Which Prince do you prefer the one BEFORE or AFTER the emancipation? All my favourite songs were realised before the emancipation. I wish Prince would realise one album with 10 tracks (and his voice) or so and sound just to Prince... if I want 2 listen Jazz probably I will listen Miles not Prince. Is till don´t understand N.E.W.S

you know what? i absolutely love NEWS. it's not innovative at all, it's just really good musicianship. prince is 45 guys, he's over all dat chart chizz!

i didn't like the rainbow children at first but it grew in me.
one nite alone is a beautiful album.
xpectation and news i don't like and can't get into.
u have to admire an artist who isn't afraid to experiment and try other directions.
many people like xpectation and news.
i'm sure the same old prince is still there with plenty of great music still to come.
he just wanted a change in style.
lets see what happens next!

chris210972 said:

well said, chris.

Alfonso said:

I think so far I'd say 'before'. I think the 86 - 87 Camille, Dream factory, Crystal ball, Sign o' the times, Jill jones, Madhouse, Black album, Lovesexy era has yet to of been beaten. Although New power soul and beyond is all I've been listening to recently.

a genius is an artist who can experiment and be great at whatever he chooses to do.
he just cannot please everyone all of the time.
i'm sure he is very pleased with himself.

chris210972 said:

I think so far I'd say 'before'. I think the 86 - 87 Camille, Dream factory, Crystal ball, Sign o' the times, Jill jones, Madhouse, Black album, Lovesexy era has yet to of been beaten. Although New power soul and beyond is all I've been listening to recently.

camille?, haven't got that one.

chris210972 said:

It wasn't an offical release, but I think it would of been the greatest album of all time.

Side a:

Rebirth of the flesh (still unreleased, but it has leaked out on bootleg)
Housequake (rumore says the version here is slightly different to the Sign album version)
Strange relationship (As on Sign)
Feel U up (12 inch version)

Side b:

Shockadelica (12 inch version)
Good love (Long version as on the Bright lights Big city soundtrack)
If I was your girlfriend (as on Sign)
Rockhard in a funky place (as on The black album)

Concidering it was due to come out before Sign of the times was put together all the tracks would of been brand new. As an album it's brutal. Amazing stuff. That's why I chose this user name.

sounds great!
i'll try to find a copy.
I've got dream factory and like it very much, especially all my dreams.

chris210972 said:

That's a sweet album (I wish the quality was better though. I have that Thunder ball CD and it sound very degraded.) There is a box set out called The Work volume II which has all the unreleased tracks in much better quality. One track I love from the era is "It's a wonderful day"

before.

CAMILLE4U said:

If you haven't heard the Camille Housequake, go find a copy
The song is predominated by an almost heavy metal guitar chord, and towards the end Prince joins in singing with Camille excellent song.

paintsprayer said:

Wow, I didn't think it had been leaked. Do U know the names of any boot albums that it apears on?

CAMILLE4U said:

Back in the day I got mine the WinMX way
searched for: Housequake Camille

paintsprayer said:

Are U refering to the version that has a lot of that electric buzzing at the end?

CAMILLE4U said:

The very end has a little bit of a buzz sound keeping a beat
the song is longer has a lot of guitar
more than halfway through the line "we gotta rock this mother" gets repeated by prince (normal voice)
then Prince and Camille duet the rest of the song

???

read the rule that's in boldface at the top of this forum. you cannot ask where to get unreleased stuff here, it's a big no-no and is strictly enforced.

Sure I liked him more before Emancipation.. but Im not saying that rainbow children and news are bad, they're great. and as a prince fan, you know he change all the time, always surprise you with something new.. either fashionstyle or musicstyle..

CAMILLE4U said:

new power soul? this is the only Prince album i dont really care for, except for the one and a couple others.

I think Wasted Kisses is great.

CAMILLE4U said:

Why did I wastem my kisses on you Baby?? deadly track. I'm still liking Chaos and Disorder best, out of all the more recent albums. Say from 1996 on

I said b4 the, 85-88 era was pretty special
atwiad
parade
sott
lovesexy

i suppose now black's official we can add it 2,
+ the family,jill jones,madhouse

but u r including bootlegs if u do that then i cant c an argument against !!!

camille,dream factory,,crystal ball

what other artist could include this lot in 3/4 years !!!

NONE !!!
[This message was edited Sat Oct 18 14:09:25 PDT 2003 by danielboon]

I prefer the Prince of before the emancipation. I suppose mainly because I like his rock and funk music and he hasn't done much of that this side of Chaos And Disorder. There was some good funky tracks on Crystal Ball (Hide the Bone, PoomPoom and Da Bang spring to mind) but they were done during his WB days as well, so...

I think Baby Knows is the only real rocker done this side of WB, innit?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

whatever, f off

rando310 said:

Uh-oh. Bye, bye Rando. We hardly knew ye.
[This message was edited Sat Oct 18 21:02:05 PDT 2003 by whodknee]

CAMILLE4U said:

This is what I callthe "DARK AGES OF PRINCE MUSIC." The music was brilliant, but it was all best listened to in a dark room at nite. Plain and Simple