I really like this album I got it last month and have played it
A LOT lately. Most of the songs I already knew because they were
all over the radio, but other than the obvious
(Cream, D&P, Gett Off, Willing and Able, Money Don't Matter, Insatiable)
I love Thunder (one of the best songs he's ever done)
Walk Don't Walk
and Push

This album is great! It does sound very "90s"
but I like 90s music

Hony Pony instead of Jughead wouldve made a world of a diffeence. It had to be saved for a b-side to sell the CD single.

I loved D&P when it came out but once came out I forgot about it. I like some songs on it today but as a whole, it was a so-so project for me.

Musicology is the D & P of today.

Imagine Musicology CD with Silver Tongue
and US of Division in place of Cinnamon Girl and Life o The Party. Pretty fucken great.

filetgumbo said:

"Strollin'" is my second fav from the album!!!

(...the first one is "Insatiable"!)

Cloudbuster said:

cloudy,i heard the rip when you sat down

Cloudbuster said:

rosie quit!

Diamonds & Pearls was not a bad album. The problem is that he tried to fit in with the rap thing & it just came off like a joke on certain songs. Cream, Insatible, Money Don't Matter 2Night, & Gett Off made the album worth listening to.

origmnd said:

Hmmm,,,I never thought of it like that...but you are so right! So what was the D&P of the eighties for him?

Its got some good to great songs on it. I agree the 0(-> is better, far better, but there are still a lot of good songs on it i want to hear him play today. You've got to remember also, this is an album a lot of non-prince fans are familiar with, it was a reasonable success comercially, and had some memorable singles. I think im the only one who likes the title song.....i should be emarrassed to admit that right? Such a pretty melody though.

CrozzaUK said:

I like the title track.

I enjoy it, some great songs.

Cloudbuster said:

yeah really, the title track is what made me a fan in the first place. Although their opinions don't really matter, most non-fans I nkow love this song better than his others. The fans on the other hand don't think much of it.

Complete and utter averageness. It feels like a milkshake made of successful elements from Prince's past and current trends. I like the title track and Thunder... but the rest is pretty standard stuff.

I don't hate the album, but it's not one of my favorites.

Absolutely LOVE this album.
"rockin, rollin, oh yeah"

love

i always think of D&P as his "viva las vegas" album. everything was all gaudy and gold and bubbles everywhere and all kinds of tacky nastiness...which, in its own way, was fun for what it was.

yeep..i have to agree ..d&p is one album i find extremely hard to listen to get in2 ,,with the exception of mayb 1 song cream i really dont like the album ...its reminicisent of 80s cock rock anthemic melodies and the parts by the new power gen are pretty lame ..its my number 1 worst album by prince ...

doctamario said:

You mean you're trying to find the cd that has the gold symbol stamped on the cd case? I found the symbol cd at every wrecka stow I've been at....

ive seen the symbol lp with the gold symbol sticker on the cover in several cd stores it looks like a re relase of the original as my m8 has it in a case and the gold symbol is die cut in this case ,,i alos picked up a "clean version "of the symbol album which invoked quite a rage in me when i heard the clean version of sexy mf!!

be wary !!!!there are bootlegged copies of symbol floating around out there in abundance ,,,they look like the real deal ,,,but the albums are a few seconds shorter or the covers colours are a bit faded

several stores here in sydney were busted selling these cheap bootlegged copies of cds

prince symbol was one of them ,,

and yes it really shits me that wb have fucked prince over bigtime by not rereleasing albums which are now out of print and rare i still have never seen a copy of gold experience ANYWHERE same with crystal ball,exodus and even new power soul ,,,fuck even rainbow children is hard to find now ///arrrrrgh

I like Live 4 Love, specially the live version on the D & P Video Collection; even thou I don't like Tony M, in that song he was great, maybe his best rap.

silverchild said:

you guys have all the luck in the world. Am I really the only person who has to buy most of his stuff online?
[Edited 5/23/05 20:34pm]

BigBootyLover said:

Yep, you made a good point. I remember us having this discussion last November over why Warner hasn't reissued his stuff. I said that their probably mad because of all the publicity and the changing of his name and also switching to his own independent label, NPG Records. Most of his stuff is out of print. I haven't even found a copy of The Black Album and TGE yet... Things were going good until the Crystal Ball/Sign O The Times era.

silverchild said:

You mean his stuff started getting hard to find in 87? I actually have no problem finding the early stuff. It's everything after Lovesexy(except the Hits and D&P) that's impossible to get(in my experience).

doctamario said:

Nope, that's not what I mean. I'm saying that when Warners started being cruel to him--by first demanding him to trim Crystal Ball from 3 records to 2 records. I mean that was his dream project, but now we have a masterwork he called Sign O The Times. From that point on, they just pressured him, and that's probably why we don't have reissues and remastered stuff. But at least, they reissued his 3 movies last year...
[Edited 5/23/05 21:05pm]

i looooove D&P as i've said sooooo amny times already. lol