What Are You Listening To?

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Prince - Xpectation

An instrumental album that was released as an MP3 download on New Year's Day, 2003 to members of the NPG Music Club and later formally released via streaming.

Not unlike the Madhouse records he did in the 80s, it's a jazz fusion effort with him on keyboards and guitars along others musicians we was working with at the time and a well regarded classical violinist Vanessa-Mae

no hits to found here of course...

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This is why Q-Anon exists and thrives.  It doesn't matter how bad your take is, you'll inevitably find someone else on the internet who agrees with you and double down on your take, no matter how ridiculous it is.

damn sam...not sure who that's directed at...the people who think prince was still a master post 90s or those who think his star faded

probably directed at me as this is one of articles that revisited Chaos and Disorder and surmised it was all that bad....

https://albumism.com/features/tribute-celebrating-25-years-of-prince-chaos-and-disorder

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

no hits to found here of course...

hey, doesn't have to be a hit if it's good
and how many instrumentals are 'hits'
Feel like Axel F was the last one ?  (some one prove me wrong)


but if it's not a hit and its not good, that doesn't bode well for it's ranking in top ten albums released by the purple one

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Isn't Mannheim Steamroller primarily a instrumental group? They routinely chart albums and play for packed arenas...

and one would to think with all these "superstar" EDM DJs floating around they must be all instrumental hits out there.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Isn't Mannheim Steamroller primarily a instrumental group? They routinely chart albums and play for packed arenas...

and one would to think with all these "superstar" EDM DJs floating around they must be all instrumental hits out there.

ok, both true

[Starsky]

Sakamoto- 1996

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

I call BS on ill informed Prince opinions…

OK Koz...please curate a 10 song play list of the Greatest hits of prince post 1990

still waiting

https://open.spotify.com/album/0CEHFvHUQ0ZSv3mugziS76?si=k6R2L1OxSSuAdRy55jMW-w

wow, way to phone that one in
I said 10 songs you thought were bangers from that time period
and you gave me a 37 song anthology released in 2018
not impressed
shows how highly you think of that era's work
sweets do you care to redeem prince? or is this bar just too high? 

10 songs over a 20+ year period where there are probably close to 300 available

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Fine fine fine… I’m working on a list just another 250 songs to work through..

And of course I can’t include anything off of Welcome 2 America because it scuttled for whatever released in 2010, had he released this I believe this would have been the start of his renaissance..

As the reviewer of this album points out his best output was when he had collaborators… and that a bunch of stuff released prior to his was recorded with highly talented players without much personality which resulted in expertly played boring songs

[Justin Tonation]

Isn't Mannheim Steamroller primarily a instrumental group? They routinely chart albums and play for packed arenas...

Just for their Fresh Aire Xmas shows. I think someone from the group was also involved in Trans Siberian Orchestra but I'm too lazy to look it up.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

n Trans Siberian Orchestra

these guys are huge too
they will sell out that cap center
none of the roxy/smashing barely fill the place shit

I bet this year the pricing will be insane for TSO in the good seats
say $500 a seat.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Fine fine fine…... which resulted in expertly played boring songs

seems like you are making my case for me
If you asked me to pick ten songs out of 300 by an artist I though was great
I could do that in 5 mins

again, sweets, since you seem to claim we don't know the purple magic that happened in this era
put up or shut up

I love prince and would love to be turned on to some gems I missed
but really seems like there is no there, there

[sweetcell]

Fine fine fine…... which resulted in expertly played boring songs

seems like you are making my case for me
If you asked me to pick ten songs out of 300 by an artist I though was great
I could do that in 5 mins

again, sweets, since you seem to claim we don't know the purple magic that happened in this era
put up or shut up

I love prince and would love to be turned on to some gems I missed
but really seems like there is no there, there

your answer is going to be "nah", no matter what i post.

[Starsky]

Are you guys saying Prince did anything as good as Little Red Corvette, Delirious,
Purple Rain, I could never take the place of your man, Sometimes it snows in April, etc after 1990?!?

I like some of his early 90s stuff but after that it’s hard to find anything redeemable. It happens…even geniuses lose their ability to write great songs. There’s no shame in it. It doesn’t mean he didn’t remain a great performer.

[Cock Van Der Palm]

Pollard is still going strong

Are you guys saying Prince did anything as good as Little Red Corvette, Delirious,
Purple Rain, I could never take the place of your man, Sometimes it snows in April, etc after 1990?!?

I like some of his early 90s stuff but after that it’s hard to find anything redeemable. It happens…even geniuses lose their ability to write great songs. There’s no shame in it. It doesn’t mean he didn’t remain a great performer.

[Space Freely]

Pollard is still going strong

Are you guys saying Prince did anything as good as Little Red Corvette, Delirious,
Purple Rain, I could never take the place of your man, Sometimes it snows in April, etc after 1990?!?

I like some of his early 90s stuff but after that it’s hard to find anything redeemable. It happens…even geniuses lose their ability to write great songs. There’s no shame in it. It doesn’t mean he didn’t remain a great performer.

He never set the bar high like Prince did.