Whatchu Think?



PFU?

Wedding Feast?

Chemtrails?


The silver gift-wrap outfit he wore in Paris?
The magenta dangly necklace thing he wore in Paris?
The black suit he wore in Paris?


What? What?

1. Biro Valente

2. Careless Whisper - The New Master

3. Planet Earth

4. LotusFlow3r

5. 3121

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[Edited 12/31/09 22:09pm]

wedding feast

lotusflower.com

elixer

chemtrilas

i have gay friends, and we read the bible together

Isn't this thread premature? There's still a year left until the decade is over.

i luv prince 2 death but come on

1. the youtube shit
2. the entire larry graham thing (from late 90's til 2day)
3. Loutsflower.com ($77 i could buy something with)
4. changing his lyrics around
5. N.E.W.S. (waste of a CD and Time!)

PicassoFace said:

Just like 2000 started a new decade, 2010 starts a new decade! PicassoFace...join the new decade! Happy New Year!

Fauxie said:

You serious?

cborgman said:

:cringe:

shellyann said:

Well, I know I sound anal here, but the new decade doesn't begin until 2011. Let's say we had never kept track of time before and were going to start counting years starting today. What year would it be? It would be year 1, not year 0, since you begin counting at 1, not 0. You'd have to complete year 10 before you begin a new decade. If you started the new decade at day one of year 10, you've only completed 9 years.

1. Expecting the best Prince album since the 1978-1984 period, and then getting "MPLShit" home and hearing current influenced sellout shit hop bullshit.

2. Mr. Goodnight

3. Incense and Candles

4. Illusion, Pimp, Circumstance, and Bullshit

5. Life Of The Party

And anything else I may have missed that resembles shit hop or current music even in the slightest.

PicassoFace said:

actually, that's not correct. We are in fact in the new decade. The year numbers denote how many years have been completed. Just like when you hit your 1st birthday, it is NOT an indication of you being IN your first year, but an indication of how many years you have already lived. That is because we DO begin counting from 0. When you turn 1, it means you have already completed 1 year and are into your 2nd year. (Prior to completing 1 year, no one says you're "0 years old"; instead they indicate age by days, weeks, months, etc., until you have completed 1 year at which point they introduce years as a measurement of your age.)

Similarly, when we hit 2010 on January 1, 2010, it means we have completed 10 years and are into our 11th.

We have completed 10 years of the "2000s"*...but the decade is not over until the end of 2010...the year number does NOT indicate how many years have been completed, like we do with our age (2010 does not mean we completed 2010 years...it means we are in the 2010th year. I say I'm 39 years old, but am in my 40th year.** And if I'm not mistaken, some cultures actually keep age this way--saying your 40 means you are in your 40th year, not "40 years old").

As PicassoFace correctly stated, the first year of the way we are currently counting years was "1 A.D.," not "0 A.D." Obviously the 2nd year was "2 A.D." The 10th year was "10 A.D." Which means the "2nd decade (next 10 years)" didn't start until the "11 A.D." (the 11th year).

We went through this at the end of the "millennium"--the millennium ended after the completion of 2000 years, which was the END of 2000, not the beginning. Of course the "2000s" started, so we celebrated the end of the "1900s" (I believe the year was 1999 or something like that).

I'm looking forward to discussing this again every 9-11 years.




*I was given extra "quotation marks" for Christmas, so I decided to use some here.

**Of course both are incorrect, since I'm older and lie about my age.

NuPwrSoul said:

Fauxie said:

Omg 3121 is great

PicassoFace said:

No, the decade is over. We're starting a new decade.
2000-2009 IS 10 years.

cborgman said:

Instead of wedding feast though I would say the spoken interludes in Rainbow Children. Ruined a very good album.

The Youtube Toddler.
[Insert Moment Here]
[Insert Moment Here]
[Insert Moment Here]
[Insert Moment Here]
[Edited 1/1/10 10:06am]

PicassoFace said:

We went through this back in 2000.
And you can't use the argument of starting the calendar.
Because if we were, we could very well use year zero couldn't we?

stephaniebrown said:

The first year of the way we are counting was not 1 A.D.
The calendar we use was not created/invented until 1582.

From wikipedia:
The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar.[1][2][3] It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter gravissimas. The reformed calendar was adopted later that year by a handful of countries, with other countries adopting it over the following centuries.
The Gregorian calendar reform contained two parts, a reform of the Julian calendar as used up to Pope Gregory's time, together with a reform of the lunar cycle used by the Church along with the Julian calendar for calculating dates of Easter. The reform was a modification of a proposal made by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius (or Lilio).[4] Lilius' proposal included reducing the number of leap years in four centuries from 100 to 97, by making 3 out of 4 centurial years common instead of leap years: this part of the proposal had been suggested before by, among others, Pietro Pitati. Lilio also produced an original and practical scheme for adjusting the epacts of the moon for completing the calculation of Easter dates, solving a longstanding difficulty that had faced proposers of calendar reform.
Gregory's bull does not ordain any particular year-numbering system, but uses the Anno Domini system which counts years from the traditional Incarnation of Jesus, and which had spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. That is the same year-numbering system that is the de facto international standard today.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...n_calendar

not sure I can think of five

1. When Prince called Tavis Smiley "Travis." Perhaps it was an inside joke btwn two good friends but everyone knows Tavis hates that!

2. American Idol. btw I hate that show.

3. not releasing a concert DVD from O2, Coachella, or another one of his amazing shows.

that's pretty much it. Not really worst moments but I guess im nitpicking.
[Edited 1/1/10 11:21am]

NONSENSE said:

Actually, I thought the American Idol performance was awful

His voice isn't stellar to begin with (albeit it's unique and he knows how to use it), but compared to some of the voices in the competition, it just doesn't cut it. Prince's strength is in the 'performance' and that's where he shines. And the performances was only so-so, combined with a so-so voice, it ended up just looking pompus. I'm glad Simon said what he said about Prince's behavior--it was rather unprofessional, and Simon was in the 'right' to say it. And I don't even watch the show myself.

1. Lotusflow3r membership
2. Youtube
3. No Montreux DVD
4. No tour
5. Bria

1990 was by far the best year of the 80s

SUPRMAN said:

that and some of the political aspects.

but yea, the vader voice is worse than wedding feast

elephant said:

SUPRMAN said:

(My New Year's resolution was to engage in meaningless debates--until the beginning of the next decade...which of course would be January 1, 2011.)

Nobody was saying we started using the current system in 1 A.D. Just that, regardless of the when the current calendar was "adopted," this year is 2010 A.D., and the "first" year A.D. (the first year after "B.C.") is "1," not "0"...

(From the same wikipedia page about the calendar:

[edit] English names for year numbering system
Main article: Anno Domini
The Anno Domini (Latin for "in the year of the/our Lord") system of numbering years, in which the leap year rules are written, and which is generally used together with the Gregorian calendar, is also known in English as the Common Era or Christian Era. Years before the beginning of the era are known in English as Before Christ, Before the Common Era, or Before the Christian Era. The corresponding abbreviations AD, CE, BC, and BCE are used. There is no year 0; AD 1 immediately follows 1 BC.) END QUOTE

Of course that doesn't mean there have only been around 2000 years of our existence, but I assume when we refer to the "new decade," we are referring to the next block of 10 years. And yes, we are arbitrarily starting those blocks of 10 years at the "beginning of A.D."...but that beginning is "1" and not "0" (as is stated on the wikipedia page). Who knows...if we started the blocks of 10 years from the actual beginning of time (if there is one), the new decade could be starting in the middle of a month in 2013.

Simply stated (or not so simply stated), the "second ten years of the 2000s" started today. But the next "decade" (as counted from an arbitrarily stated beginning point of the birth of Christ) begins in 2011.

Missing Prince X 5...
I need a watch that says I miss Prince...It won't even need batteries or hands or anything. Maybe a Neon Blue backlit diamond thing...that'll do.

1 The 2003 tour that interrupted the fantasic Rainbow children era and brought back the boring hits shows again
2 Lotusflow3r website
3 Lotusflow3r prints
4 Youtube war
5 Too many covers in the concerts setlists

Imago said:

To be honest, I couldn't really put PE, 3121, Lotusflow3r or mplsound in any kind of order because they're all pretty forgettable to me. Needless to say, I at least remember all are mediocre to poor and I lump them in together as albums of this last decade I can simply overlook and forget about. Prince basically did nothing during the 00s as far as I'm concerned.

Fauxie said:

Except Musicology was made in that decade too? I like a couple of tracks from that.