'Batdance' and 'Kiss'

I'm givin' all y'all the stank eye.

Genesia said:

I'm givin' all y'all the stank eye.

If you knew what I thought of most of the boots i have, you'd disown me.

Stymie said:

Genesia said:

I'm givin' all y'all the stank eye.

If you knew what I thought of most of the boots i have, you'd disown me.

Oh, I think most boots aren't rave-worthy, either. There are some I love...and I'm glad to have heard most everything. But a lot were shelved after the first listen.

For example, I think Wonderful Ass is overrated. I've just never gotten the love for that one. I mean...it's okay, but not anything to about.

Genesia said:

Stymie said:

If you knew what I thought of most of the boots i have, you'd disown me.

Oh, I think most boots aren't rave-worthy, either. There are some I love...and I'm glad to have heard most everything. But a lot were shelved after the first listen.

For example, I think Wonderful Ass is overrated. I've just never gotten the love for that one. I mean...it's okay, but not anything to about.

I don't like Moonbeam Levels.

Hot Thing----To me,this song is a throwaway.It's got a hot groove,but the lyrics are too simplistic.It sounds like Prince wrote this one in five minutes.

Purple Rain---yes,I realize the importance of this song and what it represents but this song bores me.It's one of those big,arena rock ballads that is overblown.Compared to most of the other songs on the album,this one sounds very conventional.

Raspberry Beret---This song is a little "pop-ish" for my tastes.It's the type of "safe" song that even grandmothers were singing along to...LOL....I prefer darker,edgier jams from Prince.

SoulAlive said:

Hot Thing----To me,this song is a throwaway.It's got a hot groove,but the lyrics are too simplistic.It sounds like Prince wrote this one in five minutes.

Purple Rain---yes,I realize the importance of this song and what it represents but this song bores me.It's one of those big,arena rock ballads that is overblown.Compared to most of the other songs on the album,this one sounds very conventional.

Raspberry Beret---This song is a little "pop-ish" for my tastes.It's the type of "safe" song that even grandmothers were singing along to...LOL....I prefer darker,edgier jams from Prince.

Thank you for describing a bit more why you guys don't like Purple Rain! I was feeling anguished seeing so much people confessing that they don't like it and not understanding why. I can understand the oooohoooo issue, but can't see eye to eye problems with the melody, lyrics or the guitar solo.

I just wanna defend Raspberry Beret! Yes, it's not the ironic, edgy, dark, lusty Prince. But it's another proposition. It's supposed to be innocent, oniric, a fantasy song. It's got that 60s Beatles (and Love, Mamas and the Papas, that period) Psychedelia feel to it. I suppose you don't like this period of the Beatles either...?

But yes, I agree and even say more about Hot Thing: I think he must have wrote the instrumental part in maybe an afternoon, but the lyrics in three minutes!

I'm still feeling anguished on why some people don't like Kiss... What is there not to like about it? Hope someone can explain.

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Stymie said:

Genesia said:

Oh, I think most boots aren't rave-worthy, either. There are some I love...and I'm glad to have heard most everything. But a lot were shelved after the first listen.

For example, I think Wonderful Ass is overrated. I've just never gotten the love for that one. I mean...it's okay, but not anything to about.

I don't like Moonbeam Levels.

Housequake

Guitar

Million Days

NouveauDance said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Housequake. Don't get it, never have, never will.

Automatic

All The Critics Love You In New York

Something In The Water Does Not Compute

Not a lover of the Dirty Mind album either.

That's it mister, go to your room right now, no supper!

kevinpnb said:

I've seen (or read) lots of excitement over The Morning Papers, but it's never ever hit me. I'm with those that say Purple Rain has been a little too deified as well...the album edit is extraordinary, and maybe it's because of massive overexposure, but it often just falls flat for me. Beautiful Strange is another whose ride I tire of quickly, though I do still like it for what it is.

Only pervs like that song.

Genesia said:

Stymie said:

If you knew what I thought of most of the boots i have, you'd disown me.

Oh, I think most boots aren't rave-worthy, either. There are some I love...and I'm glad to have heard most everything. But a lot were shelved after the first listen.

For example, I think Wonderful Ass is overrated. I've just never gotten the love for that one. I mean...it's okay, but not anything to about.

SuperSoulFighter said:

Purple Rain!!!! I always was and still am a Prince fan in spite of it, not because of it. Doesn't have much in the way of a melody, lyrics aren't the best he ever wrote, guitar solo is hardly the best he ever did, singing oohoohoohoo for ten minutes at a show gets boring, but still... It's his biggest hit and we can't get around it. I never cared much for Sometimes it Snows in April either until he played a beautiful version in Arnhem. Ah, that was two years ago already! How time flies...

I agree, But you can't get around it. I personally believe 1999 should have been the break out album, not purple rain. Hey just me.

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Genesia said:

For example, I think Wonderful Ass is overrated. I've just never gotten the love for that one. I mean...it's okay, but not anything to about.

ganesh said:

Housequake

Guitar

Million Days

Excellent, a fellow Housequake . You see, they'll all start coming out now.

But on the other hand I love Guitar and have nothing against A Million Days.

TheEnglishGent said:

Excellent, a fellow Housequake . You see, they'll all start coming out now.

But on the other hand I love Guitar and have nothing against A Million Days.

You know what... I gotta go with you. It's not a song that I don't like. I get excited by it, but not NEARLY as most fans seem to get. I guess, for this, Housequake is in the same category as Let's Go Crazy, to me. Besides, Housequake vocals get kind of monotonous. It's one of the tracks I listen to on SOTT the less.

TheEnglishGent said:

Housequake. Don't get it, never have, never will.

Automatic

All The Critics Love You In New York

Something In The Water Does Not Compute

Not a lover of the Dirty Mind album either.

You remind me of a couple we know.

When ever they go and see a movie and come back saying that they enjoyed it, we make sure to stay clear of it, as we know it'll be crap!

A Million Days? Guitar? Incense and Candles?! Am I in Bizarro World? Since when are these Prince songs highly acclaimed? Incense and Candles was viciously panned by most Prince fans.

My vote goes to anything from The Rainbow Children. I simply can't understand how anyone, in good conscience, can say they enjoy this often-times misogynistic, dogmatic, anti-semitic filth on the sole basis that the music itself sounds good. Who cares if it sounds good if its words are vile almost all over? When people praise this album while simultaneously acknowledging that the lyrics are repulsive and denying the importance of that fact, it makes me think Prince fans would be fine if he released an album promoting any doctrine as long as the music sounded good.

PurpleKnight said:

http://prince.org/msg/7/372645

I just found a post that says Incense and Candles is a masterpiece...

PurpleKnight said:

A Million Days? Guitar? Incense and Candles?! Am I in Bizarro World? Since when are these Prince songs highly acclaimed? Incense and Candles was viciously panned by most Prince fans.

My vote goes to anything from The Rainbow Children. I simply can't understand how anyone, in good conscience, can say they enjoy this often-times misogynistic, dogmatic, anti-semitic filth on the sole basis that the music itself sounds good. Who cares if it sounds good if its words are vile almost all over? When people praise this album while simultaneously acknowledging that the lyrics are repulsive and denying the importance of that fact, it makes me think Prince fans would be fine if he released an album promoting any doctrine as long as the music sounded good.

I understand what you're saying, in view that The Rainbow Children is the favourite 00s album for a number of orgers, but not many. For that, I don't think it would be forcing things to put songs in 3121 and Musicology in the same discussion, since, if these two albums are not as beloved as TRC is by a small group, they were both very well received by the majority of fans.

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PurpleKnight said:

My vote goes to anything from The Rainbow Children. I simply can't understand how anyone, in good conscience, can say they enjoy this often-times misogynistic, dogmatic, anti-semitic filth on the sole basis that the music itself sounds good. Who cares if it sounds good if its words are vile almost all over? When people praise this album while simultaneously acknowledging that the lyrics are repulsive and denying the importance of that fact, it makes me think Prince fans would be fine if he released an album promoting any doctrine as long as the music sounded good.

Quite easy to explain. You can hear inspiration and passion on TRC, whereas later albums sound like they were just the result of Prince doing a job.

funkomatic said:

PurpleKnight said:

My vote goes to anything from The Rainbow Children. I simply can't understand how anyone, in good conscience, can say they enjoy this often-times misogynistic, dogmatic, anti-semitic filth on the sole basis that the music itself sounds good. Who cares if it sounds good if its words are vile almost all over? When people praise this album while simultaneously acknowledging that the lyrics are repulsive and denying the importance of that fact, it makes me think Prince fans would be fine if he released an album promoting any doctrine as long as the music sounded good.

Quite easy to explain. You can hear inspiration and passion on TRC, whereas later albums sound like they were just the result of Prince doing a job.

Yeah, I love tapping my foot to words like "Holocaust aside, many lived and died" or "Ain't no room for disagree."

Let's dance! Throw on that awesome Prince song! "There's a theocratic order"

Yeah! Funky!

PurpleKnight said:

funkomatic said:

Quite easy to explain. You can hear inspiration and passion on TRC, whereas later albums sound like they were just the result of Prince doing a job.

Yeah, I love tapping my foot to words like "Holocaust aside, many lived and died" or "Ain't no room for disagree."

Let's dance! Throw on that awesome Prince song! "There's a theocratic order"

Yeah! Funky!

I get and agree with your point. But don't you think the Cross, from SOTT, besides the good melody and singing, was hinting on something strictly religious like this, way back in 87? It's not dogmatic, but it was already strictly Christian.

BrazilianOnRaspberryBeret said:

PurpleKnight said:

Yeah, I love tapping my foot to words like "Holocaust aside, many lived and died" or "Ain't no room for disagree."

Let's dance! Throw on that awesome Prince song! "There's a theocratic order"

Yeah! Funky!

I get and agree with your point. But don't you think the Cross, from SOTT, besides the good melody and singing, was hinting on something strictly religious like this, way back in 87? It's not dogmatic, but it was already strictly Christian.

Exactly, a lof of Prince's 'spiritual' songs are only spiritual from a christian point of view.

callimnate said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Housequake. Don't get it, never have, never will.

Automatic

All The Critics Love You In New York

Something In The Water Does Not Compute

Not a lover of the Dirty Mind album either.

You remind me of a couple we know.

When ever they go and see a movie and come back saying that they enjoyed it, we make sure to stay clear of it, as we know it'll be crap!

Make sure you let me know what one's you enjoy and I'll reciprocate.

PurpleKnight said:

funkomatic said:

Quite easy to explain. You can hear inspiration and passion on TRC, whereas later albums sound like they were just the result of Prince doing a job.

Yeah, I love tapping my foot to words like "Holocaust aside, many lived and died" or "Ain't no room for disagree."

Let's dance! Throw on that awesome Prince song! "There's a theocratic order"

Yeah! Funky!

This is art. It was meant to be that way: controversial.

I myself prefer tapping my foot to inspired music with controversial lyrics than boring music with boring lyrics. It's as simple as that.

Anyway, I tried to give you an explanation. If you don't get it, you don't get it. No problem!

TheEnglishGent said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

what is there to get? the music the lyrics?? or is it just a song you don't like

Usually when someone says they don't get something, I'm thinking they don't understand it ?

What is there to understand? The lyrics are nothing, he's just yakking about a dance, they don't speak to me. Honestly, if he churned out lyrics like these today you'd all slaughter him. The music doesn't move me, nothing more to say. In fact, you can put it right there with the other songs where he wants you to do a dance, yep I'm sticking it there with Jughead and Horny Pony.

cool, but my question was not to you... Dazza is a different person

Just because I asked the question doesn't mean I like the song or I'm defending it

It's never been one of my favorites, but I think it's cool, and I seriously don't think Jughead or Horny Pony are even close to being in the same catagory

what turns you off about it may be different from someone else

Delirious, to me is a more playful kind of Little Red Corvette, because of his references to cars

I get delirious whenever U're near
Lose all self-control, baby, just can't steer
Wheels get locked in place
Get a stupid look on my face
When it comes 2 makin' a pass, pretty mama
I just can't win a race

I get delirious whenever U're near
Girl, U gotta take control cuz I just can't steer
U're just 2 much 2 take
I can't stop, I ain't got no brakes
Girl, U gotta take me 4 a little ride up and down
In and out around your lake