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Reply #30 posted 12/09/09 5:18am

Brofie

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zaza said:

Still Would Stand All Time sounds like gospel to me. Purple Rain has some elements of it too.


Exactly right - Purple Rain came to mind immediately. Anyone knowing anything aboutmusic composition would verify that. Still Would Stand All Time is all gospel - and a masterpiece for me since I hate gospel.
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Reply #31 posted 12/09/09 5:18am

Imago

These sound Gospeldiguk to me :




There is Lonely

God (b-side)

The Word (unconventional but the over-the-top chorus is firmly rooted in gospel)

God Created Woman

Still Would stand All Time

Everywhere (form TRC)

Positivity
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Reply #32 posted 12/09/09 5:22am

vivid

God is alive? And the question mark serves a dual purpose there.
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Reply #33 posted 12/09/09 5:37am

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however, when i think of gospel...some of these titles?? confuse ...lol


traditionally, i would say the ladder for sure and the cross, but since sex has always been princes god....shrug
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Reply #34 posted 12/09/09 5:51am

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gospel music

n.
A kind of Christian music based on American folk music, marked by strong rhythms and elaborated refrains, and incorporating elements of spirituals, blues, and jazz.

Form of black American music derived from Pentecostal church worship services and from spiritual and blues singing. Recordings of Pentecostal preachers' sermons were immensely popular among African Americans in the 1920s. Taking the scriptural direction "Let everything that breathes praise the Lord" (Psalm 150), Pentecostal churches welcomed timbrels, pianos, banjos, guitars, other stringed instruments, and even brass into their services. Choirs often featured the extremes of female vocal range in antiphonal counterpoint with the preacher's sermon. Other forms of gospel music have included the singing and acoustic guitar playing of itinerant street preachers; individual secular performers; and harmonizing male quartets, whose acts included dance routines and stylized costumes. Gospel music's principal composers and practitioners included Thomas A. Dorsey, who coined the term; the Rev. C.A. Tindley (1851 – 1933); the blind wandering preacher Rev. Gary Davis (1896 – 1972); Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915 – 73), whose performances took gospel into nightclubs and theatres in the 1930s; and Mahalia Jackson. Gospel music was a significant influence on rhythm and blues and soul music, which have in turn strongly influenced contemporary gospel music.

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Reply #35 posted 12/09/09 6:33am

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Imago said:

These sound Gospeldiguk to me :




There is Lonely

God (b-side)

The Word (unconventional but the over-the-top chorus is firmly rooted in gospel)

God Created Woman

Still Would stand All Time

Everywhere (form TRC)

Positivity





....Gospeldiguk???



...lol lol lol ..people who never grew up around the church sound funny to me when they try to explain what compels them. It would be easy to take offense and argue, but why??? out of the heart, the mouth speaks and because what i love isn't in another persons heart, doesn't mean they dont know truth.
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Reply #36 posted 12/09/09 6:37am

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annastesia1 said:

Has Prince ever done a gospel song?
His sister Tyka Nelson is a gospel singer.
I wonder if they ever work together.



Gospel music/songs is a specif genre like Jazz or Country or Opra
Gospel music is more of the message than the music style so rap rock country jazz can be used to express Gospel music

once that genre is defined than you can see what songs are Gospel

I would say God [the Dance Electric] 4 the Tears In Your Eyes the Cross Eye No even Everywhere(the Rainbow Children)
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Reply #37 posted 12/09/09 6:38am

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missjay23 said:

squirrelgrease said:

Forever In My Life from the Sign O The Times film. Killer gospel.


Oh yeah nod



I think that's more of romance than gospel
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Reply #38 posted 12/09/09 6:40am

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PatricioRey said:

maybe Baby I'm A Star?

Miles Davis used 2 say that Prince's music had a 'church feeling' cool



the lyrics aren't Gospel at all but the music style is pentecostal/baptist
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Reply #39 posted 12/09/09 6:44am

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peter430044 said:

zaza said:

Still Would Stand All Time sounds like gospel to me. Purple Rain has some elements of it too.


Of the two I prefer listening to the first one boxed


I love both of them. Purple Rain to me is more about forgiveness in relationship with humans. According to the movie the songs was directed at his father, Apollonia, Wendy (& Lisa) the Revolution

Still Would Stand All Time from the Lovesexy aftershow I love as well, but it went too long and I hated when it because to 'churchy' when he pulled up Taylor Dane and she was cracking and off key, it really messed it up for me
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Reply #40 posted 12/09/09 6:50am

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muleFunk said:

The whole Purple Rain album minus Darling Nikki.

However I Would Die 4 U is very gospel.



I think Purple Rain was his first album with more noticable 'Christian' themes, but hardly gospel

None of those songs do I consider gospel like. except for I Would Die 4 U and the b side God the dance electric

How is Take Me With U, the Beautiful Ones or Computer Blue...Gospel
Computer Blue is about anger rejection confusion lust...similar to Something In the Water
When Doves Cry is about a persons introspective turmoil.
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Reply #41 posted 12/09/09 6:51am

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vivid said:

God is alive? And the question mark serves a dual purpose there.



I forgot that one, Yes I agree it is
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Reply #42 posted 12/09/09 6:52am

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squirrelgrease said:

gospel music

n.
A kind of Christian music based on American folk music, marked by strong rhythms and elaborated refrains, and incorporating elements of spirituals, blues, and jazz.

Form of black American music derived from Pentecostal church worship services and from spiritual and blues singing. Recordings of Pentecostal preachers' sermons were immensely popular among African Americans in the 1920s. Taking the scriptural direction "Let everything that breathes praise the Lord" (Psalm 150), Pentecostal churches welcomed timbrels, pianos, banjos, guitars, other stringed instruments, and even brass into their services. Choirs often featured the extremes of female vocal range in antiphonal counterpoint with the preacher's sermon. Other forms of gospel music have included the singing and acoustic guitar playing of itinerant street preachers; individual secular performers; and harmonizing male quartets, whose acts included dance routines and stylized costumes. Gospel music's principal composers and practitioners included Thomas A. Dorsey, who coined the term; the Rev. C.A. Tindley (1851 – 1933); the blind wandering preacher Rev. Gary Davis (1896 – 1972); Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915 – 73), whose performances took gospel into nightclubs and theatres in the 1930s; and Mahalia Jackson. Gospel music was a significant influence on rhythm and blues and soul music, which have in turn strongly influenced contemporary gospel music.

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Reply #43 posted 12/09/09 7:02am

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all right thats enough gospeldiguk.....i really wanna know if prince has a collab or a solo project that i can sang in chuuuuuch, or at least listen too.
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Reply #44 posted 12/09/09 8:06am

datdude

gospel isn't a SOUND (B-Hammond organ, etc.) is CONTENT, so as has been said b4 P could do a compilation of all his spiritual songs that speak quite CLEARLY about the "gospel" (the "good news" of redemption thru Christ). Such a compilation for me would have to have:

The Cross
Still Would Stand All Time
God
4 The Tears in Your Eyes
Last December
The Ladder
The Word
Anna Stesia
Elephants & Flowers
Holy River
Everywhere
7
Let's Go Crazy (i know most don't associate this song as such, but he says so and the intro and various lyrics definitely allude to God, the afterlife, etc)
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Reply #45 posted 12/09/09 8:37am

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I Would Die 4 U Is about Jesus

hallelujah lol
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Reply #46 posted 12/09/09 8:38am

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zaza said:

Still Would Stand All Time sounds like gospel to me. Purple Rain has some elements of it too.

Co-sign...And according to me,the best attempt to Gospel!!
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Reply #47 posted 12/09/09 8:43am

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U Make My Sun Shine is an interesting deconstruction of gospel.

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Reply #48 posted 12/09/09 12:38pm

godyssey

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I Would Die 4 U Is about Jesus

hallelujah lol



I've heard people describe this song as blasphemous.
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Reply #49 posted 12/09/09 1:16pm

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Reply #50 posted 12/09/09 3:25pm

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angelface22 said:

really? eek prince sings about god all the time. what about rainbow children? does that count?

That doesn't make them gospel songs, by any means. And that album would NEVER make it on Christian radio.

i was kidding honey neutral
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Reply #51 posted 12/09/09 3:44pm

Dayclear

I think he does "forever in my life" like gospel. smile
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Reply #52 posted 12/09/09 3:49pm

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Dayclear said:

I think he does "forever in my life" like gospel. smile



Jodeci a 90's guy group and 80's Guy did music like gospel too, but it sure wasn't gospel.

Gospel music is 1st the lyrical content: it's the good news that Jesus came to die for the sins of mankind and rose again on the 3rd day, and things revolving around that.

There is also a style of musical playing that evolved out of that prominent in Pentecostal mostly and Baptist churches
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Reply #53 posted 12/09/09 4:05pm

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It would seem to me that about 20% of his music is gospel. At least.
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Reply #54 posted 12/09/09 4:07pm

Ottensen

"Sacrifice", "God"....there may be others but I don't listen to much Prince anymore.

Through the years I've heard him cover plenty of traditional gospel in live concerts, though. He reaches waaaaay back, into stuff like "Wade in the Water", and "Mary Don't You Weep", etc...
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Reply #55 posted 12/09/09 5:47pm

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datdude said:

gospel isn't a SOUND (B-Hammond organ, etc.) is CONTENT, so as has been said b4 P could do a compilation of all his spiritual songs that speak quite CLEARLY about the "gospel" (the "good news" of redemption thru Christ). Such a compilation for me would have to have:

The Cross
Still Would Stand All Time
God
4 The Tears in Your Eyes
Last December
The Ladder
The Word
Anna Stesia
Elephants & Flowers
Holy River
Everywhere
7
Let's Go Crazy (i know most don't associate this song as such, but he says so and the intro and various lyrics definitely allude to God, the afterlife, etc)




it is for me dammit! imma choir director!!! i wanna song i can teach to the church choir and hear on sunday freakin morning and on sunday freakin radio!!!! not no allusions, allegories and the like....i needs a pentacostal, body quickening, make me wanna hop up and stomp the floor and scream how good god really is!!! right now all i got is freakin another lonely god dammed christmas muffuka!





















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Reply #56 posted 12/09/09 6:13pm

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Purple Rain
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Reply #57 posted 12/09/09 6:51pm

ernestsewell

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

In Christianity, a gospel (from Old English, gōd spell "good news") is to be generally one of the first four books of the New Testament, Matthew - Mark - Luke - John.
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Reply #58 posted 12/10/09 5:59am

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Reply #59 posted 12/10/09 8:01am

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TwiliteKid said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

According to P, "Lovesexy" is his 'gospel' LP.


Really? When/where did he say that?

I came into to this post to suggest the aforementioned Still Would Stand All Time.


I remember reading an article in the early 90s that he said like this..and ofcourse it is true, in the sense that Lovesexy is his most spiritual album ever..but if this should be defined as an gospel album, ofcourse it isn't in the contemparary meaning of it (style wise, message wise)..For the Tears in your eyes is in style and message more closer to the contemperary meaning of Gospel Music.
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