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Chester
Yes, absolutely, underachiever.
He was an incredible, incredible, brilliant musician, but his amazing talent never came out in the records he made. That's what I mean by underachiever.
"Lets go Crazy, Let's get nuts." (Not exactly brilliant songwriting, is it?)
"Rasberry Beret''
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World''
"Cream''
"I Would Die 4 You''
C'mon, I'd hardly call those great and I could go on and on.
A lot of his stuff sounds dated today, and admit it, when was the last time anyone gave him a thought until yesterday?
Years from now he will never be remembered in the same way as the Stones or the Beatles.
If there is this much attention being paid to his death, I'm curious as to see what happens when Jagger, Richards, McCartney and Dylan finally go.
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Sighunt
Rest in peace Prince. What I am equally sorry about is the fact that I never got to see you live in concert. In my estimation, you fit the description of "legendary."
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Chester
Yes, absolutely, underachiever.
He was an incredible, incredible, brilliant musician, but his amazing talent never came out in the records he made. That's what I mean by underachiever.
"Lets go Crazy, Let's get nuts." (Not exactly brilliant songwriting, is it?)
"Rasberry Beret''
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World''
"Cream''
"I Would Die 4 You''
C'mon, I'd hardly call those great and I could go on and on.
A lot of his stuff sounds dated today, and admit it, when was the last time anyone gave him a thought until yesterday?
Years from now he will never be remembered in the same way as the Stones or the Beatles.
If there is this much attention being paid to his death, I'm curious as to see what happens when Jagger, Richards, McCartney and Dylan finally go.
And what the f**** is 'Hoooo -ooooonky Tonk wimin.. gimme, gimme, gimme, the honky Tonk bluuuues..'?
You pulled a list of three or four of Prince's hits out of your ass to marginalize his entire catalogue. it's about context. Forget the fact that these songs jammed, and sounded like nothing else we had ever heard, but songs like Controversy, Let's Go Crazy, 1999 and on and on.. captured the angry, scary dark clouds of Reagan-era recession-Cold War America. That paranoia, that sense that 'WTF.. we're all going to die anyway because either somebody's going to drop the bomb or I won't have a job, that sense of impending, inevitable doom. I was in high school in the early 80s and I remember the prospect of an apocalyptic purple sky was very real to me then. There was an urgency in his music, lyrics.. Like, 'Something is going to happen if we don't get this shit together...' I wasn't a nihilistic kid by any means, but there was a very real angst in the cultural, political climate and Prince defines that era for me, he spoke to me. You must have been too busy collecting Dylan, Beatles and Stones boots to notice, but things were testy back then.
And this notion that lyrics have to be written in some floral treacly verse or it isn't meaningful is bullshit. Jagger proves that. Prince captured the mood, climate of 80s fear and dread.and I Would Die 4 U is a perfect song of absolute devotion at a time when love is all you have..
Jesus, you're post is Old-Fart Personified.
Like, "What's so great about the Beatles? 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah...'
You sound like THAT guy. Yes, music mattered after Dylan, Beatles and Stones..
*nevermond the multiple edits, I'm on an iPad..
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Chester
Pretty sure "I Would Die 4 You'' "Let's Go Crazy'' etc. are not going to be remembered by history
the same way songs by the Beatles and Stones are, and yet everyone is mourning him as such.
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More Hot Rocks
Prince had 39 albums out and people are still talking about the same 5 songs.
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Prince had 39 albums out and people are still talking about the same 5 songs.
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Prince had 39 albums out and people are still talking about the same 5 songs.
I thought more thwn that
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Prince had 39 albums out and people are still talking about the same 5 songs.
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Prince had 39 albums out and people are still talking about the same 5 songs.
I thought more thwn that
Yes.. and then there is the infamous Vault.....
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wonderboy
Re: Keith's laudatory comment -- do you notice that Keith is mellowing and/or changing his public image from guitar rebel to quirky grandfather. He got very good publicity in the leadup to his solo record and the kids book he did a few years ago. Is Jane Rose still around and have a hand in this? I doubt it's an act or calculated -- he seems to be letting us see that side of him more.
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jlowe
Nothing Compares To U.
Great composition, superb performance by Sinead O'Connor.
The two didn't gel. He said he didn't like women using bad language. She told him to @#$%& off.
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Chester
Stupidguy2,
I get what you are trying to say r.e. Prince's lyrical message in the Reagan 1980's about the sky is going to fall if we don't get our act together, etc. I was in high school then, too.
But didn't the Stones say the same thing on Gimme Shelter nearly 20 years earlier?
And with a song that sounds a billion times more sinister, urgent and brilliant than "1999''
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35love
I think the vault should stay closed.
There is a reason why HE, the owner, never released any of it.