I know that this is a concept album so maybe

I'm just not getting the concept. What I'm not getting is

why does the sax (an instrument that Prince doesn't even

play ) seem to be the dominant instrument on this album. I

was expecting to hear some fierce raw guitar playing

throughout this cd. N.E.W.S. just came across to me as a

glorified Madhouse album. As excellent of a guitar player

as he is for some reason he seems to not want to release

an album full of raw rockin' guitar packed jams. I think the

the closest we came to that was Purple Rain and more

recently Chaos & Disorder. I also don't understand how at

one time Prince was obsessed with playing a wide range of

styles of music and seems to now only be intrested in one

style

of music which is jazz. There's nothing wrong with jazz

music but an artist like Prince was never ment to play

one style of music no more than Miles Davis was ment to be

a Pop artist or a Hip Hop artist. I hope one day we'll get

our Prince back but I doubt it. I will keep on buying his

material although I question whether I buy it because I'm

really still intrested or if it's just habit. E23

That was an excellent review and commentary.THat makes me happy.

It took me a while to appreciate TRC as it was not commercial to say the least but i try to be open to music avenues that are different.N.e.w.s. is even more strange but i will be patient with it as i understand what prince is trying to achieve.