well the i finally broke down and found the album online to check out .. too much hype around here to wait till tuesday .. wow .. a LOT of rapping .. lol .. a LOT of RNB flavored tracks too .. here is the thing about rnb .. I think prince could pull off a lot of these AOA tunes if he specifically did like an RNB style show .. like pretend he is pharrell or usher or something .. of course those songs would need to be hits first .. I don't think that will happen .. but if it did maybe a song like clouds would end up in the set .. maybe a few others on this .. but really the only song on AOA that has any potential for long term live usage is the Breakdown .. I could here prince jamming on this with the band pretty hard .. the other songs seem just too electronic to pull off live .. unfortunately the Breakdown was already released as a single and flopped .. its destiny is to be likely forgotten as a result .. maybe it will make a comeback for a piano set .. thats the thing about the rev ... no matter how weird and electronic a song the rev could make it work .. not so sure anything on AOA can be pulled off by this band .. if the arsenio hall version of funk n roll is any indication of the transfer of AOA music, its not a good indication at all .. breakfast can wait, even tho I am not fond of the song, for some reason reminds me of dorothy parker .. maybe that one could be done in a jazz style like he has done for dorothy with shiela .. still not a great song .. even if he does it live a couple times i dont think it will stick around

BartVanHemelen said:

blackbob said:

how many rolling stones songs from the last 15 years are concert classics ?

what about springsteen ?...stevie wonder ?...no ?, didnt think so..

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Gotta love Prince fams: "Prince is unique" to excuse dumb-ass move. Then when they're confronted with some harsh truths: "he's just like all these other artists".

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I don't think Stones fans will claim those recent albums are classics. Yet here on the Org shite like 20Ten or Planet Earth of Lotusflower is claimed to be just as good as his 1980s output. Which makes the current "best album in 10/15/20 years" raves utterly hilarious, of course, because nobody is going to admit that they've been bulshitting all that time and that they knew those albums were at best mediocre.

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We must be reading different Orgs.

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For what it's worth, I always thought "Beginning Endlessly" had such great potential to be a concert perennial..

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I do think AOA is his best album since TRC, if not TGE. This despite that no one or two songs blow me away; it's just the album seems more consistently good than any of the few previous, and with fewer low points.

Stymie said:

dustoff said:.

For what it's worth, I always thought "Beginning Endlessly" had such great potential to be a concert perennial..

I enjoy Future Soul Song live ... but the lack of a proper chorus I think holds it back from being the almost classic that it is. I don't see a crowd connecting and singing along to the words "this is the future soul song" the same way the would "purple rain" .. there is just no emotional context to that lyric .. but the oo ee oo's are great and the lyrics are pretty good too .. I would love to hear a revolution style take on Compassion live with 2 girls singing harmonies and some acoustic guitars.

BartVanHemelen said:

Aerogram said:

BartVanHemelen said:

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Wow. You found ONE song.

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Like I said: "there's your answer".

Read my answer just above, your "test" is a joke.

So is BartVanHemelen himself. His only biggest problem though is that his present day trolling isn't as good as his 1990's trolling was.....

BartVanHemelen said:

Hilarious. Dude hasn't even bothered to announce any gigs to promote these releases and here you lot are already fantasising about what tracks he'll play from them ten years from now.

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A simple exercise: go look at his releases of the past 15 years and check which songs became concert classics -- there's your answer.

Empty Room (first officially released in January 2003), Musicology, Black Sweat, Guitar, SHOE and Chelsea Rogers are all played a bit live.