The UK Music Hall of Fame: Prince

[Partridge's Love Child]

(Previously "Not 'alf, Nelson")

Started this discussion on The Bomb'd Shelter.

Are any of you there whores into Prince? I seem to have a strange aversion to the diminutive fellow. He's an artist that I feel I should like, and immediately lapped up Parade when I found it in Oxfam for 79p on vinyl a few weeks back. But yet it really does nothing for me. The bizarre thing is I like a huge number of albums that I'll find myself saying, "It's very Prince isn't it" - OutKast's The Love Below, Beck's Midnite Vultures are two that immediately spring to mind, but yet Prince himself seems to leave me cold. The Love Below is outrageously Prince-like, and I think it's fabulous - the stand out tracks Spread, Roses, Happy Valentine's Day and of course Hey Ya! could be slapped on an EP called The Boy Who Looked At Prince they're so Prince-a-like. But yet the lad himself just doesn't seem to break into my brain's dance hall and make me shake it like a polaroid porn film on fast forward.

Still, nice 'tashe, Nelson. Obviously copying me there.


Mah name is Prance

Oh *sigh* go on then...


The repulsive little tit makes a good tune, aye. I have two friends who generally like Tool and System Of A Down etc, but they spent this summer trying to make me listen to "Rainbow Children". Like other Ponce albums, it comprises sixty percent really cool tracks but the remainder make me want to puke so hard I cannot listen to the whole thing lest I get distracted from the skip button by my own scintillating conversationals and accidentally find myself wading through his sicky sticky sickly poo poo.

I have two friends who [...] like [...] System Of A Down

Why are they your friends?

Because they give me Brew and Gear and try to listen to Cardiacs for me. Also because they attract young ladies with their jumping off cliffs on pushbikes, and I can soil those young ladies while they are too busy jumping off cliffs on pushbikes to do it themselves. That's why. I suppose all your friends are all sophisticated, and they all sit outside cafes like wankers.

And that's as far as we got, like.

[The Culture Bunker]

For what it's worth, I've always considered "Raspberry Beret" to be one of my favourite pop songs of the 1980's. My Mam always said about Prince "He's very short, isn't he? You shouldn't trust short men - bit like that Roger Dalterey, he always looked a bit iffy to me."

[Partridge's Love Child]

Wonder if Townshend mistook him for a child.  If you get my meaning.

[Malachi Constant]

Prince is great. PLC, Parade is generally considered to be one of his weaker 80s albums so go for one of the 'classics' like Sign o'the Times, 1999, Purple Rain etc.. they  might change your mind.

[dan dirty ape]

Parade's ace, though. It's got 'Kiss' and 'New Position' and 'Mountains' and 'Girls And Boys' and 'Sometimes It Snows In April'  and 'Anotherloverholeinyohead'.

[Partridge's Love Child]

Thought I'd bump this on our continuing discussions on the UK Music Hall of Fame nominees, rather than starting a new thread.  Plus there's a photo of yours truly up there, which lends gravitas to lew king's erroneous claim that I'm always posting images of my fisog, and I think it's important to help the afflicted.

[NobodyGetsOutAlive]

I have to confess that I really really liked the Batman soundtrack when I was 7 and when I watched the film a few weeks back for the first time in years Partyman and Trust still struck me as brilliant funk music.

Sadly, that's about as far as I can get with him though to be honest.

[mikeyg27]

Arrrrrggghhhhh! Purple Rain! It has "Lets Go Crazy" on it! There is something about that some which gets me movin'...