ZombieKitten said:

JoeTyler said:

It would be OK if someone said "Hey I don't like TGE but I accept that it's full of good songs, it has an energetic rock production and overall it's his best album of the 90s" but the line "for the life of me I can not understand what people hear in "The Gold Experience" just screams "subjectivity"...

you are still here?

JoeTyler said:

ZombieKitten said:

you are still here?

since yesterday do you mean?

or in this forum, where I don't belong

ZombieKitten said:

JoeTyler said:

you are still here?

or in this forum, where I don't belong

I read sometime that you're scared of leaving the GD forums

JoeTyler said:

ZombieKitten said:

or in this forum, where I don't belong

I read sometime that you're scared of leaving the GD forums

at night when nobody else is posting, I sometimes go to site discussion or associated artist, but yes it's rare for me to end up here! Back where I started in 2003 arguing about out of tune vocals on Baby I'm a Star

ZombieKitten said:

JoeTyler said:

I read sometime that you're scared of leaving the GD forums

at night when nobody else is posting, I sometimes go to site discussion or associated artist, but yes it's rare for me to end up here! Back where I started in 2003 arguing about out of tune vocals on Baby I'm a Star

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

For the life of me I can not understand what people hear in "The Gold Experience" Would not make my top 20

You're a sinner and should be banned for life. From life.

Dave1992 said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

For the life of me I can not understand what people hear in "The Gold Experience" Would not make my top 20

You're a sinner and should be banned for life. From life.

Naw, there is a very vocal little group here on the org that play up that album, but I think you will be surprised if you played it to people not in on the joke, I guarantee you they wont get it.

Someone mentioned subjectivity, I agree, its all subjective. Some are so musically insulated here on the org that opinions tend to to meld together, the strangeness and the smell you once found offensive suddenly disappears, and one tends to to behave like a member of a cult, and just like in a cult, just because it is accepted here by a small cult, doesn't mean you won't get the strange looks from the outside world.

I think it nice that people like "The Gold Experience", but i don't think any people outside the hardcore org cult ever will.

Same with "The Rainbow Children"

[Edited 10/7/10 19:01pm]

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Dave1992 said:

You're a sinner and should be banned for life. From life.

Naw, there is a very vocal little group here on the org that play up that album, but I think you will be surprised if you played it to people not in on the joke, I guarantee you they wont get it.

Someone mentioned subjectivity, I agree, its all subjective. Some are so musically insulated here on the org that opinions tend to to meld together, the strangeness and the smell you found offensive suddenly disappears, and one tends to to behave like a member of a cult, and just like in a cult, just because it is accepted here by a small cult, doesn't mean you won't get the strange looks from the outside world.

I think it nice that people like "The Gold Experience", but i don't think any people outside the hardcore org cult ever will.

Same with "The Rainbow Children"

I have a friend outside of the org that like Prince BECAUSE of that album and he is the one that gave me the CD, and I love it (not because of HIM or anything, if he were HOT, then I could see where it might, but I like it on it's OWN merit! )

ZombieKitten said:

I have a friend outside of the org that like Prince BECAUSE of that album and he is the one that gave me the CD, and I love it (not because of HIM or anything, if he were HOT, then I could see where it might, but I like it on it's OWN merit! )

Cool

But how does someone not into Prince, come across a relatively obscure record like TRC?

Anyway, its just my opinion, no biggie.

[Edited 10/7/10 19:12pm]

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

ZombieKitten said:

I have a friend outside of the org that like Prince BECAUSE of that album and he is the one that gave me the CD, and I love it (not because of HIM or anything, if he were HOT, then I could see where it might, but I like it on it's OWN merit! )

Cool

But how does someone not into Prince, come across a relatively obscure record like TRC?

Anyway, its just my opinion, no biggie.

oh, that's easy, he's a tight ass and TRC is $1 in the clearance bin

he bought several copies to give as gifts

ZombieKitten said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Cool

But how does someone not into Prince, come across a relatively obscure record like TRC?

Anyway, its just my opinion, no biggie.

oh, that's easy, he's a tight ass and TRC is $1 in the clearance bin

he bought several copies to give as gifts

I was going to mention the fact that it is always on the discount bin for a dollar, but i didnt want to push the snark barier any further.

1. Sign O the Times
2. Purple Rain
3. The Gold Experience
4. Emancipation
5. Batman
6. 
7. Parade
8. 3121
9. Musicology
10. 20Ten

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

ZombieKitten said:

oh, that's easy, he's a tight ass and TRC is $1 in the clearance bin

he bought several copies to give as gifts

I was going to mention the fact that it is always on the discount bin for a dollar, but i didnt want to push the snark barier any further.

I don't get offended if someone doesn't like what I don't like. That album gave me months of enjoyment I used to listen to it on the way to yoga

1. Sign O' The Times

2. Controversy

3. Purple Rain

4. Around The World In A Day

5. 1999

6. The Gold Experience

7. Lotusflow3r

8. Dirty Mind

9. Symbol

10. Parade

[Edited 10/7/10 19:56pm]

Spinlight said:

I really cannot believe the people putting 20TEN on a list of top 10 best Prince albums of all time.

B/C it's a great ablum with some real great songs, almost every song is awesome!

I can't figure out why Parade makes anyone's list?

1) Sign "O" The Times

2) 3121

3) Purple Rain

4) 1999

5) Lovesexy

6) Musicology

7) The Gold Experience

8) Diamonds And Pearls

9) Parade

10) Emancipation

After all these years these have neither become dated or lost their luster, still sound as innovative and original as anything we hope to hear any time soon. The last three ARE Prince albums in every way but name. And it would be a shame not to list them because they are far superior than later Prince labeled works.

1) Sign "O" The Times

2) Purple Rain

3) 1999

4) Parade

5) Controversy

6) Dirty Mind

7) Around The World In A Day

8) The Time

9) Madhouse 6

10) Jill Jones

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

ZombieKitten said:

I have a friend outside of the org that like Prince BECAUSE of that album and he is the one that gave me the CD, and I love it (not because of HIM or anything, if he were HOT, then I could see where it might, but I like it on it's OWN merit! )

Cool

But how does someone not into Prince, come across a relatively obscure record like TRC?

Anyway, its just my opinion, no biggie.

[Edited 10/7/10 19:12pm]

It's simply because TRC is a brilliant Jazz/Funk/Fusion album, and a really big surprise to people who are into Jazz and didn't know Prince was able to pull that off, too. I know a person who got into Prince because of that record! It's simply about the music, and the music on TRC is absolutely great and inspired.

And about TGE: I know a person who didn't really listen to Prince; he is a producer and a sound engineer, usually arranges the music for records and all that... When he listened to TGE, he said he had never heard a production as brilliant as that, with so many polished details in the background, but for it all to still sound so powerful and "live".

It's not always simply about "getting" albums, having been there and having felt it first-hand. TGE TRC have so much to offer, simply musically, that you don't have to understand Prince and where he was at that time to cherish the fact that the synth melody in P Control is absolutely wicked and still sounds so commercial, that the court-room scene in I Hate U includes one of the best arranging works ever done in modern pop-music, that the guitar solos on TRC (song) are very creative and that the harmony progression in the middle section of Last December is brilliant, too.

almost impossible just to mention Ten, but here we go (no livealbums, no bootlegs)

1. SOTT

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2. Purple Rain

3. Parade

4. Old Friends 4 Sale

5. Lovesexy

6. 3121

7.

8. LotusFlow3r

9.Planet Earth

10. The Rainbow Children

7. " />

Parade

1999

Emancipation

Sign O The Times

Dirty Mind

Gold Experience

Diamonds & Pearls

Controversy

Purple Rain

The Black Album

1. Lovesexy
2. Parade
3. Sign o' the Times
4. Purple Rain
5. 1999
6. The Black Album
7. Controversy
8. Around the World in a Day
9. Dirty Mind
10. For You

[EDIT: Forgot that I could include The Black Album, which, yes, knocked The Rainbow Children off of my list. ]

[Edited 10/8/10 19:26pm]

eyewishuheaven said:

1. Lovesexy
2. Parade
3. Sign o' the Times
4. Purple Rain
5. 1999
6. The Black Album
7. Controversy
8. Around the World in a Day
9. Dirty Mind
10. For You

[EDIT: Forgot that I could include The Black Album, which, yes, knocked The Rainbow Children off of my list. ]

thank God for that

ZombieKitten said:

NouveauDance said:

1. Controversy

2. Parade

3. 1999

4. in Romance 1600

5. The Black Album

6. For You

7. Prince

8. Jill Jones

9. What Time Is It?

10. Apollonia 6

I'd add those to my list, that would nearly make 10!

For me it would be

1) Sign O the Times

2) Purple Rain

3) Gold Experience

4) 1999

4) 3121

5) Love Symbol

6) Parade

7) ATWIAD

8) Controversy

9) Emancipation

10) 20TEN

ZombieKitten said:

JoeTyler said:

lovesexy stinks, but SOTT??, c'mon now

what year was it out? I was 16 or something, didn't have the attention span for a double album

i did , and i was 13

[Edited 10/9/10 6:16am]

ZombieKitten said:

sott never made my list, nor lovesexy

I just didn't "get" them

Those are 2 of the most brilliant Prince albums.....

now take another listen pleeeasee.

THIS music will reward you, if you really try to listen......

thedance said:

ZombieKitten said:

sott never made my list, nor lovesexy

I just didn't "get" them

Those are 2 of the most brilliant Prince albums.....

now take another listen pleeeasee.

THIS music will reward you, if you really try to listen......

Lovesexy, eternally overrated by hardcore 80s fans

^ you are maybe right JoeT., I was so happy to witness Lovesexy back then, the album, the videos, the tour, much better than what has been released by Prince since 1995 - maybe it's nostalgia, but Lovesexy is such an important record to me... 10 / 10.

Lovesexy is my top 5 easily. I just love all about it even the nude cover

thedance said:

^ you are maybe right JoeT., I was so happy to witness Lovesexy back then, the album, the videos, the tour, much better than what has been released by Prince since 1995 - maybe it's nostalgia, but Lovesexy is such an important record to me... 10 / 10.

Lovesexy is my top 5 easily. I just love all about it even the nude cover

the cover is easily the only thing I truly admire/respect of that album... even if I would have preferred a "nude" pic of Sheila or Cat

Come
sign o' the times
1999
Purple Rain
Parade
Dirty Mind
Chaos & Disorder
The Truth
Lotusflower
Controversy

Symbol