...quite simply the funkiest shit i ever heard in ma life..n i make no apology 4 brining yo attention tae this blatent fact!

it's quite funky.. *ohhhhh Cindy C*

I "need" this album soooo bad!

I need alot of stuff!

I need this one too! I might have to dish out $50 dollars and buy this sucka at Amazon from a seller in new condition.

silverchild said:

$50 Dollars!?!?!?! I don't know about all that!

weejimmy said:

I'm guessing you haven't listened to a whole lot of funk

does anybody know you're here?
this house is a ill repute

(oooh honey Im scared of u!!)

paisleypark4 said:

tryin' 2 deal with 䣣 your fears
I guess this is what u get 4 being cute {cute, cute}

Flowerz said:

she's a freak funky electric mama with double cups!


dont u love the end..

"what kinda fuck ending was that"? I think I hear some lady having an orgasm in the background

.....equal in funk 2 Lovesexy!

paisleypark4 said:

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Perhaps in their enthusiasm, people tend to exagerate just a tad bit on this site, for better or worse. Of all the funk I have encountered in life as a genre, I don't know that I could dub ONE ALBUM as "The Funkiest".

And regarding The Black Album specifically, I wouldn't trust that much of what's available for sale out there today are authentic issues, and not just some poorly reproduced copy someone burned from their computer. Buyer beware, lots of incentive out there ($$$) for people to get creative and sell it to you for $50 - $100 as "The Black Album".

Perhaps I'm a hopeless optimist, but I feel at some point Prince will find a way to remaster his catalog from the master tapes and make it available for sale. He's just too proud of his work to NOT do that (once it's easy enough for him to pull off). In my opinion, he's just got to make sure FIRST that he has complete control over it all.

Not one of his best.

The Black Album is... one of my most-listened to Prince albums, easily!! SLAMMIN!

I first heard the black album on the evening of the 31/10/1989 on a tape someone at school had given me.

Every November I listen this album a whole lot more than any other.

it's my fourth favorite album.

Romeoblu said:

an ex-boyfriend gave me a vinyl in 89' too.. i dunno how he got it, but i was grateful

I need to get this. I know I'll love it. Unless everyone is exxagerating because its so infamous, or whatever.

the ultimate party album

Loved it from the first time I heard.
And I didn't even want it to begin with. Just wasn't something I was concerned with, that particular time in his life. And getting it would mean getting Lovesexy, which I really wasn't interested in.
Now I've got that on my wish list.

So much fun, I tell ya.
I starts out great and in some instances, its very catchy (Bob George and Superfunky...)

When 2 R in Love feels like such an outlier here... but its my favorite all the same. But as for a 2nd place, Superfunkycalifragisexy wins hands down, so much fun that it feels like I'm high... haha, or maybe that's the effect he wants you to have when you listen

Track 7, I'm not so into cuz its long and its instrumental... dont get into those much. "Rockhard in a funky place" is good, but I kinda wish it was longer.

Not quite in my top 6 albums, but its worthy of a mention somewhere in the middle of my "rankings"

ToraToraDreams said:

And because it's so rare. The HAVE's seem to enjoy flaunting it in front of the HAVE NOT's. The music is not that much different from any other Prince album. Perhaps with the stated emphasis on R&B.

A disappointment. When many people, including myself, heard the title of this album, "The Black Album", we thought that it was going to be the type of music that Prince made back when he had mostly black fans.

It's a good album but it wasn't what I was expecting. It was the 1980s but Prince was still stuck in the 1970s.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

PDogz said:

It doesn't have to be an "authentic issue". If all his songs are on it, and it is clearly Prince, that's all that counts.
So, as far as I know, I have "the Black Album", and I LOVE IT!!!!!

vainandy said:

Bro... I fucking wish Prince would be stuck in the 70s

One of P's most truest and honest album. Bob George is a masterpiece and TOTALLY laid the blue print down for Gangsta Rap. Not saying that's a good thing but...And P sounds waaay more authentic and real than many rappers on this track. The album shold have been released along with Lovesexy. I Know Warners wouldn't have wanted another double album right after Signs but still...

vainandy said:

wtf does that have to do anything?



btw the 70s were better than the 80s

kenlacam said:

Cool - And for that matter, I was going to add: Neither would anyone have had to have paid a dime for it either.

blackguitaristz said:

I know technically "The Black Album" was recorded first, but I would have given the blue print for Gangsta Rap credit to N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton". And you're right: A credit that neither Prince nor Ice Cube should be fighting over .

---

"U're fuckin' right.
I gotta gun
U think I don't?
Then what's this?"

electrorock said:

PDogz said:

Yeah, I guess so. But I still wanna hear it myself.

Such a cool ass album. One of my top 5 albums from P. Still listen to it on a regular basis.