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Getting more into Prince, Which albums should I get?

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So, I've always been a casual fan of Prince, but I've really gotten more into his work lately and I want to start getting more into his album oriented material. I would like some reccomendations on which albums to pick up next, so far I have: Prince, 1999, Purple Rain, Around The World in a Day, and Ultimate Prince.

I really want to get Controversy. I don't remember much on it but I do remember that my dad used to have it on cassette when I was a kid and I liked listening to it on my walkman.

Also, I was wondering if anyone might be able to answer this? My mom has claimed for years that she went to a Rick James concert where Prince played as the opening act or was at least supposed to. Would anyone happen to know which show this might have been and what tour? I don't know a year but I would imagine this would have been in Michigan.

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Reply #1 posted 06/25/13 8:43pm

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Four words: Sign O' The Times.
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Anyone who suggests otherwise is plain crazy.

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Reply #2 posted 06/25/13 9:14pm

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Also, Is there any CD album or release that has the full extended mix of Erotic City on it? It is my favorite song and I'd like to have a physical copy of it.

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Reply #3 posted 06/25/13 9:34pm

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March 23 1980 at Cobo Arena in Detroit. Prince opened for Rick James on his Fire It Up tour

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Reply #4 posted 06/25/13 9:55pm

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PurpleMouse88 said:

Also, Is there any CD album or release that has the full extended mix of Erotic City on it?

It can be found on CD single..

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Reply #5 posted 06/25/13 9:55pm

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Here's the full tour itinerary too: http://www.princevault.co...Up_Tour%22 In addition to the Detroit date: http://www.princevault.co...arch,_1980 there was also a show in Saginaw: http://www.princevault.co...pril,_1980

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Reply #6 posted 06/25/13 10:05pm

I like most Prince CD's. Some take longer to grow on me ie.. Planet Earth & Rainbow Children because his style is so unpredictable from album to album. I think most Prince fans enjoy many types of music. I still do not dig PE much besides Somewhere Here On Earth. Rainbow Children however has really grown on me. I had a hard time with the weird voice interrupting the music and I think I wanted a commercial success at that point. I didn't like the idea of an "experimental" type album. Rainbow Children has been on my playlist lately. The instrumentation is incredible and shows off Prince's diversity and range in musicality...if that makes sense smile

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. Rainbow Children makes my list. The whole CD is nice. Anyway, here's my list. Keeping it at 5.1). Dirty Mind-Very raw. This is when Prince showed he was not afraid of creating his own

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Reply #7 posted 06/26/13 1:46am

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To hear some more recent material, Lotusflow3r is highly recommended as it varies from lots of guitar tracks to 80s style pop/funk smile

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Reply #8 posted 06/26/13 1:56am

"Sign O The Times" should be your next purchase. No doubt about that.

Most people here would probably recommend to get Parade and/or Lovesexy next, as well as Controversy and Dirty Mind, as these albums are part of his "classic period" (ca. 1981 - 1988). As much as I like them (I LOVE Lovesexy and Dirty Mind), I personally would recommend to get "Diamonds & Pearls" and the "Love Symbol" soon. They are both pretty great.

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Reply #9 posted 06/26/13 2:03am

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SOTT. Then everything else you don't have from 1978-1988.

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Reply #10 posted 06/26/13 2:19am

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If you love 1999 get controversy! It's a must have. Then move on biggrin

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Reply #11 posted 06/26/13 4:12am

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SOTT. Then everything else you don't have from 1978-1988.

The correct answer.

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Reply #12 posted 06/26/13 5:58am

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Four words: Sign O' The Times. . Anyone who suggests otherwise is plain crazy.

I'll add Controversy, Dirty Mind and Lovesexy.

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Reply #13 posted 06/26/13 6:02am

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Get these in this order, and you'll own all the 80s must haves. biggrin

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Reply #14 posted 06/26/13 6:27am

Optimus2	get the hits/ b-sides.........were i started those b-sides are amazing...plus covers all his 80s hits output......get sign of the times, parade, come, teh gold experience, emancipation.......and Crystal Ball if possible even if its expensive!!
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Hello

So, I've always been a casual fan of Prince, but I've really gotten more into his work lately and I want to start getting more into his album oriented material. I would like some reccomendations on which albums to pick up next, so far I have: Prince, 1999, Purple Rain, Around The World in a Day, and Ultimate Prince.

I really want to get Controversy. I don't remember much on it but I do remember that my dad used to have it on cassette when I was a kid and I liked listening to it on my walkman.

Also, I was wondering if anyone might be able to answer this? My mom has claimed for years that she went to a Rick James concert where Prince played as the opening act or was at least supposed to. Would anyone happen to know which show this might have been and what tour? I don't know a year but I would imagine this would have been in Michigan.

Possessed: the Rise & Fall of Prince
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The tour resumed and eventually hooked up with the popular funkster Rick James, with Prince serving as the opening act. Featuring an established veteran and an up-and-coming artist, these shows were a bonanza for fans and were billed by promoters as "The Battle of Funk," which helped generate rivalry between the two bands. Often, Prince's concise, energetic sets were more appealing than James' ponderous two-hour performances. "We were young and hungry, and we started kicking his butt." remembered (Bobby Z)Rivkin.

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Saturday, March 29, 2008 — by Wow Jones
In an earlier post, I wrote about an interesting anecdote from the Rick James autobiography regarding Rick James’ and Prince’s rivalry.
In a post on a Prince website message board, a member wrote about his/her experiences watching Prince open up for Rick James. What he/she revealed is just as insightful as Rick James’ account.

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PDogz (wildgoldenhoney from Prince.org) account at a Rick James concert, check it out:
1979: Attended a Rick James concert in Charlotte, NC. Prince was the opening act - Blew EVERYONE away! Rick James could not compare when he followed Prince’s act. In fact, about 20 minutes into Rick’s set, people in the audience started walking out. It wasn’t that Rick James performed poorly, it was just that after seeing Prince - there was no where else to go! Prince wore everybody out! I feel like I was a part of history that night. May Rick James be resting peacefully.
His entire set was about 45 minutes or so of complete mayhem and frenzy!

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When you first entered the Coliseum, there was no curtain and everything was setup at the front edge of the stage: mic-stands, keyboards, and very few other props. The drum set was in the middle of the stage placed up on a little riser with an oval-shaped sign over it (which was first covered in canvas) that had “PRINCE” spelled out in lights, as in the logo on his 1979 “Prince” album. Everybody was just standing around, jamming to the pre-concert music that they play over the system, smoking joints, grooving, and basically waiting for Rick James.

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No one really knew who Prince was yet. In fact, I thought we were about to see a band called “Prince For You” (the title of his first album). I didn’t know yet that Prince was an individual and not just the name of a band. I thought certainly that no one would be actually named “Prince”.

Then… BAMM! The lights went out, and you could make out 3 shadowy figures move onto the stage, and then stood with their backs to the audience. The rest of the band took their place, and all you could hear over the sound system was someone speaking in a low, sort of foreboding tone:

“Charlotte, are you ready for me?” — Prince

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The drum roll hit, the stage lights came up, and Andre, Prince, and Dez turned and all charged about 4 or 5 steps toward the audience – and everybody freaked the Hell out! These guys looked scary as shit! The one in the middle (who I soon learned was Prince) had this spiky hairdo, full make-up, a pink leather motorcycle jacket, panties, black stockings, and pumps! The audience reaction was pure fright! Then Prince reached around to his back, pulled his guitar around to the front, then the whole band started jamming “Sexy Dancer”, and the crowd quickly got over their fright and started rocking to the music and jamming along - all hands were in the air. By the end of that first song, everybody was like: “Oh shit! This guy AIN’T playing!” The party was ON full blast!

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Their play list consisted of songs from his first two albums, but the song they did that most sticks out in my mind is when they played “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?”, because Prince was ad-libbing a lot. Like:
Why you wanna treat me so bad? Is it the clothes I wear?
Why you wanna treat me so mean? Is it the style of my hair?

But what completely blew people away was when they played their encore: “I Wanna Be Your Lover”.

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Prince went mad, threw off that cool ass pink leather jacket, peeled off his stockings, threw them at the audience, and was running around the stage jamming to the beat with nothing but his guitar, bikini underwear, and high-heeled boots (with little stars on the side). And then once he was done jacking-off the microphone (as if he were giving it head - Prince was a real whore on stage back then), tossed his guitar to the side, reached his hand down into his panties to cover his dick, and pulled his panties all the way down to his knees, gyrating toward the audience with only his hand covering his dick! WTF!!! The audience was going crazy! At the end of his set, Prince said “Damn Charlotte, we’re gonna have to come back here again soon!”

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And that was it! I was a stoned-cold Prince fan! I started telling people about Prince the next day!
At that point, everybody was standing around like they had completely forgot about Rick James. But the roadies came out and moved all of Prince’s stuff off stage, the sign over the drums came apart into two pieces and they removed that. But what really tripped me out was once all of Prince’s equipment was off stage, they removed the backdrop that was behind Prince’s set, and you could see that the stage was actually HUGE and that Prince had only been setup right up at the front. There was a giant curtain hanging behind all of that. After several more moments of getting everything set up, the lights dimmed again, the music started, the curtain opened up, and there you could see that this stage was about a mile wide and a mile deep! This was Rick James’s stage!

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Rick came out, and The King of Punk Funk reminded you of what you came here for! His show was awesome, but I’ll save it for another thread. But it was interesting to note that many people in the audience started moving out, because at least initially, Rick was no comparison to what we had all just seen out there! Don’t get me wrong, Rick tore the roof off that sucker, but it was hard to stop thinking about what we had just seen Prince do out there.

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Rick’s show was about 2 hours long, and the Stoned City Band succeeded in funking us to death! The show was actually exhausting! I remember thinking “How in the Hell can they do this every night, and from town to town?” Ahh, the memories!

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Empress	SOTT - his best album!!
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Reply #17 posted 06/26/13 8:11am

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Hello

So, I've always been a casual fan of Prince, but I've really gotten more into his work lately and I want to start getting more into his album oriented material. I would like some reccomendations on which albums to pick up next, so far I have: Prince, 1999, Purple Rain, Around The World in a Day, and Ultimate Prince.

I really want to get Controversy. I don't remember much on it but I do remember that my dad used to have it on cassette when I was a kid and I liked listening to it on my walkman.

Also, I was wondering if anyone might be able to answer this? My mom has claimed for years that she went to a Rick James concert where Prince played as the opening act or was at least supposed to. Would anyone happen to know which show this might have been and what tour? I don't know a year but I would imagine this would have been in Michigan.

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Why don't you simply get... ALL his albums? If you're already here it means it's gonna happen sooner or later anyway wink

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Reply #18 posted 06/26/13 8:22am

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PurpleMouse88 said:

Hello

So, I've always been a casual fan of Prince, but I've really gotten more into his work lately and I want to start getting more into his album oriented material. I would like some reccomendations on which albums to pick up next, so far I have: Prince, 1999, Purple Rain, Around The World in a Day, and Ultimate Prince.

I really want to get Controversy. I don't remember much on it but I do remember that my dad used to have it on cassette when I was a kid and I liked listening to it on my walkman.

Also, I was wondering if anyone might be able to answer this? My mom has claimed for years that she went to a Rick James concert where Prince played as the opening act or was at least supposed to. Would anyone happen to know which show this might have been and what tour? I don't know a year but I would imagine this would have been in Michigan.

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Why don't you simply get... ALL his albums? If you're already here it means it's gonna happen sooner or later anyway

https://sites.google.com/...iscography

haha, this just happened to me, i only download, never buy cd, but just broke the rule for prince, i purchased all of his album n dvd.. never thought he could make me this crazy... all i can say..he is a drug..be careful..

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Reply #19 posted 07/01/13 12:35pm

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Well, Upon my quest to find a copy of Sign 'O' The Times I came to the realization that all of the stores I used to by music from around here have drastically limited their selection and don't seem to have much of anything beyond new releases. Best Buy had no Prince at all other than a single copy of Purple Rain in the budget section, and F.Y.E. only had a very small section of Prince so I ended up getting Parade. I must say although I've never seen Under The Cherry Moon, I'm really loving this album alot more than I expected seeing as they only song I initially recognized from the tracklist was Kiss. My favorite tracks are Life Can Be So Nice, Mountains, and Sometimes It Snows in April. I suppose I'll just order SOTT online but I wanted something to listen to RIGHT NOW!, lol.

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Reply #20 posted 07/02/13 4:19am

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You could try Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth for something a bit more recent and a different sound.

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