Got home from work before the wife got home and absolutely blasted 3121!

The opening song "3121" is so good. Man I love those layered voices with the "Dream Factory" voice leading. Its funky in the vein of Days of Wild and has so much bottom in it. Then towards the end he comes in with that loud ass fuzzy guitar. I'm loving this song!

Lolita - Ya'll gotta help me cause seriously I love the beat and synths and the pop kind happy but funky groove. Don't have a problem with any of that. But that freakin "Lolita ur sweeta..no you never ever ever blah blah blah ...is straight corny and almost ruins the entire song for me.

Te Amo.. - Wow talk about a song I totally ignored. I mean listened to it once when it first came out and never again...but now in the context of the entire record...its beautiful. It works...its lush and has body. Its not boring it mearly relaxes you before you get eltro chocked by Black Sweat!!!

Black Sweat - Needs a remix and while its disapointing that the song is not charting better... This is a straight up Prince funk jam that others that don't appreciate the little dude simply won't get.


Incense & Candles - Easily the strongest single potential on this record. Very nice RB Pop song...not at all what you wouldn't hear from Usher, Craig David or Justin Timberlake and there is absolutely nothing wrong with P making a song to compete with those kinds of records. Absolutely nothing! It however is not a shock that this song is despised on this Rock heavy board

Love - Oh goodness...lets dance y'all...this joint moves...shake that thang come mon!

Satisfied - P has done this song so many times. Somebody called this filler which is damn ignorant. Its not filler...its a great song and a tremendous vocal. Would have liked him to put maybe another rock-funk oriented record here and maybe have this be a b-side..but its a great song...just don't know how many times he can do it before I get bored.

Fury - starting to sound better but like many others have said we are jaded because we heard it live first. Although I still think its the vocals not anything to do with the guitars that take away from it.

The Word & BL&B - sound great back to back..two spiritual natured songs but very different. The chorus on The Word again is when he starts talking about spiders sounds a little corny but it doesn't ruin the song

The Dance - Sounds really good...hes turned it into an RB slow jam (well kinda)
"Baby are u really gonna stand there!!

Get on the Boat - Not my favorite but its will sound great live!!!

This is a much better record than Rave, or NPS, it is not 1999/Purple Rain, or Sign and that is clear. It however is very comparable to D&Ps, Musicology, & (the bloated) Emancipation and in my opinion is clearly better than all of those for different reasons..but the biggest is that for me there isn't one song on 3121 that I skip! It does not have a clunker. I don't know when the last time I could say that about a Prince record...I finally have one that I can listen the whole way through! But also in all seriousness its a good fun POP record without all the weirdness, segue distractions, and over the top corny lyrics or sacharine laiden lyrics. Also this record has a lot of bottom on it! I like that makes me want to bounce!
[Edited 3/8/06 16:26pm]

Good review, agree on almost everything. This album is a nice surprise for me. "Lolita" is my jam right now

Great Review...and I agree on most of what u say here. Damn I can barely get past the title track...DAMN!!! The title track is funk as a muthafu@$a..very bass heavy like The Daisy Chain. We have been spoiled by hearing Fury & a very good piece of Satisfied. The same thing happened b4 D&P came out & P performed Cream live on The Arsenio Hall Show...2 funky.