PE is a fine album indeed but compared to all the other Prince albums it´s mediocre at best...

There's 3 things wrong with PE....3rdeyegirl

NorthC said:

That was quick.

Go and hide now, before they found you.

NorthC said:

Let them come... So they can prepare for my "3121 is great" thread...

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great cd, better topic

PlectrumElectrum is a fine album like a flat tire was fine tire before the flat.

About four songs are worthy, some others can be classified from mildly tolerable to barely bearable protégés stuff.

i don't mind it. the Prince vocal tracks are good. Boytrouble and Stopthistrain are just horrid. Hannah's songs just bug me.

3121 is the best "modern" PRINCE album. The most complete one...

I think it ranges somewhere between bad and not-that-bad for me. It's better than the NewPowerGenertion Tony M. rap album for sure, but it's still got to be among the ten worst records Prince was ever asscoiated with.

I actually like a lot of the PlectrumElectrum material. the only ones I dont care for are boytroble,stopthistrain, and aintturninround. i really enjoy everything else.

Imo 2 songs are good: AnotherLove + Wow..


the rest well I just can't listen to any of those songs, they are so embarrassing imho...

PlectrumElectrum =

Nivivrus said:

I get Prince is a perfectionist

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Oh for crying out loud.

i hate it up to the point where i actually never listened to it anymore.

so i tried to make a few changes and what do you know, i like it now

01. Wow

02. Pretzelbodylogic (*)
03. Screwdriver

04. PlectrumElectrum

05. Groovy Potential

06. FixUrLifeUp

07. RocknRollLoveAffair

08. AnotherLove

09. TicTacToe

10. Marz

11. FunknRoll

the whole thing flows surprisingly well and it's only prince on vocals,
with the exception of TicTacToe which is dual vocal anyway. it's still

not perfect but it's at least less jarring, for me personally, when it's
all prince vocals and a few more decent songs thrown in there. kinda
reminds me a little bit of Chaos & Disorder this way.

(*) cut the beginning chant off pretzelbodylogic.

BartVanHemelen said:

IstenSzek said:

My PE playlist is awesome, listen to it loads.

Wow

Pretzelbodylogic - No Intro

Empty Room rehearsal
Plectrumelectrum

Screwdriver remix - Edit
Fixurlifeup

Tictactoe
Anotherlove

Marz

Funknroll

Aintturninround

Whitecaps

Boytrouble

Stopthistrain

All awful.

Disagree with op. This should have a been a rocking album, but it isn't. I like BT but it doesn't fit, prob would've worked better on HNR.

I like maybe three songs, but never really listen to them very often b/c it's so difficult to get through this album w/o skipping tracks.

WC pretty much ruins this album for me. Hannah's voice is atrocious to my ears, I'm glad some can appreciate her, but I can't. She has her moments, but that's not enough.

Wow surpsingly doesn't do much for me, nor does AL & TTT & STT are just filler with some nice music, but as a whole they fall flat for me.

The title track is the best one & seems alone on an unsatisfying album.

purplepolitician said:

It's decent. BOYTROUBLE is dope. Hannah is alright.

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Finally, ONE other person here that digs 'BOYTROUBLE'. That ish is dope. I think the 'PlectrumElectrum' album is highly underrated here as a whole.

I want to be honest and say that I listened to it 3 times, being released together I preferred to concentrate me into AOA.

Sorry, there is something good but it's not entirely my cup of tea.

I was under the delusion that we were going to get some kind of cool, rock concept album. That's the direction I thought Prince was going when he first formed 3EG. While I didn't think PE was a bad album, I was disappointed that it didn't live up to the concerts, which I loved. "Wow", "Anotherlove", "Marz", and "Tictactoe" (yes, really) are among my favorite Prince songs. Unfortunately, though, dreck like "Boytrouble", and ill-fitting songs like "Stopthistrain" really brought down the feel of the album as a whole, along with Hannah's vocals. I never minded Hannah as a drummer, but she has no business singing. She sounds like she belongs in a no-talent teenybopper girl group. I don't blame 3EG for the problems with this album, and I think they're all talented in their own right. I blame Prince, because he was the one calling the shots.

What I like about this album is that it fills up the space on my shelf between AOA and HnR nicely. If it wasn't there, one of those two cds might lean over slightly, and that would upset my OCD.