could this be the best day of our lives?

New Prince Stuff, rocking!

New David Bowie song out today! Lovely and classic sounding and new album on the way.

2013 is going to be a fucking great year!!! bring it on!

I love the Prince stuff but I'm actually more excited about the Bowie album than anything.

Milty said:

I love the Prince stuff but I'm actually more excited about the Bowie album than anything.

Me too!!!!!!!

Oh i love the Bowie track, Such a pretty song and really beautiful weird vid on youtube, got a million views! way more than P :/ different feel to Prince music, a classic track, radio friendly and he knows every1 would love it .

Some one alread made a thread on this http://prince.org/msg/5/391912

I still vote prince. the Bowie song is a little

ok, just listened to the Bowie single, i'm like WTF. interesting vid, but if P had released that ish he would've gotten trashed SO hard!!! not my idea of haunting at all. i've tried, just can't get into Bowie

^ I agree w. you Datdude..

a new Bowie ballad.. I don't like the song at all.

Makes me sleepy

the new bowie song is class.

Its a 66 year old man, in a sad contemplative mood and singing in a frail fragile voice. It is totally beautiful. It is classy. I feel that Prince although i am possibly his biggest fan, i think sometimes trying to still act too young with his music is drowning him slightly. I would love to hear some gorgeous adult songs from him, meaningful, deep. But again its a matter of opinion. Bowie i found very hard to get into now i am into him i am stuck. He is so clever and so amazing, and thought provoking. I am pleased it at the top of the charts and leap frogged over the usual shite that clogs it up. Some real talent shining through.

Why do people keep bringing up bowie and Prince together i don't get it? Im pretty sure alot of bands are coming out with new material so are we gonna have a thread for "Justin Bieber and Prince NEW SONGS", why do we keep pairing Prince and bowie ?

riocoolnes said:

Why do people keep bringing up bowie and Prince together i don't get it? Im pretty sure alot of bands are coming out with new material so are we gonna have a thread for "Justin Bieber and Prince NEW SONGS", why do we keep pairing Prince and bowie ?

Beacuse they are the two main real major musical creative musical geniuses of the last 30+ years.

i just want to know I can get a New Prince album at the record shop at a specific date and not all thsi dumb viral website hopping nonsense.

That's all I wish for.

riocoolnes said:

Why do people keep bringing up bowie and Prince together i don't get it? Im pretty sure alot of bands are coming out with new material so are we gonna have a thread for "Justin Bieber and Prince NEW SONGS", why do we keep pairing Prince and bowie ?

i dont mean to sound rude but saying something like that just shows you are quite ill educated about music.

This should be about discussing real talent. And to even mention Justin Bieber has just shown the true you.

lagantest said:

riocoolnes said:

Why do people keep bringing up bowie and Prince together i don't get it? Im pretty sure alot of bands are coming out with new material so are we gonna have a thread for "Justin Bieber and Prince NEW SONGS", why do we keep pairing Prince and bowie ?

i dont mean to sound rude but saying something like that just shows you are quite ill educated about music.

This should be about discussing real talent. And to even mention Justin Bieber has just shown the true you.

Why? all im trying to say is that i don't really get why everyone keeps mentioning Prince and Bowie on here. Why is this worthy of being included in the Prince section of the org?

Bowie and Prince releasing albums in the same year = EPIC WIN

riocoolnes said:

lagantest said:

i dont mean to sound rude but saying something like that just shows you are quite ill educated about music.

This should be about discussing real talent. And to even mention Justin Bieber has just shown the true you.

Why? all im trying to say is that i don't really get why everyone keeps mentioning Prince and Bowie on here. Why is this worthy of being included in the Prince section of the org?

the same way that "Michael Jackson vs Prince" threads or Madonna & Prince threads make sense here (Prince: Music and More)

if anything, Bowie's album WILL COMPLETELY eclipse the 2013 project of Prince...

JoeTyler said:

riocoolnes said:

Why? all im trying to say is that i don't really get why everyone keeps mentioning Prince and Bowie on here. Why is this worthy of being included in the Prince section of the org?

the same way that "Michael Jackson vs Prince" threads or Madonna & Prince threads make sense here (Prince: Music and More)

if anything, Bowie's album WILL COMPLETELY eclipse the 2013 project of Prince...

Yea i get Madonna and Prince, Michael and Prince. Not so much Bowie and Prince (it does make some sense). And more part means stuff about prince like his life.

riocoolnes said:

JoeTyler said:

the same way that "Michael Jackson vs Prince" threads or Madonna & Prince threads make sense here (Prince: Music and More)

if anything, Bowie's album WILL COMPLETELY eclipse the 2013 project of Prince...

Yea i get Madonna and Prince, Michael and Prince. Not so much Bowie and Prince (it does make some sense). And more part means stuff about prince like his life.

well, considering that both MJ and Rick James are, sadly, dead, Bowie is right now the only male solo artist with a passing (some might say strong) resemblance to Prince, both visually and sonically; and the influence is evident...

JoeTyler said:

riocoolnes said:

Yea i get Madonna and Prince, Michael and Prince. Not so much Bowie and Prince (it does make some sense). And more part means stuff about prince like his life.

well, considering that both MJ and Rick James are, sadly, dead, Bowie is right now the only male solo artist with a passing (some might say strong) resemblance to Prince, both visually and sonically; and the influence is evident...

paisleypark4 said:

But he aint funky sooo

I love Prince. But Bowie is not funky the day that China quits putting lead in everything they manufacture.

Bowie's music has always been relatively sophisticated, mature and intelligent for pop standards. His audience expects that. That has helped with his long term career success. Because as his audience aged and grew, they could still enjoy his new music without feeling silly. He never crossed the "Chocolate Box" threshold.

Prince, on the other hand has had trouble keeping his older fans becasue of "Chocolate Boxes."
Going the opposite direction of a Bowie or U2, or Springsteen. Pandering woefully unsophisticated music for what he thinks "today's kids" would like. And badly under-estimating them through and through. Turning off new listeners, old ones, and in some ways marginalizing his legacy.

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paisleypark4 said:

JoeTyler said:

well, considering that both MJ and Rick James are, sadly, dead, Bowie is right now the only male solo artist with a passing (some might say strong) resemblance to Prince, both visually and sonically; and the influence is evident...

But he aint funky sooo

really? Bowie was, for a time, the funkiest white artist out there

JoeTyler said:

paisleypark4 said:

But he aint funky sooo

really? Bowie was, for a time, the funkiest white artist out there

Well I know there was Young Americans album and Golden Years...but come on now....we talking true funk musician

paisleypark4 said:

JoeTyler said:

really? Bowie was, for a time, the funkiest white artist out there

Well I know there was Young Americans album and Golden Years...but come on now....we talking true funk musician

do you truly think that Prince doesn't owe anything to Bowie?

whatever

JoeTyler said:

paisleypark4 said:

Well I know there was Young Americans album and Golden Years...but come on now....we talking true funk musician

do you truly think that Prince doesn't owe anything to Bowie?

whatever

Seriously?

Come on nah.

JoeTyler said:

paisleypark4 said:

Well I know there was Young Americans album and Golden Years...but come on now....we talking true funk musician

do you truly think that Prince doesn't owe anything to Bowie?

whatever

Prince does NOT owe Bowie a bit. They have absolutely nothing in common musically.

Prince's masters are Sly Stone, Hendrix, Santana, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Joni Mitchell. he owes these artists. Certainly not Bowie.

And please Bowie has never been a REAL funkasteer. He is no Bootsy, Sly or Prince.

Bowie's attempts to funk show a lack of black sweat.

ohYeeeeeah said:

JoeTyler said:

do you truly think that Prince doesn't owe anything to Bowie?

whatever

Prince does NOT owe Bowie a bit.

He surely owes him the androgyny thing. Bowie did that first. And a lot of other things too...

David Bowie is a true musical legend. Period.

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ohYeeeeeah said:

Bowie's attempts to funk show a lack of black sweat.

Woah! Bullshit! Have you ever listened to the Young Americans album? I dont think so... w

Soulstar77A said:

ohYeeeeeah said:

Bowie's attempts to funk show a lack of black sweat.

Woah! Bullshit! Have you ever listened to the Young Americans album? I dont think so... w

Exactly. Fame was released in 1975 and is funkier than most of Prince's work from the last 20 years.

V10LETBLUES said:

Soulstar77A said:

Woah! Bullshit! Have you ever listened to the Young Americans album? I dont think so... w

Exactly. Fame was released in 1975 and is funkier than most of Prince's work from the last 20 years.

I also suggest looking up Bowie's The Secret of Arabia from the 70s. That is way more funky than ANYTHING Prince has out in the last 20 years!

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