Poorlovelycomputer said:

Although his career is written in stone now. I always felt his detour after SOTT was the start of his decline in mainstream popularity I've always felt The Black album would have done better any thoughts?

Batman and D&P were mainstream sellers, selling over 15 million copies combined.

NorthC said:

This dude makes all of these dead horse threads in a vain attempt for attention.

Iamtheorg said:

NorthC said:

This dude makes all of these dead horse threads in a vain attempt for attention.

I don't believe TBA is strong enough, the strongest and best track there, is Rockhard and Bob George, besides that not much really.

TBA probably wouldn't have sold too much, at least by P's standards in the 80's, given that it was to be released without credit or promotion or singles, not to mention its politically incorrect content or lack of commercially appealing material. At best it would have received critical acclaim and become an underground hit, which it did as a bootleg anyway, but I doubt it'd reached the Top 10 or anything like that. It's hard to know though: given the very unusual way it was to be released I'm not completely sure how WB intended to promote it past its initial "anonymous" release, or if WB actually had any plan at all. It's possible they considered it to be more of a side project à la Paisley Park albums, to release in order to please Prince until he'd come-up with his next "official" solo album that'd be WB's focus.

At the end of the day it's very possible that the album made a stronger impact thanks to its bootleg status than it would have if released as planned.

Iamtheorg said:

NorthC said:

This dude makes all of these dead horse threads in a vain attempt for attention.

He came here in October and flooded the forum then too. Someone said he wanted info for a book or something. He stopped posting after he said PRINCE was a drug addict and we all jumped him.

What detour?

Iamtheorg said:

NorthC said:

This dude makes all of these dead horse threads in a vain attempt for attention.

Just be glad people are still posting.

Poorlovelycomputer said:

Any subject we bring up is beating a dead horse prince is gone immaturity is responding to something you don't like

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Not to be TOO pedantic, but I must ask: can you punctuate those word salads so we can make sense of them?

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Poorlovelycomputer said:

It's still English

That's debatable.

Poorlovelycomputer said:

Although his career is written in stone now. I always felt his detour after SOTT was the start of his decline in mainstream popularity I've always felt The Black album would have done better any thoughts?

I am not sure but I want to ask what is the origin of your name? Did you mean to change "Lonely" to "Lovely" ?

wtf.. sure is a cliché among non-fans of Prince that his albums stopped being that special after 87

I do not agree, cliché for sure:



Lovesexy is the one... are u deaf OP... ?


The Gold Experience is a masterpiece album as well...


Come.... excellent album, and The Black Album the funk bible came after SOTT!


Exodus is amazing...


is a wonderful album... only a few weak songs




Hmm if that don't impress u, then...... I give up..

NorthC said:

Exactly. THIS topic is so 2001.

thedance said:

wtf.. sure is a cliché among non-fans of Prince that his albums stopped being that special after 87

I do not agree, cliché for sure:



Lovesexy is the one... are u deaf OP... ?


The Gold Experience is a masterpiece album as well...


Come.... excellent album, and The Black Album the funk bible came after SOTT!


Exodus is amazing...


is a wonderful album... only a few weak songs




Hmm if that don't impress u, then...... I give up..

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If I'm not mistaken, OP wasn't referring to artistic quality of post-SOTT albums but rather a decline in mainstream popularity.

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databank said:

TBA probably wouldn't have sold too much, at least by P's standards in the 80's, given that it was to be released without credit or promotion or singles, not to mention its politically incorrect content or lack of commercially appealing material. At best it would have received critical acclaim and become an underground hit, which it did as a bootleg anyway, but I doubt it'd reached the Top 10 or anything like that. It's hard to know though: given the very unusual way it was to be released I'm not completely sure how WB intended to promote it past its initial "anonymous" release, or if WB actually had any plan at all. It's possible they considered it to be more of a side project à la Paisley Park albums, to release in order to please Prince until he'd come-up with his next "official" solo album that'd be WB's focus.

At the end of the day it's very possible that the album made a stronger impact thanks to its bootleg status than it would have if released as planned.

You're not considering that white frat boys starting liking aggressive black music that was not top 40. I can't tell you how many times a jeep went by in the late 80's and the bros were jamming public enemy or 2 Live Crew. I think that led to NWA and then the rise of Snoop Dog and Dr Dre...

From my testing of the waters with my mainstream friends, they all asked for cassette copies of the black album. None (these are white males, I was in undergrad in Austin, TX) asked for copies of Lovesexy or even Batman.