I just ordered this CD on Amazon. I haven't really heard much about it. So what do you guys think of it? Any good?

Its AMAZING! You're gonna LOVE it!

Best song on there is Black Sweat (IMO)

The entire 3121 is awesome

12 filler tracks. Should have stayed in the vault.

Great stuff!!

Black Sweat is good, and the 3121 title track is good when played live..

forget about the rest of the album.

One of my least fave Prince albums.

love every song

A lot of people like it. It's an average set of pop/R&B-lite tunes ticking all the usual boxes for Prince's post-Warners comeback albums. If you like Emancipation, Rave, Muscicology, MPLSound, Planet Earth or 20Ten - this one should be for you.

I like it, Black Sweat is the weakest track closely followed by Incense and Candles. Fury, 3121 and The Word are excellent.

NouveauDance said:

A lot of people like it. It's an average set of pop/R&B-lite tunes ticking all the usual boxes for Prince's post-Warners comeback albums. If you like Emancipation, Rave, Muscicology, MPLSound, Planet Earth or 20Ten - this one should be for you.

This sums it up very well.

The title track is still one of his best efforts in a long time imo.

NouveauDance said:

A lot of people like it. It's an average set of pop/R&B-lite tunes ticking all the usual boxes for Prince's post-Warners comeback albums. If you like Emancipation, Rave, Muscicology, MPLSound, Planet Earth or 20Ten - this one should be for you.

That's exactly what my problem is, I don't like any of these albums.

3121 is the best track, would be fabulous, if the beat wasn't borrowed from DOW.

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TheDigitalGardener said:

NouveauDance said:

A lot of people like it. It's an average set of pop/R&B-lite tunes ticking all the usual boxes for Prince's post-Warners comeback albums. If you like Emancipation, Rave, Muscicology, MPLSound, Planet Earth or 20Ten - this one should be for you.

This sums it up very well.

The title track is still one of his best efforts in a long time imo.

totally agree about the title track, that's the kind of off-kilter funk i miss from prince.

Sounds like mostly great reviews! GREAT! Now I'm really excited to get it! I'm trying to go back and get the CD's I didn't bother with- now I need to get 20ten and Planet Earth. I had originally written off The Rainbow Children as awful but went back ten years later and listened and freakin LOVE LOVE it - now wondering what else I've missed out on?

thanks for the feedback!

lauralevesque said:

Sounds like mostly great reviews! GREAT! Now I'm really excited to get it! I'm trying to go back and get the CD's I didn't bother with- now I need to get 20ten and Planet Earth. I had originally written off The Rainbow Children as awful but went back ten years later and listened and freakin LOVE LOVE it - now wondering what else I've missed out on?

thanks for the feedback!

NouveauDance said:

A lot of people like it. It's an average set of pop/R&B-lite tunes ticking all the usual boxes for Prince's post-Warners comeback albums. If you like Emancipation, Rave, Muscicology, MPLSound, Planet Earth or 20Ten - this one should be for you.

Very well said.

Awesome album which should have included the SNL version of Fury, oh and btw he should have released that bloody 3121 The Movie!

Marco81 said:

Awesome album which should have included the SNL version of Fury, oh and btw he should have released that bloody 3121 The Movie!

I think the version used in the video with the female background singers and the louder guitar solo would have worked better also.

TheDigitalGardener said:

NouveauDance said:

A lot of people like it. It's an average set of pop/R&B-lite tunes ticking all the usual boxes for Prince's post-Warners comeback albums. If you like Emancipation, Rave, Muscicology, MPLSound, Planet Earth or 20Ten - this one should be for you.

This sums it up very well.

The title track is still one of his best efforts in a long time imo.

i could understand it is in the box of the above mentioned albums, it is the group of '' electronic/dance prince...''

among of them 3121 i would rate 2nd....after emancipation....

His best pop record since The Gold Experience.

Prince's best album of the 2000's. It contains a handful of decent tracks and a few really good ones. The biggest strength of this album is that it doesn't contain too many stinkers (there are no valentinas). Front to back it's a modern sounding album you could play for almost anyone.

When it came out I remember thinking it was such a return to form for Prince after the cash grab that was mu$icology. Was hoping it was a step in the right direction, but it ended up just being a random good album.

Princes best album since "The Rainbow Children" and still better than the stuff that came after it.
I LOVE the title track, gives me the same feeling songs like "Now" or "Days Of Wild" from TGE give me. Also a great live track of course. The rest of the album is a mixed affair with "The Dance", "Te Amo Corazon" (yes it´s cheesy, but I really dig it), "Fury" and "Love" being the stand out tracks. I never really understood the love that "Black Sweat" gets, not a very strong track for me. And: The horns on "Get On The Boat" are funky!!!

Had to purchase 2 since I wore the first one out. It's pleasure.

Nightcrawler said:

Princes best album since "The Rainbow Children" and still better than the stuff that came after it.
I LOVE the title track, gives me the same feeling songs like "Now" or "Days Of Wild" from TGE give me. Also a great live track of course. The rest of the album is a mixed affair with "The Dance", "Te Amo Corazon" (yes it´s cheesy, but I really dig it), "Fury" and "Love" being the stand out tracks. I never really understood the love that "Black Sweat" gets, not a very strong track for me. And: The horns on "Get On The Boat" are funky!!!

For me, the first four tracks and "The Dance" are top-shelf. "Beautiful, Loved and Blessed" is a nice effort too.

8/10.

It's a good album.

Nowhere near the greatness of his 80s output, but probably my favorite of the post-mellinium stuff.

I think of it sort of as a Diamonds & Pearls mixed with a small amount of Gold Experience, minus most of the hip hop elements. (most). It's more subdued than the afore mentioned albums, but not too much more.

It's sort of like Lotus Flower in sound too. But where Lotus Flower is the hippie chic, 3121 is her slutty best friend.

The Word is my shit

It's a much more interesting album than some of his other recent ones. More "light and shade", more interesting compositions, better lyrics.

A bit of JW, but generally listenable ! And tracks like Satisfied and Black Sweat are actually good !! Shock

While I feel like the album gets weaker as it goes on, for sure this was Prince's closest post 2000 effort toward what could be considered a "Modern" album.

I really feel like this one doesn't get it's due on the Org