If Prince started a prog band

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It would sound like the new 90 Day Men record. I'm shitting my pants right now it's so fucking good.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

WEEN

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh. I had to sit through those jokers plod through their set last year opening for the Sun City Girls. Not fun in the least.

― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

>>If Prince started a prog band<<

It would sound exactly like "Strawberry Letter 23" by the Brothers Johnson (though not in the same way that "Ms. Jackson" by Outkast sounds exactly like "Strawberry Letter 23" by the Brothers Johnson).

Actually, "When You Were Mine" and "Head", though, do already have doodly little parts that always reminded me of Yes or Styx.

― chuck, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

running off of chuck's idea, include beyonce's "be with you" too!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

or fatback band's "i found lovin'" (tho i like ashanti's version better)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

so in other words nothing like mediocre indie rock therefore refuting yr initial statement?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

um, yeah, jess. that's right. except 90 day men sound nothing like indie rock, and haven't for four years!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'm thinking that if Prince started a prog band NOW it might sound like a half-assed and rhythmically inept bland-as-whitebread emo act (which is what 90 Day Men sounded like to me last time I heard them; who knows, maybe they're different now); maybe that was Yancey's point. I was talking about if he'd started one BACK THEN.

― chuck, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"if prince started a prog rock band it would sound like prince"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

well, i'm glad that's settled

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

fiddo OTM.

― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, didn't he sorta turn into Rick Wakemen in 1988 or so anyway??

Actually, if he started a prog band, it would sound like a bad jam-rock band, most likely.

― chuck, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

His last record consisted of like four 15 minute instrumentals!!

― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i almost added "not that he hasn't already" to the thread title.

anyway, 90 day men's last album was 100% NOT indie, but some kinda weird yes/grateful dead amalgamation that was really loose and had lots of wild swings and was very nice. and having now listened to the new record all the way through, i should amend my statement to say that the first three or four songs do the prince-with-funkadelic-only-not-quite-as-funky thing, but the arrangements at times really remind me of sign o the times in that it sounds spacious but there's just layer after layer of loops/hooks/etc packed in there sardine-tite. AND the main 90 day man, who looks and sounds like thom yorke, doesn't even sing until the last song -- it's almost solely their bass player, this black dude with this really, really odd bendy, falsetto.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Anna Stesia" on Lovesexy is prog. As are the synth solo at the end of "When Doves Cry" and a slew of his unreleased stuff.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I kinda agree, 90 Day Men have got that dark, sexy feeling going on as well. Kinda like the mood that comes from the darker SOTT tracks and Prince's Black Album.

"half-assed and rhythmically inept bland-as-whitebread emo act"

I assume you haven't heard "Too Everybody" and "Too Late Or Too Dead" then...

Anyone else know what's up with the 90 Day Men at the moment? Had to cancel a bunch of their shows over here this month, heard one of them was taken to hospital. Hope everything is okay, they were such nice guys last time they came over.

― TomB (TomB), Thursday, 27 November 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Given how much Prince was obsessed with Todd Rundgren (which is very obvious if you listen to his music and follow his career) then I don't think the Prog Prince would sound too different to the Prince Prince.

― The Spotlight Kid (kid), Thursday, 27 November 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

shudder to think? mansun?

― bob snoom, Thursday, 27 November 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

I imagine it would sound like a funkier version of Utopia.

― WHERE'S JIM!? (Turrican), Saturday, 23 April 2016 19:45 (nine years ago)

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