damn, this is the future? s-u-c-k-s!

jthad1129 said:

cant type in the type of credit card...time after time got message that info failed

I'm in and have been sight seeing everything..so far can
t find where tickets are..anyone have a clue??
ksdasky thanks U

ksdasky said:

Click on the Symbol in the top left corner.

- JD

after all the frustration...i am loving both MLPSsound and loutsflow3r and i am glad i became a member

hi guys,

i'm from south africa so cant really benefit from the concert tickets, etc.

apart from the 3 albums and concert tickets, what else is on the site that is worth paying the $77? seems quite pricey for 3 albums and i'm just wondering about the value of joining or not. i dont see any previews as to what else is on the site.

advice?
[Edited 3/24/09 22:36pm]

lottielooloo1968 said:

i will check it out. thanks.

I love 'The Morning After.' Classic Prince.
Should be a single. (But it's 'Alphabet Street' short.)

'Boom' is adequate.

'The Lotus' calls to mind 'The Rainbow Children' album.

'4Ever' Prince mining a very familiar milieu (Think 'Diamond and Pearls', 'The Most Beautiful Girl In the World' 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.)

'Colonized Mind' is the album version of 'The War.' Don't get me wrong, I like it. It jams. Prince still makes it a sermon but so what?

'Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful' has the energy and creativity of the Musicology album. This isn't looking back at all. A standout album track.

'Love like Jazz' The obligatory R & B hit that Prince seems to spring at will. ('Baby Mama Drama', 'Musicology', 'Money Don't Matter Tonight', 'I Hate U', 'Damn U', "Hot Thing', and on . . .)

'77 Beverly Park' is beautiful and fortunately instrumental but what's up with the ending?

'Wall of Berlin' did I just fall into the 'Chaos and Disorder' album? I'm not complainin', I'm just sayin.'

'$' I swear, what I thought of first is Amy Winehouse. He should have given her this, it's certainly not too late for her to cover it.

'Dreamer' If only this were the first single! Straight out rocker and doesn't try to be anything else. DO THAT THEN PRINCE! More rock than anything else this side of 'Chaos and Disorder.' It makes 'Guitar' look like a recorder.
'Back 2 the Lotus' the Rainbow Children' closer, narrated intro included.


Overall, SO MUCH BETTER than 'Planet Earth.' I am so happy about that!
Now if he could only market it like the hit album it is.
[Edited 3/24/09 23:08pm]

I love the new site. The new music is great. The video section is really cool. Where is Crimson and Clover?

I had a not so good time in ASL class tonight but was looking forward to seeing what all the hubbub is all about, only to get home tonight and have this "we can't access your info" bull...c'mon Prince - you made everyone wait on pins and needles about this great site you have, but then no one can access it - what the hell, dude? See you on the tube tonight, and will listen to your new discs, but when you decide that you want it accessible to all viewers, then I'll go to your site.

K, after a glass of wine...LotusFlow3r is the P disc I've been waiting 4, hippie funk & rock. LOVING IT. Listening to Mplsound Sound as I type. Sounds as retro as he wants it to be (there is a lot of subtle guitar too, kinda cool I also hear a bit of Camille) ...its defiantly fun...I think he did it right this time...haven't heard Elixer yet, but it seems he's been wanting Sade to make a new album since "Katrina", (She hasn't) this is him wanting to fill that hole...and good 4 him.

Oops sorry.

So the Dr. Funkenberry reviews have "mysteriously" disappeared. I hadn't read them all yet, anyone have the text?

squirrelgrease said:

Nevermind, they just got buried, Purple Conspiracy avoided:

http://www.drfunkenberry....by-prince/

squirrelgrease said:

I manged to save it.

'Don't fret if you squeeze one out on my tongue Mr Nelson sir'

No, not really. I thought he was quite diplomatic, actually. You could tell he was quite disappointed by Lotus Flower, quite liked MPLSsound. And it didn't take Hubble to read between the lines of the Exiler review. Prince truly doth ache an output for that windchime effect.
[Edited 3/25/09 4:58am]

sp00ky said:

1986

Los Angeles

RE: Website - Rolling Stone Review

http://www.rollingstone.c...ms-riddle/

Prince Launches “Lotusflow3r” Website With New Albums, Riddle

Prince’s new Lotusflow3r Website launched last night, March 24th, giving fans access to his new albums, concert tickets, live performances, music videos, photographs and pretty much everything else the Purple One has been keeping off the Internet until now with the help of the Web Sheriff. Those who purchased the $77 Website membership were immediately granted access to all three new Prince albums, Lotusflow3r, MPLSoUND and protégé Bria Valente’s Elixir. As Rock Daily reported, those three albums will also be sold together for the low price of $11.99 starting Sunday, March 29th at Target retailers.

On message boards like Prince.org, many fans have already started complaining about the site’s bandwidth problems, its inability to recognize underscores in user name and passwords, downloading issues, choppy videos, its inaccessibility to Europe and more. Even figuring out how to enter Lotusflow3r proved difficult: Fans encountered a riddle of sorts just to access the site in order to pay $77. A purple ticket stub on the lunar ground of the Flash-heavy site was the gateway to purchasing the membership. The stub read “Mar. 07 _____, followed by _____, California,” and only by correctly filling in the blanks could you acquire a membership. Turns out, the answer (”1986″, “Los Angeles”) lay in the prelude to the “Kiss” music video that was being teased on the flickering television screen also on the Lotusflow3r lunar surface. We’re just as confused writing this as you are reading this, so check it out for at the site yourself.

Still, the fans who made it through got first dibs on both the new albums and tickets to the many Prince performances scheduled for the coming week, including Prince’s three-night stand on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and all three of the Los Angeles club shows going down three-and-a-half hours apart on March 28th.

Was it just me? I did the download of Lotusflow3r but Crimson & Clover is not there?


Brian

BrianM said:

Also, 4ever is different then what was played on the internet radio stations (it is shorter). Has anyone else noticed any differences?

Brian

BrianM said:

Crimson and Clover is in the Target package only. Replaced on the site by the download only The Morning After.

squirrelgrease said:

OK, thank you. I did not know this...


Brian

SUPRMAN said:

That's not hard 2 beat!

VIBE Magazine
MARCH 24, 2009
Prince: LOtUSFLOW3R
SERENA KIM

A review of the paisley one's ambitious three-disc set



Prince has always been a futurist. The Purple One peddled his Crystal Ball album through the Internet as early as 1997. His trademark abbreviated, alphanumeric spelling style has unexpectedly become the lingua franca of text messaging. And most importantly, the very best songs from his sprawling catalog, like “Kiss” and “When Doves Cry,” groove just as hard now as they did thirty-odd years ago.

So it’s no surprise that Prince has devised yet another unorthodox way to sell records. Sidestepping the iTunes behemoth, he’s lumped together three albums, two of his own and one of his protégé Bria Valente and is selling the three-disc set through Target for $11.98 beginning on March 29. If you have $77 a year to spare, you can also access his newly designed psychedelic website lotusflow3r.com for supplementary lyrics, artwork, photos and music videos, as well as vintage content. He’s scheduled to perform at three different venues in L.A. on one night to promote the project.

But enough about the bells and whistles, what’s good with the music?


Overall, it’s a solid offering of tightly conceptualized tunes. The first disc, Lotusflow3r, begins with an intergalactic prelude, shimmering with trembling cymbals, click-clacking rims shots and a soaring guitar solo that builds to a crescendo. From there, the album alternates between arena-flooding guitar chugs and introspective melodic moments.

For every Jimi Hendrix inspired psychedelic riff, there’s an unexpected and genre sprinkled betwixt. “Love Like Jazz” floats on a cool Herb Alpert-esque samba, as Prince’s nimble guitar now tiptoes along a sinuous fusion line. Then there’s the puzzling “77 Beverly Park,” named after his Hollywood home—an all-instrumental tune that sounds like a pasta commercial with its nostalgic Italianate lira. Meanwhile, “Wall of Berlin” is a Princely take on punk rock with high-octane speed metal guitar phrases and crystal meth-fueled drum patterns.

This first disc concludes with “Back 2 The Lotus,” a laid-back denouement that seems designed for a post-coital cigarette. Working the wah-wah pedal on his guitar and manipulating pitch along with weird spacey sound effects, the music sounds like Venusians trying to communicate their message of love and sexiness through a wall of distortion.

The second album in the set is Elixer, by the preposterously named Bria Valente, who has all the requisites of a Prince protégé: hyper-sexualized hotness, indeterminate racial background, adequate singing talent. Her ten tracks are disposable, and redeemed only by Prince’s extraordinary production ear. “Home” bumps along a gut-rumbling Afrika Bambaataa-esque 808 that sounds like freestyle for the new millennium. And tunes like “All This Love” and “Here Eye Come” percolate to a reliably funky bassline and flirtatious loungy vocals. Otherwise, her voice—and this album— doesn’t offer anything besides sex; no dimensions, no humanity, no angst. I would say skip it, but because it’s bundled with Prince’s other two albums, you don’t have much choice.


If after swallowing that Elixer, you still have the stamina for more, you will be amply rewarded by Minneapolis Sound, or as Prince spells it, MPLSoUND.

True to its title, the album basks in the trademark funk rock sound that Prince himself originated and so many others replicated a few decades ago. There are organic yet peripatetic drums that conjure visions of the Time two-stepping behind Prince in high-heeled boots. Hammering percussions and skin-tight funk guitar strokes reappear on “Box of Chocolates” and “Dance 4 Me.” And lyrically, Prince is just as erotic as ever, rapping seductively to a MILF on “Valentina”: “Tell ur mama she should give me a call/ when she get tired of runnin’ after you down the hall/ and she’s all worn out from all those late night feedings/ And she’s ready for another rock’n’ roll meeting.”

No matter what technology holds and the future brings, some things are better left unchanged.
[Edited 3/25/09 13:04pm]

Can someone tell me why the screen where we type our credit card information is NOT A SECURED SITE???

HTTPS means secured site

Hi everyone,

we are doing a live review of the three albums over here in germany RIGHT NOW. So for the german speaking fams - join us on http://www.testspiel.de/a...flow3rcom/ and check out our live review while we listen to the new albums.

Everyone is invited to come over, read and comment...

Gunter & Marc