Sowhat said:

maybe there r xtended versions

Haystack said:

When the album comes out I will remember this post - You make a very good point... I hope you're right!

I'm starting to wonder if there's 2 versions of this album?

Shorty said:

Hummm.....U.S. vs the World. lol.....

Graycap23 said:

huh? as a title?
I was thinking more along the lines of lable version vs indie version.

Graycap23 said:

No, but Sinead's latest comes in 2 CDs with the same songs, a pop version and an acoustic one

Shorty said:

I know what u meant. I was wondering the same thing.

Haystack said:

Very well said, brotha!

Most of my favorite albums are under 45 mins.

One of the best albums from last year was Razorlights album and that was only 39 minutes.

Chromeo's fantastic new album is only 40 odd mins long. Records this lenght are less likely to out stay there welcome.

Plus 45 mins is about the time it takes me to drive to work each day so I can fit the album in before work and before I get home. I hate not getting the chance to listen to an album in one sitting.

Haystack said:

i pray that this is what they've done

although Musicology is like 47 minutes and
it's got like 25 minutes of killer tunes..

let's just pray some more

I am feeling grateful that we will be blessed with new music soon!

'Future Baby Mama' caught my eye, is it a funny kind o song or deep?

Maybe its the long version of 'The Rules' ???

I am wondering if P. is hip to the whole steampunk genre with his lovely man corset. Purrrrr.

One thing that feels hopeful to me about guitar, which I'm really diggin more that I listen to it, is that there is a live band feel to this, unlike Musicology which was all studio and felt extremely plastic in places. 3121 was very plastic but it wasn't gaudy like musuckology.

I didn't think before I saw what may be the final tracklisting that number of songs or album length really meant anything but I guess 10 songs can be considered kind of short. I thought it would be at least 12, oh well lets see how it goes.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

i can't help shake the creepy feeling that once we get Planet Earth
we will be able to compile a classic prince album out of all three,
Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth together.

the rest can be relegated to the b-side folder

IstenSzek said:

What's giving me hope here is that although Musicology was a CD clearly aimed at the masses with its commercial sounding songs, it was the first time in a while he'd released such an album; the first time since Rave, I suppose. So as a fan, I accepted that it was an album designed to get him back in the public eye and perhaps make a few dollars - and there's nothing wrong with that.
3121 seemed to have the same idea, and the two worked as book-ends. 3121 seemed almost like it was introducing those who'd discovered his work via Musicology into his world of 'concepts'. But instead of trying to scare those new fans off, he gave them more of the same, but with hints of the more obscure elements of his previous work. The title track for example, along with The Word (very uniquely Prince) and even Love shows Prince doing his 80s synth thing (to great effect) which I'd guess a lot of new fans would have found very distinctive of Prince.
So with Planet Earth, I'm hoping that he's doing that thing he often does by taking his current vibe through a couple of releases, and then introducing a wonderfully perverse version of it.

But I'm probably going to be wrong and as IstenSzek says, it'll be part three of the Musicology, 3121, Planet Earth suite that in future years we'll all be trying to pick the best tracks out of to create the perfect album from.

Haystack said:

I always liked wackin with the idea that he should release 2 versions of a CD. A mainstream version for sale and the rough demo version for the core.

Moonbeam said:

Great - I can fit it on one side of a C90

wickyb said:

A C90

So many memories!

PANDURITO said:

what's a C90?

theodore said:

Ever seen one of these?

PANDURITO said:

dorothyparker87 said:

"Guitar (Album Version) 3:45"

-the downloaded version from the website is 3:21 in length

so is this the version like we hear in the commercial?
hope so.

superfreak said:

Guitar (Verizon wireless) 3:46
Guitar (Sony.com) 3:40
Guitar (1st vers - 3121.com) 3:18

dont think theres any difference in the 1st two

mplsmike said:

It's nearly midnight so I can't play the Verizon download and the Sony download (which automatically comes up in WMP with the name "Guitar Mastered") with any real volume, but it seems like there are some subtle differences between them. I've had the Verizon download on repeat for a week and have become very familiar with it. As soon as the Sony version started it sounded different (better) without me even thinking about comparing the two.

Of course, I could be wrong...but this way my experience tonight.

Peace, David

livewire said:

u could be right...I havent listed to the sony copy too close

mplsmike said:

mplsmike said:

Mine ends at 3:46, so I guess I have the Verizon version--it still has an awkward fade out

Maybe 1 version is Pop/Rock and 1 is country

I feel like there's an awful lot of wishful thinking goin' on in this thread--thanks mostly to a track called FutureBabyMama (ewww, I just JT'ed it!)