2002 Part 2/ 2003: Part 1: Xpectation New Directions In Music One of the great joys of the Music Club years is that Prince was releasing...

2002: One Nite Alone / One Nite Alone....Live! / One Nite Alone...Live: Up All Nite With Prince And The NPG Image: NPG Records / Prince...

Image: Cbabi Bayek / NPG Records / Paisley Park Enterprises 2001 Part 2: The Rainbow Children, and Prince’s Problematic but Compelling...

2000-2001 Part 1: NPG Music Club Year 1 We now come to Prince’s “wilderness years.” When people talk about the times when Prince was...

Image: NPG Records 1999, Part 2: Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic In the past few years, I have been asked by people too young to remember what...

1999 Part 1: Old Friends 4 Sale Sometimes I wonder if artists worry about moments like Prince faced in 1999. When he sat down to write a...

1998 Part 3: Newpower Soul and The War EP Image: The Prince Estate / NPG Records As the touring schedule for Emancipation started to...

Original artwork for the downloadable versions of The Truth prior to the 2023 reissue image: NPG Records / Prince Estate The Perks Of...

1998 Part 1: Have You Ever Had A Crystal Ball? Last week I made a big deal out of how much music Prince released in 1996, at something...

1996 Part 2: Always Had 2 Have Double Everything Before sitting down to gather my thoughts for last week and this week’s entry, I don’t...

1996 Part 1: From “For You” To “Had U” After years of bitter stalemate, Warner Bros. Records was finally ready to blink. Prince had two...

1995: You Have Just Accessed... The Gold Experience My experience of music does not have strong connections to times and places. Other...

1994 Part 3 And 1995 Part 1: The Exodus Has Begun The Beautiful Experience A lot of what Prince did in the mid-90’s amounts to trolling...

1994 Part 2: Come When I undertook this project, I immediately thought of what it would take to write about the albums released in...

1994 Part 1: 1-800 NEW FUNK The Year Prince Lost His Way It’s now 1994. Prince and Warner Bros. Records were in open conflict, and it...

1993: You Can Be The Side Effect, I’d Rather Be The Dope Herb Ritts / Warner Bros / NPG Records This is the point at which moving through...

1992: His Name Is Prince, For The Moment After Diamonds And Pearls sold a few million copies, Warner was happy to sign an extension to...

1991, Part 2: We Got A New Style For The Next Eight Years All images (c) NPG Records They Say That You Ain’t You Know What in Baby Who...

1991, Part 1: Closing Down The Madhouse I end up doing more research for these essays than I thought possible when I started. This one is...

Pumpin’ The Big Noise In The 90’s Graffiti Bridge is a bad album. There is no other way to say it. It is not as bad as the movie that...