Tommy Gibbs
Superstar
Prince never fell off. He just became bored with doing the same music over and over. He was versatile and often fans expect musicians to do the same music redundantly. He died in 2016, Baltimore was released a year prior
Prince Fans When did he fall off to you?
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1978-1987 were his peak years for me. Then rap music changed everything. Early 80s were a whimsical time both musically and movies wise. His persona was perfect for the that era, like MJ. 90s was different. His music is too good for him to 'fall off'.
Pegasus Jackson
Trump's Amerikkka
I remember Pulse magazine (the free mag that Tower records put out) tearing it apart among other mags of the time. Come wasn't also the best received album of his either. About as close to throwaways (minus Letitgo) as we got from him during that era.
I still listen to "Chaos And Disorder" till this day and top to bottom it's a good album. I definitely believe if you said that critics may not've liked it back then.
I'm gonna have to listen to "Come" because I don't think that I've listened to that one as a whole.
Bleedin Gums Murphy
All Star
Bleedin Gums Murphy
All Star
I like "Same December", and love "Delores"...but that's it from that album. I would count "Had U", but that's really just an outro/interlude/fukk you to WB.
EDIT: I'll give it a listen later tonight, come back with a review.
GreenGhxst
Veteran
played this song and scrolled down
ended up scrambling my ass right back up to turn this the fukk off
Knockout_LR_Freshmart
All Star
I’m a huge Prince fanI’ll say his late 90s-early 00s period never really captured my attention (The Truth-Slaughterhouse). But even after that, he had a bit of a resurgence with Musicology/3121/RR HOF Performance/Super Bowl.
His early-mid 90s era (GB-TGE) gets as much play from me as his “peak” (‘79-‘87).
I know a lot of people & Prince himself didn’t like Come
but I think it plays pretty well when you’re chilling at night
OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
90s was hit and miss, these were my favorite joints tho
The creative leaps he took on SOTT and the Black album turned into a string of attempts at pop relevance that was hit or miss. Lovesexy had its moments but the Prince that I hold in high regard last showed his genius on SOTT
Greenhornet
A God Among Kings
alot of yall gotta admit you have terrible limited taste and keep it moving
if you look at the pattern of people complaining... they will say they fukk with the drum machine heavy shyt and then say they hate the rock or jazz shyt
few people are saying they hate the ballads etc... you just gotta say, "it is what it is" and that you dont fukk with certain styles of music
im imagining people listening to "crystal ball" and having each song be a different style of music and people crying 2-3 songs in
if you look at the pattern of people complaining... they will say they fukk with the drum machine heavy shyt and then say they hate the rock or jazz shyt
few people are saying they hate the ballads etc... you just gotta say, "it is what it is" and that you dont fukk with certain styles of music
im imagining people listening to "crystal ball" and having each song be a different style of music and people crying 2-3 songs in
I love Latina women
Veteran
You're forgetting one man and that man is actually Prince's musical father; Sly Stone.
Sly doesn't have 10 great albums. but he does have 9 great albums during an 8 year run from 1967 to 1975.
Sly Stone is the GOAT.
- A Whole New Thing (67')
- Dance to the Music (68')
- Life (68')
- Stand (69')
- Greatest Hits (70') - this counts because it had three new songs that hadn't been on album beforehand
- There's a Riot Goin' On (71')
- Fresh (73')
- Small Talk (74')
- High On You (75') - first and only solo album