purplethunder3121 said:

CAL3 said:

i still believe 'Phase 1' rocks the hizzy from start to finish and is a stronger, more coherent album than it's follow up. My Fave P album since 'Lotus.'

Phase 1 fizzles the nizzle.

'Phase 1' felt like a blizzle of frizzle aizzle.

Phase 1 is the equivalent of the old man still trying to hang at the club. Also, when I purchase a Prince album, I'd like for him to sing all the leads on the songs. As such, "Million $ Show" starts as a disaster, and the album gets worse from there. On the other hand, Phase 2 is a much more mature and full-bodied sound that isn't trying to please the aesthetics of young people who are not interested in Prince's core musical ideas. Phase 2 is a good, not great, album, but, for my tastes, I can't bear to listen to Phase 1.

I prefer phase II, but only insofar as Civilisation Phase III by Frank Zappa is a bunch of late life cobbled together outtakes about living inside a giant expanding piano where the audience is crop dusted out of existence by the stage instructions.

Taylor Swift is courting a pretend British secret agent in the midst of a Thatcher Disco Union breakup, what is that all about?

Phase 2 by leaps and bounds...LOL. Classic, brilliant tracks like Black Muse, Groovy Potential, Revelation, Big City and jams like Stare and Extralovable. Even R&R and Baltimore sounds incredible. The only misfire here is the ill-placed Screwdriver. I don't feel it fits the album at all.

don't do that

[Edited 7/16/16 13:34pm]

feeluupp said:

In the beginning we all said the first half of Phase 1 was a confused mismash of edm music that went wrong...

We didn't all say that.