BeatofBlackWings said:

RJOrion said:

Adorecream said:

Why expressing an opinion always invite abuse and questions of my sanity.Grow up and get a life you hive mind communist. This is not North Korea.

only your absurd opinions invite so-called "abuse"...if you feel so tortured, stop typing stupid stuff on a regular basis...

I don't consider it stupid moron!

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Prince was a human being, and a human being who took drugs, he is not an angel with wings, he is a mere human being who made some good music. If anything, he would have been held in much higher regard by the general public, if he only released his best music, rather than every single beat and intonation tied to a project.

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50% of Prince's input is genius, 25% is average and the other 25% of it is just filler that deserved to stay in the vault. Unfortunately as the 1990s wore on, Prince put more and more filler on each album, culminating in Emancipation - One album of Pure genius, one of decent tracks and one of complete filler. There's more filler than in the whole Hungarian treasury

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After he was a huge star, drowning in his own ego and piles of illegal opium laced painkillers, Prince lost grip of reality and released the diamons and the dust together. I love Prince, but I am not a "Rosa fan" like you. Someone who wears rose tinted glasses and think that Prince could do no wrong, he wore angel wings and simonized his halo all the time and the planet was greater for him, blah blah, he was an oversexed musician who made some great music, not Nelson Mandela.

Adorecream said:

RJOrion said:

Adorecream said: only your absurd opinions invite so-called "abuse"...if you feel so tortured, stop typing stupid stuff on a regular basis...

I don't consider it stupid moron!

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Prince was a human being, and a human being who took drugs, he is not an angel with wings, he is a mere human being who made some good music. If anything, he would have been held in much higher regard by the general public, if he only released his best music, rather than every single beat and intonation tied to a project.

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50% of Prince's input is genius, 25% is average and the other 25% of it is just filler that deserved to stay in the vault. Unfortunately as the 1990s wore on, Prince put more and more filler on each album, culminating in Emancipation - One album of Pure genius, one of decent tracks and one of complete filler. There's more filler than in the whole Hungarian treasury

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After he was a huge star, drowning in his own ego and piles of illegal opium laced painkillers, Prince lost grip of reality and released the diamons and the dust together. I love Prince, but I am not a "Rosa fan" like you. Someone who wears rose tinted glasses and think that Prince could do no wrong, he wore angel wings and simonized his halo all the time and the planet was greater for him, blah blah, he was an oversexed musician who made some great music, not Nelson Mandela.

u oversimplify the man...

Guitarhero said:

Can the real Prince fans come back please Noticed something more and more is the hate for Prince instrumentals. Am i the only one that digs a lot of his instrumentals?

Liking a lot of the Flesh sessions!

Se7en said:

214 said:

But it's not a bad thing, in fact is very good thing, variety is a positive thing to have. Although i'm not going to lie, sometimes too much variety is overwhelming.

It's not really a fair comparison, really, since the Beatles "only" have what, 12-13-ish albums?

To compare it to Prince, you'd have to take his career from For You maybe up to Graffiti Bridge/D&P, so just a few years past what people consider his "masterpiece" era (1978-1988).

I don't think too many people were saying that Prince songs sucked in that era (well, maybe a few off GB/D&P, but that's it). Those critcisms came later, as Prince surpassed 20 albums then 30 and then almost 40.

I'll put it another way: The Beatles ended at just the right time. They are forever captured in that moment. Prince kept going.

I mostly agree with what you are saying though I am glad Prince continued past the 80s because there was plenty more good music that came out of him after his peak even if he lost the consistent greatness of his early studio recordings. In fact, I wish we had at least another decade of his music to look forward to.

airth said:

is it too soon for a joke about yo momma being the filler?

sorry, couldn't resist. I hope you like black humour, it's how I generally deal. Don't mean any disrespect.

I really don't think Prince had any filler. I think the fact that no one can agree on what are good and bad songs from him is fairly proof that he had no idea himself. He thought MPLsound or whatever was as good as anything else he had done.

I mean, i'm sure he was aware that not everything was Purple Rain and sometimes he purposely held back very high quality songs because he felt the time wasn't right but in terms of what he was capable of at any one moment i'd say he always believed his albums were solid, start to finish.

Adorecream said:

jaawwnn said:

I really don't think Prince had any filler. I think the fact that no one can agree on what are good and bad songs from him is fairly proof that he had no idea himself. He thought MPLsound or whatever was as good as anything else he had done.

I mean, i'm sure he was aware that not everything was Purple Rain and sometimes he purposely held back very high quality songs because he felt the time wasn't right but in terms of what he was capable of at any one moment i'd say he always believed his albums were solid, start to finish.

I think you're right Prince put out whatever he was feeling, or was happy with at any particular time and always thought it was solid. I remember an interview on British TV where Prince got upset because the interviewer, Kevin Greening, asked him if anyone ever said no to him, or said something was substandard. This was in reference to New Power Soul. Prince replied by saying has anyone ever asked Greening if his shirt was substandard. Something along those lines anyway, I'd like to see that moment again but can't find the interview online anywhere. Damn you, life before youtube.

TheEnglishGent said:

jaawwnn said:

I really don't think Prince had any filler. I think the fact that no one can agree on what are good and bad songs from him is fairly proof that he had no idea himself. He thought MPLsound or whatever was as good as anything else he had done.

I mean, i'm sure he was aware that not everything was Purple Rain and sometimes he purposely held back very high quality songs because he felt the time wasn't right but in terms of what he was capable of at any one moment i'd say he always believed his albums were solid, start to finish.

I think you're right Prince put out whatever he was feeling, or was happy with at any particular time and always thought it was solid. I remember an interview on British TV where Prince got upset because the interviewer, Kevin Greening, asked him if anyone ever said no to him, or said something was substandard. This was in reference to New Power Soul. Prince replied by saying has anyone ever asked Greening if his shirt was substandard. Something along those lines anyway, I'd like to see that moment again but can't find the interview online anywhere. Damn you, life before youtube.

Here it is:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6H8rKE9ydU

Ohhh heeelllll noooo lol Crazy You and When We're Dance Close & Slow help make those albums

I agree with 20Ten: Everybody Loves Me

Adorecream said:

There is lots of filler. Prince was very hit and miss. I consider all the following filler.

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4U - So Blue, Crazy You

Prince - When were dancing close and slow, With you

DM - None

CO - None

1999 - SOTT none

Black - 2 Nigs united for west compton (Most instrumentals are fillers unless u r Joe Satriani)

Lovesexy - None

Batman - Trust, Vicki Waiting, Lemon Crush

GB - New Power Generation pts 1 and 2, Tick Tick Bang, Love Machine, The Latest Fashion, Melody Cool, Graffiti Bridge

D and P - Jughead, Push

Symbol - Arrogance, The Flow, Vanessa Segues

The Hits/Bsides - Pope

Come - Solo

TGE - Npg operators

CD - Had U, I rock there4 I am

Emancipation - Da da Da, Mr Happy, Face Down, Slave, New World, Get yo groove on, We gets up, Emale, The Plan, Friend mother what ever the fuck its called

Truth - all of it except Don't Play me and Animal Kingdom

New Power Soul -all of it except come on and The one

Raves - Prettyman, Undisputed, Everyday is a winding road (Larry bits only), the empty track space after whereever u go.

Crystal Ball - Excluding Kamasutra and the Truth, the 3 main CDs are filler free

TRC - This album is a filler, The Work Pt1, Last December, 1 + 1 + 1 = 3

NEWS - Filler

ONA all of them - Mediocre, not filler but very hard to get into

NPGMC - Mostly filler on these, some okay songs, lot of fillery rubbish (C note, Slaighterhouse, Xpectation, Chocolate Invasion).

Musicology - On the couch, The song about afros being the largest

3121 - No filler here

Planet Earth - Mr Goodnight, Futurebabymama

Lotusflow3r - From the Lotus, $, 77 Beverley Park, Back 2 the Lotus

MPLSOUND - None here, but overall average rather than good album

20 Ten - Everybody loves me

PLE - Boytrouble, Marz, Ainturninround

AOA - Art Official Cage, Affirmations

Phase 1 - Shut this down, Like a Mack, Mr Nelson, This could be us remix

Phase 2 - None

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Not to say some of the filler is not enjoyable, but none of the above tracks I feel add much to his legacy and quite a few subtract from it.

Asolutely No.Never,my reason for this is,listen to his B sides,where is there even a hint of a song he made that wasnt arranged and produced with the thought of 'just throw this on i need a filler'.

His music was his life and while some songs sound dated or 'unfinished'(as some jerk off claimed in a magazine article about The ballad of dorothy parker),he would never put in a filler,he didnt have to.He was a musicians musician. If there was a song he felt was weak it wouldnt make the album.

rdhull said:

Come and Chaos n Disorder seem like filler songs as albums mostly.

During the classic era though:

Glam Slam

The Max

Arrogance

It

Hot Thing

Tick Tick Bang

Trust

Lemon Crush

The Max is no filler. This is a song he was playing live in 2014.

RodeoSchro said:

kygermo said:

This! Although during his golden era, there were some songs I could do without, or perhaps some I love way more than others. He didnt release a bad album during that run, but there are/were weaker moments on each one. The 90s? I'm in too good of a mood to talk shit.

OK, maybe I've not been clear enough.

I'm NOT talking about songs you don't like.

I AM talking about songs you think Prince did simply so there would be another song on the album. Something that you don't think he really put much effort or thought into, and that was on purpose. A going-through-the-motions-because-I-don't-really-care kind of song.

Or maybe I just should

Yes, and I think anything that was a single or he played live with any sort of regularity (or even t all) cannot be considered filler.

Maybe time to look at this from a different perspective.. There are some tracks that absolutely are filler, like all those silent tracks before bonus songs. Also, Prince had a number of albums that all had the same time:

-Emancipation: all three cd's were 1 hour

-NEWS: 4 songs of 14 minutes

-Around the World in a Day: both sides are 21 minutes and 9 seconds, or 1269 seconds (apparently he's the 1 2 69)

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I'm sure there are more examples.

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It's not easy to have tracks and collections be the exact same length, so I'm sure he filled more time with some tracks. The track may not be filler, but that last 1 minute 39 seconds might be.

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Are there more examples of weird timing coincidences that you noticed? Like Lovesexy being 45 minutes, the exact time of one side of a cassette.. (90 minute cassettes were what I used to record all new albums on the moment I got them, to avoid wearing out the records)

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mediumdry said:

Maybe time to look at this from a different perspective.. There are some tracks that absolutely are filler, like all those silent tracks before bonus songs. Also, Prince had a number of albums that all had the same time:

-Emancipation: all three cd's were 1 hour

-NEWS: 4 songs of 14 minutes

-Around the World in a Day: both sides are 21 minutes and 9 seconds, or 1269 seconds (apparently he's the 1 2 69)

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I'm sure there are more examples.

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It's not easy to have tracks and collections be the exact same length, so I'm sure he filled more time with some tracks. The track may not be filler, but that last 1 minute 39 seconds might be.

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Are there more examples of weird timing coincidences that you noticed? Like Lovesexy being 45 minutes, the exact time of one side of a cassette.. (90 minute cassettes were what I used to record all new albums on the moment I got them, to avoid wearing out the records)

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Of course, it's also possible songs were edited down in length to fit the concept.