because this is about the best you could get from Prince and if you hate this, you probably wont like anything else he does.

Another boring, plodding clunker from Prince.

Layered, redundant choruses, lyrics as deft as a fourteen year old honours student and embarrassing balladry. Feel Good, Feel Better is a cycling bore with not an iota of invention or musical worth. 77 Beverly Park is laughably bad and Love Like Jazz is easy listening slop, seemingly dripping over here from his latest proteges colossal failure of a record. 4Ever should be drawn and quartered, Boom is noodling gone ary, The Morning After has a fine enough melody but it's over produced, plastic and pulled down by the lyrics. Colonized Mind is a by the numbers adult contemporary rock song with inane lyrics outdone only perhaps by Wall of Berlin.

The only song worth salvaging from the mediocre heap is 'Dreamer.' It definitely owes more than a nod to Hendrix, but no matter, it's a fantastic rocker and arguably the best job he's done at putting a rock song to record. $ has it's moments but struggles to keep above the filler category. Would have made a good b-side. Had the rest of the album had the same verve as Dreamer, maybe it would end up being memorable for something beyond it's jejune lyrics and lifeless music. The intro and outro tracks may have worked well as bookends if the rest of record if it wasn't shelving a lexicon of irrelevant pop.

Grade: C-

We would expect no less from Wall then a negative review. Along with Bart, Dansa and some others the glass is always 2/3 empty. Why u folks even bother is so perplexing to me. Are u guys as sad in real life as u are on this site?

Dreamer is overrated. Borrows to much from Hendrix.

From the Lotus. . . Hmm, ok. Let's start now.
Boom That's an ok song
The Morning After Meh! No way man!
4EVER This is so boring!
Colonized Mind That's one of the highlights. Very nice song
Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful C'mon! U can do better.
Love Like Jazz boring
77 Beverly Park First part cool, second part very weak
Wall of Berlin Tribute to Jimmy Hendrix? No man!
$ Unecessary
Dreamer Even though this is another Jimmy Hendrix tribute and sort of a copy of "witness 4 the prosecution" it's a good song.
. . . Back to the Lotus just an outro

Overall: Boom, Colonized Mind and Dreamer are three very nice songs. The rest is crap and unimportant bla bla...

After a very weak Planet Earth, and a very weak 3121 he released 3 new cd's with 31 songs. I do like 5 songs out of them all. That's a bad score. I am a Prince fan since 1984. But I guess this strange relationship has come to an end.

Maybe one day he will release a remastered version of the Camille/Dream Factory outtakes. Those songs are all far better than this Music for Music cover lovers.

Welcome 2 the dawn!
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Don't let the door hit you where the dog should've bit ya!

Do you still listen to Prince? What was his last great album IYO. Just from reading your posts and comments I would have thought you would have stopped being a Prince fan long ago. I mean seriously they are so negative. I mean I can be very critical of him also but the difference is I'm still a fan and even though I'm critical of him you can read that in my comments.

Are you a fan? Are you a former fan ... that feels bitter because he made such an impact on you in the 80s and his material from 1990 on just doesn't match? I mean what happened other than him sucking so much now?(again IYO) Why on earth if he is so God awful do you go out of your way to let people know how you feel when its clear you have now moved beyond anything that he is doing now?

Of course your entitled to an opinion.... I just don't know why your toturing yourself the way you are. I mean seriously do you read what you write?

Read the banner at top it says Prince.org - Online fan community. You don't come off as a Prince fan at all though

Not trying to be negative either... actually just an observation
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From the Lotus. . . Hmm, ok. Let's start now.
Boom That's an ok song
The Morning After Meh! No way man!
4EVER This is so boring!
Colonized Mind That's one of the highlights. Very nice song
Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful C'mon! U can do better.
Love Like Jazz boring
77 Beverly Park First part cool, second part very weak
Wall of Berlin Tribute to Jimmy Hendrix? No man!
$ Unecessary
Dreamer Even though this is another Jimmy Hendrix tribute and sort of a copy of "witness 4 the prosecution" it's a good song.
. . . Back to the Lotus just an outro

Overall: Boom, Colonized Mind and Dreamer are three very nice songs. The rest is crap and unimportant bla bla...

After a very weak Planet Earth, and a very weak 3121 he released 3 new cd's with 31 songs. I do like 5 songs out of them all. That's a bad score. I am a Prince fan since 1984. But I guess this strange relationship has come to an end.

Maybe one day he will release a remastered version of the Camille/Dream Factory outtakes. Those songs are all far better than this Music for Music cover lovers.

Welcome 2 the dawn!
[Edited 3/26/09 3:37am]

OH MY GOD! DREAMER!!!!! YES YES YES!!! IT'S THE MOTHAFUCKIN' SHIT!!!! THANK YOU JESUS!

--is it a rule here that in order to be considered as a fan, you must like a certain amount or percentage (of course, it has to be above 50% or otherwise...HA!) of prince's material?

I don't believe u like over 50% of the music. Spend much more time dissing the music opposed to praising it. Have u had your plus sign today?

--if you aren't a fan of a lot of prince's catalogue but you still in fact do dig the guy, then you should just throw in the towel?

Yes, u do an artist no favors by continually demeaning their work..move on
--lastly, if one considers themselves a hardcore fan then along with loving everything the brotha has done should it also be one's duty to admonish those who don't like all the things that they do?

No ones duty. I do it as a counter weight to the smirky hate. And no-one has to love everything he does.But I don't get my rocks off be-littling him like some folks do. They seem to take pleasure in sticking the knife in. i would like for you to answer these questions honestly, please.

1) your reading comprehension isn't the greatest in the world. i'd asked you to answer 3 simple questions, not 1/4 answer shit and just admonish people instead. of course, admonishment's much easier amirite?

2) why worry if someone doesn't like the same songs/era that you do? by following others around, you're just as bad as those who you claim to counterweight. not pretty, and you're doing the fanbase a worse service than if you were to just simply smile and nod or frown and shake or whatever else.

No I just peeped your game. If u hang around long enough people start to make distinct impressions by their words and deeds. And your word over time has lead me to feel u are one of those fans that fell of the purple band wagon eons ago but instead of moving on u just come to hate on the latest prince project. U being an artist yourself I would think u would know that negative critique on the same subject over and over again becomes suspect.

We get it. U are not feeling anything past 1980. That's some stunted fandom. At this point why u even need to comment on Prince is beyond me. I mean hey prove me wrong.

At this point why u even need to comment on Prince is beyond me. I mean hey prove me wrong.

Dreamer is overrated. Borrows to much from Hendrix.

fandom isn't about "show n'prove" bullshit. it never was. nobody has to jump through hoops, you merely have to like whatcha like, and interact with others who do too. no matter which variant you and another person like, ya'll are in the same boat regardless.