My routine;

I get up.
I look around and say, "Man...how it all did come to this."
I scratch my butt as I stagger to the lavatory.
I come to a realization;
" Man...I gotta remember to pick up the new Prince CD."
By day's end,
I will have forgotten.

Eventually (usually several months later)
I will find myself eating at the Wendy's at the mall.
I'll notice the CD store next door.
I go in.
I inquire to the 16 yr. store attendant as to the whereabouts of sed CD.
He'll indifferently point to a section that I'm currently standing in front of.
I'll reply, "oh..."
I buy it.
I listen to it several weeks later.
Usually it takes several listens before I indifferently give it to my brother
& just continue listening to the old stuff.
That's my routine.

Like clockwork.



What can I say.


I'm a fam.

I play the whole thing through the first time, then each day Ill play one song and put on tape and listen to it throughout the day, then one more each day get to know the songs one by one, because some songs take time to grow, and some songs get vold quick so I dont play a new album over and over to much at once, I havent even listened to Musicology that much, I love the album but I dont like to wear music out and not want to hear it anymore, I hope this makes sense

1. Buy it the day of it's release.

2. Listen to a piece of each track to see what it sounds like.

3. Bitch and complain...."This is the worst shit Prince has ever made!"

4. Skim the tracks again and find one or two that catches my ear, listen to the complete track over and over, and start to like it.

5. Play the album in it's entirety when I'm either getting ready to go to work or messing around on the computer. Most of the songs start to grow on me then.

6. Continue listening to the entire album each day as I'm getting ready to go to work or messing around on the computer. More songs start to grow on me. Lately, some of the tracks like "Life Of The Party" and "Illusion, Coma, Pimp, and Circumstance" did not grow on me and never will.

7. Put it on the shelf, play something from "For You" through "Purple Rain", and say to myself "Prince sure as hell ain't what he used to be".

8. Call a good friend of mine since the sixth grade and compare notes about the album. He has similar taste as I do and usually has the same gripes that I have about the album. He usually says "this is the last Prince album I will ever buy", then I say "yeah right, tell that to me next year when the new album comes out".

9. Play a song or two from the new album once in a blue moon.

10. It's been basically the same routine since "Around The World In A Day", except the "messing around on the computer" part.
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1. Buy the album on the day of release.

2. Listen to it in a single sitting that evening.

3. Pick out a few tracks I really like, and a few I really dislike.

4. Listen to it from start to finish a few more times over the next few days. Form opinions of all the tracks.

5. Just listen to the ones I like for the next couple of weeks.

6. Don't listen to any of it at all for months, maybe years.

7. Every now and again hear a track on my MP3 player. Think it is ok.

Truth be told I used to be a prince fanatic listening to little else, thinking that every album was his best yet. After 1988 though it all started to fade, and now I hardly listen to Prince stuff at all. I do still buy the new albums though and still look forward to their release, but usually end up feeling disappointed.

Do you listen to all his albums from For You to the most recent, ending the day before the new album is released?

Not before lighting a few purple candles at the local catholic church.

Do you starve yourself from Prince completely?

Good lord no! But a real fan should fast for 17 days prior to rhe release date.

Do you (shock, horror) visit NPGMC religiously on a daily basis hoping for more information?

No, I don't need to. A real fan should sense an impending release like an animal feels an earthquake coming.

Do you take the release date off work, and listen to the new album repeatedly?

Maybe not the whole day, but maybe I'll blow an afternoon. I listen to the album once then I think about it late at night.

Do you do nothing special at all?

Yes I spike my purple koolaid with vodka.