Don't you guys agree that Prince's music as funky as "Sign of the Times" but the lyrics are way too Cheesy. That's the funky sounds prince has had in a while.

He must be way too happy in his life. He has lost his edginess.

I truly like his darker days. His music was on point.

jaimestarr79 said:

No I don't agree with you. I'm not stuck in the 80's.

purplecam said:

I'm not ashamed to admit that I AM stuck in the 80's, and all of his music I hold up to that standard.

I've listend to Bria's so much due to music which really blows and Bria. Her voice is so pure. Elixer is just wow!! After several listens it sounds like "he s her. I don't care. I love her You go gurl! And Prince...u already know.

I like it well enough, but there is absolutely nothing interesting or compelling about it. I can't remember the titles or melodies of ANY of the songs, even after half a dozen listens.

errant said:

This is what I feared. I haven't listened to it yet for this very reason.

leadline said:

I agree there is a knee jerk reaction to any female that Prince works with. And that Elixer has very good production.

That being said, how you could put Chaka and Bria in the same posting is beyond me. I love Come 2 My House... but that's not just because it features some of Prince's best production work, but because of Chaka's amazing voice and presence on the record.

That being said, props for Bria... to my ears she's taking her voice as far as it can go. It might not be far, but it was far enough to cut a Prince record, so you go Bria, do your thing. While you can.

What is not to like about the Bria cd? Guess what? It is a Prince album, Bria is singing main vocals, Prince wrote the music, his vocals are all over the place, he is playing the instruments, etc. This is no less a Prince album than Lotusflow3r or Mplsound, yet people discounted this the second it was released because he wasnt singing main vocals and bria's name was on it?? crazy... The same people that trashed this, without listening to it at all, or maybe the first 3 seconds of each track, are now coming back to praise it (nobody specific in mind, just in general I have seen this)

How this CD could be thrown aside so quickly by most is beyond me.....I find it very hard to believe that anyone who appreciates Prince could not love this album if actually given a proper listen, which for anything is at least 2 times through in my opinion.

I judge each release independently and the quality of Elixir is amazing. Just so there are no accusations of purple cool-aid here, new power soul has 2 good tracks, come on and the one. The best release out of that new power trio was the album Prince did for Chaka, Come 2 My House is one fantastic record! I bet this one was never given a shot by most as well for the same reasons stated above. *NOTE: I am not comparing these two vocally, just talking about the quality of the music itself on both of those CD's.

Prince really outdid himself this time, for me this is the best quality work he has done in years. We are very fortunate that he keeps choosing to share his material with us, in just 6 months we have 4 albums from him, not to shabby!

now we just need a "vault" section on the new site where we can download some unreleased stuff

peace
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I can't compare the jazziness with a female singer...and Prince's assorted flavors of music as a male singer...I Love them all.

I don't even know how you could call the track "Elixir" a Bria song, Prince has the majority of the vocals without her at all. That song should have been on his album! It's good.