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	PRINCE IN PRINT
		Black Album is the first of these releases, and it covers the same ground that multiplatinum rappers like Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. Dre explored years after it was recorded.
		Today, the harder bits of "The Black Album" may sound dated, but the disc as a whole is nonetheless illuminating; a frozen moment that bridges the gap between the fading new-wave pop of the day and the burgeoning gangsta rap of the future.
		Prince and Warners have struck a unique deal to issue "The Black Album" for a limited, two-month span, commencing this week and ending Jan. 27.
	princetext.tripod.com /r_black.html (3488 words)

	The Black Album (Prince) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prince may have simply decided that the album was of inferior quality and not a wise release.
		Despite the mystique surrounding it, The Black Album has typically been viewed by fans and critics as a somewhat pro forma, rushed effort by Prince, although it is treasured by aficionados of the artist's funkier side, being as close to a straight funk album as anything he ever recorded.
		Notably, the album features one of the most shockingly unusual Prince songs, "Bob George", in which he assumes the identity of a cursing, gun-wielding alter ego who murders a woman and dismisses the figure of Prince as "that skinny motherfucker with the high voice".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Black_Album_(Prince) (996 words)

	The Black Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Album (Boyd Rice) by Boyd Rice (1981).
		The Black Album (The Dandy Warhols) by The Dandy Warhols (2004).
		Black Album and Black Album II are unofficial albums by Sublime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Album (234 words)

	the scam: Prince - The Black Album
		Before the album could be released officially, however, Prince recalled all copies and abandoned the entire project, leaving roughly one hundred promotional vinyl copies in circulation, copies that would be widely bootlegged in the coming years.
		As recompense, the Lovesexy album was released not long after, an album that was supposedly diametrically opposed to the evil of the Black Album.
		Prince has always sung about fucking and dancing, but elsewhere he's at the very least attempted to clothe it somehow in an attitude that, while not necessarily subtle, had a certain coyness to it.
	www.renewal.org.au /scam/princeblackalbum.html (1254 words)

	The Black Album - Time \| Prince Lyrics \| princelyrics.co.uk
		Densely rhythmic and riddled with violent imagery, obscenities and the sound of gunshots, the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men -- a Clockwork Orange-style landscape ruled by drug dealers and petty hoods.
		Rumors spread in 1987 that the Black Album was kept from release because it was too raunchy and violent for radio (true) and the distributor was squeamish about its content (probably also true).
		The Black Album is far too stark and angry to restore him to his previous place on the charts -- no one buys a Prince record for scenes of social decay -- and it is not of the same quality as his best work.
	www.princelyrics.co.uk /viewreview.asp?review=72 (648 words)

	the black album - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The name Black Album has been given to several albums, either officially or by fans to refer to a self-titled album.
		There are also several albums known as The Blue Album, two called The Off-White Album (one by Martin Newell, the other by Dennis Miller), and one album known as The Green Album (by Weezer).
		Also of note is The Grey Album, by DJ Danger Mouse, a remix of Jay-Z's Black Album with The Beatles' White Album.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/the-black-album (143 words)

	VH1.com : Prince : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Prince was set to release the hard funk of The Black Album by the end of the year, yet he withdrew it just before its release, deciding it was too dark and immoral.
		With Crystal Ball, Prince discovered that it's much more difficult to get records to an audience than it seems; some fans who pre-ordered their copies through Prince's website (from which a bonus fifth disc was included) didn't receive them until months after the set began appearing in stores.
		Prince then released a new one-man album, New Power Soul, just three months after Crystal Ball; even though it was his most straightforward album since Diamonds and Pearls, it didn't do well on the charts, partly because many listeners didn't realize it had been released.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/prince/bio.jhtml (1106 words)

	The Black Market Album, February 5, 2002
		Prince fought his guitar as if it was trying to escape him, beating out a series of seemingly random sounds that somehow struck me as beautiful and moving.
		Prince was stunningly prolific, releasing at least one album every year.
		Just weeks before the album was to be released, Prince experienced one of his trademark mood swings and decided to halt the release, claiming that if he were to die before recording again he wouldn’t want this dark and negative album to represent him.
	www.pantstalk.com /2002/pt020502.html (1488 words)

	Amazon.com: The Black Album: Music: Prince (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		And worse, Prince insisted that the cover of both sides of the case to be fl with no writing, and his name nor the album title was to appear anywhere on the album.
		The explanation for Prince's abandonment of the album was that he had a religious revelation, and that God told him the album was evil (there have been rumors that he received this "revelation" while under the influence of ecstasy, but there is no substantial evidence to support this).
		Prince was afraid of dying and having this album being the last one he realeased, and the one he'd be remembered by.
	www.amazon.com /Black-Album-Prince/dp/B000008JLN (1652 words)

	PRINCE IN PRINT
		So it's not Prince the auteur singing those words, but Prince the ultrahip hero of the story, who rescues an Egyptian princess and dodges interviews with Cheers' Kirstie Alley (her voice is heard on the record in the role of a reporter).
		Prince's muse may be stuck up his boudoir, but their presence has anchored his music firmly in street and clubland.
		The result is an album that bristles with creative energy and songs that linger in the mind as well as the solar plexus.
	princetext.tripod.com /r_symbol.html (3010 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Black Album [Limited] - Prince at Epinions.com
		The record starts off with "Le Grind", a heavy Prince funk jam with lots of horns, piano, and drums, the lyrics aren't really groundbreaking, just about sex and partying,(just about all the songs on this album are pretty much about sex and partying).
		When this song was recorded in the late 80's rap was becoming the hot new thing, and Prince wasen't digging it, he felt that these clowns were not real musicians and that they were making a mockery of real music(although years later Prince would use rap on his on records, to mixed results).
		"The Black Album" was scheduled for release in the winter of 1987, but was shelved when Prince had some sort of religious experience that told him that it was wrong to release such raunchy material(in the years since then he has released way more nastier stuff than this.
	www.epinions.com /content_167608356484 (684 words)

	Prince
		Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958), known as (or, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) from 1993 to 2000, is a popular and influential American musician.
		Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Mount Sinai Hospital on June 7, 1958 to John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw.
		The album became the artist's most commercially lucrative since Diamonds and Pearls, partly due to a radical scheme devised on his part which enabled copies of the album presented to those who purchased tickets on the Musicology tour to be included in the album's overall sales as compiled by Billboard.
	www.artistopia.com /prince (7113 words)

	Rolling Stone : Prince: Biography
		Here, Prince flavored his rock with funk rather than the other way around, and the tinny keyboard hooks of the title cut, "Do It All Night," and the outrageously great "When You Were Mine" owed plenty to new wave.
		Throughout, Prince sounds furious, either at war ("Partyup") or with desire (take your pick), and his forthrightness marked him as a rock hero in the vein of Johnny Rotten or John Lennon as well as an heir to the soul-music throne.
		The funky, ribald Black Album is an excellent throwaway, and would have remained so had Prince not had a religious epiphany (brought on, according to biographers, by having been dosed with the drug ecstasy in a Minneapolis nightclub) and decided to shelve it.
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/prince/biography (1366 words)

	Enculturation: Jeff White
		When Prince signed new musicians and staff, part of their contract stipulated that they were not to speak to the press without his permission.
		Prince long fought to limit the control which Warner Brothers, the label under which he releases material, could have over him by writing all of his songs, producing and arranging each album, and by playing all of the instruments on most of his albums.
		If Prince presented texts into his body of work that would force the classificatory device to appropriate characteristics to encompass what he perceived as the dark negativity of this album, he, as author, could never erase them.
	enculturation.gmu.edu /2_2/white (3016 words)

	John's Prince Reviews
		The album attempts to be dark -- which, in a way, it is -- but it is about as successful as most gangster rap albums when it comes to profundity.
		The transition from Prince to The Artist Formerly Known as Prince was followed by two lack-luster albums and I began to get scared.
		The album closes with a mild call to arms entitled Gold, that is not bad, but is certainly not as impressive as most of the other tracks on the album.
	www.ais.org /~wambaugh/prince (5198 words)

	Prince/Bob Dylan/Religion
		She later learned that Prince had been nervous and was going through a conscience crisis that made him realise that it would be wrong to release the Black Album.
		Prince has spoken of a crucial ‘dark night of the soul, when a lot of things happened all in a few hours’ and described a vision of a vast field with the letters G-O-D hovering overhead.
		Prince does not seem to have any problems with is stance on religion and tour promoters, in the staes or abroad.
	www.prince.org /msg/7/68591 (2906 words)

	Edward, the Black Prince - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
		The Black Prince was the son of Edward III, and heir to the throne of England, and was the eldest of twelve legitimate children.
		The Black Prince was the second English prince to be invested as Prince of Wales, the first being his grandfather, Edward II.
		Although the title, Prince of Wales, was traditionally supposed to go to the king's eldest son, the Black Prince's father, Edward III, did not receive it.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/People/Edward-the-Black-Prince-14184.html (1673 words)

	The Black Album FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But he did release a titleless album that has been referred to as The Black Album, and at one time it was very rarely sometimes called The Monochrome Album.
		Regardless of the attempt to replicate the original album, the quasi-release and the re-release are distinguishable from the original release.
		But the real reason for holding the album back, Prince later told some of his friends, was that after finishing it he had a dream in which he experienced a religious vision.
	www.xeon-networks.com /blackleathur/pba_faq/pba_faq.html (1245 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 3121: Music: Prince (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Whilst not the strongest song on the album there is a definitive Prince quality to the song, reminiscent of such songs as 'Jam Of The Year' from the 'Emancipation' album.
		Prince appears to have chosen a less consistent musical signature for '3121' than some of his earlier work, selecting the order of the tracks in a contemporary arrangement to present each track on it's own merits.
		Prince celebrates intercourse and God in his various guises in equal amounts, often using the notions as the basis for his songwriting, occasionally basing entire albums around one concept ('Lovesexy' is a prime example).
	www.amazon.co.uk /3121-Prince/dp/B000E97HIA (1569 words)

	Prince (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Determined not to copy his past successes, Prince and the Revolution came up with a heavily orchestrated style, without the trademark drum effects and guitar distortion of the previous album.
		It's stripped-down funk, and fun to listen to, but it's easy to see why Prince didn't want to release it with his name on it: mostly party songs, recorded quickly, more characteristic of a Time album than of the intelligence and emotional range usually found on a Prince album.
		Mae plays some lovely stuff ("Xcogitate") and the rhythm section has an admirable light touch, but as with Prince's work with Madhouse and Eric Leeds, the compositions tend to be very simple and overly repetitive (title track, where a multi-tracked Dulfer keeps stating the same theme with increasing volume).
	www.warr.org /prince.html (4520 words)

	prince : shop
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	www.leninimports.com /prince_shop.html (452 words)

	Whiskeytown - Lost Highway
		The album was recorded three years ago in an old abandoned church in Woodstock, NY by the band's remaining core members - Ryan Adams, Mike Daley, and Caitlin Cary - in addition to special guests like Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, former Replacements/current Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer/producer Ethan Johns.
		The albums placed the North Carolina-based band at the forefront of the "No Depression" alternative-country movement, although the band became almost as well known for Adams' Replacements-like antics (after all, the singer-songwriter formed Whiskeytown immediately following the demise of his Raleigh, NC punk band, the Patty Duke Syndrome) as they were for Adams' brilliant songs.
		The album was originally mixed by Outpost's house producer and co-owner Scott Litt before Adams went back into the studio to mix the current, officially-released version with Ethan Johns (who also helmed Adams' much-lauded recent solo debut LP, Heartbreaker, and happens to be the son of legendary Rolling Stones producer, Glyn Johns).
	main.losthighwayrecords.com /artist.aspx?ob=ros&src=lb&aid=69 (1034 words)

	Prince - Musicology : album review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Now the dust has settled and a new power generation rules the roost, Prince is once again the correct name to drop at the right parties.
		In Reflection, Prince even has the audacity to leave one lusty lovely back in the boudoir, while he "sits out on the stoop" playing his guitar.
		Compared to the Prince we knew, Musicology is almost (almost) secular, with less of the endearingly loopy sex-as-salvation fixation.
	www.musicomh.com /albums/prince-2.htm (761 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Music \| Metallica
		One of the first albums that really spun my head as a young teenager was this very album.
		However Black was the first album that got the chins scratching amongst many of their older fans.
		This in turn has dented the reputation of the album; there are those like me who thought that Black was the last great album and those who think that this was the beginning of the end.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=869 (1058 words)

	CD Baby: BLACK PRINCE: No, Youthman No!
		Black Prince’s new CD “No, Youthman, No!” is released on his label, Master Peace Records.
		Black Prince’s shift to Reggae began in 1984 when he teamed up with Dervin Whyte and formed the Controllers.
		Black Prince adds, “When I can no longer perform my music, I want to find talented young people, write for them, train them, and prepare them for the music industry.
	cdbaby.com /cd/blackprince (973 words)

	SECTION 3 - prince / the artist "chaos and disorder"
		While he was still great and his talent or genius was never in question, not until the unreleased Black Album had Prince released material that was as good as his earlier efforts.
		Every album since then has gotten better and better (with the exception of Come, which was not as good as the previous four albums).
		I truly believe (as a lifelong Prince and The Artist fan) that this album is among the best he has ever done.
	www.section3.com /records/prince_chaos.shtml (729 words)

	Prince : The Love Symbol Album - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The New Power Generation is the most talented and versatile band Prince has ever fronted, and they fulfill their potential on The Love Symbol Album.
		Opening with the dance smash "My Name Is Prince" and the deep funk of "Sexy M.F.," The Love Symbol Album has Prince's best dance tracks since The Black Album.
		But Prince wasn't content; he decided to run the gamut of modern pop/R&B/dance, and the music is uniformly accomplished and excellent.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,149345,00.html (242 words)

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