there are a few songs in it that i like, my favourite being
all the midnights in the world, so I can´t say i hate it. it´s
all right. he can do soooo much better though

I LOVE Chelsea Rogers - and I don't care what anyone else thinks!!

Oh, and Guitar and The One U Wanna C

Live - just AMAZING and a lot of fun!
[Edited 9/22/08 15:52pm]

G0d said:

Oh you must like Tori Amos' "To Venus and Back" then? great album

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Wow and just when we thought the man should make the first move, now I am all nervous..What's a girl to do?? I still think the man should make the first move, it much more romantic.

danzakairos said:

It depends on the guy, though

I Love it.

I think a lot of people who hate it are the "C'Mon!! Play something we know!!" crowd. As Prince says it, some people want him to do the same thing over and over, and stick to the same style, and he was there, he did it. To do it all over again isn't so much fun.

had it on in the car today, i think it's a mature and comfortable cd that served it's marketing function. There are still 5 great trax on there which I love [ PE, Guitar, T1UWC, SHOE, Chelsea Rodgers, Lions of Judah]. + the memories that come flooding back from last summers tour make this CD pretty special to me anyway.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Yes, that's true. But in the case where both of you are digging each other from across the room, as happened to me. I kept seeing this guy at the clubs I used to go to, and we would always have a stare down, I was waiting for him to approach me but he never did Guess he was to shy....

it's one of my least favorite albums by prince, which, given my past record, gives it a substantial chance of it being one of my most favorite albums by prince years from now.

danzakairos said:

I agree with you there.

Many of Prince's albums are growers. I like it when it came out, then because of the whole youtube controversy, things changed. My view of it now is that it's pro-forma Prince music - the music he does today, that is. But I think Prince pretty much has saturated the music market.

I love it!!!!!

I like it a lot. For me, it´s far superior to Musicology and most of 3121 (though I love the track 3121, Te Amo Corazon, Fury and The Dance)
Hearing Planet Earth now always reminds me of seeing him live in London.

Anxiety said:

You've become an NPS fan? Rave? KS?

It seems, BTW, that the ppl who love PE are the ppl who got to the O2 and I think that's really cool. Maybe I'd love it too if I'd seen it done live. I mean, one of the reasons I like 3121 is vestiges of the excitement from the SNL performance of Fury - and that was just a TV gig.

IstenSzek said:

All the Midnights is best track on the album and really seems to have some creative energy, zest and spirit about it that harps back to a vibe found on some of the 80's albums.

As for the album in total when I first heard it few times I didnt mind it something about the production being kinda more warm and rawer sound seemed to pull me in and seemed refreshing after some of the more poppier plastic over produced albums having said that after more listens I found the material itself to be more safe light and easy listening nothing really great or new that stood out mostly styles from Prince wew've heard before in the ballads and the funk but nothing that felt groundbreaking or particuliarly interesting.
I rate 3121 materialwise as slightly more interesting album over PE, as for Musicology I cant overall really dig that album I feel it has some really cool tracks but a lot of stuff on it annoys me more than most of the mediocre stuff on PE.
[Edited 9/24/08 4:56am]

wasitgood4u said:

with NPS, my opinion has come around, though the songs i hated on that album from day one are songs i still can't fathom. but i don't think NPS is his worst. it brought us a handful of really GOOD songs which have held up over the years, which is more than i can say for a few of his more "iffy" albums.

rave? the remix/redux album saved it for me. i never touch the original, though.

KS? ok, you got me there.

iam enjoying it right now and iam at work

I haven't seen this many positive reviews of Planet Earth in probably a year. Come to think of it, I don't even think there were this many positive reviews of PE last year. I think that this CD is a grower and I felt that way when I first heard it. Mr Goodnight grew on me and I actually dig the tune quite a bit and Future Baby Mama sounded great on my iPod the other day, even though I still have issues with that title but that's a whole different topic. It'll be interesting to see how this CD will be viewed next year or 5 years from now.
[Edited 9/24/08 7:06am]

Anxiety said:

Interesting - I have mixed feelings about NPS too. It so could have worked, but then as you say, the annoying things about it don't stop making you cringe so that it's overall a frustrating album.

Rave - still never heard the remix so I'm judging the original

So how does this serve your prediction that PE will turn into one of your faves...

purplecam said:

That's one of those things I've been keeping in the back of my mind. People have said they'll never ever like this album...but didn't they say the same about TRC, Chaos & Disorder... just to name a few? And they've changed their mind after the years went by.

Unlike the majority of Prince's work, when I got this album for the first time, I didn't have to bend over backwards and go crazy b4 it did anything for me. It hit me right away and I've loved it ever since. It's been difficult to do that after getting back here and a lot of the people are trashing my new favorite album
I never found anything wrong with it (except for Chelsea Rogers, the only real grower on the album... simply because it wasn't like the others and I wanted another love song after that great succession from Future Baby Mama to All the Midnights).

It's good to see people thinking positive about the album, which I hadn't listened to it in ages, but as there's a lot of his work I haven't heard yet, I can't stay with one album for longer than I have to

wasitgood4u said:

well, for a long time the 'come' album was just a useless boring album, and then one day i dusted it off and gave it a play, just because i was bored...and all of a sudden i found that i loved it.

so ya never know how his albums are going to age...though i'll believe it when i hear it.

I like it, but I consider it easy listening, incidental music. Nothing terribly challenging or interesting. It's about on par with Batman to me--poppy songs, but nothing that makes you say "OMFG, I don't believe!!! "

I like it, love GUITAR

Nope nadda me sucks!

I think it's an awesome album. A much better improvement from "3121" (not that that one was bad, just not as fun). Of course, it doesn't hit the heights of his work in the 80's. And that seems to be why a lot of the detractors of this album hate it (I'm open for debate on that one). But it's a fun, simple, enjoyable pop album. "Guitar", "The 1 U Wanna C", and "SHOE" are just sublime!

I would have to say though that I think "Planet Earth" is gonna go down in Prince history as one of the most polarizing albums in his catalogue, especially amongst his fans.


Can't wait to see what my man does next!

Anxiety said:

Most Prince cds seem to grow on me over time I hated ATWIAD and Parade, when i first brought them i few years ago and strangley both of them are now 2 of my faves, I can see where your coming from Aslan about Come, that also for me was a grower and that 2 is now 1 of my faves very experimental...altho i dont really get Solo and Papa gives me the creeps love Space tho very underated imo, The Only 2 albums i never bothered listening 2 again are Lovesexy and TRC...altho maybe in time ill give them another whirl...but i dought it

Anxiety said:

I agree re Come - I liked it on first listen, but after a few put it aside and came back to it only years later.
Can't see PE being in that box, tho...

NouveauDance said:

Strange, I was thinking about this a couple of days ago and wondering if I would dig it more in a few years time. I have always liked Come but have only recently started listening to C&D. Although I don't like the whole album there are some nice tracks on it.

At the moment the only track I like on Planet Earth is Somewhere Here On Earth. I have a day off from work today so maybe I'll give the CD a spin later to see if my opinion on the album has changed. Although I really don't like the mix or mastering of the CD so maybe that's what's putting me off the album!

I can't even name all the songs from the album let alone hear them. That's sad really. I did play it the other day while I was decorating. I then put Lovesexy on. Now that's an album!

iloveannie said:

Exactly. i feel Prince is not intereted in new music. However what prince never seems to realise is that groundbreaking is his identitiy in terms of the music world. Unfortunately for him he can't win-to align commercial and critical success is difficult if nigh on impossible-usually it's timing. In my opinion he should use live tours to promote his commercial viability and just masturbate in terms of music on record-if anyone is in a position to live a double life in terms of cash and music it's Prince. This is not being cynical-I just think prince suffers from needing to be accepted too much-he needs something to be pissed off about. Happiness doesn't suit him!