Best artist signature?

[Ristol]

Casey, have you ever heard Sign o' the Times? You probably haven't. It's a classic. You should get around to it one of these days.

 

[Casey]

Casey, have you ever heard Sign o' the Times? You probably haven't. It's a classic. You should get around to it one of these days.

lmfao.

This is the wall directly above my computer monitor.



If you were on the board at all back in '05/'06, me and a long-gone member by the name of KanDeeMan would have long, spirited debates about which was the superior album, Sign O' The Times or Purple Rain.

Truth be told, I rate them pretty equally and can never pick one over the other, but for the sake of debate I would always go with Sign O' The Times since he was convinced that Purple Rain was the better album.

I have the album on CD, all the singles on vinyl (but not the album on vinyl as of yet, I keep my vinyl minimum as I'm moving to the US soon), and the movie on VHS and DVD. As well as shit ton of bootlegs from that era. There's the most incredible live version of the title track from a show in Paris (ironically lol given the lyrics) that starts with this blazing guitar solo before the beat drops.

I felt like I jumped about 10 feet in the air when he started playing the title track at one of his shows I went to on the Earth Tour (saw 5 shows, 3 aftershows where he jammed from hours on all instruments, playing rarer songs and covers, and even met him after one of the aftershows). I hold that era in very high esteem.

I often malign the fact that he chose not to tour that album in the US. But, by the time he'd finished the European Tour for it, he'd pretty much moved on to recording Lovesexy.

 

[dilla]

I would say there's less than 10 artists in the entire history of music whereby it is absolutely acceptable to say if you don't like them, then you don't like music.

Prince is one of them. The Beatles are another. Bob Marley. Led Zep. Queen. MJ. Stevie Wonder.

If you claim to be a fan of music and say you don't like any one of these artists, it is nothing less than a fact that you are wrong, or completely musically illiterate.

There's nothing else to it. And frankly, if somebody does say they don't like one of those artists, I don't care much for their opinion on ANYTHING, because they are obviously an idiot.

Have you looked at the rest of my Last.fm? You were quick to point out Van Halen, but have you noticed all the artists, save for MJ and Prince are in my list of artists?

tennis_dog’s Library – Users at Last.fm

The counts are underrated as I had no computer for the first six months of this year, and had the last.fm scrobbler activated for months at a time. Led Zeppelin started last November for me, Pink Floyd soon after. I'd like to think I give each genre of music and artist a fair chance.


I refuse MJ's stuff, but I'll find Prince's stuff on What.cd and hope it's free leech.

 

[masta247]

@Casey: I don't recall ever seeing that 2pac picture. And I see some writing in the upper left corner of that poster

 

[Casey]

Have you looked at the rest of my Last.fm? You were quick to point out Van Halen, but have you noticed all the artists, save for MJ and Prince are in my list of artists?

tennis_dog’s Library – Users at Last.fm

The counts are underrated as I had no computer for the first six months of this year, and had the last.fm scrobbler activated for months at a time. Led Zeppelin started last November for me, Pink Floyd soon after. I'd like to think I give each genre of music and artist a fair chance.


I refuse MJ's stuff, but I'll find Prince's stuff on What.cd and hope it's free leech.

Yeah, I did notice that.

Regarding counts, yeah. They never really reflect things accurately, at least not until someone's been using them for years and years. There are so many records I've played to death in the past that aren't in my last.fm since I've only really been using it since earlier this year. I also have a massive CD collection and only a fraction of it is even on my computer to be scrobbled.

Prince's catalogue will overwhelm you. You won't know where to begin. With only 2 exceptions, he's released at least 1 album ever year since 1978 and some years, more than 1. But if you start with the two albums I mentioned before (Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times) you should be alright. Or perhaps even a compilation like "The Hits/The B-Sides" which is a three CD set, first 2 CD's of most of the singles, and the third disc of rarer material from the B-Sides of the vinyl singles in the 80's, which were generally great one-off tracks that never made it onto any particular album.

If you did that, then you might find something you like and then decide to scope the album it came from. But it depends on your listening habits, whether you like to listen to albums as a cohesive piece of art, or whether you just pick and choose songs you like from artists's overall discographies. People have different listening habits, I guess. I like to listen to albums as a whole, personally.

 

[Casey]

@Casey: I don't recall ever seeing that 2pac picture. And I see some writing in the upper left corner of that poster

It's not a poster. It's an actual photo from the set of "Gang Related".

And the writing is where Johnny J signed it for me when I went to his studio. There's a couple of other things he signed for me too, laying around. And lots of other things I got from the trip, like the giant "Until The End of Time" billboard from the walls at Interscope's office.

 

[dilla]

Yeah, I did notice that.

Regarding counts, yeah. They never really reflect things accurately, at least not until someone's been using them for years and years. There are so many records I've played to death in the past that aren't in my last.fm since I've only really been using it since earlier this year. I also have a massive CD collection and only a fraction of it is even on my computer to be scrobbled.

Prince's catalogue will overwhelm you. You won't know where to begin. With only 2 exceptions, he's released at least 1 album ever year since 1978 and some years, more than 1. But if you start with the two albums I mentioned before (Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times) you should be alright. Or perhaps even a compilation like "The Hits/The B-Sides" which is a three CD set, first 2 CD's of most of the singles, and the third disc of rarer material from the B-Sides of the vinyl singles in the 80's, which were generally great one-off tracks that never made it onto any particular album.

If you did that, then you might find something you like and then decide to scope the album it came from. But it depends on your listening habits, whether you like to listen to albums as a cohesive piece of art, or whether you just pick and choose songs you like from artists's overall discographies. People have different listening habits, I guess. I like to listen to albums as a whole, personally.

I am the latter. I listen to the album in its entirety (assuming it isn't shit, which is mostly found in modern hip hop) and then just remember songs I like and tend to keep listening to those. The others that aren't as memorable, they just kinda sink back and never get played again and eventually get deleted.

I'll give those two a shot. What.cd looks barren, in terms of leechers. I'm not boning my ratio on there. Coda.fm, here I come.

 

[Ristol]

That photo is from Gridlock'd, not Gang Related. Right?

 

[Casey]

That photo is from Gridlock'd, not Gang Related. Right?

Yeah, you're right. I always get the two titles mixed up with those two lol.

 

[Ristol]

Oh okay. I was super worried that I'd have to leave the Church of Tupac for not being able to immediately identify what year/what movie/what time any particular photo of him was taken. Phew.

 

[Jokerman]

For me, the gods of music are Riblja Corba, Bijelo Dugme and Zabranjeno Pusenje, bands you never heard of.

Are u kidding? I've probably been to every one of their shows. I'm wearing a Zabranjeno Pusenje t-shirt as I type this.

 

[Ristol]

Masta, clear your PM inbox. It wouldn't let me send you a message.

Whoever wrote that Jadakiss had a "choking baby laugh": did you come up with that phrase? It's stunningly accurate.

 

[dilla]

Masta, clear your PM inbox. It wouldn't let me send you a message.

Whoever wrote that Jadakiss had a "choking baby laugh": did you come up with that phrase? It's stunningly accurate.

Yeah, it was me. I don't think I'm ripping it off of anyone, but yeah, I think it sounds like one, as twisted as it sounds. Listen to the beginning of Welcome to D-Block.

 

[ARon]

Truth be told I don't like The Beatles. Well some of their music I like but most of it for me isn't that good. I don't like Elvis at all either, but whatever. It's just not what I grew up listening to, my mom has old vinyls of Al Green and Stevie etc. I grew up with that, and having an older brother I grew up listening to rap. So yeah, it's not that I'm not a fan of music that shit just isn't a part of my life like other music is

 

[dilla]

Not a fan of the Beatles either. I gave their big name albums a listen and just couldn't embrace their style. I understand others have drawn inspiration from the Beatles, Prince, Mj, etc., but I could not listen to their stuff.

The next artist I'm giving a shot at is Big Pun.

 

[Shadows]

Wwwwhhhhhhhhhaaaaat??
Yeeeeeaaauuhhhh!!!

 

[Cooper]

Prince's catalogue will overwhelm you. You won't know where to begin. With only 2 exceptions, he's released at least 1 album ever year since 1978 and some years, more than 1. But if you start with the two albums I mentioned before (Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times) you should be alright. Or perhaps even a compilation like "The Hits/The B-Sides" which is a three CD set, first 2 CD's of most of the singles, and the third disc of rarer material from the B-Sides of the vinyl singles in the 80's, which were generally great one-off tracks that never made it onto any particular album.

Get Dirty Mind.

 

[Casey]

Get Dirty Mind.

That's actually probably my favorite album. But I think it's a bit too raw for some people. It's fucking flawless in my opinion though.

 

[Rukas]

Tical.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Probably the signature way Dylan sings out of tune.

haha.. But any Dylan song not sung by him just sounds 'wrong' somehow... That's impressive.