― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
and for what it's worth, jacko's peak period began in 1969, before either prince or bowie entered the conversation.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
I personally am far MORE entertained by Prince BECAUSE he takes himself so seriously.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
This is a pantload of poppycock.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Well definitely the 'more' part, if we're just talking his solo career. 1979 to 1991 = 4 MJ albums vs. at least one Prince album a year.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Xgau made some damned-scant-praise pissy line about Heathen saying he'd finally learned to sing. This is insane--technically, he's as good as his source, Scott Walker, and certanly more verstile.
Plus. my GF, who's 30, after watching the Reality tour CD, says she'd do Bowie--who's 58--in a heartbeat. So there.
― iang, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
and if you wanna talk sexiness - Prince seems to have avoided physically aging a single day. Whereas Bowie looks like a glassy-eyed corpse with a fashionable haircut. Hell, Prince was always sexier than Bowie, and still is. Maybe it's cuz, y'know, Prince conveys actual ENJOYMENT of sex, whereas Bowie emotes a much more detached, creepy vibe.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
i like 'em both, bowie more, but prince is plenty creepy.
prince has released albums as bad as tin machine.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
This is objectively impossible.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
for what it's worth of course I love them both. but at the moment I do find Prince more endearing and capable of surprises than Bowie.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
* There's a huge chunk of Bowie after, being as fair as possible, Tonight that I really could care less hearing ever again. I don't mind some of the more recent stuff, but there's a deep dark pit of blandness in the middle that I want to avoid. THAT SAID, there's nothing as classic as the period of Bowie between Man Of Music, Man Of Words/Space Oddity and Scary Monsters inclusive.. almost all of it is pure solid gold.. the only possible exception being the David Live album.
* There's a huge chunk of Prince after, being as fair as possible, Lovesexy that I haven't heard, didn't hit me the first time, but am willing to listen to again and be pleasantly surprised, and would bet that I would rediscover and like. There is no horrible pit of blandness that stains Prince's career (to date) as much as it does Bowie. However, to be perfectly honest, even between For You and Sign 'O' The Times, I don't think every album in between is dead-on perfect as I think the Bowie albums are.
Now the similarities: both INCREDIBLY influential in their own unique ways. Both started off sounding a bit shaky and of the times but quickly became very unique and praiseworthy. Both reinvented themselves musically (and sometimes personally) album after album. Both have an incredible amount of timeless songs in their peak periods.
Who would i rather have a beer with? Bowie.
Who did I actually shell out a good chunk of cash to see live most recently of the two, and felt I got my money's worth? Prince.
It's really a tie for me. Can't say.
― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
DB, did you forget that I am a black man from Minnesota earlier upthread???
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Of course not! Then again, I don't assume every black person from Minnesota is automatically a Prince fan. I know you're a Prince fan, Dan, but I had no idea if you were a Bowie lover as well but just never expressed it as much.
― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
this is apropos of nothing, really, just though I'd mention in.
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Stereotypes and assumptions are bad but some may contain a kernel of truth in them. Also, any black person from Minnesota who gets offended because you assume they they like Prince is by (my) definition a dick.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
As for Prince vs. Bolan...Actually, I would easily take Prince over Bolan.. not to dismiss Bolan by any means..(ask Ned, who's a witness to my mass collection of T. Rex material the past year or so) but Bolan has the slight disadvantage of, how to put it gently, being dead?... also dying right before a spark that could have possible re-propelled his career, too. Prince vs. Bolan is a rather unfair taking sides really.
― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and Bowie wins this sheerly on the strength of a fleeting moment in "It's No Game (Part 1)" where he sings..."Put a bullet in my brain...AND IT MAKES ALL THE PAPERS! (followed by indecipherable Japanese exhorting). That little moment right there is cooler than EVERYTHING little Mr. Nelson has ever done and verily will ever do.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
(All video footage of the above seems to have disappeared from the webz.)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 April 2016 03:41 (eight years ago) link
Audio tho:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqDX8-s6jYI
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 22 April 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
i know its early days yet, but i imagine a far bigger outpouring of pieces on him in the US than the UK, compared to bowie.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 22 April 2016 11:37 (eight years ago) link
Lol both of these assholes are DEAD
― • (sleepingbag), Friday, April 22, 2016 12:12 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ritual showdown (Ross), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
:-(
sleepingbag makes some strong points
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
:D
― esby, Saturday, 13 October 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
I wish Prince had covered "Win"...
― Intelligence Lends Mojo (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, March 5, 2009
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 June 2021 00:27 (two years ago) link
damn good call
― brimstead, Friday, 18 June 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
"Win" is basically the perfect Bowie song, I doubt anyone could do it better.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 18 June 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link