purplethunder3121 said:

Doozer said:

KingSausage said: . Yuh huh. The beauty of many of Prince's albums is a moment of simplicity in the music from time to time. So much of HitNRun is overworked, like no one could say "That's enough." . After listen #5, that's where I am. That's enough. Will have to revisit much later.

Indifference has the simplicity you crave. He must've been listening to some Dylan.

that was my first impression...P been listening to his home boy from up the road in Hibbing...

KingSausage said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Indifference has the simplicity you crave. He must've been listening to some Dylan.

Indifference is very good!

yes yes yes. its fantastic!

RJOrion said:

On first listen, I liked 'June' because it was the last track.

vocal delivery/lyrical cadence is Dylan-esque

Marrk said:

On first listen, I liked 'June' because it was the last track.

The intro reminds me of 10CCs "I'm not in love". Then I stop June and listen to the much better 10CC song.

I like the album, as a whole, better than anything from 2000-2010. My only complaint would be that the songs are too short. Is it super experimental (Hannah's words)? No! Will they ever be played live? No. Should they be? No. I'm fine with them blasting through the speakers at Paisley Park and getting my groove on! Will I hear them anywhere else? No. Do I care? No. Now give me Phase 2 with REVELATION and I'll be really happy, or a little more where INDIFFERENCE came from.

Noodled24 said:

it's been years since Prince has released a song you can actually dance to

I'm calling bullshit on this statement.

djThunderfunk said:

Noodled24 said:

it's been years since Prince has released a song you can actually dance to

I'm calling bullshit on this statement.

for real...i dance to "U Know", quite easily and often... song made in 2014

MadeUpName said:

My fave track is LIKE A MACK... the hornz hooked me. I will drop this track 4 sure at the climax of my Prince party on Sept. 19th here in Toronto ( http://www.purplelectricity.com ). It looks like the physical release in North America will be on Sept. 14th and here in Canada, amazon.ca is indicating distribution by Universal: http://www.amazon.ca/gp/p...YIK6Y9EEQB ... I'm sure that Warner is still busy figuring out how 2 move the mountains of AOA and PLECTRUMELECTRUM in the wreckastores.

I can't find HitNRun on Amazon except for a t-shirt that looks like it's probably a bootleg.

thedoorkeeper said:

Just went to Amazon USA to look for Prince HITNRUN and no cd but there is a HITNRUN men's t-shirt. Plus a link at the bottom of the page with a sponsored link to Tidal to hear HITNRUN.

D'oh! Ya beat me to it...

U might as well have listed the WHOLE album...

I thought I'd weigh in with my 2 cents, as this album seems to have sparked quite a bit of discussion. First, some background, as I tend to disagree with many of you on Prince's more recent (post-heyday) material). I absolutely adore Emancipation, and I have since my inital listen after copping it on a Midnight run to Tower Records, and subsequently scoring a ticket to the post-Oprah record release party at the Park West in Chicago. I also LOVED Musicology, as I thought that it had some of his best songwiting since Emancipation...especially the 2nd half of the album, which I honestly think that most of you have slept hard on. The first half of 20ten also moved me greatly, and I might be the biggest fan of Art Official Age on Earth. To me, it's his most beautiful piece of art since Lovesexy. But enough about my disenting views...on to Hit N Run.

I can honestly say that he sounds completely uninspired on this album. The songs have virtually no substance, outside of June, which is actually quite interesting. I didn't think that his lyrics could have gotten any worse than the songs on Plectrum Electrum, but...they have. He's essentially made a mindless EDM club banger (save for "June", which is stunning).

I guess I feel like even in the past when Prince finally acquiesced and followed the trends of the times (new jack swing and hip hop), the songs were still SO damn good. This time, there's a lot of knob-twiddling, but no depth behind it. I mean, there are a few interesting moments in "Ain't About to Stop", and the guitar work in "This Could Be Us 2: Electric Boogaloo" is nice, but...two moments and one stunning song does not a Prince album make. He needs to lay off hype songs like "Shut This Down" until he truly has something to hype..this album isn't it. It all just sounds very forced to me.

I spend way too much wondering how inspiration dries up. I mean, every great artist (at least artists whom I think are great) go through slumps...no one can keep up the Dirty Mind through Lovesexy streak. That would be impossible. Dylan went through a well-known slump after Infidels that lasted until Oh Mercy in '89. Miles kinda limped to the finish (save for Siesta, which is so incredibly undervalued)....Stevie, Joni, Curtis Mayfield, McCartney...all of them great, and all of them slumped. But they all have climbed back from their inspirational lapses and made AMAZING music (except for maybe Stevie...he's still amazing live, but his last albums haven't been so hot). Is it that people on that level have no one saying 'no' to them? Have they isolated themselves to the point that they can't glean any nuggets of freshness that might inspire them to create something new and different? Or are they just bored? I think Prince might need to hit some jazz clubs. Hell, I'll gladly take him on Phish tour with me (don't judge unless you've seen them). He needs to get freaked out by something. He needs his world shaken up a bit. And he needs to work with a real producer...T Bone Burnett, ?uestlove, Rick Rubin...even DJ Premier. Someone that will get him to step WAY outside of his comfort zone.

I miss the NPG right now something FIERCE.

Just listened to the first four tracks....GARBAGE. Listen, I've loved a million songs from this guy, but God, this is dreary techno, hip-hop based sludge. An embarrasement. The first song I might have liked had he bothered to sing, but no, just hand the vocls off to someone I'll never care about in a billion years.

What utter shit, Prince, I mean really. Just Garbage. Go back to writing actual songs my friend, and drop the new producer, he sucks badly.

eugny1 said:

Just listened to the first four tracks....GARBAGE. Listen, I've loved a million songs from this guy, but God, this is dreary techno, hip-hop based sludge. An embarrasement. The first song I might have liked had he bothered to sing, but no, just hand the vocls off to someone I'll never care about in a billion years.

What utter shit, Prince, I mean really. Just Garbage. Go back to writing actual songs my friend, and drop the new producer, he sucks badly.

Yeah, this is rock bottom. I was wondering when he'd it, but this pile of steaming shit is the worst garbage he's ever released. Like a Mack, with it's insanely insipid, retarded "rap" by Curly Fries, whoever that human irrelevance is, makes me want to rip off my ears and feed them to a dog.

This guy can still write catchy songs, but he can also vomit out an atrocity like this album, which, if it was the only thing I ever heard from Prince, would make me think him an utterly irrelevant, untalented cliched nothing. That's just how fucking lousy it is.

The Prince that I grew up listening to, collecting all of of his music including unreleased material and dozens of concerts and going to great lengths to attend his shows would never let a lightweight amateur come in and ruin his music but that is exactly what he has done. This album & PE have easily some of the worst songs that he has ever recorded. The first time that I listened to the two albums I thought that this must be a joke. They are that bad. I listen to plenty of modern music but this is just plain bad. Welton is a year or two behind in his production and just overwhelms some songs with every cheesy effect that he can come up with. And having all of these lame women singing on the albums just brings the quality even lower. There are plenty of great female singers out there. Rita Oro? Really? My how the mighty have fallen.

eugny1 said:

eugny1 said:

Just listened to the first four tracks....GARBAGE. Listen, I've loved a million songs from this guy, but God, this is dreary techno, hip-hop based sludge. An embarrasement. The first song I might have liked had he bothered to sing, but no, just hand the vocls off to someone I'll never care about in a billion years.

What utter shit, Prince, I mean really. Just Garbage. Go back to writing actual songs my friend, and drop the new producer, he sucks badly.

Yeah, this is rock bottom. I was wondering when he'd it, but this pile of steaming shit is the worst garbage he's ever released. Like a Mack, with it's insanely insipid, retarded "rap" by Curly Fries, whoever that human irrelevance is, makes me want to rip off my ears and feed them to a dog.

This guy can still write catchy songs, but he can also vomit out an atrocity like this album, which, if it was the only thing I ever heard from Prince, would make me think him an utterly irrelevant, untalented cliched nothing. That's just how fucking lousy it is.

Hmm, so you write a post, then quote yourself to talk more shit on this release. Dumb, or double-nickname-fail?

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eugny1 said:

I think Like A Mack might just take the crown from Boy Trouble and possibly even Jughead in being the biggest sonic defication of his entire career.

MattyJam said:

terrig said:

The amount of time spent by the haterz in dissing everything that comes out of Paisley Park and every single Prince move since the 80's and in turning down any person who might even dare enjoy his output and find interesting things in his current music, is beyond belief

...oh and by haters, I mean haters, not those reasonable people who do not like his recent output including HitNRun (and have all the right not to like it, as tastes are subjective), but have the decency to let others enjoy without the need to convince them to jump on the Prince-hate bandwagon...

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[snip - no flaming please - Militant]

MattyJam said:

Marco81 said:

The amount of time spent by the haterz in dissing everything that comes out of Paisley Park and every single Prince move since the 80's and in turning down any person who might even dare enjoy his output and find interesting things in his current music, is beyond belief

...oh and by haters, I mean haters, not those reasonable people who do not like his recent output including HitNRun (and have all the right not to like it, as tastes are subjective), but have the decency to let others enjoy without the need to convince them to jump on the Prince-hate bandwagon...

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The amount of time spent by the ass-kissers in ejaculating over everything that comes out of Paisley Park and every single Prince move since '96 and in turning down any person who might even dare to not enjoy his output and find uninteresting things in his current music, is beyond belief

...oh and by ass-kissers, I mean ass-kissers, not those reasonable people who do like his recent output including HitNRun (and have all the right to like it, as tastes are subjective), but have the decency to let others loathe it without the need to convince them to jump on the Prince-can-only-create-masterpeices-and-makes-me-cum bandwagon...

SanMartin said: