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Thread started 07/20/16 5:05am

RODSERLING

What is the best song on NEWS ?

I would vote for "E"

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Reply #1 posted 07/20/16 5:17am

NorthC

None, because there are no songs on this album.
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Reply #2 posted 07/20/16 5:26am

RODSERLING

Well, too bad I guess.

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Reply #3 posted 07/20/16 5:29am

TheW00denLeg

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RODSERLING said:

I would vote for "E"

+1

Love the drums and the heavy riff in the middle. Kind of Doom Metal stuff going on there lol

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Reply #4 posted 07/20/16 5:47am

RODSERLING

TheW00denLeg said:

RODSERLING said:

I would vote for "E"

+1

Love the drums and the heavy riff in the middle. Kind of Doom Metal stuff going on there lol

Yes. Something similar can be heard in ART OFFICIAL CAGE, during the guitar riff. I first wondered if it wasn't an interpolation from "E".

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Reply #5 posted 07/20/16 6:14am

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The intro to East is something absolutely unique in P's recording career.

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Reply #6 posted 07/20/16 6:26am

RODSERLING

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The intro to East is something absolutely unique in P's recording career.

And why ?

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Reply #7 posted 07/20/16 6:36am

donnyenglish

The intro to East is great, but the first few minutes of South is one of the funkiest things he has ever done.

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Reply #8 posted 07/20/16 7:11am

SPYZFAN1

All of them.

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Reply #9 posted 07/20/16 7:34am

morningsong

Love this album, I seem to gravitate to East for a while now. For some reason right now this album brings me to tears. Its something I've wanted to see him play live.
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Reply #10 posted 07/20/16 7:48am

ludwig

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None, because there are no songs on this album.

yeahthat

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Reply #11 posted 07/20/16 9:51am

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I like 'em all, but East takes the cake.

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Reply #12 posted 07/20/16 10:50am

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I love Prince's instrumental work. All the songs are good in their own way.

But I would vote for East as well.

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Reply #13 posted 07/20/16 12:07pm

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My favourite album. Probably North as the fav, such a brilliant start with that bass line and the flow carries on from there

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Reply #14 posted 07/20/16 12:09pm

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yeah, i gotta go with north, too...i actually see and feel an arctic snowscape when i listen to it.

if i'm hones, though, i prefer the album as a whole...

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Reply #15 posted 07/20/16 12:47pm

Bighead

ludwig said:



NorthC said:


None, because there are no songs on this album.

yeahthat




There are four songs on it. North. East. West. South. I would think you would know what the OP means. This is not a legal proceeding.
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Reply #16 posted 07/20/16 12:49pm

3rdeyeboy

East all the way.

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Reply #17 posted 07/20/16 2:49pm

ludwig

Call them tracks, but not songs.

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Reply #18 posted 07/20/16 5:15pm

databank

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RODSERLING said:

databank said:

The intro to East is something absolutely unique in P's recording career.

And why ?

It doesn't come close to anything else he's done: the oriental synth intro, the bass line and metal guitars and the whole tension build-up, the whole thing is insanely experimental By Prince's standards, it's the kind of thing u'd expect on a Bill Laswell or John Zorn free jazz project, not a Prince album. I remember being blown away the 1st time I heard it back then: I had never even dared to hope hearing that kind of stuff on a Prince record. I remember friends who were into mainstream being like "what the fuck is that crap" (rolleyes) and those who were into more edgy music being astonished to learn it was Prince. I really wanted him to do more of that back then but then it was Musicology and back to what he did.

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Reply #19 posted 07/20/16 9:29pm

nursev

West...the guitar solo is guitar heaven cloud9 I first heard it playing over the PA system on the Musicology tour and the next day I bought the cd because of that song.

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Reply #20 posted 07/20/16 10:42pm

RJOrion

1. North

2. West

3. East

4. South

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Reply #21 posted 07/21/16 10:19am

NorthC

Bighead said:

ludwig said:



NorthC said:


None, because there are no songs on this album.

yeahthat




There are four songs on it. North. East. West. South. I would think you would know what the OP means. This is not a legal proceeding.
[Edited 7/20/16 12:48pm]

Okay, looking forward to your "best Miles Davis songs" thread in the non-Prince forum. wink
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Reply #22 posted 07/21/16 1:08pm

IngoRichter

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Oh, I really like the symphonic idea of n.e.w.s. But since the release of this fascinating album none of it`s four movements touches me in this way than other music of this quality do this normally . What a pity with this masterpiece I have the same problems as I have for example with the late string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven. I like them, but I don`t understand them.

I think the precurrent album EXPECTATION will help me to learn more about the real quality of n.e.w.s. In the second movement of EXPECTATION I can follow the complex jazzy theme variation which may be the key to better understanding of n.e.w.s.

This is generally one exciting thing more: Prince`s music works and works and works. It is simply evergreen!

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Reply #23 posted 07/21/16 2:02pm

CherryMoon57

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North and South. cloud9

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Reply #24 posted 07/21/16 2:20pm

NorthC

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North and South. cloud9


That was a TV series starring Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley, right?
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Reply #25 posted 07/21/16 2:29pm

CherryMoon57

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NorthC said:

CherryMoon57 said:

North and South. cloud9

That was a TV series starring Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley, right?

I know of the actors but not the series (I'm guessing it's about the American civil war?)

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Reply #26 posted 07/21/16 2:35pm

NorthC

CherryMoon57 said:



NorthC said:


CherryMoon57 said:

North and South. cloud9



That was a TV series starring Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley, right?

I know of the actors but not the series (I'm guessing it's about the American civil war?)


Yes, it was from the late 1980s, just having a little bit of fun with the titles here. It was a TV series about the American Civil War called North and South.
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Reply #27 posted 07/21/16 3:04pm

FunkyStrange

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NorthC said:

None, because there are no songs on this album.

This.

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Reply #28 posted 07/21/16 5:33pm

Bighead

NorthC said:

Bighead said:
There are four songs on it. North. East. West. South. I would think you would know what the OP means. This is not a legal proceeding. [Edited 7/20/16 12:48pm]
Okay, looking forward to your "best Miles Davis songs" thread in the non-Prince forum. wink

I don't dig Miles Davis songs. So don't wait too long. tease

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