802 said:

For You

Prince

1. Prince [8]

2. For You [6]

!!!

Out of 10...

1. Prince / 5

2. For You / 3

Calendrically theres always going to be a debate when decades/centuries/millenia end, and maybe people are right that 1980 was the end of the 70s and 2000 was the last year of the 20th century/2nd millenium AD as opposed to 1999.

But in Popular culture parlance, like fashions, music, movies, decor, attitudes, fads, its commonly accepted that the decade of the 20th or 21st century thats referred to, starts with the year ending with an 0 and finishes with the year ending 9, so the 70s is 1970 -1979, I have kept December 31st newspapers from every decade 1969 to 2009 (Well the first too were provided by my great grandmother) and every single one of them has a retrospective of that decade and articles that say things like "The eighties are over, what will the nineties bring, will Milli Vanilli carry their 1989 chart success into the 90s" etc.

Take fashion, everyone associates flares and afros with the 70s, yet not really with 1980, 70s music is usually termed as disco, folk hippy rock, glam, funk etc. And I have at least 4 different books that study decades of history and advertising. Example the Taschen 70s advertising book only shows ads from 1970 to 1979, theres no 1980 ads and 1970 is not considered the 60s but the 70s.

Thats why popularly speaking we see a decade in popular culture and trends starting with a 0 year and ending in a 9 year. So 2011 is the second year of the 2010's not the first.

Even Prince agrees, on the Scandalous Maxi single CD that dropped in November 1989, there is a song called SEX which has the lyrics "The eighties are over" so Prince must have known that most people would hear it a few weeks later, maybe when 1990 had begun and therefore if the eighties are over it must be the nineties (or later)

[Edited 4/22/11 21:20pm]

This thread turned into a boring joke due to the usual assholes/trolls of the org

^Of which you are a nice example...

vitriol said:

^Of which you are a nice example...

perhaps, but not the biggest

Apart from Prince trying everything too damn hard, I really don't understand what makes people think For You is a better album than Prince. Prince had Sexy Dancer, the funkiest dance groove. Feel For You, even cooler than Chaka did it. I Wanna Be Your Lover, one of his greatest hits, and it was from his second album. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad, basically in the same spirit as WHen You Were Mine that would appear on Dirty Mind. Still Waiting was a very sweet song, Bambi would have kicked even harder with his normal voice.When we were dancing close and slow is just relaxing music to be played alone whenever you need some time to think. Overall his weakest joints here were slow ballads, that was much too sugar sweet, much like any other 70s soul rnb album. But he did bring some personality and warmth to it. I'ts also a very well produced album.

It's always very politically correct to love a first album.

For You had classics like Crazy Fool, For You, Soft and Wet. I'm Yours had some good rock effort, and the bass solos etc were kinda cool. His drumming is still a bit too disco, even when you can hear that he is trying to play rock. He didn't pull of mixing genres like he would do later. And the vocals are more of ideas than anything else.

njin said:

I really don't understand what makes people think For You is a better album than Prince.

Mmm... perhaps PERSONAL tastes you can't say nothing about...?

vitriol said:

njin said:

I really don't understand what makes people think For You is a better album than Prince.

Mmm... perhaps PERSONAL tastes you can't say nothing about...?

yes, which is what he's giving, and talking much sense too!

Prince 7.5

For You 6.5