But that's my point though! 82 to 88 wall to wall certified bangers and then post 1990 it's all filler two killer on each LP. So many tracks went beige lyrics>guitar solo>beige lyrics post 88.
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I think that post-1990 - or post-Diamonds And Pearls - it was the *production* that ruined the songs. Everything was so sterile-sounding that it was hard to hear the life in the recordings. Like Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature, it’s all so perfect and treble-heavy that it sounds like MIDI. Cheap.
That’s a fair point, especially from about Emancipation (‘96) onwards, he could’ve done with collaborating a bit more on the studio side, thankfully by then the live shows had evolved into truly world class events so the albums became more jump off points for the tours than final destinations.
For sure. Seeing him live would have been a whole separate issue that even OP couldn’t deny! I bought a few of the post-2000’s albums because some of them generated “Return Of The Prince You Liked” hype, but they all still sounded like him first-take jamming in some CDC office.
@martinnutbeem.bsky.social did you ever see Prince live?! Unparalleled. Yeah post 2000 some unquestionably sub par output, byproduct of the pace he worked at & absence / impossibility of a quality control supervisor! What he did do was call out greedy labels disenfranchising artists, mocked for it!
I did not, I was a kid in the 80s and as I've said I am not a fan of his music, especially post then. It doesn't make me want to dance, it doesn't scratch that itch. It's a personal thing.
I've seen many musicians live who while technically brilliant, their music leaves me cold.
A deeper dive in order! From the albums mentioned we’re looking at subject matters ranging from air & water pollution, petty revenge rants at Hollywood gossip columnists, reincarnation as a Dolphin (yep 😀) & the (first) Iraq war. Beige it ain’t. I commend those 4, they repay another listen 🙌🏼👍🏼
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I've seen many musicians live who while technically brilliant, their music leaves me cold.