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Hosted by Mike and Nathan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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When Prince's name is mentioned, nearly everyone's ears immediately ring with his peerless work from his imperial decade, the 1980s.But this American pop genius did some of his best, most fascinating, and sometimes most frustrating work in the decade that followed.Join the Crystal Ball Club as we dive deep into Prince's 1990s odyssey.
Mike and Nathan hosts Crystal Ball Club, a music show with 11 episodes published.
Despite being in one of his all-time prolific periods in the early 90s, Prince still had creative juice to spare: writing, recording, and often producing tracks and albums for collaborators old and new. Join Mike and Nat
While we mostly stay focused on the music at Crystal Ball Club, Prince's epic fight with Warner Brothers and his concurrent name change loom so large it would be almost impossible to understand some of his artistic choic
While we mostly focus on the music here at Crystal Ball Club, it's impossible to understand Prince's music in the mid to late 90s without grappling with his epic battle with his own record label and his simultaneous name
In the midst of one of his all-time most prolific periods as a solo artist / bandleader, Prince was also generating dozens of tracks with side projects and collaborators. Mike and Nathan dive into some of the best, as we
Prince entered the 1990s as prolific as ever, churning out CD-filling albums for himself and the NPG, but also writing and recording dozens more tracks for collaborators and side projects. Most were also demos for the sp
Forget reading the morning papers, Mike and Nathan break down Prince's most ambitious recording project yet, 1992's simultaneously amazing and frustrating [LOVE SYMBOL].
Fans earnestly debate how Prince's early 90s work stacks up against his 80s golden period, but there's little disagreement that his cinematic output was a straight arrow down -- from the exhilarating heights of Purple Ra
After the triumph of DIAMONDS AND PEARLS, our hero continued to bet on his instincts with the perplexingly untitled (self-titled?) album we now know as [LOVE SYMBOL]. Featuring on massive hit alongside refinements of the
By 1991 the music video as a commercial and artistic medium was in full flourish. Could Prince -- master of the recording studio and stage, and sometime movie star -- compete with music video powerhouses Michael Jackson
Prince may have been departing his true "golden period" by 1991 but he was as prolific as ever. Mike and Nathan take a deep dive through the vault (aka the DIAMONDS AND PEARLS SUPER DELUXE box) to carve out bonus albums
Don't call it a comeback? After two soundtrack detours in 1989 and 1990, Prince returned in 1991 with his first proper album since LOVESEXY with DIAMONDS AND PEARLS. Recognizing that hip hop was no fleeting fad while als
Rival Michael Jackson may have been the king of the music video, but in the 1980s Prince was a bone fide movie star. As the 90s dawned, Prince -- and his fans -- were into some choppy waters with the release of GRAFFITI
Prince kicked off the 1990s with his fourth soundtrack album, this one for GRAFFITI BRIDGE, a sequel to Purple Rain that reunited Prince with Morris Day and the Time, and added stars both established (Mavis Staples, Geor
Rare among era-defining pop artists, Prince spent his entire career creatively and personally anchored to a secondary market -- his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Resisting the lure of LA or NY, Prince doubled down
Did the 90s start on January 1st 1990 or 1991? Neither, they began on June 23, 1989 with the release of BATMAN, the first modern blockbuster, with a dizzying array of cross-promotions, product tie-ins, and of course a hi
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