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| Poll: For The Beach Boys tomorrow what would you like to see? |
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| Surfin' Safari to Surf's Up (+ The Smile Sessions) |
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35% |
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| BEA's Top 15 ranked Beach Boys records |
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0% |
[0] |
| EVERYTHING |
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35% |
[5] |
| Other (Please Specify) |
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0% |
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| Let's do Animal Collective instead (currently queued for next week from the Wilco poll) |
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7% |
[1] |
| It'll never get done you procrastinating piece of shit |
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21% |
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RepoMan
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- #31
- Posted: 11/30/2014 23:30
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"I can't stop dancing to these beats!" - My five year old listening to Prince
Just made my day (, and it was already a good day). 
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Infinity183
Gender: Female
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- #32
- Posted: 12/01/2014 02:22
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| Skinny wrote: | | Eh, I think 'Automatic' is a far better song than 'Darling Nikki', which is the weakest moment on Purple Rain. I don't think 1999 is even a particularly sex-obsessed album, at least compared to Dirty Mind (which is actually my favourite Prince album, hey ho). I think the argument that Purple Rain is somehow deeper than 1999 is absurd, but whatever floats your boat. There's virtually nothing to separate them in terms of quality, and they tread extremely similar themes lyrically. I'm not entirely sure how you've managed to convince yourself that one is much more worthwhile than the other. I can understand the complaint about length, but I guess that comes down to how high your tolerance level is for extended synth-funk jams. What I cannot fathom is the idea that lyrically 1999 is considerably weaker than Purple Rain, especially when the themes explored on each are identical. |
As I noted before, Purple Rain's songs explore similarly sexual themes as 1999, but with a more personal perspective, in my opinion. "Darling Nikki" brilliantly describes why Prince's encounter with a prostitute is so riveting, opening with a scene of innocent curiosity but then slowly luring the listener into the confusion and euphoria as it continues. The lyrics are already quite vivid, but the shifts in the instrumentation emphasize the story even more intensely. Besides all of that, the track just has an really inventive melodic structure, like everything else on Purple Rain. "Automatic" concentrates strictly on the sex and thus feels far more alienated from someone who isn't already making out with somebody. The motivations that drive the narratives of "Darling Nikki," "Take Me With U," "The Beautiful Ones," and other songs on Purple Rain are more ubiquitous than the sex jams on 1999 like "Automatic" because they represent more directly the thoughts surrounding the scene and not just the impulses. The rest of 1999 mostly isn't as racy as "Automatic," but aside from the first three songs, its musical developments aren't nearly as involved as what you find on Purple Rain.
By the way, my favorite song off Purple Rain is the title track, even though it's over eight minutes long. The length works on that number because of its steady, dreamy atmosphere that very gradually sheds its layers in anticipation over the course of time. I don't enjoy this surplus length on straightforward dance tracks like the bulk of 1999 because it usually doesn't feel as much like the music is approaching anything like the song "Purple Rain" does; the album's length instead feels as though it's intended to keep people dancing for a longer period of time, even if they aren't paying as much attention to the music. Good lyrics can easily lose their luster if they aren't paced appropriately, and that's a definite weakness of 1999's, even on songs other than "Automatic." It would be understandable if there were only about one or two super-long numbers on the album, but having this approach dominate almost the entire record just feels like overkill. The Purple Rain soundtrack isn't any less fun to play at a party or club, but strictly as something you try to take in completely, it's both more balanced and colorful than 1999, imo.
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NickVolos
Segnahc Reve4
Gender: Male
Location: Land of the Argonauts, Centaurs and other such creatures
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- #33
- Posted: 12/01/2014 07:32
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Here's how it stands currently. Will revise if I end up listening to the rest of his stuff....
Purple Rain
1999
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Sign 'O' the Times
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Around the World in a Day
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"And can’t you see you’re in on it?
You were born though you need not
And is that not some cause
For worship, being born among these trees?"
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
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Skinny
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- #35
- Posted: 12/04/2014 18:31
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OK, I may change this ranking a little later, but for now:
Masterpieces:
1. Dirty Mind
2. Sign "☮" the Times
3. 1999
4. Purple Rain
5. Lovesexy
Near-masterpieces:
6. Parade
7. Around the World in a Day
Great stuff:
8. The Black Album
Fun but inessential (by Prince's ridiculously high standards, anyway):
9. Batman
10. Controversy
Not a mediocre album among the lot. The man's a god.
Songs:
1. When You Were Mine
2. I Would Die 4 U
3. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
4. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
5. Raspberry Beret
6. Let's Go Crazy
7. Kiss
8. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
9. Anotherloverholenyohead
10. Sign "☮" the Times
11. When Doves Cry
12. Starfish & Coffee
13. Let's Pretend We're Married
14. Anna Stesia
15. 1999
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2021 in full effect. Come drop me some recs. Y'all know what I like.
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CubaZed
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- #36
- Posted: 12/06/2014 07:11
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24 Hour Notice
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newbands1
Gender: Male
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- #37
- Posted: 12/06/2014 11:07
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1. Sign o' the Times
2. 1999
3. Purple Rain
4. Dirty Mind
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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call
Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis
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- #38
- Posted: 12/06/2014 23:03
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80s Prince 10 favorite songs:
#1 I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man (off "Sign O The Times")
#2 When You Were Mine (off "Dirty Mind")
#3 Strange Relationship (off "Sign O The Times")
#4 Delirious (off "1999")
#5 1999 (off "1999")
#6 When Doves Cry (off "Purple Rain")
#7 Little Red Corvette (off "1999")
#8 Kiss (off "Parade")
#9 The Cross (off "Sign O The Times")
#10 If I Was Your Girlfriend (off "Sign O The Times")
Yeah I recently decided Sign O The Times may be my fave album. It's just amazing. Also 1999's first side is about as perfect as music gets.
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-Ryan
ONLY 4% of people can understand this chart! Come try!
My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!
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Infinity183
Gender: Female
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- #39
- Posted: 12/07/2014 06:20
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'80s Prince Album Rankings (Best to Worst):
1. Purple Rain (10/10)
2. Sign 'O' the Times (10/10)
3. Parade (10/10)
4. Around the World in a Day (9.5/10)
5. Dirty Mind (9/10)
6. Controversy (9/10)
7. 1999 (8/10)
8. Lovesexy (8/10)
9. Batman (7.5/10)
Top 15 '80s Prince Songs:
1. "Purple Rain" (from Purple Rain)
2. "The Beautiful Ones" (from Purple Rain)
3. "Let's Go Crazy" (from Purple Rain)
4. "Sign 'O' the Times" (from Sign 'O' the Times)
5. "Girls & Boys" (from Parade)
6. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" (from Sign 'O' the Times)
7. "1999" (from 1999)
8. "Take Me With U" (from Purple Rain)
9. "When Doves Cry" (from Purple Rain)
10. "When You Were Mine" (from Dirty Mind)
11. "I Would Die 4 U" (from Purple Rain)
12. "Kiss" (from Parade)
13. "Darling Nikki" (from Purple Rain)
14. "Mountains" (from Parade)
15. "Dirty Mind" (from Dirty Mind)
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junodog4
Future Grumpy Old Man
Gender: Male
Location: Calgary
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- #40
- Posted: 12/07/2014 22:19
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| Norman Bates wrote: | 1. Purple Rain
2. 1999
3. Sign 'O' the Times
4. Controversy
5. Parade
6. Lovesexy
7. Around the World in a Day
8. Batman
All are at least good (yes, even Batman. "Batdance" is top 10 Prince material imo)
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Exact same as me.
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Finnegan was super bad-ass.
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