Im sure i'll get someone cursing me for even suggesting this, but imagine a senario where Prince had died in 1989.
He would have died just after his peak, he would have done the lovesexy tour which ever says was great and he wouldnt have started the NPG.

He would be so more revered nowadays i think. Partly because that's what heppens when a great artist dies in their prime, but also because he wouldnt have had the chance to pee all over his career in the 90s.

Im not saying i want this to happen. I'm looking forward to seeing Prince play England, as i've never seen him live.

But what, musically speaking, would we really miss?

yeah there'd be no rainbow children which would be a great shame. But the best songs to be released in the 90s were from crystal ball, the good ones of which were from the 80s.

Also we'd probably have a remastered Warner backcatalog and there'd be more rare Prince songs circulating...


this isn't mean to cause offense, it's just a thought.

and we would miss TRC and tons of beautiful songs ...

If Prince had died in 89, he would be known to every school child today as the Elvis of the 80ies. The God of Funk/Rock.

Sad, but true.





On a side note...
You know WB wanted to put out a 'best of' album in '89
but Prince wouldn't let 'em, cuz he reckoned 'best of's
were for dead people, and he wasn't dead yet.
[This message was edited Sun Mar 23 12:27:58 PST 2003 by BorisFishpaw]

Let's have a look at two examples.

On the one hand, you have Bob Marley. The guy wouldn't be half as famous if he was still alive. Hell, reggae wouldn't be half as popular.

On the other hand, you have James Brown. Now I'm sorry to say what I'm about to say, but he should have died a long time ago. He would be a true legend. But today, people see an old guy who's desperately trying to be what he once was.

And I'm afraid this is what's gonna happen to Prince in 20 years.

Xpertlover said:

Very much so.


Sure, extremely ignorant people.

That would have sucked,if that would have happened.Glad prince is still around,and well prince

Well that embarassing symbol mess woulda never happened

BorisFishpaw said:

So I guess he was dead 4 years later; with the whole hits/b-sides boxset?

The vault would have been emptied periodically, and Prince would be more relevant in death than he is in life.

This crap is everything that's wrong with the Org.
Next we'll be reading 'What if Prince had fallen in the shower during the Crystal Ball sessions, woken up in Hospital convinced he was Ltn Columbo, would he still release it as a double SOTT or begin solving murder cases in a brown Mac?

allanb said:

Hey, news is slow going in the Prince camp. People are just trying to keep occupied.

Sure he would have been more popular to the masses, but for the fans like us, our lives would be missing something.

Kurt Cobain/2PAC syndrome!

minneapolisgenius said:

fair enough, but why must we read all this 'what if Prince had died' or 'Prince's baby' sado fan bullshit.
He's alive, making music, just finished his best tour since 88' that's alot of positives, so let's lose all the negative 'what if's'.

allanb said:

I never start these threads. I just make mean comments about everyone else who replies in earnest to them seriously.

I did actually start one thread today, but it sunk like the Titanic.

allanb said:

well if we can't talk about rubbish, what can we talk about?

It's a fact: people aren't truly appreciated until they're gone. I liked how Sinbad introduced Prince on the Vibe show a few years back when he said something along the lines of "You better appreciate him now because when people like him are gone, there's never gonna be another one like him again".

estidog said:

If he'd died in 89 we would've had to do without all of
these.

18 & Over
2045: Radical Man
2Morrow
3 Chains O' Gold
7.
A Case Of U
Acknowledge Me
Allegiance
An Honest Man
And God Created Woman
Arboretum
Arrogance
At Last…"The Lost Is Found"
Avalanche
Barcelona
Batdance
Betcha By Golly Wow
Big Fun
Blue Light
Breathe
Calhoun Square
Chaos & Disorder
Cherry, Cherry
Cloreen Baconskin
Coincidence Or Fate?
Come
Come On
Copenhagen
Count The Days
Courtin' Time
Cream
Crucial
Crystal Ball
Curious Child
Cutz
Cybersingle
Da Bang
Da, Da, Da
Daddy Pop
Damn U
Damned If Eye Do
Dark
Days Of Wild: Free The Slave [Live]
Diamonds & Pearls
Dig U Better Dead
Dinner With Delores
Don't Talk 2 Strangers
Dream Factory
Dreamin' About U
Electric Chair
Emale
Emancipation
Empty Room
Eye Can't Make U Love Me
Eye Like Funky Music
Eye Wanna Melt With U
Face Down
Freaks On This Side
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
Gamillah
Get Wild
Get Yo Groove On
Gett Off
Girl 6
Golden Paracute
Good Love
Goodbye
Habibi
Had U
Hallucination Rain
Have A Heart
Here On Earth
Hide The Bone
High
Howevermuch U Want
HypnoParadise
I Like It There
I Rock, Therefore I Am
I Will
In This Bed Eye Scream
Insatiable
Interactive
Into The Light
Jam Of The Year
Joint 2 Joint
Judas Smile
Jughead
Jukebox with a Heartbeat
Kamasutra
Kamasutra/Eternal Embrace
Kamasutra/Overture #8
La, La, La, Means Eye Love U
Last Heart
Lemme See Yo Body [Get Loose!]
Lemon Crush
Letitgo
Let's Have A Baby
Live 4 Love
Loose!
Love 2 The 9's
Lovesign
LoveSong
Mad
Mad Sex
Madrid 2 Chicago
Make Yo Mama Happy
Mashed Potato Girl [skit]
Money Don't Matter 2Nite
Moviestar
MPLS
Mr. Happy
My Computer
My Medallion
My Name Is Prince
Nagoya
New Power Day [skit]
New Power Soul
New Power Soul
New World
Northside
Objects In The Mirror
One Kiss At A Time
One Nite Alone
One Of Us
One Song
Orgasm
Osaka
Papa
Party Man
Peace
Pearls B4 The Swine
Pheromone
Poom Poom
Promise/Broken
Props N Poundz
Push
Push It Up
Race
Right Back Here In My Arms
Right The Wrong
Ripopgodazippa
S&M Groove
Same December
Saviour
Scandalous
Serotonin
Sex In The Summer
Sex Me Sex Me Not
Sexual Suicide
Sexy M.F.
She Gave Her Angels
Shoo-Be-Dooh
Silicon
Slave
Sleep Around
So Dark
Solo
Somebody's Somebody
Soul Sanctuary
Space
Strays Of The World
Strollin'
Style
Supercute
Sweet Baby
Tell Me How U Wanna B Done
The Arms Of Orion
The Continental
The Daisy Chain
The Ever Changing Light
The Exodus Has Begun
The Flow
The Funky Design
The Future
The Holy River
The Human Body
The Love We Make
The Max
The Morning Papers
The One
The Plan
The Return Of The Bump Squad
The Ride
The Sacrifice Of Victor
The War
Thunder
Tokyo
Trust
U Make My Sun Shine
Underneath The Cream
Until Ur In My Arms Again
U're Gonna C Me
Van Gogh
Vavoom
Vicky Waiting
Walk Don't Walk
Wasted Kisses
We Gets Up
What's My Name?
When I Lay My Hands On U
When U Love Somebody
When Will We B Paid
White Mansion
Willing And Able
Xenophobia
Y Should I Do That When I Can Do This
Young And Beautiful
Zannalee



So what if he lived past his "peak". I say let the man
live another 45 years and let's see what more he can
crank out. Even if there's some tosh in there there is
also a lot of cool stuff.

I don't think it works like that. James Dean and Marilyn Monroe became legends as the public know they would have gone to greater things. But people like Jayne Mansfield and Montgomery clift don't become legends as the public instinctively know they're all washed up.
If Prince had died in '89, his career would have gone on a similar path as if he had lived. It would have stayed constant throughout the early '90s. Then around '94 there would have been a 'comeback' of sorts (and a few jokes at the same time) and then he would have gone into obscurity. Then hopefully around 2005, there will be a huge re-appraisal.

XtrueX said:

I think XtrueX said it best. Prince will still get his due, but it is a fact - people just aren't appreciated until they're gone, and Prince will be recognized as one of the greatest singer/songwriter/guitar players that ever lived...

IstenSzek said:

i have one thing to say to you: get your facts right.

take 'crystal ball' for example was done prior the 1989 and thus would still be there if he died. It wouldnt have come out on the crystall ball set like it has now, but i bet that there'd be alot more unreleased Prince songs and box sets etc out now if the man had died.

Just look at jeff buckley.

And apart from the stuff on crystall ball, the rainbow children and perhaps the song 'gett off' i could do without the rest, i really could.

there wouldn't of been a prince.org

Farfunknugin said:

there would be 4 times as many prince.orgs
I bet there's more sites about Kurt Cobain now than there were in 1994.

allanb said:[quote]This crap is everything that's wrong with the Org.[quote]


My sentiments exactly!

lovebizzare said:

Actually, yes he was!

Prince WAS dead, he was now , so it was OK to
release a 'Prince' hits album, because as far as
was concerned he wasn't 'Prince' anymore and wouldn't
be playing any 'Prince' songs again.

BorisFishpaw said:

thats actually a good point you've got there.
refreshing to see that in this thread!

Believe it or not there are some Folks that think He has Been Dead Since 89.true story back in 89 I was telling a Woman that I Went to His "Lovesexy" Concert in 88&She said to me He hasn't had a Hit in 4 Years.She also said to Me does He still make Music? this was in 89 Imagine what She would say now?