With the exception of The Truth, Come and Lotusflow3r, every album post 1990

electricberet said:

I'm waiting for someone to say Purple Rain and SOTT just to get everyone riled up.

i rank parade a 2/5.

ZING

also,

2/5

musicology 1.5/5

3121 2/5

c&d 1.5/5

indigo nights 2/5

oh, and slaughterhouse... 1/5

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Man, with all of you hating all of P's albums after 1996, I'm surprised u guys are still fans.

Come on, anyone who disses TRC, Lotus, 3121, Musicology, and others with less than 2 stars, I really question your taste in music.

daPrettyman said:

Man, with all of you hating all of P's albums after 1996, I'm surprised u guys are still fans.

Come on, anyone who disses TRC, Lotus, 3121, Musicology, and others with less than 2 stars, I really question your taste in music.

Co-sign times 6ixx.

holy crap, rating 3121, Musicology, TRC etc lower than 2 is really weird. Even Prince haters would admit that they're better than that judged by the actual music performance and arrangements of the records. People on here are actually rating decent and good Prince albums way lower than what artists like Katy Perry would get on respectable websites like Pitchfork. Like, seriously? Must be something special with this music, when a man like that can do all these things to scare his biggest fans probably on purpose, and still they come crawling back for more.

^ Oh no! Someone doesn't like an album I do! *gasp*

njin said:

holy crap, rating 3121, Musicology, TRC etc lower than 2 is really weird. Even Prince haters would admit that they're better than that judged by the actual music performance and arrangements of the records. People on here are actually rating decent and good Prince albums way lower than what artists like Katy Perry would get on respectable websites like Pitchfork. Like, seriously? Must be something special with this music, when a man like that can do all these things to scare his biggest fans probably on purpose, and still they come crawling back for more.

Honestly, I have to say this.

I think I am being kind when I say TRC is by far the stupidest piece of..... work..that Prince has ever recorded. And that there is a lot to choose from in that category, I think says A LOT.

That it is cringeworthy is the least of it's flaws. To me it is nauseating in every respect with the lone exception of the cover artwork. The only part of this project in which he had nothing to do with. That is my opinion. And one that is shared by most all music loving peoples across the entire planet young and old. So I am far far from alone on this.

I respect and encourage alternate opinions, especially when it comes to art. It is purely subjective. I am not going to question the taste of those that DO like TRC or DO like Katy Perry. You like what you like. Good for YOU!

But for me I find it very difficult or even impossible to give it any stars at all. To me this one is the Anchovies of Prince records.

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hehe, I don't mind that. Most of the people I know don't appreciate his music anyways, and just a few might like a couple of his songs that they've heard. I just think it is weird from a music fan perspective that albums which recieved pretty good reviews on most websites and news letters, plus got alot of attention from other great artists and award shows etc... is given lower reviews from Prince fans than even haters would give them. These albums are widely known by non fans and fans as pretty good, though not perfect albums. They're very easily digestable, and are not the piece of art as his early 80s albums over time proved to be, but judging from how it was received by the general public, these albums also were his biggest success post 90s. 2 out of 5 is worse than what a Pitbull album would get on it's worst review. I'm just curious to if people have a clue on how to rate an album.

The funny thing about when fans are rating Prince albums is that their reviews are often very emotional, based on taste and emotions towards feeling backstabbed by Prince since his last great effort.

Very much because his way of jumping between genres, people are often also rating his albums on what genre they like the most. This leading to very different rates. Much more different than I've seen people rating other artists. On hear we have funk heads, hip hop heads, house fans, rock fans, blues fans etc. People will judge differently.

No matter how much one would hate a review from a news letter or such, they are paid to be as subjective as possible, also using relevant history referance to get a wider detailed description of how the music sounds.

I know I sound like a bitch now, as I probably just am whining over something not important at all, as this is just personal tastes, and not music analyzing.

V10LETBLUES said:

njin said:

holy crap, rating 3121, Musicology, TRC etc lower than 2 is really weird. Even Prince haters would admit that they're better than that judged by the actual music performance and arrangements of the records. People on here are actually rating decent and good Prince albums way lower than what artists like Katy Perry would get on respectable websites like Pitchfork. Like, seriously? Must be something special with this music, when a man like that can do all these things to scare his biggest fans probably on purpose, and still they come crawling back for more.

Honestly, I have to say this.

I think I am being kind when I say TRC is by far the stupidest piece of..... work..that Prince has ever recorded. And that there is a lot to choose from in that category, I think says A LOT.

That it is cringeworthy is the least of it's flaws. To me it is nauseating in every respect with the lone exception of the cover artwork. The only part of this project in which he had nothing to do with. That is my opinion. And one that is shared by most all music loving peoples across the entire planet young and old. So I am far far from alone on this.

I respect and encourage alternate opinions, especially when it comes to art. It is purely subjective. I am not going to question the taste of those that DO like TRC or DO like Katy Perry. You like what you like. Good for YOU!

But for me I find it very difficult or even impossible to give it any stars at all. To me this one is the Anchovies of Prince records.

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I can see understand if you don't agree with the content, but to say that the album is the "stupidest piece of...work...that Prince has ever recorded" is just crazy. You must not have ever heard Kamasutra or 20Ten.