Yesterday I was in a local cd shop & found a primo-looking used copy of Chaos & Disorder. I noticed the price was reasonable ($7.99) so I bought it.
I listened to it in the car & really enjoyed most of it. Clever lyrics, rocking guitars, what's not to like? So, why do so many people slam this cd? I don't get it, but then I happen to like NEWS as well. It seems like alot of folks who call themselves fans really don't care for much since the Revolution broke up.

Chaos and Disorder is a great record. Some of his best guitar work is on there

1 of my favorite albums.....

Great album I love almost every track

I like this album. I think it gets a lot of flack because it seems as if it was really easy for Prince to make (and toss off). In my opinion, how hard a person striuves to make art shouldn't be the basis for judging or appreciating it.

I like C&D. It's not a great cd, but it has a few good songs and I like the guitar work too. Zannalee kicks ass!!

nothing bad about it

For a bunch of old outtakes, "Chaos" isn't a bad CD. The guitar stuff slams pretty well.."I Like It There" is a rocking tune (anyone ever seen the video?) and "Into The Light-I Will" is incredible. I like the last track "had u", his love song to Warner Bros.

I loved Chaos... I rocked that CD over and over from Minnesota to Michigan on trip.

nothing!!!!!love it!!!!!

I just bought it last week it was the only cd I didn't have of Prince now I cant stop listening to it.

It's quite unique a record in his catalog. It's not just that there's more guitar but he's songwriting is different too, the mixing is different, the overall mood is different. It's different!

Well, I stand corrected.
I guess there are a few more folks who like it.
But, I'm still wondering why the people who don't care for it-don't.
I have noticed it is the cd that shows up most in used record bins.

origmnd said:

Seen the "I like it there" video. It's P's trio thang. P, Sonny, and M.B. It's got the same production as say "dolphin". For those who have seen it. But I like it 'cause it's from C&D which is one of my fave P albums. As far as who likes this album to me separates "real" from "questionable".

I think Prince's comparison of the album to The Black Album is valid, both albums were compiled with a feeling of spite, it comes across especially well with the packaging and overall tone of C&D.

But, like TBA, it's not the material itself that is spiteful, although it is often dark, since both records were largely compilations of existing material, rather than recorded together as a cohesive project.

The flack the album gets comes from a) fans who take Prince's self-made mythology literally, and b) fans who just ain't that big on a guitar/rock based-sound. Prince's fanbase stretches a wide-base of tastes, he won't please everyone all the time.