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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,200 US Gender:	Prince (NSC) Oct 5^th, 2009 at 2:25pm Hi all, I just scored Prince's 3 cd "Emancipation". It appears to be interesting and innovative. Please post your thoughts on Prince. FG!
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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #3 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 4:46pm I'm not a fan, I know he's talented but just not my cup of tea.
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Heart Of Stone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules Posts: 4,001 Charlottetown Prince Edward Is Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #4 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 4:49pm Jesus Christ wrote on Oct 5^th, 2009 at 3:02pm: He's a Jehovah's Witness! http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Jehovah%20Witnesses/prince-jw.h... that's true, it's a Cult started by Charles Taze Russell, they used to be called Russellites in the beginning.
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lotsajizz Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,800 Rhode Island Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #5 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 6:35pm awesome talent...love him!
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stonedinaustralia Rocks Off Regular Offline wake up crackers or we all through!! Posts: 859	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #6 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 7:32pm little red corvette is brilliant and there are plenty other of his tunes i like as well music aside i also admired symbol name manouvre and the "slave" stance
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PartyDoll MEG Rocks Off Regular Offline Just one drink from your lovin' cup Posts: 3,127	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #7 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 7:44pm saw him in concert when I was in London- AWESOME!! very talented musician
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SweetVirginia Rocks Off Regular Offline I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it Posts: 1,428 NY Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #8 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 8:46pm That same show in London was my first-ever Prince show. He is amazingly talented. So creative and a fantastic musician. Pure creativity.
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OldSchoolMule Rocks Off Regular Offline Leave the gun, take the cannolis. Posts: 99 HOF City Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #9 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 9:26pm The BADDEST entertainer/motherfucker in the business...... Period. No one is even close. Check out his instrumental album from 04/05 "NEWS"....... Wow.............
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BrendanD Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 68 New Jersey Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #10 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 9:38pm The guy's got some great albums. Emancipation, however, is not one of them.
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Deathgod Rocks Off Regular Offline The Artist Formerly Known as Daethgod Posts: 676 Ocean Grove Australia Earth Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #11 - Oct 5^th, 2009 at 9:45pm saw him front row in Melbourne a few years back greatest hits show, was UNBELIEVABLE ! he is still only 3 feet high in pumps, but man what a funky show
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Ade Rocks Off Regular Offline What's Occuring? Posts: 3,146 London, U.K Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #12 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 2:47am SweetVirginia wrote on Oct 5^th, 2009 at 8:46pm: That same show in London was my first-ever Prince show. He is amazingly talented. So creative and a fantastic musician. Pure creativity. ditto!
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StPeteStone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 828 Madeira Beach, Florida Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #13 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 8:56am Saw him twice when he was touring for Musicology. Great shows! Love the guy, I wish I would have went and saw him long before then.
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FotiniD Rocks Off Regular Offline ROCC & RO..ll... Posts: 999 Athens, Greece Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #14 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 9:16am I like Prince. Good voice and some great tunes. Very 80's too (which is not a bad thing in my book).
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Holden Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,299 Tampa Bay Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #16 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 12:50pm I love him. He's very unique and his work is very creative and orignal. Love his cover of Honky Tonk woman.
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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,200 US Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #17 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 2:43pm Holden wrote on Oct 6^th, 2009 at 12:50pm: I love him. He's very unique and his work is very creative and orignal. Love his cover of Honky Tonk woman. Hi Holden, Which cd has Prince's cover of HTM? Would love to hear it. TIA! FG!
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Reply #18 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 4:33pm

Factory Girl wrote on Oct 6^th, 2009 at 2:43pm:

Holden wrote on Oct 6^th, 2009 at 12:50pm:

I love him. He's very unique and his work is very creative and orignal. Love his cover of Honky Tonk woman.

Hi Holden,

Which cd has Prince's cover of HTM? Would love to hear it. TIA!

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I don't think it's on an album only live on boots.

There's this...not much Prince on youtube, but there's this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY1xUXgI83Y&feature=related

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Reply #19 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 5:19pm

Wow, St. Petey, thanks for posting that glorious Red House link. Sounds mighty mighty fine.

I would love Prince and Mick Taylor do a live duet of Red House. That would be so fucking righteous!

I always thought Prince was a musical genius: very erratic, unpredictable but mostly brilliant.

Side note: Prince's ex-wife Mayte Garcia later dated Tommy Lee of Motley Crue...lol You rock!

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Reply #20 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 6:30pm

Here's Prince's take on 'Honky Tonk Women'.

One of about half a million unreleased tracks.
He's nothing if not prolific.

Big fan of his 80's output, especially 'Dirty Mind', 'Controversy', '1999' and 'Sign “☮” the Times'.
And 'Purple Rain', which launched him into the stratosphere.

Posted this a while back, but it deserves to be seen again - and again.
Prince's solo is epic...

'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'

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StPeteStone Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 828 Madeira Beach, Florida Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #21 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 6:48pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Oct 6^th, 2009 at 6:30pm: Here's Prince's take on 'Honky Tonk Women' . I thought I heard this before, but I had not. Pretty damn good!
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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,200 US Gender:	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #22 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 7:17pm Thanks, lefty. Very interesting, funkified version of HTW.
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Reply #24 - Oct 6^th, 2009 at 9:52pm

Incredibly talented, obscenely prolific songwriter. Tremendous guitar player and singer. And sexy as hell. I was a fan from the jump: "Prince," "Dirty Mind," "For You," - and his masterwork (imo)"1999." Then the knockout punch, "Purple Rain" - the film and the album. I was fortunate enough to see him live on the Purple Rain tour in 1983, with Sheila E as the opening act. One of my favorite concerts by anyone, ever.

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Reply #26 - Oct 7^th, 2009 at 12:51pm

Effin BRILLIANT!!!

Seen him at Radio City on 1999 tour...Purple Rain...and about 6 times since...including Emancipation in DC...the "secret show" at 930 Club...and Musicology as well...NEVER disappointed...

The man can Dance 1000 times better than MJ ever did...because it comes sporadically...when the mood struck him...while MJ was always choreographed for each song...here is a true ROCK n ROLL moment...we have all seen it before...it really shows his superb abilities...I wish i was there!!!

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Reply #27 - Oct 7^th, 2009 at 1:08pm

Paranoid Android wrote on Oct 7^th, 2009 at 12:51pm:

Effin BRILLIANT!!!

Seen him at Radio City on 1999 tour...Purple Rain...and about 6 times since...including Emancipation in DC...the "secret show" at 930 Club...and Musicology as well...NEVER disappointed...

The man can Dance 1000 times better than MJ ever did...because it comes sporadically...when the mood struck him...while MJ was always choreographed for each song...here is a true ROCK n ROLL moment...we have all seen it before...it really shows his superb abilities...I wish i was there!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY

He is fantastic! great guitarist & if he dances better then MJ, a all around talent, I never cared for his songs, but the solo on that one is outstanding.

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Reply #28 - Oct 9^th, 2009 at 7:06am

Yeah, The O2 London concert was very cool! PRINCE is a great musician who sings, dances, and plays several instruments most excellently! He is generous, too ~ he handed out his latest CD PLANET EARTH free that night ~ nice!

That skinny mother-fvcker has awesome talent and I love his sexual attitude! Since I love sex I relate to that bump and grind rythym and appreciate a man who loves to flaunt sex in his music. PRINCE is hot ~ listen to MR GOODNIGHT ~ ahhh it's a sweet fantasy song, so nice, so nice!!

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Reply #29 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 10:44am

BrendanD wrote on Oct 5^th, 2009 at 9:38pm:

The guy's got some great albums. Emancipation, however, is not one of them.

I beg to differ. For a 36-track triple CD its always going to be patchy, but about half of it was superb.

Much of his albums since then have been mediocre, though.

Seen him a few times - always pretty good. The 02 show a few of us went to during "Stones week" in 2007 was superb, but the after hours show at the Indigo a couple of hours later was out of this world.

I've pretty much all of his albums I think (admittedly several of the later ones only thanks to the magic of filesharing), but my favourite period is the Sign O The Times/Black Album/Lovesexy 1987-88 stuff.

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Reply #31 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 1:46pm

Like Mick, Elvis and Bob Dylan, he should be judged by his music not his movies.

The MUSIC in Purple Rain is pretty good obviously, although he does come across as a bit of a tosser.

His concert films are better - Sign O' The Times from '87 (even tho much of it was redone on a soundstage)and the Lovesexy concert from Dortmund '88 are worth finding.

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Reply #32 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 3:14pm

Gazza wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 1:46pm:

Like Mick, Elvis and Bob Dylan, he should be judged by his music not his movies.

The MUSIC in Purple Rain is pretty good obviously, although he does come across as a bit of a tosser.

His concert films are better - Sign O' The Times from '87 (even tho much of it was redone on a soundstage)and the Lovesexy concert from Dortmund '88 are worth finding.

Thanks, Gazza. I'll put out an ISO.

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Reply #33 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 6:58pm

Gazza wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 1:46pm:

Like Mick, Elvis and Bob Dylan, he should be judged by his music not his movies.

The MUSIC in Purple Rain is pretty good obviously, although he does come across as a bit of a tosser.

His concert films are better - Sign O' The Times from '87 (even tho much of it was redone on a soundstage)and the Lovesexy concert from Dortmund '88 are worth finding.

sign O The times is in my all time top 5...great period of his repitoir...Rasberry Beret is such an awesome tune!!!

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left shoe shuffle Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 4,141	Re: Prince (NSC) Reply #34 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 7:52pm 'Sign “☮” the Times' is great. But 'Raspberry Beret' is on 'Around The World In A Day'.
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Reply #35 - Oct 11^th, 2009 at 10:20pm

Gazza wrote on Oct 11^th, 2009 at 10:44am:

BrendanD wrote on Oct 5^th, 2009 at 9:38pm:

The guy's got some great albums. Emancipation, however, is not one of them.

I beg to differ. For a 36-track triple CD its always going to be patchy, but about half of it was superb.

Much of his albums since then have been mediocre, though.

Seen him a few times - always pretty good. The 02 show a few of us went to during "Stones week" in 2007 was superb, but the after hours show at the Indigo a couple of hours later was out of this world.

I've pretty much all of his albums I think (admittedly several of the later ones only thanks to the magic of filesharing), but my favourite period is the Sign O The Times/Black Album/Lovesexy 1987-88 stuff.

I'll take 3121, Musicology, Rainbow Children, Lotusflower, even Rave un2 the Joy any day over Emancipation. Obviously this is a matter of opinion, but give a couple of those another shot and I'll try to warm up to Emancipation again. And yes, they are ALL patchy, but that's his thing - being performer, producer, composer and arranger is enough that I can't really fault him as an editor.

Haven't seen him yet but will not miss the next chance I get.

Also, "comes across as a bit of a tosser" is quite an understatement for anyone who's seen the Lovesexy album cover Oh no! not you again

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