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PrintableWell, as I always say to each his own. But I loved the disc and enjoying it on my birthday just to make myself feel good. Horrible to wake up sick on your birthday. | |
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It's ok but not as cool as Lf. | |
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I tried to like this album. I really did. For years I've been keeping my fingers crossed that Prince would return to his 1999/Purple Rain sound, but this album is NOT it.
Almost all of Prince's unreleased 80's music (which is ACTUAL mpls sound stuff) is superior to this. An album with Possessed, Moonbeam Levels, Purple Music, Turn it up, No Call you, that is more representational of the MPLSound than this album. It's not that the disk is without it's moments, but just when a song starts to really pop off something cringe worthy with come along. A lot of the Synth work here is really cheesy sounding and no where near his 80's material. IDK. I think my hopes for this one were way too high "Prince doesn't have verbal diarrhea, he has studio diarrhea...." Allen Leeds | |
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NouveauDance said: Despite it's vomit-inducing qualities, I still think it's better than Rave, Musicology or 3121. Which isn't saying a lot I know.
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When i got the albums, i thought MPLsound was gonna rock, i love the lynn sound and the snippets on the websound sounded good...but i really disappointed me and now i never play it, its boring, really boring...there is not one song i really think is amazing...the songwriting just isn't good...and it feels like its rushed...now on the other hand, Lotusflower is pretty amazing! I still play that one a lot, you really feel he did put a lot of effort in this one...great record! | |
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paisleypark4 said: Riverpoet31 said: I agree with the OP.
IMO MPLsound is one of his worst albums ever. It belongs in my top 5 of weakest Prince albums (together with Come, New Power Soul, Rave and The Rainbow Children). Why? The songwriting / quality of the compositions is below mediocre or simply very poor, especially on the dance / funk-songs: The two first songs are as bland and bad as any recent Black Eyed Peas song, Valentina is mere kiddies-pop, Old Skool Company just drags along and along and along (like Come On did on New Power Soul), No More Candy for U sounds like a forced and unfortunate attempt at another Jack U off or Horny Toad, and Dance 4 me is way, way overrated on the Org. A b-side from the eighties like Feel U Up is far better then it. The ballads are a bit better composed, but they suffer from cheesy, dated production, and music- and lyricwise they dont offer anything new compared to the dozens of ballads Prince did put out before. The album might be named 'MPLsound' but using the Linn-drummmachine and those 'synths-that are clearly sounding-as-synths' again, doenst automatically mean the music is on level with the Minneapolis sound from the eighties: Its about HOW you use these devices. In the eighties Prince created intricate, intelligent sounding drum patterns with the Linn. The Linn-beats on MPLsound are way too simple and bland as hell. The same goes with the way he is using the synths: On MPLsound he seems more obsessed with 'copying' what is popular in the charts (Black Eyed Peas, other contemporary R&B crap) then going for his own sound, based on his own artistic merits. Most of the lyrics are annoying and cringeworthy: It gets very tiresome when a 50 yo acts likes he 'can get all the chickies' by bragging like some 15yo (Never be another one like me, Chocolate Box), and whats new about the forced quasi-sexy lyrics of Dance 4 Me? He has done it dozens of time before. Way too easy and predictable Its like his lyrics have been degenerating since Sign of Times. On that album he sounded like he was maturing as a person, a person you could sometimes even relate too as an individual. Since then it has mostly gone downhill: all posure and surface (wether it comes to sexual or religious subjects). Final verdict: 4 out of 10. Prince said: SAY IT TO MY FACE!! 
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