2elijah said:

emesem said:

Pretty much the catchiest thing he'd written in over a decade.......then he ruined it with his desperation to be relevant with the high pitched whine and overcompressed mix. My ears are still bleeding...

tragic

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That high pitch sound in "Black Sweat" sort of reminds me of the annoying pitch sound in the theme song for an old soap opera named "Dark Shadows";similar, but not quite.

Aww shit. Now that all I'm going to think of when I hear it...Barnabus Collins

Black Sweat is great, but where's the 7 minutes extended version with guitar????

the 3121 album is very weak though. One of Prince's worst albums. IMO.

thedance said:

the 3121 album is very weak though. One of Prince's worst albums. IMO.

you're high on crack; 3121 is P's best album of the 00s decade...

^ really, well not IMO.

NEWS....... 2/10

3121......... 4/10

Planet Earth.. 4/10

Musicology... 7/10

LotusFlower.. 8/10

Rainbow Children.. 9/10

before someone name my username: The Dance.... this is just short for Danceelectric, my username on HQ.com

thedance said:

^ really, well not IMO.

NEWS....... 2/10

3121......... 4/10

Planet Earth.. 4/10

Musicology... 7/10

LotusFlower.. 8/10

Rainbow Children.. 9/10

before someone name my username: The Dance.... this is just short for Danceelectric, my username on HQ.com

TRC: 6/10

NEWS: 1/10

Musicology: 7/10

3121: 10/10

PE: 5,5/10

LF/MLPS: 6/10

Its great live only. It sounds so different live.

Black Sweat & 3121 are two songs that fit right in with P's classic catalog

xlr8r said:

2elijah said:

That high pitch sound in "Black Sweat" sort of reminds me of the annoying pitch sound in the theme song for an old soap opera named "Dark Shadows";similar, but not quite.

Aww shit. Now that all I'm going to think of when I hear it...Barnabus Collins

Barnabus Collins was the shizzit. He was in love with "Angelique's" ghost, and when the scent of jasmine perfume filled the room, he knew her presence was there. Damn, now just thinking of that reminds me how old I am. But yeah, that high pitch tone in "Dark Shadows" was eery.

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intha916 said:

Black Sweat & 3121 are two songs that fit right in with P's classic catalog

thedance said:

Black Sweat is great, but where's the 7 minutes extended version with guitar????

the 3121 album is very weak though. One of Prince's worst albums. IMO.

There is an extended 'Black Sweat Ice Cube Remix' but it remains unreleased. It can however be found on the 30 years of unreleased funk bootleg.

My favorite version of it is in the 'Versace' mix, but it is a little short.

I like Black Sweat. I also thought it would be a bigger hit than it was.

you can act hard if you want to this groove will make you sweet~

love that line.

TwinFlame said:

I was just looking for my 3121 Cd today, and couldn't find it, I love this song,

This one my all time favorite Prince songs, the swagger, the killer beats, the unpredictable turns in the song, crazy fun, sexy and that popping hook...love it....love it...ah did I say I loved this song 3121 should had been one of his biggest cd, so many, great songs...but loved that Black Sweat, in my exercise class everybody screamed when it came on and broke out dancing, hope they hit it during his BET Tribute...so hot...so hot

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nursev said:

TwinFlame said:

I was just looking for my 3121 Cd today, and couldn't find it, I love this song,

I love 3121

I know, I still cant find the cd, Nursey will you help me look for it?

kok said:

TwinFlame said:

I was just looking for my 3121 Cd today, and couldn't find it, I love this song,

This one my all time favorite Prince songs, the swagger, the killer beats, the unpredictable turns in the song and that popping hook...love it....love it...ah did I say I loved this song:lol:

Kok I agree, It will be my moring jam out song tomorrow

This was (so far) the last time I heard and saw something that I thought was truly great and old school Prince. Fun lyrics and a sexy, cocky attitude.

Yes i really love this track, so damn funky, love playin this really loud in the car, but it got no airplay, none whatsoever here in Ireland (surprise surprise) I would much prefer to hear something along these lines than the Hot Summer track we heard recently but still hearing new material is always good.

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Ohh, I just watched the video for the first time in a while and it just struck me how much I miss THAT Prince!!

That song is a banger! I love it!!

I was surprised that it did get a lot of airplay here in Kentucky.

I would even hear it in the mall and Wal-Mart all the time too.

kok said:

TwinFlame said:

I was just looking for my 3121 Cd today, and couldn't find it, I love this song,

This one my all time favorite Prince songs, the swagger, the killer beats, the unpredictable turns in the song, crazy fun, sexy and that popping hook...love it....love it...ah did I say I loved this song 3121 should had been one of his biggest cd, so many, great songs...but loved that Black Sweat, in my exercise class everybody screamed when it came on and broke out dancing, hope they hit it during his BET Tribute...so hot...so hot

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That was a fun cd. The 3121 track was played so many different ways. My favorite version is the one on the "21 nights in London" cd. Love the horns on that track and when it was played live in Vegas, with that New Orleans sound. It also reminds me 1of Vegas and when it was played live and fans did the "3121" number sign as it was played live.

Black Sweat should have received more radio play, but the promotion just wasn't there for that track. I listened to that track again yesterday. 2006 was fun times to be going to Prince concerts.

I also enjoyed "The Word" and "Get on the Boat". They both were pretty upbeat, even if it did have some religious tones to the lyrics. Even the track "Lolita" was another favorite with a latin/pop flavor to it, and "Te Amo Corazon" was a nice, easy listening ballad. "Incense and Candles" was a nice r&b, romantic track when you want to get your groove on.

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His best song since the '80s, and along with 3121 (the track) and Satisfied, enough to make '3121' (the album) his strongest of the '00s.

It was such a wonderful feeling, hearing Black Sweat when it came out and being able to convince myself for a moment that Prince was finally about to make a full-scale artistic comeback. It was so good I even managed to stay relatively optimistic after the other 3/4 of the album wasn't so hot. Good enough that I was still holding out hope a year or so later when 'Planet Earth' came along and brought me crashing back to reality.

I still think it's really odd how this strange spasm of brilliance came pretty much out of nowhere. Just the way he sounds so carnal and perverse again. It's the most human (fallible, sinful, challenging, engaged) he's sounded since SOTT. It's almost like the last 16 years of his music had been produced by some kind of brilliant automaton Prince-bot, and here the real thing came back for an encore.

((this isn't to say I don't like some of the other later records, but Black Sweat is in another league, really...))

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/wa...05K17JzAoE[/youtube]

why doesn't my youtube come up?

someone please fix this for me thanks

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Angelic1302 said:

why doesn't my youtube come up?

someone please fix this for me thanks

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There you go.

Reason it wasn't coming up was because you had a link inside the youtube tags, instead of just text.

crazydoctor said:

Angelic1302 said:

why doesn't my youtube come up?

someone please fix this for me thanks

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There you go.

Reason it wasn't coming up was because you had a link inside the youtube tags, instead of just text.

look at Derwin from The Game lip syncing his heart out

PicklesMcMillan said:

crazydoctor said:

There you go.

Reason it wasn't coming up was because you had a link inside the youtube tags, instead of just text.

look at Derwin from The Game lip syncing his heart out

xDDDDDDDDDDD

crazydoctor said:

Angelic1302 said:

why doesn't my youtube come up?

someone please fix this for me thanks

[Edited 6/18/10 8:40am]

There you go.

Reason it wasn't coming up was because you had a link inside the youtube tags, instead of just text.

WTF!!!!!

I love that song so much, it reminds me of the neptunes though I know they are prince inspired

and the faces were hilarious, especially after the "scream like a white lady part"

Black Sweat. I’ve said it before and will say it again, no one works a drum machine as hard as P. The patterns he comes up with always sound fresh and inventive. And when you are working with such a base, you can only get better. This song brings out my inner soul brother. I start pulling that funk face and getting into the groove thinking of myself as way cooler than I am. A boost to the ego track no doubt. I pity the song that follows. Oh here comes my favourite part – that synth scream oooohweee.

- top-notch vocals

- average groove

- annoying synth sound

In short: unworthy for an appreciation thread!