BartVanHemelen said:

Fucking A, Bart, why don't you start the new year off right and just let go of comparing Prince to everyone else under the sun. Seriously, I can't believe that after all these years, you still piss and moan about how Prince does things. Since you haven't gotten any enjoyment out of his music since Gold or whatever was your last likeable album, why do you still torture yourself (and us)? It's the same spiel, just the names that change..."Basement Jaxx is so rad, why isn't Prince that cool anymore'...



It was great to wake up this morning and read some good news, I'm excited for the new stuff! All you other Debbie Downers can go sit in the emo corner with Bart while the rest of us have fun enjoying some new tunes!

babynoz said:

NO TO WALMART!!!! NO TO WALMART!!!!

I happen to like Walmart but the thing is, we don't have a Walmart in New York City. The unions here stop that from happening as they don't use unions in Walmart. There's more to the story but I don't remember it. I don't want to go all the way to Jersey or Long Island to pick up a new Prince CD. I'll do it but it would suck major ass. Watch Prince do it anyway.

My bet is that MPLSOUND will never be released but will be put in the vault to become another legendary mystery. Lets hope so anyhow, There will never B was pretty childish and hard to listen to (accept for the instrumental that was dope).

Lotus Flower might be extremely promising.

Wall said:

How would propose they RECORD that real music?

drgoldsmoke said:

I hope MPLSOUND does come out. There'll Never B Another Like Me is the bomb and it makes me excited to hear what other kind of Prince has in store.

I will agree with you about Lotus Flower, that sounds like its going to be real interesting indeed.

purplecam said:

Agreed.
On the day of release,21nights was on display in front of the BestBuy I go to.

purplecam said:

No to WalMart indeed and trust me, I know the story and will not set foot in there.

I want BestBuy but I won't be surprised if it turns out to be that other place.

Back to music...I hope a release date and some gigs will be announced soon.

Wall said:

BUT... Pro Tools is used mostly 4 mastering. He still uses 2" tape as well.

'The Rainbow Children' was recorded 2 tape, then mastered in Pro Tools. VERY warm sounding album.

I like that he mentioned the experimenting in the studio... not that he hasn't ALWAYS done that, but it will interesting 2 hear the final product in full quality 2 hear what kind of textures we'll hear.

I think he either switched over 2 220 volt, or emulated it.

hollywooddove said:

Yup, Yup.

Also... all should take note of the line "...after the holidays...".

I think they're dropping soon, so yes, even with the radio play, reports, and such, this is going down rather suddenly.

.....come 2 think of it, my Technic 1200's need a tune up.
[Edited 1/1/09 11:17am]

three albums

Lotus Flower and Mplsound i'm also quite curious for the bria valente
album since i like the track on the website a lot.

most excited about prince setting up an internet website to sell the stuff in
addition to physical copies. i know he's done it before and people complain 2
heaven and back about it but i always thought npgmc was a great vehicle. i am
very excited about it's return in one form or another.

and what the hell is up with people already complaining? complaining about
prince being said to be "experimenting in the studio with pro tools etc" on
the Mplsound album. you're gonna diss the album simply because you did not
like one song that was released on the mplsound website that you suppose to
be on that particular album? how about reading the positive: experimental
pop songs. and q-tip guesting on one of the songs. woot.

besides both albums can go in both directions. we only heard a few tracks
so far from probably about 30+ tracks to be released on 3 albums. and we
all know that a prince album is never simply one type of track.

that said, how can anyone moan right now? even if you get only 12 tracks out
of it that you love, what's not to be excited about?

i really can't imagine anyone being a fan of someone and saying "i hope he
decides not to release this album" because you THINK it might be something
you don't like.

if you were offered a choice between say, the gold experience and nps, well
i could understand people chosing one over the other. but how would you say
you don't want either one when you can have them both all the same?

and don't act like it has to come out of your stash of hard earned cash cuz
you damn well know the org goes crazy and everyone is downloading illegal
stuff left right and center as soon as something is released. so that makes
it doubly sad, that people state they'd rather have something not released
when it's something they haven't heard yet, which could be amazing and which
they can download in a manner of seconds (and probably will before they come
on here to bitch about it some more).

i'm sorry but that's a fucked up mentality. way to piss on the parade folks.
jeez.

babynoz said:

i'm not at all farmiliar with american retail outlets but didn't joni mitchell
and paul mccartney both release albums on a starbucks label.

i know. label. but couldn't it be just some sort of distribution deal with the
albums being distributed nationwide in all starbucks stores or something? with
prince retaining ownership and everything and selling digital copies on his
own new website but with the stores dishing out some $ upfront to give prince
a running headstart on the $ for pressing the actual cd's and artwork.

Giovanni777 said:

.....my bird said "sometimes in february"!

IstenSzek said:

Agree with all of the above. I for one am mega excited and hope all 3 projects see the light of day. Cause if they don't you know we'll all be looking for them through other channels anyway. Just hope the retailer he goes with has an international presence. For that reason Starbucks would be good, or, if he goes with Wal Mart, I think they have shares in Asda in the UK so that gives us Europeans a chance too. Get that website up and running!

psychodelicide said:

For real.
I said myself I'd have 3 albums out within a year... only one has made it...

'dre

babynoz said:

Just report them to the mods. We'll deal with it.

luv4u said:

Thankies!

Giovanni777 said:

i think prince is getting more and more excited about his recent material
too. think about it, he just has to be at the very least half as excited
as most of us are lol.

can you imagine prince going "let's put it online tonight!" and advisors
going "no, you have to wait for word back from the retail chain" lol.

IstenSzek said:

As retail outlets go, the human traffic through Starbucks is nowhere near that of, say, a BestBuy or Target...Starbucks even has drive thru,

$$ up front may be the main consideration for an independent artist like Princey. At this point BestBuy might be a bit gun-shy after the less than stellar sales of the Guns N Roses thingy.

Happy, happy, joy, joy!

cant wait to hear them all

babynoz said:

ah yes, indeed. i can imagine going through the drivethru and ordering and
the lady going "would you like a complimentary prince cd with that sir?"



good observation on best buy, i read that article about the slow sales for
the guns n roses album. how many copies are they stuck with at this moment?



anyway, it's prince we're talking about. and if those four songs from Lotus
Flower are any indication for the rest of the album i bet that whomever he
decides to sit down with to discuss some sort of deal will be impressed and
all to happy to be involved in the distribution of this album.

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[Edited 12/26/09 18:56pm]

shygirl said:

and if he didn't do the hits ever again would u still go and c him live? or do u harbor the past so much that even the idea of more new music (like he said he was going 2 do on leno in 2004) scares u over hearing the tired and true?

sunlite said:

i was around in the mid 90's and that's what i want a return of, less of the old more of the new

Amessing