NouveauDance said:

I live in the here and now

I swear Prince is just goofin' now.

Live show crammed FULL of 1982-86 songs, new album made to sound the same.....

He means SPIRITUALLY.

It's one thing to live in the flesh & to live by God's word. His career has definitely faced a break in realization and purpose.

Erika2k8 said:

well you were friend growing up

no offence but i believe them more than you, and it did say for some of her life she was a JW.

Huh? You're not making any sense. Based on detailed reports , Mattie Shaw was never a Witness. But let's not let the truth get in the way of tabloid journalism.

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I'm really getting anxious for the new cd especially after listening to the snippets. Sounds like what he was trying to do on MPLSound, but did'nt quite get there. I hope the whole cd sounds even better than the samples. Campassion defitnitely sounds like it borrowed alot from LPWM. While others may complain he's reapeating himself or something like that, I'm just glad he's dusted the synthesizers and linn drums off.

Haha... every new album... "this sounds fresh!" "best in at least ten years!" "much better than the last one! (which I secretly love") "sounds just as bad as the last one!"

Two weeks later... "this sucks!" One year later... "that last album was pretty good!"

Prince fans on this board are so predictable it's sick. I don't think I'd ever want to meet any real hardcore Prince fans in real life.

Okay I cant get to hear these...has the Mirror page got problems.....

Prince - 20TEN the first review:

This is his best album for 23 years says Tony Parsons

* * By Tony Parsons 7/07/2010 Prince (Pic:Splashnews.com)

Any new Prince album is a major event. But, from my sneak preview, I can tell you that what makes the release of 20TEN truly momentous is that it’s as good as his all-time classics like Purple Rain and 1999.

20TEN is a comeback on a par with Elvis reinventing himself in Las Vegas in 1968. 20TEN is as good as anything Prince has done – which means it is as good as anything that anyone has done. I have admired Prince for more than 30 years because he is, in a word, a genius. He broke down barriers.

The barriers between rock and soul, black and white, sex and romance, the sacred and the profane. Only the all-time greats are capable of breaking down the barriers that divide music, that separate people. Elvis did it. And The Beatles. And Michael Jackson.

There have been many times – hearing 1999 for the first time, hearing Thieves In The Temple for the 1,000th time, seeing him live in Washington in 1984 in his swaggering, purple prime – when I believed with all my heart that Prince was the greatest of them all. Prince could do everything. He is a multi-instrumentalist on a par with Stevie Wonder.

He dances like James Brown. He plays guitar like Jimi Hendrix. And as for doing the splits in high heels – only Ginger Rogers and Prince can do the splits in high heels. His songs could make you smile, and make you dance and break your heart. And help your broken heart to start healing. I loved him early on. The songwriting just blew me away – songs like I Wanna Be Your Lover, and Head and When You Were Mine – hot-buttered funk, romantically lush, with a side order of lust. And when you saw him live, he had you for life.

His big breakthrough album, Purple Rain, came out in the same year, 1984, as the Milos Forman film Amadeus – and Prince clearly identified like mad with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In fact, he dressed like Mozart on acid. And why not? Fifty years of popular music have produced only a handful of characters who could legitimately claim to be a genius. Prince is top of the list. He has produced 10 platinum albums and 30 Top 40 singles in his career, but that does not even begin to do justice to his talent.

From his debut in 1978 until the Gold Experience in 1995, he released an album a year. And many of them – Diamonds and Pearls, Sign o’ the Times, 1999, Purple Rain – were among the greatest albums of all time. It was a winning streak that is almost without parallel in pop – probably only The Beatles have come close. And they had three people writing their songs. And they couldn’t keep it up for as long as Prince.

There were hard times ahead. Contract-ual battles. The death of his first child. Marriage break-ups. But genius does not fade. And genius does not go out of style. And genius – the kind of musical genius owned by Prince Rogers Nelson of Minneapolis – is forever fresh. Now Prince is back with his best record since Sign o’ the Times 23 years ago.

And there is something else... it’s not released via the internet or record companies. 20TEN is a real exclusive for readers of the Daily Mirror this Saturday. It’s the only place you can get it... and I strongly recommend you do.

Track by track Advertisement - article continues below »

COMPASSION Classic Prince. Save the world but don’t forget to get down. Musically it recalls Delirious on 1999, but this is Prince at his most socially conscious since Sign o’ the Times. Full of references to “the greedy ones” and melting polar ice caps.

BEGINNING ENDLESSLY Thick slices of Prince at his most funky. The Purple One contemplates a dying star and a girl in a bar. Impossible to know what he is going on about. Possibly a love song, or a contemplation of reincarnation. Or both. A slick, blistering guitar solo to rival Purple Rain.

FUTURE SOUL SONG Prince at his most soulful, and most romantic – exactly the kind of lush, lavish romanticism that made The Most Beautiful Girl in the World one of the greatest love songs ever written. Like a twenty-first century Marvin Gaye, or a thin Barry White. Gorgeous stuff.

STICKY LIKE GLUE A reminder that Prince has a PhD in deep funk – the ghosts of Parliament, Funkadelic and Earth, Wind and Fire stalk the double innuendos. Benny Hill hits the dance floor. Oooh, you are awful, Prince! But we like you!

ACT OF GOD “Dirty fat bankers”, Prince hisses over a track that would have sat nicely on his soundtrack for the first Batman movie – hard party man funk, as Prince reflects on the money men who have brought us such misery. He doesn’t like them much.

LAVAUX Jazzy, swinging and chilled as a cucumber with hypothermia - it could be Steely Dan in their prime – a track to remind us that Prince was always and forever open to any kind of music. And then he made it his own.

WALK IN SAND He always did wistful so well. Longing, loss, yearning – nobody ever did it better. A bittersweet love song with an ache in its breaking heart. And I have no idea if it is about the woman by his side, or a girl he lost years ago.

SEA OF EVERYTHING Prince at his most spiritual, and his most romantic. A slow burning cheek-to-cheek love song for late at night when there is only one couple left on the dance floor. Prince sees the universe in a grain of sand, and the meaning of life in a young woman’s smile.

EVERYBODY LOVES ME Playful Prince. Prince at his most light-hearted. Mucking about. Prince having a bit of a disco burn-up. Prince when he is in one of those moods that say – we have saved the world, and we have found true love – what do we do now? Oh, I know. Let’s go crazy. Let’s go nuts.

SECRET TRACK 77 – LAYDOWN Don’t miss the secret track 77. “From the heart of Minnesota – here come the purple Yoda.” Wow, a Star Wars reference! Rocks along like a bitch – Erotic City, the great Prince carnal classic, comes immediately to mind. And there is enough the-wonder-of-me boasting on there to remind us that Prince is the missing link between Muhammad Ali and hip-hop. And when Prince says that you need to lay down, you know he’s not talking about your afternoon nap.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/c...z0swjRg0yw

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the Purple Yoda? Well he is short like Yoda!

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So far, the samples I've listened to are yawn inducing, which makes me question the above glowing review. I enjoyed MPLSound and if 20Ten manages to come close, I would be pleased. Fingers crossed.

Dreamer2 said:

Prince - 20TEN the first review:

This is his best album for 23 years says Tony Parsons

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/c...z0swjRg0yw

nice find!

laydown sounds promising

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Identity said:

So far, the samples I've listened to are yawn inducing, which makes me question the above glowing review. I enjoyed MPLSound and if 20Ten manages to come close, I would be pleased. Fingers crossed.

Hey you know I like take a bit of salt with any review........

But this review is written by this guy ....... So i really think this Album is going to be really good!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...rnalist%29

Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist broadcaster and author. He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write his current column for the Daily Mirror. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and still appears infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.

He is the author of the multi-million selling novel, Man and Boy (1999). Parsons had written a number of novels including The Kids (1976), Platinum Logic (1981) and Limelight Blues (1983), before he found mainstream success by focussing on the tribulations of thirty-something men. Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels — One For My Baby (2001), Man and Wife (2003), The Family Way (2004), Stories We Could Tell (2006), My Favourite Wife (2007), Starting Over (2009) and Men From the Boys (2010). His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional dramas and the traumas of men and women in our time.

Hmmm, now where have I heard that one before?! I know--the Planet Earth review in the Mail on Sunday.

DoffieParker said:

Dreamer2 said:

Prince - 20TEN the first review:

This is his best album for 23 years says Tony Parsons

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/c...z0swjRg0yw

nice find!

laydown sounds promising

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I am now looking forward to this on saturday!

Identity said:

Now Prince is back with his best record since Sign o’ the Times 23 years ago.

Hmmm, now where have I heard that one before?! I know--the Planet Earth review in the Mail on Sunday.

Hmmmm the Daily Mail has no one on its team that know Prince stuff, i'd stick with Tony Parsons he knows abit about music ...

wow.. talk about an attempt to hype of the disk..

errant said:

I'll take that review with about 6 licks of salt, considering it's written for the publication that is giving the damn thing away. The hyperbole and sickeningly sweet ass-kissing in the article almost sent me into a diabetic coma. However... It just get me pretty excited, despite all that. PS: I wish ben would get rid of this WYSIWYG posting thing. Not only does it not work right, but it used to be so difficult to gaudy up their posts with a bunch of eye-aching bullshit when the formatting had to be typed out. But thanks for posting it anyway

Yes that's the norm but not in this case, why would they get Tony Parsons to review it, he's got a reputation to live up to , so i can't see him putting his name to something that's rubbish he'd just pass it on !

This review is kosher

Sdldawn said:

wow.. talk about an attempt to hype of the disk..

This time it could be true ....

DoffieParker said:

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What a disturbing title

Dreamer2 said:

errant said:

I'll take that review with about 6 licks of salt, considering it's written for the publication that is giving the damn thing away. The hyperbole and sickeningly sweet ass-kissing in the article almost sent me into a diabetic coma. However... It just get me pretty excited, despite all that. PS: I wish ben would get rid of this WYSIWYG posting thing. Not only does it not work right, but it used to be so difficult to gaudy up their posts with a bunch of eye-aching bullshit when the formatting had to be typed out. But thanks for posting it anyway

Yes that's the norm but not in this case, why would they get Tony Parsons to review it, he's got a reputation to live up to , so i can't see him putting his name to something that's rubbish he'd just pass it on !

This review is kosher

Why would they? To give it credibility, I guess, if he's got any.. Don't know him. And he works for them, so he does what they tell him. But more imporantly, they've got a paper to sell this Saturday and a LOT of money to recoup on what they paid Prince for the album. That's why

Dreamer2 said:

DoffieParker said:

nice find!

laydown sounds promising

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I am now looking forward to this on saturday!

too right!.. i loved the snippets, we got a good album here.. i got faith in tony parson's review!

2020 said:

A great review from The Mirror - yes they have to say nice things about the CD but still leads me to believe he may have actually(finally) created a great piece of work here. Will it rival SOTT...no way but if it even comes a little close to his true classic CDs than bravo Prince! 'Bout time!

Hence the last minute pull in France, WB Meeting in New York and Now Tony (Fucking) Parsons in London giving it the ...... This MAY .....just MAY......be the real deal .....

errant said:

Dreamer2 said:

Yes that's the norm but not in this case, why would they get Tony Parsons to review it, he's got a reputation to live up to , so i can't see him putting his name to something that's rubbish he'd just pass it on !

This review is kosher

Why would they? To give it credibility, I guess, if he's got any.. Don't know him. And he works for them, so he does what they tell him. But more imporantly, they've got a paper to sell this Saturday and a LOT of money to recoup on what they paid Prince for the album. That's why

Reply #400 posted 07/06/10 4:45pm

Why would they take on the CD if they had not heard it, and first run it past someone who knows abit about music ...al Tony Parsons .....

You don't buy a car unless you test drive it first right ?

actually, I doubt they did hear it before they agreed to it. it's a Prince album. he wanted a certain amount, they were willing to pay, and now THEY are responsible for promoting it.

errant said:

PS: I wish ben would get rid of this WYSIWYG posting thing. Not only does it not work right, but it used to be so difficult to gaudy up their posts with a bunch of eye-aching bullshit when the formatting had to be typed out.

Hear hear! It's really just one poster so far, but I hate to think what Tame and the like will do with this once they figure it out.

On topic: I agree that this review isn't any more legit than the Rolling Stone one, given that it's in the same newspaper that is releasing the album, but it does sound pretty great. I'm letting my excitment getting the best of me here!

errant said:

actually, I doubt they did hear it before they agreed to it. it's a Prince album. he wanted a certain amount, they were willing to pay, and now THEY are responsible for promoting it.

Er......Business does not work like that, Prince would have pushed this to a number of sources, the one with the best deal for him would have been picked .....

Someone had to check out the goods

TwiliteKid said:

errant said:

PS: I wish ben would get rid of this WYSIWYG posting thing. Not only does it not work right, but it used to be so difficult to gaudy up their posts with a bunch of eye-aching bullshit when the formatting had to be typed out.

Hear hear! It's really just one poster so far, but I hate to think what Tame and the like will do with this once they figure it out.

On topic: I agree that this review isn't any more legit than the Rolling Stone one, given that it's in the same newspaper that is releasing the album, but it does sound pretty great. I'm letting my excitment getting the best of me here!

Well Rolling Stone in Germany, do they have a senior writter on this story, I don't think so ?

Dreamer2 said:

errant said:

actually, I doubt they did hear it before they agreed to it. it's a Prince album. he wanted a certain amount, they were willing to pay, and now THEY are responsible for promoting it.

Er......Business does not work like that, Prince would have pushed this to a number of sources, the one with the best deal for him would have been picked .....

Someone had to check out the goods

Business works exactly like that. These papers could not care less what this album sounds like as long as it's got a minimal number of actual songs to qualify as an album. These people need every gimmick they can get to sell papers, as it's an industry in the depths of despair and a dying medium.

Dreamer2 said:

TwiliteKid said:

Hear hear! It's really just one poster so far, but I hate to think what Tame and the like will do with this once they figure it out.

On topic: I agree that this review isn't any more legit than the Rolling Stone one, given that it's in the same newspaper that is releasing the album, but it does sound pretty great. I'm letting my excitment getting the best of me here!

Well Rolling Stone in Germany, do they have a senior writter on this story, I don't think so ?

you a big reader of the German Rolling Stone to know one way or the other?