Only bettered by "What Time Is It?".

So many great songs, Role Play, Toast To The Party Girl, Condensate, Cadillac, If I Was Yo Man, Strawberry Lake.... all great tracks. Such a shame Jesse's ego ruined any chances for a proper world tour from the original members.

Sometimes Jesse Johnson really leaves a sour taste in my mouth.... but hey, lets just focus on the great music!!

Agreed. I never understood why it wasn't better received by the fans on here. The Time put out a stellar album for the first time in over 20 years and folks on here are dogging on it!

Take one listen to Toast To The Party Girl and tell me that ain't right up there with The Bird or Cool.

MattyJam said:

Awesome album

As good or better than most of Prince's stuff for the last several years. Toast to The Party Girl is really classic Time and I love the musical references it makes to their legacy. It really is a complete jam.

Sick is also amazing. About half of the album is spectacular.

Its a great album but I still think What Time Is It? and Pandamonium are their best 2 albums.

What documentary is this? Mine never came with no documentary!!

Fiona01 said:

Only bettered by "What Time Is It?".

So many great songs, Role Play, Toast To The Party Girl, Condensate, Cadillac, If I Was Yo Man, Strawberry Lake.... all great tracks. Such a shame Jesse's ego ruined any chances for a proper world tour from the original members.

I agree. Condensate coupled with The Family (aka fDeluxe)'s release of Gaslight around the same time were two incredible albums from an associate. We know all these guys are talented as hell, but when they set up to work together, with no Prince input at all and still slay it - shiiiit. Game over!

"Strawberry Lake" harkens back to Sly and the Family Stone a lot. I won't go through all the songs, but needless to say, it's very much The Time. It's true to who they were then, and who they are now. Condensate and Gaslight are Prince folk - GROWN.

Jesse didn't have an ego. It was that there was no real money in the project. He also said he didn't see eye to eye on things with the band, and it was better to leave while they're still friends. He did update his FB to reflect certain songs that he was strongly against.

___________________________

"PANDEMONIUM"

I wrote and recorded the music for the following compositions at my personal studio in Minneapolis named Jungle Love Studio:
"Blondie" & "The Skillet": (Neither song carried those titles but were later named those by FT) I would never pen a lyric like Blondie, because even at that time, I found it very derogatory and demeaning. But of course being the only one that felt that way, I'm always within that band labeled difficult.

___________________________

He did the album, and a few appearances, but to keep going as-is wasn't feasible. These guys have to make a living, somehow. And that wasn't going to sustain some of the folks. Jimmy & Terry wouldn't have stayed around that long either, probably. Even at this point, The Time is a shell of themselves. No Jerome, Jesse, Jimmy, or Terry. That's half of everyone already. Morris, Jellybean, and Monte are the only original members. I don't even know who is on bass these days. Is Chance back on keyboards?

Jesse has always been that tortured soul in the band anyway, so if anyone really thought he was going to stick around doesn't know The Time at all.

MattyJam said:

Just the occasional TV appeaance wasn't gonna cut it!!!! Since 87/88, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were PROMISING Us a FULL-TIME reunion!!!! Don't believe Me?? Go back 2 the "Video Soul In Minneapolis" special on BET!!! I was fortunate enough 2 see the OG 7ven reunion in MPLS on 11/5/2011@ State Theater. Jam & Lewis didn't wanna tour, and Morris WASN"T giving up "Part-Time" (because He's in TOTAL control of the situation, not 6 others). So Jesse bounced!!! Been around the World thriceover w/. Jam & Lewis got that "Janet Money", and Morris still has "Part-Time". I DO WISH that the Fellas can get 2gether "One Mo' Time" in honor of Prince & call the Album JUST THAT: "One Mo' Time (In Loving Memory & Honor Of Prince Rogers Nelson)". THAT"S WHAT TIME IT IS!!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

I love all The Time albums for different reasons though, so I have a hard time saying which is best.

The real question, for me, is did Prince get around to recording that new album with Morris he claimed was in the works since last summer? I don't believe he ever made it back to the studio with Morris, but instead crossed that off his bucket list by having MD and The Time perform at Paisley.

phunkdaddy said:

MattyJam said:

What documentary is this? Mine never came with no documentary!!

You didn't receive a DVD with your copy? Maybe they had a limited number with the DVD documentary.

The DVD was exclusive to the CD sold at Best Buy. It wasn't sold anywhere else. I think it might have been sold only in the stores, I don't know if it was sold on the Best Buy website. It's similar to Target or Barnes & Noble versions of albums having extra songs on it.

MickyDolenz said:

phunkdaddy said:

MattyJam said: You didn't receive a DVD with your copy? Maybe they had a limited number with the DVD documentary.

The DVD was exclusive to the CD sold at Best Buy. It wasn't sold anywhere else. I think it might have been sold only in the stores, I don't know if it was sold on the Best Buy website. It's similar to Target or Barnes & Noble versions of albums having extra songs on it.

I was wondering that too.

woogiebear said:

Just the occasional TV appeaance wasn't gonna cut it!!!! Since 87/88, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were PROMISING Us a FULL-TIME reunion!!!! Don't believe Me?? Go back 2 the "Video Soul In Minneapolis" special on BET!!! I was fortunate enough 2 see the OG 7ven reunion in MPLS on 11/5/2011@ State Theater. Jam & Lewis didn't wanna tour, and Morris WASN"T giving up "Part-Time" (because He's in TOTAL control of the situation, not 6 others). So Jesse bounced!!! Been around the World thriceover w/. Jam & Lewis got that "Janet Money", and Morris still has "Part-Time". I DO WISH that the Fellas can get 2gether "One Mo' Time" in honor of Prince & call the Album JUST THAT: "One Mo' Time (In Loving Memory & Honor Of Prince Rogers Nelson)". THAT"S WHAT TIME IT IS!!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

I don't think fans were looking for a full fledged 30 city tour but it would have been nice

to do a little more promotion for the album and maybe 1 date a month and probably a

10 city tour during the spring/summer months. Ironically Jimmy Jam was promising future

music. For me I just wanted to see the guys write and end their story their way. Condensate

was a start.

[Edited 7/20/16 21:25pm]

MattyJam said:

What documentary is this? Mine never came with no documentary!!

Special Edition of "Condensate", only available through Best Buy. Try Amazon or Ebay lately though. DEFINITELY worth getting!!!!! The closest thing to UNSUNG or BEHIND THE MUSIC You'll ever see!!!!

phunkdaddy said:

woogiebear said:

Just the occasional TV appeaance wasn't gonna cut it!!!! Since 87/88, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were PROMISING Us a FULL-TIME reunion!!!! Don't believe Me?? Go back 2 the "Video Soul In Minneapolis" special on BET!!! I was fortunate enough 2 see the OG 7ven reunion in MPLS on 11/5/2011@ State Theater. Jam & Lewis didn't wanna tour, and Morris WASN"T giving up "Part-Time" (because He's in TOTAL control of the situation, not 6 others). So Jesse bounced!!! Been around the World thriceover w/. Jam & Lewis got that "Janet Money", and Morris still has "Part-Time". I DO WISH that the Fellas can get 2gether "One Mo' Time" in honor of Prince & call the Album JUST THAT: "One Mo' Time (In Loving Memory & Honor Of Prince Rogers Nelson)". THAT"S WHAT TIME IT IS!!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

I don't think fans were looking for a full fledged 30 city tour but it would have been nice

to do a little more promotion for the album and maybe 1 date a month and probably a

10 city tour during the spring/summer months. Ironically Jimmy Jam was promising future

music. For me I just wanted to see the guys write and end their story their way. Condensate

was a start.

[Edited 7/20/16 21:25pm]

Agreed

that album is FUNKY!!!! love it

woogiebear said:

MattyJam said:

What documentary is this? Mine never came with no documentary!!

Special Edition of "Condensate", only available through Best Buy. Try Amazon or Ebay lately though. DEFINITELY worth getting!!!!! The closest thing to UNSUNG or BEHIND THE MUSIC You'll ever see!!!!

The special edition is going for insane prices on Amazon and eBay. Not spending that kinda money just for a DVD when I already own the album. Hopefully someone will upload it into Youtube eventually.

Fiona01 said:

Only bettered by "What Time Is It?".

So many great songs, Role Play, Toast To The Party Girl, Condensate, Cadillac, If I Was Yo Man, Strawberry Lake.... all great tracks. Such a shame Jesse's ego ruined any chances for a proper world tour from the original members.

Sometimes Jesse Johnson really leaves a sour taste in my mouth.... but hey, lets just focus on the great music!!

I agree, love this album. Super funky and better than I ever imagined it would be. One of the best funk albums of this decade (of course not a lot of competition, but still it highly enjoyable from beginning to end).