Has any1 seen this yet? Def sounds 1999 kinda funky.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/07/06/prince-20ten-hear-three-tracks-from-the-new-prince-album-in-mirror-radio-commercial-115875-22385428/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

So I guess people who want him to revert back to the old days will be satisfied.

Prince in 2010 making outtakes from 1981. Cool, lol.

Woah, certainly more MPLS Sound than MPLSound. Compassion sounds like it directly samples the beat to Let's Pretend We're Married.

The lyrics in these clips sound really flat though, tuneless - I'm still worried about his modern day song writing capabilities.

And remember folks - Prince is NOT living in the past.

NouveauDance said:

Woah, certainly more MPLS Sound than MPLSound. Compassion sounds like it directly samples the beat to Let's Pretend We're Married.

The lyrics in these clips sound really flat though, tuneless - I'm still worried about his modern day song writing capabilities.

And remember folks - Prince is NOT living in the past.

I don't agree. He's doing his own lyric style here and not trying to sound "hip". I dig this a LOT better than recent efforts. Love where he sings about "snow" "mountains" and "streets of portugal". I hope it's all like these clips..

I like that a lot!

Oh dear, this sounds terrible to me. I suppose it had to happen sooner or later though, loved everything since 3121. I thought Musicology was a bit weak but this sounds worse .

Obviously I'll reserve final judgement until I've heard everything in context but I'm not so excited now.

Spinlight said:

So I guess people who want him to revert back to the old days will be satisfied.

plus I wanna hear more! (on a better sound system than the .net!)

I likey so far.

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NouveauDance said:

Woah, certainly more MPLS Sound than MPLSound. Compassion sounds like it directly samples the beat to Let's Pretend We're Married.

The lyrics in these clips sound really flat though, tuneless - I'm still worried about his modern day song writing capabilities.

And remember folks - Prince is NOT living in the past.

What kind of cracks me up about these clips is that he is clearly pandering to a certain audience (blind of race, let that thread die where it did).

It's like, "I hate my past! Don't look at my past! .....Hold up, hold up, can a brotha get an advance? I swear these tunes is good! Got my Linn Drum and everything, ya hear?"

MarcelJ said:

I don't agree. He's doing his own lyric style here and not trying to sound "hip".

Sorry, when I said "modern day song writing" I just meant his song writing in the modern day, not writing songs for the current pop charts.

I like what I'm hearing so far. This is what MPLSound should have been, IMO. Granted, it's only three clips, but it sounds to me like he may have gotten it right this time.

Man, now I feel compelled to bring up Jakeasarus' review and laugh at his assessment of "Lauvaux"...

I guess we can finally confirm him, for real, to be a trick ass liar and a troll.

Spinlight said:

Man, now I feel compelled to bring up Jakeasarus' review and laugh at his assessment of "Lauvaux"...

I guess we can finally confirm him, for real, to be a trick ass liar and a troll.

What did he say about Lauvaux?

I remember he said one of the tracks sounded like 1999, and when Compassion started, I was thinking "Damn!.... Little dude was for real?!?!"

I've already repeated these clips more often than anything on MPLSound. Bring on the album.

NouveauDance said:

MarcelJ said:

I don't agree. He's doing his own lyric style here and not trying to sound "hip".

Sorry, when I said "modern day song writing" I just meant his song writing in the modern day, not writing songs for the current pop charts.

Shit, I'm digging the synths so much I don't know if I even care so much what he's saying.. lol

I am definitely digging these clips. Great old-school sound - to my ears, the music takes me as far back as the Prince album.

NouveauDance said:

Spinlight said:

Man, now I feel compelled to bring up Jakeasarus' review and laugh at his assessment of "Lauvaux"...

I guess we can finally confirm him, for real, to be a trick ass liar and a troll.

What did he say about Lauvaux?

I remember he said one of the tracks sounded like 1999, and when Compassion started, I was thinking "Damn!.... Little dude was for real?!?!"

I remember him saying Lavaux was instrumental.

I like what I hear except I agree with NouveauDance about the lyrics in these clips sounding flat and...oh I don't know, I can't really identify what it is that doesn't seem 'right' to me about them - he sorta sounds like he's talk/singing or something, if that makes sense....like, no real identifiable melody to them.

Of course these are only short clips, so they could be misleading and I realize that. I'm still very excited to hear the entire album because I'm loving the drums and I'll say it right now with no shame: it'll be fine with me if Prince has 'reverted' back to his old days for this album!

A pale and sanitised immitation of a bygone era of genius.

Its sad that nothing here actually seems to move forward in artistic terms.

I used to get each album from Dirty Mind up until pretty much lovesexy and feel a bit uncomfortable with the huge leaps from one style to another until I'd gotten used to the new songs and styles just because the content was so massively different from one album to another. Now it seems each song is an attempt to dip into his back catalogue and recreate the old magic but unsuccessfully.

I'd love to see Prince immerse himself in every style of music from every great period, throw away the rule book and come up with something so off the wall and hybrid that people couldn't criticise it because of the sheer magnitude of imagination like back in the days of Around the world in a day and Parade etc.

I feel a bit down listening to those clips to be honest

Reply #91 posted 06/28/10 10:02am

thank you for the link.

the songs... it seems to be "standard prince pop"

The link doesnt work 4 me. Anyone else having problems? The reviews are positive so far. Cant wait 4 Arras & Werchter!

YES... I LOVE LOVE LOVE WHAT I HEAR......

Prince is back......

These previews are not bad at all!

Now we have to deal with the complainers, I suppose...

They already started their jobs

thedance said:

YES... I LOVE LOVE LOVE WHAT I HEAR......

Prince is back......

I remember a "Sorry Prince but this is REALLY goodbye"-thread not too long ago ...

Auto-tune (in Beginning Endlessly), I could be without, but I can hope it's a beauty spot on an over-all good record.

I'm not impressed, but not disappointed either.

^^ True Purple Jay aka. PiiiJiii.

Don't blame me. I'm back again... & ejoying what I hear.

Ps. May Holland win the world cup.

Strange as it sounds, I kinda agree with both the negative and positive comments here - it does ound cool and interesting, but something's a bit off and disturbing.

BTW, I don't think that this is just throwback, the sounds, especially on Compassion, sound very 2010 actually 9not sure whether that's good or bad...).

All sounds a bit throwaway still, but have to hear the whole thing to judge - does sound fun, tho.

The big question. though: WHy does the announcer have an American accent if this is a UK ad????

I like what i hear....this is a return 2 form 2 the 1999 sound style, production is not as raw as the same sound from 1999 but we are much more closer with this sound than the fake Minneapolis sound used on MPLS last year!!