I agree! this shit sucks elephant balls...very generic sounding

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 would have ever 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 every 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. [Edited 8/25/14 15:53pm]

I like "Clouds" and the previously released songs "Breakfast Can Wait" and "Breakdown".I think Art Official Age is gonna be a good album Not really interested in the 3rdEyeGirl album,but I'll check it out when it's released.

Cinny said:

nosajd said:

I immediately thought of this album when I saw the new album title. I love that album too!

It was a trilogy of albums with that title, actually! I am surprised this was not brought up before.

Oh well, I guess I've fulfilled my role at the org now.

http://prince.org/msg/7/4...?&pg=7

cosmoplastic said:

U peopl are so funny 8--)
...personally I like kissing some ass periodically...I mean what is the point of being human if u can't kiss some ass every now and then.

I can kind of dig 'Clouds'...it has that bit of oddly new prince arraingment going on...which I think bodes well. I hope we get some b-sides out of this whole ordeal though.

Figuratively speaking - I happily kissed Prince's ass for damn near 30 years and make no apologies about that because there's no shame in MY game! But at this point in HIS game - this Prince-by-numbers...cookie cutter...obviously...strictly for fundraising purposes BS - just doesn't do it for ME!

Philly76 said:

udo said:

It is news here too: http://www.nu.nl/muziek/3...ember.html

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What about physical media?

Rather: physical media via a local (EUROPEAN) distributor.

Anybody?

[Edited 8/25/14 4:45am]

You can order your physical copy directly via Warner:

http://prince.warnerartists.net/

Did order the CDs plus MP3z. No download links of course.

No email with links either.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

More live dates will be confirmed shortly.

I'm pretty sure the sentence I highlighted in green may be of the most importance to any interested party here. So you're welcome!

How generic is that 'info'?

It's no news. It's even worse. It doesn't say that the shows will be revamped to finally fix the essence of what was lacking the past few years.

As long as there's no break in the trend it's the same old same.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

cosmoplastic said:

U peopl are so funny 8--)
...personally I like kissing some ass periodically...I mean what is the point of being human if u can't kiss some ass every now and then.

I can kind of dig 'Clouds'...it has that bit of oddly new prince arraingment going on...which I think bodes well. I hope we get some b-sides out of this whole ordeal though.

Figuratively speaking - I happily kissed Prince's ass for damn near 30 years and make no apologies about that because there's no shame in MY game! But at this point in HIS game - this Prince-by-numbers...cookie cutter...obviously...strictly for fundraising purposes BS - just doesn't do it for ME!

...I know...that's why it's been 4 years since he put something out and he's been touring with a prog band...good one. I guess we'll see.

IstenSzek said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

lezama said:

If you knew how to read you'd see I didn't criticize his dislike of anything. I dont personally give a shite what he thinks about any particular piece of music. He said people who liked it are asskissers or whatever. I don't kiss anyones ass. If I like something I like it, if I don't I say its not my cup of tea and move on. I don't go onto websites and start talking shit to people who like what I dislike. Understand the distinction? Thanks

You better pump your damn brakes because I can guarantee you that my reading and comprehension skills far exceed yours, thanks. The person you were addressing nor I - said anything about "asskissers" nor you kissing Prince's ass. So why your panties are all waded up in a bunch, I don't know nor do I care about. What I was addressing was your presumption that you can tell anyone here to "just call it a day" because you can't handle their opinion that differs from yours, as it pertains to Prince new music. Nowhere on this website does it state that being here requires liking whatever Prince drops from his plectrumrectum. If you don't like that, you are more than welcome to take your own advice. I'm pretty sure you do understand that, don't you?

[Edited 8/25/14 19:23pm]

So, you wanna, you know, go steady?

The more I think of it the more I suspect this is how things happened (just a guess):

- and WB agreed on the remasters/masters right and offered a new, radio-friendly album in the vein of Musicology/3121 and they agreed to release both this and PR at the same time, which was IMHO a good marketing strategy for the target audiences were slightly different and the hype surrounding each project would benefit the other. While PR would have appealed to nostalgic and the fanbase, people who didn't care so much about a 30 years-old album or who already owned it and didn't care for a remaster and bonus tracks, as well as younger listeners may have been interested in the new album only while some nostalgic people would have been interested in PR only, but both audiences may have been curious about the other project because they were already paying attention to what was doing.

- Not being exclusively tied to WB, still planned to release PlecEl on Kobalt or whatever, which pissed WB to no end for they feared yet another album would compete with theirs. They tried to talk into delaying PlecEl or even giving up on it but wouldn't and challenged them by keeping publicly announcing the album.

- WB decided that better they release PlecEl themselves than letting the competition have it.

- Releasing PR and TWO new albums at the same time, on the other hand, would have been a bad marketing move, for then u have 3 products competing each other and then 2 new albums would have represented too much competition for the PR remaster and all together it woulda been confusing, so it was decided to change the schedule, create a hype by releasing the 2 new albums together on Sept. 30. and taking advantage of being back in the public eye by releasing PR for xmas after about 2 more months.

CLOUDS is da BOM. Genius and HOT. xACTLY what I was hoping for!

Most excellent job. Lovin' Ms. Lianne La Havas. smh Y'all threw downnn.

Is 'Art Official Age' a play on words? I could swear that when 3rdeyegirl made the announcement she said 'Artificial Age'.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA...t-25112050

blackwell1 said:

CLOUDS is da BOM. Genius and HOT. xACTLY what I was hoping for!

Most excellent job. Lovin' Ms. Lianne La Havas. smh Y'all threw downnn.

Can you please translate to English?

breakdown2k14 said:

I can't find a order link for art official age on Amazon.

Both are up at Amazon now, $19.00 for EACH CD.

Just type the album name.

What a bad idea to release not only one, but 2 albums around the same time when Purple Rain 2014 hits the stores.

The Purple Rain Re-release would have been one of the best sales in years in the US market. Remember that before M. Jackson died, the catalog sales of both PR and THRILLER were equivalent ( about 2.6 millions).

Now, Prince succeeded in killing his last chance to shine again.

These three projects will be big failures.

PLECTRUM ELECTRUM should have been released in february 2014, when it was announced with the UK tour.

PURPLE RAIN 2014 should have been released during june because, hell, it was the 30 th year of PR.

ART OFF AGE could have been released in the end of 2014.

Where are some songs like DA BOURGEOISIE, SCREWDRIVER ? And what about his last "hits" (it is of course, ironic) such as Rock n roll love affair and fallinlove2night ? There is enough time space on a disc to do that.

People won't understand a shit about it. It is surely the greatest mess of all the Prince's promotion, and it is orchestrated by a major record, Warner !

I foreshadow that nobody will dig that PE is a prince album, so it won't sell. ART OFF AGE has the most horrible cover of all the Prince album (tied with newpowersoul), and the most horrible title. Nobody except prince fans would buy a disc with suc an ugly face on it. I saw him live this year, and his face don't even look like this. Please, tell me this is all a joke.

I'm pretty sure that these 2 albums will fit in one CD of 80 minutes, if you keep only one version of Funknroll (again, what a joke).

I think the time has come to split the .org up, into

a site for people who enjoy the real music days, i.e. all the Warner albums, and the occasional post-Warners song.

a site for teenagers creaming their panties when seeing the cover of Art Official Age, want to marry Prince, wonder about his weight and hair, and actually enjoy his post-Warners output.

RODSERLING said:

What a bad idea to release not only one, but 2 albums around the same time when Purple Rain 2014 hits the stores.

The Purple Rain Re-release would have been one of the best sales in years in the US market. Remember that before M. Jackson died, the catalog sales of both PR and THRILLER were equivalent ( about 2.6 millions).

Now, Prince succeeded in killing his last chance to shine again.

These three projects will be big failures.

PLECTRUM ELECTRUM should have been released in february 2014, when it was announced with the UK tour.

PURPLE RAIN 2014 should have been released during june because, hell, it was the 30 th year of PR.

ART OFF AGE could have been released in the end of 2014.

Where are some songs like DA BOURGEOISIE, SCREWDRIVER ? And what about his last "hits" (it is of course, ironic) such as Rock n roll love affair and fallinlove2night ? There is enough time space on a disc to do that.

People won't understand a shit about it. It is surely the greatest mess of all the Prince's promotion, and it is orchestrated by a major record, Warner !

I foreshadow that nobody will dig that PE is a prince album, so it won't sell. ART OFF AGE has the most horrible cover of all the Prince album (tied with newpowersoul), and the most horrible title. Nobody except prince fans would buy a disc with suc an ugly face on it. I saw him live this year, and his face don't even look like this. Please, tell me this is all a joke.

I'm pretty sure that these 2 albums will fit in one CD of 80 minutes, if you keep only one version of Funknroll (again, what a joke).

Actually I don't agree, and I think that the current strategy is potentially far more interesting. If Warner can succeed in really promoting these two projects and 'managing' Prince in tagging along and taking at heart their choices, it could become a significant revitalisation of Prince's fame for a larger audience.

And I would not think it unlikely that around Christmas, Warner adds to this the Purple Rain remaster as the first in a series of remasters.

Maybe I'm just hoping. Let's just say that I really trust Warner to be able to execute what we, as the fans and broader audience, wants happens.

databank said:

The more I think of it the more I suspect this is how things happened (just a guess):

- and WB agreed on the remasters/masters right and offered a new, radio-friendly album in the vein of Musicology/3121 and they agreed to release both this and PR at the same time, which was IMHO a good marketing strategy for the target audiences were slightly different and the hype surrounding each project would benefit the other. While PR would have appealed to nostalgic and the fanbase, people who didn't care so much about a 30 years-old album or who already owned it and didn't care for a remaster and bonus tracks, as well as younger listeners may have been interested in the new album only while some nostalgic people would have been interested in PR only, but both audiences may have been curious about the other project because they were already paying attention to what was doing.

- Not being exclusively tied to WB, still planned to release PlecEl on Kobalt or whatever, which pissed WB to no end for they feared yet another album would compete with theirs. They tried to talk into delaying PlecEl or even giving up on it but wouldn't and challenged them by keeping publicly announcing the album.

- WB decided that better they release PlecEl themselves than letting the competition have it.

- Releasing PR and TWO new albums at the same time, on the other hand, would have been a bad marketing move, for then u have 3 products competing each other and then 2 new albums would have represented too much competition for the PR remaster and all together it woulda been confusing, so it was decided to change the schedule, create a hype by releasing the 2 new albums together on Sept. 30. and taking advantage of being back in the public eye by releasing PR for xmas after about 2 more months.

Yep, I think this is pretty accurate!

databank said:

The more I think of it the more I suspect this is how things happened (just a guess):

- and WB agreed on the remasters/masters right and offered a new, radio-friendly album in the vein of Musicology/3121 and they agreed to release both this and PR at the same time, which was IMHO a good marketing strategy for the target audiences were slightly different and the hype surrounding each project would benefit the other. While PR would have appealed to nostalgic and the fanbase, people who didn't care so much about a 30 years-old album or who already owned it and didn't care for a remaster and bonus tracks, as well as younger listeners may have been interested in the new album only while some nostalgic people would have been interested in PR only, but both audiences may have been curious about the other project because they were already paying attention to what was doing.

- Not being exclusively tied to WB, still planned to release PlecEl on Kobalt or whatever, which pissed WB to no end for they feared yet another album would compete with theirs. They tried to talk into delaying PlecEl or even giving up on it but wouldn't and challenged them by keeping publicly announcing the album.

- WB decided that better they release PlecEl themselves than letting the competition have it.

- Releasing PR and TWO new albums at the same time, on the other hand, would have been a bad marketing move, for then u have 3 products competing each other and then 2 new albums would have represented too much competition for the PR remaster and all together it woulda been confusing, so it was decided to change the schedule, create a hype by releasing the 2 new albums together on Sept. 30. and taking advantage of being back in the public eye by releasing PR for xmas after about 2 more months.

Prince should have been wise, with releasing PE in february 2014. And Warner, I don't know the fuck happened in their heads, should have released PR 30Th during the 30th anniversary of PR, with a major summer tour, tv specials, etc.

And around november, release his warner catalogue in a huge boxset.

the PR re-release could have been #1 in june and july. Now, it would maybe hits top 40 in december.

None of these 3 projetcs would receive enough promotion to be good sellers, waste of money and time for Warner, and as always big private jokes from Prince.

^ whatever. MJ is dead after all (may he Rip)....

Just try and enjoy the ride... Enjoy that Prince is still alive giving what he can - new music.

Two new albums, that's gotta be great news here, to every Prince fan.

About all those "good advises" from clever fans..... who are never satisfied anyway no matter what the star (Prince) is doing,

Prince's reply could be: "damned if I do, damned if I don't"........

right?

[Edited 8/26/14 1:56am]

^Exactly and it's not like any of these albums will set the charts alight, neither the Purple Rain reissue, we should just appreciate that he is still making music, that is the most important for fans, not about what the "public" thinks.

wildgoldenhoney said:

Is 'Art Official Age' a play on words? I could swear that when 3rdeyegirl made the announcement she said 'Artificial Age'.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA...t-25112050

RODSERLING said:

And Warner, I don't know the fuck happened in their heads, should have released PR 30Th during the 30th anniversary of PR

We are still during the 30th anniversary.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

cosmoplastic said:

U peopl are so funny 8--)
...personally I like kissing some ass periodically...I mean what is the point of being human if u can't kiss some ass every now and then.

I can kind of dig 'Clouds'...it has that bit of oddly new prince arraingment going on...which I think bodes well. I hope we get some b-sides out of this whole ordeal though.

Figuratively speaking - I happily kissed Prince's ass for damn near 30 years and make no apologies about that because there's no shame in MY game! But at this point in HIS game - this Prince-by-numbers...cookie cutter...obviously...strictly for fundraising purposes BS - just doesn't do it for ME!

Do you still go to the live shows? Just wondering, I don't think you're wrong but I've been into him less than a decade so i'm not quite so jaded yet. I'll find something to like over the new albums.

TheEnglishGent said:

RODSERLING said:

And Warner, I don't know the fuck happened in their heads, should have released PR 30Th during the 30th anniversary of PR

We are still during the 30th anniversary.

Not really...THe 30 th anniversary was on the 24th of june. There was a hype that could have been generated from that very date, to, that's true, the end of 2014.

Now, PR will be release during the last month of 2014, that is to say competiting with the biggest release of the year. There is no hype to be found in december 2014 for a thing originally released in the early summer of 1984.

I don' t understand the postponning, I don't understand the concept of this anniversary edition.

RODSERLING said:

Where are some songs like DA BOURGEOISIE, SCREWDRIVER ? And what about his last "hits" (it is of course, ironic) such as Rock n roll love affair and fallinlove2night ? There is enough time space on a disc to do that.

....... but, presumably, you've got these already (or can still get them) so why do you want them on the album(s)?

RODSERLING said:

TheEnglishGent said:

We are still during the 30th anniversary.

Not really...THe 30 th anniversary was on the 24th of june. There was a hype that could have been generated from that very date, to, that's true, the end of 2014.

Now, PR will be release during the last month of 2014, that is to say competiting with the biggest release of the year. There is no hype to be found in december 2014 for a thing originally released in the early summer of 1984.

I don' t understand the postponning, I don't understand the concept of this anniversary edition.

i think you're being a bit pedantic. I don't think anyone interested in buying the PR re-release isn't going to do so because it's not being released 30 years to the day. I'm not aware of anyone not buying the 20th anniversary re-issue of Defeinitely Maybe by Oasis because it was released in May instead of August!

Cant say I am chomping at the bit to get my hands on AOA. Sounds like one of his one-man-band efforts with some production work from that 3rdeyegirl bloke. Might be ok. Afterall, I thought 2010 was ok. But I dont play it any more because it just doesnt have any longevity and wears thin pretty quickly. It was one of those shoulder shrugging, "oh well, it will do" moments. I hope I am wrong, but AOA sounds like it could be a bit like that. Certainly Clouds and the Breakdown lead me to think that.

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Pleccy Leccy will probably be the least polished of the two and have a more raw, live sound to it. But seeing as it has been in the works for so long and we have gotten to hear, if not all the tracks, then at least the overall sound of the band, I dont think I will be too surprised by the album but it could be the winner out of the two.

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Either way, as with any new Prince release, I wait, I hope, I dream and usually I end up shrugging my shoulders and waiting for the next release for improvement. Its been a long time coming so I am sure thay will at least do for the time being, until next time.

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Lets see if Prince gets involved in the promotion or whether his new found friendship with WB is as strained as I think it is and his band do all the legwork.