Just as an idea I decided to start listening to all the albums I have by Prince starting with Lotus then MPLS sound and going back right2 For You. Currently I am going Musicology, just to see how his sound changes as I go back. May be u should 2. I am also making notes on them as I go back and will keep it updated.

Lotusflow3r - Still sounds quite good after several listens, Musical numbers are better sounding, still love Crimson and Clover, Dreamer and $ and Colonized mind probably his best song for the millenium.

MPLSound - Still funky as hell, like the whole album, ballads improve with a few listens, very catchy jams, definetley sounds more retro than lotus

Indigo Nights - Still hard to stomach, very average but long winded and too many slow bits, some good singing by Shelby J though.

Planet Earth - Sounds better than ever, nearly as good as lotus. Lion of Judah and Planet Earth strong rock, lots of guitar and Guitar good fun

3121 - Still outstanding, great funky numbers like Black Sweat, dreamy ballads like TAC and superior jams like Get on the Boat and 3121. Lots of guitar here too, has anyone noticed how guitar obsessed hes been this decade.

SST Funky little single, good singing, Funky New Orleans has greast impro Jazz

Musicology doing it now, less guitar, Cinnamon girl still catchy, love this album and still will forever, after all it got me back into Prince. (Next Rainbow Children then Rave, well wish me luck)

Salt and Banana cologne - hahaha....that's a winner of a mis-heard lyric!

if you include the SST single, you have to include the b-sides from musicology (united states of division, glasscutter, silver tongue) and the funky track called F.U.N.K.

OK, I started doing this... but it's fuckin' up my stylus. Where can I get a turntable that plays in reverse?

squirrelgrease said:

Hehe - it was the first thought I had when I saw the thread title.

Having said that, I did listen to Boom in reverse only the other day, to try and decipher the backwards vocals. If only the results had been as interesting as the anticipation! By that I mean that the backwards messages don't really add any insight or say anything of any real substance. They are also buried so far down in the mix, that it is difficult to discern exactly what he is singing, but its along the lines of something in the mind of Solomon, dancing in the sun and, the clearest line that is sung say "Every time it comes I go" followed my a missy elliot style holler.

As I say, doesn't really add much to the track itself.

Who's got time to do this?

Dayclear said:

squirrelgrease said:

Adobe Audition. Reverse your MP3s.

I meant listen to them in the order they were made, and some one else said Bsides, well I said the albums and singles I have which includes FUNK. Remember I live in New Zealand which is not exactly a hotbed of Prince fandom, so album choices are very limited. As for time, they make great background noise.

God some of you guys need to get a grip, are you all really so pedantic and Sarcastic (All except ernestsewell, whose reply was quite sensible)

Mindflux said:

bananacologne was once a mod here

Let's not and say we did.

PEJ said:

Well what is the lyric then

Huggiebear said:

"Soaked in banana cologne, no wonder you're all alone"

Mind you, I do have to wonder exactly what Salt & Banana cologne would actually smell like!!!



[Edited 5/6/09 10:40am]

Huggiebear said:

Good luck Huggiebear! I did the same you did last year but starting with For You-Planet Earth and it was a blast. Seems like you're having a good time and that's wonderful!

Mindflux said: