FUTURE SOUL SONG & STICKY LIKE GLUE in my opinion are 2 of his best tracks from the 00's era.

I still have trouble calling 20Ten an actual album because it's so random. It's more like a mixtape than an actual legit album IMO. I do enjoy 'Lay It Down', 'Sticky Like Glue', and 'Sea of Everything' but the rest of the songs are pretty forgettable. I think he wanted to pull the album because he wanted to take 'Future Soul Song' off of it because it's such a great song and it overshadows the rest of the disc. I love that song and think it's one of the best songs he's made in the 00s. I think it would have been much better on AOA.

MinorG said:

I don't mind the album, except for Sea of Everything, that song is just horribly bland.

databank said:

train23 said:

I just paid $89 for it!

Dude you messed up! There was another thread on 20Ten where a guy here in the UK said he had multiple copies and was happy to send one to someone if they paid the postage!

I think like most albums Prince released from the mid 90s onwards there are some great songs but surrounded by weaker songs and even some not good songs (few terrible songs though IMO).

I tend to put together my own albums for the late 90s onwards anyway. In this case I took the best (IMO) from 2010 and the best from MPLSound (IMO) and made a single CD/album. Works very well indeed and makes for a far more enjoyable listening experience!

(There'll Never B) Another Like Me
Chocolate Box
Compassion
Beginning Endlessly
Future Soul Song
Sticky Like Glue
Act of God
Walk In Sand
Sea of Everything
Better With Time
Ol' School Company
No More Candy 4 U
Laydown

I don't believe this - watertight contract our not, Prince would have sued them

I generally dont believe anything the Mirror ever prints.

FUTURE SOUL SONG and STICKY LIKE GLUE are some of the best songs he's recorded in years...

The rest of the 20TEN album is as bad as MPLSOUND... Not a good album at all.

Future Soul Song is intoxicating. Worth the entire album.

NorthC said:

Some sources, unknown, uncirculating... Not very reliable information there, Mr. Data!

Well for one thing now I am in doubt: I think it was Sticky Like Glue not Lavaux, I'm now confused, sorry.

The source is one orger whose name I forgot, who seems to have reliable sources at PP. Now he may have made it all up IDK, but the dude's infos overall seemed credible. It was in a thread not so long ago before P passed.

I'm just conveying the info and I didn't mean toi imply it was confirmed, sorry, which is why I said "according to".

P has a history of reworking old tracks so updating an old 80's track in the context of 20ten isn't totally extravagant. Hopefully at some point the content of the vault is properly studied and we'll have answers. Even if not everything gets released I think it is primordial that a proper inventory is made and made public.

DFUNK said:

It's a pity he couldn't have pulled it. With the exception of Future Soul Song which I don't mind, the rest of the album is appalling. I rate 20Ten as possibly being the worst album Prince ever released in his career.

Walk In the Sand, Lavaux, Sticky Like Glue are good songs

MinorG said:

In the souvenir tribute the Mirror put together there is an interesting tidbit in one of the articles. The writer was a journalist for the Mirror who was invited to Paisley Park so the main article describes this, but it ends as follows: 'A few days later, on returning to London, I got a clearer idea of why he had managed to fall out with so many people in the entertainment industry. Prince, who was renowned as a perfectionist, tried to force us to scrap the album - apparently because he had gone off one of the tracks - but the cds had already been pressed and we had watertight contracts.' So 20ten was almost a second black album! Which song do you think prince had a change of heart over? Everybody loves me? Never heard this info before, it may explain why 20ten never got a USA release.

Orger, I first heard The Black Album in 1989. I know The Black Album. The Black Album is a friend of mine. Orger, 20Ten is no The Black Album.

The entire album is strong and flows very well imo.

This is a better 20ten:

1. Cause and Effect
2. Compassion
3. Beginning Endlessly
4. Future Soul Song
5. Sticky Like Glue
6. Act of God
7. Lavaux
8. Walk in Sand
9. Sea of Everything
10. Everybody Loves Me
11. Same Page Different Book
12. Hot Summer
13. Rich Friends
14. Laydown Xtended

I think 20ten is a very strong album. I've loved it from the first listen.

The only song I was not super-crazy about was Everybody Loves Me, but it's grown on me a bit.

I bet it was Sea Of Everything that he wanted to take off it.

Not sure what the psychology is behind this, but if this had a wider release I believe folks would have given this one more of a chance. It is an incredibly strong, coherent album with some extremely catchy songs imo.

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I like 20ten. Beginning Endlessly, Laydown, Future Soul Song...the whole album gives me a happy, almost goofy vibe.

The possibilities for some of those songs were endless, especially with more instrumentation. There's a rehearsal clip of "Sticky Like Glue" on YouTube that hints at how much more funky that song can be with a full band. Speaking of which, the rap he dropped on the 20Ten version of "Sticky Like Glue" is so bad it nearly ruins the song. BTW, The cost of pressing CDs is so cheap I'm surprised that Prince didn't just agree to help cover costs for the repress. Seriously, it's pennies on the dollar minus the packaging costs, which were very minimal for 20Ten.

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I said at the time it sounded like he was on meds when he recorded it. Now, I am sure I was right. There are so many problems with that album I can't possibly name them all.