Great article. I always thought the album was really cohesive. It deserved a better title and some promotion. A great last album

gandorb said:

Loved how the article touched on how brilliant and fluid he was in developing the arrangements. The results led to a fantastic album with superb arrangements. I have been shocked that the response here has been rather tepid. To me, it is amazing that he could still put out such great music after so many albums and what he was going through personally.The last three songs make an especially vital sequence!

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That is because a lot of people on this board do not like RnB music. The horn arrangments alone are incrediable and the CD has received excellent reviews back when the digital copy was out in the fall.

He went out with a bang and to read that he had so much more material coming but they still want us to believe he was some out of control drug addict instead of genius trying to self-medicate to get his art down on tape.

laurarichardson said:

Interesting point about the R&B issue. I did notice on another thread that many people didn't have any R&B artists as their top 5 outside of Prince. Nothing wrong with that, but perhaps HnR2 wasn't pop/rock enough for them. I love all the flavors of Prince.

Dazza said:

Great article. I always thought the album was really cohesive. It deserved a better title and some promotion. A great last album

Great article, so detailed love it.

The album is a MASTERPIECE, and my all time favoutire. agree a better title would have helped, and this is definitely an album worth promoting

Prince 1958-2-4-EVER

laurarichardson said:

gandorb said:

Loved how the article touched on how brilliant and fluid he was in developing the arrangements. The results led to a fantastic album with superb arrangements. I have been shocked that the response here has been rather tepid. To me, it is amazing that he could still put out such great music after so many albums and what he was going through personally.The last three songs make an especially vital sequence!

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That is because a lot of people on this board do not like RnB music. The horn arrangments alone are incrediable and the CD has received excellent reviews back when the digital copy was out in the fall.

He went out with a bang and to read that he had so much more material coming but they still want us to believe he was some out of control drug addict instead of genius trying to self-medicate to get his art down on tape.

The dichotomy between his R&B vs. rock audience and their respective interpretations of his music is something that fascinates me, but rarely gets discussed and is often discarded because he has "no category." Perhaps, but certain songs/albums appeal to one set of tastes more than the other, no?

And I say this as someone who got into Prince as a teenager obsessed with rock music, but now as an adult pretty much exclusively listens to R&B. Stuff I once loved as "rock fan" I can't help but zone out to sometimes now as an R&B lover, or vica versa.

WhisperingDandelions said:

-- It is an interesting topic.