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What is your favorite song on Chaos and Disorder?

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I like "Ï Rock Therefore I Am"

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I Will is beautiful.

I really love most of the record. I took that MFing rap out of "I Rock, Therefore I Am" and it's stellar. It goes right into the 2nd verse after the 1st chorus. Flows a lot better.

In general, I love the title track, and the things he addresses. "I Like It There" is a whiny plea for the usual. "The Same December" is a syncopated work out. "Right The Wrong" is modern country, and certainly not the first time Prince dipped into the country waters. I wish more country artists would find those types of songs in his catalog and give them a fresh take. "Zanalee" has a wonderful swag about it. "Into The Light" and "I Will" are siblings, but "Into The Light" is obviously the older and wiser of the two, whereas "I Will" is the hippy little sister of the bunch.

Just - the whole record has a good length, it's guitar-oriented (the most guitar heavy album since The Gold Experience, IMO, and since Purple Rain before that), sassy, and such a bold way to end the WB years. "Had U" - Bye Felicia.

Dinner with Delores

Dig U Better Dead

The title track, although "Dig U Better Dead" is one that's really grown on me since his death.

TrivialPursuit said:

TwiliteKid said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I really love most of the record. I took that MFing rap out of "I Rock, Therefore I Am" and it's stellar. It goes right into the 2nd verse after the 1st chorus. Flows a lot better.

In general, I love the title track, and the things he addresses. "I Like It There" is a whiny plea for the usual. "The Same December" is a syncopated work out. "Right The Wrong" is modern country, and certainly not the first time Prince dipped into the country waters. I wish more country artists would find those types of songs in his catalog and give them a fresh take. "Zanalee" has a wonderful swag about it. "Into The Light" and "I Will" are siblings, but "Into The Light" is obviously the older and wiser of the two, whereas "I Will" is the hippy little sister of the bunch.

Just - the whole record has a good length, it's guitar-oriented (the most guitar heavy album since The Gold Experience>, IMO, and since Purple Rain before that), sassy, and such a bold way to end the WB years. "Had U" - Bye Felicia.

His most guitar heavy album since the previous album? Are you kidding me with this bullshit?

All that I typed, and that's what you focused in on? Shameful.

I Like It There

TrivialPursuit said:

I really love most of the record. I took that MFing rap out of "I Rock, Therefore I Am" and it's stellar. It goes right into the 2nd verse after the 1st chorus. Flows a lot better.

In general, I love the title track, and the things he addresses. "I Like It There" is a whiny plea for the usual. "The Same December" is a syncopated work out. "Right The Wrong" is modern country, and certainly not the first time Prince dipped into the country waters. I wish more country artists would find those types of songs in his catalog and give them a fresh take. "Zanalee" has a wonderful swag about it. "Into The Light" and "I Will" are siblings, but "Into The Light" is obviously the older and wiser of the two, whereas "I Will" is the hippy little sister of the bunch.

Just - the whole record has a good length, it's guitar-oriented (the most guitar heavy album since The Gold Experience, IMO, and since Purple Rain before that), sassy, and such a bold way to end the WB years. "Had U" - Bye Felicia.

Xactly.

NorthC said:

I would say it's his most guitar heavy album. Period. Not even Purple Rain rocked this hard. He really didn't play that much guitar on stage or on record between 85 and 95. The Ultimate Live Experience brought Prince/TAFKAP the musician back; he played more guitar (and bass) on stage than he ever did before and it showed in his records. And prior to his 1995 concerts, a few clips of unreleased songs were shown and one of them was Same December. I liked it then, I liked it on the album and I recently found that clip back online, so I've been listening to it a lot. Also, I Like It There is a really good piece of bluesrock that necame a live favourite. [Edited 9/3/16 1:57am] [Edited 9/3/16 2:06am] [Edited 9/3/16 2:09am]

Actually, PLECTRUMELECTRUM rocked harder,
but went nowhere.

"The Undertaker", was it an official record,
could be a strong contender for the title.

It's live, bare bones, just a rock trio, no studio tricks.
Doesn't rock any harder than that.
"Peach", "The Sacrifice Of Victor", Prince had found a new inspiration through Marshall Plexi amps.

Yeah, what a great album. A real slow-burner,
I almost hated it when it was out,
and I started to really appreciate it only when the full history of the Warner Wars was finally digested,
and we all had a proper timeline and insiders stories of the events that took place.

There's no use in denying it, even if our faith in the Man stood solid,
for the vast majority we all felt he was going nuts : the logo, the "slave", the paranoia.
The ugly artwork.
But he had an agenda.

Sometimes I wish he would have been less cryptic about the whole situation.
But then it wouldn't have been Prince.

[Edited 9/3/16 13:46pm]

NorthC said:

^Or Lotusflower, but it would be unfair to compare an album to an album that didn't exist at that time. And The Undertaker was great, but more of a jam session and it never saw an official release except as a video. And that doesn't count as an album. Would've been motherfucking awesome if it had been released with Guitar World magazine though.

Yeah, it would have spared us the wait for the R'n'R Hall Of Fame weeping guitar
to get some guitarist friend come to us all eyeballed and going "Dude, Prince sure knows how to play!"

And we're like, yeah, what else is new (whilst secretly eyeballing too).

[Edited 9/3/16 14:15pm]

To stay on topic, I would say "Dinner".
It's not the best musically (although I can imagine a jazz-rock lover, Steely Dan fan wetting his pants hearing the pristine production),
not the best performance, and it lacks what defines the album : big tall guitars.

But man, when I read an orger drawing the parallel between the lyrics and the Warner Wars,
I thought "how fucking clever. Did they get it? Did they get the song was about them?".

Maybe, some of them got it, and found themselves in the odd situation of blocking the release
of a single on which Prince is practically insulting them (short-sighted, stuck in the past).

Which was precisely the attitude Prince was reproaching them for.

These are not mere songs. They document the beggining of Prince's emancipation,
for worse and for better.

TrivialPursuit said:

First is "I like it there". "I rock therefore I am" is a close second.

I Like It There is da bomb.

Especially towards the middle, the solo and what goes after is astounding,
what a great Power Trio they were.

A thought : is "Chaos and Disorder" Prince' least overdubbed album?

OK, "The Truth" doesn't count, it's his "MTV's unplugged" album.

I Will or C&D itself

Ottensen said:

Not a damned one. I ended up using my copy if that CD as a coffee coaster not long after I purchased it

Repent, you sinner!

Well, you don't know what you're missing.

bonatoc said: