funkyhead said:

Graycap23 said:

There has ONLY been 1 musical genius in the last 2 centuries.

I'll give u 1 guess 2 what his name is.

well it damn sure ain't PRINCE!

I can't possible take u seriously.

U just stated that Bill Withers is a musical genius and Prince is not.

Graycap23 said:

funkyhead said:

well it damn sure ain't PRINCE!

I can't possible take u seriously.

U just stated that Bill Withers is a musical genius and Prince is not.

Prince was a genius, he no longer is. That's not opinion that's a fact!!

As for you stating Bill is no close..are you kidding?, Aagin I would urge you to check out the 1st album alone. That one album has genius stamped all over it. Again it comes dowm to how you define what 'genius' is...IMHO my opinion that P is nowhere near what I consider a 'genuis' of of today.

If you dig him that much then that's cool.

Back on topic Bill Withers is amazing, loved the fly on the wall style documentary here in the UK on him - comes across as lovely, gentle person who has and continues to battle his demons.

Bill Withers is CRIMINALLY underrated

mjscarousal said:

Bill Withers is CRIMINALLY underrated

people need to sit down and listen to his complete albums (not just the singles that they hear on the radio) and they will see that there is alot of depth and soul to his music.

funkyhead said:

Graycap23 said:

I can't possible take u seriously.

U just stated that Bill Withers is a musical genius and Prince is not.

Prince was a genius, he no longer is. That's not opinion that's a fact!!

As for you stating Bill is no close..are you kidding?, Aagin I would urge you to check out the 1st album alone. That one album has genius stamped all over it. Again it comes dowm to how you define what 'genius' is...IMHO my opinion that P is nowhere near what I consider a 'genuis' of of today.

If you dig him that much then that's cool.

Back on topic Bill Withers is amazing, loved the fly on the wall style documentary here in the UK on him - comes across as lovely, gentle person who has and continues to battle his demons.

So let me get this straight.....Prince is not a genuis of "today", but Withers is?

Yes. Yes I would.

I wasn't aware "genius" was something that could be turned on and turned off. Who knew!

I'll repeat, claiming someone to be a genius has been so overused, the word itself has been reduced to insignificance. "Genius" is thrown around without rhythm or reason and put upon people just because they are popular and/or successful. Just as we sometimes assume excellence, exceptional excellence and the word genius are naturally bound together, they aren't.

Mr. Withers was a master at what he did, an excellent lyricist, songwriter, and storyteller. His songs spoke about the human condition and with integrity. Unfortunately we have another artist who's music career was stunted because industry suits wanted to reduce the man to being a "clown." Unlike other artist/musicians (past and present) he refused to sale his soul. I'm not surprised he walked away, listen to Mr. Withers music and it shows a man who's dedicated to speaking truth and unwilling to speak false, I admire him greatly. We are lucky that Mr. Withers and his peers emerged at a time in history when creativity and excellence was expected, mandatory, and may I add taken for granted. (IMHO)

This notion that there's been just one of these so called "musical genius" in the past two centuries, what rock have you been living under? Damn, the "common practice period" lasted for 400 hundred years, ~1500-1900. I guess Blues, Country, Folk, Gospel, R&B/Soul and all their respective sub genres were just a blip on the musical map uh?

TD3 said:

I wasn't aware "genius" was something that could be turned on and turned off. Who knew!

I'll repeat, claiming someone to be a genius has been so overused, the word itself has been reduced to insignificance. "Genius" is thrown around without rhythm or reason and put upon people just because they are popular and/or successful. Just as we sometimes assume excellence, exceptional excellence and the word genius are naturally bound together, they aren't.

Mr. Withers was a master at what he did, an excellent lyricist, songwriter, and storyteller. His songs spoke about the human condition and with integrity. Unfortunately we have another artist who's music career was stunted because industry suits wanted to reduce the man to being a "clown." Unlike other artist/musicians (past and present) he refused to sale his soul. I'm not surprised he walked away, listen to Mr. Withers music and it shows a man who's dedicated to speaking truth and unwilling to speak false, I admire him greatly. We are lucky that Mr. Withers and his peers emerged at a time in history when creativity and excellence was expected, mandatory, and may I add taken for granted. (IMHO)

This notion that there's been just one of these so called "musical genius" in the past two centuries, what rock have you been living under? Damn, the "common practice period" lasted for 400 hundred years, ~1500-1900. I guess Blues, Country, Folk, Gospel, R&B/Soul and all their respective sub genres were just a blip on the musical map uh?

Rock? No rock..........I just don't use the term genius 4 every "good" artist making music.

4 my money the term genius is 4 the extremely rare individual in any particular field. The only person in music that I would call a genius is Prince. There are a few others that would get close but no cigar.

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Graycap23 said:

TD3 said:

I wasn't aware "genius" was something that could be turned on and turned off. Who knew!

I'll repeat, claiming someone to be a genius has been so overused, the word itself has been reduced to insignificance. "Genius" is thrown around without rhythm or reason and put upon people just because they are popular and/or successful. Just as we sometimes assume excellence, exceptional excellence and the word genius are naturally bound together, they aren't.

Mr. Withers was a master at what he did, an excellent lyricist, songwriter, and storyteller. His songs spoke about the human condition and with integrity. Unfortunately we have another artist who's music career was stunted because industry suits wanted to reduce the man to being a "clown." Unlike other artist/musicians (past and present) he refused to sale his soul. I'm not surprised he walked away, listen to Mr. Withers music and it shows a man who's dedicated to speaking truth and unwilling to speak false, I admire him greatly. We are lucky that Mr. Withers and his peers emerged at a time in history when creativity and excellence was expected, mandatory, and may I add taken for granted. (IMHO)

This notion that there's been just one of these so called "musical genius" in the past two centuries, what rock have you been living under? Damn, the "common practice period" lasted for 400 hundred years, ~1500-1900. I guess Blues, Bossa Nova, Country, Folk, Gospel, Rock & Roll, R&B/Soul and all their respective sub genres were just a blip on the musical map uh?

Rock? No rock..........I jsut don't use the term genius 4 every "good" artist making music.

4 my money the term genuis is 4 the extremely rare individual in any particular field. The only person in music that I would call a genius is Prince. There are a few others that would get close but no cigar.

Typing quickly missed another one too. I whole heartily agree but I stopped using the word period, its become meaningless.

When discussion about genius goes overboard... all that's missing is a ducci post saying "y'all don't know shit about geniuses, fucking pricks".

scriptgirl said:

Happened to run across that Lovely Day Gap commercial on youtube and I have been listening to him nonstop for a few days now. Thoughts?

Bill Who?

Timmy84 said:

When discussion about genius goes overboard... all that's missing is a ducci post saying "y'all don't know shit about geniuses, fucking pricks".