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Thread started 06/28/05 8:52pm

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My Reviews and Yours on Musicology

I Love Musicology it is Prince's best album in years. People don't know it was nominated for 3 Grammys and won two. This album shows that Prince will never stop rocking and making music that inspire,relates to our life,and is funky. I enjoy Musicology video and Call my Name. But I'm not sure about Cinnamon Girl it does not really show Prince in the whole video. Maybe he was going for effect,in this case it did not work. He should have made Life of the Party Video, I love that song. Maybe he still can there's still time. I love the pictures of Prince in this album they really capture his fine self. To be 47 years old dang he's fine. As Prince would say Livin the Life of the Party We Gonna Do It Right. prince



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Reply #1 posted 06/28/05 8:55pm

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I like it smile

Not love but, I do like it. The Marrying Kind is my jam.
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Reply #2 posted 06/28/05 9:05pm

MidnightFunk

I like this album and it's better than 99% of the music out there, but 4 a Prince album..it's pretty vanilla....
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Reply #3 posted 06/28/05 9:34pm

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I still enjoy this album a lot. I knew to prepare myself not to expect the second coming of 1999 but for where he was and what he was set out to do, he made the right album for the right time. The tour was just the icing on the case.
I'm not a fan of "old Prince". I'm not a fan of "new Prince". I'm just a fan of Prince. Simple as that
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Reply #4 posted 06/29/05 12:48am

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I love ½ of the Musicology album, here's how I would rate it:

Musicology - 9 (cool track, I love it)
I,C,P,C - 9 (funky, nice guitar)
A Million Days - 8 (I love this)
Life O The Party - 3 (worst song, I usually skip this)
Call My Name - 9 (Beautiful melody)
Cinnamon Girl - 7 (an ordinary rocker)
What Do U - 8 (I love the old drumsound)
The Marrying K - 5 (Boring)
IIWTMIUL - 5 (Boring)
On The Couch - 9 (I love this sweet song)
Dear Mr. Man - 7 (Okay)
Reflection - 5 (Boring)

At least Musicology gave P a lot of radio airplay again - and he went into the top of the charts - In Denmark he entered the Top 40 at #2, that has never happened b4 afaik. eek biggrin
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Reply #5 posted 06/29/05 3:25am

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Musicology - 6 (nice track, he just did it a dozen times before, and better)
I,C,P,C - 6 (funky, nice guitar, grating after a while, ages quickly)
A Million Days - 8 (another attempt at a new "dolphin", but still cool)
Life O The Party - 3 (horrible song)
Call My Name - 8 (good vocals, nice melody, a stand out on the album)
Cinnamon Girl - 5 (cool music, ruined by trite cringeworthy chorus)
What Do U - 8 (despite some horrible lyrical lines a cool groove, fresh)
The Marrying K - 5 (lame, done this before, but better)
IIWTMIUL - 5 (lame, lame, lame)
On The Couch - 7 (sounds like a segue more than a song, still rather good)
Dear Mr. Man - 8 (one of the few bad things about it is that it is too short)
Reflection - 9 (best song on the album. simple beautiful and personal)
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Reply #6 posted 06/29/05 3:38am

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A rating in emoticons:

Musicology - zzz
I,C,P,C - barf barf barf - Hideous
A Million Days - confused - It's OK, it's all been done before.
Life O The Party - dead - Vile
Call My Name - zzz - Prince can shit these out in his sleep
Cinnamon Girl - smile - Probably the most round and widely-commercial track on the CD
What Do U - wink - Fun track, the Linn is nice, but a little mis-placed
The Marrying K - biggrin - Fun, a little dated sounding
IIWTMIUL - biggrin - Fun, probably Prince's best effort to sound current in a long time
On The Couch - zzz - Prince can shit these out in his sleep
Dear Mr. Man - nod Nice
Reflection - wink - It's OK, very 'naff' sounding, like Emancipation/The Truth, but the song is decent, just let down by that.
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Reply #7 posted 06/29/05 9:47am

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Musicology - a total fucking coaster
“If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists”
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Reply #8 posted 06/29/05 4:36pm

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IstenSzek said:

Musicology - 6 (nice track, he just did it a dozen times before, and better)
I,C,P,C - 6 (funky, nice guitar, grating after a while, ages quickly)
A Million Days - 8 (another attempt at a new "dolphin", but still cool)
Life O The Party - 3 (horrible song)
Call My Name - 8 (good vocals, nice melody, a stand out on the album)
Cinnamon Girl - 5 (cool music, ruined by trite cringeworthy chorus)
What Do U - 8 (despite some horrible lyrical lines a cool groove, fresh)
The Marrying K - 5 (lame, done this before, but better)
IIWTMIUL - 5 (lame, lame, lame)
On The Couch - 7 (sounds like a segue more than a song, still rather good)
Dear Mr. Man - 8 (one of the few bad things about it is that it is too short)
Reflection - 9 (best song on the album. simple beautiful and personal)

nod agree with you about "Dear Mr. Man"

The groove was just getting started and it fades out.....

Could've let that groove a little bit longer....
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Reply #9 posted 06/29/05 5:19pm

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Musicology - 7 (grows on me more everytime i hear it - live on snl with real horns is much better than on the cd (live in uk so missed the tour))
I,C,P,C - 1 (doesn't even deserve one.. sounds like he's making it up on the spot - worst track on the album in my opinion - skip it everytime)
A Million Days - 8 (i enjoy this)
Life O The Party - 8 (great track - prince invented this type or track with housequake)
Call My Name - 8 (good vocals, nice song.. sounds gd on the album)
Cinnamon Girl - 6 (gd track.. cldve been made better though with better harmony in the chorus and a eye-watering guitar solo instead of that lame one)
What Do U - 2 (helllooooo... can everyone say drum machine?? ive heard this all before)
The Marrying K - 4 (its ok - id call this filler to be honest but its not terrible.. wld be a welcome addition to another artist's album)
IIWTMIUL - 4 (same as the track before.. gd idea to link them like that tho and record them together)
On The Couch - 3 (jst a product of tinkling on the ivories on a lazy sunday and thinking u have something prematurely)
Dear Mr. Man - 8 (gd song... meaning, insight, funkay)
Reflection - 7 (it's too personal for me. it's a song that he shldve kept for himself - gd song though)

add Vavoom on to this album and it make it sounds oh so much better and diverse
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Reply #10 posted 06/29/05 6:01pm

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i liked it for a hot second, then i grew bored of it.
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Reply #11 posted 06/29/05 6:08pm

Adisa

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Never liked it.
I'm sick and tired of the Prince fans being sick and tired of the Prince fans that are sick and tired!
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Reply #12 posted 06/29/05 6:15pm

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collectfrogslilypad said:

I Love Musicology it is Prince's best album in years. People don't know it was nominated for 3 Grammys and won two. This album shows that Prince will never stop rocking and making music that inspire,relates to our life,and is funky. I enjoy Musicology video and Call my Name. But I'm not sure about Cinnamon Girl it does not really show Prince in the whole video. Maybe he was going for effect,in this case it did not work. He should have made Life of the Party Video, I love that song. Maybe he still can there's still time. I love the pictures of Prince in this album they really capture his fine self. To be 47 years old dang he's fine. As Prince would say Livin the Life of the Party We Gonna Do It Right. prince



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I think the album is fantastic. The Marrying Kind, A Million Days, Call My Name....this album has some classics on it.
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Reply #13 posted 06/30/05 11:56am

prettymansson

whatever...thats my review...and..theres some fonky guitar on the end of coma..
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Reply #14 posted 06/30/05 12:01pm

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The title track & a million days are amazing!!
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