I have only listened to it once, as background music, but it certainly seems better then Phase One:

• No guest artists

• No random noises

• No slooooowed down vocals or autotune

• No Welton (if there is, he isn't doing his usual tricks)

• Horns

• Funk

KingSausage said:

Well shit, this is bloody good stuff. Screwdriver on here is a bit weird, but I find it very hard to believe if you're a long term Prince follower there isn't something on here you like. It's high on quality from start to finish. Sounds full. Feck me even RNRLA is cracking now.

Well... PRINCE JUST TWEETED ME!!

SO COOL!!!

JudasSmile said:

OperatingThetan said:

btw. if the 4 images on twitter prince page are the 4 cover of 4 phases...

phase 3 could be the "lovesexy" icon with "Free Urself", "if I Could Get Ur Attention" and other '80 songs.

BartVanHemelen said:

HITNRUN FINAL PHASE

FREE URSELF

GROOVY POTENTIAL

STARE

LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT U

2Y2D

WHEN SHE COMES

1000 XO

JUNE

BLACK MUSE

REVELATION

[Edited 12/12/15 14:52pm]

Good album overall! Love 2y2d (Is that Andy on background vocals?), Revelation, Look at me, look at u and Black Muse!

[Edited 12/12/15 14:57pm]

TKO said:

feeluupp said:

herb4 said:

Stranger said:

linus4000 said: Many good tracks! It is a shame that we many of these already... Signed off Tidal after phase 1 and not signing back up for streaming. Will wait for physical release

Pretty much this. Hard to get excited when I already own

Baltimore

RocknRoll Love Affair

Stare

Xtralovable

Groovy potential

Big City

screwdriver

I mean, shit. That's 2/3 of the album

I don't believe Big City had previously been available, and some other songs are different versions.

derrick31 said:

BartVanHemelen said:

Didn't he say something about "albums matter"? Funny, cuz this is obviously "a collection of shite I had laying around".

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Then again, mister "I'm not looking back" is also rehashing tracks that were recorded years ago. And previously he released a video of the first twenty minutes from a concert from a year and a half ago, and all of the songs they played were thirty years old. Yet expanded and remastered editions of his classic 1980s output are not on the table.

You complain about Prince's music too much. You should just give up on listening to His music. Why keep on listening if you don't appreciate his output anymore?????

Come on now...u know the answer to that by now....lol

ive tried over and over. I dont get all the love for revelation. To each their own.

KingSausage said:

herb4 said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Had Big City been available before?

If u know where to look, yes.

That's weird then, I don't normally miss such things!

This is a fantastic compilation.

starkitty said:

is josh elbows deep in this or no?

Nope

Look At Me, Look At U could be Dear Mr. Man part 2, literally the same music. Love them both.

Is there an option on tidal to only buy phase 2?

funksterr said:

Yay, flop album number 4, in basicaly one year, is sort of on the market! Has PRINCE ever released 4 flop albums in a year? Way to harness the power of the internet, as ONLY YOU can Prince!


#PrinceArmy rolls forward, baby!

Stuck that OLIVE BRANCH right in Warner's eye just 4 days after announcing you'd offered it! WHODAYPLAYINWIT??? You??? Definitely not you, right?? HELLNAW, you aint groveling, to THEMAN, to do NUTTINFO' YA!

Glad he got this album out of his system. Maybe now, he can get over himself and get back to the business of remasters and outtakes.

Can we let BVH do these things? You're not very good at it.

leadline said:

Look At Me, Look At U could be Dear Mr. Man part 2, literally the same music. Love them both.

Not literally the same music but the same kind of instrumentation and beat -- I noticed that too.

I very much like all of the tracks that were not previously released.

This does feel more like a compilation, but that is just because half of the tracks are quite old.

BUT if he just kept the new 6 tracks and expanded from there, then this would have been a beautiful sounding album.

But overall this has a good feel and it's good to have previous releases bundled together just to tidy up the last couple of years.

Man, am I late to the party... I guess this means there won't be a physical CD down the line to purchase? (I'm assuming the abrupt release of Phase 2 means that Prince couldn't find a profitable deal to do so--I may be wrong, of course.).

I'm really digging this album! With that said, this is just lazy... The sources for Groovy Potential and Screwdriver are the lossy internet files. The other track, I don't understand.

Play 1000 X's & O's and Look At Me, Look At U back 2 back... It's pure sensuality at it's finest.

warning2all said: