You knew it was coming

As usual, he's got the goods, but needs an editor - this would've made a classic single album but as 2, there's too much filler. Here's my take - what's yours?

Funknroll (PE version)

Clouds

The Gold Standard

U Know

WOW

Breakdown

Breakfast Can Wait

Time

Anotherlove

Way Back Home (best song he's done in 20 years at least)

[Edited 9/25/14 13:08pm]

Leave AOA alone and make a nice EP of PE with the Prince vocal tracks.

TheEnglishGent said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Leave AOA alone and make a nice EP of PE with the Prince vocal tracks.

AOA in its current form doesn't really have enough variety - without a few live instrument bangers, it's just too cold and mechanical. Gets a "B" from me as is, but this order would push it into A territory.

PE is mostly a dud with a few keepers.

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KingSausage said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Leave AOA alone and make a nice EP of PE with the Prince vocal tracks.

Yes. And add Screwdriver, Groovy Potential, and maybe RNRLA to that EP.

Good call. And let's not forget Live Out Loud. Kidding!

TheEnglishGent said:

KingSausage said:

TheEnglishGent said: Yes. And add Screwdriver, Groovy Potential, and maybe RNRLA to that EP.

Good call. And let's not forget Live Out Loud. Kidding!

Hey...I like Live Out Loud!

No kidding.

i just posted this in the AOA thread:

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all i can say is that i love it and if it were up to me i would change only

one thing: add "Ain't Gonna Miss U When Ur Gone" to it. the wav file we

got is terrific sound quality and fits pretty much seamlessly on here.

.

i've tried putting it after "This Could B Us" and it works perfectly for me.

after the whole "you don't want me no more..." ending of TCBU, this is

the perfect song, thematically as well. and with all the weird vocal effects

it just sounds right amongst all those other vocoder/pitch shifts etc.

.

what's more, it lifts the album up a bit and breaks up the slow middle

part of the album. no idea why he didn't include it. it's a strong track.

perhaps to keep the album from becoming too long?

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01. Art Official Cage

02. Clouds

03. Breakdown

04. The Gold Standard

05. U Know

06. Breakfast Can Wait

07. This Could B Us

08. Ain't Gonna Miss U (When Ur Gone)

09. What It Feels Like

10. Affirmation I & II
11. Way Back Home

12. Funk N Roll

13. Time

14. Affirmation III

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that's as far as AOA is concerned. since it's such a good album and since

PlectrumElectrum has such a different sound, i don't think you'd be able

to get a good album with any configuration of combined songs from both.

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my PlectrumElectrum now looks like this:
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01. Wow

02. Screwdriver

03. Anotherlove

04. TicTacToe

05. Marz

06. FunkNRoll

.

you can probably tell which album out of the two i like best

i might still ditch Marz from it because the opening verse gets

on my nerves. it was way cooler the way it was delivered in
"midnite blues" last year.

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[Edited 9/25/14 14:19pm]

just putting my 1 album together from the both of them ...... . . . . .

[Edited 9/25/14 14:34pm]

Having listened to both albums a few times now, I think this is how I would put them onto a single disc, if we lived in the 90s when disc length was an issue

Art Official Plectrum

1. Art Official Cage
2. Pretzelbodylogic
3. Clouds
4. The Breakdown
5. Aintturninround
6. The Gold Standard
7. Fixurlifeup
8. Breakfast Can Wait
9. What It Feels Like
10. Anotherlove
11. Time
12. Funknroll (PE version, edited with AOA version outro)
13. Way Back Home - Affirmation III
14. Plectrumelectrum (hidden track)

Here is my 1 album . . .

Wow

Pretzelbodylogic

Funk N Roll

Clouds

The Gold Standard

What it Feels LIke

U Know

Breakfast Can Wait

Time

Affirmation III

Whitecaps

Fix U R Life Up

Boy Trouble

Stop This Train

Anotherlove

Marz

16 tracks for me out of 25 in that order may work

TheEnglishGent said:

Leave AOA alone and make a nice EP of PE with the Prince vocal tracks.

^ I agree, Eng.Gent. AOA is great as it is,

PE only have a few good, Wow & AnotherLove (that would be the EP)..

[Snip - luv4u]

[Snip - luv4u]

You could make endless playlists with these albums. And anything from the past 2 (or 10) years.

But, a minimal version to make this a "new" album - a real album, vs. a playlist/mixtape:

*Wow (Art Official Cage is stupid beyond words. It barely exists as it is. Wow is a way better opener and works just as well with the context/concept of AOA.)

Clouds

Funknroll [Remix] (better than the original on PE, and feels out of place in the actual running order)

The Gold Standard

U Know

*Fall In Love 2 Nite (I liked Breakfast Can Wait, and I still do, but at this point, it's so old and familiar that it feels like dead weight on this album. I feel like he already milked this one as far as it was going to go and I kind of resent buying it for the 5th, 6th, 7th, or whatever time, instead of it being counted as already purchased. Plus this section could use another upbeat track.)

This Could Be Us

*Another Love

What It Feels Like

Breakdown (again, feels really out of place in the actual running order - also helps with the "concept" better in this section. could also come between Way Back Home & Time)

Affirmation I & II

Way Back Home

Time

Affirmtion III



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IstenSzek said:

i just posted this in the AOA thread:

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all i can say is that i love it and if it were up to me i would change only

one thing: add "Ain't Gonna Miss U When Ur Gone" to it. the wav file we

got is terrific sound quality and fits pretty much seamlessly on here.

.

i've tried putting it after "This Could B Us" and it works perfectly for me.

after the whole "you don't want me no more..." ending of TCBU, this is

the perfect song, thematically as well. and with all the weird vocal effects

it just sounds right amongst all those other vocoder/pitch shifts etc.

.

what's more, it lifts the album up a bit and breaks up the slow middle

part of the album. no idea why he didn't include it. it's a strong track.

perhaps to keep the album from becoming too long?

.

01. Art Official Cage

02. Clouds

03. Breakdown

04. The Gold Standard

05. U Know

06. Breakfast Can Wait

07. This Could B Us

08. Ain't Gonna Miss U (When Ur Gone)

09. What It Feels Like

10. Affirmation I & II
11. Way Back Home

12. Funk N Roll

13. Time

14. Affirmation III

/

[Edited 9/25/14 14:19pm]

That's interesting -- for me, Ain't Gonna Miss U is a perfect example of the pre/post-Josh influence in Prince's music. Before Josh, his one-man band funk tracks (as opposed to something like Groovy Potential) were pretty much lacking anything in the way of drive, energy or focus. After Josh came aboard, things improved markedly.

PLEASE NOTE: I'm not trying to give Josh credit for how good AOA is, but I think his relative mastery of modern production and his younger ears have been very good for Prince. In essence, it appears that he is exactly what many of us have been hoping for for a long time now - someone who challenges and focuses Prince in the studio.

In case it's not clear -- I'm a huge fan of AOA. It's not perfect, but it's his best album since The Gold Experience, I think.

I would keep PE as is. No need to mess with it.

AOA Would be this:

AOC

Clouds
Gold STandard
U Know
This Could Be Us
What it Feels Like

RNR Love Affair (Jamie Lewis Stripped Down Remix)(Edited down a bit to shorten it)
Affirmation I & II
Way Back Home
FNR

Time
Affirmation III

And then I would have a 3rd 'album' with these tracks on it:

Extraloveable Reloaded

RNR Love Affair (Original)

Screwdriver (Original)

Breakdown

Groovey Potential

Da Bourgeoisie
Breakfast Can Wait
Same Page...
Boyfriend

Aint Gonna Miss U

PE and the 3rd album would both tie into AOA with the remix versions of FNR and RNR Love Affair.

Actually, looking at all that, it hasnt been such a bad 4 years really.

My iTunes, Art Official Age 17 tracks playlist..

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^ I love all of AOA, but only 2 songs from Plectrum: Wow & Anotherlove....

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[Edited 9/28/14 6:17am]

My current playlist that makes me happy is ..

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ART OFFICIAL CAGE

FUNK N ROLL AOA MIX

ROCKNROLL LOVE AFFAIR JL STRIPPED DOWN MIX

U KNOW

THAT GIRL THING

THE BREAKDOWN

AINT GONNA MISS U JUNGLE MIX

DANCE 4 ME DA ICON MIX

WAY BACK HOME

TIME

AFFRMATION III

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there are a few minor flaws but this configuration would have been a much more solid record and would have likely been critically praised .. i think way back home could be the new purple rain if he extended it out pr style .. i dont like most of what he relased between PE and AOA but this little mix does it for me .. and it still feals like it has a theme .. no filler all killer ..

It isn't inevitable but u morons are gonna make it inevitable. They are 2 separate projects 4 a reason. 2 logical people, it makes no sense 2 combine them but the org is full of mutants. THIS THREAD IS SO DUMB. lol

What is wrong with some people around here lately - you can't express an opinion without someone calling you a mutant?

And also - thanks for the bump!

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1. Art Official Cage

2. Rock and Roll Love Affair (Extended version)

3. Anotherlove

4. Plectrumelectrum

5. Breakdown

6. The Gold Standard

7. This Could Be Us

8. Tictactoe

9. Groovy Potential

10. Time

11. FunknRoll (AOA-version)

12. Marz

13. Affirmation I & II

14. Way Back Home

15. Affirmation III

This, including two 'older' 3rdeyegirl-era songs, would make a killer and versatile Prince-album. I'd like to see AOA as a whole though.

AOC
Clouds
U Know
Breakfast Can Wait
RNR Love Affair (Jamie Lewis Stripped Down Remix)
This Could Be Us
This is what it feels like
FNR
Time
Affirmation I & II
Way Back Home
Affirmation III

TheEnglishGent said:

Leave AOA alone and make a nice EP of PE with the Prince vocal tracks.

or maybe even a CD Single

After sitting with them for a few days, I'm revising - this has a really great flow. 47 minutes of solid to great P - this is my A version of the album.

Funknroll (PE version)

Clouds

U Know

Wow

Breakfast Can Wait

The Gold Standard

Pretzelbodylogic

This Could Be Us

Anotherlove

Way Back Home

Breakdown

aiden said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Leave AOA alone and make a nice EP of PE with the Prince vocal tracks.

or maybe even a CD Single

I'm calling it "Art Official Insemination"

There's barely enough material for one good album, let alone two. Having said that, I think I would quite enjoy this as an album:

1. Wow

2. Pretzelbodylogic

3. Art Official Cage

4. Plectrum Electrum

5. The Breakdown

6. The Gold Standard

7. Stopthistrain

8. Screwdriver

9. Affirmation I and II

10. Way Back Home

11. Anotherlove

12. Marz

13. Funk N Roll (PE verision)

14. Affirmation III

[Edited 9/30/14 4:42am]