CherryMoon57 said:

2016-

gandorb said:

PeteSilas said:

surprised how many people didn't like rave. It had some great songs on it and was well produced. it had one of my all time favorite loves songs, actually two, manowar and I love you but don't trust you anymore as well as some of his most vulnerable singing on wherever you go whatever you do.

Interesting that you said that. I have been relistening to some of his CDs that I din't play a lot due to thinking they were subpar for him. Rave for me was one of the bottom ones of the 90s but I replayed it yesterday and was surprised of how many good songs were on it. It still isn't a favorite, but now that I don't compare every Cd to his classics I am able to enjoy what they do have to offer. I imagine if there hadn't been a Prince and someone released Rave out of the blue, it would ahve generated a lot of excitement.

that's what i said last night, I was looking at sheetmusic arrangements of all his available material online and listening to them. he had a funky ass bassline for "get on the boat" which i never even noticed. the word "respect" means literally "to look again". That's what we do when we lose someone we love.

PeteSilas said:

scratchtasia said:

Love Symbol sent me packing. After that I only bought vault albums or cheap/used copies of new albums that I ran across, and they usually didn't measure up. Several years ago I decided to go back to all the stuff I'd skipped in search of the few tracks that might really click for me (and I have found a few). I still have the hardest time with Love Symbol (aside from the singles) and The Rainbow Children, and not much of the NPGMC-era stuff is to my taste, either. I like good chunks of 3121 and Lotusflow3r, and I thought Art Official Age was his best album since the 1980s.

but why? there's so many great songs, just ignore the hip hop. 18 songs, many of them first rate. Gotta say, I always considered my name is prince his worst single ever, now that was horrible. I remember first listening to it and thinking "my god, he's just getting better and better". His vocals were perfect, the production was pristine. Now, some people point to those things and say that those things took the edge off of him. But in some ways he was better than ever. I even thought he was gettting better as a guitarist with that blistering solo at the end of three chains o' gold until someone told me it was Levi playing.

I agree, it has Damn U amongst others - enough said.

gandorb said:

CherryMoon57 said:

2016-

Thank you

Adorecream said:

PeteSilas said:

but why? there's so many great songs, just ignore the hip hop. 18 songs, many of them first rate. Gotta say, I always considered my name is prince his worst single ever, now that was horrible. I remember first listening to it and thinking "my god, he's just getting better and better". His vocals were perfect, the production was pristine. Now, some people point to those things and say that those things took the edge off of him. But in some ways he was better than ever. I even thought he was gettting better as a guitarist with that blistering solo at the end of three chains o' gold until someone told me it was Levi playing.

I agree, it has Damn U amongst others - enough said.

damn u, when god created woman, morning papers, for me, many many more. I know some people hate the rock opera but i loved it. 18 songs on that album, people are full of shit when they say it had nothing of value, they just didn't listen close enough.

gandorb said:

CherryMoon57 said:

2016-

I feel your pain.