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PrintableI like Face down better but I guess thats because I was standing at the stage in San Jose CA. when I heard it. The bass intro was hard and funky and seemed to last for at least 10 minutes. Prince was standing right in above/front of me when the girl I was with grabbed him by the leg. She said his calf was rock hard. I said girl you need to stop! before security kicks u out and you have to walk home. | |
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funksterr said: Face Down - Prince expressing himself in a hip-hop style. It's funny and his anger and pain come through loud and clear. The music is funky, though a bit polished and studio slick.
Dead On It - Prince mocking the hip-hop culture to a wicked beat. I used to hate the song because I didn't get the joke. It took a while for me to realize that this is Prince at the peak of his powers showing his bad-ass greatness. This is when Prince was ahead of his audience. To this day folks still don't get it. His vocals are relaxed, his timing is perfect, the joke is hilarious and the music as they say on the Black Album is 'slammin'. Not to mention that Dead On It is infinitely more musically innovative than Face Down. Don't get me wrong, I love Face Down, but more for its funny lyrical content than its music. Its well produced, but not really doing anything we haven't heard before. Dead On It has ideas in spades - the fabulous instrumentation and combinations thereof, the brilliant rhythm guitar and wild arrangements with obscure and discordant composition - fabulous stuff. DOI has loads of new musical ideas, whereas Face Down doesn't even trip over a new one - but its still a funky track. ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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FlashStabone said: Dead On It scores a 10 out of 10.
Face Down scores a 10 out of 10. Face down gets 9.99 and DOI a 9.50 Prince's Sarah | |
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bboy87 said: Rinluv said:  He's never been able to pull off the hip hop sound. He improved by the time around Come but it still didn't work for him Dead On It sounds like he missed the plot completely But, DOI wasn't meant to sound like hip-hop, it was a parody! ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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Mindflux said: bboy87 said: He's never been able to pull off the hip hop sound. He improved by the time around Come but it still didn't work for him Dead On It sounds like he missed the plot completely But, DOI wasn't meant to sound like hip-hop, it was a parody! I know, and that's why I think it's corny  "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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"Dead like Elvis."  https://www.youtube.com/@PurpleKnightsPodcast | |
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