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Don't Play Me One of his best acoustics? ... | |
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IMO...its one of his bests. I wish he would perform this one live more often. The message of dealing with the music industry and fame in its true light is so raw and down to earth to me. This Could Be Us But U Be Playin...
You Can Call It The Unexpected Or U Can Call It WOW | |
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absolutely one of his best. love, love, love it!
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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No. This song feels like Prince is telling us things we already know. We know you're over 30. We know you don't smoke weed. Tell us something new, please. This album has much better songs. Fascination, Comeback, Welcome 2 the Dawn. Those are good. | |
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Then u didn't get the concept of the song... | |
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Maybe I didn't. What WAS the concept? | |
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Ask Prince... | |
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I'd love to. Do you have his phone number?  | |
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Doesn't own a cell phone... Didn't u watch Arsenio last year. | |
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Oh well. It was 20 years ago. He probably forgot about it already.  | |
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Fantastic song. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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Love it. My favourite on that album, and one of his best post-Warners tracks. "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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I always took it that the concept was about how he'd fallen out of favour with the radio stations, etc, which in his mind seemed to be about not fitting the profile of acts they'd like (but which was arguably also about his own quirks about releasing music around that time of the dispute with Warners). In any case, I take it that he was saying, "I don't care whether you play my records or not; I've got a greater fulfilment where I'm at now than I'd get from that stardom" - which is a powerful sentiment (though we all know that's a bit like telling the ex that dumped you that you're actually happy you split up 'cos it means you get so much more time to work on your music). [Edited 6/14/15 2:52am] "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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NorthC said: No. This song feels like Prince is telling us things we already know. We know you're over 30. We know you don't smoke weed. Tell us something new, please. This album has much better songs. Fascination, Comeback, Welcome 2 the Dawn. Those are good. Dionne!!!!! Never gets enough love on the Org- brilliant, achingly beautiful song. | |
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True, but the "don't play me, I already do in my car" line makes me want to take up hitchhiking. |
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Seconded! This one sounds like a song that 'Christopher Tracy' might have written. |
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The Truth is one of his best albums period - criminally overlooked Save America - Stop Illegal Immigration. God bless America. PEACE | |
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FUNKYNESS said:
The Truth is one of his best albums period - criminally overlooked TOTALLY. Check out my thread about this. http://prince.org/msg/7/416770 "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
-Eugene Tackleberry | |
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This song was a little too much "woe is me" for someone who had just gotten out of a lenghty contract battle. It didn't sound empowered; it sounded weak. . So much content of the mid-90s has to do with WB/record labels that honestly I got sick of hearing it. I think after Emancipation, he should've just dropped it and gotten over it. But he kept beating that horse to death . . .
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If there's one Prince track which reflects my life as it stands right now, this is actually it!
'dre Tried many flavours - but sooner or later, always go back to the Purple Kool-aid!
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