Simple question.

In your opinion, is Prince, overall, the greatest ever?

And why?

If not, who is?

Yes. Prince is the greatest Prince ever.

KeithyT said:

Yes. Prince is the greatest Prince ever.

probably

reasoning: no other artist has caught so much of my attention the way prince has

The greatest what...?

Yes.

Because I think he is the only one that has it all. He is a great vocalist, great songwriter, great musician, great performer, a pioneer in music and is one of the very few artists who has released more than 10 amazing and almost perfect albums and a whole bunch of other gems. Plus he wrote a lot of amazing songs that are not even released.

And while there are other artists that may outshine him in one or two of those fields, he is imo the best alrounder and with that, imo, the greatest of all time.

vitriol said:

The greatest what...?

Musician, (the whole scope), songwriter, performer....etc

OK, do you mean nowadays, in the 20th century, in ALL past centuries...?

vitriol said:

OK, do you mean nowadays, in the 20th century, in ALL past centuries...?

We should probably keep it to the 20th century.

Yes.

Because Prince is the best.

Yes

Yes.

Because before I was a Prince fan, I was a rap fan and I never heard any music that sounded like his music. So I always thought he was the greatest ever. I was a casual MJ also, but once I found out about Prince, I was done with MJ. I never seen anyone look the way did. I never seen a artist play so many instruments. Usually, I'll scan through a artist discography, and pick some songs I like, but with Prince, I liked mostly all of his album.

It was his performance that did it for me. He's the greatest performer in my book.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question.

In your opinion, is Prince, overall, the greatest ever?

And why?

If not, who is?

P being as prolific as he is and the fact that a lot of what I've heard I appreciate and like. I believe he is the greatst musician and entertainer ... EVER !!! (in my humble opinion) ...

mblevels said:

Yes.

Because I think he is the only one that has it all. He is a great vocalist, great songwriter, great musician, great performer, a pioneer in music and is one of the very few artists who has released more than 10 amazing and almost perfect albums and a whole bunch of other gems. Plus he wrote a lot of amazing songs that are not even released.

And while there are other artists that may outshine him in one or two of those fields, he is imo the best alrounder and with that, imo, the greatest of all time.

That makes him the greatest??

And how are the songs amazing if they were never release?

It means he had a lot of great songs to choose from and had to leave a lot of great stuff out. Most other artists struggle to fill up even an album with their material that they'd consider strong enough.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question.

In your opinion, is Prince, overall, the greatest ever?

And why?

If not, who is?

Isn't it kind of biased asking that question at a Prince fan/fam club?

HuMpThAnG said:

mblevels said:

Yes.

Because I think he is the only one that has it all. He is a great vocalist, great songwriter, great musician, great performer, a pioneer in music and is one of the very few artists who has released more than 10 amazing and almost perfect albums and a whole bunch of other gems. Plus he wrote a lot of amazing songs that are not even released.

And while there are other artists that may outshine him in one or two of those fields, he is imo the best alrounder and with that, imo, the greatest of all time.

That makes him the greatest??

And how are the songs amazing if they were never release?

All those songs together show how creative he is, imo.

And I was talking about officially released.

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mblevels said:

HuMpThAnG said:

That makes him the greatest??

And how are the songs amazing if they were never release?

All those songs together show how creative he is, imo.

And I was talking about officially released.

What? You were talking about non-released officially released songs?

smoothcriminal12 said:

mblevels said:

All those songs together show how creative he is, imo.

And I was talking about officially released.

What? You were talking about non-released officially released songs?

Edit: No, that did make sense! I was talking about songs that were never officially released. But I have to admit I could have written that down a lot better...

Plus he wrote a lot of amazing songs that are not even released.

And I was talking about officially released.

In other words, they are not released officially.

[Edited 8/17/11 13:19pm]

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question.

In your opinion, is Prince, overall, the greatest ever?

And why?

If not, who is?

You know everyone is gonna say yes, right?

Timmy84 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question.

In your opinion, is Prince, overall, the greatest ever?

And why?

If not, who is?

You know everyone is gonna say yes, right?

Of course.

Edit: No, that did make sense! I was talking about songs that were never officially released. But I have to admit I could have written that down a lot better...

smoothcriminal12 said:

vitriol said:

OK, do you mean nowadays, in the 20th century, in ALL past centuries...?

We should probably keep it to the 20th century.

We betta... Otherwise he'd have a hard time to beat Bach or Mozart...

In the 20th century I'd say he's the best all-in-one artist.

If we take any of his skills separately, there are loads of candidates better than him (especially in the jazz department), but I think I can't name anybody else who can do so many things with such proficiency.

Of course he isn't. There isn't a 'best' - there's your favourites, and there's legends, but no one does everything. Prince does what he does and that's great - isn't that enough.

NouveauDance said:

Of course he isn't. There isn't a 'best' - there's your favourites, and there's legends, but no one does everything. Prince does what he does and that's great - isn't that enough.

Not for this forum

Prince ruled the world in 1980 to 1988,

Back then he was the "greatest".

Creating so much brilliant music, it should be impossible for one man,

Writing, producing, playing and singing so much..... =

well, he makes the rules then breaks them

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question.

In your opinion, is Prince, overall, the greatest ever?

And why?

If not, who is?

Prince = rhythm & melodies

colorblu said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Simple question.

In your opinion, is Prince, overall, the greatest ever?

And why?

If not, who is?

Prince = rhythm & melodies

oh, and btw, Prince's rhythm & melodies are the finest ever

The greatest ever...what?

[Edited 8/18/11 21:01pm]

Prince is the greatest at being himself...as he said: "if you can describe it then it ain't funky"

I think he is (highly subjective here) because of the scope of his art:

funk

rock

jazz

ballads

acoustics

even reggae

he sings, he is a musician...the majority of what we've heard he has produced on his own

last but not least, he is totally independent, not relying on major record labels but doing his own thang