― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"Paisley Park" - I like the calliope. Sounds too much like "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Penny Lane." He did this strawberry-lemonade and tangerine trees shit better on the next album's "Christopher Tracy's Parade" and "Life Can Be So Nice."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Not that it's not a (really) good album.
Also, I don't think "America" is a turn away from "Reagan-is-great."
These lyrics, for instance:
Communism is just a wordBut if the government turn overIt'll be the only word that's heard
That's basically "Keep Ronnie, he's better than those Russkies."
― ffirehorse (firehorse), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
all of which is true, and none of which has anything to do with whether the album is any good or not
"Paisley Park" is a future-funk song and has nothing to do with drugged-out Brit-hippie music-hall wank
like FUCK it doesn't
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
fuck you! I had mad skillz!
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
The idea of "Take Me With U" as the theme song for "Sophie's Choice" is making me really nauseous
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
All the people that diss it but shot all the people that like it the most off-the-money
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Q. How are the Beatles like Jesus?A. They're just all right, to me.
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
MC: so is what you're saying that your not caring that much for the Beatles = that song doesn't ape them in any way? because that's an awful lot what it looks like
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Last time I played the album I loved all of it, although "Temptation" sure does sound goofy.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Again, I was responding to Alfred Soto talking about the Beatles.
And, again, I was only making a little joke that occured to me. ("Little" = "Microscopic") I have never heard Lennon/McCartney much in Prince's psychedelia, more like Love and Sly and Beach Boys. But hey I could be wrong, what the fuck.
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
and Stormy OTM about Sheila E and that's not just a reacharound
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
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yeah it's a mess, totally thrown off, bits of it careless, not as masterful as Parade, we know we know
you are no fun at all matos. you sound like someone complaining about bad head.
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
this album came out nine months after Rain, it was like an extra, it happened so fast it didn't even feel like a followup, just a promise that he wasn't going to let the fame get to him. and the fact that it was so tossed off, personal and fans-only was a straight up relief. judging it so harshly seems like a real ROCK CRITIC thing to do, when I know you're a total hardcore fan
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
.....
though I think in the long run we're all basically in agreement, you're just being a hardass
Heavens, Milton! You know A LOT more about Matos than me, I guess. ;-)
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...), March 1st, 2005.
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
(no one likes my Beach Boys analogy = U ALL R GAY! *choke* sob)
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― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
PUT THE CRACK-PIPE DOWN
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I've voiced the identical sentiment about songs w/tambourines in the title!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Redirecting from this current sidebar: 'The Top' by the Cure: Classic or Dud?
imago— Definitely check out the b-sides from this album: 'She's Always In My Hair' (which is an absolutely classic song, full stop), 'Girl', and 'Hello.' There's also the twenty minute (no, really) version of 'America.'
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
Oh cool!
Yeah this was awesome. Didn't even falter in Side B, although I'm not sure the opener isn't my favourite track
― imago, Saturday, 19 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link