errant said:

it took 3 downloads from the site.

ehuffnsd said:

i'm on at least my 6th

I literally had to download it 4 times before it worked.

However, I LOVE THIS ALBUM. My favorite is Valentia and Back to the Lotus.

Chocolate Box and Ol Skool right behind.

This is great great stuff! !!!

highlights so far:

Dance For Me
Better With Time
No More Candy For You

errant said:

This is how I got mine to work. I had to install firefox, turn everything off, reboot and then download it again (thefifth time) and it finally worked.

johnart said:

Word!!! Thanks Prince we have been waiting so long for this.... this is more than a solid album Old School Company... OMG!!!!

I love Chocolate Box, Dance 4 Me, Ur Gonna See me, Valentina, Old School Company

I still can't believe people did not know Discojelly fish was nothing more than an extension of Ch Box

Still don't like TWNBALM and the others I need to hear some more
[Edited 3/24/09 23:46pm]

salaciousV said:

that's what i did too, i could only run the download

just finished
Chocolate Box
Dance 4 Me
Valentina
Ol' School Company
No More Candy 4 U are my favs

Dance 4 Me favorite of the Cd

PEJ said:

"somewhat" It gets better as more instrumentation kicks in, drawing my attention away from the gawdawful refrain

SuPerSoul said:

Dude I know we had a disagreement the other day but we both can agree that Old School Company is frighteningly good. I nearly fell to the floor!
[Edited 3/25/09 0:24am]

Alexandernvrmind said:

you called him SuPerSoul

U're Gonna C Me is HOT!

I feel like it's 1982, 83, 84!!!! I have never had this feeling at first listen of a Prince song since Parade. And I have heard the original on NPGMC.

This is my fave so far, I am listening for the first time all the way through.

Alexandernvrmind said:

Mos definitely! Old Skool & Dance 4 Me are the highlights of this record... Prince brilliantly combines old skool MPLS with futuristic electrofunk.

PEJ said:

I just caught that

No More Candy For You is pretty interesting sounding.. sounds like an old demo.

"HERE" is his greatest ballad of the last 5 years. Period.

The last moment of "Better With Time" from the build up of the final verse ("When the hair that frames that face...") and on to the end is, how do you say, transcendent.

I am in the middle of "Ol'Skool Company". For me the only disappointment about this whole record is in this track as well as the first three. It is when Prince tries to be "Urban", using words like "da man", "sho'ty", "power to the people", "suckas" the fact that he is naming a song "Ol'Skool", this is where he misfires IMHO. I am glad he is at least using the sped up voice for this track, and I know the MPLSoUND is his Black Album for the new milenium, so it is a small thing. But he can still groove that LINN-1 Drum machine.

Got one more track to go, Prince.

Ooops, "No More Candy 4U" is playing--this track fucking ROCKS!

Chalk one up for the Kid.

Spanky said:

dude c'mon you think Prince wrote all that music for himself and the Time and isn't urban? He is Old School and using old school terminology. He is being himself. What did you want him to say Fuckas!! He said Suckas because thats what 50 year old black men say.

Prince trying to sound urban? You guys are so funny

I'm going to do a track by track review tommorrow.

All I can say FOR NOW is...

I CAN LITERALLY SMELL THE FUNK OOZING FROM MY HEAD PHONES!!!

Dance 4 Me has gotta be the best song on here for me.

Mars23 said:

I agree, I feel the same way.

Vendetta1 said:

No More Candy 4 U, to me, sounds like an outtake from "Controversy" or "Dirty Mind". It has the same vibe to it.

The bitch is back in “Skool”.

Camille just took the shortcut to higher learning, flicking the pocket lint along the way with the rest of the pedestrians who walk but don’t really walk. “Turn Me Loose” is fresh out of the dryer, straight into the ditch.

Is this going to hold up, because right now it’s floating on the weight of its own stench. The hairs on my arm are signing up, lining up, and saluting the drill instructor.

Also right now “Dance 4 Me” surely has my flock gathered in full formal regalia. And let the choir testify with a unholy rotation on the one.

This has to be the origin of some of that “Controversy” scuttlebutt, a nasty shake backed by perilous curves unveiled within the straddled confines of a limousine.

Halleluiah and amen.

Two fantastic songs to these early ears.

But admittedly I’m still on the initial dig and very much trying to recover from Prince laying down a “Dreamer”, finding a funky dollar sign and recreating the big bang in a way once familiar yet totally foreign to “The Rainbow Children”.

“(There’ll Never B) Another” didn’t properly set the table for such blue blood.

Go to bed, you sleep-deprived fool.

a2grafix said:

I was NOT ready for this... I mean thought the album would be good. But not this good!! This album had me straight cracking up laughing cause i knew prince was kicking all of our behinds! Holy Cow!!


Chocolate Box! Dance With Me! Valentina! Ol' Skool Company

It's a new game everyone, go back to start!!

I really thought I was going to hate Mplsound and I'm speechless now. It is so much better than I had ever imagined!

A few too many slow jams for me, but 'Dance 4 me' is unbelievable. It's on its 10th spin in a row right now...

Valentina reminds me of great pop tunes he used to write back in 1986-1987.

Putmarroussia said:

I know. I was dogging this album and saying how bad it was gonna be... I am happy to eat crow in this instance. Two great Prince albums in one day. Wow.

I was really amazed by this album on first listen. I didn't expect much and was so looking forward to Lotusflow3r. The funk flows for sure!

I get an adrenaline rush whenever I listen to No More Candy 4 U.