The Feature Formerly Known As Friday Canon: Prince

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

By a kind of popular demand, here is the hugest Friday Canon yet, dedicated to the Purple One (now on a comeback tip I hear), Prince. Of course because the Friday Canon deals with UK top 40 hits, some of his best songs can't make it here (I'm particularly sad not to see "Dirty Mind") but there's plenty here to be going on with. Inventor of textspeak, and by some reckonings the most talented man of the 80s - by the one-third rule you get THIRTEEN picks across his career: use them wisely.




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Comments

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

The drop-off in his acclaim hit far sooner in the states than in Europe - he lost the Yanks after Sign of the Times, whereas he remained more popular here for at least three more albums (Lovesexy, Batman, D&P) after that.

Although interestingly his more recent so-called renaissance (which I think is extremely overrated) has had far more success over there than over here.

Oh and one final thing re. the Madge comparison - Prince's reputation was always almost as much based on his live performances as his recorded output, and most people would agree that while he lost it big-style on record, his live performances are as strong as ever (although I for one miss the days of him performing in trenchcoat and thong)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

But also Madge never had a big argument with her record company re ownership of masters and so on, leading to a hiatus where records weren't put out for ages.

Funnily enough, Frank Zappa had a similar issue with the same company, Warner Brothers, when they wouldn't accept that he'd completed his contract by delivering three different albums at once.