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He deserves to rest in peace more than David Bowie does? What a weird thing to think. Weirder still to say. I'll admit, Prince's music has been more important to my life than Bowie's... I'm pretty much a Station to Station and Low guy when it comes to Bowie. I don't fuck with much else... at least not on a regular basis. While Prince has about seven albums that I don't think I could live without, and SO many individual songs that mean so much to me ina personal level that I can't even begin to count them up.
So I'm more affected by Prince's death than I was by Bowie's. I prefer Prince's music on the whole to Bowie's. But I still think Bowie was a brilliant man who left an incredible legacy behind.
But boy did they have it wrong when they said -- as so many did around the time of Bowie's death -- that he was the "last of the originals." People were thinking in very traditional, white, Beatles-derived rock icon terms when they said that. Prince is definitely a more original force than Bowie. And besides, there's still Dylan, Neil Young, Sir Paul, Mick and Keith, Iggy and all those other old ass fuckers.
But yeah, Prince > Bowie, for sure, all things considered. Though ★/Blackstar is so so so much better than anything Prince dropped in his last 15 years on this planet.
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