Ok, here's the deal, I'm thinking about buying N.E.W.S but I heard there R no vocals and the 4 songs each last 16 minutes.

So I'm thinking maybe it'll be 2 boring.
(I heard it's jazzy, but I liked 'The Rainbow Children'.)

So Waddaya think?
2 buy or not 2 buy?

It's like elevator Prince music. The musicianship is good but the musical ideas are just ok. What makes it elevator music is that these ok song ideas are stretched so long your attention just drifts.

I like the whole album though it's not one of my favourites!

I think it makes for good background music...you know for cleaning, reading, studying, etc. Nothing phenomenal IMO, but pleasant.

i love it. i listened to it a lot.

endorphin74 said:

Good point! When I play it, it's usually because I want to hear some music and I'm too busy to keep loading tracks. So I pop in N.E.W.S and just let it play.

Buy it if you like instrumental music; I do. Plus it's interesting to listen to. Good background music for a dinner party.

Buy It! It's a ok album.

Xpectation is better!

Buy It! The third track West is beautiful .

Always buy every Prince release you can get.

Buy some of them twice ! At least.

I like instrumental music.

I live The Rainbow children for it's special sound.
The instruments on the titelsong are just WOW!

rainbowchild said:

u think?
doesnt it get a little intense haha

id rather pick Grover washington jr for a dinner party

Thibaut¤
you whats for certain
it wont be what you expected
thats for sure

I didn't care too much for it. Any song longer than 10 minutes usually loses my attention. The 19 minute version of "Scandalous" is one of the few I love all the way through. I'd buy it anyways because it's Prince.

N.E.W.S is a beatiful record, but I can only recommend to those who love jazz music and who enjoy Prince playing it. West and North are my faves on here.
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An alternative experience...

you can go on newpowerradio.tk and request each track to hear it, then make your decision. Yesterday I heard East and North. I have yet to hear the other 2, but I think I'll buy it.

On the one hand, it's a great album, and it's a first for Prince - to record a jazz album under his own name. On the other hand, it's more of a specialty recording, and it's one of 3 (along with C-Note and Expectation), that Prince released (along with One Nite Alone, both versions). People were resisting all this new jazz experimentation, and it was a very interesting period, but that time period has ended.

I had a thought recently. Having just recently bought Expectation and C-Note, I wonder what it would have been like if he had either recorded an double-album with the tracks from all three albums on it, or if he had taken the best of and made it a single disk. I think that might have gone over a lot better. Idle thoughts in my head Saturday afternoon.

Cheek said:

ARE YOU PRINCE?

Thibaut said:

well do you have an appreciation of Jazz? If so grab it. Get up tomorrow morning enjoy a nice cup of coffee and grab the news paper and enjoy

I play News on raotation on Saturday and Sunday mornings along with Miles, Coltrane, & Monk.

If you don't like Jazz why buy it?
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Thibaut said:

N.O. I.T. I.S. S.H.I.T.

I heard some of the tracks and they are cool but it would of been so much better if prince sang on it. The only instrumental track I like from Prince (and I think most people here at the org would agree with me) is Alexa De Paris.

I like N.E.W.S. To me it's 1 ofthose albums that r better to listen to at night when ur in bed.

Yes, buy it. (I bought two copies: one for me, and one for a Christmas present.) Just don't expect to like it the first time you listen to it. Keep playing it, though; it grows on you.

For some inexplainable reason I like listening to it quite a lot.

If the thought of an instrumental album bores you, don't buy it...

The music is great though, it's a good album...

I just ordered it from the internet.

Thibaut said:

You made the right decision. It's the best prince album!