Here's a little main departure from my usual musings of being fifty plus. I'm
James Eugenius's fifty plus podcast, and excuse me, coughing happens more when you
can get old to you. No, I had some people I'm part of
these groups that we're talking gen x forums. There's a lot of gen x
forums out there and groups out there because I am gen x, I am
that part of the fifty plus crowd, the younger grouping. And last month
April, Prince had passed away, Prince Rogers Nelson and it was just and
his birthday's coming up in June. As we were sitting to talk about this,
and people were posting their favorite songs and favorite things about things about him,
and they were asking me because Prince was very important to me. He's
one of the few entertainers. Kirk Cobain was one. Prince was the other
that affected me so heavily where I was depressed for days afterwards. Well,
I was just heavily depressed. I brought my my uh when Kirk Cobain killed
himself, and I played like I played this stuff to death. They came
out the line, they came up with the MTV and plugged live from New
York, and my roommate Nick would tell you, I played it over and
over and over again for like weeks. He said, I'll never forget that.
Well Prince died, I stayed in bed for a couple days. I
literally did. I literally stayed in bed a couple of days, and I
was I couldn't well. Michael died. I was sad what he died.
I was sad. But I'm such a huge Prince, Prince collector. I
collected his music, big fan. So I'm reading some of books on Prince
right now. What was called Prince and all his songs. It's really good
and I wish I actually talked about on my show page and jameson Junior.
But anyway, so those little departure, it's a little it's a little kind
of fun thing. People want to know what my five favorite songs from him
were, how many times a song in concert, and what songs I think
are underrated. So it's a little fun thing. So we're gonna start off
with the songs I think that are underrated by Prince, and there are many,
but these are two songs I think are really good that should have been
Bigger, What is pop Life? Pop Life and eighty five from the album
Around the World to Day. It was the second single from this after Raspbay
Bray and Raspberry was number two. Pop Life went top ten, but it
was like number seven ers are like lower top ten. I felt that song
was very pop paw puns intended, but it had a great message and I
think it's it should be. It's it's better people think I think it is.
I think folks are sleeping on that song. I've been playing it more
and more and I really like it. Ross Vaperray was one of those songs
I don't even play a song anymore. There was a big hits commercial great.
I don't replay it, so I think I play pop Life more.
And this was the B side song which I think Prince paired these two songs
together so wonderfully as Hello. If you haven't heard that song, it's a
B side song to pop Life. It's on the Hits the B Sides compilation,
but Hello, it's so good. But Hello is a similar vein of
pop Life to me. They work so well together, so I would I
would say those as pop Life and that's my name. Another song it's off
of Nice ninty nine the album I Say You Two, it's called Something in
the Water, does not compute the frenetic drumming, the slow vocal at first,
to bills and builds goes faster and faster and faster paced music. He
screams at the end, which is very Prince of him. But he's talking
to this person. He's talking to this woman about how she's acting, and
he's expressing himself and he's also talking to himself, and something must be this
must be something in the water. I drink or they drink and it's a
it's oh my godness. But the song is so good, but it was
no release as a single. I don't know anybody who talks about it.
So those are my two songs pop life, something we're already talk compute with
a side of hello. Those are something that kind of underrated, and there
are also there are others. Maybe I'll do a follow up one day,
I'll do a follow up. I saw Prince Nice heighty nine, Manty six
at a time, saw him by the back in the eighties. I saw
Former Raine tour, of course. I saw Musicology Uh with my friend Tara,
and that one's very speciful because I made a CD of music of my
favorite print songs and we played them on the way driving down to the concert,
and Tara and I were singing them. And Tara, my friend Terror
was a huge Prince random, larger than me. We had never seen Princes
together in concert and that was our first time. And we went there.
We saw and she was part of the music club and so that he had
a time the MPG Music Club, and we didn't know what our seats were
gonna be. He paid a flat field like seventy five dollars what ever was,
And we got there, We got our chic and we'll call and I
will call and said your seats one and two row one, and we screamed
and we were right there and Prince was right there. The opening act with
the Consta she was good too, but Prince was right there. I literally
saw Prince right there. And Musicology was the album I felt he came back
in a mainstream. I saw. I saw several nights of the twenty one
nights the Forum. He was trying to save the Forum and which I hear
in Ngawood and he did like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, for like seven
or ten weekends, and it was like he was doing that. He did
that, and I saw several nights of that. Here the tickets were all
twenty five dollars. Prince was ahead of his time. That's that's why I
love Prince. He was trying to help out. So I saw those concerts.
I missed some of the others. I see all of them. My
five fair Print songs, I couldn't. I don't know my favorite favorites are
I so I actually that was the question I got. I'm naming six songs
that definitely would be in my top ten. I don't know the order or
anything. I've never used twenty songs for me to think of. But these
are six songs of his I love and are among my favorites. I know
it's kind of cheating a little bit, but I don't. I just can't.
I can't do it. I can't do it. I need more time,
I just sit down and really thinking about it, because his catalog is
so big. But these are just these are six songs that I are among
my favorites. I love what is can't stop this feeling I got and handed
down into my toes. So can't stop this feeling I got is the opening
song from Raffredi Bridge, which is the sequel of Purple Raine. Don't care
about that, not so much, but the song itself. Those are Dear
Dad, I feel like I'm about to explode and it goes to this big
explosion thing. It sounds getting on the headphones and it's the fun pop song.
But can't start feel like it. I love it that slows down at
the end. It's just an interesting, a great song. There are five
Silent Times from Silent Times, what a stark bleak song about a stark bleak
time. There are four in his disco era Sexy Dance there I want your
body, want your body, your sexy dancer. I love that whole thing.
Sexy Dancer. It's wonderful. The song from his album Prince So Back
in the seventies, number three. My brother and I both love this song
together so much. Dirty Mine from Dirty Mine. I know I have these,
I'm not realizing. There's a lot of the lead single Let's get Away.
Uh. The song is new wave, It's dance. It's really good
and Deztgerson's background vocal and everything. It says, you just gotta let me
lay, you gotta let me lay it, lay it. You just gotta
let me lay you gotta let me lay it down. And it stops.
And it's just like that music in your daddy's car. It's you. I
really want to draw it's it's just so goodh I got This song is so
good, it's so it's underrated. Also, i'manna say it's underrate it also
there before I Get Got You, I Guess again Artificial Cage from the album
Artificial Age. There was some the twenty tens to twenty sixteen when he died.
When he passed, he put out a series of albums that to me
were actually really good, but like they didn't get the they didn't get they
claim as they some of them sold well, but they didn't. They claim
his old stuff and lead a underrated. I played the song for Flow on
my buddy Flow Well he loved it. There are several songs funking' roll,
the songs off this off this album that I love that. To me,
it reminds me he had he still do a message in a song, which
is what he does so well, do a message in the song. And
and real he'll tell you about yourself. I love it. I just like
he just he's so and and and and dressed up in something really good.
So he's good at that. Okay, that's one of my songs and number
one. Am I black or white? Am I straight or gay? Controversy?
He a black man in the early eighties and music did not look like
him, sound like him, or talk like him. And in the song,
he brings up so many things that I just not said from black man
and black straight man, especially because he but he was playing with gender,
he was playing with sexuality, was playing with color. You know that lie
my black white at my stranger gay. He's addressing the critics. That album
cover he's addressed. It's set up like a tabloid and all the titles of
the songs, but he's addressing the critics controversy like literally what a great Yeah.
Actually, some of his songs are under controversy music. That's one of
the things he did. That controversy is probably one of my top five songs
of his all time, if I had to go at top five. It's
just again so good speaking to the public. It has meaning. Rest in
peace, Prince Rogers Nelson, whatever you're doing, hopefully you're up there playing
great music for them. The vaults are releasing his vultually releasing music all the
time. I'm collecting his stuff. I'm going through listening to things that he
did, and he was so prolific and I learned so much from him.
I learned so much from him that I that I take my own self because
of my songwriting and everything that I do. So it's a little sum there,
but it's still I guess fifty plus related and genics related. If you're
a Prince fan, you have some favorites, tell what your favorites are,
comedy in the comments, what songs you think are underrated by him? Tell
me what songs you think, what concerts you went and saw like. Let
me know what you think. Or if you have another artist that you love
so much, or you would like me to talk about as from our era
gen x era, let me know and I'll talk about them if I have
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