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Reply #30 posted 12/17/15 11:54am

feeluupp

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feeluupp said:

lockdance

that's the most i ever c u contribute here.

Sure, I'm known here for my constantly useless contributions, that's pretty certain rolleyes

As am I. flipped off

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Reply #31 posted 12/17/15 12:10pm

databank

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feeluupp said:

databank said:

Sure, I'm known here for my constantly useless contributions, that's pretty certain rolleyes

As am I. flipped off

Now let's be nice: it's such a fine day nod

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Reply #32 posted 12/17/15 1:53pm

RJOrion

Purple Rain
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Reply #33 posted 12/17/15 3:06pm

funkaholic1972

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Take Me With U, never liked it..

RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time...
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Reply #34 posted 12/17/15 3:20pm

Cinny

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Take Me With U, never liked it..

This astounds me. To me, it's perfect pop. I guess if you preferred what The Time and previous Prince albums served up, it may have been too lite to your ears?

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Reply #35 posted 12/17/15 3:20pm

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funkaholic, I heartily approve of your avatar. lol

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Reply #36 posted 12/17/15 3:22pm

Cinny

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eyewishuheaven said:

funkaholic, I heartily approve of your avatar. lol

lol

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Reply #37 posted 12/17/15 3:48pm

Aerogram

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There's maybe just three Prince albums that don't have at least one song I don't care for.

I didn't like Ronnie Talk to Russia then but now I do.

International Lover is the oldest song I heard then that I still don't like now.

On Purple Rain: Take Me with U is my least favorite song on that album but now I find it charming.

ATWIAD: The Ladder got on my nerves!

SOTT: It sounded like filler to me

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Reply #38 posted 12/17/15 3:53pm

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Dirty Mind. After the R&B/funk of the first two albums, I wasn't ready for new wave sounding music. I didn't buy this album untill I heard Head and Do it All Night.

U might not like the taste, but I'm still going to stick your face in this Funk
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Reply #39 posted 12/17/15 3:55pm

tatocorcu

Aerogram said:

There's maybe just three Prince albums that don't have at least one song I don't care for.



I didn't like Ronnie Talk to Russia then but now I do.



International Lover is the oldest song I heard then that I still don't like now.



On Purple Rain: Take Me with U is my least favorite song on that album but now I find it charming.



ATWIAD: The Ladder got on my nerves!



SOTT: It sounded like filler to me


Sign o' the times?? Really?? Wow!
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Reply #40 posted 12/17/15 3:58pm

NorthC

Aerogram said:

There's maybe just three Prince albums that don't have at least one song I don't care for.



I didn't like Ronnie Talk to Russia then but now I do.



International Lover is the oldest song I heard then that I still don't like now.



On Purple Rain: Take Me with U is my least favorite song on that album but now I find it charming.



ATWIAD: The Ladder got on my nerves!



SOTT: It sounded like filler to me


You mean Sign O'the Times the song? Filler? And you expect to be taken seriously on this forum? It's the closest Prince ever got to writing a What's Going On or a Blowing In the Wind... confused
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Reply #41 posted 12/17/15 4:00pm

Cinny

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I just remembered mine.

"America" on Around The World In A Day. eek

I posted about my dislike of it on the org during one of those "vote off songs off each Prince album" threads.

It was before I had formed any sort of world view, so I couldn't appreciate any lyrical sentiment.

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Reply #42 posted 12/17/15 5:38pm

RJOrion

i didnt, and still dont like, 'Soft & Wet'

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Reply #43 posted 12/17/15 6:02pm

Aerogram

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tatocorcu said:

Aerogram said:

There's maybe just three Prince albums that don't have at least one song I don't care for.

I didn't like Ronnie Talk to Russia then but now I do.

International Lover is the oldest song I heard then that I still don't like now.

On Purple Rain: Take Me with U is my least favorite song on that album but now I find it charming.

ATWIAD: The Ladder got on my nerves!

SOTT: It sounded like filler to me

Sign o' the times?? Really?? Wow!

LOL -- I mean "It", from SOTT.

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Reply #44 posted 12/17/15 6:05pm

Aerogram

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NorthC said:

Aerogram said:

There's maybe just three Prince albums that don't have at least one song I don't care for.

I didn't like Ronnie Talk to Russia then but now I do.

International Lover is the oldest song I heard then that I still don't like now.

On Purple Rain: Take Me with U is my least favorite song on that album but now I find it charming.

ATWIAD: The Ladder got on my nerves!

SOTT: It sounded like filler to me

You mean Sign O'the Times the song? Filler? And you expect to be taken seriously on this forum? It's the closest Prince ever got to writing a What's Going On or a Blowing In the Wind... confused

"It"

Now I love "It", but not then I only listened to "It" on my way to the other tracks.

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Reply #45 posted 12/17/15 6:32pm

alandail

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really? 7 is brilliant, one of my all time favorite songs by any artist.

Did it have to grow on you? I feel like many of his songs grow on me which is why I said I could love it next month.

yes, grew on me. The story behind the recording too that goes something like this. He was recording the album with the NPG and came in one day to tell them they'd have to wait a bit. He goes into the studio and starts recording track after track, not stopping to hear the work in progress between tracks, including recording the many tracks of vocals. They asked him what he was doing, he said "it needs this". When he was done he had the finished song.

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Reply #46 posted 12/17/15 6:41pm

stpaisios

Hm, first that comes on my mind are: Courtin' Time, Dolphin, Tell Me How U Wanna B Done...but somehow they grown on me with times... smile

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Reply #47 posted 12/17/15 6:58pm

massing

Arms of Orion. That was a shock for me, hearing a Prince song I really thought was terrible. Soon to be followed by Graffiti Bridge, New Power Generation, Jughead. There are loads of them now.

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Reply #48 posted 12/17/15 8:01pm

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- The Ladder & Temptation.. I always stoped ATWIAD after Pop Life.

- Glam Slam / Anastesia - I always had to fast forward from Alphabet Street to Dance On

- Arms of Orion - I always had to skip from Electric Chair to Partyman

Change it one more time..
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Reply #49 posted 12/17/15 8:08pm

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stpaisios said:

Hm, first that comes on my mind are: Courtin' Time, Dolphin, Tell Me How U Wanna B Done...but somehow they grown on me with times... smile

I was only able to get into Courtin Time after I put it in the mix of The Vault album. There it felt right and now I can appreciate it.

Change it one more time..
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Reply #50 posted 12/17/15 8:53pm

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RJOrion said:

i didnt, and still dont like, 'Soft & Wet'


If this is lust
Then I must confess
I feel it everyday
If this is wrong
Then I long
To be as far from right as I may

[Edited 12/17/15 20:53pm]
What?
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Reply #51 posted 12/17/15 10:51pm

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Cinny said:

funkaholic1972 said:

Take Me With U, never liked it..

This astounds me. To me, it's perfect pop. I guess if you preferred what The Time and previous Prince albums served up, it may have been too lite to your ears?

Yep! lol

I have grown to like it somewhat better over the years, but it will never be a favorite for me.

RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time...
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Reply #52 posted 12/17/15 10:52pm

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Cinny said:

eyewishuheaven said:

funkaholic, I heartily approve of your avatar. lol

lol

lol lol lol Isn't it brilliant?

RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time...
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Reply #53 posted 12/18/15 2:00am

EmmaMcG

databank said:



feeluupp said:




databank said:



I try to distance myself from concepts such as "like" and "dislike".




U LIKED MPLSOUND though. lol lol



This constant Mplsound harrassment is close to bullying, you know that?


I like Mpslsound because I think it has great qualities as a work of art, qualities of which we could discuss if you were inclined to have such discussions instead of shouting "like" and "dislike" all day long.


I don't "like" it based on a brainless gut feeling that would be based on little but my own subjective emotional response, even though my brainless gut feeling also tells me that I like it.


Of course the fact that my opinion is that it's a great album doesn't mean it's one, but unless this can be debated with people who can give a more sophisticated argument than "it's turd" or "it's genius", it's useless to try and debate it.


Peace wink



I like MPLSound too so you're not alone.

As for first Prince song I didn't like I suppose it would have to be Compassion. Actually, pretty much most of 20Ten but that's track 1 so it was the first one I heard. That's not to say I liked every song from 1978 - 2010 but i listened to his discography backwards. So 20TEN was a starting point. The earliest recording I disliked was My Love is Forever.
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Reply #54 posted 12/18/15 2:04am

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Tamborine

Woaw back in 1985, I remember that I had the same feeling! biggrin
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Reply #55 posted 12/18/15 2:11am

jdcxc

Free
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Reply #56 posted 12/18/15 2:51am

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I can identify with a lot of the picks here. But I've realised that, during the vinyl years, I got used to, and often became to like, the songs that didn't click with me at first. A track would have to be especially bad for me to take the trouble to move the needle, which I why I was eventually able to discover the genius within songs like Tamborine.

It wasn't until Arms of Orion on my first Prince CD that I started skipping songs. It was downhill from then on. It didn't help that Prince started stuffing more nonsense onto albums to fill out a CD. I wonder whether I would have held onto my hardcore fan status for far longer if those damned little discs hadn't appeared.

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Reply #57 posted 12/18/15 2:52am

NorthC

Aerogram said:

NorthC said:

Aerogram said: You mean Sign O'the Times the song? Filler? And you expect to be taken seriously on this forum? It's the closest Prince ever got to writing a What's Going On or a Blowing In the Wind... confused

"It"

Now I love "It", but not then I only listened to "It" on my way to the other tracks.

Ah, okay, this makes much more sense. I couldn't believe what I was reading, but now I know I wasn't reading what I thought I was reading!whew

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Reply #58 posted 12/18/15 6:24am

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KoolEaze said:

Chas said:

I never listen to "Courtin Time," and I'm not a real fan of "Strollin'."

I love Strollin´ but can´t listen to Courtin´Time . lol

How do you feel about We Gets Up? That one is almost unlistenable.

We Gets Up, to me, is a mediocre tune on a mediocre album. I think Prince was a weird place when he made that album.

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Reply #59 posted 12/18/15 6:36am

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airth said:

I've realised that, during the vinyl years, I got used to, and often became to like, the songs that didn't click with me at first. A track would have to be especially bad for me to take the trouble to move the needle, which I why I was eventually able to discover the genius within songs like Tamborine.

Very good point. And it was even worse with cassettes, because you couldn't see where the next track began - you had to FF, FF, FF a little more... d'oh! Rewind a bit, rewind a bit more, aaaand, there we are. biggrin

Perhaps our primitive technology gifted us with a patience (and great music) that the kids today just don't have. cool

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