It had to be since 2006 ...honestly...I like some of the songs, but as a whole just does not stand out or evencaptures my attention.

I LOOOOOVE the era and the Musicology tour...it was GREAT! I wish therer was a live album to go with it...a real one other than Shark Tank & Club Black....I listen to those albums alot more than Musicology itself.


The album...is not bad actually...but the sound...it just sounds....bland and all over the place.

I understand he was going to have an album of all the sounds he is capable of...but together...it just sounded messy.

Illusion Coma right after Musicology... The marrying Kind falls into a jazz tune then in2 a blues tune "On The Couch"...just didnt add up....
Im one of those people who LOVED Life O The Party, but sounded odd against Call My name and Cinnamon Girl.

I appreciate Lotus Flower with giving us cohesive sets with one genre of music attatched....it fits a theme and comes as a whole. i think Prince was having problems putting too many different sounds in one album successfully. It worked in the past..however he expanded his sound so much that there just was too many at one time in my opinion.

I listen to it all the time.

October 2004

I haven't listened to the whole CD in a long time. I agree that several of the tracks are a bit bland and sound like Prince is going throught the motions.

The only song I constantly go back to is Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance which is my favourite track from the Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth sequence of albums .

Last week. Still a masterpiece.

The whole thing? Honestly, I don't remember. I think it was in 2006, while I was still in the midst of 3121-fever. I used to play it all the time in 2004-2005. I still think it's a pretty good CD but it is bland in certain areas. I'm not a fan of On The Couch or Life O the Party, even though if I play the whole CD, I won't press the skip button. I like the song but I hated how "If I Was The Man In U're Life" ended. That jazzy ending messed up the song for me. But the song "Musicology", "A Million Days", "Call My Name", "Cinnamon Girl", "What Do U Want Me 2 Do?" and "Reflection" makes the CD totally worthwhile. That was a fun period too. Those Musicology shows were just fun, fun and more FUN! I made friends from that tour that are still close to me to this day. The tour and the CD were the best things that happened to me in 2004.
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This is the only Prince album I can't listen to without skipping tracks.

last week

the 1st half of the Musicology album is actually not bad,

"Musicology"
"Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance"
"A Million Days"
"Call My Name"
"Cinnamon Girl"
"What Do U Want Me 2 Do?"



these are better than anything on 3121 and Planet Earth

Wow...Musicology referred to as an "era."

I'm old.

I listened to some tracks recently but its been awhile since the whole thing.

emesem said:

if you attended the movie premire, the concerts and the afterparties as well as waited on every single and video..every Prince album is an ERA for me.

paisleypark4 said:

No i agree. It was a good time to be a Prince fan. I went to 4 shows in the NY area and each time went with a different set of friends.

He really needs to tour on that scale again. No more of this exclusive $1000 small club crap.

like the week it came out

I listen to individual songs from musicology all the time and when I was out in a club in Nottingham a few weeks ago the DJ finished up with musicology(the song not the whole album ).

a month ago....

but i agree it does feel a little bland at times...however even if it was the worst album ever made...it ends with one of his most beautiful stripped down songs.

reflection is a true masterpiece, like a reworked version of an old unreleased claasic - i miss you

2006. I agree. It is bland in certain parts. A live album like the One Nite Alone thingy would have been superb.

About 3 weeks ago, before my Lotuseflow3r came.

A couple of weeks ago...

since it was released i only listened to it maybe twice.
I went to the concert and all my friends carelessly left their copies in my car and i tossed out what seemed like a dozen in the trash.
not a good record but an incredible concert!

I think it was a month ago,

I love it more and more each spin

I downloaded it when it was released. listened twice. Never listened again. Just bought the physical CD last year. Opened it, never played it. Don't have any plans to either.

According to iTunes, as a whole, last November

Right now I'm finishing with , might move on to The Undertaker and then Come to begin the "SLAVE" era

Compared to a lot of the garbage people my age listen to, I'll take Musicology any day. I'll say that much

Not for a year or two. I can't recall. I know that a few months back I had decided to listen through it again, but I got bored really quickly and switched over to SOTT.

No genuine sense of confidence, bland production, a lack of reverb, forgettable hooks, and pedestrian lyrics. Almost nothing memorably good or bad on the whole thing. Just plain all around.

PurpleKnight said:

A lack of reverb? That's your criteria for a bad album? Guess you must hate Kiss then, huh?

Not that I disagree. Although I did listen it to around Christmas last year and I enjoyed it more than remember, it's not a great album.

probably in two years

TwiliteKid said:

Please. I listed four serious grievances, and yet you focus on that one?

The Other Week....

From front-to-back, probably about a week after its release.

I don't think I listen to any of the songs on it now either though.