Pick 3 songs you dislike

Slow love is peak prince in ballad mode
And bob George should have gotten verse of the month in the source at the time
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Like, if i made a gangsta rap mixtape of late 80s/early 90s stuff, bob george would work at the end pretty well
'I got a gun and its LOUD'
That song is the black albums centrepiece
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Reply #64 posted 08/28/23 1:29pm

RJOrion said:

F**k what you heard...there are NO bad songs on Sign O The Times...

This is actually entirely correct.
Like, you might not like or love them all equally but bad? Nope.

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Reply #65 posted 08/28/23 1:39pm

3 other songs i dislike -
Musicology
The music is nice enough in a kind of light and easy, tame neo funk lite starbucks background music playlist way, but the lyrics are pretty corny and lazy with the nostalgia. When he started listing off jsm master jay and chuck d... to this day i cant see prince listening to run dmc or public enemy much.
Emancipation
I dont hate it.... but i dont buy the sentiment or the whole triumphant jubilation feeling its meant to have behind it so i have no desire to listen to it. but it does work well as the album closer.
Avalanche
The only tracks i liked on the piano album were arborettum and case of u. This one, I liked the angry falsetto, but for me, a lot of his late period political songs, i find them too head-on. i prefer prince doing politics less explicitly, basically less explicitly than singing ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS A RACIST. What works in rap lyrics doesnt work that well sung IMO.
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Reply #66 posted 08/28/23 3:54pm

SoulAlive	I never understood the hate for Slow Love”.It reminds me of Sly & The Family Stone…a smooth,mesmerizing track.
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Reply #67 posted 08/28/23 6:14pm

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"Slow Love" always gave me more of a throwback vibe than Sly. Like just a pure, classical R&B ballad, up there with the great OG crooners.

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Reply #68 posted 08/29/23 2:31am

olb99

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I don't hate "Slow Love". It's just kind of boring when I'm not in the mood. I don't skip it, though.

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Reply #69 posted 08/29/23 3:47pm

TrivialPursuit

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olb99 said:

I don't hate "Slow Love". It's just kind of boring when I'm not in the mood. I don't skip it, though.

It goes on a bit long. The crooner-isn in the latter third of the song is just unnecessary or wanted.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.

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Reply #70 posted 08/30/23 2:31am

shame that prince never did a jazz standards/crooner type album

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Reply #71 posted 08/30/23 5:06am

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TrivialPursuit said:

olb99 said:

I don't hate "Slow Love". It's just kind of boring when I'm not in the mood. I don't skip it, though.

It goes on a bit long. The crooner-isn in the latter third of the song is just unnecessary or wanted.

Nope. I was disappointed there wasn't a "(7 Minutes Mo' Croon)" full length version on SOTT SDE.

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Reply #72 posted 08/30/23 9:32am

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RJOrion said:

"Bob George" is an iconic undergroud Masterpiece...im looking sideways at anyone who doesnt acknowledge its greatness...that song is the glue of the Black Album

It's a skit that got out of control. Like "Movie Star" or "Work That Fat", but with Prince pretending he knows how to be "street".

Unreleased, it could be described as funny, I'm sure some would say hilarious. Once it's released and examined under the cold light of day without the cachet of it's former underground status it's just a novelty song that's not as humourous as it thinks it is.

IMO obviously.

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Reply #73 posted 08/30/23 10:32am

TrivialPursuit

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WhisperingDandelions said:

TrivialPursuit said:

It goes on a bit long. The crooner-isn in the latter third of the song is just unnecessary or wanted.

Nope. I was disappointed there wasn't a "(7 Minutes Mo' Croon)" full length version on SOTT SDE.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.

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Reply #74 posted 08/30/23 8:18pm

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1. Jug Head - Sucks

2. Da Da Daa - sucks, just a rap song. Waiste of space on Emancipation

3. All tied for third place Aint Turnin Round/ Boy Trouble/ Stop This Train/ White Caps, no Prince WTF

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Reply #75 posted 08/30/23 8:36pm

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kpowers said:

1. Jug Head - Sucks

2. Da Da Daa - sucks, just a rap song. Waiste of space on Emancipation

3. All tied for third place Aint Turnin Round/ Boy Trouble/ Stop This Train/ White Caps, no Prince WTF

Couple things about this one: I agree the rap is terrible. But I edited it out so it's just Prince. Sorta starts with the chorus, but it bops a bit more.

I do like the line from it that Prince had laid into the carpet (or stairs going up) at Paisley Park.

Ask yourself the destination

What the source of your inspiration be

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.

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Reply #76 posted 08/30/23 11:27pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Nope. I was disappointed there wasn't a "(7 Minutes Mo' Croon)" full length version on SOTT SDE.

"Y should Eye do that,

when Eye can do this?!"

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Reply #77 posted 09/09/23 5:56pm

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No opening disclosure this was a poll confirmed!

A B S E N T E E B A L L O T incoming:

1. "Free" - before hiring Michael Bland this track was the OG "Bland" of the Prince catalogue.

2. "Delirious" - annoying.

3. "Baby I'm a Star" - teh cringe.

(dis)honorable mention: "Trust",

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Reply #78 posted 09/12/23 11:20am

SpookyPurple

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i wonder if other versions of bob george exist

or other songs with that character

prob not but id like to know

ive never understood the hate for slow love, its always been a personal favourite

so if you hate slow love, i hate you.

lol

Doesn't "Work That Fat" use the same voice? Lyrically could be same character.

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