PARADE...

In the beginning I always thought it wasn't complete with the songs being so short, I felt as an album 1999, Purple Rain, Sign O' The Times, Lovesexy were all superior... However PARADE has grown on me to a point where I listen to that album almost twice a day, the most listened Prince album.

I agree about 'Chaos & Disorder.'

I had just found 'The Exodus Has Begun' about a week before hearing 'Chaos' & I loved 'Exodus' but since they were nothing alike, I just wasn't feeling it.

Several months later it started to sink in.

I was just listening to "The Truth" on Tidal earlier today and thinking to myself this is so much better than I remembered it. Im actually loving just about everything on it. Hadn't listened to it in over 15 years..

AOA

Despite the direction and socalled influence of Josh, a few listens reveals that Prince sound that we love

parade, immediately loved some the songs but took a while to fully appreciate the entire piece. Now it's in my top 5. It's such an inventive and varied masterwork that does not forsake the funk.

PARADE and COME.

The Gold Experience and Lotusflow3r as much as they are praised here on the org, just didn't grow on me...

For You. It was just so uncool back when I got it in the summer of '85 (still firmly in the 'disco sucks' era). Gimme a break, I was fourteen and pretty sensitive to that type of thing.

Now, I love it like a fine wine.

ATWIAD w/o a doubt

Was still high on PR and 1999, didn't dig this album til I heard the trippy America Extended Version 21:46min remix years later, then it all came together for me.

Good question but I found myself unable to answer. I liked every Prince album I like from the first listen. There's plenty I don't like but they never grew on me. I remember trying hard to get into "Emancipation" because that was the point my fandom changed. I stumbled upon it in a used cd shop prior to release (which is always thrilling) but then I listened to it. It was just so generic and stale. This was not the Prince I was expecting. Needless to say I was extremely disappointed but listened to it over and over, trying to "get it". I like "Holy River" a lot though.

Lovesexy. Not an overly commercial album and it took a good few weeks for me to like it. I have loved it ever since.

khelm9 said:

Lovesexy. Not an overly commercial album and it took a good few weeks for me to like it. I have loved it ever since.

Exactly. It got raving reviews by some newspapers. But when I took a first listen I was overwelmed by the richness of layers and sounds. But it left me untouched...or better said, detached. After S'O'TT it seemed a step back in quality.

But after some days, weeks I found myselfs getting more familar with all the stuff that was going on, on that album. The songs emerged fromunder the sound as it were. I still have problems today if someone askes me what my favourite album is. S'O'TT'or Lovesexy. The first one was love on first listen, but the second...the second was almost a journey.

Good thread.

Probably "Come". When I first heard it, it sounded like the filler it was meant to be and I wasn't much into it. Songs like "Papa", "Solo" and "Orgasm" I still don't like and, since they're stacked on the back end, really drag the album down still. But overall, there's a lot to like here. "LetItGo", "Space", "Pheremone", "Race" and the title track hold up really well.

Honorable mention to "NewPwerSoul" which isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

Come, is a good album specially Papa

I hated Around The World In The Day, Parade , SOTT and LoveSexy when they first came out. Eventually I loved them.

herb4 said:

New Power Soul and The Vault. I barely touched them when they were released, but they both have grown on me tremendously. The Vault in particular has become one of my fave albums from the guy.

Poplife88 said:

The Vault in particular has become one of my fave albums from the guy.

That's a good one too. Reminds me of "Come" somewhat since you can tell it was filler and that his heart really wasn't in it but there's still a lot there. "There is Lonely" is chillingly good. "Five Women" is awesome. I might have to go bust that one out and give it a spin.

ATWIAD!

Hated it, I never understood the "deep meaning" of this album but I felt there was something in it so, even if it was difficult because I really hated it, I listened it on and on and now, well, I think it's really a great album, full of "sincerity" and passion. Really love it.

C&D hated it first time and still hate

ATWIAD.

Loved "Purple Rain" for obvious reasons (the first Prince album I heard) but when I got ATWIAD the day it came out and listened to it for the first time my reaction was pretty much "what the hell...?" Okay, I loved maybe four tracks from the off, but the majority of it just seemed too weird, and too different. I kept trying and trying to like it but it just didn't get there.

Almost a year later I was doing some college work at home and wanted some music to put on in the background - something that wouldn't distract me too much and that I didn't really "know" so I wouldn't be tempted to sing along or jump around the room like a loon. I put ATWIAD on. As soon as it finished I put it on again, and put my college work to one side. That was it: it had got me.

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Probably to me in some kind of way "Love Symbol", I'm not joking.

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When I listened to it back on the release day I found it "too much!!!" in many ways.

There was inside tracks I really liked but all in all it was to me a pompous mixed bag.

Too ridundant, too full of "sonar attacks", sometimes too noisy.

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Now I like it more, as a whole.

Again I can't stand to some tunes (My Name Is Prince, Arrogance, 3 Chains O'Gold, the 2nd part of "Love 2 the 9's" for example), but now what I like make me able to listen to what I don't like, and not viceversa.

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