thedance said:

No offense. But. This Planet Earth is a lot better,

by Duran Duran - an 80's "New Romantics" classic:





that's imo, I will probably get slaughtered now.......?

Great song, love the video too

paulludvig said:

novabrkr said:

As an album, I think it's my favourite of the new ones. NouveauDance summed it up for me for the most part. I like it because many of the tracks have a DF era vibe and there's less contemporary pop / R&B trend chasing on it than on the most other newer ones. I can't take the lyrics of the first or the last track seriously either, so I, you know, don't. I just enjoy the vibe and the DF era approach (I really like the W&L esque middle section of the title track). I don't even mind "Mr. Goodnight", because it's so close to "Player" and I always liked that one for its roughness.

It's not a classic album by any means, as the songwriting really isn't there, but listening to it is like listening to an outtake collection. It's a satisfying listening experience to me as such.

I kind of like the album cover in that "oh, it's just Prince being Prince" way too.

Don't think W&L payed on the title track at all.

Yeah, that's what I've heard too. That's why I used the word "esque". It means "in the style of", "resembling", etc.

novabrkr said:

paulludvig said:

Don't think W&L payed on the title track at all.

Yeah, that's what I've heard too. That's why I used the word "esque". It means "in the style of", "resembling", etc.

As I read the credits on three different sites, they're not listed as credits on the title song, but both of them are listed on The One U Wanna C.

Genesia said:

NouveauDance said:

Yes, it's one his best 00s albums for me, probably only bettered by Lotusflower and TRC.

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The only bum note to me is Mr. Goodnight, everything else is ranges from ok to great. Not crazy about The 1 U Wanna C, but this album contains some of my favourite 00s tracks - All The Midnights, Resolution, Future Baby Mama, Chelsea Rodgers, Guitar, SHOE - All great tracks.

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I'm always surprised that people dislike songs like All The Midnights and Resolution, the latter especially to me sounds like it could've come from the Dream Factory sessions and All The Midnights reminds me Pearls Before The Swine which I also like a lot. I get that it starts to sound a bit polite old church lady, but it doesn't outstay it's welcome - in fact the whole album doesn't and it's very, very lite on the modern hip-pop/R&B genre chasing that bogs down albums like Musicology, 3121 and MPLSound, I really appreciate that.

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I really like "All the Midnights." But I hate "Resolution" because of its trite, Barney-esque lyrics (the same reason I dislike the song Planet Urf).

Come to think of it, that's why I dislike a lot of Prince's recent output. He has completely lost the ability to tell a story. What's worse is that he doesn't even try.

[Edited 9/19/14 9:39am]

As I read one review of the song, the writer thinks that Prince was just having fun with the lyrics and this is not the most prolific album Prince has made. I could agree with that, but still impressed with the songs.

I thought it was a decent album. Didn't like two songs, 8/10 is a pretty damn good album. I enojoyed most of it & still do. Title track is the bomb!

OldFriends4Sale said:

KingSausage said:

More like Planet Uranus cause that shit stink!

KingSausage said:

Somewhere is a classic. Resolution is just so, so corny.

So which is it?

I quite like Planet Earth and certainly go back to it more than 20Ten.

I've always felt the sequencing is a little off though: to me it flows better starting from track 2 having 'Guitar' as the opener and moving 'Planet Earth' to the end, with everything else as per the album. That guitar solo at the end of Planet Earth track just seems like a more natural finish to an album than an opening track to me.

I really like this album with the exception of Chelsea Rodgers and I can take or leave Future Baby Mama. The CD I listen to in the car has CR replaced by FUNK and for me the album is much better for it. Love it.

Astasheiks said:

nosajd said:

I thought it was a decent album. Didn't like two songs, 8/10 is a pretty damn good album. I enojoyed most of it & still do. Title track is the bomb!

Which 2?? Speaking of 2 I do miss the twins

TheEnglishGent said:

I really like this album with the exception of Chelsea Rodgers and I can take or leave Future Baby Mama. The CD I listen to in the car has CR replaced by FUNK and for me the album is much better for it. Love it.

I like "Chelsea Rodgers", it's enjoyable, but having "F.U.N.K." instead of it might have worked better for the overall flow and feel of the album. Somehow I don't feel they both necessarily fit the same record.

If he only had left of Lion of Judah and Resolution and put in a song a la F.U.N.K. then this would have been his best album since Rainbow Children.

thedance said:

No offense. But. This Planet Earth is a lot better,

by Duran Duran - an 80's "New Romantics" classic:





that's imo, I will probably get slaughtered now.......?

Not from me you won't. I love that song, I have the greatest album and that is one of the highlights that still stands up after multiple listens (When you are tired of the reflex and Rio).

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Planet Earth was their first hit released in early 1981 it made #9 in Britain, and made them chart stars at least. The official video merely has them playing their instruments on Top of the Pops. It was eclipsed however by the next song "Girls on Film" complete with a racy clip of girls in a wet shirt fighting/boxing bout with a fat old man. The video was immediately censured and gossiped about and the song made Duran Duran big stars.

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The rest is history!!!!

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Prince's album is alright, there's mostly okay songs, the bedroom raps are average if funny. I like lines like "I come like Thunder" and "If u wanna get creamy" from the 1 u wanna c. Lion of Judah is great along with Guitar and title track, the rest is at least decent. I don't why it gets so much flak.

It's an OK album. It's one of his 'white' albums, sounding more like a Revolution b-side compilation than the more recent stuff he had been doing.

The biggest issue is that none of the songs 'wow' the listener. They are just kind of there.

However, I don't get why people hate this thing so much. It's better than 20Ten or

most of what I've heard from Art Official Age.

If you take the first half of Planet Earth and the Frist half of of 20ten you have a strong album of gems in my opinion, then save the latter half of each album as b-sides or extras online releases.

kpowers said:

nosajd said:

I thought it was a decent album. Didn't like two songs, 8/10 is a pretty damn good album. I enojoyed most of it & still do. Title track is the bomb!

Which 2?? Speaking of 2 I do miss the twins

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I loathe Future Baby Mama & Mr. Goonight, love the rest of the album.

MIRvmn said:

its a good album, better than Musicology, 3121 and 20ten I enjoy most songs on it except Resolution and Guitar [Edited 9/20/14 12:44pm]

I fully agree. This is actually one of my favourite P albums from the nillies.

It has some nice memories attached to it as well, like a nice two-day trip to sunny London, and an O² gig.

I love every song on the album, really do.

nosajd said:

I thought it was a decent album. Didn't like two songs, 8/10 is a pretty damn good album. I enojoyed most of it & still do. Title track is the bomb!

I still find it hard to take the album seriously. Planet earth (the song) talks about how fragile the world is - and by Mr Goodnight he's offering to send a private jet to an un-named girl. Not exactly helping there are we Prince

Noodled24 said:

7/10 exc tracks

KoolEaze said:

1. Future Baby Mama – 4:47 The lyrics are a tad too ghettoish but I love the vocal delivery, the music and the whole vibe of this song. And,as ghettoish as the lyrics are, they are still better than Guitar, The One U Wanna C etc. etc.

I'll agree that the title and lyrics are ghettoish, but the song is very nice.

paulludvig said:

NouveauDance said:

I agree the lyrics of Resolution are trite, that kind of goes over my head though if I like the melody, atmosphere etc, which I do. It gives me vibes of Prince, Wendy & Lisa 85/6 stuff like Teacher, Teacher - that frothy, off-beat pop that was really unique to that triad. I forget who does the female backing vocals (The Twins?) but they really capture that sound of late era Revolution.

This is what I suspect a Revolution reuninon would sound like. Which is why I don't want a Revolution reunion.

Interesting though that Prince can make the twins sound like W&L...

I seriously doubt a revolution reunion would sound lack luster like this album