Would be great if they rotate it perhaps.

I'm just gonna throw this out there: BRUNO MARS.

KoolEaze said:

Lianachan said:

When people on here were talking about D'Angelo fronting The Revolution the other day, I thought it was an awful idea that anybody should do it. Besides, I also thought, if it absolutely has to be done then it needs to be Terence Trent D'Arby. He slotted right in to INXS after Michael Hutchence wanked himself to death.

I wouldn´t mind D´Angelo frontig the Revolution but I also would like to see Bilal and Maxwell.

But, now that I think about it , I think TTD is also a great choice. Also because he´s not the most obvious choice and I think the fact that he was so popular during the 80s would make him a good candidate, too. The Revolution could probably related to him a bit better than to the others, because those others I mentioned above, as much as I´d like to see them play that part, are fans themselves, whereas TTD is more of a contemporary rival , or at least he was.

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jasopig said:

This is as obtuse and faux-deep as his music has been for most of his career.

does this mean his music is only pretending to sound great ?

I'll take two copies of their joint album Plz .

jasopig said:

This is as obtuse and faux-deep as his music has been for most of his career.

Exactly my feelings when I first read it but reading it again made me see it a bit differently.

I would love some Sananda/W&L original work.

That's Sananda Maitreya, paying tribute to his artistic brother and beacon to his very own talent. If you enjoy reading for love of language then his poetic writings will be more your style. This one was quite comprehensible! For this post I'll leave a diary page. Some may describe the former TTD as a "Prince-knockoff" but I would call him a creative peer. Bruce, Miles, and Prince offered him encouragement through his trying (and stellar) early career, the way good brothers do. He's mellowed since--yet the coals of his creative fire smolder inside. Unable to withstand the pummeling delivered by the music industry and whatever hubris he suffered he ran--not walked--from the daunting struggle within the entertainment empire to live anew; he left that battle well to our bold now resting Prince to wrangle. He's survived, instead, beyond the castles of the major labels. He took the gentle road past, taking solace in a wonderful family life in a world older than whence he came--and why not? He had the bucks, the gal, passport intact, and the Internet. He notes his experience in his music--check "This Town" from Nigor Mortis, or "Spoil You Rotten" from Angels & Vampires Volume II. If the empire system does't work for you--if the elevator tries to bring you down--and you haven't the vigor to rewire it, then believe your vision, step outside the system and build your own tiny fiefdom as he's done. Put your stuff on CD Baby, baby! If SM were to bravely return to these shores it would be wonderful for him in his trio to perform Prince's "Dolphin" and his own dolphin song in tribute to The Chief.
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I'll not dig deeper into my admiration of Sananda M. lest I obscure my admiration of the grand artist who is departed into legend for these past 7 plus one days. Sananda said it right in every bit of his description. Prince sure did leave us trifling beezotches behind! Seeing so many trifling statements by the malcontent on this forum has been a unique wonder: people gaming on his career, his behaviors, his diminishing (HA!) musical prowess, slinging misgivings about his intentions and expressions. It was all dynamic art and performance, risk and exploration of fresh possibilities. If you didn't like it then you should have left it alone.
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I've been listening these days to the HitnRun Phase Two album and I wholly admire this volume of songs so finely crafted and culled from several years' efforts, enough to call it his best in a decade plus, and I'll leave it on the top shelf with the rest of his best executed R&B/Soul/Funk/Rock. I'll not attribute this choice to the remorse of loss--it is Revelation! If you don't believe the lessons delivered in those grooves some deficiencies just cannot be helped.
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It hurts anew to see photos of the last and final installment to P.'s instrument arsenal (guitar and piano). It's quite unsettling to dream about the vibrations that would emerge from those devices were he to touch those strings and keys today. A nice tribute helps to calm the unease.

4eva

jasopig said:

Lianachan said:

PeteSilas said:

mechanicalemotion17 said:

jasopig said:

This is as obtuse and faux-deep as his music has been for most of his career.

I get what you're saying. I like him though.

That's unfair.

"Castilian Blue", "This Side of Love", "Holding On To You", "Penelope Please", "Turn The Page", "Let Her Down Easy".

All examples where long is gone the useless bragging.
Terence is an artist of his own. No more or less influenced by 60's black heroes that Skipper.
If Prince helped him hold on to a direction,
more power to both.

If you all didn't dig his music you would dog what he said. I thought it was truthful, very zen. You have to understand that kind of thinking. TTD has his head together. He doesn't obsess with stardom. He must be doing ok, Milano aint cheap.

Save Me is like classic Prince.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

PeteSilas said:

i still wonder how true the "michael jackson sabotaged TTD" stories are. terence scared many people with his talent, george michael admits it, i couldn't see Prince or Bruce being worried in the least though.

TTD was no threat to Michael.

just rumors, he seems to think it too. Militant, the mod here, I think knows about it. TTD was a bad MF'r. the rumour is that his record company sabotaged the promotion for his albums, and that michael had said somthing to the effect that prince and he were enough for that kind of music. He was the real deal no matter what.

bonatoc said:

I would love some Sananda/W&L original work.

Wendy played bass on Sweetness (from the Wildcard album)

Well, musicians have a right to be nutty. Remember Prince praising the Burqa? Id' rather not.

In the end, it's the songs that matter.

KoolEaze said:

Am I the only one who had difficulties reading this gibberish?

Is he serious?

He is a genius - it requires a ceratain capacity to appreciate how he communicates...not unlike Prince.

This is so good that it is all that needs to be said.

I love the quote about the white kids. Prince was so aware of what they really do in the business.

drumm23 said:

"He did not go anywhere: he just wised up finally, sensibly, and left us trifling bitches behind."

That's absolutely god damn right.

I couldn't agree more. Well put TTD. Beautiful, wonderful tribute put in a way that only Terence Trent D'Arby could put it.