2013 Prince -----just package all tracks for the year

2014 same thing

2015 etc

no album titles..

luvsexy4all said:

I guess that's okay but I like having a real album that was intended for release. A lot of my favorite albums connect really well including Prince's albums like Dirty Mind or 1999 even Sign o' the Times which I know was cut from the longer Crystal Ball set. These albums are focused and Prince worked hard on delivering a product which included the album, the image he was selling, and the B-sides which all somehow connected.

If he were to release random songs as he is now and sell them as a collection I wouldn't really see it as an original album but as a compilation album. Although I do think this would be a neat idea if he would plan a lot of things ahead, giving us music gradually and eventually compiling them into one coherent album.

How about the yearly cd's at the end of a yearly subscription, where you download during the year and get a limited edition cd collection of the stuff, with fancy packaging, nice fine printed booklet, etc...

luvsexy4all said:

2013 Prince -----just package all tracks for the year

2014 same thing

2015 etc

no album titles..

The way he changes his mind every ten minutes, forget it. It won't happen.

NPGMC: "You've got a lifetime membership."

2010: "The Internet is Dead."

2013: "Logon to my new website."

stillwaiting said:

luvsexy4all said:

2013 Prince -----just package all tracks for the year

2014 same thing

2015 etc

no album titles..

The way he changes his mind every ten minutes, forget it. It won't happen.

NPGMC: "You've got a lifetime membership."

2010: "The Internet is Dead."

2013: "Logon to my new website."

nobody but I should be allowed to do covers.

Prenzz said:

How about the yearly cd's at the end of a yearly subscription, where you download during the year and get a limited edition cd collection of the stuff, with fancy packaging, nice fine printed booklet, etc...

Only if he offers an alternative to a subscription: buy each track as it's released and still be eligible to buy the CD at the end of the year (without pre-paying a subscription fee) and I'm in.

how about u just let prince do prince and if u dont like it do be it. u gonna complain no matter how he do it so wha!!! yall really think prince dont read alot of this trash on here.u beg 4 new music and soon as it hits u complaining and comparing it 2 the past other than accepting it this world is soo damn ungrateful now days

luvsexy4all said:

2013 Prince -----just package all tracks for the year

2014 same thing

2015 etc

no album titles..

why

novabrkr said:

luvsexy4all said:

2013 Prince -----just package all tracks for the year

2014 same thing

2015 etc

no album titles..

why

because he said no more cd albums ..just jams...but if he dont make them avaialble as a whole ..then bootleggers will

MiniJamesW said:

I guess that's okay but I like having a real album that was intended for release. A lot of my favorite albums connect really well including Prince's albums like Dirty Mind or 1999 even Sign o' the Times which I know was cut from the longer Crystal Ball set. These albums are focused and Prince worked hard on delivering a product which included the album, the image he was selling, and the B-sides which all somehow connected.

If he were to release random songs as he is now and sell them as a collection I wouldn't really see it as an original album but as a compilation album. Although I do think this would be a neat idea if he would plan a lot of things ahead, giving us music gradually and eventually compiling them into one coherent album.

Maybe he thinks that if he releases one song at a time, each song will be more appreciated than releasing a CD as a whole where it usually got bad reviews for the last few years among the fans. I think I'm with you though, I love the idea of an real album. A real album with a title, an artwork, a theme, flow, unique sequencing...these are all the details of an album that are just important as the quality of songs imo. Prince's albums tell me what Prince was experimenting artistically & going through personally that year, and I really enjoy listening to a lot of them from start to finish thinking that it's really one 45 minute long song. =( But oh well, as long as we get new materials...

[Edited 1/27/13 10:28am]

I think Prince is at a stage in his life/career where he has done everything possible and he doesn't want the extreme hassle that must come from releasing an album. Why shoud he go thru that when he can just release stuff off the cuff (remember his live shows make him the cash).

Emancipation89 said:

Maybe he thinks that if he releases one song at a time, each song will be more appreciated than releasing a CD as a whole where it usually got bad reviews for the last few years among the fans. I think I'm with you though, I love the idea of an real album. A real album with a title, an artwork, a theme, flow, unique sequencing...these are all the details of an album that are just important as the quality of songs imo. Prince's albums tell me what Prince was experimenting artistically & going through personally that year, and I really enjoy listening to a lot of them from start to finish thinking that it's really one 45 minute long song. =( But oh well, as long as we get new materials...

I agree, I think that especially in this generation listeners don't listen to whole albums so they probably wouldn't even listen to a song that isn't a single. I've always been an album guy, I think Prince has said that listening to one song is like watching one scene of a film or reading one chapter of a book and I agree with him. Listening to a Prince album or any good album is like experiencing the music, much more so than playing some playlist you made up or just listening to one song.

But the industry is changing and I don't know anyone personally who listens to full albums like I do, so it may be wiser for Prince to go with the singles then compile them route. But I miss the times when I could get an album like Lovesexy and be surprised at how much more to Pop music there is than just catchy singles, with that album Prince had a statement and he was saying it loud and clear in a whole cohesive piece. Most of his albums are like that to me but some are stronger than others. However, this seems to be the industry as going and I am not a fan of it at all. I do look forward to what Prince has to offer in 2013 though!

Another Don't:

No more songs about songs or music

oh and No more songs about himself

and please no more songs about him playing music himself

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Another Don't:

No more songs about songs or music

oh and No more songs about himself

and please no more songs about him playing music himself

Totally agree, he is drowning in his own ego here. If I hear "Real music by real Musicians" again I will scream!!!!! and then he puts out autotune rubbish like Rock and Roll Love affair and chapter and verse (Yuck!!!!)

Adorecream said:

TwiliteKid said:

Also: I continue to be mystified by the hate for Rock & Roll Love Affair around here. I think it's his best single in a very long time.

I know right, I like this song too a lot more than Screwdriver!

I want the album to seduce me.

Flirt - building up tension - seducing and playing - long foreplay - tender and loving sex - passionate love making.

U people must at last understand and admit that physical records are a DEAD thing

luvsexy4all said:

2013 Prince -----just package all tracks for the year

2014 same thing

2015 etc

no album titles..

He already does that on a semi-weekly basis.