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Thread started 06/27/23 7:30pm

Am3121

Any of you listen to mostly nothing but Prince music?

Was recently told by grandma of all people that I need to "broaden my musical tastes" and that I was listening to too much Prince music
I do listen to other artists/bands sometimes
Such as Michael Jackson,citizen cope,awolnation,Madonna
I listen to the TIME too but that's another way to listening to Prince
Listening to Prince never gets old to me
It's like a movie you seen a hundred times,you always find one small detail that you hadn't noticed and it amazes you
I am still discovering new Prince music to this day
And by reqding the purple rain era sessions book you kinda observe the songs differently the next time you hear them knowing the new details of certain songs

For example the song "my drawers" was written by Prince in a very short amount
of time and that happens to be my favorite track off the ice cream castle album
Morris day was suppose to write it or help but didn't cooperate with prince that day
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Reply #1 posted 06/27/23 10:40pm

funkbabyandthe
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At one point in my life, yes. I listened to endless prince.
Today, more the oppposite.
Its not that i wouldnt like to listen to more prince, but that my tastes are quite broad (partly due to prince actually) so i like lots of other stuff too, so i pick and choose the prince i listen to carefully.
But when i see stuff listed on the underrated boots thread for example i do want to go and listen to lots more prince again.
[Edited 6/27/23 22:43pm]
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Reply #2 posted 06/27/23 11:43pm

WhisperingDand
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I notice since he transitioned I mostly put on stuff he wrote or produced for other artists, probably because I completely overlooked that section of his discography before he passed.

I put on other stuff, too, but Prince is always somewhere there in the mix, even if I'm just out and I see something like a Frigidaire logo and then I'm humming "Modernaire" or something, so it's hard to quantify.

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Reply #3 posted 06/28/23 1:11am

ShellyMcG

When I first started properly listening to his music I went about 4 months of listening to nothing but Prince. It was almost therapeutic in a way. I don't listen to him nearly as much as I did but having said that, he features pretty heavily in all my playlists. And I will argue that nobody has ever or will ever write love songs the way he does.
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Reply #4 posted 06/28/23 1:59am

funkbabyandthe
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There are still side projects etc i dont know all that well.
In a way i like that theres stuff to get familiar with
But prince now seems like a musical zone all by itself, like if im listening to prince, its totally on its own terms, its princeworld, not easily connected to other music. Which might sound weird, but i think thats just his personality, and how big it was in his songs, you have to want to get in that space.
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Reply #5 posted 06/28/23 2:00am

IanRG

When I used to scrobble, it was consistently 25% Prince each month, year on year. And at least twice the next highest played artist.

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Reply #6 posted 06/28/23 2:18am

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These days, I listen to Prince almost exclusively. I have broad tastes in music, but he can satisfy them because his catalogue is so eclectic. Whatever I’m in the mood for (rock, funk, pop, etc.), I can find it in his music. And within those genres, he explored sub-genres. For instance, his rock ranged from Bambi to ICNTTPOYM to Colonized Mind. All rock, but all completely different styles of rock. In short, I can never get bored with Prince.

Outside of Prince, I listen to Rusted Root, Sting/The Police, Lyle Lovett, Terence Trent Darby, The Talking Heads, Barenaked Ladies, The Bee Gees, Earth Wind & Fire, to name a few.
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Reply #7 posted 06/28/23 5:32am

RJOrion

I listen to the same stuff repeatedly:

Prince (The Time, Andre Cymone)
Earth Wind & Fire
The Emotions
Wutang Clan
Slum Village
Griselda (Westside Gunn, Conway, Bennie The Butcher)
Mach Hommy
various hiphop instrumentals
anything produced by JimmyJam&TerryLewis
various Motown artists 1963-1973
Chaka Khan
Rotary Connection
Minnie Riperton
The Police
Elton John
Joni Mitchell
Parliament/Funkadelic
Rick James
SWV (Coko Gamble)
Nas
Cam'ron & Dipset
JayZ
Isley Brothers
Todd Rundgren (Utopia)
The Beatles
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Reply #8 posted 06/28/23 5:37am

RJOrion

Am3121 said:

Was recently told by grandma of all people that I need to "broaden my musical tastes" and that I was listening to too much Prince music
I do listen to other artists/bands sometimes
Such as Michael Jackson,citizen cope,awolnation,Madonna
I listen to the TIME too but that's another way to listening to Prince
Listening to Prince never gets old to me
It's like a movie you seen a hundred times,you always find one small detail that you hadn't noticed and it amazes you
I am still discovering new Prince music to this day
And by reqding the purple rain era sessions book you kinda observe the songs differently the next time you hear them knowing the new details of certain songs

For example the song "my drawers" was written by Prince in a very short amount
of time and that happens to be my favorite track off the ice cream castle album
Morris day was suppose to write it or help but didn't cooperate with prince that day


'My Drawers' is BY FAR my alltime favorite "The Time" song...Prince shouldve kept that one for his self.
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Reply #9 posted 06/28/23 10:42am

KlyphIsBackAga
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Oh no. There's way too much music to only listen to Prince. Recently I've been listening to alot of 80's Hip Hop and electro albums that I got from a huge record sale (Egyptian Lover, World Class Wreckin' Cru, etc.).

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Reply #10 posted 06/28/23 10:51am

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Reply #11 posted 06/28/23 11:51am

Am3121

RJOrion said:

Am3121 said:

Was recently told by grandma of all people that I need to "broaden my musical tastes" and that I was listening to too much Prince music
I do listen to other artists/bands sometimes
Such as Michael Jackson,citizen cope,awolnation,Madonna
I listen to the TIME too but that's another way to listening to Prince
Listening to Prince never gets old to me
It's like a movie you seen a hundred times,you always find one small detail that you hadn't noticed and it amazes you
I am still discovering new Prince music to this day
And by reqding the purple rain era sessions book you kinda observe the songs differently the next time you hear them knowing the new details of certain songs

For example the song "my drawers" was written by Prince in a very short amount
of time and that happens to be my favorite track off the ice cream castle album
Morris day was suppose to write it or help but didn't cooperate with prince that day


'My Drawers' is BY FAR my alltime favorite "The Time" song...Prince shouldve kept that one for his self.


Same here.I hope there's a prince version in the vault
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Reply #12 posted 06/28/23 12:31pm

purplethunder3
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No, I listen to a wide variety of music.

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #13 posted 06/28/23 1:15pm

freohrrr

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"Who's the fool singing 'will', it's 'WOULD'!" - Prince, Aug 19th, 1988
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Reply #14 posted 06/28/23 1:18pm

Am3121

I'm listening to "Sadeness" by Enigma right now
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Reply #15 posted 06/28/23 1:21pm

Landonfunkmonk
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I listen to alot of different artists but by far my most listened to is Prince.

Probably about 60%.

The lack of new Prince music over the past couple of years has made me lusten more to other artists.

I am finding some of my most loved Princecalbums are starting to feel over played now.

I need some fresh Prince.
Something BIG Is Coming.
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Reply #16 posted 06/28/23 1:23pm

themanfromnept
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I listen a lot of different music, experimental, concrete musique, classical, jazz, italian folk or some pop, sometimes rap or trap. Or Prince. For me Prince is not a music flavour, it is a different thing. I listen music or Prince.

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Reply #17 posted 06/28/23 2:02pm

MIRvmn1

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It's about 40% Prince and 60% other artists for me.
U are now an official member of the New Power Generation
Welcome 2 The Dawn
Free the prince SDE now!
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Reply #18 posted 06/30/23 5:53pm

whodknee

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There was a time where I listened to nothing but Prince- when it was all new to me. Nowadays I'd guess it's about 5-10% Prince. He is like a genre unto himself.

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Reply #19 posted 06/30/23 6:00pm

bozojones

I have way too many favorite artists to listen to Prince exclusively or near exclusively, but I will go through a phase once or twice a year where I listen to Prince obsessively for a few weeks. I was having one of those phases back in May and early June but the estate's incompetence at Celebration and total silence since then killed my enthusiasm lol
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Reply #20 posted 07/01/23 6:33pm

paisleyparkgir
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Since last year, it's been only Prince and his associates.

Before that I listened to almost everything.

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Reply #21 posted 07/02/23 2:16pm

WhisperingDand
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RJOrion said:

'My Drawers' is BY FAR my alltime favorite "The Time" song...Prince shouldve kept that one for his self.

Where would it have even gone, though? Purple Rain? Parade? surely not Around the World in a Day, that fits even worse than "She's Always in My Hair" fanmz are always advocating to take a spot on there. Just because you guys dislike a certain record doesn't mean the overall concept should be jetissoned just to crowbar in your favs.

"shouldve kept that one for his self" is a popular sentiment in Prince circles but if he did reality is it wouldn't have fit on any of the projects he had cooking and probably would have sat on a Vault shelf and get dusted off for a new re-belabored version on a 90s or 00s record.

I'm glad he hammered out and put out what he did when he did, regardless of who's singing on the final mix. Plus, whenever he sat on a track and re-worked and "perfected" it they'd invariably become worse and worse with each successive version.

The rawness of "My Drawers" is part of its appeal, and I highly doubt that would be able to persist if he wasn't trying to hammer out 3-4 different projects at once before 1984 concluded.

[Edited 7/2/23 14:19pm]

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Reply #22 posted 07/03/23 4:00pm

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Damn, I'm revisting a lot of music from the 70s--that was tha bomb decade for music. And Prince had to hear what I heard. I'm old but he was older than me. razz lol Still can't believe I went to a Jazz Fest yesterday (after 4 years) and a local legend Fillmore Slim was still singin' the blues at age 89?!!! eek You go, Fillmore Slim. And then Buddy Guy, who is supposedly on his last tour. Buddy Guy is in his late 80s. eek The last time I saw him was about six years ago: he was playing guitar behind his back and with his teeth!! Okay, showmanship...but he was so great he earned it! Even Santanta showed up do a couple of songs with Buddy Guy! Love the longevity of some of these under-rated artists! cool

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