Thanks for doing this. What a GREAT WAY TO TOP THE YEAR... Been busy. Missed your great work for a few weeks... Can't begin to tell of how HUGE PURPLE RAIN Album was to our group. In the Spring of 85. Was in 8th grade. Highschool won State Track. Awesome had PURPLE RAIN. And too many Hot Chicks to count at the Big Parties on the outskirts of town at the Big Swimming cliff jumping hole..in the HOT LATE SPRING. EARLY SUMMER. TAKE ME BACK...."LETS GO CRAZY".....
What a fantastic video. Every Prince fan should watch this. Thank you 🤩. And Purple Rain is without doubt one of, if not, the greatest album of all time.
Amazing coverage as usual Kurt you just seem to get better and better my friend, even though your coverage was extensive you did leave out the late 70’s with his first two albums “For You” with Soft & Wet and his self titled album “Prince” with I wanna be your lover and I feel for you
Great video. Yes, totally agree. 1984 was the year of Prince. I became a Prince fan when I was 9 when Controversy came out and stayed a fan for life. His genius will never be able to be replicated. Seeing him live was a whole otherworldly experience. He is so missed. 💜💜
My dude PRINCE is my all-time favorite artist and musician! His music is the soundtrack to my life. His first album called For You came out in 1978 when I was 13, and his last album was released in 2016 when I was 51 years old. He released an average of two albums in each of those years not counting his other projects! I was 18 years old in 1984 and had just graduated from High School in the Chatsworth area of the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles when the PURPLE RAIN film and album was released. Both changed my life forever! However, in my opinion, Prince's best year was 1982! That's the year that my favorite album of his 1999 was released, which was his magnum opus double album and an uncut funk bomb, along with TIME's best album WHAT TIME IS IT? along with the awesome VANITY 6 album! He also went on a successful international sold-out tour known as the TRIPLE THREAT TOUR with both acts! The TIME still had Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in the band during this period as well. PRINCE and his crew were in full effect during that time! It was a movement that rivaled James Brown and George Clinton during the 1970s! In my opinion, PRINCE was on top of his game in 1982! That year made it possible for everything else afterward.
Amazing video, seems like Prince fitted in what most people do in their whole career in 84, I mean wow he was a busy boy for sure. I will never forget seeing him on his flying bed on the diamonds and pearls tour at Earl’s Court London, was amazing. Again great video and happy new year! You rock 🎸 peace ☮️
Amazing stuff...what memories! to actually be there on site!! Standing where Prince stood near the wheel on the pond....1984 was the greatest year and was the year we decided to move to Southern California!! I was just 15 years old.
Such a great video! I forgot all he was involved in at that time. Crazy great talent. Prince was everywhere and I was in high school at this time. Thanks for starting the new year right!
I've never got this Prince/ Michael Jackson comparison thing, Prince done the lot, Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, plus wrote his own material and played every instrument extremely well, Jackson was a Pop star/Dancer.
@@kaizer1903 she’s alive. He’s dead. Prince didn’t come close. MJ was already a star as a kid. Don’t compare manufactured Taylor swift who got turned down record deals 🤡
MJ produced music by telling the musicians what and how to play. Without his input some of his biggest songs wouldn’t exist. He just didn’t play any instruments
@NYCKZ360 The musicians that were in MJs band were all top class. They would have had more knowledge than him what to play and where to play it. Prince played everything himself plus sang and wrote all his own material.
Prince & MJ. There will never be anyone who can ever get close. I'm thankful I was alive and to see the many things they accomplished. Rest In Power to both of them!!!
After Purple Rain, Prince literally took over the music industry for 3 years straight, opening the Minneapolis Sound flood gates to the world and everyone was like...Michael Who?
He was more than 'the King of Funk' a whole lot more. He produced some amazing albums before 1984 (say, 'Dirty Mind') and some after ('Sign O' Times, 1999, Around The World In A Day, Diamonds & Pearls). His collaborations with other artists boosting, them 'The Bangles', 'Sheena Easton', 'Chaka Khan' etc An amazing man. I was listening to a 'black comic book pod cast' in the early 2010s and they one guy went to a Prince concert and he was talking about several middle aged white guys attending his live concerts alone and just getting down and dancing. Prince was an intoxicating guy with his music. I remember as a kid in the 80s he had the reach which would create devoted fans in the the far reaches of rainy, dark North West England.
Prince is GOD. No one touches him. It's not even close. He did everything on his own. From writing, signing, playing every instrument, engineering, mastering, thinking up the image and look for each project... He had 39 Studio Albums, but 17,000+ unreleased songs. He toured pretty much every year from 1979-2016. Each concert was 2-3 hours long with another 1+ hour aftershow. He didn't have producers. He didn't have a staff of writers trying to react an image or recapture their past glory... really comprehend it was ONE GUY doing everything... sure he might have a traveling band or an engineer to speed up the process but he didn't need them. His first 4 Albums were 100% him playing everything. No one has topped the project of Purple Rain.. the album, the concert and making a movie around the whole album. It's not separate videos for each song, but a full movie around a full album. It's not even close... He was 24 years old doing this. By himself. A one man creative factory. He alone - competed against other artists fully staffed record labels with multiple departments. As a fan the unreleased music from 1985-1986 from road house garden and other separate tracks - power fantastic and many others... If Prince combined some of Around the World in a Day/Parade with some of Road House Garden , into a double album. He'd be even on another level... If he did a Purple Rsin World Tour and played all of Europe instead of doing ATWIAD... He'd be on yet another level. I wish I was his manager and let me pick those 1985-1986, 1988.. songs into double albums. He recorded them. I just could have put incredible projects together... as a fan. The best thing about Prince fans, you read it on Prince.org we were hyper critical of him, because he was great!!! His fans wanted more and he was so talented he delivered or accepted fan criticism. 💜
He did have co writers for some songs. Mountains, Sometimes It Snows In April, Power Fantastic, Computer Blue and others were co written by Prince with Wendy and Lisa. And Prince's father wrote the guitar solo on Computer Blue.
@pobstrel Sure and had a band contribute a riff here or there. But the volume of material he has ... heard and unheard by the public, he wouldn't need their suggestions or you could throw those songs out. Tò be honest.. There's so many songs I've heard from 1983-1992.. I don’t know why he chose some songs for albums over unreleased hits? He should have had some friends with fresh ears listen to what he had or omg I've heard live sound checks better than the produced tracks.
@@pobstrelcheck out.. UA-cam search - prince noon rendezvous live... look for Slearly, it has just a black screen.... It's a practice sound check and you can hear him figuring out the lyrics. It's incredible, better than the First Avenue birthday show, done later that day.
Most of his concerts were probably 2-3 hours. In 2011, I saw him in Tacoma, Wa and TBH, it was a bit of a disappointment. That concert was barely 90 minutes long that night. And, Purple Rain was 15 minutes long with most of that song being just the chorus. It was still very good. It just seemed he decided to leave right in the middle of his set, that might
Most of his concerts were probably 2-3 hours. In 2011, I saw him in Tacoma, Wa and TBH, it was a bit of a disappointment. That concert was barely 90 minutes long that night. And, Purple Rain was 15 minutes long with most of that song being just the chorus. It was still very good. It just seemed he decided to leave right in the middle of his set, that might
I'm a Michael guy.. from an entire Prince family so I pretty much know all of his music up until Sign O The Times... He's come close to Thriller once in his life. By that, I mean an album that was good from top to bottom. Every song could be a single.. and of course I'm talking about Purple Rain. 1999 was great, but there were songs that were just filler unless you're an hardcore Prince fan. I played the Controversy album every day after school... But that album had a bunch of stuff that was exclusively for Prince fans and no one else. Annie Christian wasn't gonna be on any top 10 countdown and songs like Jack- U **f prove, that wasn't even his goal. Dirty Minds is a masterpiece in it's own way. Even if it's just because of how revolutionary (no pun intended) it was for the time. The man released songs like Sister and Head before Too Short and Eminem even existed as artist. His self titled sophomore album was extremely good, and not just for his fans, but here he hadn't quite figured out what that album should be. It's sounds as if he was trying to please Warner Bros., please his fans by making a good follow up to the For You album and still create something new by fusing together funk, pop and rock...and don't get mad, but I think he failed at all of it on this one. The For You album is the most non-Prince fan friendly album he has besides Purple Rain... but compared to the virtuoso he'd become years later, he hadn't fully developed. This album contains only a fraction of his talents and capabilities. There's no Punk or New Wave elements and is mostly a Funk/Rock fusion. This album was closer to Sly and The Family Stone than it was to the artist he'd grow to be. I feel Prince had to find himself as an artist, while Michael knew exactly who he was (as an artist) and what he wanted to do since he was 17 years old. Just judging from his music, I don't think Prince fully knew until the 1999 album... and that's no knock to him, Michael was a showbiz veteran before you ever knew who Prince was, so he had a huge advantage from being a superstar since age 11. This is just my opinion as a non-hardcore Prince fan, and to show that I'm not being totally biased, Michael never came close to Thriller again either. All his other attempts were just that: ATTEMPTS. I didn't mention The Parade album because it would show how different my opinion is about Prince's music than most of his true fans.. I feel Parade (Under The Cherry Moon Soundtrack) is his second best album next to Purple Rain. Extremely underrated and trashed by most of his fans. Kiss, Mountains, Snows In April, Anothalovaholeinyohead, Girls and Boys... THIS THING WAS PHENOMENAL!! and you guys hate it??? I'm clearly in the wrong crowd. 🤣
"Prince was way overated"? Prince was an extremely accomplished Guitarist, Bassist, Drummer, and Pianist. He also had an extraordinary vocal range. You might not like Prince's music but surely you can appreciate his tremendous musicianship.
Man, that Billboard top 10 from 1984. Nothing but stone cold bangers
Funny you say that... watch my new video today at noon.
Bangers? Must be Gen Z?!
Great video! Prince was a genius
And you know why I was thankful for Nothing Compares 2 U 😎
Thanks for doing this. What a GREAT WAY TO TOP THE YEAR... Been busy. Missed your great work for a few weeks... Can't begin to tell of how HUGE PURPLE RAIN Album was to our group. In the Spring of 85. Was in 8th grade. Highschool won State Track. Awesome had PURPLE RAIN. And too many Hot Chicks to count at the Big Parties on the outskirts of town at the Big Swimming cliff jumping hole..in the HOT LATE SPRING. EARLY SUMMER. TAKE ME BACK...."LETS GO CRAZY".....
Being from the Twin Cities, I can say that it doesn't matter what your background is, everyone here has a place in their heart for Prince.
What a fantastic video. Every Prince fan should watch this. Thank you 🤩. And Purple Rain is without doubt one of, if not, the greatest album of all time.
Amazing coverage as usual Kurt you just seem to get better and better my friend, even though your coverage was extensive you did leave out the late 70’s with his first two albums “For You” with Soft & Wet and his self titled album “Prince” with I wanna be your lover and I feel for you
Prince was bored after not producing anything for 5 mins, lmao. So true! That being said, his over-achievements are a blessing for all our ears :)
Great video. Yes, totally agree. 1984 was the year of Prince. I became a Prince fan when I was 9 when Controversy came out and stayed a fan for life. His genius will never be able to be replicated. Seeing him live was a whole otherworldly experience. He is so missed. 💜💜
My dude PRINCE is my all-time favorite artist and musician! His music is the soundtrack to my life. His first album called For You came out in 1978 when I was 13, and his last album was released in 2016 when I was 51 years old.
He released an average of two albums in each of those years not counting his other projects!
I was 18 years old in 1984 and had just graduated from High School in the Chatsworth area of the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles when the PURPLE RAIN film and album was released.
Both changed my life forever!
However, in my opinion, Prince's best year was 1982! That's the year that my favorite album of his 1999 was released, which was his magnum opus double album and an uncut funk bomb, along with TIME's best album WHAT TIME IS IT? along with the awesome VANITY 6 album!
He also went on a successful international sold-out tour known as the TRIPLE THREAT TOUR with both acts! The TIME still had Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in the band during this period as well.
PRINCE and his crew were in full effect during that time! It was a movement that rivaled James Brown and George Clinton during the 1970s!
In my opinion, PRINCE was on top of his game in 1982!
That year made it possible for everything else afterward.
His best year commmercially for sure
...gotta luv❤them 80's - thanks and Happy Holidays 🎄🎇☃❄🌲😎🖤💯💫👍!
Civilization peaked in 1984. Case in point, prolific PRINCE!
Happy New YEAR 2025 🎉
Purple Rain was a movement.
Well done, Kurt! Good stuff.
07:27 Look at that chart, every song an absolute smash.
Amazing video, seems like Prince fitted in what most people do in their whole career in 84, I mean wow he was a busy boy for sure. I will never forget seeing him on his flying bed on the diamonds and pearls tour at Earl’s Court London, was amazing. Again great video and happy new year! You rock 🎸 peace ☮️
Amazing stuff...what memories! to actually be there on site!! Standing where Prince stood near the wheel on the pond....1984 was the greatest year and was the year we decided to move to Southern California!! I was just 15 years old.
Such a great video! I forgot all he was involved in at that time. Crazy great talent. Prince was everywhere and I was in high school at this time. Thanks for starting the new year right!
I’m happy to say that I had the pleasure of watching Prince perform this tour Live in Miami with my parents🕺🏻
I was in Minneapolis last year and saw Prince's childhood home and mural.
My good friend toured with Prince on the Hit And Run Tour in 2014/15 and gave me one of Prince's guitar picks - I will cherish it forever 💜
I've never got this Prince/ Michael Jackson comparison thing, Prince done the lot, Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, plus wrote his own material and played every instrument extremely well, Jackson was a Pop star/Dancer.
Mike wrote songs too. Mike had the longer more illustrated career. So no comparison 😂…Mike made 600 million this year. Prince not on that level
@johnny6610 Taylor Swift "made" over a billion, so by your logic she must be twice the artist of MJ.
@@kaizer1903 she’s alive. He’s dead. Prince didn’t come close. MJ was already a star as a kid. Don’t compare manufactured Taylor swift who got turned down record deals 🤡
MJ produced music by telling the musicians what and how to play. Without his input some of his biggest songs wouldn’t exist. He just didn’t play any instruments
@NYCKZ360 The musicians that were in MJs band were all top class. They would have had more knowledge than him what to play and where to play it.
Prince played everything himself plus sang and wrote all his own material.
Super cool RIP prince 🎶🎶🎶🎶
Entered this life on the third day of that magical year.
Prince & MJ. There will never be anyone who can ever get close. I'm thankful I was alive and to see the many things they accomplished. Rest In Power to both of them!!!
To answer your question: Commercially? Yes. But he had more creative periods later (86-88, 93-95, etc)
After Purple Rain, Prince literally took over the music industry for 3 years straight, opening the Minneapolis Sound flood gates to the world and everyone was like...Michael Who?
He was more than 'the King of Funk' a whole lot more. He produced some amazing albums before 1984 (say, 'Dirty Mind') and some after ('Sign O' Times, 1999, Around The World In A Day, Diamonds & Pearls). His collaborations with other artists boosting, them 'The Bangles', 'Sheena Easton', 'Chaka Khan' etc An amazing man.
I was listening to a 'black comic book pod cast' in the early 2010s and they one guy went to a Prince concert and he was talking about several middle aged white guys attending his live concerts alone and just getting down and dancing. Prince was an intoxicating guy with his music.
I remember as a kid in the 80s he had the reach which would create devoted fans in the the far reaches of rainy, dark North West England.
Yes, it was his best year hands down.
Would have been amazing to have Erotic City and 17 Days included on the Purple Rain soundtrack in my personal opinion. 🤷🏻♂️
Would you like some grapes with your pancakes?
Dirty Mind, 1999 and Purple rain were his absolute best
💜⭐️🌙
My first exposure to Prince was in the movie 'Still Smokin' with Cheech and Chong.
Most commercially successful?
Not his best artistically IMHO.
Yes it was. He got into drugs after that and his music suffered
Prince is GOD. No one touches him. It's not even close. He did everything on his own. From writing, signing, playing every instrument, engineering, mastering, thinking up the image and look for each project... He had 39 Studio Albums, but 17,000+ unreleased songs. He toured pretty much every year from 1979-2016. Each concert was 2-3 hours long with another 1+ hour aftershow.
He didn't have producers. He didn't have a staff of writers trying to react an image or recapture their past glory... really comprehend it was ONE GUY doing everything... sure he might have a traveling band or an engineer to speed up the process but he didn't need them. His first 4 Albums were 100% him playing everything.
No one has topped the project of Purple Rain.. the album, the concert and making a movie around the whole album. It's not separate videos for each song, but a full movie around a full album.
It's not even close... He was 24 years old doing this. By himself. A one man creative factory.
He alone - competed against other artists fully staffed record labels with multiple departments.
As a fan the unreleased music from 1985-1986 from road house garden and other separate tracks - power fantastic and many others... If Prince combined some of Around the World in a Day/Parade with some of Road House Garden , into a double album.
He'd be even on another level...
If he did a Purple Rsin World Tour and played all of Europe instead of doing ATWIAD... He'd be on yet another level.
I wish I was his manager and let me pick those 1985-1986, 1988.. songs into double albums. He recorded them. I just could have put incredible projects together... as a fan.
The best thing about Prince fans, you read it on Prince.org we were hyper critical of him, because he was great!!! His fans wanted more and he was so talented he delivered or accepted fan criticism.
💜
He did have co writers for some songs. Mountains, Sometimes It Snows In April, Power Fantastic, Computer Blue and others were co written by Prince with Wendy and Lisa. And Prince's father wrote the guitar solo on Computer Blue.
@pobstrel Sure and had a band contribute a riff here or there. But the volume of material he has ... heard and unheard by the public, he wouldn't need their suggestions or you could throw those songs out.
Tò be honest..
There's so many songs I've heard from 1983-1992.. I don’t know why he chose some songs for albums over unreleased hits?
He should have had some friends with fresh ears listen to what he had or omg I've heard live sound checks better than the produced tracks.
@@pobstrelcheck out.. UA-cam search - prince noon rendezvous live... look for Slearly, it has just a black screen....
It's a practice sound check and you can hear him figuring out the lyrics. It's incredible, better than the First Avenue birthday show, done later that day.
Most of his concerts were probably 2-3 hours. In 2011, I saw him in Tacoma, Wa and TBH, it was a bit of a disappointment. That concert was barely 90 minutes long that night. And, Purple Rain was 15 minutes long with most of that song being just the chorus. It was still very good. It just seemed he decided to leave right in the middle of his set, that might
Most of his concerts were probably 2-3 hours. In 2011, I saw him in Tacoma, Wa and TBH, it was a bit of a disappointment. That concert was barely 90 minutes long that night. And, Purple Rain was 15 minutes long with most of that song being just the chorus. It was still very good. It just seemed he decided to leave right in the middle of his set, that might
Where is my original comment???
It was nothing degrading or disrespectful.
UA-cam... are you that pathetic????
What was your original comment?
I've seen a few other people say that their comments are being deleted by UA-cam. It makes me really angry.
I'm a Michael guy.. from an entire Prince family so I pretty much know all of his music up until Sign O The Times... He's come close to Thriller once in his life. By that, I mean an album that was good from top to bottom. Every song could be a single.. and of course I'm talking about Purple Rain. 1999 was great, but there were songs that were just filler unless you're an hardcore Prince fan. I played the Controversy album every day after school... But that album had a bunch of stuff that was exclusively for Prince fans and no one else. Annie Christian wasn't gonna be on any top 10 countdown and songs like Jack- U **f prove, that wasn't even his goal. Dirty Minds is a masterpiece in it's own way. Even if it's just because of how revolutionary (no pun intended) it was for the time. The man released songs like Sister and Head before Too Short and Eminem even existed as artist. His self titled sophomore album was extremely good, and not just for his fans, but here he hadn't quite figured out what that album should be. It's sounds as if he was trying to please Warner Bros., please his fans by making a good follow up to the For You album and still create something new by fusing together funk, pop and rock...and don't get mad, but I think he failed at all of it on this one. The For You album is the most non-Prince fan friendly album he has besides Purple Rain... but compared to the virtuoso he'd become years later, he hadn't fully developed. This album contains only a fraction of his talents and capabilities. There's no Punk or New Wave elements and is mostly a Funk/Rock fusion. This album was closer to Sly and The Family Stone than it was to the artist he'd grow to be. I feel Prince had to find himself as an artist, while Michael knew exactly who he was (as an artist) and what he wanted to do since he was 17 years old. Just judging from his music, I don't think Prince fully knew until the 1999 album... and that's no knock to him, Michael was a showbiz veteran before you ever knew who Prince was, so he had a huge advantage from being a superstar since age 11. This is just my opinion as a non-hardcore Prince fan, and to show that I'm not being totally biased, Michael never came close to Thriller again either. All his other attempts were just that: ATTEMPTS. I didn't mention The Parade album because it would show how different my opinion is about Prince's music than most of his true fans.. I feel Parade (Under The Cherry Moon Soundtrack) is his second best album next to Purple Rain. Extremely underrated and trashed by most of his fans. Kiss, Mountains, Snows In April, Anothalovaholeinyohead, Girls and Boys... THIS THING WAS PHENOMENAL!! and you guys hate it??? I'm clearly in the wrong crowd. 🤣
Prince was way over raided
"Prince was way overated"?
Prince was an extremely accomplished Guitarist, Bassist, Drummer, and Pianist. He also had an extraordinary vocal range. You might not like Prince's music but surely you can appreciate his tremendous musicianship.
@@kaizer1903 Look at the username, tells you all you need to know.
@Stevelives13 Ah yes, the feeble minded trumpy supporter, "over raided" rather than "overated," makes sense now. 😂