I think everyone knows what mine would be.....His Purple Greatness.
Why? Because the man is probably the most talented musician of all time - in terms of technical ability he is up there with composers like Mozart, his proficiency on guitar, keyboards, drums and the 20+ other instruments he can play is fucking mindblowing.
It's easy for people with great skill to basically just jack off on how skilled they are by playing crazy mad complicated shit (think Yngwie Malmsteen, etc) - but Prince never lost the ability to fulfil the HARDEST task there is in music - the ability to write a 3 minute hit pop song.
He has made nearly every genre of music under the sun, and is easily the most diverse songwriter I can think of. No-one is fucking with him. And he's prolific.
He has made damn near 50 albums in 30 years, with probably at least the same amount of unreleased material, if not more. There's no-one more prolific than P. And he has conquered all of the genre's he's made, had number 1 rock hits and albums, r'n'b hits and albums, and pop. He defined the 80's more so than other artist and influenced nearly every successful pop and rock musician since, whether it's Timberfake trying to swagger jack him all over his new album, or Foo Fighters covering Darling Nikki and Purple Rain.
Added to which, Purple Rain is one of the greatest music movies ever made and set the tone for every music movie since, from 8 Mile, to Outkast's Idlewild.
Oh, and he gave one of the best Superbowl performances of ALL TIME in Feb.
I could go on forever.....so let's all hail the His Royal Badness!!
Who's your favorite and why?
Why? Because the man is probably the most talented musician of all time - in terms of technical ability he is up there with composers like Mozart, his proficiency on guitar, keyboards, drums and the 20+ other instruments he can play is fucking mindblowing.
It's easy for people with great skill to basically just jack off on how skilled they are by playing crazy mad complicated shit (think Yngwie Malmsteen, etc) - but Prince never lost the ability to fulfil the HARDEST task there is in music - the ability to write a 3 minute hit pop song.
He has made nearly every genre of music under the sun, and is easily the most diverse songwriter I can think of. No-one is fucking with him. And he's prolific.
He has made damn near 50 albums in 30 years, with probably at least the same amount of unreleased material, if not more. There's no-one more prolific than P. And he has conquered all of the genre's he's made, had number 1 rock hits and albums, r'n'b hits and albums, and pop. He defined the 80's more so than other artist and influenced nearly every successful pop and rock musician since, whether it's Timberfake trying to swagger jack him all over his new album, or Foo Fighters covering Darling Nikki and Purple Rain.
Added to which, Purple Rain is one of the greatest music movies ever made and set the tone for every music movie since, from 8 Mile, to Outkast's Idlewild.
Oh, and he gave one of the best Superbowl performances of ALL TIME in Feb.
I could go on forever.....so let's all hail the His Royal Badness!!
Who's your favorite and why?
they are to me, the best non rap group on the planet.
