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has any Prince album aged well??? I go back any listen to his album any none of them would fit in any type music scene today...
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strange question, are you a serious Prince fan?
1978-1988 are all classics -
these classics are timeless, they stand the test of time, anytime.
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i am/was...even classics can sound dated...right?? | |
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Purple Rain Sign O Times etc...
Most of them have aged very, very well.
Listen to Rihanna's cover of Darling Nikki and Beyoncé's cover of Beautiful Ones, you'll hear it doesn't sound dated at all. | |
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I would never want those brilliant Prince albums from the WB years to sound any different.
Look how awful the Extraloveable song is, when it was "updated" to a recent "sound".
Go back and appreciate what you hear, that unique sound from back then will never be surpassed.
imho the sound of the Prince albums 1978 to 1988 is and always will be - unique.
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[I've removed my comment as it will likely be misunderstood, and I'm not interested in defending it.] [Edited 1/2/12 20:45pm] | |
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alright well im 20 years old and i listened to a prince album from start to finish for the first time last year. and id have to say for the most part all of his music aged pretty well. maybe 'for you' and some of 'prince', and a good deal of the rap bandwaggoning in the 90s doesn't though [Edited 1/2/12 20:12pm] Bogey and Bacall, peanut butter and jelly, Wall being on fucking point, is "classic" dipshit. An iphone is top shelf technology. Get it straight. This thing is 4g. -Wall the great | |
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cant we just ban these kind of threads?? | |
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1981-1988 None of his albums fitted ANY SCENE
you think parade or SOTT sounds like 80's music??
that shit is timeless..almost out of ANY time | |
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This question often comes up in music discussions...
Prince's music, like all music, is made when it is made, sounds the way it does, and sounds how it sounds in the artist's body of work...
They can't age poorly or well - they should rather be listened to as a whole/on its own or within the context of what the artist was doing at their point in their art.
I still enjoy following Prince's audio recordings as they're indicative of where he is as an artist.
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Funny. I'm listening to Extralovable right now, and I think it kicks some serious ass. The groove is infectious and the harmonies are top notch. Couldn't disagree more. Occupy Alphabet Street!
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Purple Music has it's own sound. | |
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Hey man,
I'm with you... I dig the tune.
I heard it on Canadian Toronto radio today (on the same station that he did the interview with 104.5) and it sounded dope!
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avasdad said: I go back any listen to his album any none of them would fit in any type music scene today...
thoughts??? You say none of his albums would fit in any type of music scene today. My toughts? To me this is a good thing. As most music today is TERRIBLE. Prince's music is what it is and stands on it's own. Just like Hendrix's music, James brown, etc | |
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Well, his output from Dirty Mind to Lovesexy is considered classic, but, unfortunately, the 80s dont seem to be so respected today. | |
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Aging well, and fitting in with some temporary pop trend are two very different things. | |
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That's because today's music scene is vastly inferior to the scene existing when, say, "Purple Rain" was recorded. | |
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All of them................. | |
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Music as a whole was not that much better in the 80's than it is now, but Controversy, 1999, Purple Rain and Sign of the Times, Parade, never fit in with whatever what going on at the time. They sounded like NOTHING that was playing on the radio. They were born timeless. | |
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thank god "Climb in my fur." | |
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Haha... he's been on regular rotation recently on CHUM. I was surprised! Good morning Ladies & Gentlemen,
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Listen to the pop and R&B albums from that time. Then listen to Prince trust you will NEVER let that cross your mind again. 80's R&B before new jack swing was bland at best. Funk was dying out folks making faux pop music was in. Thank god Prince and Teddy came along to save the 80's | |
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his 80s stuff was so unique that it didn't fit into the music scene then. he was the zeitgeist that other artists couldn't keep up with. don't play me...i'm over 30 and i DO smoke weed.... | |
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this is also true...his shit was so out there it didn't fit into the music of the day "Climb in my fur." | |
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Most of Prince's albums/sounds didn't fit the type of music scene when they were released anyways. "New Power slide...." |
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Yeah, Mozart's music hasn't aged well either; none of his pieces would fit in "any type music scene today"...
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^THIS^
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The earlier Linn drum records hold up.
A lot of people reference those sounds today, and a lot of the non-hit tracks now sound like they belong next to the classics. A lot of the early stuff is disco-new wave and you can't even go to a supermarket without hearing that stuff, so we're still conditioned for it.
PR definitely sounds like the time it was made more than the others, because as ahead of the time and futuristic as it was - it defined the time in many ways. Some of those MIDI keyboard runs sound way too automated and cringe worthy now.
Parade is probably the only one on sheer musicality, but I have to skip some songs.
Anything after has not aged well at all in my own opinion, aside from a couple songs and with those, I easily forget or mixup what era they came from ("If I was your girlfriend" is one). Since I'm of the opinion that the older stuff aged better, it could just be that the newer stuff needs to age a little more for me before it sounds fresh again. | |
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Depends on what you mean by 'fit it', I guess. The sounds and the production don't fit in with today's music, obviously, but maybe some of the song writing would. For example I heard a couple singles recently - one from Kanye and one from Beyonce - that had a pretty minimal (or maybe more 'adventurous') sound that reminded me of SOTT. So maybe some songs off SOTT, if updated, would sound ok on today's radio.
I hate to say it but maybe they'd have to be updated by someone other than Prince. To me, his 'updated sound' songs (eg Black Sweat, Oui Can Love, Extralovable) have this close-but-not-quite feel regarding the 'currentness' of the sound. Like Prince is putting on the 'current music trends' hat and instead of sounding current, it sounds like Prince in a hat.
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I don't care about whether or not they aged well, those albums are classic. | |
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