Biggest Prince Disappointment?

I ain't slagging prince I really dig "3121"- my fave since Gold. I'm just asking if you can describe that first moment you were truly disappointed with a new prince record. I remember how excited I used to be with EVERY release following "1999". Great anticipation. Then it happened. On the day before "Emancipation" I was at a used CD store and inexplicably they had the set before it was released! You can imagine how jazeed I was! I hurriedly took the CD to the listening station and popped it in. As I scanned through the bland R & B pop wannabe songs/production it was like the magic was gone. He just wasn't special anymore. I wasn't crazy about Chaos And Disorder but it was still Prince-like but "Emancipation" was so damn average. Then you had the infamous Crystal Ball mess...which turned out to be a letdown when the Sax version of "Crucial" and countless others wern't included..then NPS.....

NPS

For me 1999 album for me was a disappointment, because alot of people love this album here on the ORG, but when i brought it i was like oooook, i feel this just because it sounds VERY dated, his most outta all his albums

My first disappointment was "Around The World In A Day". My biggest disappointment was "Parade". After that, I knew the albums were never going to be what they used to be so my hopes were not high and I was never disappointed again. However, I could have put my foot in his ass for "New Power Soul".

When I got Grafiti Bridge. I was like man get rid of half the songs and youve got something.

ALso I didnt like Lovesexy the first few listens. The lyrics were so corny and too relgious and there was no funky sex songs on that record.

promising Crystal Ball II and Roadhouse Garden, then not releasing them.

to a lesser extent even the Madrid 2 Chicago album.

i love every P album up until emancipation which i thought was rubbish. then chaos came out an that was the final straw. i did'nt buy another P album till musicology and then 3121 which to me, especially 3121 seems to be getting back to the old P whoms music i loved all them years ago.

New Power Soul without a doubt. I still haven't recovered from that one. I never bought another new Prince album afterwards, except for Rave in 2001 in a sale. £2.99 was so cheap that I figured there wasn't much to lose.

whoknows said:

The Black Album

Yeah, I said it!

DMSR said:

andykeen said:

For me 1999 album for me was a disappointment, because alot of people love this album here on the ORG, but when i brought it i was like oooook, i feel this just because it sounds VERY dated, his most outta all his albums

The biggest disappointment, I would say Graffiti Bridge

krayzie said:

andykeen said:

For me 1999 album for me was a disappointment, because alot of people love this album here on the ORG, but when i brought it i was like oooook, i feel this just because it sounds VERY dated, his most outta all his albums

Are you crazy ???

Nope, just young

Im not sayying i dont like it, its just there is lot of prise on this site to that album, but when i got it i didn;t fidn it anything special!

Not banging Madonna more

Emancipation, without a doubt - I was so excited about a triple album and his new-found freedom, and I was hyping this up to everyone I knew, only to listen to it, and think "is this it?"

For me, it had a lot to do with first impressions...that first time you hear that new single on the radio. Imagine When Doves Cry, Rasberry Beret, Kiss, Sign O the Times, Alphabet St...

then Thieves in the Temple. Everything before it seemed otherworldy, going in a different direction, new...there was a sense of bewilderment at what this guy thought he was getting away with. Thieves sounded slick and perfectly executed, like he wasn't stretching beyond his means.

Despite an average single, GB was the first album I bought on it's release date, the one that getting all those other albums created high expectations for, and I probably would have been disappointed if it was twice the album it was. It also beagan my personal habit of denial and looking for as many positives as I could possibly find in Prince's music, making excuses and exceptions for him. Began my wait for the 'second coming'.

whoknows said:

booyah said:

Graffiti Bridge. The album then the film.

I loved and got on the 1st day each album from 1999 to Batman. Graffiti Bridge was the first one to question my love of Prince.

booyah said:

Buttless pants on MTV

1996-1998, Prince was very spiritual, and many of us were looking out for the next Lovesexy, and what did we get...

Promo poster for 'New Power Soul' (1998)

© 1998 Parke

Graffiti Bridge: The album; the movie; The Song... I realised there and then that the party was over.

Musicology disapointed me

and I still cant really listen to it now for some reason

I always get it out the box but have to switch it off after the first track....

'Ive never been 1 2 hide my feelings, Baby, u blow my mind
I painted your face upon my ceiling, I stare at it all the time...'

http://www.myspace.com/welshmess

NPG Music Club Year 2.

krayzie said:

The biggest disappointment, I would say Graffiti Bridge