Worst - DMSR. Because we NEED a new version! | |
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tane1976 said: Hey lets choose your favourite 3 Prince books, and your least favourite Prince books.
Try not to include Magazine articles, pamphlets, news items or anything that was not a global release. That leaves authors like Dave Hill, Per Nilsen, Alex Hahn, Steven Ivory, and Liz Smith to make a few. My favourite 3 are Per Nilsen, The Vault Dance Music Sex Romance I find his style concise, fairly accurate and sincere. He brings that Scandinavian like efficency to his publications. He may be Norwegian but possibly Swedish as Lysekil, the Home of his Uptown magazine is a few miles from the Norwegian border near Oslo. Per is easily the most informed person writing about Prince. Being a big fan himself, his natural curiosity, fascination and respect for Prince comes through in his writings. It would be great for him to rerelease the Vault, or write a companion volume to DMSR, Perhaps the whole 1988-2008 period, with a refresher chapter for those who didn't read DMSR My third favourite "Prince a Pop life, by Dave Hill" came out in 1989. The book is also excellent as its well written and covers his early life well especially with Interviews with Chris Moon and Bernadette Anderson. It also came at a time of change in his career. It would interesting to see what a follow up would sound like if he made one. The Worst book I have is "Prince by Stephen Ivory" which was a cheap paperback that came out in 1985 merely to cash in on the Purple Rain craze. The chapters are a disjointed mess and theres no real direction. It was clearly aimed at a non discriminating teeny bopper audience. I think it was a Black Beat or Right On spin off publication, and a cheep ass Mills and Boon type design, still an interesting period piece. The picture section is quite amusing though. So what do you guys think are great and what is hideous [Edited 6/13/08 23:09pm] Looks like we have the same library. How'd that happen? Go figure. I have a couple of more I think. I've actually been reading The Vault page by page. Just say I have. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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Imagine if the collective mind that is prince.org made a book, perhaps via a wiki... | |
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1p1p1i3 said: Imagine if the collective mind that is prince.org made a book, perhaps via a wiki...
You might be on to something. Every posted should be attributed. ( so someone can consider the source or submit others to strengthen or debunk a claim. ) I like the idea though . . . . We could post pictures, song samples, etc. It's a compilation of material, wonder if/how Prince would fight an encyclopedia entry which is basically what it would be. A research repository for scholars, fans and others to learn about Prince. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
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1p1p1i3 said: Imagine if the collective mind that is prince.org made a book, perhaps via a wiki...
We would need to ensure journalistic integrity, I could just see this project mutating into a quirk fest of colliding opinions, half truths, alleation, blind fan worship and lack of actual fact. A book merely portrays one view of Prince and his music and thats why it would be good for an orger like blackguitarz or anxiety to write a paper which tries to explore the literature, its history cahnge of opinion eg critics pet, to critics whipping boy, to critics ignorance, and them formulate its own opinion. Kind of a Prince historiography (I am not far out of university postgraduate studies) 17 Years ago I made a commitment to Prince | |
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