3121

I don't know of any other album that is as consistant of 3121 and has the quality of songs such as:

Fury

The Word

The Dance

V10LETBLUES said:

Lotusflow3r

aka the 2009 version of Emancipation... Too many filler songs, very little quality ones...

^ I very much prefer Lotusflower to 3121... LF is much better. 3121 being one of the worst, ever.

But my recent fave album is of course: Art Official Age..

thedance said:

^ I very much prefer Lotusflower to 3121... LF is much better. 3121 being one of the worst, ever.

But my recent fave album is of course: Art Official Age..

From a personal opinion?? ---- Or a musical/critical opinion... That's the problem with many Prince fans here... They don't know how to differenitiate between personal opinion and critical opinion.

^ whatever, 3121 had at least Black Sweat - 1 good song on the album..

Lotusflower (the single album not the multipack). It's almost a top tier Prince album. Before that, it's The Rainbow Children, which is one P's very best.

feeluupp said:

thedance said:

^ I very much prefer Lotusflower to 3121... LF is much better. 3121 being one of the worst, ever.

But my recent fave album is of course: Art Official Age..

From a personal opinion?? ---- Or a musical/critical opinion... That's the problem with many Prince fans here... They don't know how to differenitiate between personal opinion and critical opinion.

All opinions are personal, it's just that some people have more knowledge to base their (still personal) opinion on.

feeluupp said:

Come, still a very underrated album.

daydreamer said:

lotusflower.

aoa is good though, but it needed another uptempo song in that second half,

which just runs a bit too slow as it is.

but both really do feel like actual albums, instead of mixed tapes, which is

how i feel about Planet Earth and 20Ten (and to a lesser extent 3121).

feeluupp said:

thedance said:

^ I very much prefer Lotusflower to 3121... LF is much better. 3121 being one of the worst, ever.

But my recent fave album is of course: Art Official Age..

From a personal opinion?? ---- Or a musical/critical opinion... That's the problem with many Prince fans here... They don't know how to differenitiate between personal opinion and critical opinion.

Critical and personal opinion are the same thing when it comes to art. We can't ascribe objective measures to determine what is critically a great song it's all subjective. The drummer from Rush is considered one of the best technical drummers ever but when I listen it sounds like showing off and not a lot of feeling whereas everyone else says his playing drips with feeling. What makes art so special is that we are all experts in what we consider art. No one is more right or wrong we just have different tastes. Party on lover!

aaroncanderson said:

feeluupp said:

From a personal opinion?? ---- Or a musical/critical opinion... That's the problem with many Prince fans here... They don't know how to differenitiate between personal opinion and critical opinion.

Critical and personal opinion are the same thing when it comes to art. We can't ascribe objective measures to determine what is critically a great song it's all subjective. The drummer from Rush is considered one of the best technical drummers ever but when I listen it sounds like showing off and not a lot of feeling whereas everyone else says his playing drips with feeling. What makes art so special is that we are all experts in what we consider art. No one is more right or wrong we just have different tastes. Party on lover!

Is MPLS Sound better than Sign O' The Times??

I assume by recent you mean past 10 years or at the very least 2000+, 1990s albums are hardly recent, I was a teenager for most of that decade, now I am pushing 40!

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In that case, it is Art Official Age, which is just one of his greatest ever albums.

Art Official Age

KingSausage said:

AOA

thisisreece said:

Lotusflower (the single album not the multipack). It's almost a top tier Prince album. Before that, it's The Rainbow Children, which is one P's very best.

.

Yup, Yup. Agreed.

V10LETBLUES said:

feeluupp said:

aka the 2009 version of Emancipation... Too many filler songs, very little quality ones...

Unlike emancipation and most other post 80's album's, Lotus has two of the strongest post 80's tracks in Dreamer and Colonized Mind. It has the best sound and production than any post 80's album. It has some of the best musicianship and original sound since his 80's sound. It is also the least cheesy post 80's album. Ironically though, it's paired counterpart, Mnplsound, is the cheesiest, corniest, absolutely worst album he ever released. Isn't it mind-boggling how he managed that?

I actually enjoy AOA though (although I skip The Gold Standard and FunkNRoll).