why do some people here proclaim prince to be a great songwriter when he is not?

he is no stevie wonder I tell you

most of all his songs use 3 fucking chords-kiss,i could never take the placeETC...

some like the cross is only TWO FUCKING CHORDS...YEAH RIGHT...GENIUS TO YALL...BUT NOT TO AN EDUCATED MUSICIAN LIKE ME


AND he writes some to the dumbest fucking lyrics known to mankind example:
STARFISH AND COFFEE MAPLE SYRUP AND JAM ETC...


WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?


GENIUS MY ASS

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

i think you're (t)rick james in disguise.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

no just a good musician

You're Rick James, stop lyin'

lovebizzare said:

no i'm a good musician

define "good musician"...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

U lack depth & ear !

Fhunkin said:

i know 3 chords when i hear them sir

Take a listen to Little Red Corvette, When Doves Cry, Raspberry Beret, SOTT, Adore,

Jesus, the list is endless! Why am i even trying to defend the man's songwriting. If you don't get it, you never will!

Here you just proved your lack of depth.
How come I don't have your albums on my shelf ?
And since your so incredible briljant, why piss on others ?
Your talent could be spend more productively !

Face Down ?

thechronic said:

Why do lyrics/chords/whateva always have 2 b complex???

Music is a reflection of his live, he has dealt with many emotions and complex things in his music: so why can´t he have some fun with it?
[This message was edited Fri Mar 21 0:44:03 PST 2003 by talk2thejay]

Man, you have to be just trying to provoke us. I mean... you have to... you just-- Ahh!!

I just can't tell if you truly believe this crap you say. You just... I mean... DAMN! I don't even know how to respond.

You have to be just trying to get a rise. Yes, that must be it. I shall give you the benefit of the doubt.

And I will inevitably be slaughtered for this.

Chronic, I've decided to give you the benefit of the doubt! I believe you write better songs and play better guitar than Prince! Now that I'm all excited about discovering such a great new artist, where can I hear your music?

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, whine and bitch all the time.

thechronic said:

who is this jerk? critisising another musician and then proclaiming yourself to be 'a good musician'.

r u a great songwriter? yes? oh really? judged by who? yourself? your friends?

i can only think your messin' around and just trying to invoke reactions.

as prince once said himself "music, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
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[This message was edited Fri Mar 21 1:11:48 PST 2003 by nuthinbuttamuffin]

nuthinbuttamuffin said:

yes and i write songs with more than 3 chords too hooray!!!

Why does the more chords you use mean your more of a genius song writer? Perhaps it is more that less adequate song writers have to use more chords so as not to be shown up and perhaps it is more a sign of a great songwriter to constarin themselves to fewer chords yet still come up with such classics as Kiss and ICNTTPOYM - but hey who cares at the end of the day - if it sounds great, it sounds great,

thechronic said:

thechronic said:

Seems like you're no genius either, all you can say is the F word!!! Why have you listen to so many of his songs if you can't stand him? Did someone have a gun to your head making you listen to Prince?

Plenty of songs by the Beatles are piss-easy to play coz they've only got 3 or 4 chords in them, so are they shit as well?

And what about any music based on twelve bar blues - 3 CHORDS! So that John Lee Hooker guy...he's pretty shit 2?


Just coz a song is complex it doesn't mean that it's good.

Jesus all of the great songs are simple eg.Yesterday, I will always love you etc..

Ok chronic,
you are flooding the org with threads about you being a genius yourself. Maybe you are the best musician that ever walked this planet, but pls. be so kind to give us an example of your greatness so that we can bow and praise you.

Astasheiks said:

That doesnt seem impossible... http://www.prince.org/msg...sg_596785
its a sick world lol...

I always blab 4 my own pleasure... thank u

Any1 who can look @ xpressions of life, growth & the soul & c that/them as something ‘simple,’ might wanna call Paradigms R Us & change their personal stock!! hehe

I hate 2 get all drama linked but honestly... thechronic just b/c his wording may not seem (in ur eyes) powerful enuf 2 revive Shakespeare, & the chords may not seem 2 b Mozarty it doesnt mean the songs do not hold gr8 meaning.

The fact that he wrote, produced, played etc. the songs in HIS way/time proves things 2 b anything but simple... b/c no1 can ever (go back &) do things identically, no matter how gr8 of a musician u think u r!

I know this is ur opinion but i just dont get y u assume that his complexity is ur complexity... in other words by declaring what u did, u in a way implied that what is simple 2 u is simple 2 him! Now I dont want 2 argue but i dont think that makes sense, how do u know his songs r not xtra spiritual 2 him, plain 2 u or not! Anyway blah blah blah... 2 me where/who “it all” (as in any type of creativity from a person) comes from... is certainly never simple!

Just listen 2 Prince’s tunes & try 2 convince me that some of them dont serve as scripts from/2/of his life! ... in saying that many of his songs r true 2 his beliefs & functions... now is that really so black n white?! R u sure u r bold enuf 2 b criticizing that!?... U still say yes?! Then... if “educated” means u r that of ignorance... yes “sir,” I 2 strongly agree that u r proudly fluent... in education! :p



.... love my cursing type edit! UGH ()*()&*(&*^^&%^^*%^&(&*()&&^%$#$%^&* grrr arrrg errr arrrrr
[This message was edited Fri Mar 21 3:22:45 PST 2003 by harmony]

People, people - thechronic is just a troll!! He is just here to wind people up - he can't play, knows next to nothing about music, he is just a liar, plain and simple. And he can't even be original or intelligent in his eternal knocking of Prince and is never able to properly justify any of his opinions - in short, he's just a twat, pay no mind.

i wasnt payin no mind... i was just blabbin... there is a difference u know :p

Cronic the...twat(y) troll... i luv it...

u r awfully good with the T words keep em comin

Hey Harmony Not directed at you in particular - I've seen people on various of thetroll's (this is his moniker now) threads and some provide the reaction he is waiting for.

Stevie Wonder? That guy is blind! Damn, I didn't know he wrote songs! But no man with Wonder or Carlos in his name could write funkadelick songs like Cross The Line or Purple Rain... So why don't you go back to the creepy cave you came from Chronic...

And, as if further proof were needed, I set a challenge for him 2 days ago, one he has, unsurprisingly, chosen to ignore even though he has been on the site since!

Since, my friend IS one of the best guitar players in the world and I can prove it. I simply asked to exchange one of our tunes for one of thetroll's - he has not even responded, never mind accepted the challenge!

So full of shit, so little contribution to make - tosser! (hey, there's another T word!)

then go and get a record deal and show Prince and all of the rest of us, how it's done.

thechronic said:

eh, whatever's clever, mr. james...