No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

It is all Prince on the local alt-rock station:

http://www.thecurrent.org/listen

And Minnesota Public Radio is devoting all its programming right now to Prince. It would truly be hard to overestimate the influence he had over this community and the love this community has for him.

It's hard to overestimate the influence he had on music generally. Beatles comparisons are a sort of Godwin's Law when talking about this stuff. But they fit here in the regard that no sane person can say he doesn't really love at least three or four Beatles tunes. The same goes for Prince. (It also fits for Bowie, but I'm a bit burned out talking about Bowie right now, given that period of mourning has just ended.)

And if Purple Rain isn't a pop culture touchstone immediately rewinding you to your early teens, you weren't clinically alive during that decade.