http://blogs.seattleweekl..._years.php

"play guitar like Hendrix" let's not go 2 far now

"Prince stopped being Prince, both literally (ditching the royal moniker for his infamous symbol as a bird-flip to his label) and musically (shifting from electric, frilly-collared funkadelia to the new-jack kitchen-sinkism of "Pussy Control" and the like). "
AMEN!!!!!


this is what I always say,...like how come he puts out AMAZING live shows with great musicians ( ) and gives that real organic instrumental sound, but when he's in the studio it all just sounds so digital on the record
and I know P can't dig that digital stuff sooo.......


but I'm not hatin' on P! He's a musical genius. I'm just takin a lil break from him lately, that's all .......



nice article.

Nah... don't agree.

He has released good albums last 20-10 years.

bullshit.

just my option.

[Edited 12/6/11 8:03am]

Yea agree with this article to an extent. I feel like he was puting out too much mediocre material (in prince standards) we know what the man is capable of producing. I really strongly feel like if he took the best 9 or 11 tracks from Musicology to 20Ten and the right singles we would have a potential classic.

If I where a casual fan i WOULD agree with the 20yr remark because most ppl dont kno his material post D&P because they either lost interest or got weirded out by the name change, but im not just a casual fan and i would say he did have some great albums in the 90's. TGE (although the song Gold is a tad bit overproduced), Come, and parts of emancipation and

I do agree with yellooo about the organic instrumentation live and the digital on wax I always find myself liking the live versions of his new material more then the studio versions

[Edited 12/6/11 8:30am]

Yeah, both free Seattle papers are rife with under-employed hipsters with nothing better to do than spew nonsense about subjects of which they know very little. I responded to the author. Sometimes I REALLY hate this city.

I think the article is just stating the obvious. Other than some of the more fanatical here, this is what almost all Prince fans know.

Live shows are still unparalleled, his records are passionless disposable junk. Prince basics 123.

[Edited 12/6/11 16:59pm]

V10LETBLUES said:

That's bullshit.

2009 Lotus Flow3r
2007 Planet Earth
2006 3121
2001 Rainbow Children
1995 Gold Experience
1992

Prince still has it in the studio and on stage.

^^^

I wrote that in the comments.

glad i didn't waste time and read the actual blog. sounds like bullshit. did the writer even HEAR Lotusflower for starters!!?? more uninformed nostalgics

I'm so sick of reading all this nonsense

Anyone want to wager this guy hasn't even heard everything from the period he's calling out?

He cites Musicology as a possiblity, why? Probably because it was the last record he heard about that got a big promo push in the U.S. Lazy, lazy journos.

"this is what I always say,...like how come he puts out AMAZING live shows with great musicians ( ) and gives that real organic instrumental sound, but when he's in the studio it all just sounds so digital on the record
and I know P can't dig that digital stuff sooo......."

Correct...

Articles and opinions like this are difficult. The problem fans have with Prince is that we all expect too much from him. Is he still brilliant like he was 20 years ago?.....can he make a hit record again?.....does religion skew his artistry?....he doesn't play like he used too....i wish this, i wish that.....

It nevers ends with Prince because I believe that he's done so many great things on stage and record that we can't help but want whatever it is we have heard or seen before, all the time. I would love to have a repeat of the ONA Tour but I know that wont happen and he will change it up live. He has to. He's a guy with fingers in all sorts of disciplines so we have to either go with it or not.

In my opinion, Prince has recorded some brilliant pieces of music in the last 20 years but that may be because I'm also a trained musician so I know what to listen for. I like some more than others but I have gone back to the stuff I didn't like so much and found new things.

Prince is not a god, a robot or a jukebox - no pun intended. He can't give us what we want all the time and fulfill his own artistic desires.

I'd like to scour forums on folks like Neil Young or Bruce Springsteen or Madonna and see if their fans bemoan what those artists used to release.

Milty said:

Articles and opinions like this are difficult. The problem fans have with Prince is that we all expect too much from him. Is he still brilliant like he was 20 years ago?.....can he make a hit record again?.....does religion skew his artistry?....he doesn't play like he used too....i wish this, i wish that.....

It nevers ends with Prince because I believe that he's done so many great things on stage and record that we can't help but want whatever it is we have heard or seen before, all the time. I would love to have a repeat of the ONA Tour but I know that wont happen and he will change it up live. He has to. He's a guy with fingers in all sorts of disciplines so we have to either go with it or not.

In my opinion, Prince has recorded some brilliant pieces of music in the last 20 years but that may be because I'm also a trained musician so I know what to listen for. I like some more than others but I have gone back to the stuff I didn't like so much and found new things.

Prince is not a god, a robot or a jukebox - no pun intended. He can't give us what we want all the time and fulfill his own artistic desires.

I'd like to scour forums on folks like Neil Young or Bruce Springsteen or Madonna and see if their fans bemoan what those artists used to release.

I can tell you Springsteen fans don't. Even though, IMO, Bruce's output since 2002's "The Rising" has been spotty at best, no one bemoans the old days.

I think it was about 15 years between studio albums for Bruce and the E Street Band (remember, he released the E Street Band in '92 or so) and yet Bruce fans didn't bellyache. Which I reminded the spoiled among us here when Prince wasn't releasing an album every three months or so.