In my "private life" Prince is having a comeback with: Art Official Age.


I used to be 100% fulfilled with Prince's music..... back in 1983 when I became a fan and up to 1995 he could do no wrong.

Then: ups & downs, ups & downs... a lot of them... mostly downs.




Right now I would say Prince is pretty hot again, question:

On the scale going from 0 to 1000:



- I would say Prince makes a great 850.


How high -or low- is Prince's music in your private life - right now.....?

So, you're saying 8.5 out of 10, right?

For me, maybe, 6.877 at the moment.

Prost!

Already growing bored with the new albums and the lack of promotion. I would say about 567 at the moment.

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At stages it has gotten into the 900s and other times between 1998 and 2004 it dropped back into double figures.I would have my interest level around 33 out of 1000 around the time of Rainbow Children. Highest since 2004 was about 980 when I went to see him in concert back in May 2012. I played Prince music non stop for about 2 months before and after it. It drops back to 500s at quiet times and rose up to about 750 with Art Official age, but did drop briefly to .23 out of 1000 with the song Boytrouble.

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Always on +980. Heard Lovesexy (song) from Negoya -89 and I was at 1000 when the day was over. I am a newbie fan and are only on the tip of the iceberg regarding livesets, vault songs e.t.c.... He's always hot in my book

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Seriously, this is a silly question. What, are we supposed to answer a hundred-million-trillion-billion and have others argue with us about how it's negative ten gazillion baffoonillian or su'in?

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I find it strange how some people lose interest in an album if the promotion is lacking - YOU'VE already bought it, promotion is for those who don't own it, so why would more promotion make you more interested in the album you already have? Yes I would like Prince to be more prominent on TV and radio, but times have changed for Prince and the industry as a whole. So I think we should be grateful/happy with what we DID get in terms of promotion.

PS. Prince is no longer promoting Sign O' the Times, does that make you dislike the album?

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Dandroppedadime said:

I find it strange how some people lose interest in an album if the promotion is lacking - YOU'VE already bought it, promotion is for those who don't own it, so why would more promotion make you more interested in the album you already have? Yes I would like Prince to be more prominent on TV and radio, but times have changed for Prince and the industry as a whole. So I think we should be grateful/happy with what we DID get in terms of promotion.

PS. Prince is no longer promoting Sign O' the Times, does that make you dislike the album?

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Right??? I still put on Plectrum almost every day. It's that whole insecurity Prince fans have about liking Prince at work. It's like somehow the music doesn't loses its value if it's not popular. And think of all the exposure we did get to Prince and 3rd Eye Girl, Andy Allo, Liv Warfield, etc., that we've gotten since late 2012 on. That's two strong, almost-nonstop years of new stuff and the old-school fun mysticism about potential album releases. But no, the album falls down the charts, and it's like people get like Nadine in Finding Nemo up in this piece.

Prince music rates higher in my life than it has at least since Musicology, maybe since Lovesexy.

I haven't liked an entire Prince album from start to finish since Lovesexy, Musicology was a good record if you get rid of Life Of The Party. As for PlectrumElectrum, Wow, Pretzelbodylogic, FixurlifeUp, Mars and Anotherlove sound better now than they did initially.

The truth is that Prince demonstrates amazing scope with these two records -- I still don't like the chants but there's no question AOA and the best of PLEL are about as musically sprawling as it gets. No one this year or next year will be rocking and souling that hard.

Yeah Taskae:

this is probably too silly and "alternative", asking how much you are feeling for the Prince music lately, and asking for a "number".... Ooops...


Seriously I really couldn't come up with a better thread at this moment...

TASKAE said:

Seriously, this is a silly question.

thedance said:

Dandroppedadime said:

I find it strange how some people lose interest in an album if the promotion is lacking - YOU'VE already bought it, promotion is for those who don't own it, so why would more promotion make you more interested in the album you already have? Yes I would like Prince to be more prominent on TV and radio, but times have changed for Prince and the industry as a whole. So I think we should be grateful/happy with what we DID get in terms of promotion.

PS. Prince is no longer promoting Sign O' the Times, does that make you dislike the album?

Heavy promotion makes it seem as if the artist is really standing behind their work.If the artist doesn't show alot of enthusiasm/hype about their own project,many fans won't,either.

If I tune in to orange park radio,spotify or downloads I have its prevalent in my life .. Which is a lot. Hey Prince do another 3 show 3 venue night like you did here in LA few yrs back, that was cool.

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i'm pretty much nothing but prince and d'angelo right now, so i'm at an 700 prince to 300 d'angelo ratio

I go through periods were I play tons of Prince and times very little.

kewlschool said:

Dandroppedadime said:

SoulAlive said:

Already stopped listening to the new stuff, but listen to older stuff (mostly out-takes) pretty much every day.

I have lost all interest for Purple Rain because it hasn't been promoted for 30 years. However, if they release a remaster AND promote if I will listen to the album until they stop promoting it again, and then I will never ever listen to it again unless they promote yet another rerelease.

I feel sorry for those poor folks who bought AOA and Plec only to realize that the albums weren't being promoted and never got to listen to them again. I suggest they ask for a refund and send they mp3 files back to WB!!!

Seriously????

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Back to the OP's OP, I have no bloddy clue what P's music is on a scale of 1000 (421? 832? 771?).

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I find myself listening to Prince less than before year after year but this has little to do with my appreciation of his new material. I've been listening to his music for 25 years, I grew older, I discovered hundreds of other artists, I assimilate and get tired of a new album much faster now than when I was 20, etc. It's like kids watching the same cartoon over and over again for months: the brain assimilates things faster over time and we don't feel the same need for rediscovering things on such an extreme regular basis, I guess... I probably listened to more or less once a day for at least 8 months back in 1992-93. Now with a new Prince album it's more like once a day for about 2 weeks. Last time I really tripped to death on a new album was the Lotusflow3r trilogy in 09. I guess the 3 albums went more or less once a day for a good 3 months.

But I always come back to Prince's music, about once a week more or less I'll listen to a Prince album. Sometimes I trip on one again and listen to it often for a few weeks. Sometimes I will listen to much more Prince music for a few days.

Thing is there is so much great music to listen to, I want to trip on other stuff, too. If I die at a normal age I only have about 40 more years to listen to music, and time flies!

Pfff, honestly I hardly listen to Prince anymore. I am more a fan out of habit, I'm afraid. I do really like a lot of his music, especially the eighties stuff including the side projects. But early in the nineties I lost interest quickly. On a scale from 0 to 1000 I would say my interest is at 500. I keep following Prince's new releases but expectations have dropped to almost zero. I am hoping for either hardhitting (electro)funk stuff or otherwise new projects in the vein of TRC (musically, that is).

Philly76 said:

319

- 2 (if it wasn't for the bootlegs, my rating would be lower)

The fact is that when ever he releases a new album or even a single, every one is excited for a week or two. With a good album like AOA or 3121, the excitement may last a whole month, but after that it slows down.

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When there is virtually no promotion of the albums or any singles off them, the interest dies off to the point,peoplestart asking when he will release another song and the usual speculation begins. Already we have two threads, one saying there is a video for Marz and another claiming "This could be us" will be released as a single on January 20th and it has been denounced as a fan made fake.

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Basically every new Prince album will generate 1000/1000 interest when all the hard core fans buy copies, usually promptly, which is why they chart highly for a week and promptly die. Once these fans have bought the albums, their transaction with Prince and the charts is over. And so after two months, most of the orgers claiming they have a 900 or more interest are realistically down to 500 if lucky.

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Already I have my Ipod and Itunes on shuffle and more often than not, its a non Prince or even non R and B song coming out of my speakers. I have been listening to a lot of 1980s synth pop lately. I don't even think I have listened to AOA since last week and not to PLE since last November.

S3V3N said: