Noodled24 said:

The concept as executed on the album is quite thin - with the seques serving more as a novelty than anything that suggested the music world was on the verge of worldwide change.

If the album was an isolated case I'd agree. But the intro to the Exodus album continues further along the same path when he talks about downloading your work onto fans computers. Again... mp3s at this point (1995) did not exist, and people considered a 1GB hard disk "More space than your could ever possibly need".

Here's Prince saying; actually everyone is going to listen to music on a computer one day, and they'll listen in playlists "Here is a playlist thats great for dancing and improving self esteem" / "Here's a playlist that covers courtship, sex..."

I wouldn't argue that it's a fairly thin concept. But it was also around the time of the Interactive CDROM. So in reality he really was thinking of new ways he could use computers. The interactive CDROM is a good indication of where he would have gone had broadband been a thing back then.

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I understand what you're saying. Though it's worth emphasizing that you're bringing multiple projects into the discussion in order to bolster the prescience of Prince in this era. The concept (integrating the interactivity of computers into the act of listening to music) is stronger when considering all the projects Prince was putting out in this era (also adding that "Beautiful Experience" TV special into the mix as well).

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That said, I sure do wish those segues were not on the album *shudder*

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But I do get your points.

CAL3 said:

Noodled24 said:

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I understand what you're saying. Though it's worth emphasizing that you're bringing multiple projects into the discussion in order to bolster the prescience of Prince in this era.

Well, I'm saying that the concept on TGE is evident on it's own.

Then when you look at what else he was doing at the time, it wasn't just a one-off album idea.

The concept (integrating the interactivity of computers into the act of listening to music) is stronger when considering all the projects Prince was putting out in this era (also adding that "Beautiful Experience" TV special into the mix as well).

Much stronger, but the beginnings are all there on TGE.

That said, I sure do wish those segues were not on the album *shudder*

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But I do get your points.

I've never had a problem with them. But then the album was released around the time I got my first computer.

Noodled24 said:

I've never had a problem with [the segues]. But then the album was released around the time I got my first computer.

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Same here, funny enough. Well, 'real' computer I should say - I did have an Commodore 64 with one of those modems you plug into the back of the computer (which I think I used once - logged onto Compuserve or something, then realized how much it was per minute and got told by my parents never to use it)...

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But I digress... Anyway, I should specify the only real problem I have the segues is that some are attached to the songs themselves. I wouldn't mind if they were all their own track and could be omitted when using any of the songs for playlists... Same with the Kirstie Alley stuff on