I think it has some great songs:

New Power Generation (nobody ever mentions this track - I love it)
Thieves in the Temple
We can Funk
Joy in Repitition
Question of U
Release it
Can't Stop this Feeling I got

coolcat said:

Thieves in the Temple is flat out terrible. I bought this album when it came out and only recently have I managed to actually listen to this song all the way through.

I do think there are some good tracks on the album though (particularly the stuff by the Time, eg, Sex Machine) and Still Will Stand All Time is simply gorgeous.

thieves in the temple is okay, but the extended version still kicks my ass.

I don't care much for the album as a whole. Joy in Repition is one of my fave Prince songs.....but the rest of it is pretty lame to me. But different strokes.

WHAT'S COOL TO YOU, MIGHT BE STRANGE TO ME (I know that was corny, but I couldn't resist)

Anxiety said:

Got 2 be one of my faves the extended version is amazing

I dont think the album is bad at all but dont ask me about the film

Thirdeye said:

Could you even call it a movie? I don't know what it was. I just didn't get it.
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One of my favourite prince albums, highly underrated. It has some of his best 90's songs and some of his best ever aswell.

Can't Stop This Feelin I got
New Power Generation
Elephants And Flowers
Round 'N' Round
Melody Cool
Love Machine
The Question Of U
Tick, Tick, Bang
We Can Funk
Joy In Repetition
Thieves in The Temple
Still Would Stand All Time

All of those are great tracks and the reason it's one of prince's best!

I agree: it's a very spiritual & funky album! I find it not 2 have aged that much 15 years later... it sounds out of time, sort of, not that much related 2 the music of its time...

shaomi said:

I'd add that at the time it was released, the hype was 2 shit on Prince... saying that he wasn't what he used 2 b & all that... I'm sure many critics had decided it would b crap b4 they even listened 2 it! i hate it when people's & journalist's comments r related 2 a "thought fashion" !!!

coolcat said:

I still dont know what the film is trying 2 say all the floating Feathers and slipy shoes shit

I love Elephants and Flowers in it tho

If you left off the non-Prince trax, cept for Release it cuz that song is the shiznix, and added some more Prince trax this would be a classic album.

I really didn't like the Album or the film.

The beard and the clothes wasn't a good look and why can't you hear George Clinton on WE CAN FUNK???

Anxiety said:

hell yes

it's one of his very best extended versions.

i must have played that single 1000 times on

my old little stereo.


"put your foot on the rock
lemme show ya how 2 clock"

the grunting and groaning and the "oooh"
and "aaah"'s set to the melody are great

The only songs on there that aren't that great are Shake!, Latest Fashion, Graffiti Bridge, and Still Would Stand All Time. The rest are cool

Anxiety said:

Kicks my ass...twice.
I freakin' luv dis version.

I actually like most of the album a lot, though I think it would've been
better split into 2 seperate releases... A 'Prince' album and a 'soundtrack'
album.

Prince - New Power Generation
1. Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
2. We Can Funk (featuring George Clinton)
3. The Question Of U
4. Elephants & Flowers
5. Joy In Repetition
6. Thieves In The Temple
7. Tick Tick Bang
8. Still Would Stand All Time
9. New Power Generation (parts 1&2)

Graffiti Bridge - original soundtrack
1. Seven Corners - Ingrid Chavez
2. Release It - The Time
3. Round And Round - Tevin Campbell
4. Love Machine - The Time & Elisa Fiorillo
5. Number One - Robin Power
6. Shake! - The Time
7. Melody Cool - Mavis Staples
8. The Latest Fashion - The Time & Prince
9. Graffiti Bridge - Prince, Mavis Staples & Tevin Campbell

I really love the album (...and movie )
but I agree it should have been like a double album with one cd being
the Prince stuff and the other being the movie soundtrack
as Boris has just demonstrated

I think i might make it a 2 disc tonight, just for the fun of it

BorisFishpaw said:

It is a masterful album, and it is the last time he did his eighties sound.

His experimental phase slipped off, after this album. And really, he just wrote really catchy and well done songs--well done, full songs, not just beats with words.

Always loved Thieves in the Temple

Joy in Repetition (the live version on ONA cd is awesome)
Still will stand all time (beautiful)
Elephants & Flowers
New Power Generation (class)
Cant stop this feeling i got
Question of U (love the live video of this from the 1990 tour)

I loved all these songs when it came out & i still do


I will add though that Grafiti Bridge & Tick Tick Bang are pretty awful although i like the start of TTB

Melody cool ..... YUK
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I just started 2 like this album after all these years in 1990 when it came out. I never liked it bcuz the movie is so lame. I learned 2 like a couple of tracks.

Joy In Repetition
Tick, Tick, Bang
Question Of U
Elephants And Flowers

That one is easy... It's not highly regarded because it's a mix of Prince and other acts. Prince had never done this and has not done it since because he realizes he has to keep "Prince" separate from his protégés. They should not be on the same album unless it's a mere compilation. That's because Prince still tries to be deep and serious while his protégés acts are cartoonish and one dimensional by and large. They dilute the Prince experience. On their own, hoever, they can make for a pretty good record -- it's just not going to be SOTT or 1999.

Therefore, in that sense, this is one of Prince's most ill-conceived albums and its a shame the clumsy format (and the horrible film) wasted some great songs. Joy in Repetition might be loved by fans but very few people know it exists. Same for The Question of U or Elephants & Flowers.

Aerogram said:

I agree with that, i bet people dont even know some of these tracks exist ..... yet if u took the 9 best tracks off the album ,u would have a classic album

All the Time songs are classics.

2freaky4church1 said:

I agree

I think he just spent far too long on the project, considering it was originally the follow-up to Sign O' The Times, that period feels a life-time away.

It's a testament to how much he believed in the project and concept he was trying to convey, but it went through so many changes, it bore very little resemblence to it's original concept.

The result wasn't bad per se, just a little lost in itself, it's a whole hotch-potch of unfinished ideas and shelved projects - think of all the projects Prince didn't put this much faith behind, maybe it's a good thing he shelves stuff sometimes, because if he didn't, they might end up like Graffiti Bridge.

Oh wow, Graffiti Bridge is one of my favorite Prince albums...and Thieves in the Temple is one of my favorite songs. I can even sit through the whole movie and enjoy it from time to time.

the album is so easy to listen too, i still can't believe people diss it, there is so much variety on there!!!!

"new power generation" , "joy in repetition" and "round and round" rock!