i'm not sure what era, album, or sound i want him to RETREAD.
me thinks moving 4ward NOT backward is what's up.

...2X'S...i wanna rap a lil-bit...
..u so fine..i'm not that popular..if u want me i'm urs..
..mzsexybaby'I DON'T NO ONE 2 SEE..U KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

I need a little time and clarity....ill come up with another suggestion

mzkqueen03 said:

Seriously, three posts and none of them make one heaping pile of shit sense.

...2X'S...i wanna rap a lil-bit...
..u so fine..i'm not that popular..if u want me i'm urs..
..mzsexybaby'I DON'T NO ONE 2 SEE..U KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

mzkqueen03 said:

me thinks thou should step awayeth from the purple drink!!!

DesireeNevermind said:

Absinthe is green ain't it?

mzkqueen03 said:

me thinks thou should step awayeth from the purple drink!!!

ernestsewell said:

..maybe u need an X-TRA SHOT..

he isn't capable of another Dirty Mind...he has a 50 year old brain now, not a 20 year old one...his creativity has been severely diminished by age...happens to everyone.

mzkqueen03 said:

Wow who knew you were so defensive about alcohol. to the T.

And sweetheart, it's been a long while since alcohol touched these lips. Pot never has, but you might want to rethink your Ziplocks. I do well to take an Excedrin when some stalker gives me a headache from laughing so hard at their futile efforts to be a
[Edited 5/19/09 13:41pm]

Needs to make an abrupt change in style like he did from 79-80.


Dude needs to do something like throwing away the pro-tools, the gazzilion vocal tracks, all his studio musicians, the horns, the hip-hop, the strings, the blistering, but at this point cliched, guitar solos, most of this studio equipment and just go down to the basement with an eight track recorder a drum machine, a base, one guitar, one synth and maybe something to sequence with and make some "demos" and then release it.

I was hoping MPLSsound would be such a record but it wasnt.
[Edited 5/17/09 0:04am]

emesem said:

Alan Leeds, or someone close to Prince, once said Prince should be limited to 16 tracks, maybe 24 total. He starts to overdo it at some point. D&P was a good example of that, and was close (although I do loves me some CD). But I agree with your thought pattern. He needs to get raw again. We kind of saw that in recent years with "Contest Song" (which I still think was an outtake from the early 80's anyway, not a new track), and "No More Candy 4 U". I also agree that MPLS was WAY over done, especially when it was hyped as a throw back to his 80's sound. You can't over produce something, and then throw a Linn-1 drum machine and a synth in it and think "they'll think of 1999 when they hear this" or something. It just doesn't work that way. The great thing about even in 1984 was that he WAS limited to so many tracks. The band recorded together, or it was just him and his few instruments. His bass, his Hohner, some drums (or the Linn), and a couple of synths. I miss a piano on Dirty Mind but it's a trade off for the rawness of those songs.

you know i hate to be critical of anyone but the "fams" really can screw up a topic. You can't have a serious discussion without some gushing loon ruining it. This site has a rep for kooks and that reflects on everyone who posts here so I get aggravated by it at times. Moreover, I have to go through the process of skipping over, getting past all the nonsensical, sycophantic posts to get to the many really good well thought out posts by some really smart people here.