I'm here listening to it after work and all I can say that at least I personally underrated this album. I always loved certain tracks off of it, but overall I made a mistake of not really liking this album. I really think the album is great, save Tony M's wack rapping and the dumb skits.

My Name Is Prince
Sexy MF
The Morning Papers
The Max
Blue Light
Damn U
7
And God Created Woman
3 Chains Of Gold

I truly enjoy all of those songs. I also believe And God Created Woman is an underrated P cut.

What are your thoughts?

together with 'diamonds & pearls' it's my least fav prince album.

it's not that they are downright bad cuz all the songs have sum
good things but as albums i just don't like them at all.

although, "and god created woman" is one of my fav prince songs

it's so beautiful

IstenSzek said:

'And God Created Woman' is probably in my top 3 songs of all time. The beginning of it just has a vibe about it that I love. In fact I really like this whole album.

I wish he hadn't tried to tell a story with the cd and the video. Because he doesn't actually put together a plausible story line. It's scarred by the rapping and 3 chains of gold has to be one of my least favorite songs of all time (except for the interlude).

ofcourse he can't make a total crapper and there are some great songs.

not underrated

I think it is highly underrated. I think that I have to be in a certain mood sometimes to listen to a lot of the 90s 'rap' style NPG stuff (like The Flow), but the Love Symbol album has so many good points.

I could listen to Love 2 the 9's all day (and have), although the 'dance girl, lemme see that booty boom' bit ruins it (for me) a little. The rest of the song is totally sweet and displays his vocal range nicely! The Continental is totally playful and great to dance to as well. They are probably my two favourites but I love the whole album. I first got a taste of it on the B-side of My Name is Prince 12-inch single, on 2 Whom it May Concern. couldn't wait to hear it after that!

HELL YES!!

Love this album!!!!!

Hell yes it's underrated. In terms of styles of music on the album, it is by far the most diverse. That is why it is my number one!

kpowers said:

Me too

ALL of Prince's music is underrated. That's a fact. Except jughead.

I like it. Not 1 of my favourite, though.
@ least I can stand it not like NewPower Soul

a very creatively fun album
xcept that prince's ego's all over it
"sweet baby" being the xception
"Love 2 the 9s" would probably be one of my most favorite songs ever
xcept 4 the change of direction it takes
in total, after weighing all the pros & cons
i do believe it still makes my top 10 of fav prince albums

Totally my favorite Prince album, I enjoy it immensely over all others - even 15 years later.

It's one of the few albums I can listen to from beginning to end without being tempted to skip a track. I don't even mind Tony M here, he's just another element in Prince's 'wall of sound' style arrangement.

I think all but 2 or 3 tracks here could have made serviceable singles if the project had only been given the right push. Prince seemed to put more effort into the videos for these tracks, too.

Now, I'll agree the story line of the accompanying video was a bit of a mess (although better than GB! ) but I've never understood why people think the released version of thealbum has a confusing story line - because it really doesn't have one at all, just spoken word segues here and there.

Anotherloverholeinyohead said:

oh hell yes, same here. once i heard all those snippets in that song
i was super hyped to get the album.

very clever way to promote the album and still a cool song too

I like it a lot!

I think its a fun album and one of his better efforts at producing.

jtfolden said:

That's so scary...!

I really enjoy this album. It was pretty much in my CD player for the whole week. It's my favorite Prince album of the 90's.
[Edited 5/12/07 10:29am]

Great album.Love every song on it!

AndreC said:

I don't know why... your listed favorites are all from the 80's.

Graycap23 said:

and 1999 (the new master)

Snap said:[quote]a very creatively fun album
xcept that prince's ego's all over it


I think the "ego aspect" is my biggest issue with this album. After 27 years prince's ego shouldn't be a surprise, but lyrically it leads him to say things like not having cream for his coffee is dramatic issue. My name is Prince , is like we didn't know that. For newbies of the time or non fans maybe, but eh?


Like I said earlier,there are some great songs, but this album has had it's exposure commercially and with the hard core fans.

AndreC said:

What's so scary about that??? You at a Prince fan site and some one (well more than one) said they still love the album.

jtfolden said:

I just wanted to say that it seems impossible that already 15 years have been passed since then... I feel old!

Btw, I still love this album!

AndreC said:

ok that makes sense, dam 15 years has passed. Seems more like 7 years ago.

kpowers said:

I didn't want to make any judgement. I'm sorry

FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION THIS ALBUM,CAUSE I LISTENED TO IT LAST WEEK TO SEE IF I WAS WRONG ABOUT IT FIRST TIME ROUND.I WASN,T IT,S CRAP, BAR "7" AND A FEW OTHER MOMENTS.PRINCE DIDN,T NEED A RAPPER HE COULD DO IT OK HIMSELF,GET OFF,ETC.

AndreC said:

Oh, I took it as a comment on loving the album for that long.

Yeah, it doesn't seem like that amount of time could have passed. I can't believe it's been over 10 years since Emancipation now!

AndreC said:

It's cool, I agree with you, can't believe it's been 15 years.