duh, we're all entitled to have opinions about arrengements.
and horn sucks period :/

7salles said:

Thats like saying "Trees suck". Or "The air sucks".

I think horns arent always appropriate, but they 'beef' up the sound a lot, giving it a fuller and thicker arrangement. Synths often sound weedy. My opinon is that some of his work is missing horns (the Prince album is crying out for them). I dont really think he overuses them now.

For instance on the last tour, he left horns off When U were mine and just kept the original synth (not in all the shows I know), whereas in 1988, he performed this with horns and it sounded great.

Horns add that funk / jazz element that prince is trying to acheive, whereas synths give his songs a more 'new wave' vibe that was cool in the early eighties. Now though I think it sounds dated, horns have a timeless quality.

CrozzaUK said:

i thought i wuz the only one here who thought this! hell yeah...just imagine: "sexy dancer" with live horns