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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 21, 2016 16:25:56 GMT -5
My favorite:
Don't care where we go
I don't care what we do
I don't care pretty baby
Just take me with you
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 21, 2016 17:07:38 GMT -5
A symptom of some multi-instrumentalists is that they are merely competent across a wide array of instruments. Not so with Prince. He conjured what can only be described as "magic," whether it was on a keyboard, drum kit, bass, and especially lead guitar, upon which he was an absolute virtuoso and blew me away with his consummate skill. Can't believe he's gone.  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 21, 2016 17:19:13 GMT -5
My favorite: Don't care where we go I don't care what we do I don't care pretty baby Just take me with you Your taste in music and avatars is excellent sir. ;-) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 17:37:44 GMT -5
I think my absolute favorite thing Prince did was a piece called Purple House from one of the Hendrix tribute albums. A Price specific cover of Red House but his guitar work on it was absolutely amazing.
Rest easy Prince.
-M
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Post by batlaw on Apr 21, 2016 19:16:55 GMT -5
Damn. I've always all but absolutely abhorred Pro wrestling by and large. But there was something likeable about Chyna. I always felt strangely sorry for her from what I saw of her in interviews and reality shows.
Wow.prince. What a shock. Last thing I expected to wake up to today and probably last celebrity I would've guessed to hear about dying at the moment. Not the musician or music you would've associated with my tastes but I always dug prince for some reason. Shame
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Post by dupersuper on Apr 21, 2016 20:46:34 GMT -5
Not to pile on the recent string of celebrity deaths, but I hadn't seen any one post about Doris Roberts. Most know her from Everybody Loves Raymond, but I'll always think of her as the secretary from Remington Steele.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 23:58:52 GMT -5
Not to pile on the recent string of celebrity deaths, but I hadn't seen any one post about Doris Roberts. Most know her from Everybody Loves Raymond, but I'll always think of her as the secretary from Remington Steele. I did not know this and I do remember her role as Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele - the trio of Doris Roberts, Pierce Brosnan, and Stephanie Zimbalist were fabulous together. She always be a favorite of mine. She died at the age of 90. |
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Post by tingramretro on Apr 22, 2016 1:39:49 GMT -5
The English actor, screenwriter, and comedian, Victoria Wood, died yesterday at the age of 62. I was never a huge fan of her comedy, to be honest, but she was a great writer and actress. She was regarded as something of a national treasure over here. This slightly stunned me. I can't claim to have been a huge fan, but I quite enjoyed her work and she was just one of those people who seemed to have been always around, so her death at such a comparatively young age is a bit of a shock. |
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Post by Confessor on Apr 22, 2016 6:38:27 GMT -5
Real shame about Prince. Although, to me personally, I feel he was a spent force musically from about 1993 onward, his music prior to that was simply amazing. I was a big fan of his during my teens and his music did a lot to make those years more bearable. I also saw him live at Wembly Arena back in 1990.
Last night I played his songs "Raspberry Beret" and "The Cross" at a gig and they both went down really well with the audience. It felt good to pay my respects top his royal purpleness.
Now, for no other reason than lists are fun, my Top 12 Prince songs in chronological release order would be...
1. When You Were Mine (1980)
2. 1999 (1982)
3. When Doves Cry (1984)
4. Take Me With U (1984)
5. Raspberry Beret (1985)
6. Around The World In A Day (1985)
7. Sometimes It Snows In April (1986)
8. Sign 'O' The Times (1987)
9. The Cross (1987)
10. Glam Slam (1988)
11. Gett Off (1991)
12. 7 (1992)
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Post by Spike-X on Apr 22, 2016 6:58:17 GMT -5
Real shame about Prince. Although, to me personally, I feel he was a spent force musically from about 1993 onward, his music prior to that was simply amazing. I'd thought so too, but HitNRun Phase 1 was pretty great. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 22, 2016 8:41:52 GMT -5
Part of the change in his music around 2000 or so was his religious epiphany and joining the Jehovah's Witnesses. While the music wasn't ever bad to an extent the lyrical preaching like The Rainbow Children, and changing The Cross to The Christ and disavowing his former music was a turn off to a certain extent. Which despite being a life long fan made my blind purchasing of his albums less and less.
It's funny. While I was hiding his music as a kid raised JW from my parents until I moved out he was putting out some of his best stuff. Now after I left and he joined he won't acknowledge a lot of his best stuff and puts his religion pretty heavy into his music. At least up until Lotus Flower, which was the last album I bought.
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Post by the4thpip on Apr 22, 2016 9:26:08 GMT -5
I mean, even after he stopped having huge hits (though sometimes people forget how massive "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" was, he was raking in the money with his throwaway song "Nothing Compares 2 U" being turned huge by Sinead O'Connor (or was it the song that made her a huge star?), or the Ray Charles song from the Pepsi commercial, "U got the right one baby, uh-huh". And the 14th remix of Chaka's "I Feel For U."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 9:47:06 GMT -5
RIP Lonnie Mack, legendary blues guitarist who was an influence on a generation of rockers such as Clapton, Richards and others.
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 22, 2016 10:03:24 GMT -5
I'm about the least musical person you're likely to find as my parent's rarely listened to music and I mostly read and spent music $ on comic $.
However, I've always admired Prince, until yesterday.
As I found out more about the man, I was just stunned and flabbergasted.
He was a tour de force and like the living embodiment of music. He even said in an interview he thought in music.
I'm sorry he's gone and that I didn't fully appreciate him while he was here, but I'm glad to be late instead of never knowing.
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Post by Confessor on Apr 22, 2016 11:17:58 GMT -5
I mean, even after he stopped having huge hits (though sometimes people forget how massive "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" was, he was raking in the money with his throwaway song "Nothing Compares 2 U" being turned huge by Sinead O'Connor (or was it the song that made her a huge star?), or the Ray Charles song from the Pepsi commercial, "U got the right one baby, uh-huh". And the 14th remix of Chaka's "I Feel For U." I can pretty much pinpoint the release of "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" as the moment when I totally lost interest in Prince. That's a truly f***ing awful record. Syrupy, bland...a "housewive's favourite" type of record. And of course, it was a huge hit. The writing had been on the wall though with the preceding "symbol", Diamonds & Pearls and Rainbow Bridge albums. While some of the stuff on those albums is great ("Gett Off", "Cream", "Diamonds & Peals", "Sexy MF", "7" etc), they also marked the point where this once cutting edge innovator of the 1980s began to start playing catch up. As the '90s dawned, Prince was starting to sound dated for the first time in his career. Interestingly, the same thing happened at almost the same time to Michael Jackson too, with the release of his Dangerous album, which had some great tracks, but was also full of overly-earnest, overly-sentimental rubbish like "Heal the World" or vaguely tuneless R&B like "Who Is It?" (and I say that as a big Jacko fan). Of the '80s big pop three, only Madonna managed to still sound relevant in the '90s, with songs like "Justify My Love", "Vogue", and a little later in the decade, "Frozen" and "Ray of Light". For a ten year period between 1979 and 1989 though, Prince was arguably the most innovative, daring, genre-splicing and interesting pop star on the planet. And that run of 10 albums between Prince and Batman (two of which were double albums) is pretty much faultless. Oh, by the way, Sinead O'Connor was already a fairly well known name here in the UK, but there's no doubt that "Nothing Compares 2 U" took her to a whole other level of global success. |
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