West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Lincoln on May 11, 2004, 07:57:18 PM
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Been bugging me for a week or so, I'm interested in seeing the views of people on this board.
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Prince is a great artist, but he hasn't affected the music scene like Curtis Mayfield has.
Curtis Mayfield started the Impressions, for god's sake. He helped launch Jerry Butler. "People Get Ready" is better than anything Prince has ever done, from not only a songwriting perspective, but also from a aspect of impact on the game. Nothing Prince has done has affected the music community much, but People Get Ready was one of those songs that helped to totally change music. Also, it sounds as good today as it did 50 fucking years ago.
EASSSSSSSILY Curtis Mayfield on this one.
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Prince is a great artist, but he hasn't affected the music scene like Curtis Mayfield has.
Curtis Mayfield started the Impressions, for god's sake. He helped launch Jerry Butler. "People Get Ready" is better than anything Prince has ever done, from not only a songwriting perspective, but also from a aspect of impact on the game. Nothing Prince has done has affected the music community much, but People Get Ready was one of those songs that helped to totally change music. Also, it sounds as good today as it did 50 fucking years ago.
EASSSSSSSILY Curtis Mayfield on this one.
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Prince is a great artist, but he hasn't affected the music scene like Curtis Mayfield has.
Curtis Mayfield started the Impressions, for god's sake. He helped launch Jerry Butler. "People Get Ready" is better than anything Prince has ever done, from not only a songwriting perspective, but also from a aspect of impact on the game. Nothing Prince has done has affected the music community much, but People Get Ready was one of those songs that helped to totally change music. Also, it sounds as good today as it did 50 fucking years ago.
EASSSSSSSILY Curtis Mayfield on this one.
Okay I agree that it is Mayfield, but I have a question, How did MJ change music? For the better?
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i'm not going to downplay curtis mayfield's influence to boost prince's but IMO Prince takes this battle. Prince redefined a genre like no other artist before or after him has. i mean look at soul and funk music before 1999 and purple rain paisly park and sign of the times and then look at it after...hell prince had even MJ taking notes.
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i'm not going to downplay curtis mayfield's influence to boost prince's but IMO Prince takes this battle. Prince redefined a genre like no other artist before or after him has. i mean look at soul and funk music before 1999 and purple rain paisly park and sign of the times and then look at it after...hell prince had even MJ taking notes.
Yup
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They are both extremely dope, but I have always prefered Curtis Mayfield out of the two, mainly because he stayed dope throughout his career, where as Prince went very strange on us for a number of years, and was putting out albums which didn't really deserve to have his name attached to them, judging by the difference in quality between them and his earlier albums.
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I'm reading good arguments from both sides, I've been playing them both like crazy the last couple days and I am having trouble deciding. I guess I'll keep listening.
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I don't listen to either alot cause it ain't my favorite style of music, but for me it's Mayfield too. Like Waitin for The DJ said, I haven't heard anything strange or low quality by him and I'm just feelin tracks like "Move On Up", "Superfly" or "Pusherman" more than anything Prince ever did
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The thing is the too are very close when it comes to talent, and saying one is better than the other would be fine no matter who you choose. I mean it's not like Tupac vs. Chingy, or anything like that.
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Legends...
"Superfly sdtk" (vs) "Purple rain"
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Hatesrats 2oooIV
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Legends...
"Superfly sdtk" (vs) "Purple rain"
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Hatesrats 2oooIV
Tough choice, both contain some of the greatest material ever.
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CURTIS HANdS DOWN
hence the nick
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Prince is a great artist, but he hasn't affected the music scene like Curtis Mayfield has.
Curtis Mayfield started the Impressions, for god's sake. He helped launch Jerry Butler. "People Get Ready" is better than anything Prince has ever done, from not only a songwriting perspective, but also from a aspect of impact on the game. Nothing Prince has done has affected the music community much, but People Get Ready was one of those songs that helped to totally change music. Also, it sounds as good today as it did 50 fucking years ago.
EASSSSSSSILY Curtis Mayfield on this one.
Okay I agree that it is Mayfield, but I have a question, How did MJ change music? For the better?
That's irrelevant to this discussion, and it's also irrelevant to the MJ/Bruce discussion, because Bruce didn't change music, EITHER.
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i'm not going to downplay curtis mayfield's influence to boost prince's but IMO Prince takes this battle. Prince redefined a genre like no other artist before or after him has. i mean look at soul and funk music before 1999 and purple rain paisly park and sign of the times and then look at it after...hell prince had even MJ taking notes.
You should do your homework before you say something so stupid. Read up on Curtis Mayfield, he wasn't just the guy that did "Supafly".
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Yall are just comparing "Superfly" to "Purple Rain", which is a fallacy because Curtis was already a legend before Superfly even came out. Download
"Keep on Pushin'"
"People Get Ready"
"Gypsy Woman"
etc. Etc. Etc. and then Judge. It's no contest.
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Prince is a great artist, but he hasn't affected the music scene like Curtis Mayfield has.
Curtis Mayfield started the Impressions, for god's sake. He helped launch Jerry Butler. "People Get Ready" is better than anything Prince has ever done, from not only a songwriting perspective, but also from a aspect of impact on the game. Nothing Prince has done has affected the music community much, but People Get Ready was one of those songs that helped to totally change music. Also, it sounds as good today as it did 50 fucking years ago.
EASSSSSSSILY Curtis Mayfield on this one.
Okay I agree that it is Mayfield, but I have a question, How did MJ change music? For the better?
That's irrelevant to this discussion, and it's also irrelevant to the MJ/Bruce discussion, because Bruce didn't change music, EITHER.
I don't want to get into this and make it another one of my Springsteen advertisements, but, in the early to mid seventies when Rock n Roll was going corporate, and artists were losing touch with their roots, an album came out in 1975. This album was called Born To Run, it went about 6 platinum, not extremely well but not bad either, and showed artists, present and future, that Rock n Roll can be good, soulful, meaningful, and successful. VH1's "behind the music 1975" captures this perfectly. Bruce brought rock back to its roots, and let it grow up too. If you don't think Bruce changed the biz than you need to do some reading.
I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO THOSE WHO CREATED AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE MAYFIELD VS PRICE THREAD FOR GOING OFF TOPIC WITH THE SPRINGSTEEN INFO. I'M SORRY.