ARTIST: Prince
TITLE: "Crimson & Clover / Wild Thing" / "Colonized Mind" / "Wall Of Berlin" / "4ever"
WEB DEBUT: Dec. 18, 2008

http://idolator.com/51135...new-tracks

ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The ever-reclusive Prince invited a few people from Los Angeles radio station Indie 103.1 to talk about his new material, which he's looking to release sans major-label involvement, and that chat resulted in four songs debuting this afternoon on the Steve Jones-hosted show Jonesy's Jukebox. I thought the "Crimson & Clover" cover had some great guitars, and I liked the stuttery beat and innuendo ("You wanna four-leaf clover in the round?"—!!) all over "Wall Of Berlin," but I figured I'd ask on-staff Prince expert Michaelangelo Matos to react via IM:

mynameismatos: he's made these kinds of records (guitar, rocky, etc.) over the years and no one paid attention. Chaos & Disorder is a good example—not a classic, but a decent album with some good guitar playing and some decent songs.
mynameismatos: now that he's sort of set the table w/"Creep" and "Best of You" covers, he's laying it out w/"Crimson & Clover"
mynameismatos: which is fine
mynameismatos: if the second song is any indication he's doing the same I'm-a-prophet shtick he's been flogging since "Partyup."
mynameismatos: except it's nastier in tone now because since Musicology he decided he has no truck trying to rope in hip-hop fans or other young people and will stick to being an old man
mynameismatos: which is good for him in some ways, though I always kind of hoped he'd pull a Miles Davis and come around to being hip again without changing a thing
mynameismatos: and in a sense he has
mynameismatos: but he's kind of a sour old man
mynameismatos: otherwise: pretty blues guitarist
mynameismatos: the idea, btw, that Jonesy would be playing this at all if it weren't serviced to him personally and directly is highly suspect by me

WHERE TO FIND THEM: Surely someone will rip them to YouTube, and have that rip taken down, by the time I'm done posting this. And then the cycle will repeat itself again, and again, and again, until Prince figures out just how he's going to release this record to an increasingly purchasing-averse public. (Maybe he can hook up with the Daily Mail again?)

what kind of bitter sounding lame review is that. it's a non review.
the only thing it consists of is rants about prince being old or not
hip.

LondonStyle said:

its all on the radio website in the Jonesy section. There's a thread on it already posted. Enjoy the bliss!.

IstenSzek said:

More than one track. How cool is that?

Well how much more bitter does this reviewer need to get. Can't take fools like this one seriously.

ohhh he doesnt seem bitter, he seems to know his stuff.
i agree 100%, and i'm not bitter, im happy to listen to any new Prince music.
Having an opinion you dont agree with does not neccesarily make you bitter.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

that's right. the way in which you express that opinion,
the lines you use, those do tell something about your
levels of bitterness or just plain old complaining ass.



and no, i don't mean you lol, i mean the one in that
above printed article.

IstenSzek said:

that's what I was trying to get at with my post too. he might have had a smile on his face writing it but it sure didn't come across in that story

discuss the 4 new tracks here:

http://prince.org/msg/7/292186