(April 22, 2016 at 1:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Still unwatchable but an improvement.

Well, he didn't create my favorite kind of music, but he didn't create abyssmal music either. In the 80ies I pretty much considered him mainstream, and, frankly, I can't understand why the call him a revolutionary now.

We need to pretend the entire 80s didn't happen where popular culture, "fashion" and mainstream music is concerned. My eyes and ears bleed just at the mention of "the 80s"

No disrespect to Prince dying

(April 22, 2016 at 2:20 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: We need to pretend the entire 80s didn't happen where popular culture, "fashion" and mainstream music is concerned. My eyes and ears bleed just at the mention of "the 80s"

No disrespect to Prince.

Probably because you didn't consciously live through the 70ies. But I partly agree. The 80ies were the starting point of the valueless money grabbing. But the fashion of the 70ies was way worse.

(April 22, 2016 at 2:22 pm)abaris Wrote:

(April 22, 2016 at 2:20 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: We need to pretend the entire 80s didn't happen where popular culture, "fashion" and mainstream music is concerned. My eyes and ears bleed just at the mention of "the 80s"

No disrespect to Prince.

Probably because you didn't consciously live through the 70ies. But I partly agree. The 80ies were the starting point of the valueless money grabbing. But the fashion of the 70ies was way worse.

When I compare them, I tend to look at 80s fashion like "70s on acid". It looks like a lot of the same elements to me, just more sparkly and colourful. Might be wrong though, I can only see things in the media's selective retrospect.

But yeah 70s wasn't great from what I see haha

I do wonder if I'll look back on the 2010s and cringe as much as my parents cringe at the 80s.

The prince is dead. long live the prince?

An enormously talented performer. I'm not a huge fan of his, but what I always admired about him was his fearlessness at taking risks with his music. I never got the feeling that he would kowtow or pander -- he challenged listeners to follow him as he went from rock to soul to funk to a fusion of all those genres.

(April 22, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: An enormously talented performer. I'm not a huge fan of his, but what I always admired about him was his fearlessness at taking risks with his music. I never got the feeling that he would kowtow or pander -- he challenged listeners to follow him as he went from rock to soul to funk to a fusion of all those genres.

Interesting, since I don't remember seeing him as that different from the mainstream in the 80ies. And I mean the actual time. His music never did strike me as particularly daring or different compared to anything else being in the charts.

(April 22, 2016 at 4:04 pm)abaris Wrote:

(April 22, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: An enormously talented performer. I'm not a huge fan of his, but what I always admired about him was his fearlessness at taking risks with his music. I never got the feeling that he would kowtow or pander -- he challenged listeners to follow him as he went from rock to soul to funk to a fusion of all those genres.

Interesting, since I don't remember seeing him as that different from the mainstream in the 80ies. And I mean the actual time. His music never did strike me as particularly daring or different compared to anything else being in the charts.

Even though I didn't care for much of his body of work, stuff like "When Doves Cry" or "I Wanna Be Your Lover" were refreshing and far outside the formula synthpop of the era, to my ears.

I heard on the news this morning that he released 39 albums. Plus, he wrote a bunch of songs for other people.

I had no idea he was such a machine when it came to writing music.

(April 22, 2016 at 4:16 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I had no idea he was such a machine when it came to writing music.

I didn't either. Especially since he was off the general radar not having any new songs in the charts for quite a number of years.