Theres been heaps of threads dissing half ok albums like Graffiti Bridge and Emancipation etc, but no one has looked at 1992's Symbol. I mean this album is seriously bad.
Grafitti Bridge at least has a few gems on it, but theres nothing on Symbol thats a gem. 7, Morning Papers and a couple of other songs are OK but the rest is a self indulgent experiment. The shit dated the moment it came out.
The only reason it did fairly well was because of the hype caused by Diamonds and Pearls (Just like the ATWIAD sales figures caused by Purple Rain fans expecting Purple Rain II).
U look at it theres hardly anything good on it. Theres no Joy in Repetition, The Holy River or Musicology type songs here. I mean 7 is a fairly average pop song and The Morning Papers is a fairly good soul ballad, but sandwiched in amongst the ok stuff is filler like Blue Light, Arrogance, The Flow, Damn u and to add to it some of the weakest Tony M raps this side of 1992.
He kind of deserved it after he sacked the talented Rosie Gaines and Diamond and Pearl (Why kil a winning recipe man).

The only 4 out of 5 song is my name is Prince, its a good starter, shame it goes downhill after that, aamzing how Prince got over the Victor nonsense afterwards. Sorry guyas but I got over this album in early 93.
So do you agree and do you think Graffiti Bridge is Sign o the times compared to this self indulgent boondoggle.

its not that good..

but 7 makes up for my overlooking its bad

Sdldawn said:

That's actually interesting; if you delete "7" from the album you remove a real lynch-pin.Then where is the album at? Like if you subtract "Anna Stesia" from "Lovesexy". You have an album spiralling out of control.

I hear a lot of arogance, attitude, and anger in the lyrics now.

I hear a lot of immaturity.
I hear and feel a "disingenuine-ness".

There's a lot of phonyness going on with "SYMBOL".

I listened to DAP last night for the first time in years. I was actually embarassed that I used to hold nonsense like Thunder and Daddy Pop in such high regard. Immaturity is a very good word for it! How could he come to that, only 4 years after Sign O the Times? Transitional phase, I suppose... At least Cream is excellent.

Rudy said:

'D&P' is one Prince album that just hasn't aged very well,imo.These days,I can't even listen to stuff like "Thunder" and "Daddy Pop".But I agree with you,"Cream" still packs a punch.That's one of his finest pop/rock jams.

DAP is 10 times worse

DavidEye said:

Let's not even forget Strollin , Willing & Able, Money Don't Matter tonight and I know people hate this song but I think it's one of the funkiest ass jams to come out of the 90s.....PUSH

ALLRIGHT Iget the message already. I am sorry for putting down the Symbol album already, But I don't apologise for the fact I don't like it, but maybe thats not an excuse for me 2 dis it in front of you all who do like it.

The main reason I am not CRAZY about it, is like what MattyJam says, like most early 90s stuff its dated. Princes music from 1980-87 hasnt. because its better, whereas Lovesexy to NPS are to me amusing period pieces. Keep the piece yall. Also because it was a response to the constant hammocking of the half decent Grafitti Bridge CD and the very good Musicology album.

Theres been heaps of threads dissing half ok albums like Graffiti Bridge and Emancipation etc, but no one has looked at 1992's Symbol. I mean this album is seriously bad.
Grafitti Bridge at least has a few gems on it, but theres nothing on Symbol thats a gem. 7, Morning Papers and a couple of other songs are OK but the rest is a self indulgent experiment. The shit dated the moment it came out.
The only reason it did fairly well was because of the hype caused by Diamonds and Pearls (Just like the ATWIAD sales figures caused by Purple Rain fans expecting Purple Rain II).
U look at it theres hardly anything good on it. Theres no Joy in Repetition, The Holy River or Musicology type songs here. I mean 7 is a fairly average pop song and The Morning Papers is a fairly good soul ballad, but sandwiched in amongst the ok stuff is filler like Blue Light, Arrogance, The Flow, Damn u and to add to it some of the weakest Tony M raps this side of 1992.
He kind of deserved it after he sacked the talented Rosie Gaines and Diamond and Pearl (Why kil a winning recipe man).
The only 4 out of 5 song is my name is Prince, its a good starter, shame it goes downhill after that, aamzing how Prince got over the Victor nonsense afterwards. Sorry guyas but I got over this album in early 93.
So do you agree and do you think Graffiti Bridge is Sign o the times compared to this self indulgent boondoggle.

And God Created Woman

I listened to DAP last night for the first time in years..... How could he come to that, only 4 years after Sign O the Times?

is amazing from start to finish, no exceptions. And anybody hating on Chaos and Disorder obviously doesn't understand where was at the time; I sometimes think it's his most stripped-down, honest, vital album yet.