Just for a bit of fun.

I have belatedly discovered the P and B podcasts and I'm hooked! These guys don't take themselves too seriously, yet respect the art. Love the shows.

My issue? They score like bollocks

Sorry guys...... but.......how can you say that:

1. a Wendy and Lisa classice like "Resolution" is weaker than elevator type "Love like jazz", or that "A Million Days" is average or throwaway?

Get real guys!

You have go so hung up on musicianship, you have forgotten what good sounds like.

"The Continental" is up there with Lovesexy!

SquirrelMeat said:

Just for a bit of fun.

I have belatedly discovered the P and B podcasts and I'm hooked! These guys don't take themselves too seriously, yet respect the art. Love the shows.

My issue? They score like bollocks

Sorry guys...... but.......how can you say that:

1. a Wendy and Lisa classice like "Resolution" is weaker than elevator type "Love like jazz", or that "A Million Days" is average or throwaway?

Get real guys!

You have go so hung up on musicianship, you have forgotten what good sounds like.

"The Continental" is up there with Lovesexy!

That's one of my few complaints -- sometimes they focus on the musicianship and ignore the lyrics completely and downplay the song structure, melody, beat, and message. But usually at least one P&B-er keeps it on point, tyhpicallly Playa or Toe Jam according to my tastes. But that's a small complaint. Show is great overall.

Thanks SquirrelMeat:)

That's why it's good having 4 of us, usually at least one of makes some sense in the overall scheme of things

and (like our show) the scores are just a bit of fun and not to be taken seriously, I think MC has even retired from scoring the last few album reviews..

I freely admit to ignoring lyrics at times, I'm probably more guilty than anyone in that regard !

and I love how this is only Smackdown Vol.1

Re: Continental vs Lovesexy - that is a whole nother show right there ~~!!

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Well, I still haven't gotten over the whole bucket fiasco in NYC.

I'm not sure if this happens ALL the time, but it's cool to be reminded of song rankings from the Greatest Prince Song survey results during individual album reviews. (I'm really nitpicking here!)

adicted too.

Captain has a small tendency to adjust his statement when he is interupted by the others.

He starts boldest and ends just bold

When they go offtopic and say, let's save this for another show you know it might take a while. They have so many too choose from.

yes these are great shows .. love all the detail and obsessive notes .. even if their crap detector is worse than prince own at times .. and yes .. sometimes they love a song for the beat and disregard how horrible the lyrics are .. but that is ok .. they always back up some of their wayward opinions with details reasons .. gotta respect that

Romeoblu said:

Love Like Jazz is better than Resolution. Just had to chime in with that.

Agreed

Eating a wet turd is better than "Resolution" are you frickin taking the piss.

Hearing that someone likes resolution is the funniest admission since Captain gave mad props to "The Morning after"

i LOVE love like jazz

i HATE resolution..it is fucking horrible

I've only got onto the podcasts recently and they are addictive. I find myself pausing them to go and listen to each song after each review to hear the little things they've spotted. I've got a new found fondness for Lovesexy (which I always thought was over-rated) after their podcast

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I've heard a brief mention of them seeing or meeting Prince in New York, what happened?

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With regard to Resolution - got to agree with others that I think its awful, one of his worst

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I like both Love Like Jazz and Resolution :snooty:

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But I like P&B more

NouveauDance said:

I like both Love Like Jazz and Resolution :snooty:

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But I like P&B more

You must be a friend of the show - I heard you get a shout-out on the Controversy podcast this morning!

hee-hee, I think they just did that for my avatar here, I did get a buzz from it though *giggle*

I listened to the Controversy podcast in my office this afternoon. the reminder of some of the lyrics had me stopping my work and laughing! "I'm so cold"......

As a Brit, nothing beats the Aussie humour.

But "Ronnie talks to Russia" as best track"? Insania!

They caught the facts on the first linn, power ballad and scratch guitar, but missed the biggy....The first album to drop falsetto. That change started the "big" years.

So cold...

SquirrelMeat said:

missed the biggy....The first album to drop falsetto. That change started the "big" years.

So cold...

Yeah , damn how did we not notice that !! good one SquirrelMeat

SquirrelMeat said:

I listened to the Controversy podcast in my office this afternoon. the reminder of some of the lyrics had me stopping my work and laughing! "I'm so cold"......

As a Brit, nothing beats the Aussie humour.

But "Ronnie talks to Russia" as best track"? Insania!

They caught the facts on the first linn, power ballad and scratch guitar, but missed the biggy....The first album to drop falsetto. That change started the "big" years.

So cold...

Record scratch: wait, what?

What do you mean by "drop" falsetto?

GuyBros said:

SquirrelMeat said:

I listened to the Controversy podcast in my office this afternoon. the reminder of some of the lyrics had me stopping my work and laughing! "I'm so cold"......

As a Brit, nothing beats the Aussie humour.

But "Ronnie talks to Russia" as best track"? Insania!

They caught the facts on the first linn, power ballad and scratch guitar, but missed the biggy....The first album to drop falsetto. That change started the "big" years.

So cold...

Record scratch: wait, what?

What do you mean by "drop" falsetto?

On "Controversy", Prince stopped singing exclusively in falsetto and started using his tenor and even bass voice for his records subsequently.

bashraka said:

lust said:

bashraka said:

On "Controversy", Prince stopped singing exclusively in falsetto and started using his tenor and even bass voice for his records subsequently.

Although of course he hadnt only sung in falsetto until then. Just as long as we're together, for example.

Come to think of it, that could be one reason why those first two albums never got spun that much (by me) too much falsetto ..

jonylawson said:

i LOVE love like jazz

i HATE resolution..it is fucking horrible

2 Kiwi orgers at each others throats, stop it, we need to remain unified.

Ever thought of us 3 starting a Kiwi Prince podcast. I will be the Captain. I think Resolution and Love like Jazz both suck, come on, much better songs on both albums.

Adorecream said:

lust said:

Adorecream said:

2 Kiwi orgers at each others throats, stop it, we need to remain unified.

Ever thought of us 3 starting a Kiwi Prince podcast. I will be the Captain. I think Resolution and Love like Jazz both suck, come on, much better songs on both albums.

You've lost me there? Jony and me? Seems we're on the same page.

Sorry I got confused there

I'll tell ya what I hate about P&B..

when we record a 4-5 hour show and then I am the one who gets the lovely job of editing it down to about 2-3 hours....

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Bah who am I kidding !! I love it

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lust said:bashraka said: On "Controversy", Prince stopped singing exclusively in falsetto and started using his tenor and even bass voice for his records subsequently.

Yeah, Prince dropped a few lines of non falsetto previously, (Just as long, Party Up etc) but every track until the Controvery album were falsetto in nature.The Controversy album introduced the biggest change in his stongest instrument.

His voice.Once he discovered the confidence in the lower range, it delivered a whole new dynamic to his recordings.Its interesting that the next album, 1999 actually had more lower range than falsetto, and by Purple Rain, there was only one falsetto track. Same for Around the world in a day.

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