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Reply #361 posted 09/30/15 9:53am

prittypriss

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"Third Apartment From The Sun"

Obviously referencing Earth (which Hendrix had used before on Third Stone From The Sun and a sitcom Third Rock), BUT . . .

The way I interpret Prince's specific apartment lyric is that -- like most apartments -- this (Earth) is only a temporary home for us before finding a more permanent home later (afterlife). If Prince did that by accident, perhaps to differentiate from the Hendrix line, then kudos to him.

I had posted something similar in reply #135. I agree that this is his way of saying that this home is only temporary, eventually we do move on to a more permanent "Home" - makes me think of "Way Back Home"

3rd apartment from the sun, just another way to say "earth" but with the idea that we are merely renting this planet, we are not permanent residents.

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Reply #362 posted 09/30/15 9:56am

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prittypriss said:

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It's not atheist. It is spiritual in nature, but things he has said before. This fits with eastern teachings. "Heaven on earth, right here" being present in this moment, no thought for tomorrow, no thoughts for yesterday. NowHere.

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3rd apartment from the sun, just another way to say "earth" but with the idea that we are merely renting this planet, we are not permanent residents.

My bad...i wasn't trying to say it was Athiest. It just seems a man who thought he knew all the answers cuz he knew God has questions again...and questions similar to mine.

BobGeorge, I'm sorry. I know you weren't trying to say that this song was atheist in nature, but just did want to point out that is a very spiritual song which fits with the eastern teachings. I think everyone, regardless of religion or no religion at all, asks those same questions.

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Reply #363 posted 09/30/15 10:31am

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feeluupp said:

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Dunno what's funnier:

- mister "I-don't-live-in-the-past" desperately trying to imitate his 1980s sound,

- or all the fans who accuse me of wanting Prince to repeat his 1980s sound (which I don't) falling over themselves to praise this not particularly remarkable track.

What's funniest is the person that always takes dumps on Prince and goes out of his away to post about it on the ORG, is the one that studies his musical legacy avidly and listens to the new songs, while still dumping on Prince everyday for 13 years.

Strange lonely lonely lonely man.

Amazing how much shit you made up just there. All because apparently my opinion is so important people were already waiting from it early in this thread, yet you can't stand that I dare to post it here.

Note that of course you failed to prove me wrong, and instead you launched a baseless personal attack. I'll take that as confirmation that I'm right.

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Reply #364 posted 09/30/15 11:36am

feeluupp

BartVanHemelen said:

feeluupp said:

What's funniest is the person that always takes dumps on Prince and goes out of his away to post about it on the ORG, is the one that studies his musical legacy avidly and listens to the new songs, while still dumping on Prince everyday for 13 years.

Strange lonely lonely lonely man.

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Amazing how much shit you made up just there. All because apparently my opinion is so important people were already waiting from it early in this thread, yet you can't stand that I dare to post it here.

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Note that of course you failed to prove me wrong, and instead you launched a baseless personal attack. I'll take that as confirmation that I'm right.

Lets be real here Bart... Everyday ur post is a personal attack on PRINCE.

Your opinion isn't important, it's just entertaining... I've never seen somone TROLL a website as long as you have... 13 years... Man keep on going.

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Reply #365 posted 09/30/15 11:42am

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feeluupp said:

BartVanHemelen said:

feeluupp said:

What's funniest is the person that always takes dumps on Prince and goes out of his away to post about it on the ORG, is the one that studies his musical legacy avidly and listens to the new songs, while still dumping on Prince everyday for 13 years.

Strange lonely lonely lonely man.

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Amazing how much shit you made up just there. All because apparently my opinion is so important people were already waiting from it early in this thread, yet you can't stand that I dare to post it here.

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Note that of course you failed to prove me wrong, and instead you launched a baseless personal attack. I'll take that as confirmation that I'm right.

Lets be real here Bart... Everyday ur post is a personal attack on PRINCE.

Your opinion isn't important, it's just entertaining... I've never seen somone TROLL a website as long as you have... 13 years... Man keep on going.

Bart was here in 1999 when I first joined the Org. Probably earlier. Just saying...

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Reply #366 posted 09/30/15 1:00pm

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KingSausage said:

feeluupp said:

BartVanHemelen said:

feeluupp said:

What's funniest is the person that always takes dumps on Prince and goes out of his away to post about it on the ORG, is the one that studies his musical legacy avidly and listens to the new songs, while still dumping on Prince everyday for 13 years.

Strange lonely lonely lonely man.

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Amazing how much shit you made up just there. All because apparently my opinion is so important people were already waiting from it early in this thread, yet you can't stand that I dare to post it here.

.

Note that of course you failed to prove me wrong, and instead you launched a baseless personal attack. I'll take that as confirmation that I'm right.

Lets be real here Bart... Everyday ur post is a personal attack on PRINCE.

Your opinion isn't important, it's just entertaining... I've never seen somone TROLL a website as long as you have... 13 years... Man keep on going.

Bart was here in 1999 when I first joined the Org. Probably earlier. Just saying...

I've been here since '98 (initially under another name) and Bart was here then. He's never been anything other than negative and disparaging about Prince's output in those 17 years. Speaks for itself really. I don't appreciate sychophants but if an artist hadn't remotely satisfied me in nearly two decades I'd be long gone.

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Reply #367 posted 09/30/15 1:32pm

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feeluupp said:

BartVanHemelen said:

feeluupp said:

What's funniest is the person that always takes dumps on Prince and goes out of his away to post about it on the ORG, is the one that studies his musical legacy avidly and listens to the new songs, while still dumping on Prince everyday for 13 years.

Strange lonely lonely lonely man.

.

Amazing how much shit you made up just there. All because apparently my opinion is so important people were already waiting from it early in this thread, yet you can't stand that I dare to post it here.

.

Note that of course you failed to prove me wrong, and instead you launched a baseless personal attack. I'll take that as confirmation that I'm right.

Lets be real here Bart... Everyday ur post is a personal attack on PRINCE.

Your opinion isn't important, it's just entertaining... I've never seen somone TROLL a website as long as you have... 13 years... Man keep on going.

That is NOT true. Sometimes he attacks other people in the org instead!

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Reply #368 posted 09/30/15 1:39pm

feeluupp	KingSausage said: feeluupp said: Lets be real here Bart... Everyday ur post is a personal attack on PRINCE. Your opinion isn't important, it's just entertaining... I've never seen somone TROLL a website as long as you have... 13 years... Man keep on going. Bart was here in 1999 when I first joined the Org. Probably earlier. Just saying... So was I... Under a different user name...
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Reply #369 posted 09/30/15 1:44pm

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feeluupp said:

KingSausage said:

feeluupp said:

Lets be real here Bart... Everyday ur post is a personal attack on PRINCE.

Your opinion isn't important, it's just entertaining... I've never seen somone TROLL a website as long as you have... 13 years... Man keep on going.

Bart was here in 1999 when I first joined the Org. Probably earlier. Just saying...

So was I... Under a different user name...

Please tell me you're 2the9s. I loved that guy and his crazy fake track lists.

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Reply #370 posted 09/30/15 1:45pm

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i've been here since 1987, under a different username, but i was here nod

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Reply #371 posted 09/30/15 1:50pm

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IstenSzek said:

i've been here since 1987, under a different username, but i was here nod

I've been here since the dawn of time, the alpha of creation. On the seventh day, I made Prince. (Sorry about HnR, everybody.)

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Reply #372 posted 09/30/15 2:13pm

feeluupp	KingSausage said: feeluupp said: So was I... Under a different user name... Please tell me you're 2the9s. I loved that guy and his crazy fake track lists. No I wasn't... But 2 give u some hints on who i used 2 be, on the org... I was the YOUNGEST member to join at the time...
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Reply #373 posted 09/30/15 2:22pm

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KingSausage said:
IstenSzek said:

i've been here since 1987, under a different username, but i was here

I've been here since the dawn of time, the alpha of creation. On the seventh day, I made Prince. (Sorry about HnR, everybody.)

yeah i remember you, always trolling in the darkness as me and the singularity

rolled our eyes at your puppy ways.

smile

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Reply #374 posted 09/30/15 2:29pm

OperatingTheta n	I was Mr7. Not sure if anybody remembers me? But then I had a dramatic change of circumstances, which kind of necessitated a new name
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Reply #375 posted 09/30/15 2:57pm

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OperatingThetan said:
I was Mr7. Not sure if anybody remembers me? But then I had a dramatic change of circumstances, which kind of necessitated a new name

I think I have one of the oldest avatars here.

Bart has toned it down considerably over the years his range of opinions on Prince's music has been:

pathetic

terrible

boring

half assed

botched

ruined

half decent

Not particularly remarkable

That's more or less in order so his opinion on this song is truly one of his least critical.

Free Urself must be a pretty good song.

Thanks Bart!

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Reply #376 posted 09/30/15 3:06pm

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feeluupp said:

KingSausage said:

feeluupp said:

So was I... Under a different user name...

Please tell me you're 2the9s. I loved that guy and his crazy fake track lists.

No I wasn't... But 2 give u some hints on who i used 2 be, on the org... I was the YOUNGEST member to join at the time...

Nep2nes?

What?

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Reply #377 posted 09/30/15 3:10pm

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iZsaZsa said:

feeluupp said:

KingSausage said:

feeluupp said:

So was I... Under a different user name...

Please tell me you're 2the9s. I loved that guy and his crazy fake track lists.

No I wasn't... But 2 give u some hints on who i used 2 be, on the org... I was the YOUNGEST member to join at the time...

Nep2nes?

KLHK? We're gonna need your 40-foot booty straw to handle all the suck in HnR.

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Reply #378 posted 09/30/15 3:12pm

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KingSausage said:

iZsaZsa said:

Nep2nes?

KLHK? We're gonna need your 40-foot booty straw to handle all the suck in HnR.

Gross. KellyAnne?

What?

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Reply #379 posted 09/30/15 3:12pm

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KingSausage said:
iZsaZsa said:
Nep2nes?
KLHK? We're gonna need your 40-foot booty straw to handle all the suck in HnR.

good god, all these posts about eating ass with a spoon and sippin' crack juice with a straw

just came back to me falloff this place used to be hilarious lol

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Reply #380 posted 09/30/15 3:15pm

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What?

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Reply #381 posted 09/30/15 3:52pm

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OperatingThetan said:

I was Mr7. Not sure if anybody remembers me?

But then I had a dramatic change of circumstances, which kind of necessitated a new name wink

And, yes. It looked cool in italics on the black and purple board.

What?

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Reply #382 posted 09/30/15 4:19pm

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tatocorcu said:
It reminds me too much of Baltimore and Rnr love affair, none of which I like much. It seems I'm in e minority this time, but I'm not feeling it...

not feeling this one at all either........song seems to be like unflavored gelatin

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Reply #383 posted 09/30/15 5:20pm

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3rdeyedude said:

tatocorcu said:
It reminds me too much of Baltimore and Rnr love affair, none of which I like much. It seems I'm in e minority this time, but I'm not feeling it...

not feeling this one at all either........song seems to be like unflavored gelatin

recuded bone juice drool

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Reply #384 posted 09/30/15 5:21pm

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I just purchased 'FREE URSELF' on iTunes. Nice track and welcome addition to my Prince - Extras Playlist

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Reply #385 posted 09/30/15 5:23pm

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prittypriss said:

Se7en said:

"Third Apartment From The Sun"

Obviously referencing Earth (which Hendrix had used before on Third Stone From The Sun and a sitcom Third Rock), BUT . . .

The way I interpret Prince's specific apartment lyric is that -- like most apartments -- this (Earth) is only a temporary home for us before finding a more permanent home later (afterlife). If Prince did that by accident, perhaps to differentiate from the Hendrix line, then kudos to him.

3rd apartment from the sun, just another way to say "earth" but with the idea that we are merely renting this planet, we are not permanent residents.

In that case, I'm in full agreement with you! Sorry I missed your post.

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Reply #386 posted 09/30/15 5:23pm

V10LETBLUES

What I find really interesting, is that, the upward trajectory Prince was on, Purple Rain, Parade, SOTT, it seemed that with age his music would be getting that more sophisticated. I mean Paul McCarthy had a good long run after the beatles releasing so interesting tracks. Much more so Jhon Lennon.

So to see Prince go from a genius to fallinginlovetonite-like tracks after his 87 zenith is quite jarring. I always felt he suffred a stroke or something becasue that stuff is so far beneath him and really any artist without an extra chromosome 21.

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Reply #387 posted 09/30/15 5:37pm

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V10LETBLUES said:

I feel ya.

But also...fallinlove2nite is not the only kind of music he's in the middle of making. Not to long ago he finished putting Judith's album together...he recorded more than a rock albums worrth of music withna couple of rookies and a bass player...indifference included. Supported Liv. Made a party record with another rookie. Had a jazz act in the works. Blackwell split for a tour so I suppose NPGQ is done with...

One could say he's spread himself too thin. But I see it more as instead of going from deep in one idea and making one piece of über complicated or complex music, he's living music. Different kinds, constantly. Day in day out with seeming little rest. Creating, producing, rehearsing, in all manners of generes. Challenging himself in a manner of breadth vs. depth. That amazes me as much as one super Crystal Ball. I don't suspect at all that all we've heard is all he's done. Don't forget he threw Groovy Potential at us for no reason other than it was damn good.

It's easy to look at hitnrun and be like this sucks...that mess was tailor made for Tidal. Scope all He's up to...that's what amazes me. From princes perspective... It's one measly record out of more than forty. Not everything gotta be career defining. Rest assure his short attending soan and ego will bring him back around to a focus on depth vs. breadth.

But I totally understand your complaints and some of the work he does that I'm not into...frustrates me. But...apparently.. Some people love that fallinlove2nite shit...he's still making trax like Groovy Potential tho...
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Reply #388 posted 09/30/15 5:41pm

SeeNote

Uplifting, positive and on point through the funky conduit which continues to be Xperimental Prince in my opinion. Love how he still keeps us busy with deciphering his lyrical delivery as in "3rd apartment from the sun". (Thanks to those who shared this concept btw.) I myself dig the track. It's a breath of fresh air from the electronical HITnRun, although I've somewhat grown friendly with it. Definately think it's a prequel to Phase 2 and I don't think he needs a buffer from HnR to release. Bring it on, Purple One - come wit' it!

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Reply #389 posted 09/30/15 5:44pm

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SeeNote said:

Uplifting, positive and on point through the funky conduit which continues to be Xperimental Prince in my opinion. Love how he still keeps us busy with deciphering his lyrical delivery as in "3rd apartment from the sun". (Thanks to those who shared this concept btw.) I myself dig the track. It's a breath of fresh air from the electronical HITnRun, although I've somewhat grown friendly with it. Definately think it's a prequel to Phase 2 and I don't think he needs a buffer from HnR to release. Bring it on, Purple One - come wit' it!

I, like others, thought of "3rd Rock From The Sun" when I heard the lyrics... lol

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