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Because prince has done nothing in the last 25 years; his best stuff is closer to the moon landings than to today, and because when people look back at the '80s

by dave2000 10y ago

Because prince has done nothing in the last 25 years; his best stuff is closer to the moon landings than to today, and because when people look back at the '80s they're not going to longer too long on his music. Best description I ever read was "probably a reincarnation of one of Jimi Hendrix's pubic hairs".

Terretta 10y ago
You are uninformed. Look up Musicology on Wikipedia. My company at the time supported Prince's webmaster in innovating an astonishingly ambitious online fan club UX, giving he and fans a direct dialog, that sold tickets through his own web site (not ticket master) for a package of interaction with him, digital downloads, intimate concert venues, and physical album, so innovative his approach garnered a lifetime "Webby" award in 2006. Here's press from the beginning of NPG Music Club: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-becomes-online-retailer-selling-his-songs-from-his-site.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-...
- dave2000 10y ago
  Yeah, I know about that but I'm not interested in businessmen unless they also make interesting music, and Prince only released a couple of songs I didn't dislike. Also, he wasn't the first to do what you describe, and had a confused attitude to the internet, including the whole radiohead thing which revealed him to be something of an idiot.
  - Terretta 10y ago
    http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-life-work-musical-genius http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-l... http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming-internet/ http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming... He published his first interactive CD-ROM in '94, so built electronic user experiences pretty early.
bryanrasmussen 10y ago
You betray your preferences with the second paragraph. I haven't really followed him in the last 25 years but I have to assume, just on things I've read from people who are more musically accomplished than I am, that his best stuff might be more recent than that. Also I've seen videos in the last day that are also highly convincing to me that he has done some good stuff more recently. Finally I did not focus exclusively on his music in my comment as I think there is probably a lot of worth about Prince - as a businessman and as an innovator (production techniques etc.) - that might be good to have the hacker news community analyze.
- bryanrasmussen 10y ago
  case in point about stuff he did that had nothing to do with music that might be really relevant to Hacker News https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ but some reason not front page material.
  - Terretta 10y ago
    NYT material though: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music-technology-distribution.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music...

Terretta 10y ago

You are uninformed. Look up Musicology on Wikipedia. My company at the time supported Prince's webmaster in innovating an astonishingly ambitious online fan club UX, giving he and fans a direct dialog, that sold tickets through his own web site (not ticket master) for a package of interaction with him, digital downloads, intimate concert venues, and physical album, so innovative his approach garnered a lifetime "Webby" award in 2006. Here's press from the beginning of NPG Music Club: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-becomes-online-retailer-selling-his-songs-from-his-site.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-...

dave2000 10y ago
Yeah, I know about that but I'm not interested in businessmen unless they also make interesting music, and Prince only released a couple of songs I didn't dislike. Also, he wasn't the first to do what you describe, and had a confused attitude to the internet, including the whole radiohead thing which revealed him to be something of an idiot.
- Terretta 10y ago
  http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-life-work-musical-genius http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11480830/prince-obituary-l... http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming-internet/ http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/prince-death-music-streaming... He published his first interactive CD-ROM in '94, so built electronic user experiences pretty early.

bryanrasmussen 10y ago

You betray your preferences with the second paragraph. I haven't really followed him in the last 25 years but I have to assume, just on things I've read from people who are more musically accomplished than I am, that his best stuff might be more recent than that. Also I've seen videos in the last day that are also highly convincing to me that he has done some good stuff more recently. Finally I did not focus exclusively on his music in my comment as I think there is probably a lot of worth about Prince - as a businessman and as an innovator (production techniques etc.) - that might be good to have the hacker news community analyze.

bryanrasmussen 10y ago
case in point about stuff he did that had nothing to do with music that might be really relevant to Hacker News https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ https://www.facebook.com/DJJayTre/videos/1019733794773492/ but some reason not front page material.
- Terretta 10y ago
  NYT material though: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music-technology-distribution.html http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/arts/music/prince-music...