I have been listening to it since I "found" it in a wreckasto in Phoenix and, I have to say, I like it! I think it is a good offering of familiar P sounds we fell in love with back in the day. Granted, it doesn't have the Revolution or raunchiness either... but still, I appreciate P attempting something palatable for fans who have been waiting for him to return to form. Small steps...

Is this available stateside yet? I ain't seen it anywhwere so far.

I have this album and Its pretty good. I also like LotusFlow3r.

You can find 20Ten on amazon or ebay.

yes

it is good

Is it though?.....Really?......

Ever since i started following his career in the late 80's, I never would have thought there'd come a time when Prince would try to imitate Prince.

In my opinion, 20Ten is one of the lowest points of his music career. I can understand why it was just given away with a newspaper, and I can understand why hardly any of the tracks have yet to make an appearance on stage.

This isn't just a poor Prince album, it's a poor album by any standards.

boscho said:

Ever since i started following his career in the late 80's, I never would have thought there'd come a time when Prince would try to imitate Prince.

In my opinion, 20Ten is one of the lowest points of his music career. I can understand why it was just given away with a newspaper, and I can understand why hardly any of the tracks have yet to make an appearance on stage.

This isn't just a poor Prince album, it's a poor album by any standards.

Good job it's only your Opinion.

yes, which is why i used bold fonts.

boscho said:

yes, which is why i used bold fonts.

totally agree with u...however must say Compassion is a good opener...even if it does sound like the time warp (Rocky Horror Picture Show)...Im glad others enjoy it...wish i cud ....sticky like glue wouldve been amazing.....but the rap just sounds awfully bad.....makes Mr Goodnight look like Days Of Wild

I've only just listened to the whole album for the first time. Twice actually, back to back.

It's an absolute travesty. Future Soul Song is great, but the rest belongs in the bin.

no it's not!, Future soul song and laveaux really are great but the rest is just average/good at best. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy listening to Act of God and perhaps Begining endlessly but in the wider context of new music around and also in the contect fo what genius this man is capable of the CD is hugely disappointing IMHO !.

McD said:

I've only just listened to the whole album for the first time. Twice actually, back to back.

It's an absolute travesty. Future Soul Song is great, but the rest belongs in the bin.

even sticky like glue

McD said:

I've only just listened to the whole album for the first time. Twice actually, back to back.

It's an absolute travesty. Future Soul Song is great, but the rest belongs in the bin.

There are some songs on it that I find unlistenable and embarrassing.The kind of music that you don´t want your neighbors to hear so you only listen to it on headphones, like Compassion and Everybody Loves Me.

But then again, there are also some songs on it that I find really, really good, like Future Soul Song and Walk In The Sand.

Songs like Lavaux have nice music, but the lyrics are something I can´t really relate to but it´s still a decent song.

All in all, I´d rather see Prince release tons of music with some hidden gems buried under mediocre or plain bad songs instead of him releasing some songs once in a blue moon.

How do you like Walk In The Sand?

Just wondering, what is it about Laydown that y'all don't like?

Or is it just a non-conformist contrarian thang, which is cool.

It's great

With the exception of that rediculous ending track, it's the best album he's done in years.

It's absolutely cringeworthy. He should be ashamed of himself for it.

fantasticjoy said:

I love it. I don't understand all the criticism. So what it's not groundbreaking or blah, blah, blah...it's still good. Sticky Like Glue is my favorite and I love Everybody Loves Me.

His and everyone else's groundbreaking days are over. It's kinda hard to get inspired to do something just absolutely spectacular when the entire radio is filled with the worst sounding music in music history. I'm just glad he was inspired enough to do as well as he did. It would have been ever better if he had just turned his radio and it's bad influences completely off so he would have never gotten that horrible ending track. To have a completely shit hop free album, you have to seclude yourself from all outlets of it such as radio and TV so you'll never hear it.

That's the problem. He went from doing things no one could do to being desperate to sound 'in sync' with the crap music of today.

Controversy was great in 81. Who wants/needs to hear 'Controversy-like' songs in 2010?

He's already been there and done that!

Here's my take on 20Ten:

It's a light, accessible album for the summertime. You can put it on while you're on the beach or traveling in the car and not have to hit the "skip" button 50 times. " />

I don't think he was going for something deep and "heavy" where he goes on and on about the everlasting forever and existential plane of his innocuous being in the spirit of the future and being one with the whisper of the colors swirling in a widening plane of existence surrounded by the blah blah blah blah.

20Ten is like ear candy, not nutritional but still fun.

Just my take on 20Ten.

Chas

vitriol said:

That's the problem. He went from doing things no one could do to being desperate to sound 'in sync' with the crap music of today.

Controversy was great in 81. Who wants/needs to hear 'Controversy-like' songs in 2010?

He's already been there and done that!

I do! I don't care if it's a throwback. His modern music isn't good, can't you see that? Lotus, 3121, Planet Earth, Musicology...they all sucked.

I like him doing what he does best.

the tragedy of 20ten is that he took over 25 years to use his signature sound again. While most artists would have milked it for at least 2 or 3 more albums, something snapped in Prince and it was as if he was almost afraid of ever going there again. For as good as Parade and SOTT are (and dont get me wrong they are fantastic), Prince gave himself a bit of an excuse every year for why he couldnt top the sales of Purple Rain. "I'm an artist! I am moving FORWARD."

Well eventually he did get stuck in a musical rut anyway. Is there really any difference between Emancipation, Rave, Musicology, 3121 etc... I would have preferred one more 1999s, one more SOTTs, or one more Purple Rain than a good deal of the last 20 years of hit and misses.

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I like it a lot. I think it sounds great when played in order, no breaks, and at a high volume.

And "Everybody Loves Me" has really grown on me. I doubt I'll ever embrace "whoop de whoop!" but I like the rest of the song.

If only it was available in the US....sigh.

emesem said:

the tragedy of 20ten is that he took over 25 years to use his signature sound again. While most artists would have milked it for at least 2 or 3 more albums, something snapped in Prince and it was as if he was almost afraid of ever going there again. For as good as Parade and SOTT are (and dont get me wrong they are fantastic), Prince gave himself a bit of an excuse every year for why he couldnt top the sales of Purple Rain. "I'm an artist! I am moving FORWARD."

Excellent observation! I don't know why I hadn't noticed that myself all those years but it makes complete sense as to why he changed his style so drastically after "Purple Rain" and never returned to it. Yeah, he did the exact opposite of Michael Jackson trying to continue on after a hugely successful album that could probably never be topped in terms of sales. Michael kept trying to top his successful album and Prince kept trying to give himself an excuse if he couldn't top his. Yeah, folks eventually do change but to change immediately after you are on top of the world? Your observation makes sense.

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20ten - The WORST CD Prince had done ever IMO with the exception of some of the mid 90's garbage like 1-800-new-funk etc. Only 2 good songs on a Prince CD? Laydown and Beginning Endlessly?

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irinact said:

I have this album and Its pretty good. I also like LotusFlow3r.

You can find 20Ten on amazon or ebay.

Thank you I have been trying to find 2010 4ever

vainandy said:

fantasticjoy said:

vainandy said:

His and everyone else's groundbreaking days are over. It's kinda hard to get inspired to do something just absolutely spectacular when the entire radio is filled with the worst sounding music in music history. I'm just glad he was inspired enough to do as well as he did. It would have been ever better if he had just turned his radio and it's bad influences completely off so he would have never gotten that horrible ending track. To have a completely shit hop free album, you have to seclude yourself from all outlets of it such as radio and TV so you'll never hear it.

I agree with you about the music on the radio is so crappy these days. There's no inspiration what so ever. I think Prince got a lot of his greatness from his influences back in the day. It's really a shame how the music world is just ruined by the industries finding the next quick money making hit rather than showcasing talent. The good side of it for me is that I'm able to catch up on the oldies and I'm saving money on what I'm not spending on today's trash.

I already have most of the old stuff that I like and the stuff that I don't already have is so rare that you can't buy it anymore and you have to download it, so that saves me some money.

I take that money I save on buying new music and buy DVDs of old TV shows now. TV with all it's rediculous reality shows that have taken over, is another media outlet that is just as dead as music these days. Radio ain't worth a damn anymore, TV ain't worth a damn anymore, these are just dead ass times all the way around. A whole new generation has been raised now to be happy with all things that are cheaply made. People have just totally forgotten about luxury and escapism these days.