This is a Prince Music Fan website.. duh. Over 99% of us like it

LarrytheGOD said:

i must be in the 1% club then, cuz i hate c & d with a passion.

LarrytheGOD said:

i must be in the 1% club then, cuz i hate c & d with a passion.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

You don't even like any of the guitar on it??

First, to preface my commentary...this is in no way whatsoever directed at anyone...just a general observation regarding music appreciation.

To answer the initial question...I like the album. I like the album enough that I listened to it twice a day (at least up to nearly the end of I Rock Therefore I am, cause thats how long it takes to get to work, and then home) for a week and a half.

Onto my observation of music appreciation. Why does everyone (not just Prince fans, but since that's where we are, he'll be the example) feel compelled to critisize a musicians work? I mean, you either like it or you don't. Is there really a benefit to producing undue stress to conclude that in your own little world this song is A) over/under produced B) too rock, too funk, too soul, too whatever C) sounds too much like previous work D) doesn't sound enough like previous work E) all of the above F)none of the above. Regardless of your opinion on the production, or lack thereof, on any given song...it's not gonna change. Besides that, it's a representation of the artist that created it. If we were all given the luxury of twisting music/art/fashion into what we deemed it appropriate then no one would ever release any music, we wouldn't have art galleries, and shopping wouldn't be necessary. Anything needing creative value we could produce on our own whim. Simplisticly (is that a word?), we would all be Prince...in which case, Prince wouldn't be what he is....does this make any sense to anybody else? To reiterate...I'm not saying you can't dislike (ok, hate) a song. There are songs I don't like, so I don't listen to 'em. But I don't pick them apart and determine it would be a good song if it was "this"....because it isn't, and never will be "this". I think
what I'm saying is, "You can't change the song. If you change the song, you change the man."
.....OK Flame on

I started this thread, and here is why. I'm a big Prince fan but certain CD's (emancipation, C&D, Rainbow Children, News) I just don't like or get. I ask people to point out to me what it is that they love about theses disks, cause i can't see it, and then I go back and listen with an open mind to try understand what i may be overlooking. Unfortunately, it's rare that i've changed my mind and i usually end up still feeling the same way. Ultimately, music is subjective and what i love you may hate and what i hate you may love

I like it, there are some good tracks on it

and even though a lot of people rate it amongst prince's weakest efforts...Prince's 'garbage' still beats the hell out of britney's or christina's best efforts

Love2tha9s said:

everything's thrown together on the album like an egg thrown against the wall as it is, so there'd be no way to do so.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

thrown together? I think if you knew what went into writing and arranging an album with the great horn and drum parts of songs such as Right the Wrong and Same December, not to mention I Will, you might think differently. These parts are complex, not haphazard or thrown together randomly in any way. They take a lot of skill, knowledge and creativity to write.

mrdespues said:

I come at Prince from a soul/funk direction. From a Curtis/AG/JB perspective. And while I like “rock” music and I enjoy Prince’s guitar playing, I’m just not feeling Prince’s TGE, Chaos and Disorder hard guitar sound. When the guitar playing supplements the funk, and is just one of many instruments, and not the is leading force of the song, I think Prince excels. But when, as is the case with “Chaos and Disorder” and “TGE,” Prince is making guitar heavy hard rock tunes it sounds uninspired, tuneless…like the shell of an average garage band. I agree with you on the lyrics...not a bad record thinking of lyrics alone, much better than the musically superior TRC. “Dig You Better Dead” and “Had You” are the only two songs I like…”Dinner with Dolores” is aight but it’s Prince in “Musicology” mode recycling past energy/melodies and sounding uninspired as a result.

LarrytheGOD said:

I come at Prince from a soul/funk direction. From a Curtis/AG/JB perspective. And while I like “rock” music and I enjoy Prince’s guitar playing, I’m just not feeling Prince’s TGE, Chaos and Disorder hard guitar sound. When the guitar playing supplements the funk, and is just one of many instruments, and not the is leading force of the song, I think Prince excels. But when, as is the case with “Chaos and Disorder” and “TGE,” Prince is making guitar heavy hard rock tunes it sounds uninspired, tuneless…like the shell of an average garage band. I agree with you on the lyrics...not a bad record thinking of lyrics alone, much better than the musically superior TRC. “Dig You Better Dead” and “Had You” are the only two songs I like…”Dinner with Dolores” is aight but it’s Prince in “Musicology” mode recycling past energy/melodies and sounding uninspired as a result.