Call me crazy but I'm bored already with 3121

You know the past few albums by our Purple Hero have been great, but for some reason I get bored rather quickly with them. I've already gone back to listening to Parade...ATWIAD...and a few others. Now I just wonder how long until the next album?

AND if he's going to tour with no "HITS"? I truly doubt he'll tour at all. More than likely he'll do a few "Hit-N-Run" shows but that's it.
[Edited 5/11/06 10:19am]

Same here. I like it enough, but it's already gotten old. Wonder Y? I went back to old material already too. Is it that the older stuff is just my/our taste? Or is the new stuff too watered down?

I would hope the no more old hits thing is a bunch of BS.

yeah, same here. i like the album and i really try to love it and play
it like i played his old records but i just can't.

the songs are nice and catchy enough and the album has a nice feel and
flow to it. but still.

there's just a whole lot missing from his songs. there's no real depth
in a lot of his material anymore. and i'm not just talking about deep,
introvert lyrics or stuff like that.

but just composition-wise. there's nothing in the past decade that has
as many layers as Anna Stesia or which is as mad funky as Crystal Ball.
i guess these days a lot of his songs are instant. what you hear is the
entire song. there are very few extra layers of instruments and little
(brilliant) ideas floating effortlessly in and out of the songs.

think of the stuff that just breezes into the extended end portion of
Scarlet Pussy. there are ideas to build a whole song around, and he put
it in there for 5 or 6 seconds. like he did in so many songs.

that's the kind of stuff i miss. when i've listened to "Love" for fifty
times, thanks very much, but i know the song.

when I listen to Anna Stesia, i still think i can hear some new stuff
or something that i didn't concentrate on before.

SexualSuicide said:

He's been trotting that one out for well over a decade, he'll play the hits - although it would be no bad thing if he didn't.

Step away from the Raspberry Beret / Take Me With U medley....

IstenSzek said:

Yeah, thats what it is.....I agree.

Dont U love when people address the issue with their own terminology...


http://www.prince.org/msg/7/187154

origmnd said:

maybe he/she just didn't see that post.

But I think all of Prince's albums are only appreciated (or depreciated) with hindsight.

Ten years from now, I wonder if we'll look back at Musicology and 3121 with a smile on our faces, remembering what we were doing with our lives around this time and what our soundtrack for the mid 00's was. For me, during the time that Come and The Gold Experience were released, I remember listening more to the 80s albums and wishing that Prince would go back to that 'old sound' that I loved. Now, I love Come and TGE and see them as part of yet another golden Prince era.

Personally, I'm loving 3121 more than I've loved a Prince CD since, ooh, NEWS. However, I think that's because after more than 20 years as a Prince fan I'm learning to enjoy what he does when he does it and I make a point of taking time out to appreciate the positives in the new work rather than the potential negatives. That's not meant as a criticism of anybody else, it's just my own endless (probably blind) optimism and enthusiasm for Prince's work.