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I remember seeing that live on TV and my fiancee and I looking at each other, each thinking how much Prince just kerpwned that stage. He is one of the most underrated musicians of our time, I've likened him to a funky modern Hendrix (who was also very experimental). And style for days. I believe he played all the instruments on his first 5 albums. Very underrated musician and a hell of a guitar player. |
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TBH I'm more surprised that apparently he was this popular. It must have been before my time, because I've only ever heard of him as a punchline.
For a time after Purple Rain came out, he was pretty much like Rock's version of Michael Jackson. He ended up going in a direction that was probably a bit too strange for most people, but had he decided he wanted to be a mainstream superstar, then that's exactly what he would have been and this page would be 6 pages long by now. |
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Plus playing every single instrument on all her albums while being one of the greatest guitarists of her generation.
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Plus playing every single instrument on all her albums while being one of the greatest guitarists of her generation.
Come on man, even I'm playing nice in this thread. Which should indicate to Goreschach how much respect I think he deserved. |
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I actually don't think it is that bad of a comparison, just not 100% complete. Swift is writing her own stuff and is fully in command of both pop music and her own image. Prince just took it to another level.
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Plus playing every single instrument on all her albums while being one of the greatest guitarists of her generation.
Come on man, even I'm playing nice in this thread. Which should indicate to Goreschach how much respect I think he deserved. I ruse. |
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Dude was a tiny colossus. He will be missed.
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All you have to do is listen to Kevin Smith or anyone else's stories about Prince to realize Murphys had to be true. Hell, even surliboys lends credence to it. |
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angry.bob
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I actually don't think it is that bad of a comparison, just not 100% complete. Swift is writing her own stuff and is fully in command of both pop music and her own image. Prince just took it to another level.
Oh, sorry. I thought you were talking about Prince. My dad used to call him a her. |
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Now I get why the rain was turned to purple....I checked the app yesterday before I heard he had died and just thought they decided to mess with the color palette. I R Smrt. |
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That is what I was thinking as well. Definitely a possibility, given his age (since his sexual prime would have been right during the epidemic).
AIDS was my first thought as well given he landed a week ago for an emergency. The doctors would have had ample time to treat a flu. My other thoughts were cancer or diabetic complications. |
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Damn that is a good one. All my rock / pop radio stations are playing prince songs today... |
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This comment made me think of Bambi. When I got to know my singer, we had very little crossover in music but it was really amazing hanging out turning each other on to albums. Early Prince is one he turned me onto, lots of funky stuff. Stuff like Prince made me realize just how diverse badass guitar music could be. And then I'd turn him onto something like "Gimme Back my Bullets" to show how heavy southern rock could get. That was such a great time! |
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TBH I'm more surprised that apparently he was this popular. It must have been before my time, because I've only ever heard of him as a punchline.
For a time after Purple Rain came out, he was pretty much like Rock's version of Michael Jackson. He ended up going in a direction that was probably a bit too strange for most people, but had he decided he wanted to be a mainstream superstar, then that's exactly what he would have been and this page would be 6 pages long by now. He also wrote a lot of music that main stream peroformers did and made big hits. His thing was I am not going to give you what you say you want I am going to try to give you what you really need musically and that was some really odd avenues but even his odd stuff like the original batman sound track were still some really good tunes. |
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Yeah, like he unleashed the horror of Sinead O'Conner onto the world because he gave her "Nothing compares 2 U", and then she spent years badmouthing him because she's Sinead O'Conner.
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Google also gave him a nice doodle, for a few hours before Earth Day. I was always somewhat turned off by his attitude and particular eccentricity, but there in no denying his creative genius and his incredible talent. I find myself more moved by his passing than I would have thought. Rest in Peace. |
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Yeah, like he unleashed the horror of Sinead O'Conner onto the world because he gave her "Nothing compares 2 U", and then she spent years badmouthing him because she's Sinead O'Conner.
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I loved his eccentric attitude. Spurning the mainstream record industry (remember the Slave period?) and having a private joke at all times while he did whatever the hell he wanted, with style.
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His music helped define the 80's and 90's which is my teen/young adult years. That sticks with ya. Looking at his work in perspective to the industry and his talent and a musician, he is rightly enshrined in the Hall. For me, he was odd...just like almost all the geniuses in the world - no one I think I could hang out with. I think he rubbed a lot of people wrong when he drifted to the background and changed his name to a Symbol. That was too much for a lot of people.
Him as a person, didn't really float with a lot of people in popular culture. Him as an artist in music, a monster which I am glad I got to live through those years. For me, he hits a bit more since Bowie was a few years before I was coming into my own. Enjoyed Bowie after-the-fact in that I didn't get into his music till I was in college and never really caught up. Prince happened at the same time I was getting into music.
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His music helped define the 80's and 90's which is my teen/young adult years. That sticks with ya. Looking at his work in perspective to the industry and his talent and a musician, he is rightly enshrined in the Hall. For me, he was odd...just like almost all the geniuses in the world - no one I think I could hang out with. I think he rubbed a lot of people wrong when he drifted to the background and changed his name to a Symbol. That was too much for a lot of people.
Him as a person, didn't really float with a lot of people in popular culture. Him as an artist in music, a monster which I am glad I got to live through those years. For me, he hits a bit more since Bowie was a few years before I was coming into my own. Enjoyed Bowie after-the-fact in that I didn't get into his music till I was in college and never really caught up. Prince happened at the same time I was getting into music.
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There is a special kind of hell for these people. The one special hell for people who talk while Prince is playing a guitar solo. Shut the fuck up AND LET ME HEAR HIM PLAY. |
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I usually don't take celebrity deaths too badly, but Prince passing hit me pretty hard. Been listening to his stuff for pretty much my entire life, and loved all of it.
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Sir T
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Do you have anything positive to say about anyone?
Yep. I do a community radio show once a week for songs that I love. Prince was fantastic. "Nothing compares 2 U" was a fantastic song. Happy? |
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My wife & I are decorating our spare room this weekend, so naturally we're doing it to a constant Prince soundtrack. So many good albums. I'd kind of forgotten about Parade, fantastic album. It's so long since I've listened to it that I was waiting for the sound of the needle clunking off of the vinyl LP at the end of 'Sometimes it snows in April', which didn't happen because I have it on CD now.
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I was waiting for the sound of the needle clunking off of the vinyl LP at the end of 'Sometimes it snows in April', which didn't happen because I have it on CD now.
I have a bunch of CDs where my mind expects that. Especially the Wall, where I mentally hear the needle pick up and the second disc drop. |
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I spent ages getting really annoyed with various digital media players that didn't do gapless playback because of albums like The Wall and Purple Rain. Ridiculously it's still a problem and one of the main reasons I often use Windows Media Player.
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Prince kind of fell off my radar in the last decade or so, and I didn't think much of Purple Rain at the time it was released, but in the early 90's I really got to appreciate him and how work and picked up a good half-dozen of his albums, both as they were released and the classics. Always felt that he was just about the most talented musician alive, though. A huge shame about his passing. It feels like only Madonna is left of those huge, huge '80s megastars.
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I spent ages getting really annoyed with various digital media players that didn't do gapless playback because of albums like The Wall and Purple Rain. Ridiculously it's still a problem and one of the main reasons I often use Windows Media Player.
Ironically the mp3 disc I burned of the 1998 Tramps Prince show I've been listening to fucked up the gaps and it's making me nuts, because it's kinda just one long jam (that wouldn't fit on a redbook disc). |
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Apparently fake quotes from Prince were flying around facebook within hours of his death. This is interesting reading though becasue it reveals a bit about his private beliefs rather than his stage persona, which I certainly had no idea about. http://www.snopes.com/prince-quote-politics/# |
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I saw a video from some christian channel on the youtube sidebar that he was sacrificed in some kind of blood ritual.
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Yep. And the antivax/GMO crowd has him down due to a vaccine reaction. Buncha herp. Depends on the crowd.
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