Gave it a full runthrough in my car. I love it. It's a very solid album, and definitley above Musicology and 3121. It is quite a short album, with only 10 tracks spanning maybe half an hour. But it makes for great easy listening, very solid. When I picked it up (this is the first day of release, mind), it was only 13 dollars. Very much worth it, I highly recommend you pick it up.

The title track is a solid power-ballad, with a killer guitar solo near the end, which leads into the album's single, Guitar, which I'm sure needs no introduction. Somewhere here on Earth follows it up; a very mellow and slow ballad, I find it very beautiful, one of my favorite tracks. The 1 u wanna C is an upbeat and relatively simple number, some will like it and some won't. It doesn't do anything special for me, it's just kinda there. This is followed up with the R&B number Future Baby Mama, which I think is a solid slow jam, which segues into Mr. Goodnight. I cannot help myself, I love this track. It's got a very easy sound to it, a nice easy beat, as Prince kinda..raps. It's very much along the lines of "Sexy MF" (The Symbol Album) in the way he delivers the lyrics, but it's much more beat driven and mellow. Personally it's up there with my favorite tracks. Sue me.

All The Midnights in the World is the one track I see myself skipping with every future listen. It's sugary and cornball in sound and lyrics, and does absolutely nothing for me. I also do not see the appeal in Chelsea Rodgers, I think it is a pretty mundane and passable funk excersize. Nothing about the song really stands out or is impressive, it is simply repetitive.

Now Lion of Judah; this is a real treat. From what I understand, Wendy and Lisa (back from The Revolution) have joined him for this song and Resolution. And it shows. This song really hearkens back to the Revolution days, and is an great, great track, especially if you're a fan. Resolution is a bit cornball, as well as short and relatively forgettable, but nothing offensively bad like Midnights. Just kinda sits there at the end of the album, and is over before you know it (barely 3 minutes long).

With only about 2 tracks I can see myself skipping, and the rest incredibly solid (and above his recent efforts), this is a steal at 13 dollars. I highly recommend.

Cyra said:

You might understand what I'm talking about in this thread: http://www.prince.org/msg/7/236021

A lot of people don't seem to know what I'm on about. It really does sound like an album, doesn't it?