While I don't think that D&P holds up to Prince's 80's output, I have to admit, this is one enjoyable CD. I was just wondering what people thought of the album overall, I think it's a nice album though it does sound like Prince was trying to have a hit with this one... That's not to say that's a bad thing, after all it is nice when an artist tries to make music everyone can enjoy, but here I feel like his artistic ability was thrown in the backseat and that he just wanted airplay on the radio. Just my 2 cents, I wrote a brief review of the album on my tumblr about the album in a song by song review (http://enewwave.tumblr.co...amonds-and) it's just something I wrote while lounging with some friends so the grammer is probably far from perfect and some song reviews might feel a bit incomplete, but I think it gets my point across rather well. What do you think of the album?

It was alright in '92. I can't really say that I have listened to it as an entire album since then.

I like the singles a lot...

Gett Off

Cream

D&P, title track

Money Don't Matter

Insatiable

Thunder..

Daddy Pop and Live 4 Love are ok as well.

Never listening to the cd though...

thedance said:

I like the singles a lot...

Gett Off

Cream

D&P, title track

Money Don't Matter

Insatiable

Thunder..

Daddy Pop and Live 4 Love are ok as well.

Never listening to the cd though...

I used to really like Cream, it just got old for me though. Money Don't Matter is a gem of a song, I just feel like it didn't really belong in that package. Like it's the only downbeat song in an otherwise very upbeat album (in my opinion). That's not to say its bad, but it's just weird how one second we're listening to Tony M. slap a manager for wanting to make money off of his work, then it goes into this whole song about how Money doesn't matter. Just seemed weird to me.

The title track is just pure genius, even with the trying-to-be-hip middle part.

I have mixed feelings about it.

Not one of my favorites, even at the time it was released. Loved GB and 0(+> though.

Diamonds and Pearls sounded to me like Prince playing for people who weren't fans. For that reason, maybe, I used to like to play it for people who weren't necessarily fans to show them that hey, Prince isn't so weird all the time.

Sounds good today to my ears. Since it's not the last album he did, I can appreciate it for what it is.

It's definitely got commercial written all over it no doubt. I need to be in the right mood to enjoy some of the tracks, but Diamonds and Pearls the song is pretty epic. I truly think this has to be one of Prince's most dated CD's pureply because it appeals to the whole new jack rap phase of the early 90's, whereas most of his other albums are pretty timeless

I like the album a lot, except for "Daddy Pop", "Walk Don't Walk" and "Push".

Diamond & Pearls the song, is angel music.

I like this album, as long as I can block out the existence of "Jughead" and "Walk Don't Walk".

I quite like Walk Don't Walk myself but Willing & Able is where it's AT.

This was perhaps the first time I had felt real disapointment in a Prince album.

It was compounded by the release of Gett Off as the first single and video, which made it seem as though Prince was getting back to some wilder material. The B-side Horny Pony seemed to confirm that assumption.

And then came the album, which was imo at least half comprised of material that ranked far below the quality of many of his previous b-sides, and certainly that of much of his best unreleased stuff.

I found Thunder and Daddy Pop to be silly and embarrasingly weak.

Live 4 Love was cumbersome, hardly worth slogging through to get to the guitar solo.

I never cared much for Insatiable, thought it was one of his weaker ballads.

Cream is ok fun, but I'm hardly the first to point out it's a rewrite of Bang A Gong.

Diamonds and Pearls is passable cheese. Walk Don't Walk less so.

The less said about the superflous addition of Tony M the better, but as others have noted, Jughead was easily a song ripe for the very back of the vault where only spiders ever visit and there's a constant drip.

There are moments as always. Willing and Able is great, Money Don't Matter Tonight...but I much preferred the symbol album a year later, a hell of a lot funkier and more interesting with better songs, IMO.

eugny1 said:

This was perhaps the first time I had felt real disapointment in a Prince album.

It was compounded by the release of Gett Off as the first single and video, which made it seem as though Prince was getting back to some wilder material. The B-side Horny Pony seemed to confirm that assumption.

And then came the album, which was imo at least half comprised of material that ranked far below the quality of many of his previous b-sides, and certainly that of much of his best unreleased stuff.

I found Thunder and Daddy Pop to be silly and embarrasingly weak.

Live 4 Love was cumbersome, hardly worth slogging through to get to the guitar solo.

I never cared much for Insatiable, thought it was one of his weaker ballads.

Cream is ok fun, but I'm hardly the first to point out it's a rewrite of Bang A Gong.

Diamonds and Pearls is passable cheese. Walk Don't Walk less so.

The less said about the superflous addition of Tony M the better, but as others have noted, Jughead was easily a song ripe for the very back of the vault where only spiders ever visit and there's a constant drip.

There are moments as always. Willing and Able is great, Money Don't Matter Tonight...but I much preferred the symbol album a year later, a hell of a lot funkier and more interesting with better songs, IMO.

copy, print, and save

It doesn't even seem/sound like a Prince album imo.

rdhull said:

eugny1 said:

This was perhaps the first time I had felt real disapointment in a Prince album.

It was compounded by the release of Gett Off as the first single and video, which made it seem as though Prince was getting back to some wilder material. The B-side Horny Pony seemed to confirm that assumption.

And then came the album, which was imo at least half comprised of material that ranked far below the quality of many of his previous b-sides, and certainly that of much of his best unreleased stuff.

I found Thunder and Daddy Pop to be silly and embarrasingly weak.

Live 4 Love was cumbersome, hardly worth slogging through to get to the guitar solo.

I never cared much for Insatiable, thought it was one of his weaker ballads.

Cream is ok fun, but I'm hardly the first to point out it's a rewrite of Bang A Gong.

Diamonds and Pearls is passable cheese. Walk Don't Walk less so.

The less said about the superflous addition of Tony M the better, but as others have noted, Jughead was easily a song ripe for the very back of the vault where only spiders ever visit and there's a constant drip.

There are moments as always. Willing and Able is great, Money Don't Matter Tonight...but I much preferred the symbol album a year later, a hell of a lot funkier and more interesting with better songs, IMO.

copy, print, and save

It doesn't even seem/sound like a Prince album imo.

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Jughead!

But also great memories of the 1992 shows at the Rotterdam Ahoy...

At least this was a decent tour where he played his new stuff like he menat it. He even showcased some `new song` every now and then. (Damn U)

Now ask him to do a similar thing in 2012...

I mean: even Larry does the same thing by rerecording stuff on his latest album.

I think it's a great album. Holds a lot of good memories for me simply because it was the era when I discovered Prince properly. It's definitely dated and there's no doubt that he was trying (and failing in parts) to stay up to date.

But as with many of his albums, if you took the songs at face value - ie/ minus the horrible early-90's production - there's some superb tracks on there.

I really like the whole era - the look, the tunes, the live stuff...

Let's just not think about rollerskates and mankinis.

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I've been revisiting it and Symbol just lately and for they are both great albums.

I prefer this period to the 1993-1995 stuff.

I was still sour over the loss of the Lovesexy band, I wasn't feeling Prince at this moment

and seeing the Prince of Paisley Park doc around this time, didn't help

Bring it back to 10 tracks by ditching the subpar, distracting and annoying Daddy Pop, Jughead and Push and you have a terrific album:

1. Thunder
2. Diamonds and pearls
3. Cream
4. Strolling
5. Willing and able
6. Gett off
7. Walk don't walk
8. Money don't matter tonight
9. Insatiable
10. Live 4 Love

Tremolina said:

Bring it back to 10 tracks by ditching the subpar, distracting and annoying Daddy Pop, Jughead and Push and you have a terrific album:

1. Thunder
2. Diamonds and pearls
3. Cream
4. Strolling
5. Willing and able
6. Gett off
7. Walk don't walk
8. Money don't matter tonight
9. Insatiable
10. Live 4 Love

I'll agree with you with scaling back the album. I feel like he just made it as long as possible just because the CD format was becoming more popular.

Nivivrus said:

Tremolina said:

Bring it back to 10 tracks by ditching the subpar, distracting and annoying Daddy Pop, Jughead and Push and you have a terrific album:

1. Thunder
2. Diamonds and pearls
3. Cream
4. Strolling
5. Willing and able
6. Gett off
7. Walk don't walk
8. Money don't matter tonight
9. Insatiable
10. Live 4 Love

I'll agree with you with scaling back the album. I feel like he just made it as long as possible just because the CD format was becoming more popular.

the more songs published the more royalties

I loooove "Diamonds and Pearls" and "Insatiable". With Prince, I have to listen to his albums from start to finish and I haven't done so with D&P for years. Time to get to it!

clbrooks said:

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I really like the whole era - the look, the tunes, the live stuff...

Let's just not think about rollerskates and mankinis.

Did anyone like Tony M's contributions?