nursev said:

EyeJester7 said:

Easily one of my favorites! I love the flow and the feel! I loved how he performed pretty much every one of these songs live! With the exception of Love, and incense and candles. He did all of this live! He has never done that in forever! Lol

It sounds fantastic too!! The clothes, and meaning is just funky and too cool! It is a party album for me!

Nice flowing cd-I can listen to it straight through and never tire. Good one from Prince

How anybody can mention terms like flow and 3121 in one sentence is a miracle to me. This album doesn't flow at all. Besides it's full of rehash and cliché-ridden musical ideas.

All in all so not mindblowing, but boring.

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coreysamson said:

I could care less for Love and Incense and Candles but the rest of the album is really good. Fury sounds a little average though, it's okay. I especially love the title track. I think I am the only one on the org that likes Lolita lol. I could do without the back and forth dialogue at the end however. Way better than Musicology. I would rank it right behind Lotusflower and Rainbow Children concerning his 2000s studio albums.

I like Lolita a lot! One of the best tracks of the album.

funkomatic said:

nursev said:

Nice flowing cd-I can listen to it straight through and never tire. Good one from Prince

How anybody can mention terms like flow and 3121 in one sentence is a miracle to me. This album doesn't flow at all. Besides it's full of rehash and cliché-ridden musical ideas.

All in all so not mindblowing, but boring.

[Edited 10/3/12 6:59am]

3121 is hardly my favourite album by Prince, but I don't find it hard to listen to in one sitting. It's got "flow" in that sense. I really can't say the same about, for example, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic.

I agree that it's too full of references to songs and arrangement styles that he did in the past. However, I think its only real weakness is just that it's just too full of pop fluff.

The main thing that ruins it is the Lolita call and response portion. He should have edited that out.

rdhull said:

The main thing that ruins it is the Lolita call and response portion. He should have edited that out.

It is an incredibly silly call and response.

But I do kind of like how Lolita exclaims, "Dance?!?!"

3121, the year P has another hit. haha

tintin said:

.. And you know, i'd forgotten just how good an album this is. A cohesive collection of decent tracks.

Nice one, P.

(In case you're reading this).

yep yep! Love it!

Good album, I've got the piano book too. Really love the Dance but don't like the title track, Black Sweat or Lolita.

novabrkr said:

funkomatic said:

How anybody can mention terms like flow and 3121 in one sentence is a miracle to me. This album doesn't flow at all. Besides it's full of rehash and cliché-ridden musical ideas.

All in all so not mindblowing, but boring.

[Edited 10/3/12 6:59am]

3121 is hardly my favourite album by Prince, but I don't find it hard to listen to in one sitting. It's got "flow" in that sense. I really can't say the same about, for example, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic.

I agree that it's too full of references to songs and arrangement styles that he did in the past. However, I think its only real weakness is just that it's just too full of pop fluff.

If I understand you right, you sort of feel entertained by the diversity of the songs.

To me the tracks sound quite interchangeable and not connected to each other at all. The highlight being "The Dance" followed by a track like "Get on the boat"! lol

But who am I to discuss an album I've listened only once all the way through?! Too funny!

coreysamson said:

I could care less for Love and Incense and Candles .

So you like them a little bit.

2freaky4church1 said:

3121, the year P has another hit. haha

^3121 - The new master!

funkomatic said:

nursev said:

Nice flowing cd-I can listen to it straight through and never tire. Good one from Prince

How anybody can mention terms like flow and 3121 in one sentence is a miracle to me. This album doesn't flow at all. Besides it's full of rehash and cliché-ridden musical ideas.

All in all so not mindblowing, but boring.

[Edited 10/3/12 6:59am]

It flows because of its party feel. It feels as if it was meant to jam and settle--->The Word, Te Amo Corazon, Satisfied Beautiful, Loved, And Blessed). It might be a rehash of musical ideas, but not many things are really NEW if you think about it. Prince has been in the game for years, so I don't expect him to measure all of the sounds in the universe creatively at one given album. You have every right to think it is boring, but no one said it was mind blowing..But just really Good. It's one of my favorites, I would take it above NewPower Soul!

Which isn't a bad album, but there is no 'flow' in that at all. lol

TheEnglishGent said:

rdhull said:

I love "Black Sweat", except the high pitched synth hurts my ears a little bit.

Has he ever performed that song live?

Efan said:

rdhull said:

The main thing that ruins it is the Lolita call and response portion. He should have edited that out.

It is an incredibly silly call and response.

But I do kind of like how Lolita exclaims, "Dance?!?!"

coreysamson said:

rdhull said:

The main thing that ruins it is the Lolita call and response portion. He should have edited that out.

Yeah I get that. It could have been cut down to the three minute mark and thus have been much more effective. I skip after that to Te Amo.

I see it as one of his 'for The Time/Morris' songs...the call and response would fit their steeze better.

Great album, a lot of very strong tracks. Black Sweat is the highlight, classic Prince thump and grind, the sexy ballad Incense and candles, Satisfied was another great ballad, the rock of Fury and despite the lyrics the Word is a very strong number. This album to me was his true comeback of the Millennium, better than Musicology and Planet Earth, but not quite as good as Lotusflow3r.

Despite all the hate for it here on the org, this is a decent album and the best part was the fact theres no self indulgence on it whatsoever. Clean and funky Prince.

Diana80 said:

I love "Black Sweat", except the high pitched synth hurts my ears a little bit.

Has he ever performed that song live?

Yup, the 1st time he ever performed it was during the Acoustic Portion of his Musicology show in Chicago that I attended.

He did it a few times during that time period when he was in Vegas.

Paris9748430 said:

Diana80 said:

I love "Black Sweat", except the high pitched synth hurts my ears a little bit.

Has he ever performed that song live?

Yup, the 1st time he ever performed it was during the Acoustic Portion of his Musicology show in Chicago that I attended.

He did it a few times during that time period when he was in Vegas.

Was played quite a few times in London too in 2007.

I like Black Sweat, Fury, Te Amo Corazon, The Word, and Beautiful, Loved & Blessed. The others are decent. One of my favorite albums of his!