{"id":11330,"date":"2021-04-22T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11330"},"modified":"2021-05-07T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:03:33","slug":"singles-party-with-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/22\/singles-party-with-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Singles Party With Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All 85 Prince singles, ranked 4 u from worst 2 best<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0MIKAEL WOOD<\/a>, POP MUSIC CRITIC\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Purple reign: Prince throughout the years. (Micah Fluellen \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When\u00a0Prince died<\/a>\u00a0five years ago this week, he left behind one of the richest, deepest, smartest, funniest, most beautiful and most complicated collections of work that pop music has ever known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it hasn\u2019t stopped growing since he passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince believed in sprawl, as he demonstrated with double and triple albums and with an internet storehouse of music he invited his fans to wander. Since his death, the artist\u2019s estate has issued multiple LPs and\u00a0box sets of material<\/a>\u00a0pulled from the famous vault at his Paisley Park complex in suburban Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet Prince was also devoted to the concise pleasures \u2014 and to the market-exciting potential \u2014 of a hit single. In his career as a solo act and as the frontman of the Revolution and the New Power Generation, he placed 47 songs on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100, all of them before digital streaming opened up pop\u2019s flagship chart to viral flukes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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