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26 January 2017
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Check out Controversy. It really brings the funk!
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2.17pm
8 January 2015
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sir walter raleigh said
Check out Controversy. It really brings the funk!
Just the title track alone is worth the album, 7 minutes of stripped-down lean funk that’s more fun than the single edit, I just get excited how he uses rhythm like that clap on the 4th of every other bar. In fact, compared to his later work, early albums like Controversy and 1999 are masterpieces of understatement.
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10.38am
25 December 2017
Offline Been awhile since i’ve posted on here. I think Musicology is one of Prince’s finest album he’s ever made
"Dinner with Delores Must be some kind of sin
Like a Brontosaurus She was packin' it in" -Prince
9.52am
25 December 2017
Offline It’s been nearly 3 years since the legendary Purple One has transcended into the next life. Been listening to a lot of his later period lately. Mainly Rave, Musicology, and 3121
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Like a Brontosaurus She was packin' it in" -Prince
9.55am
26 January 2017
Offline RIP Prince!
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
10.14am
1 December 2009
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To have Bowie and Prince leave the earth within three months of one another…knew 2016 would be a lousy year 🙁
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QuarryMan, SgtPeppersBulldogGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
8.30pm
25 December 2017
Offline vonbontee said
To have Bowie and Prince leave the earth within three months of one another…knew 2016 would be a lousy year 🙁
It was like the heroes had to return to the almighty cosmos. Especially those 2 and George Michael
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Like a Brontosaurus She was packin' it in" -Prince
8.48pm
1 December 2009
Offline That afterlife band just gets better and better and better…. 🙁
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Beatlebug, GetbackintheussrGEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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PurplishRain said
It was like the heroes had to return to the almighty cosmos. Especially those 2 and George Michael
“heroes” 
vonbontee said
That afterlife band just gets better and better and better…. 🙁
So I guess they just make the dead mediocre musicians sit on the sidelines? 
Remember y’all, we all gotta go sometime. Regardless of whether we’re good musicians or not. 
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4.50am
26 January 2017
Offline Rest in Power, Prince. I’m going to put on Purple Rain in your memory today.
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Getbackintheussr, vonbontee, PurplishRainI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
11.52am
1 December 2009
Offline I’m playing a bunch myself, starting with the selftitled
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
3.34pm
26 January 2017
Offline Dang, I’ve been at work since two and I totally forgot to play it there 
Better late than never I guess
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Von BonteeI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
4.19pm
14 December 2009
Offline Did you ever hear “Controversy”, Qman? I don’t know that it’s my favourite (Dirty Mind => black album is quite a streak), but as an album it’s Prince at his most new-wave/post-punk, maybe.
Speaking of that album, what do we as Beatlefans have to say about that verse in “Annie Christian”?
(Punk version!)
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
7.47pm
25 December 2017
Offline Von Bontee said
Speaking of that album, what do we as Beatlefans have to say about that verse in “Annie Christian”?
I think it’s kinda poetic as Annie Christian in my mind represents the killer in society that cannot be stopped
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Like a Brontosaurus She was packin' it in" -Prince
10.34pm
25 December 2017
Offline Here is my Top 100 Prince songs list!!!
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Like a Brontosaurus She was packin' it in" -Prince
4.51am
26 January 2017
Offline I don’t think I have heard Controversy beyond the title track, actually. I’ll put it on now.
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PurplishRain, vonbonteeI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
9.35am
25 December 2017
Offline QuarryMan said
I don’t think I have heard Controversy beyond the title track, actually. I’ll put it on now.
That’s my favorite Prince album. My favorite track from that is Probably Private Joy
"Dinner with Delores Must be some kind of sin
Like a Brontosaurus She was packin' it in" -Prince
10.08am
26 January 2017
Offline PurplishRain said
QuarryMan said
I don’t think I have heard Controversy beyond the title track, actually. I’ll put it on now.
That’s my favorite Prince album. My favorite track from that is Probably Private Joy
I very much enjoyed it, particularly the title track, which I had heard before. Good album. Now to listen to 1999.
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vonbontee, PurplishRainI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
1.19pm
25 December 2017
Offline It took me awhile to get into 1999. I didn’t start fully getting into the album until about 6 months ago and now i consider it one of his bests.
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Like a Brontosaurus She was packin' it in" -Prince
2.39pm
1 December 2009
Offline Thanks for your RYM ranking – there are at least 15-20 I’ve never heard at all. A good little roadmap…a Purple Book!
(My own ranking, which was never asked for, would have had “1999” much, much higher. And “Delirious” far lower, because that one is truly the “Dizzy Miss Lizzy ” of the Prince/Revolution catalog! 
)
Gonna rewatch “Purple Rain ” tonight (saw it maybe twice on cable back in the day) and see if the non-musical bits look any better (or worse!) to me now.
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