Prince- please stop the silly sound effects! What's My Name would have been so much better without the scratching siren at the chorus that drowns out the very funky bass playing. Walk Don't Walk really didn't need the stupid car horns in it. Emacipation drowned in a mix of sound effects that took away from the instrumentation on some finely written songs!

Prince is one of the most amazing musicians out there and some songs are ruined by the use of very unneccesary sound effects. Man in a Uniform from The Truth is another prime example.

I'm not saying that you should stop using them completely- My Computer for example makes very good use of sound effects. But when you're in the studio and you've just finished a song, please don't start thinking "Oh I need a helicopter right here and maybe a frog belching on the chorus." The music is fine and better off without it!

I kinda like them!

I totally agree about "what's my name"...almost a good song, except that siren is wiggedy wack.

...your problem here is the use of the word 'effects'. Consider them not as effects but as intrinsic to the music and there is no problem. Boy - what a hang up!

What about in Most Beautiful girl on the Gold experience album. I thought the SFX were great.

I can do with those sound effects. The only one that really gets under my skin is the clipping scissors in the one song off of that one "Kamasutra" song. My thoughts through it were "What, is this when he cut his hair after his 'Graffiti Bridge' hairdo and went to the 'typhoon' 'do for 'Diamonds & Pearls?'" It was just too weird for me.
[This message was edited Mon Nov 10 17:15:30 PST 2003 by NCC2012]

CAMILLE4U said:

That would be Statik's programming - some (not all) of the production on those albums around that period were great, but the programming was just awesome.

4 good FX - u just have 2 listen 2 something like 'The Sensual Everafter' or 'Superfunkcalifragisexy' (listen 2 those awesome background vox how they leap in and out of the mix - great.)

There are some gems production-wise, (like Lovesexy 4 instance - crap mastering due 2 analogue sources, but man it's deep - so much going on.)

On the flip-sde though, I have 2 admit that he is guilty time and time again 2 stop 'twiddling' and just let them fly free.

Surprisingly enough, I think the best album (production wise) is TRC... creative, musical, religious and personal thoughts aside he finally got it spot-on.
[This message was edited Mon Nov 10 17:33:26 PST 2003 by bananacologne]

Give me a break.. I think every sound that was composed/created for The Truth is what made that album so fucking blunt and great.. I dig his use of sound effects.. give the songs color.

Sdldawn said:

Ooooh - get u!

What about the funny "rrowr" cartoon sound in Peach? Thats funny

mrdespues said:

wiggedy wack...ain't heard nobody use that term since i was about 13...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I suddenly feel the urge 2 wear my clothes back 2 front.

Truly dope. Word 2 yo Momz etc etc

CAMILLE4U said:

me too

Sdldawn said:

Say it again Sdldawn!! I don't think they heard ya.

garnis said:

Regarding TMBGITW , why did he use the same effect in the Gold experience instead of the cricket sound as heard in the single version, when he sings "when the night..."[cricket/insect sound here], and the album version goes "when the night..."[bird chirp sound here]

bananacologne said:

y'all know he takes this from a 20-ish CD PHILIPS set with soundeffects, right, we had it in school ?

the dolphin, the clock, the astronauts on SPACE, even the gong at the end of I LIKE IT THERE.

Yeah, the siren on What's My Name is silly, but it really works on Wasted Kisses.

squirrelgrease said:

at squirrelgreases new sig!!!

that same sound is mixed into the beat at the end of bob george

NCC2012 said:

I have some of the musical sound effects (library) he used - like the tape loop at the beginning of Push, or the rhythm noise in return of the bump squad and the good life...

dawntreader said:

NCC2012 said:

Well, seeing as the name of that track is "Cutz" one would assume that the scissor sound was what the rest of the tune was built around. I think it is quite amusing, (although I think Kamasutra rips off Cirque du Soleil)