Prince could turn 3 lines on a scrap of paper into a fully realised song. but he would for the most part give the writing credit to the singer. he did the same with chaka and numerous other artistes.

Bria's Elixer was all Prince bar vocals. i still think he had more involvment on Superconducter than he gave himself credit for

bigd74 said:

Bria's Elixer was all Prince bar vocals. i still think he had more involvment on Superconducter than he gave himself credit for

agreed.

i was listening to 'superconductor' again yesterday. he's all over that. but so is michael b,
and idah according to liner notes. so the sound is not just prince, it's prince and the band
so to speak.

i love the production on that album so much. but where bria probably had about 1% input
apart from her vocals, i think andy had more input and influence and also contributed the
lyrics to some of the songs and probably demo versions for others, that prince then helped
form more fully.

they must have had a lot of fun together in the studio (outside of it too i guess, lol) since
they created many songs at that time. the prince tracks on his own albums that she is on
are all great imo. their voices compliment eachother and the vibe of the tracks that they
inspired in each other are really great.

i like elixer too, for different reasons. because you know its ALL prince. and some of those
songs date back to 1989 or something to my ear (perhaps not, but the backing track for
"here i come" sounds so late 80s prince it's just delicious). there are many gems on it and
someday in the future perhaps we get to hear some of them with prince on vocals

I've always liked Bria's cd. It gets hate around here but Prince and Bria did a great job on it. Another Boy has always been my jam

I sure as hell love Prince singing Elixir at the Montreux 2009 Jazz Fest!

purplethunder3121 said:

I sure as hell love Prince singing Elixir at the Montreux 2009 Jazz Fest!

Ahh Yes

purplethunder3121 said:

I sure as hell love Prince singing Elixir at the Montreux 2009 Jazz Fest!

Oh yes

IstenSzek said:

IstenSzek said:

bigd74 said:

Bria's Elixer was all Prince bar vocals. i still think he had more involvment on Superconducter than he gave himself credit for

agreed.

i was listening to 'superconductor' again yesterday. he's all over that. but so is michael b,
and idah according to liner notes. so the sound is not just prince, it's prince and the band
so to speak.

i love the production on that album so much. but where bria probably had about 1% input
apart from her vocals, i think andy had more input and influence and also contributed the
lyrics to some of the songs and probably demo versions for others, that prince then helped
form more fully.

they must have had a lot of fun together in the studio (outside of it too i guess, lol) since
they created many songs at that time. the prince tracks on his own albums that she is on
are all great imo. their voices compliment eachother and the vibe of the tracks that they
inspired in each other are really great.

i like elixer too, for different reasons. because you know its ALL prince. and some of those
songs date back to 1989 or something to my ear (perhaps not, but the backing track for
"here i come" sounds so late 80s prince it's just delicious). there are many gems on it and
someday in the future perhaps we get to hear some of them with prince on vocals

AGREE WITH ALL OF THIS.

dance4me3121 said:

I assume prince produced the elixer album but did prince write all the songs on the album? I think it was mentioned that prince produced Andy allos album and only wrote 3 of the songs . [Edited 8/31/16 15:40pm]

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CC and Joshua Dunham were the rhythm section on "All This Love," "Something U Already Know," and "Kept Woman."

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Otherise it's Prince on all the instrumentation...

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I think this is a very underrated album!

bigd74 said:

Bria's Elixer was all Prince bar vocals. i still think he had more involvment on Superconducter than he gave himself credit for

I consider Superconducter a complete Prince album with Andy on lead, same can be said for Tamar's album and Judith's album, I am just not sure on Liv's album. I know two tracks he is at least responsible for.

[Edited 9/1/16 7:19am]

I own Elixer on cd, still havent listened tho.....

so much music so little time...

I finally listened to this cd after Prince passed and I wasn't impressed or depressed by Bria. I may have to go listen again.

I listened to this while driving one day. It was so boring, I had to switch to something else - because I was afraid I might nod off behind the wheel.

I like Elixer. the only song i don't like is 2Nite

Wow Elixir is amazing, like a lot of Prince music that folks only listen to once, they come back months or years later, after more listens, to say how great it is.

Listen to this stuff more than once people, this, along with all the other posts I see with people hatin on songs only to praise them later, needs more than one listen.

[Edited 9/1/16 11:24am]

bigd74 said: