20Ten 3/10

LotusFLowr 6/10

MPLSound 4/10

Indigo Nights 5/10

Planet Earth 3/10

3121 6/10

Musicology 5/10

funksterr said:

20ten: 3/10

MLPSound: 3/10

Lotus Flower: 5/10

Indigo Nights: Haven't heard yet.

Planet Earth: 7/10

3121: 3/10

Musicology: 9/10

For me, it's been a really bumpy ride since Musicology. Still looking forward to AOA though.

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2004: Musicology (7)
2004: The Chocolate Invasion (6)
2004: The Slaughterhouse (6)
2004: C-Note (I have not heard this one - ?)
2006: 3121 (5)
2006: Ultimate Prince (Best Of) (10)
2007: Planet Earth (5)
2008: Indigo Nights (Book & CD) (2)
2009: Lotusflower (7)
2009: MPLSound (7)
2010: 20Ten (5)

20ten - 1/10
Lotusflow3r - 8/10
MPLsound - 4/10
Planet Earth - 6/10
3121 - 9/10
Musicology - 8/10

20ten - 7/10
Lotusflow3r - 7/10
MPLsound - 7/10
Indigo Nights - Negative Zero -000/10
Planet Earth - 7/10
3121 - 8/10
Musicology - 7/10

Damn almost 7s across the board

20ten - 7/10
Lotusflow3r - 8/10
MPLsound - 7/10
Indigo Nights - 7/10
Planet Earth - 7/10
3121 - 6/10
Musicology - 6/10

20Ten - do not have it

LotusFLowr 9/10

MPLSound 3/10

Indigo Nights - do not have

Planet Earth - 6/10

3121 6/10

Musicology 4/10

I'll give them all 7/10.

I fail to register MPLSound as anything else than as a bonus disc for the Lotusflow3r record though. It's got some good stuff on it, but if you just look at the way the disc is "structured" it's really not intended as an album that could "stand on its own".

novabrkr said:

Romeoblu said:

novabrkr said:

I'll give them all 7/10.

I fail to register MPLSound as anything else than as a bonus disc for the Lotusflow3r record though. It's got some good stuff on it, but if you just look at the way the disc is "structured" it's really not intended as an album that could "stand on its own".

I disagree with you on Mplsound. I actually think it's one of the most consistent albums he's released in years as in terms of the songs sounding as they all belong on the same album.

Really?

Those last two songs coming after "Better With Time" don't really work at all as a sequence to me. You're right in the sense that he's had releases that are more all over the place than that one though.

Mainly I was just referring to how, for example, the first track doesn't really sound like a "Prince album opener" to me. It's more like the second CD on Emancipation in that sense. The length of the disc and the way its paced just feels like "the second CD" of a multidisc release.

I've been listening to a lot of P's 2000's output ever since the 2 new albums were announced.

20ten: 7

LotusFlower: 9

Planet Earth: 6

3121: 8

Musicology: 7

The Slaughter House: I haven't listened to all of it.

The Chocolate Invasion: 7

The Rainbow Children: 8

20ten - 2/5
Lotusflow3r - 3.5/5
MPLsound - 2/5
Indigo Nights - 3.5/5
Planet Earth - 3/5
3121 - 2/5
Musicology - 3/5

The variety of genre within the quantity is the reason why Prince is my favorite...that and the live sound =). never expect an album only full of hits form Prince~

20ten -
Lotusflow3r -
MPLsound -
Indigo Nights -
Planet Earth -
3121 -
Musicology -

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aiden said:

For me things slowed down artistically for P after The Rainbow Children which still gives me shivers and I believe it's one of his very best records. I know opinions are divided on that. But I believe the last couple albums really were fantastic especially Lotusflow3r. Going to be listening to these a lot in the run up to 29th September, whoop! Go..... 20ten - 8/10 Lotusflow3r - 9.5/10 MPLsound - 6/10 Indigo Nights - 8/10 Planet Earth - 6/10 3121 - 6/10 Musicology - 7/10

Lotus

3121

indigo
planet

MPLSound

20ten

musicology

I don't like putting marks out of ten so have ordered them in order of preference. Lotus is top by a long shot and Musicology is bottom by just as much. Unlike most I love Indigo Nights and it's up there accordingly. I was at both shows which were used for the tracks on the disc and maybe that raises it up for me? I have the complete shows on boots but love that the tracks here are in soundboard quality.

20ten - 8/10
Lotusflow3r - 5/10
MPLsound - 5/10
Indigo Nights - 2/10
Planet Earth - 4/10
3121 - 6/10
Musicology - 6/10

aiden said:

For me things slowed down artistically for P after The Rainbow Children which still gives me shivers and I believe it's one of his very best records. I know opinions are divided on that. But I believe the last couple albums really were fantastic especially Lotusflow3r. Going to be listening to these a lot in the run up to 29th September, whoop! Go..... 20ten - 8/10 Lotusflow3r - 9.5/10 MPLsound - 6/10 Indigo Nights - 8/10 Planet Earth - 6/10 3121 - 6/10 Musicology - 7/10

Where r Elixer and Superconductor?

databank said:

aiden said:

For me things slowed down artistically for P after The Rainbow Children which still gives me shivers and I believe it's one of his very best records. I know opinions are divided on that. But I believe the last couple albums really were fantastic especially Lotusflow3r. Going to be listening to these a lot in the run up to 29th September, whoop! Go..... 20ten - 8/10 Lotusflow3r - 9.5/10 MPLsound - 6/10 Indigo Nights - 8/10 Planet Earth - 6/10 3121 - 6/10 Musicology - 7/10

Where r Elixer and Superconductor?

Prince doesn't sing on Elixer, (well , one song) and only co-wrote 3 tracks on Super. There's no way they should be considered Prince albums.

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Romeoblu said:

aiden said:

For me things slowed down artistically for P after The Rainbow Children which still gives me shivers and I believe it's one of his very best records. I know opinions are divided on that. But I believe the last couple albums really were fantastic especially Lotusflow3r. Going to be listening to these a lot in the run up to 29th September, whoop! Go..... 20ten - 8/10 Lotusflow3r - 9.5/10 MPLsound - 6/10 Indigo Nights - 8/10 Planet Earth - 6/10 3121 - 6/10 Musicology - 7/10

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TRC 9.5

ONA 8.5 (Would be rated higher, possibly a 10, if "The Work" and "Last December" were included.)

Musicology 8

3121 7.5 (Would be rated higher, probably a 9, if "Lolita" features guitars rather than keyboards and if "The Word" was more like the live version from ALMA". And, while I love the lyrics to "Love," I would love for it to be played with guitars and horns rather than keyboards.)

Planet Earth 7 (The lyrics of "Mr. Goodnight" almost make me not want to hear the entire album.)

Indigo Nights 7

Loutusflow3r/MPLSound 8.5 ("F.U.N.K." should have been included in this set, and "Colonized Mind" is one of my all-time favorite Prince songs, and I've been a fan since 1979. It is in my top ten favorite Prince songs even though it's a rip off of another song. He didn't write "Party Up," and that's in my top ten also.)

20Ten 8 (Yet, I do have "Cause and Effect," which I love, listed as the first track, followed by "Compassion".)

*

All of the singles released since 2013 have been between 7.5 and 10, except for "The Breakdown," which is a 0 for me, but overall that means that I'm still moved by much of what Prince creates. I am disappointed that "Rock-n-Roll Love Affair" and "Screwdriver" didn't make either new album, but there seems to be more songs that I like on both albums than songs I don't like so I'll wait to see how I rate them.

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TheEnglishGent said:

databank said:

Where r Elixer and Superconductor?

Prince doesn't sing on Elixer, (well , one song) and only co-wrote 3 tracks on Super. There's no way they should be considered Prince albums.

[Edited 8/31/14 2:39am]

There are vocal George Duke albums (credited to "George Duke") where he doesn't sing a note (guest vocalists do it), are those albums to be dismissed as George Duke albums, too?

Just an example, there are others.

It doesn't matter who sings or what name is written on the cover. The main creative force behind Elixer is : he composed, arranged and per4med everything save the lead vocals, he chose the tracklist, he conceived the whole project. It's a album, period. It's also a Bria Valente album, but they could (and maybe should) have written "Prince and Bria Valente" on the cover and all of a sudden it'd be a album to you

This obsession regarding who "sings" really has to stop, a singer is just a per4mer among others and not necessarly the leading creative force behind a project.

As for Superconductor, Andy was definitely the main songwriter here, but was all over the place when it comes to arranging and per4ming it, so it's by all means a collaborative effort. Once again, it wouldn't have been an exageration to credit the album to "Andy Allo & Prince" if they had so wished. Similar situation with GCS2000, Larry composed most of it and sang but in the end it was as much a album as a Larry Graham album, a very collaborative effort.

databank said:

Where r Elixer and Superconductor?

Elixer - 2/10
Superconductor - Negative Zero -000/10