I liked Lotusflow3r from the beginning. Bria's CD is my least favorite. I tried to open my mind to her and I just didn't get it. I do like a few of her songs, Elixir being my favorite. The like for her songs happened WAY after the release, I'm talking late 2010. Like others, I saw the video and was like "ok, it's not bad." So I went back to the CD and gave it another play. I still was not thoroughly impressed but I walked away with a much better experience than the first time. Still, I have not played the CD since the replay that one day. I think I got all I can get from her CD. But I do play the other two discs.

I liked the CD so much (overall) that I went back and purchased it for my mother. This CD opened her up to listening to Prince again. Previously she was still stuck in the 80's and referred to him as "nasty Prince". My sister purchased it after listening to Chocolate Box on the MPLSound disc (one of her faves) while riding with me.

TheDigitalGardener said:

catpark said:

Once I take a dislike to something its usually for life.

Its the album cover man, that cover

The cover is a chiller for sure, the contents are not my cup of tea either, but you might like it.

It's better than.............(long think).................................................Kamasutra.

Well I was kinda going by what DreZone said, he said it was good. Dre has good taste in things.

But is it better than Planet Earth??

catpark said:

Gonna try and give the Bria album a whirl, seeing as ppl saying how good it is.

Good luck with that!

LotusFlow3r is an album, and as such needs to be listened to in its entirety. At least until it "hits" you.

MPLSound is pretty much the opposite . . . find a few tracks you like and play them on their own. It's horrible as an album.

Se7en said:

LotusFlow3r is an album, and as such needs to be listened to in its entirety. At least until it "hits" you.

MPLSound is pretty much the opposite . . . find a few tracks you like and play them on their own. It's horrible as an album.

I kind of agree with this, and I think that's why it disappoints me. The musicianship is certainly fine, excellent even, but the album as a whole is dreary to me. As an overall experience, I find it kind of...maudlin.

andykeen said:

Lotusflow3r is one of P greatest albums...

Yup. Best since (and better than in some ways) Purple Rain. Mplssound is fun.. I think he put it out to satisfy all those who want more of the 80s Prince. So he said, "Ok, here you go".

Loved Lotusflow3r immediately and it didn't come out of my cd player for about 6 months. Still sounds the same to me. Plenty of musicianship. Some great creativity.

Yep. Lotusflow3r (the single disc) is probably my favourite Prince album of the past 10 or so. In fact, I'd probably rate it in my Top 5 albums. There's not a song I dislike, nor find spoils "the flow". And at no point do I find myself thinking "I wish he'd done x here instead of y". And there are some tremendous highs and moments of brilliance to be found throughout.

Lotusflow3r rocks

Sounds like a castrated pop version of TRC to me.

Quite predictable because we all knew Prince wants to fuck with a lot of people, - not only with Jehova's witnesses.

funkomatic said:

Sounds like a castrated pop version of TRC to me.

Yikes!

I cringe whenever anybody links it in anyway to TRC.

Very little in common, LF is less moronic and less asine than TRC, and musically much different. Actually good.

toejam said:

Yep. Lotusflow3r (the single disc) is probably my favourite Prince album of the past 10 or so. In fact, I'd probably rate it in my Top 5 albums. There's not a song I dislike, nor find spoils "the flow". And at no point do I find myself thinking "I wish he'd done x here instead of y". And there are some tremendous highs and moments of brilliance to be found throughout.

Lotusflow3r rocks

Even 4Ever!!!!!

I really think that he stole that song from a Flight of the Conchords parody...

V10LETBLUES said:

funkomatic said:

Sounds like a castrated pop version of TRC to me.

Yikes!

I cringe whenever anybody links it in anyway to TRC.

Very little in common, LF is less moronic and less asine than TRC, and musically much different. Actually good.

As far as the music is concerned nearly all of the tracks wouldn't sound too much out of place on TRC.

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wasitgood4u said:

toejam said:

Yep. Lotusflow3r (the single disc) is probably my favourite Prince album of the past 10 or so. In fact, I'd probably rate it in my Top 5 albums. There's not a song I dislike, nor find spoils "the flow". And at no point do I find myself thinking "I wish he'd done x here instead of y". And there are some tremendous highs and moments of brilliance to be found throughout.

Lotusflow3r rocks

Even 4Ever!!!!!

I really think that he stole that song from a Flight of the Conchords parody...

I think Prince's music is very original and it's only certain random sounds that come across as something I've heard before. Usually, if ever, it's a single sound that catches my attention and overall, it's rarely anything like the music that Prince makes. Imo no one comes across as soulful, or with as much rythym on a consistant basis, than Prince

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ScottRob said:

The only reason it may sound better to you, is that you are succumbing to Prince's benign mediocrity fuelled by his arrogance and religious blindness. you want it to work, like all of us, because you love him for his past and the person that he no longer is.

I'm just giving Crystal Ball another listen, after responding to another thread on here. But if you can honestly not be disappinted when comparing the likes of Dream Factory, MovieStar, Crucial (for instance) with most of anything post-1989, well then you're a better man (woman) than me.

He makes the odd good song, but most of the time they're surrounded by filler drivel on his albums. On occasion he'll lay-down a classic tune and ruin it with his childish 'spiritual' lyrics. Or the lyrics are more jumping, and the tune is a weak copy of all the other jazz-swing fusion BS sound that he's refused to drop since it failed miserably on the Symbol album. His albums are shoddy and rushed, and smack of a man with too much money, that nobody has the balls to be honest with.

The few good times he's almost reached past glorious heights; for instance the album that could have been - The Dawn Experience, which turned into the two inconsistent albums; Come and The Gold Experience, he manages to pull failure from the shadows of success.

Little Man's music fire of originality, and desire to please anyone other than himself, has well and truly burnt out.

GREAT post.

'dre

DreZone said:

ScottRob said:

The only reason it may sound better to you, is that you are succumbing to Prince's benign mediocrity fuelled by his arrogance and religious blindness. you want it to work, like all of us, because you love him for his past and the person that he no longer is.

I'm just giving Crystal Ball another listen, after responding to another thread on here. But if you can honestly not be disappinted when comparing the likes of Dream Factory, MovieStar, Crucial (for instance) with most of anything post-1989, well then you're a better man (woman) than me.

He makes the odd good song, but most of the time they're surrounded by filler drivel on his albums. On occasion he'll lay-down a classic tune and ruin it with his childish 'spiritual' lyrics. Or the lyrics are more jumping, and the tune is a weak copy of all the other jazz-swing fusion BS sound that he's refused to drop since it failed miserably on the Symbol album. His albums are shoddy and rushed, and smack of a man with too much money, that nobody has the balls to be honest with.

The few good times he's almost reached past glorious heights; for instance the album that could have been - The Dawn Experience, which turned into the two inconsistent albums; Come and The Gold Experience, he manages to pull failure from the shadows of success.

Little Man's music fire of originality, and desire to please anyone other than himself, has well and truly burnt out.

GREAT post.

'dre

Cheers 'dre.

The 00's, according to me:

1. The Rainbow Children (sue me)
2. N.E.W.S. (sue me)
3. Lotus Flower (single disc) (sue me)

I'd give MPLSound a 50% - I really like You're Gonna See Me, Dance 4 Me, Here, and Ol' Skool Company, the rest can basically take a walk (I find Better With Time cute, but it makes me wince and cringe as much as it makes me smile).

Still haven't listened to Bria yet.

ScottRob said:

Personally, I find it difficult to respect any 'artist' who forces their beliefs on me in their art. He's always mentioned god, but it never bothered me until he started asking me, as the listener, to sign up to his newfound childish beliefs. He even does this in his live gigs now - he's more evangalist than artist.

This is a real problem to me.And I do consider myself as a fan too.

I really enjoy "From, and back to the Lotus", "Boom","Colonized Mind","77 beverly park".And all the guitar on the album.

Try again?

theonly4ever said:

ScottRob said:

Personally, I find it difficult to respect any 'artist' who forces their beliefs on me in their art. He's always mentioned god, but it never bothered me until he started asking me, as the listener, to sign up to his newfound childish beliefs. He even does this in his live gigs now - he's more evangalist than artist.

This is a real problem to me.And I do consider myself as a fan too.

I really enjoy "From, and back to the Lotus", "Boom","Colonized Mind","77 beverly park".And all the guitar on the album.

Try again?

^

I Bought Lotusflow3r purely to put Wall Of Berlin on repeat, and ended up really liking most of the album. And I can honestly say that MPLSound was my favorite album since Emancipation... I don't know why everyone hates on it so much. Most of those tracks are freakin awesome in terms of lyrics and originality. Just so different than the shit that's out...

I like both albums,

Lotus & MPLS.....

Great....... 8/10 - but not brilliant.

I don't like the LF instrumentals Intro / outtro, Chocolate Box is embarrassing.

The rest is pretty good:

Those 3 performances at Leno were h-o-t.

govinda said

Lotusflow3r sounds better with time?

I was rather disapointed when it came out, now I really lite it!

What`s about you orgers?

Yeah, I'm there with u. Usually the case for me with his post '90 output - but I KNOW this won't be for 20Ten (at least I bloody well hope not!).

Lotusflow3r is excellent...
A fantastic album... The only track that I dislike is that Beverly Place track... Everything else is fantastic.

It's impossible for Prince to please most of the "fans" on here...

ScottRob said:

theonly4ever said:

This is a real problem to me.And I do consider myself as a fan too.

I really enjoy "From, and back to the Lotus", "Boom","Colonized Mind","77 beverly park".And all the guitar on the album.

Try again?

^

Sorry my english is not that good, but what I meant was that we can appreciate and enjoy Haydn ,Mozart, or Bach even when it's "sacred" music.I'm not comparing Prince to them, I'm just saying that even if the objective of the composer is to "talk to god" or wathever, we can not denie the beauty of some masterpieces.(in art in general BTW)

tu comprends? me entiendes? Hope I expressed myself clearly....

briant said:

andykeen said:

Lotusflow3r is one of P greatest albums...

Yup. Best since (and better than in some ways) Purple Rain. Mplssound is fun.. I think he put it out to satisfy all those who want more of the 80s Prince. So he said, "Ok, here you go".

Loved Lotusflow3r immediately and it didn't come out of my cd player for about 6 months. Still sounds the same to me. Plenty of musicianship. Some great creativity.