3rdeyedude said:

let's face it.....you know he secretly wants his music to sound like this and be played on this kind of dance floor........

This phrase isn't allowed on the org anymore, sorry.

BartVanHemelen said:

kidsherriff said:

Very often the problem with Prince is the speed at which he records.

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That's part of the problem yes, and it's one that emerged in the second half of the 1990s. Before that he often spent a lot of time of records, just look at how long he worked on Jill Jones' record.

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Not that extensive work is always a good thing: he produced D&P to death. But then that record never was going to be any good.

Nonsense + counterexample. Several classic 80's albums were recorded in a matter of months, if not weeks or even days (see The family, Romance 1600, 8 and 16). Jill Jones was an unusually long project. Everything from Dirty Mind to Lovesexy was more or less recorded in a rush.

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FUNKYNESS said:

It is disposable. It lacks substance. If it were a food, it would be cotton candy. It is gutless, mindless, and inorganic - just the opposite of what Prince has given us these last few decades. It isnt real. I can remember Prince shouting "real music by real musicians" onstage through the early 2000's only to come to Hit n Run today.

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bollocks (imho).

databank said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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That's part of the problem yes, and it's one that emerged in the second half of the 1990s. Before that he often spent a lot of time of records, just look at how long he worked on Jill Jones' record.

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Not that extensive work is always a good thing: he produced D&P to death. But then that record never was going to be any good.

Nonsense + counterexample. Several classic 80's albums were recorded in a matter of months, if not weeks or even days (see The family, Romance 1600, 8 and 16). Jill Jones was an unusually long project. Everything from Dirty Mind to Lovesexy was more or less recorded in a rush.

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Yes, I know, but even in those "rushed" works there's often far more work involved. Don't forget that today it is far easier to produce a studio quality recording, and IMHO you can hear it in Prince's work. They even boast in one of the HNR interviews how some songs were done in less than a couple of hours, with Prince not in the studio for plenty of that time.