Prince Dead.

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The song "Purple Rain" was arguably overproduced schlock of the times. "When Doves Cry" might more likely be be trenchant beyond its moment. Or able to crystallize it.

A couple of girls I hung out with in junior high loved Prince and Purple Rain. I didn't argue - which is unlike me.

Sure. How many Black Flag basement shows were there?

They were around but you had to go to the city. I grew up in the sticks with real industrial rednecks. My big act of rebellion was shaving my legs and riding a bicycle (***). Music was wasn't really on the radar as I just wanted to ride. Freedom has many forms.

Freak. Where's the CN Lemmy thread? Is that buried in the Clinic?

 

[Starstruck]

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The song "Purple Rain" was arguably overproduced schlock of the times. "When Doves Cry" might more likely be be trenchant beyond its moment. Or able to crystallize it.

A couple of girls I hung out with in junior high loved Prince and Purple Rain. I didn't argue - which is unlike me.

Sure. How many Black Flag basement shows were there?

They were around but you had to go to the city. I grew up in the sticks with real industrial rednecks. My big act of rebellion was shaving my legs and riding a bicycle (***). Music was wasn't really on the radar as I just wanted to ride. Freedom has many forms.

Freak. Where's the CN Lemmy thread? Is that buried in the Clinic?

dunno but it's too bad purple rain didn't last and I hadn't thought of those two too fast girls (for me) in a long while. What's next U2?

 

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They're all funny pictures but this one takes the cupcake. What a life.

 

[jaylew]

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Unbelievably he was actually underrated by some as a pure musician. I know he played every instrument on some of his albums, including his first. I've seen quite a few fellow musicians comment on how good he was as a guitarist. I loved his solo on that "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" performance he did with Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, and others at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame induction.

Found it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

A large part of his greatness was that unlike a lot of guitarists, he didn't do the fancy stuff until it was needed. While a lot of his stuff is about making things sound enormous, it's for taking stuff out of records that made some of his biggest hits; taking the bass part out of "When Doves Cry" and taking... well, almost everything out of "Kiss". But when excess was called for, the man could deliver. The title track from "Purple Rain" is the perfect powerballad. There is no point in listening to any powerballad after that point. They are all pointless, frivolous and unnecessary. Prince had defined the genre completely. Not one note on "Purple Rain" is a mis-step. The song erupts from simplicity into a huge cathartic climax; the solo is one of the greatest ever. The guy thought through everything, every note in there was planned perfectly.

I definitely think he's quite underrated among the pantheon of the greats. While it was done in some jest, when JV was still posting here and people were asking all kinds of doping and tactical questions, I simply wanted to know which camp he was in, "Purple Rain" or "Sign 'O' The Times"? I also think "Around the World in a Day" is a hugely underrated album mainly cos it came off the back of such a timeless classic, but "The Ladder" and "Condition of the Heart" are really strong songs and "Raspberry Beret" is of course a great pop record.

Things were perhaps stated best (in musical form no less) by, of all people, Bill Callahan, aka "Smog", who released the song Prince Alone in the Studio right at the crossroads between his own period as a lo-fi low budget bedroom troubadour and his later dark Americana/slowcore persona... while the song is dark musically and his delivery makes it seem sinister, it's actually full of reverence for Prince, about the man's dedication to his craft, the pursuit of musical perfection, and acknowledging that every obsessive bedroom home-recording troubadour, if they can admit it, really wants to be able to do what Prince does, or rather, did.

Purple Rain is a great song, of course. I love the whole thing but my favorite part is actually the string arrangement that ends the song. I like Around the World in a Day as well, though for me Pop Life instead of Raspberry Beret is the pop gem from that record. The album I found to be most underrated and probably my 2nd favorite Prince record of all time is Parade. I like almost the entire album and I love the way it begins and ends - Sometimes it Snows in April just kills me.

 

[ray j willings]

Have you seen this fellow posters . Its Kevin Smith talking about his time working for prince.
Its really really funny enjoy .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhcParuzpc

 

[Spawn of e]

Not sure we will ever know the truth about his death. I'm not buying having your plane land 45 minutes from Minneapolis due to the flu last week. Lots of rumors swirling around the internet that make some sense.

I was a fan, though not as big as some. He burst onto the scene when I was in high school, and his music was really polarizing. You either liked him, or you didn't. I really liked the Purple Rain album, and some of his other stuff but alot of his music just gave me a headache. Of all the deaths so far this year, Glen Frey by far hit me the most, but this one again makes us older guys start feeling our mortality.

 

[patricknd]

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Not sure we will ever know the truth about his death. I'm not buying having your plane land 45 minutes from Minneapolis due to the flu last week. Lots of rumors swirling around the internet that make some sense.

I was a fan, though not as big as some. He burst onto the scene when I was in high school, and his music was really polarizing. You either liked him, or you didn't. I really liked the Purple Rain album, and some of his other stuff but alot of his music just gave me a headache. Of all the deaths so far this year, Glen Frey by far hit me the most, but this one again makes us older guys start feeling our mortality.

just saw something about a possible o.d., so that would make sense with the emergency landing

 

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[Semper Fidelis]

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Not sure we will ever know the truth about his death. I'm not buying having your plane land 45 minutes from Minneapolis due to the flu last week. Lots of rumors swirling around the internet that make some sense.

I was a fan, though not as big as some. He burst onto the scene when I was in high school, and his music was really polarizing. You either liked him, or you didn't. I really liked the Purple Rain album, and some of his other stuff but alot of his music just gave me a headache. Of all the deaths so far this year, Glen Frey by far hit me the most, but this one again makes us older guys start feeling our mortality.

just saw something about a possible o.d., so that would make sense with the emergency landing

Wonder what was going on. Not that it is any of my bees wax.

 

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[dusty red roads]

Have you seen this fellow posters . Its Kevin Smith talking about his time working for prince.
Its really really funny enjoy .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhcParuzpc

Awesome, thanks!

 

[Amsterhammer]

Have you seen this fellow posters . Its Kevin Smith talking about his time working for prince.
Its really really funny enjoy .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhcParuzpc

Thanks for that, farking hysterical!