babynoz said:

berlinas2k said:

PurpleJedi said:

I like 'Graffiti Bridge' - the song.

I like it too it's a beautiful song very uplifting a Michael Jakcson kind of song.

1999 > Purple Rain

I only like 3 songs off Dirty Mind

For U is much better than Dirty Mind

214 said:

NorthC said:

214 said:

I like it too it's a beautiful song very uplifting a Michael Jakcson kind of song.

That's hardly a compliment.

iT'S A COMPLIMENT IN FACT

All the trolls are actually from the Prince camp

214 said:

NorthC said:

214 said: That's hardly a compliment.

iT'S A COMPLIMENT IN FACT

Doesn't sound like one.

thedance said:

^ Ok....?

We think very differently then.

Imo Lovesexy is one of Prince's best albums, and Imo When 2 R In Love fits badly in with the funk on the Black Album.. fits much bette in on Lovesexy. I love this fine album deeply.


Sure different opinions then..

It's an album I go back and forth on. When I first got into Prince, it was my favourite album for a while.

But now I've been a fan for longer and properly digested all of his albums, I'd probably say it's 2nd tier: not quite up with the masterpieces (DM, PR, Parade, SOTT, TBA, TRC), but with the ones that nearly were (Controversy, ATIWAD... Come, Lotusflower). Either way, it's a fine album.

I don't like U Got the Look or Glam Slam. I think these tracks seem out of place on these albums with their corny nature.

fbueller said:

LeGrinde said:

I stated this one many years ago, and I still believe it:

I believe Prince "leaked" the Black Album on purpose with the intention of it becoming a bootleg. (This opinion borders on being a conspiracy theory).

I think The Black Album only helped to promote Lovesexy, and Lovesexy very very much helped promote The Black album. The Lovesexy tourbook is practically an ad for the Black album, and that "hidden" message in the Alphabet Street video (don't buy the black album, I'm sorry) was some reverse psychology. If he really didn't want people to hear that album or buy it, he wouldn't have mentioned it so prominantly on tour, even singing Bob George throughout.

But the biggest "clue" was in the first track (My namesake "Le Grind") After searching everywhere for this hard-to-find (at the time) bootleg, the first thing the listener is greeted with is Prince saying :

"So you finally found it. Good. I'm glad"

And if The Black Album was reallly such an evil record he didn't want anyone to hear, he never would have let WB go ahead and put it out years later.

To me, Prince's Black Album stunt is one of his most impressive and imaginative. It was at the time, and might still be, the most famous bootleg of all time

Don't think Prince had some master plan for TBA. Reportedly some copies went undestroyed (promo copies, boxes of product ready to be shipped). Prince incurred a substantial cost to stop the album release at the last minute (he wouldn't have let TBA get that far in the manufacturing/distribution process on purpose). And if this was some brilliant marketing scheme, then Prince could have chosen to release the album and easily capitalize on sales of TBA at that time (which he saw be bootlegged an estimated 500,000 copies).

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It's not so much that Prince was that bothered by the album itself, altogether, but he reportedly had an experience at that time, an epiphany, whatever... and Prince apparently associated TBA as being related to that experience and, therefore, something to disassociate from. That's really the only explanation for why Prince canceled TBA. The material on the TBA itself is really not that offensive.

Prince recorded far darker music later on. "Pheremone?" Ever read the lyrics to that track? TBA spiritual epiphany thing seems like such BS to me (one of my unpopular opinions). I am more likely to believe he regretted Dead On It and his dig at rap. I will always believe that before the Blue Tuesday or what ever you call it.