I've been pretty negative about these albums. However, I'm excited that it seems like there are gonna be a few good songs on each CD.

PLECTRUMELECTRUM:
WOW
TICTACTOE (this song sounds really good)
FUNKNROLL
ANOTHERLOVE

ART OFFICIAL AGE:
CLOUDS
BREAKDOWN
THE GOLD STANDARD
BREAKFAST CAN WAIT
WAY BACK HOME
TIME

That's an album of seemingly good Prince songs!
Obviously the songs could change after the 30 seconds, but I have a good feeling about these songs.

KingSausage said:

Holy. Shit. AOA is fantastic. The Gold Standard is the funkiest thing he's done since Lovesexy. No lie. I demand an extended remix! I'm trying to sit while listening to it. It's practically impossible. Hoooly shit, this is FUNKY.

Agreed. So far the only track I haven't loved is AOC, and I'm sure that will grow on me.

TwiliteKid said:

And I could listen to that affirmation chick talk all day, all night. I wanna have her babies.

TwiliteKid said:

KingSausage said:

Holy. Shit. AOA is fantastic. The Gold Standard is the funkiest thing he's done since Lovesexy. No lie. I demand an extended remix! I'm trying to sit while listening to it. It's practically impossible. Hoooly shit, this is FUNKY.

Agreed. So far the only track I haven't loved is AOC, and I'm sure that will grow on me.

y'all listening to snippets or the whole thing?

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^ PREACH, brotha!

Jeebus...that skinny mother fucker with the high voice has snuck up on us and dropped a masterpiece in our collective laps. Where u been, P?! Holy crap!

Wish I could find this

Noodled24 said:

vainandy said:

I haven't listened to the "Plectrum Electrum" previews yet.

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As for the "Fart Offical Age" previews, The first track, "Art Official Cage" sounds decent and the fourth track, "The Gold Standard" sounds great and sounds like it could be an actual jam. As for the rest of the album, it is a hot shitty sellout mess and for an album to have all those sellout tracks and only two jams on it, it's not worthy of my money and I won't be buying it. Next.....

Define sellout?

Prince has always been praised for his work with synths and keyboards. If there is even such a thing as selling out (in the music industry of all places) then Prince did that when he decided to "cross-over" with Purple Rain. Embracing the current music scene is not selling out. It's precisely how music has always worked. Artists take whats around them and use it.

There are many versions of selling out and I could care less if anyone sells out to all of the versions except for one....the modern mainstream R&B sound which is a result from decades of stripped down slow to midtempo shit hop or neo stool "nothing" music which absolutely ruined R&B and is the very reason that no one jams hard in the mainstream anymore. And damn right, Prince is a sellout when he does an album like this considering that he's been on his "real music by real musicians" kick for years. I buy a new Prince album to escape bullshit like what's on the radio these days, not to hear more of it. If I wanted to hear more of it, I'd just turn on the radio and hear endless amounts of that mess. There's a whole generation of R&B listeners these days that don't even have as much rhythm as a fuddy dud like Lawrence Welk with their tired asses whose idea of a dance floor jam is only slightly faster than what we considered ballads back in the day. Talk about some backwards ass folks, hell, they should have been born in the 1400s when everything was dull like that.

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I've tolerated one or two sellout tracks on his recent albums but this time he's turned the tables and now the sellout tracks are the majority of the album with only one or two actual jams on it. So no, it's not worthy of my money and I won't be buying it and I don't need nobody trying to convince me to buy it, like it, or "let it grow on me" either because I know a sellout attempt when I see it and I don't support selling out to that sound. Trying to convince me to like and buy an album like that is like trying to convince me to buy a hooker with a cat that smells like fish and if Prince wants my money, he's gonna have to wash his cat.

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KingSausage said:

What really blows me away is how sophisticated these tracks are, how they use different textures than the stuff he's done before. It's like 1999 + Lovesexy + Symbol. It's fitting that this album is on WB, because fuck everything else since then. I am in heaven.

Hells yes on all that. And Time is unbelievable. Such a simple concept sound, but my gawd it's sublime. He didn't get lazy with the lyrics on most of AOA, for sure. Just deep enough to keep my attention.

My coworker could hear it from my headphones earlier today. And she's in an office next door.

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KingSausage said:

You all are going to love the shit out of this. Seriously. Not all of you, but most of you. And I mean LOVE.

I'm happy to hear these!! Thank you OP. I'm optimistic now. Some of the sounds give me feelings I had when I discovered some his 90's bootlegs. It's hard to explain but some of the sounds bring back glimpses of the past. Icing on the cake would be if he got back to his old ways and released some extended remixes of these.

With all due respect to them, but to anyone who's trashed AOA: You're fucking crazy. (I said "with all due respect," which is covered under the Geneva Conventions.)

Never was a big Andy Allo fan, but...

"This Is What It Feels Like" is smooooth and my favorite song on AOA so far.

Right now I'm all about Time, The Gold Standard and Way Back Home. And I still haven't even put PE on yet. That can only be icing on this delicious cake. But I'm gonna enjoy this cake right now...

"Way Back Home" is DAUNTING and way too much to take in on one listen. There's something huge going on there though.

dadeepop said:

^ Listen to this man.

Gohi said:

"Way Back Home" is DAUNTING and way too much to take in on one listen. There's something huge going on there though.

Couldn't have said it better.

We need to resurrect Noah Webster and demand he come up with a word better than "genius" because that does NOT do Prince justice. Holy shite.

This album is definitely not what I exoected. I can see this growing on me. It's the weirdest Prince album in a long time. The undercurrent seems to be that Prince is a weird futuristic Alien. It all works as a cohesive album.