WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:08.880 Here's a little main departure from my usual musings of being fifty plus. I'm 2 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:15.880 James Eugenius's fifty plus podcast, and excuse me, coughing happens more when you 3 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:20.879 can get old to you. No, I had some people I'm part of 4 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:25.399 these groups that we're talking gen x forums. There's a lot of gen x 5 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:28.719 forums out there and groups out there because I am gen x, I am 6 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:35.759 that part of the fifty plus crowd, the younger grouping. And last month 7 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:40.719 April, Prince had passed away, Prince Rogers Nelson and it was just and 8 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.799 his birthday's coming up in June. As we were sitting to talk about this, 9 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:49.320 and people were posting their favorite songs and favorite things about things about him, 10 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.759 and they were asking me because Prince was very important to me. He's 11 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:59.759 one of the few entertainers. Kirk Cobain was one. Prince was the other 12 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:07.200 that affected me so heavily where I was depressed for days afterwards. Well, 13 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:15.319 I was just heavily depressed. I brought my my uh when Kirk Cobain killed 14 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:19.239 himself, and I played like I played this stuff to death. They came 15 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.959 out the line, they came up with the MTV and plugged live from New 16 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.719 York, and my roommate Nick would tell you, I played it over and 17 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:32.239 over and over again for like weeks. He said, I'll never forget that. 18 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.239 Well Prince died, I stayed in bed for a couple days. I 19 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:37.840 literally did. I literally stayed in bed a couple of days, and I 20 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:40.280 was I couldn't well. Michael died. I was sad what he died. 21 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:45.359 I was sad. But I'm such a huge Prince, Prince collector. I 22 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:49.400 collected his music, big fan. So I'm reading some of books on Prince 23 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.879 right now. What was called Prince and all his songs. It's really good 24 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:59.200 and I wish I actually talked about on my show page and jameson Junior. 25 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:01.799 But anyway, so those little departure, it's a little it's a little kind 26 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:08.039 of fun thing. People want to know what my five favorite songs from him 27 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:14.360 were, how many times a song in concert, and what songs I think 28 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:19.520 are underrated. So it's a little fun thing. So we're gonna start off 29 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.439 with the songs I think that are underrated by Prince, and there are many, 30 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:28.759 but these are two songs I think are really good that should have been 31 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:34.680 Bigger, What is pop Life? Pop Life and eighty five from the album 32 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:38.840 Around the World to Day. It was the second single from this after Raspbay 33 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:42.560 Bray and Raspberry was number two. Pop Life went top ten, but it 34 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:47.719 was like number seven ers are like lower top ten. I felt that song 35 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:55.879 was very pop paw puns intended, but it had a great message and I 36 00:02:55.879 --> 00:03:00.599 think it's it should be. It's it's better people think I think it is. 37 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:06.240 I think folks are sleeping on that song. I've been playing it more 38 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:08.520 and more and I really like it. Ross Vaperray was one of those songs 39 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:14.319 I don't even play a song anymore. There was a big hits commercial great. 40 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.000 I don't replay it, so I think I play pop Life more. 41 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:23.680 And this was the B side song which I think Prince paired these two songs 42 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:28.680 together so wonderfully as Hello. If you haven't heard that song, it's a 43 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:32.719 B side song to pop Life. It's on the Hits the B Sides compilation, 44 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:38.039 but Hello, it's so good. But Hello is a similar vein of 45 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:43.240 pop Life to me. They work so well together, so I would I 46 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.280 would say those as pop Life and that's my name. Another song it's off 47 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:51.400 of Nice ninty nine the album I Say You Two, it's called Something in 48 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:59.360 the Water, does not compute the frenetic drumming, the slow vocal at first, 49 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:03.479 to bills and builds goes faster and faster and faster paced music. He 50 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:10.639 screams at the end, which is very Prince of him. But he's talking 51 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.040 to this person. He's talking to this woman about how she's acting, and 52 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:25.800 he's expressing himself and he's also talking to himself, and something must be this 53 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:29.199 must be something in the water. I drink or they drink and it's a 54 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:31.480 it's oh my godness. But the song is so good, but it was 55 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.079 no release as a single. I don't know anybody who talks about it. 56 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:39.040 So those are my two songs pop life, something we're already talk compute with 57 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.199 a side of hello. Those are something that kind of underrated, and there 58 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.319 are also there are others. Maybe I'll do a follow up one day, 59 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:48.360 I'll do a follow up. I saw Prince Nice heighty nine, Manty six 60 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.720 at a time, saw him by the back in the eighties. I saw 61 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:58.079 Former Raine tour, of course. I saw Musicology Uh with my friend Tara, 62 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.079 and that one's very speciful because I made a CD of music of my 63 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:06.720 favorite print songs and we played them on the way driving down to the concert, 64 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:10.800 and Tara and I were singing them. And Tara, my friend Terror 65 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.279 was a huge Prince random, larger than me. We had never seen Princes 66 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:15.680 together in concert and that was our first time. And we went there. 67 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.439 We saw and she was part of the music club and so that he had 68 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:23.839 a time the MPG Music Club, and we didn't know what our seats were 69 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:27.160 gonna be. He paid a flat field like seventy five dollars what ever was, 70 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.600 And we got there, We got our chic and we'll call and I 71 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:36.720 will call and said your seats one and two row one, and we screamed 72 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.839 and we were right there and Prince was right there. The opening act with 73 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.519 the Consta she was good too, but Prince was right there. I literally 74 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:49.279 saw Prince right there. And Musicology was the album I felt he came back 75 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:55.839 in a mainstream. I saw. I saw several nights of the twenty one 76 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:00.199 nights the Forum. He was trying to save the Forum and which I hear 77 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:03.879 in Ngawood and he did like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, for like seven 78 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.279 or ten weekends, and it was like he was doing that. He did 79 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:10.560 that, and I saw several nights of that. Here the tickets were all 80 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:14.240 twenty five dollars. Prince was ahead of his time. That's that's why I 81 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.920 love Prince. He was trying to help out. So I saw those concerts. 82 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:21.959 I missed some of the others. I see all of them. My 83 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:29.160 five fair Print songs, I couldn't. I don't know my favorite favorites are 84 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:40.120 I so I actually that was the question I got. I'm naming six songs 85 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:45.680 that definitely would be in my top ten. I don't know the order or 86 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.199 anything. I've never used twenty songs for me to think of. But these 87 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:54.480 are six songs of his I love and are among my favorites. I know 88 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.519 it's kind of cheating a little bit, but I don't. I just can't. 89 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.759 I can't do it. I can't do it. I need more time, 90 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.160 I just sit down and really thinking about it, because his catalog is 91 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:04.839 so big. But these are just these are six songs that I are among 92 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:11.240 my favorites. I love what is can't stop this feeling I got and handed 93 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.920 down into my toes. So can't stop this feeling I got is the opening 94 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.839 song from Raffredi Bridge, which is the sequel of Purple Raine. Don't care 95 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:24.160 about that, not so much, but the song itself. Those are Dear 96 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:28.560 Dad, I feel like I'm about to explode and it goes to this big 97 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:32.600 explosion thing. It sounds getting on the headphones and it's the fun pop song. 98 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.839 But can't start feel like it. I love it that slows down at 99 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:39.680 the end. It's just an interesting, a great song. There are five 100 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:48.000 Silent Times from Silent Times, what a stark bleak song about a stark bleak 101 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:55.560 time. There are four in his disco era Sexy Dance there I want your 102 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:03.120 body, want your body, your sexy dancer. I love that whole thing. 103 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:09.600 Sexy Dancer. It's wonderful. The song from his album Prince So Back 104 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.279 in the seventies, number three. My brother and I both love this song 105 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:18.439 together so much. Dirty Mine from Dirty Mine. I know I have these, 106 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.480 I'm not realizing. There's a lot of the lead single Let's get Away. 107 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:28.680 Uh. The song is new wave, It's dance. It's really good 108 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:33.759 and Deztgerson's background vocal and everything. It says, you just gotta let me 109 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:35.440 lay, you gotta let me lay it, lay it. You just gotta 110 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.519 let me lay you gotta let me lay it down. And it stops. 111 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.399 And it's just like that music in your daddy's car. It's you. I 112 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.440 really want to draw it's it's just so goodh I got This song is so 113 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.960 good, it's so it's underrated. Also, i'manna say it's underrate it also 114 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.279 there before I Get Got You, I Guess again Artificial Cage from the album 115 00:08:56.360 --> 00:09:01.799 Artificial Age. There was some the twenty tens to twenty sixteen when he died. 116 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:07.519 When he passed, he put out a series of albums that to me 117 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:13.480 were actually really good, but like they didn't get the they didn't get they 118 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.519 claim as they some of them sold well, but they didn't. They claim 119 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:22.200 his old stuff and lead a underrated. I played the song for Flow on 120 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.200 my buddy Flow Well he loved it. There are several songs funking' roll, 121 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:30.120 the songs off this off this album that I love that. To me, 122 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:35.679 it reminds me he had he still do a message in a song, which 123 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.919 is what he does so well, do a message in the song. And 124 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:43.639 and real he'll tell you about yourself. I love it. I just like 125 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.639 he just he's so and and and and dressed up in something really good. 126 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:52.679 So he's good at that. Okay, that's one of my songs and number 127 00:09:52.679 --> 00:10:01.240 one. Am I black or white? Am I straight or gay? Controversy? 128 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:09.279 He a black man in the early eighties and music did not look like 129 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:15.240 him, sound like him, or talk like him. And in the song, 130 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:20.759 he brings up so many things that I just not said from black man 131 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.440 and black straight man, especially because he but he was playing with gender, 132 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.360 he was playing with sexuality, was playing with color. You know that lie 133 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.759 my black white at my stranger gay. He's addressing the critics. That album 134 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:37.000 cover he's addressed. It's set up like a tabloid and all the titles of 135 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:45.080 the songs, but he's addressing the critics controversy like literally what a great Yeah. 136 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:46.759 Actually, some of his songs are under controversy music. That's one of 137 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:52.120 the things he did. That controversy is probably one of my top five songs 138 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.480 of his all time, if I had to go at top five. It's 139 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:00.919 just again so good speaking to the public. It has meaning. Rest in 140 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.320 peace, Prince Rogers Nelson, whatever you're doing, hopefully you're up there playing 141 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:09.799 great music for them. The vaults are releasing his vultually releasing music all the 142 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.360 time. I'm collecting his stuff. I'm going through listening to things that he 143 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.759 did, and he was so prolific and I learned so much from him. 144 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:26.320 I learned so much from him that I that I take my own self because 145 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.480 of my songwriting and everything that I do. So it's a little sum there, 146 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.600 but it's still I guess fifty plus related and genics related. If you're 147 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:35.080 a Prince fan, you have some favorites, tell what your favorites are, 148 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.600 comedy in the comments, what songs you think are underrated by him? Tell 149 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.159 me what songs you think, what concerts you went and saw like. Let 150 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:46.360 me know what you think. Or if you have another artist that you love 151 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.320 so much, or you would like me to talk about as from our era 152 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:54.240 gen x era, let me know and I'll talk about them if I have 153 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:58.480 a connection. I'm James. Fifty plus is mostly audio. You have a 154 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.639 few videos or read jail jam media, but where we find us on all 155 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.600 streaming service platforms, I'm James Stott Junior everywhere. Talk to you next time.