"you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"

rgsince81 said:

I did for a brief period many years ago.

virginie74 said:

...and did u leave again?

mplsmike said:

AGREED

I lost interest around Crystal Ball/NewPower Soul. I was still a fan, I just didn't go out and buy the CDs. I still have never heard NPS

The album that got me into being a huge fan again, of all things was Rave.

Then I went back and started re-aquiring his earlier material. And stuff I hadn't heard like everything up to Purple Rain. I was born in '83, so cut me some slack.

3121. Just kidding. I like that album.

Now with lotusflow3r and back now after the latest concerts.

2010. I don't know.

I'm sure Prince is asking himself the same questions. Who am I?

Do I like myself? Maybe not that one. But.


With Prince date and years have a bunch of meaning.

Even though he says time is a trick. He is on it.

He really does look in the mirror. Staring. It's like his hobby.

During The Artist era. Returned on Rave.
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Yes, for me it was around the Diamonds & Pearls, Game Boys era. His personality seemed like it changed to me, like he was trying to be something that he wasn't. During that time, I turned heavily towards Michael Jackson.

No... but Emancipation almost made me leave, november 1996, but I said to myself.. the NEXT Prince-album will be great, I have said that to myself many times since then, should I or ?

LF/ MPLS aren't actually that bad, all hope for a great Prince-album again is not gone.

Yes-an aftershow gig at the Hippodrome in 1998-Prince was going on about the Sudan and it was very annoying

no, but I've left the Org twice

Hell yes, I left for a long time - about 8 years!

I left after Emancipation, which at the time I thought was complete crap - and at 16 I was getting into dance music so didnt really listen to anything else.

I still listened to Prince from time to time, but didnt get anything new. I came back around 2004, not becuase of Musicology but because my boyfriend starting playing my old Prince albums out of curiosity and I redisocvered them.I've caught up as much as possible - some things I didnt mind missing (Rave) but I really wish I'd experienced the NPGMC, but hey.

And I remember someone not far away on this thread flaming me on Housequake for talking about this, calling me a fairweather fan and all that. Yawn.

MrMul said:

Whatever

haha, I left prince a while ago...

but it was only for a few months, couldn't resist the music:D

I left with The... Rainbow... Children.

Came back for The Chocolate Invasion.

Nah, been with him since 85'.

ronnwinter said:

That's when I came back! Well, I never really left, but I certainly wasn't enjoying his music as much throughout the nineties. Then I heard TRC and for the first time in a long time I wasn't disappointed. But I've bought every album and gone to every tour all the way through. Always will.

Naw, been with him sense 1979 For You album.

LOVEVERY1 said:

You mean the Prince album..For You was 1978

typo sorry thank you.

Rinluv said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

xlr8r said:

Nah, I was just kiddin. I never left! I got all the records. But I do find Prince hella funny!

Musically, the first major dissapointment was the release of Emancipation, because of it's sugary tone and the predicatble arrangements/drumming programming. Gradually I just started to no longer expect these major works with every album and that's fine for me. Every album has good songs, craps songs and I take from it what I like.

Personally, I don't relate to his persona at all anymore; I'm an atheist and his pseudo-wisdom that he preaches here and there is just embarassing. He tries to portray himself as this wise, zen leader of the real intellectual musicians but then makes a sponsord book that looks like Cosmo in hardcover, and has fans pay 77$ for a lame site that hardly offers what it should.

So, he remains one of the people I keep an eye on musically but don't care much about on other levels. My taste has expanded so, he has a less exclusive spot now.

rgsince81 said:

My bestfriend did in the 90s...he gathered up all his Cds, put them in a bag and dumped them on my doorstep... In the late 90s he regretted it

Somtimes I wonder if I have because I haven't bought the new stuff, think he's more of a wanker now than he has been in a very long time and I find myself putting CDs on and just skipping tracks constantly...perhaps it just over exposure to his stuff. I AM curious to hear Lotusfliwer etc but I won't pay tge extrtionate price to puff up the pocket of his latest 20-second pet project who may or maynot also be his fuckbuddy
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purpledoveuk said:

LF is $12. it really doesn't cost much @ all. u could prob find it cheaper than that

I wouldn't say I left but I found TRC @ the store(just browsing) b4 I heard of it anywhere else, so I guess I was out of the loop for a while.

nosajd said:

Yep, I did 'leave him' for quite some years: 1996 (Emancipation) unto 2004 (right before Musicology). But looking back it probably started with 'Come' (1994) allready

And to be honest, I still don't think he has really gotten his 'mojo' back since 2004.