What are your fav tracks on the album....presuming you liked it in the first place.

What about the deleted tracks that ended up as either B sides or singles on other albums, e.g. Tricky and Chocolate? Wise choice or creative mishap?

Discuss

Chocolate (which I love) was released on pandemonium.

I really like tricky too. It's pretty quirky but really lighthearted and fun just like most of The Time material.

Quick side note Does anybody know which album Morris Day's 'Love Sign' was on? Did Prince have anything to do with this track? It sounds like something he might produce at that time.

Wildboy said:

Chocolate (which I love) was released on pandemonium.

I really like tricky too. It's pretty quirky but really lighthearted and fun just like most of The Time material.

Quick side note Does anybody know which album Morris Day's 'Love Sign' was on? Did Prince have anything to do with this track? It sounds like something he might produce at that time.

Wasn't that a single? 12 inch, not released as part of an album. I might be mistaken.

Ok, THAT'S why I couldn't find the album it was off of. Was it prince penned?

Wildboy said:

Ok, THAT'S why I couldn't find the album it was off of. Was it prince penned?

I believe so. Sounds like him anyway.

"Love Sign" appears on Morris Day's 1985 Color Of Success album and no,it was not penned by Prince.

SoulAlive said:

"Love Sign" appears on Morris Day's 1985 Color Of Success album and no,it was not penned by Prince.

Oooh, not i gotta dig through my uncle's stash and find this. He has sooo much Prince/Time stuff from the 80s not to mention all those damn side pieces.

But wait....there was a 12 inch single of Love Sign right?

Yes,there was a 12" "Love Sign" single.It was the third single from his album....

to answer your original question

Ice Cream Castles is my least favorite Time album,but I do like the song "My Drawers" Best song on the album,imo.

My fave is If The Kid Can't Make You Come

(nobody, nobody can!)

then it's My Drawers, and Ice Cream Castles

I'm curious as to what people would make of the music to Chili Sauce and and If the Kid Can't Make you Come if they were instrumentals.

jaawwnn said:

I'm curious as to what people would make of the music to Chili Sauce and and If the Kid Can't Make you Come if they were instrumentals.

I could def appreciate an instrumental of Chili Sauce.

I Love Ice Cream Castles. I think every single song on it is strong. There very best outing.

You can make such a great track list out of the 4 Prince time albums and the Morris Solo stuff

One of my most listened to playlists on my mp3 player is:

DayDreaming

Fishnet

Jungle Love

Murph Drag

Shake

Love Sign

The Character

Love Machine

Donald Trump

Tricky

Wild and Loose

Gigolos get Lonely Too

Ice Cream Castles

777-9311

If the Kid Can't Make you Come

Oak Tree

Color of Success

Corporate World

Don't Wait for Me

The Latest Fashion (corporate world version)

Love addiction

Old School

Jerk Out

Cool

Data Bank (corporate World Ver)

Chocolate

Chili Sauce

Release it

My Summertime Thang (extended mix)

Nine Lives

The Bird

If that playlist doesn't get you moving, best check your pulse to make sure you're alive

HotGritz said:

Wildboy said:

Chocolate (which I love) was released on pandemonium.

I really like tricky too. It's pretty quirky but really lighthearted and fun just like most of The Time material.

Quick side note Does anybody know which album Morris Day's 'Love Sign' was on? Did Prince have anything to do with this track? It sounds like something he might produce at that time.

Wasn't that a single? 12 inch, not released as part of an album. I might be mistaken. "Love Sign" was on "Color of Success"

Wildboy said:

I Love Ice Cream Castles. I think every single song on it is strong. There very best outing.

You can make such a great track list out of the 4 Prince time albums and the Morris Solo stuff

One of my most listened to playlists on my mp3 player is:

DayDreaming

Fishnet

Jungle Love

Murph Drag

Shake

Love Sign

The Character

Love Machine

Donald Trump

Tricky

Wild and Loose

Gigolos get Lonely Too

Ice Cream Castles

777-9311

If the Kid Can't Make you Come

Oak Tree

Color of Success

Corporate World

Don't Wait for Me

The Latest Fashion (corporate world version)

Love addiction

Old School

Jerk Out i tolerate that song

Cool ceeee oh oh elllll

Data Bank (corporate World Ver)

Chocolate

Chili Sauce

Release it

My Summertime Thang (extended mix)

Nine Lives

The Bird

If that playlist doesn't get you moving, best check your pulse to make sure you're alive

Damn that's a bomb ass playlist! Do yo thang!

I think it is an amazing album, but too short. The Bird, Jungle Love and My Drawers are all great songs and the rest are fairly good songs.

My favorite song off of there is My Drawers.

It's not terrible, but it's a very lazy album. "Chili Sauce" is an overlong skit so it's really only five songs. My favorites I suppose are the singles "Jungle Love" and "The Bird", but the original versions on the First Avenue bootleg are better. The title track isn't bad, but lyrically makes more sense if it was sung by Prince. "My Drawers" is the track that has the most life in it. Listening to all of the album now, it's so clear the magic was gone. It's my least favorite Time album.

sextonseven said:

It's not terrible, but it's a very lazy album. "Chili Sauce" is an overlong skit so it's really only five songs. My favorites I suppose are the singles "Jungle Love" and "The Bird", but the original versions on the First Avenue bootleg are better. The title track isn't bad, but lyrically makes more sense if it was sung by Prince. "My Drawers" is the track that has the most life in it. Listening to all of the album now, it's so clear the magic was gone. It's my least favorite Time album.

I agree with everything you said There's a laziness to this album.It's not nearly as vibrantly funky as What Time Is It?.When Jam and Terry were fired,the magic was definitely gone.

"My Drawers" is as good as it gets.

You know what might have helped this album? If "Chili Sauce" (a filler track) had been removed and replaced with a great tune like "Chocolate" or even "Do Yourself A Favor".

My least favourite Time album (What Time Is It? being my favourite), but I still think it's a solid effort. My Drawers is probably my favourite track followed closely by If The Kid Can't Make You Come and Ice Cream Castles. Not such a big fan of Jungle Love or The Bird....they're pretty weak in comparision to staples like COOL or Wild and Loose.

Btw, wasn't Cloreen Baconskin a b-side to one of the singles off the album or something? Now THAT'S a track haha!

Not my favorite.... I haven't listened to it since 1984. Now "What Time Is It?" still gets love from me every couple of weeks. And I agree "Chili Sauce" is too long and drawn out.

SPYZFAN1 said:

Not my favorite.... I haven't listened to it since 1984. Now "What Time Is It?" still gets love from me every couple of weeks. And I agree "Chili Sauce" is too long and drawn out.

What Time is is is the best album ever made

jaawwnn said:

I'm curious as to what people would make of the music to Chili Sauce and and If the Kid Can't Make you Come if they were instrumentals.

Yes, I would like it. I like that sound. Reminds me of Electric Intercourse

The fellas are still suited and booted. Me likey.

My fave from The Time is the debut w/ Get It Up, The Stick, & Cool. Get It Up is one of my faves of all time. That song is just SICK. It never gets old. Funk with a capital F, and I love some bass in mine.

SoulAlive said:

sextonseven said:

It's not terrible, but it's a very lazy album. "Chili Sauce" is an overlong skit so it's really only five songs. My favorites I suppose are the singles "Jungle Love" and "The Bird", but the original versions on the First Avenue bootleg are better. The title track isn't bad, but lyrically makes more sense if it was sung by Prince. "My Drawers" is the track that has the most life in it. Listening to all of the album now, it's so clear the magic was gone. It's my least favorite Time album.

I agree with everything you said There's a laziness to this album.It's not nearly as vibrantly funky as What Time Is It?.When Jam and Terry were fired,the magic was definitely gone.

"My Drawers" is as good as it gets.

I agree the firing of Jimmy & Terry is what killed the band, but the funny thing about that is they had hardly anything to do with the first two albums. Which might be why Prince fired them instead of just reprimanding them. He probably thought, "I'm the one recording all the music on the albums. These guys are replaceable."

"Replacable" until he put them on tour and they played his music live better than he did. The Time to me are a live band that can't be replicated. Yes Prince wrote all their music, performed it all on the albums (bar singing and drums), but they were DYNAMITE on stage. And he knew it.

sextonseven said:

I agree the firing of Jimmy & Terry is what killed the band, but the funny thing about that is they had hardly anything to do with the first two albums. Which might be why Prince fired them instead of just reprimanding them. He probably thought, "I'm the one recording all the music on the albums. These guys are replaceable."

But, it's supposed to be Morris' group. Shouldn't he be the one who decides who stays or who goes? Why did they have to only tour with Prince anyway? Why couldn't the group perform with other acts of the period?

MickyDolenz said:

sextonseven said:

I agree the firing of Jimmy & Terry is what killed the band, but the funny thing about that is they had hardly anything to do with the first two albums. Which might be why Prince fired them instead of just reprimanding them. He probably thought, "I'm the one recording all the music on the albums. These guys are replaceable."

But, it's supposed to be Morris' group. Shouldn't he be the one who decides who stays or who goes? Why did they have to only tour with Prince anyway? Why couldn't the group perform with other acts of the period?

The Time is Prince's group. He makes all the decisions. The end.