BartVanHemelen said:

dgil72 said:

Some OFFICIAL info from WB:

* Both albums will be on Vinyl.

*The album releases will also be marked by a series of very special events taking place globally, to be confirmed shortly.

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Yeah, we haven't heard that before.

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It's sucha great record no record company wanted to touch it and it only gets released so Warners gets Prince off their backs.

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*More live dates will be confirmed shortly.

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Don't expect to hear anything from these albums, though. Then again, that might be a selling point.

I dig Bart ....

Askani said:

luv4u said:

Do you have to open an itunes account?

Looks lime CD preorder and free digital copy is through Amazon.

I wish there was a way to just download this via Bittorrent and send Prince the full amount directly. I don't like to give some of it to Amazon. If he accepted Bitcoin, I could do this.

But I suppose I will buy a digital copy and hopefully he gets most of that $.

benjaminira said:

It just dawned on me about the title "art official age" a play on the word "artificial"?

Good catch...I missed that myself but now seems obvious now that you point it out.

Artificial Age, i get that and it's a nice enough title.

but "Art Official Age", beyond a play on words, the

phrase "art official age" makes no sense, does it?

/

also, notice how the actual song on the album isn't
called "art official age" but "art official cage".

TWO albums--double the pleasure Christmas comes early this year! I'm groovin' to "Clouds" right now. Sooo smooth. Very cool album/cd cover for AOA!

BartVanHemelen said:

dgil72 said:

Some OFFICIAL info from WB:

* Both albums will be on Vinyl.

*The album releases will also be marked by a series of very special events taking place globally, to be confirmed shortly.

.

Yeah, we haven't heard that before.

.

.

It's sucha great record no record company wanted to touch it and it only gets released so Warners gets Prince off their backs.

.

*More live dates will be confirmed shortly.

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Don't expect to hear anything from these albums, though. Then again, that might be a selling point.

LOL Bart, you have no idea if other labels passed on PE (or if it was even offered), you're just making it up because it suits your pre-ordained conclusions.

lottusflower said:

Europeans can buy art official age and plectrumelectrum on vinyl at www.fnac.com http://musique.fnac.com/a...inyl-album http://musique.fnac.com/a...inyl-album

thanks lottusflower

[Edited 8/25/14 14:58pm]

KingSausage said:

I agree with everything Bart says on this thread, with one exception. I think these two albums WILL offer two unique listening experiences. One will give you dull, plastic R&B. The other will give you dull, plastic "rock." Seriously, I dislike every song that I've heard from both albums. We've lowered our standards for Prince a lot. Clouds is pretty bad [to me]. All these songs are bad [to me]. This shit makes Rave and 20ten sound good [to me]. Man, I might even like NPS more.

Why are you assuming that your tastes are the same as everyone elses? No two music listeners have the same aesthetics. If an artist goes a direction that you cease to like then stop following them and move on or take a break and come back when they produce something you do like. To say everyone wrong when they like something that doesnt suit you is kinda childish and stupid. Just as its stupid for someone who dislikes something is wrong because they have different taste than you when you like something. People know what they like and don't like. If its not for you, just call it a day.

KingSausage said:

I agree with everything Bart says on this thread, with one exception. I think these two albums WILL offer two unique listening experiences. One will give you dull, plastic R&B. The other will give you dull, plastic "rock." Seriously, I dislike every song that I've heard from both albums. We've lowered our standards for Prince a lot. Clouds is pretty bad. All these songs are bad. This shit makes Rave and 20ten sound good. Man, might even like NPS more.

Now that is cold...

benjaminira said:

What part of we want masterpieces doesn't this guy get? He is out of gas. The days of stunning Prince is gone.

I just listened to Our Destiny--that is a minor song--that kicks Clouds ass. Not good.

ElectricMayweather said:

Oh I get it now as well. After probably reading the title 100 times in the last day I only now got that it's a play on "artificial." Ha!

Not sure if this has been addressed yet, but...

There doesn't seem to be any way to re-download "Breakdown" as part of my pre-order, as it's marked "purchased" in the iTunes store.

I deleted the single that I had previously bought out of iTunes, then went to my previous purchases to re-download hoping to see it listed as part of the new album, but it's still listed as being downloadable from the single (rather than part of the album).

Anyone figured out how to force a re-download as an album track for a previously purchased single (that now seems to be tied to the album)?

I notice they did this with "Happy" and Pharrell's album as well, however I didn't end up buying the rest of Pharrell's album after the fact, so there was no need for my OCD to kick in with that one.

2freaky4church1 said:

What part of we want masterpieces doesn't this guy get? He is out of gas. The days of stunning Prince is gone.

I just listened to Our Destiny--that is a minor song--that kicks Clouds ass. Not good.

Same with Adonis and Bathsheba. BIG difference.

I suppose I'll get around to buying these at some point. I'm not as quickly moved by P as I once was.

I have to admit, though, it's still very cool to see how lively the org gets with news of impending releases. I hope everyone enjoys these.

lezama said:

KingSausage said:

I agree with everything Bart says on this thread, with one exception. I think these two albums WILL offer two unique listening experiences. One will give you dull, plastic R&B. The other will give you dull, plastic "rock." Seriously, I dislike every song that I've heard from both albums. We've lowered our standards for Prince a lot. Clouds is pretty bad [to me]. All these songs are bad [to me]. This shit makes Rave and 20ten sound good [to me]. Man, I might even like NPS more.

Why are you assuming that your tastes are the same as everyone elses? No two music listeners have the same aesthetics. If an artist goes a direction that you cease to like then stop following them and move on or take a break and come back when they produce something you do like. To say everyone wrong when they like something that doesnt suit you is kinda childish and stupid. Just as its stupid for someone who dislikes something is wrong because they have different taste than you when you like something. People know what they like and don't like. If its not for you, just call it a day.

Well damn! When did the Org become a Prince Groupthink Tank? I read earlier, if we're not excited about this new music then we "don't belong on this site" and now if it's not for us, we should "just call it a day". It seems to me that y'all are the ones having issues handling opinions that differ from yours. So perhaps it's y'all that "don't belong on this site" and should "just call it a day."

Hmm, they gonna sell these on Amazon or not...

2freaky4church1 said:

mikeyaddict said:

Cool. Cracks me up tho. The one time there is a big announcement he manages to announce it before the big announcement itself! Glad to be proved wrong - and about to pre-order. Great news and don't want to sound like I is moaning but don't see the likes of Check The Record / 2 Young 2 Dare / Big City and maybe four five songs across the two we already have? The breakdown / pbl / fixur / PE / bcw?

I was thinking the same thing.....why tease your fans with great music that you are not even planning to release?

Would like to have seen Ain't Gonna Miss U, Groovy Potential and Fallinlove2nite (instead of Breakfast can wait) on the solo album, and Screwdriver on 3EG.

Other than that, looking forward to giving them a spin. Gut feel is 3EG will be the disc.

mordang said:

KingSausage said:

I agree with everything Bart says on this thread, with one exception. I think these two albums WILL offer two unique listening experiences. One will give you dull, plastic R&B. The other will give you dull, plastic "rock." Seriously, I dislike every song that I've heard from both albums. We've lowered our standards for Prince a lot. Clouds is pretty bad. All these songs are bad. This shit makes Rave and 20ten sound good. Man, might even like NPS more.

Now that is cold...

No, that's raving... for writing that, KS should go listen to New Power Soul right now.

Aerogram said:

KingSausage said:

2freaky4church1 said:

What part of we want masterpieces doesn't this guy get? He is out of gas. The days of stunning Prince is gone.

I just listened to Our Destiny--that is a minor song--that kicks Clouds ass. Not good.

YES. If I wanted manure like Clouds I could listen to dozens, if not hundreds, of pointless throwaway artists. Who ever would have thought Prince would sink this low? He keeps getting worse. I thought Emancipation was bad, but then there was NPS. I thought NPS was bad, but then there was Rave. I thought Rave was bad, but then there was ever shit he shat in 2000 to early 2001. I liked TRC, Musicology, and 3121. But I thought Planet Earth was bad...until I heard MPLSound. LotusFlower just bores me. 20ten is a modern day masterpiece compared to the double butt nugget that these new albums appear to be

Although I do like a tune here and there and I'll still do whatever it takes to go see him live, none of albums after the Gold Experience have moved me at all. It mostly just sounds like watered down versions of older and better music. What happened to the ahead of his time, inovative, original Prince?

Pretty excited about having two new albums released on the same day! I like the "Clouds" track too, pretty good Prince song, nice production.

BartVanHemelen said:

why spend so much time talking about what you don't like? i personally won't call this new stuff a MASTERPIECE but i love Clouds. I'm anxious for the new albums and at 22, i'm actually excited to be a Prince fan again.

side note, i'm glad he and Warner Brothers are friends again...so to speak lol. they seem to be promoting it heavy on twitter via articles and tweets and their default avi image is the album cover.

now available to pre-order from uk Itunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/plectrumelectrum/id911632119

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/art-official-age/id911631220

[Edited 8/25/14 16:29pm]