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From:
Kurt Hoffman
To:
donna summer
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, , omz
Date:
Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:27:16 -0500
Subject:
Re: [idm] Now it's Prince
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quoted 7 lines is there any other work from prince that> >is there any other work from prince that >>>is worth getting? >>>i heard few of his first albums from 79-80 are great... >>> >>>anyone? > >The Black Album is really cool...very weird for Prince.
yeah, what's going on with Prince? this is off-topic, but given the fact that electronica is seized by an exhaustive 1980s revival, it was only a matter of time before this happened. (Well, I guess we've already had Thomas Brinkmann's cover of "1999" couple years back) yeah, Black Album has a nice Prince-meets-George Clinton feel, with some really surprising sexual material...isn't there a song about making a woman put on a wig at gunpoint? and what was that line about a "bucket of squirrel meat"?? I think he screwed his career by not releasing it and then quickly releasing the shitty "Love Sexy". And not only did he pack "Love Sexy" with self-indulgent mediocrity, the CD release had one track number for the whole album, so you couldn't skip any of the particularly lousy songs. Soon he would be the artist formerly known as Prince... Most of his albums have some good tracks and a lot of mediocre (or worse) tracks, the ones that are a bit more consistent, I'd say, are "Black Album" "Dirty Mind" "Sign o' the Times" and "Parade". But then, some of his best singles (eg "Controversy") are stuck on throwaway albums...what to do.. avoid "Graffitti Bridge" like the plague, that's what... I'm getting into Romanthony...his recent single "Never Fuck" is very Princely, with all the excitement and embarrassment that entails. Actually, if anyone has other Romanthony recommendations, I'm keen to hear them. k --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org