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Monday, February 05, 2007

Was Prince as awesome as he should have been?

I'm so pissed that redneck Bush-voter Peyton Manning has a championship. He's suppossed to be like Marino and only get a taste. If it weren't for the fact that I'm hearing about a Prince halftime show, I'd be a lot more pissed off right now.

Was Prince good? I've heard a lot of jokes about him being lame, but people seem to forget that Purple Rain is the best record of the 1980's. Don't even argue.

(Not quite the best movie though...)

posted by Timothy Holden at 3:35 AM

10 Comments:

  • I didn't watch it myself, so I only have second hand information from a Prince fan, but they said it was one of the better performances of his they'd ever seen.
    Purple Rain, the album, is awesome, but doesn't the word Hysteria make you want to reconsider naming it the best album of the '80s? No? What about Slippery When Wet? Dr. Feelgood?

    By Blogger D-String, at 6:25 AM  

  • i have to say that i was absolutely floored by prince's performance. i'm not a fan, and i had spent a lot of time criticizing the nfl's "safe" choices in light of the janet jackson controversy, but damn... he put up an awesome set that silenced everyone at the superbowl party i was at...

    By Blogger Unknown, at 11:10 AM  

  • 85% of the pop music from the 1980s was awful, just awful & total irredeemable crap. Prince is firmly in the 15% that isn't

    The only people who "like" 1980s pop are boring 35 year olds and dull 20 somethings/teenagers who think they're being ironic and 'radical' by being all HEY REMEMBER THE '80s?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6:38 AM  

  • Wow, I'm totally in that second group of people. And while I can't really say I'm not as dull as you claim we all are, there is a certain charm to bad 80's pop that (dare I say) music snobs might not recognize, in their haste to categorize and judge everything they encounter. It's just feel-good, weird-sounding music. In that way, I find it endearing, not ironic or radical.

    By Blogger SimoDoodle, at 10:08 AM  

  • Bah!

    The only good music to come out of the 1980s are the atonal minimialist symphonies of Philip Glass

    (TAKE THAT PITCHFORK MEDIA)

    But srsly:

    Most 80s music *IS* utter shit, and not even good in the "so-bad-it's-good" way. This rule applies to all decades, but the 1980s especially, due to the constant "HEY REMEMBER THE 1980s?" crap people in the 15-30 demographic are fed almost daily.

    Mind you, the 1980s nostalgia is not as bad as listening to a baby boomber go on about how they "changed the world/stopped a war/made it all better", but Generation Y's love of trash like Flock of Seagulls, McGrills and Teddy Ruxbin is gets awfully close to that level of navel gazing and generational pandering.

    Besides, its a "safe" form of "kookiness" that people 15-30 use to relate to each other and find common ground, something they desperately due to years early childhood TV viewing destorying their notions of "originality" and "quality" .

    IN SUMMARY: If you like terrible 1980s pop music "ironically" or even because "its good", you probably like Coldplay.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:24 AM  

  • ... or it could be possible that people just like 80s music because they like it.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:36 PM  

  • I'll agree. 85% of music from the 80's was garbage.

    I'll also agree that 85% of music from any era is complete garbage in the first place.

    Prince Lives! (In Las Vegas, which is the reason he even took this super bowl gig.)

    AJM should be sterilized -- physically, not just socially anymore.

    hehe.

    By Blogger Timothy Holden, at 3:28 AM  

  • Wow, Prince was even better than I first heard.


    Exhibit 1:

    Depending on where you give credit for Proud Mary and All Along the Watchtower, he managed to pull off a cover of Tina Turner, CCR, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, all in about two minutes.


    Exhibit 2:

    He surprised the crap out of everyone by playing a Foo Fighters song... THE FOO FIGHTERS.

    The best part of the whole performance might be the part where people imagine Dave Grohl at home, jumping out of his seat, screaming, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!


    Exhibit 3:

    The guitar solos.


    Exhibit 4:

    The rain.


    Exhibit 5:

    Prince finishes the show by knocking over his mic-stand and letting the crowd finish the chanting themselves.







    Interest in Prince's Las Vegas gig just went up about 687%.

    By Blogger Timothy Holden, at 5:23 AM  

  • Wait!


    1999%


    How did I miss that the first time.

    By Blogger Timothy Holden, at 5:24 AM  

  • Sterilization?

    You Nazi.

    You'd be depriving the 30 or so people who look at this site on a daily basis of my wonderful, wonderful seed

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:38 AM  

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