Elephants and Flowers. The Question of You. Round And Round. We Can Funk. NPG. Love Machine...Oops. You said song not "songs"...can't choose one.

PeteSilas said:

people crapped all over this album when he was alive.

They sure did. I never understood it. I was introduced to the full album when I was in the 7th grade. I have loved it ever since. I understand people have different tastes, but I used to wish some people would hear what I hear everytime I listen to this album. Sad there were many more that people tossed aside jsut like this one.

Joy in Repetition was and still is my favorite song on GB. I also really enjoy "Thieves," EAF, QOU, RnR, WCF, NPG, and SWSAT. Not a fan of the title track in the album form, perhaps done as a folk song?

I always thought that out of all Prince's "hot" top ten songs Thieves in the Temple was the least liked by fans. Since Thieves In The Temple is Prince's most obvious Prince sound mixed with a Broadway show tune-I found it uniquely apt for the movie.

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lrpro said:

gandorb said:

Yes, it seemed like no matter what he did after SOTT, it wasn't good enough for the public , his fans, or the critics. You hear of authors who write a mnasterpeice and are never well received again as everything else is compared to it and no one can appreciate anything tha is different. I think that happened big time to Prince after his series of great albums in the 80s.

Being different does not mean it is good

No, but artists typically have to change to be true to themselves, and there is such a pressure for them not to. I do think a lot but not all of Prince's work since the 1980s is good to very good but only pales when constantly compared to his 80s work. People, including myself, got so caught up in looking for the next masterpiece that some of the stuff was dismissed without an openness to the new stuff, IMO. That said, I wore out GB when it was released!

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gandorb said:

lrpro said:

Being different does not mean it is good

No, but artists typically have to change to be true to themselves, and there is such a pressure for them not to. I do think a lot but not all of Prince's work since the 1980s is good to very good but only pales when constantly compared to his 80s work. People, including myself, got so caught up in looking for the next masterpiece that some of the stuff was dismissed without an openness to the new stuff, IMO. That said, I wore out BF when it was released!

he dealt with the pressure of Purple Rain/1999 2 like he should have, just kept right on moving as if those two landmarks never happened. Michael Jackson never recovered from Thriller, sent him into a long writers block and no one else ever forgot thriller either, even though I do happen to recall many, many people saying that the Bad album was a better album (I don't agree).

CalhounSq said:

PeteSilas said:

people crapped all over this album when he was alive.

The link to the movie is so heavy, they crapped on the movie for being bad (true), but anyone with decent ears knew there were great cuts on there.

ya, kind of like parade, you know when they introduced him at the Superbowl press conference they said he sold 100 million albums, for all the talk of how bad the albums were or how they sold that statistic really does put it all in perspective. Not too many people in that league as commercial artists and no one in his time was in his league as an artist I don't think, at least not in the field of pop music.

rob1965 said:

My favorite on this album is The Question Of U.

i'd have to say that for me too even though joy in repetition is the one most people rave about. the solo in question of u was unlike anything he'd done previously I think. Also, the song seemed to be directed at critics or maybe his fans or maybe both, he's asking how to please them and feeling really frustrated by his failed efforts.

"Thieves in the Temple" -- but the extended version is even better!

Other faves are "Joy in Repetition," "The Question of U," and "Elephants and Flowers."

JIR and SWSAT

I know every fan has their own personal opinion... But... JOY IN REPETITION. Hands down.

Still would stand all time easily, but the real winner is the song it replaced, the unreleased - The Grand Progression.

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Also 1st rate are Question of U and Joy in Repetition. The rest is good (Cant stop this feeling I got and Elephants and Flowers) down to crap (Melody Cool, Graffiti Bridge).

kewlschool said:

Joy in Repetition was and still is my favorite song on GB. I also really enjoy "Thieves," EAF, QOU, RnR, WCF, NPG, and SWSAT. Not a fan of the title track in the album form, perhaps done as a folk song?

I always thought that out of all Prince's "hot" top ten songs Thieves in the Temple was the least liked by fans. Since Thieves In The Temple is Prince's most obvious Prince sound mixed with a Broadway show tune-I found it uniquely apt for the movie.

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Thieves is decent, but sounds like another effortless pop song, Prince can whip out in his sleep, its a 1990 style rehash of U got the look. Much better is that 12 inch mix on Ultimate and the single (12 inch). The I am the better than rest part is amazing and it makes the song an epic track, but its not on the album. You have to buy the 12 inch single to get it (Or Ultimate Prince).

We Can Funk

This is a good album!

Thieves In The Temple

Joy In Repetition

Elephants And Flowers

Still Would Stand All Time

New Power Generation

We Can Funk

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joy in repetition

we can funk

melody cool

still would stand all time is getting a lot of love here but I think it's almost as bad as grafitti bridge.

I think "Joy in Repetition" and "The Question of U" are some of his best compositions--period

Round and Round

My all time favorite Prince song, Joy In Repetition

I can never choose between Joy and The Question of U.

Love them both so much.

NPG, Still Would Stand All Time, The Question of U, We Can Funk & Theives in the Temple long video version.

Graffiti Bridge was the BEST! I loved this album and movie. I think I saw it about 10 to 15 times in that 2 week period in the theaters. On my days off I went twice in one day. During the day it was cheaper like $4.50 or $3.50 or something.

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I think that Graffiti Bridge is probably Prince's most underrated album.

The list of songs that I don't like is much shorter that the list of songs that I do.

I like all of the songs except;

'Release It'

'The Latest Fashion'

'Graffiti Bridge'

'Tick, Tick, Bang'

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I just heard 'Thieves In The Temple - Demo Version', and it is beautiful.

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I like the title track even though is a little cheesy and over the top.

Adorecream said:

kewlschool said:

Joy in Repetition was and still is my favorite song on GB. I also really enjoy "Thieves," EAF, QOU, RnR, WCF, NPG, and SWSAT. Not a fan of the title track in the album form, perhaps done as a folk song?

I always thought that out of all Prince's "hot" top ten songs Thieves in the Temple was the least liked by fans. Since Thieves In The Temple is Prince's most obvious Prince sound mixed with a Broadway show tune-I found it uniquely apt for the movie.

[Edited 9/17/16 21:18pm]

Thieves is decent, but sounds like another effortless pop song, Prince can whip out in his sleep, its a 1990 style rehash of U got the look. Much better is that 12 inch mix on Ultimate and the single (12 inch). The I am the better than rest part is amazing and it makes the song an epic track, but its not on the album. You have to buy the 12 inch single to get it (Or Ultimate Prince).

There is a Cd version maxi-single of Thieves. It's also a "dark" song. Prince acknowledge that he didn't like going there.

kewlschool said:

Adorecream said:

Thieves is decent, but sounds like another effortless pop song, Prince can whip out in his sleep, its a 1990 style rehash of U got the look. Much better is that 12 inch mix on Ultimate and the single (12 inch). The I am the better than rest part is amazing and it makes the song an epic track, but its not on the album. You have to buy the 12 inch single to get it (Or Ultimate Prince).

There is a Cd version maxi-single of Thieves. It's also a "dark" song. Prince acknowledge that he didn't like going there.

if you listen to the demo version, you can hear the song for what it was, a song about people in his life, enmeshed with them, who were betrayers. You can hear the sincerity of the song in the demo, the produced version, to me, always sounded like what it was, just for a scene in a very cheesy movie and it has none of the sincerity and all of the bombast and fireworks. I never really liked it that much, Prince bragged about it though, insinuating that he was still innovative with the chords he used to open the song.

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