>Will Miner wrote:
>
>>It's been 16 years since Thriller and 15 since Purple Rain, 12 since
>>Sign O The Times. None of them has been <snip> ... influential on the
>>hip and new in a while. Even the Prince clones are old history.
>
> Um, Beatles clones were old history a lot longer ago but does that
> mean the Beatles are not (for better or worse) a lasting influence? I
> see Prince's influence quite plainly in much new R&B, trip-hop etc.
> (Tricky and Massive Attack are obvious cases, and you see him cited by
> even more wildly un-Princelike bands in interviews all the time.) Als
> I suspect the real impact of TAFKAP will have to wait out the annoying
> pomposity of the glyph-o-maniac's public pronouncements (just as
> late-Miles's influence has resurged among jazzers and rockers alike,
> now that his personal tics are fading in time's amnesia). And tho,
> yeah, he seems to be in a less incandescent phase, every record he
> puts out has enough brilliant strokes for me to be far from counting
> him out yet. Unless he just gets crazier and crazier with the years,
> in a Howard Hughes rather than Brian Wilson sorta way.
>
> As for MJ - listen to the radio, man. From Hanson on up, the people
> who are makin' hits were born to the sound of Thriller.
>
> Carl W.
A man after my own heart!
Prince has also been cited by Chuck D. as a profound influence, while Dr.
Dre has pointed to the Black Album as a major influence on NWA.
