funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Not a copy but just another punchy, instantly accessible pop rock album from prince? I love ATWIAD but I wouldnt have minded if he sustained that 84 moment just a bit longer. That kind of album, with that much craft and thought behind it is not easy to do. Theres only a few albums in princes catalogue where I think he real8ly vire down and worked hard on each song rather than work from inspiration and it's something I woyldnt have minded him doing more personally [Edited 7/21/21 21:47pm]

POOR GUY TRIED WITH graffitti disaster Bridge movie, and the sterile Mplsound album was a terrible attermpt at Prince trying 2 copy Purple rain album.

Generally up until 1985 Prince's progression was an expanded version of the previous album.

Dirty Mind is very much like Prince(and For You), with more New Wave, Controversy is very much like Dirty Mind(picking up where her left off with Party Up) The Time is similar to the more maintstream outtakes of Controversy, 1999 is a more in flux polished but grungy version of Controversy

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So it was his style to do what he did before just better/bigger

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you hear this from For You - Purple Rain. Then everything after that was different

Including the protege albums.

Around the World in a Day is almost nothing like Parade. except for the organic increase of instruments and sounds. Parade is more like the Dream Factory/the Flesh/SOTT actually. BUT Parade was made directly as a movie soundtrack/score. So it does stand alone in that and has to be judged in that aspect.

Romance 1600 is nothing like Glamorous Life

Even though the Black album feels more like SOTT, Lovesexy is nothing like SOTT

Madhouse feels like combinations of Parade and SOTT

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Purple Rain was very different from 1999, probably the actually change in style even before ATWIAD

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But it was still difinitively the Minneapolis Sound which people tie to it being like 1999, but up about 7 notches

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Like Toejam and TrivialPursuit said, ATWIAD is very much like Purple Rain. It's has the Minneapolis sound right underneath it all but with the more organic instrumentations of Purple Rain turned up times 7

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Purple Rain to me was lived out on the streets, the night life, the clubs, the stage lights, etc -extrovert

Around the World ina Day was after they returned from all of that and 'sitting in the kids basement apartment reflecting' -introvert

I would love another "Purple Rain" but I would rather have another "1999". "Purple Rain" has the same sound but it is mostly rock. "1999" has much more funk in that sound.

Nope. Was a huge fan before PR...not even in my Top 5 most listened to Prince albums. I do appreciate it's brilliance tho.

funkman88 said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Not a copy but just another punchy, instantly accessible pop rock album from prince? I love ATWIAD but I wouldnt have minded if he sustained that 84 moment just a bit longer. That kind of album, with that much craft and thought behind it is not easy to do. Theres only a few albums in princes catalogue where I think he real8ly vire down and worked hard on each song rather than work from inspiration and it's something I woyldnt have minded him doing more personally [Edited 7/21/21 21:47pm]

POOR GUY TRIED WITH graffitti disaster Bridge movie, and the sterile Mplsound album was a terrible attermpt at Prince trying 2 copy Purple rain album.

oh yeah, i totally forgot about GB being an actual PR sequel, but yeah, really did not meet the same standard, not nearly.

Purple Rain to me was lived out on the streets, the night life, the clubs, the stage lights, etc -extrovert

Around the World ina Day was after they returned from all of that and 'sitting in the kids basement apartment reflecting' -introvert

nice take on it.

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TrivialPursuit said:

funkman88 said:

vainandy said:

I would love another "Purple Rain" but I would rather have another "1999". "Purple Rain" has the same sound but it is mostly rock. "1999" has much more funk in that sound.

just a few PR-ish songs from that time period

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

Manic Monday

Dance Electric

We Can Fuck

G-Spot

Love & Sex

Lust U Always

Traffic Jam

Old Friends 4 Sale

coldcoffeeandcocacola said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I've called it that a-plenty. And it is just that. Rocking opener, big anthem at the end, a dirty song, a duet, a few rollicking good tunes, a couple of guitar based ones, a great ballad or two. It's all there, plus a bit more.

Absolutely, for me TGE is the best album of all time, but I often think of it as purple rain 2.

I always say my favorite album is The Gold Experience. My favorite Prince album varies.

OldFriends4Sale said:

"Purple Rain" is objectively an excellent album, but I'm happy he tried something different after that.

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Honestly, I could live without hearing that album again, especially tracks such as "Take Me With U", "I Would Die 4 U", or "Baby I’m A Star". Even tracks I've heard too many times such as "Let's Go Crazy".

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I'm not sure the comparison is justified, but "The Gold Experience" is excellent as well. Maybe the album is "flawed" (as is "Purple Rain"), but the whole period is absolutely fantastic, whereas I never feel the need to listen to a live show from 1984-85, apart from a few exceptions. Prince was really on autopilot during that Purple Rain tour...

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Anyway, to answer your question: no.

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No.

olb99 said:

"Purple Rain" is objectively an excellent album, but I'm happy he tried something different after that.

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Honestly, I could live without hearing that album again, especially tracks such as "Take Me With U", "I Would Die 4 U", or "Baby I’m A Star". Even tracks I've heard too many times such as "Let's Go Crazy".

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I'm not sure the comparison is justified, but "The Gold Experience" is excellent as well. Maybe the album is "flawed" (as is "Purple Rain"), but the whole period is absolutely fantastic, whereas I never feel the need to listen to a live show from 1984-85, apart from a few exceptions. Prince was really on autopilot during that Purple Rain tour...

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Anyway, to answer your question: no.

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But again comparing someone having 6 albums worth of songs to perform vs someone having 15-17 albums worth. Of course 1996 Prince is going to have more to perform from than 1984 Prince.
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I too thought that a lot of shows would be very similar in 1984 PR tour, but wouldn't they be for the 1999 tour and the Controversy tour and the Dirtry Mind tour

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But I found that they changed up a lot of stuff on the PR tour more than I initially thought.
And the soundchecks I have not heard anything that compares yet

strongoxman1 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

just a few PR-ish songs from that time period

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

Manic Monday

Dance Electric

We Can Fuck

G-Spot

Love & Sex

Lust U Always

Traffic Jam

Old Friends 4 Sale

Don't forget Possessed, Electric Intercourse, All Day All Night, Do Yourself A Favor and She's Always In My Hair.

yes

There were 2 Purple Rains (1999 and PR). (Yes 1999 is more digital and PR is more rock but they come from similar spaces). ATWIAD is also in the ballpark.

What I really wished we'd seen is another Parade (i.e. most of Dream Factory I guess).

And he ditched the Lovesexy band way too soon. They deserved another full album before he went "solo" again with Bataman and then the cheesy NPG of Graffitti Bridge and onwards.

emesem said:

There were 2 Purple Rains (1999 and PR). (Yes 1999 is more digital and PR is more rock but they come from similar spaces). ATWIAD is also in the ballpark.

What I really wished we'd seen is another Parade (i.e. most of Dream Factory I guess).

And he ditched the Lovesexy band way too soon. They deserved another full album before he went "solo" again with Bataman and then the cheesy NPG of Graffitti Bridge and onwards.

I still have fantasies of what the Black album era would have been like with the band

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if he didn't fire Jerome, and he was on the SOTT tour (and Brown Mark remained as bass player)

Madhouse might have had a better chance