The album is about vaginas.


I liked the album. I've heard this said before and agree with it: The album is not good enough to be given real props, but not bad enough to be considered a statement to WB.

KAB said:

Yes, very informative thread, thanks for the link.

dammme said:

Hey who's putting valuable information on a thread I started. That's just wrong.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Although it does have a killer line....

Damn Delores pick another subject please.
Introduce the carpet to something other than your knees

CaptainChaos said:

you must have a very bad cd player then

8up said:

I was thinking the same thing. I love this song bad lyrics and all. There's just something about the whole album that keeps me coming back to it.

When I first bought it, I played it once. Threw up. Then I put it away for about 3 years. Completely ignored it in my CD rack.

Then about a year ago I started listening to it again. Now I consider it a decent album...if not one of my favorites. (Wait! Did I say that aloud?)

and "right the wrong" is his best song ever!

CaptainChaos said:

My humble apologies.

We have some funny MFers on the org don't we, this album is pure unadulterated SHIT!!!!!

tane1976 said:

And you're an unadulterated ASS!!!

You still live with hobbits???

tane1976 said:

no it's not. 'i like it there' is a great rock song, 'zannalee' is a really nice guitar track, the title song is fun...it's just not easy spoonfed classic prince pop. it's the kind of music that people these days are bitching he won't do anymore.

i think if it had a prettier cover, more people would like this album.

Anxiety said:

I think the album suffered from a lack of promotion. allegedly did the bare minimum of what he was required to do (the two TV performances), and he probably didn't feel like promoting C&D when he was hard at work on Emancipation. (I'm putting aside the issue of whether Emancipation actually lived up to the pre-release hype.) And since didn't seem too enthusiastic about the disc, I doubt WB felt like spending too much money on it.

BTW, note the release date: Jul/09/1996. That was the second release of new material within a year; The Gold Experience was released on Sep/26/1995. And although it was mostly old material (some of it by associated artists), the Girl 6 soundtrack was released on Mar/19/1996, with emphasis on the music being "by Prince." What was that about WB not wanting to "flood the market"?

Now, here's some prince.org history....

Before the album's release, WB sent Kevin (one of the moderators of the PPML, which became prince.org) 100 copies of a "Dinner With Delores" promo cassette single. Anybody out there still have one? I do.

matt said:

I sort of agree - but why release it under the name

see.....

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/159658

matt said:

well, he did the tv appearances and at least three videos for C&D...more than he did for 'come' or some of his other albums...

First side is killer. I just started listening to this album again in the past year.

Stymie said:

if it wasn't for Crappy B. and Reggaetron Ralphie stinking up the second side with sub-par rapping, i'd love the whole thing. i like those songs, but those raps...

KAB said:

I know he was a bit arbitrary when it came to crediting tracks to "Prince" or "." There are tracks recorded before the name change, and Prince tracks recorded after the name change. However, since the released version of Chaos and Disorder was largely the result of April 1996 recording sessions, I think crediting it to was the right decision.

Interestingly, IIRC, on Rave...., the title track (recorded in 1988 and exhumed from the vault) is credited to Prince, whereas the others are credited to . (I'm putting aside the issue of his giving the production credit for the entire album to Prince.)

Chaos is my SHIT! I don't care what anybody thinks. People wanted the raw stripped down demo sound of Dirty Mind and when they get it, they don't even know what they are hearing. The energy on that album is amazing!

Anxiety said:

Right... but how much airplay did those videos get? IIRC, I saw "The Same December" only as a download on WB's website for the album. And I think it had been completed well before the album was released... don't clips from it appear in the Glam Slam Wallpaper video from 1994 or 1995?

Meloh9 said:

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matt said:

i dunno...my perceptions were a little off at the time, as a) i wasn't following prince as much as i am now, and b) i was living in nyc at the time, and what i saw hyped when i walked down broadway and stared at the wrecka stow windows didn't necessarily reflect the rest of the country. i say this because i saw a LOT of promo posters in the windows before C&D came out.

Meloh9 said:

absolutley right!!!! c&d feels like he went back 2 the woodshed 2 try out a couple non-commercial ideas. kinda like what jimi was doin with "band of gypsys" or miles with "on the corner" or george duke's 1st 3 albums on mps....

I really enjoy this album.
I listen to it alot.

Anxiety said:

this is what almost ruins I rock therefore I am...that fake shitty ass jamaican rap crap Why was that necessary in the song???

Cheek said:

No, but we made money off them though, the album has no memorable songs, the sstuff u mention and others is all 4 out of 10 contract plodder, u want 2 listen to something better from that period, try the two albums b4 and the one after. Even Prince slagged this album off!!!

I haven't listened to this album in so long and can't find my copy. I'm jonesin!!!!

matt said:

i sold mine on ebay in 1998...

that shit rocks plain and simple. too bad rock fans are not more familiar with this and The Undertaker.