45 REVELATIONS

You might be as sick of hearing (and reading about) Prince as I am, but one thing you’ve got to hand him—and it’s one thing he doesn’t always get credit for. He just may be the best producer around. I'm not sold on his sexual/religious messianic ideology, still think “1999” is about as profound and inspiring a message as “Dust In The Wind,” and find many of his songs tedious in the extreme.