Oh, I completely agree, and should clarify... As I wrote before, Parade is absolutely one of my favorite Prince albums, and contains some of his best songs. Pretty much the last hurrah of the Revolution, who were a very good band if not his best. (And happily, I never saw Cherry Moon!) It wasn't anything about Parade (or even about Prince himself) that made me lose interest... it was just the dogmatic way that I used to form and change my musical allegiances. When I say that I started buying reggae and hardcore (and then avant-jazz and free-improv), I mean that those things are pretty much the ONLY things I bought, and they just forced Prince out for a while. Thankfully, today my tastes are far more diverse and all-embracing. Steve Smith ssmith36@sprynet.com NP - Avril Lavigne, "Complicated" (at least until I can rush to the other room and turn off the radio...) -----Original Message----- From: skip Heller [mailto:velaires@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 1:12 PM To: ssmith36@sprynet.com; zorn-list@lists.xmission.com Subject: Re: O)+> on 1/6/03 10:04 AM, Steve Smith at ssmith36@sprynet.com wrote:
I'm with you all the way on this one: I actually lost interest in Prince sometime after Parade, which, as you'll no doubt astutely observe, means that I actually missed Sign o' the Times. Probably I was too deeply into my reggae and hardcore phase at the time.
PARADE does have some incredible stuff on it, tho. It just takes forgetting EVERYTHING about UNDER THE CHERRY MOON. sh