Him, and the album.

one of THE albums

I know why people like him but he does nothing for me.

it was a peak a great album but it has all been downhill since with the odd track as an exception

His name is Prince. And he is Funky.

It doesn't hold its own with Exile and London Calling as great double albums. It's very good but not great.

I listen to this album and I notice two things: The fact that its production is pretty dire (it's so quiet!), and secondly that there are a LOT of tracks I skip. On disk 1 I tend to press the stop button when "Hot Thing" comes on, and I stop disk 2 as soon as "I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man". It's a good album, but incredibly overrated. For me, "Parade" is much, much better.

Oh, and the SOTT film? It's not really live - it's all lip-synched, the whole thing.

Nasal, is it not just in need of a good remastering? The sound quality on the double CD is pretty poor, very quiet-sounding as you point out, but still a great album. Hot Thing's one of my favourite tracks on it.

is a libidinous, salacious, lubricios gem...

Anyway, where was I..oh yes, exceptionally talented but too egotistical to allow a judicious collaborative producer to hone and edit his ouput and too lacking in self-knowledge to realise less is more.

Perhaps, Parade is closest - but the fact is that he has not released one album as an entity that one could consider truly indispensable.

And that - given the man's talent - is a terrible waste

and for me Lovesexy is the one...
These days it's the big singles compilation that works... An incredible singles artist, one of the best!

... through the post from Britannia Music Club. I was eight. Didn't really get it.

Had a bit of a Spodify session yesterday at my housemate's mother's gaff (her birthday, he was there too, nothing to see here etc) and someone requested the little fella. I scrolled through and elected on 'Do Me, Baby', purely because of its hilarious title.

Didn't really get it.

Where do I start? I know he's a cracking guitarist and wrote Nothing Compares 2 U and all that, but all I get from him is something akin to a horny jack russell humping the world's collective leg. Even Purple Rain leaves me cold. There must be a way in. Damn Britannia. Should've sent me Cast.

as an introduction. Much, much more to him than the somewhat lazy 'horny' stereotype (yes, I know he's encouraged a lot of it); this compilation kind of seperates the 'spiritual' and 'sexual' aspects of his work, albeit very loosely. The B-Sides display further evidence of his sheer diversity/self-indulgence (with Prince, you have to take the whole caboodle, he is what he is).

If you want to take it further, you wouldn't go wrong with Dirty Mind (punk-funk), 1999 (electro-pop/disco), Around The World...(psychedelic pop), Parade (quirky amalgam of all the above) and of his later works, The Gold Experience and Emancipation, which both contain a hugely diverse range of styles.

is a great album and probably has the highest number of my favourite songs of his in one place including 'I could never take the place of your man' which is my favourite track on the album - one mans poison etc!
Strangely I do not like the title track on the album but when he played it live on the last tour it sounded edgy.The thing is I think on all levels he is better than Michael Jackson ever was - better dancer, better performer, better singer, certainly a better musician. Yes he has had some misses and some of his output has been pretty dire but overall he has a wonderful back catalogue.

... I'll give your suggestions a go. I've just had the exact same discussion with one of the chaps in the office (a Prince fan, natch) and he's making me a playlist as well. I feel spoiled!

i can give or take prince-genius? dont make me laugh

and why do women find him sexy-he's tiny what you going to do with him sit him on your knee?

that this is a classic case of a double album, which with judicious pruning could have been a killer single album.
sadly though, it's basically been a steady downward trend since, with only the occasional return to the form of old.
An artist whose best years are well behind him, best now enjoyed via one of the various compilations out there.