I love Lolita!! it is his campest song in years but it's a fucking jam! get On teh Boat is DAYUM catchy... the BEST song is LOVE! or maybe 3121! Love that song! I also like Fury and The Word!!

GoldenGlove said:

Does no one think that Lolita sounds like Soft And Wet??? It IS the jam

I don't have it yet, but I'm listening to it on MSN Music - I like it. I didn't think that MSN Music would let me listen to the whole thing; I thought I'd get little thirty-second clips. ^_^

@amyhr - I expected 3121 to suck... So, I guess that's why I like it so much.

I'm listenin' 2 the title track again, and now I realize why I'm so disappointed about the whole album.

3121 was announced to be Prince's (commercial) comeback. I was freakin excited! I hated the time when it used 2 be:
- What kind of music do you listen 2?
- U know Prince & stuff...
- Who?
4 real, in my generation in Austria, no exception.
Some of my friends only knew the albums Rave & Emancipation, and of course they did'nt like it. If that was all I knew of Prince I wouldn't like it either. They are cool pieces if you have the whole puzzle, if u know what I mean...(That's when I started handing out 'best of' compilations to my friends.... "I'm spreading the word" )
So I was kind of hoping to get anything BUT this kind of sound on his comeback-album. I feel like 3121 won't make it easier for me to convince people that Prince is not just that.

What I'm trying to say is that if 3121 would have been released quietly without any promotion, I probably would've loved it. But now I'm all worried about people dismissing Prince as a whole.

I hope I'm wrong about everything and 3121 will be a big success and Black Sweat a big club banger.

P.S.: I know y'all couldn't care less about what I'm saying, but since English is not my mother tongue it's hard for me to (shortly) point out what I'm trying 2 say )

If someone can listen to 3121 and "dismiss Prince as a whole", they don't have ears...

ArtVandelay said:

GOT IT!!!!! At Target ($9.98).

Very nice art work, plus the words are in there.....always like Prince!!!!!

Oh man after all that waiting I don't know where to start

Hmm well i'm not gonna say it is a bad album.

I will say i'm dissappointed though and not because I don't think its decent but really at this point that is it.

Its not really fair to judge an album after listening to it once and I am pretty sure that is true but from first impressions thats what I got.

I think it is an album that shows what we all know and that is Prince whatever band he puts together or keeps can play.

I like the bass elements whether its drum machines, or bass guitars or whatever live drums may be found but as good as I think the instrumentation is the thing that sorta dissappoints me about the record is i don't think I really hear anything standout.

I will say Te Amo Corazon has grown on me and I love it now.

I also love Black Sweat and I think I like BLB way more than I thought I would but as far as the songs I hadn't heard before I think Satisfied is sorta nice and Get on the Boat is sorta funky at the end but not really anything that blows me away.

I'm not saying this cause I wanna be negative but because its just how i'm feeling right now. I mean its a decent nice album I suppose and maybe i'll like it more if I keep listening but that super dissappoints me because I wanted to like it more right away than I do right now.

I also can understand how people are dissappointed in Fury on the album.

The album cut is sorta ruined by over expectations after you see the blazing live performances.

I'm a hardcore Prince fan right now, even though I didn't start out that way so i'm even dissappointed in myself about feeling like this right now.

I won't boot it out of my cd player or never listen to it again or nothing but right now I like musicology better and as mellow as I think it is I thought i'd never say that.

Anyhow maybe i'll change the way I feel later with more listens but whatever the case as someone stated i'm glad the man is still recording and i'm glad to have another Prince album to add to my collection so i'll be thankful for that and keep listening to it and see what happens .

Also does it sound to anyone else like he's trying real hard to sing over the top of the music?
[Edited 3/21/06 17:32pm]

Love2tha9s said:

Don't beat yourself up cause it didn't grab you the first time out. Most Prince albums take a minute to get with. Give it a few more chances and don't make yourself like it if you don't. It's all good

purplecam said:

Well thats a pretty cool response, thanks for that

murph said:

Translation: it's a decent album if you ignore that Prince is (*) capable of much better.

(*) Hmmm, perhaps "was" would be a better choice of words, considering he hasn't released anything in post-1995 that I'd consider better than average, and most of it actually falls in the category "I'll never listen to this again".

The only reason so many people here like 3121 now is because it's "fresh" and "new". The same thing happened back when Rave came out, Musicology, etc. Yet ask the same people six months later and they'll rank 3121 along all those other albums that they got tired of pretty fast. I'm just ahead of the curve -- those that were around in 1999 will remember me being the lone voice pointing out that Rave was gonna bomb and that the infamous "positive" Uptown preview of that album actually tried really hard to avoid admitting it was yet another major disappointment (something Uptown admitted months later).

Of course so much of this album sounds familiar, for the past couple of years Prince seems to be incapable of doing anything beyond recycling his own music, plenty of times in an attempt to have something similar to an old but now off-limits tune (because of "bad words"). And then the tour starts and before you know it all that "new" music gets ditched and setlists once again consist of 80+% old material -- shows you how much faith Prince has in his new music.

Anyone who claims that current Prince is anywhere near classic Prince is blind and deaf, all you need to do is take a dvd of a 1980s gig and compare it to a recent one: it's almost like they're different artists. Cue usual "growth/getting older" excuse, whereas I'll point out that Johnny Cash made some of his best work at the end of his career.

If 3121 rocks your world, fine -- but don't pretend that it is worthy of access to the list of "great Prince albums". This is yet another one from the bland manufacturing line, yet another "will this do" effort, yet another utterly misguided attempt at making a return to the charts. Prince can do this in his sleep, and 3121 actually sounds like he recorded it in his sleep.

I'm always surprised when I glimpse at tracklists for recent Prince albums and can't even imagine what most of the songs sound like, whereas I know most of his 1980s output by heart.

Instead of spending so much time and energy on these mediocre efforts, Prince should concentrate on what's in his vault. Seriously, what's the point of releasing Lolita, which is Time-lite at best, when great songs like I Wonder, Possessed, Rebirth Of The Flesh, Large Room With No Light, All My Dreams, Moonbeam Levels,... are gathering dust in a tape vault. And how about all those extended versions from 12 inches that remain unreleased on CD? Or all those full-length versions of released tracks (Computer Blue for instance)?
[Edited 3/21/06 7:05am]

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mapaul said:

I, for one, still love Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. What that says about me and my taste is up for debate, but I stand by it. I imagine I will continue to love 3121 for many years to come.

Moonbeam said:

I bet you will...

I love that he wrote Lolita for Beyonce "Long ago, we would have been the sh** like Frank and Ava" She must have really sprung him out after the Grammys. No need trying to dissuade. This song is about Mise Bey.

uh...come again?

Who do you think it's about?

It's a VIP who's "fine from head to pumps" ... "your eyes, your mouth, your Curly hiar ...You're bad, no doubt." It could only be Beyonce.

Remember the chemisty they had on stage. He so wanted her. They were hot.