DMSR said:

I did too! 3 cassettes and 2 CD sets (one got damaged from being in the car out of its case). I'm still not sick of it 22 years later either!

Those were different times though, really. I don't know if I have changed, but I have to admit that I "go through" music a lot faster now that I'm older.

One thing to keep in mind: SOTT is almost as long as LotusFlow3r/MPLSound combined (it seems longer when listening to it, but it's about 18 minutes shorter) - I wonder if that has effect on the listener? Maybe MPLSound is too short?

Se7en said:

Maybe that's the problem... when you were younger, with much less on your table... you had the attention span , the fascination and the time to listen to music like that and really appreciate it. But now....you're older with bigger concerns than music... including Prince. Also with the net and cable/satellite TV... there is exponentially so much more media bombarding our minds... again, we just can;'t focus or dig into a 'single' album like you used to.

Or you could have just been overly obsessed fans going through all of those cassettes and such.


I went through 'a' cassette... and only put it aside when I bought the CDs... which I still have. My collection of music.. all my music is 90% digital nowadays.

I don't get tired of MPLSound because I keep it in a random rotation with other albums I'm into. So when ever Dance 4 Me comes up... I'm like, "Awwwww... shit!! That's my jam!"

I LOVE MPLSound!! Certainly not tired of it yet! Lotusflow3r is great too...and yes, I do listen to "Elixr" aswell (am working hard on my jelousy... ) Prince, Prince, Prince!!!
[Edited 4/18/09 12:17pm]

.. i like anther like me & ol skool but thats it.. i can appreciate the fact that ive heard that voice thing before from somewhere..camille ? idk help me out here .. but its not registering a play it again play it again feel. Lotus is cool. I taped the jams i liked. I havent hit elyxr yet .. I got my refund from the nokia theater show so all n all im bummed,its the club show thats saving me what a good show ..anyway I cant stop listening to the last leno show "feel good" video i LOVE it. You know what im listening to over n over at 98 db is that cd that came with the 21 nights book .. cant get enuf of some of those jams ..... U can dance if u want to they love u in london ..i love funky music
[Edited 4/18/09 11:54am]

MPLSound I liked on the 1st listen but Lotus Flow3r took a while 2 grow on me, now I prefer Lotus more but having said that i've finally managed 2 find and download all the volumes(Except vol 4) of the work and there were a helluva lot of songs on them that that really jumped out at me, "Gspot", "You", "Possessed","Electric intercourse" and a load more, most of 'em from the '70's and '80's, so in my opinion I think that because I was growing up in that era that music says more 2 me than the music now, I don't believe Prince has lost his creativity but I do believe that a lot of his music from the '90's 2 now sounds far 2 polished and not quite as raw and funky as it did back then.
That's my opinion, don't flame me 4 having one.

JBK said:

Hence the nature of your problem

iloveannie said:

So much of it is about the time and the place. Tracks like Darling Nikki, Erotic City, DMSR, etc were great because there was nothing else like them at the time. Prince was breaking new ground with every record. But it's not 1984 and never will be again. We are 25 YEARS---a quarter of a freakin' century--beyond that. If Erotic City had never been written but instead were to be written today, it probably wouldn't sound much better to us now than anything on Lotus Flow3r or MPLSound.

It's a lot to ask (probably isn't even possible) for ANY artist--even one as amazing as Prince--to still be relevant and ground breaking 30+ years into their career. It's enough, IMO, that these records don't suck and, at least, make me happy to remember the good times.

I was disappointed in Musicology--I was hoping for a stronger album, but I was pleasantly surprised with the strength of 3121. Planet Earth was a nice companion to that. The new ones aren't as good as those two, but maybe the next one will be?

I was playing TGE for the first time in a while yesterday and was really enjoying what a GREAT record that one is! Probably Prince's last GREAT record. Will something come along to again motivate him to make a record that strong? Perhaps. But I'm afraid that even if it did, it couldn't help but sound 'dated' because Prince's groundbreaking days were all a couple of decades ago. But even TGE wasn't groundbreaking like the earlier stuff--simply a great record with great songs that hit the mark and wasn't so far past his 'time' to yet sound dated.

All in all, I'm glad he's still making music and letting us hear it. I'd rather hear what he's currently up to than not and just wonder. But he isn't going to record another Sign of The Times or 1999 anymore than Paul McCartney is going to record another Sgt. Pepper or the Eagles will come up with another Hotel California. Even IF the songs could be that strong, the times have changed.

Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain, Parade, SOTT---those records were all magical for me because I was in my late teens/early 20's and they spoke to me. They were the soundtrack for my generation and what I was going through. But thankfully, I'm not going through that again. I loved my 20's but I don't need to be there now. I've grown and moved on.

Erotic City was a great track because nobody dared to be that blatently sexual before then. Prince mixed sexuality and spirituality and rock and funk like nobody before him or since. But now it's a connundrum: if he were to be that blatently sexual on a record it would sound dated and a bit embarrassing. Yet, if he doesn't, then his records are missing the old Prince 'magic'. So where does such an artist take things from there?
[Edited 4/18/09 13:58pm]