Amazng coverage and astounding review of ONA LIVE!

http://www.nydailynews.co...5836c.html

for the full article

Thanks Orgmind and well thanks Jim Farber. Yes,I'm looking for magazines and the stuff on t.v. and tape I missed and well you wanna sell?

Thanks!

Hey Origmnd, are you a member of NPG music club? I'm asking because I know that you have webtv and I'd like to know how webtv club members are going about getting the club downloads.

The article was not that GOOD! It seemed like another radio critic wrote an article about a box set that he listened to 1 time. Talking about Disk 1 is "problematic" because he obviously didn't like the new FUNK groove. He definitely hypes Disk 2 because of the old songs which are not every long. The critic takes the cake about "Joy in Repetition" going from B-level to an A. Where has he been?

Ooops, I forgot ... probably under the Teen POP rock!
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Empty Room is the new jam!

Thanks for the article.
I was in the laundromat where they were selling the new york daily. I didn't have money but I really wanted to check it out. I kept waiting for the vender to look around so I could get a sneak peek but then a woman comes and bought the last copy.

This just exemplifies why many critics have their heads up their asses. Many of them are all about the commercial hits and can't think outside of that purely POP ARENA. They want to keep a recording artist inside that narrow assed box of their own limited expectations, but yet call JIR and DP B level songs. Spare me.

Natasha said:

Natasha, go here: www.geocities.com/jandrews2002 they have a lot of Prince videos there

It still seems that the best review of ONA Live is Brendan's. I'm not just saying that cause he's an org member and Prince fan, but he clearly took the time to fully listen to and feel ONA Live. He reported the positives and negatives in a way none of these reviews, so far, has come close to.
While I realize professional music critics have to listen to and review God knows how many CDs, it seems they could have given ONA Live a little more time since it is Prince's first official live release.

GoldNigga said:

I'm a member. To get downloads..
..sign on with a friend's computer.

the pic on the front cover is sweeet!

check it out:

www.chewymusic.com/frcover2003.jpg
[This message was edited Sun Jan 5 21:57:59 PST 2003 by chewymusic]

shygirl said:

That's very kind of you, shygirl. And don't go getting shy on me.

Your comments about the mainstream press are very shrewd. Many of them are overworked and have to churn out formulated reviews that say very little. Even the ones who like or love this release -- and I think the current count is something like 15 to 1 in favor -- don't sound as though they have explored this release much at all. But unless you are a mainstream artist who sells at mainstream levels, you just aren’t going to get much more than 3 or 4 paragraphs, if that.

I'm very glad that I make my money elsewhere and don't have to earn a living this way, as I just couldn't live with myself writing countless formulaic reviews after spinning a disc once or twice. I got to live and breathe this stuff in the hopes of even glimpsing what an artist was attempting. And even then I usually fail more than I succeed and end up regretting a particular sentence or sentiment.

I wrote this review mainly due to being greatly inspired to do so by the music. But the other reason was that at the time there was literally no other formal review available except a 2-paragraph one from People Magazine. Even the fan sites didn't have anything. Of course a big part of that was because a large portion of the fans hadn't received their copy yet.

The biggest surprise in this whole thing to me has been the large volume of email and org notes I've received over this article. And they continue to flow in even today, and most are from people that I've never seen anywhere in the Prince on-line community. There's a large silent group out there who are loving this box set who either don't have the time to post, are simply not interested in doing so, or are too shy or intimidated to share their opinion.

Thanks again for your kind words.

Brendan

Ole Jim Farber Dude has been around for so long WOW!.Cats like HimJon Parceles(Misspelled) still Reviewing after all of these Years.I Respect those Cats.

More power to Brendan.

chewymusic said:

That's awesome!! Thanks for sharing!

sweet...but that "he's alive!!" header makes it seem like p's steppin outta some b-movie...

...but it fits. the average joe now knows what all of us prince geex have been knowin all along...he's still around and kickin some ass...

chewymusic said:

thanks for the cover link
very swweeett
3 fine even

you are very welcome!!

made my Sunday breakfast real good!

good read, thx for this!