Amazed no one has thought of this already. Basically all you need to do is rate the four recent albums. Hitnrun Phase one and Phasetwo, Plectrum Electrum and Art Official.

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Mine

1. Hitnrun phase 2 - 89/100

2. Art Official Age - 82/100

3. Plectrum Electrum - 67/100

4. Hitnrun phase 1 -61/100

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Phase 2 has no bad tracks on it and is a true classic, great horns and r and b sound. Art Official age is almost as good, but is ruined by the first track and annoying affirmiations and is probably a bit too quirky for its own good.

There is a long drop to Plectrum Electrum, which still has the great Anotherlove and Wow, but there are a lot of lesser tracks and the dreadful Boytrouble. Finally Hitnrun Phase 1 with its filler tracks Mr Nelson and a dreadful remix of This could be us. Also the rap on tracks 2 - 4 is scarily bad, track 1 sux, but the rest is pretty good and Fallinlove2nite, Hardrocklover and 1000x's and 0s are classix.

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Let me know yours, but please no trolls or stupid replies. I know the thread sounds a bit lame, but hopefully we will get some responses about Prince's new prolific phase of music.

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Phase I

AOA

Phase II

Plectrum

Hitnrun phase 2 9/10 (Truly amazing album)
AOA 7/10 (A good album)
Hitnrun phase 1 2/10 (Garbage)
PLEL 1/10 (More garbage)

HnR2

Plec

AOA

HnR1

BIT

1. Hitnrun phase 2 - AWESOME!!

2. Art Official Age - some great tracks, hate the womam talking with bad diction and grammar

3. Hitnrun phase 1

4. Plectrum Electrum - don't think I've played this as the individual tracks I've heard are so bad

HnR Phase I + Art Official Age both very good... 8/10


HnR Phase II + Plectrum both very awful... 2/10


Ranking them:


1. Art Official Age
2. HnR Phase I
3. HnR Phase II
4. PlectrumElectrum

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thedance said:

HnR Phase I + Art Official Age both very good... 8/10


HnR Phase II + Plectrum both very awful... 2/10


Ranking them:


1. Art Official Age
2. HnR Phase I
3. HnR Phase II
4. PlectrumElectrum

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Adorecream said:

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Phase 2 has no bad tracks on it and is a true classic

Ok.. wow, I mean really.. is that how you feel...


Fine.. I feel the opposite, therefor I need to make this comment ( long post sorry)..


I respect it's your opinion AdoreCream.. you seem to like all these songs, ok, really I am so surprised to hear this, because.. Phase 2 have almost nothing but bad tracks imho..

Baltimore, YUCK
Stare, yuck
RnRLA, never liked this
Screwdriver, awful
Xtraloveable (Reload)... no.. but makes the original song sound even better though..

^ Yuck... the sound is "thin" and very awful on these and makes songs like Peach and Cream sound like Prince "masterpieces".

Amazing how we can disagree AdoreCream... right..?

You seem to love what I detest -- No bad tracks, you say...? Ok I wish this was true.. actually, because I can't appreciate (most of) the songs on Phase 2 at all. Worst of them is Baltimore. I can admit, two good tracks there.. but the rest of them, no no and no..


Well this is just imo of course..... and, only written because I am so surprised by what you just wrote.. ok.. I wish I could hear what you are hearing.. but I can't

feeluupp said:

^ Feeluuuup.. why am I not surprised by you?

thedance said:

That's how I feel with Phase 1, only 2 good songs but the rest is yuck

TheEnglishGent said:

Phase I

AOA

Phase II

Plectrum

Great TheEnglishGent.. and cool to see some guy here who likes Phase I as well.

HitnRun Phase 2 - more a collection than an album, but full of really strong music.

HitnRun Phase 1 - great fun, inventive, snappy, enjoy the hell out of this still.

Art Official Age - some excellent music on here, but it now sounds like a man finding his feet and some of it sounds a little forced conpared to the HitnRuns...

Plectrum Electrum... ay..... let's just take Wow/Plectrum Electrum/AnotherLove/Octopus Heart and Menstrual Cycle from this era and make a nice rock EP and pretend the rest didn't happen, shall we?

I prefer the more organic sounds of these two albums...

1. Hitnrun Phase 2

2. Plectrumelectrum

Difficult to choose...

3. Hitnrun Phase 1 (I put this ahead simply because Hardrocklover and June are so good)

4. Art Official Age (a more cohesive album, but nothing I love as much as the above two songs)

1 AOA

2 HNR Phase Two

3 Plectrum Electrum

4 HNR Phase One

Phase 2
AOA
Phase 1
PlecElec

AOA

PHASE2

PHASE1

PLECTRUM

HNRP1

AOA

PE - This one is hard to rank for me. The actual songs with Prince's vocals on here I like better than anything on all four albums. But the ones with Hanna I hate more than anything on here so its hard to rank. If it was a 7 song EP it would be in my top 5 of all of his albums!!

HNRP2

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HNR Phase Two
AOA
PLECTRUMRECTUM
Smelling my own butt
Watching my cats eat their own puke
People farting on elevators
Dentists saying "oops"
HNR Phase One

KingSausage said:

I'm completely with the King on this one, and on the opposite side of the world from thedance.
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I thought Plectrum Electrum was mostly a noisy mess but HNR phase 1 fixed that for me. The first half is just godawful. HNR Phase 2 is a complete 180 - wonderful sound and instrumentation, some surprisingly solid songwriting...hell it even has me liking Baltimore despite thinking YUCK when it came out. HNR phase 2 just might crack my top 10 Prince albums of all time.

1. HnR Phase 2
2. AOA
3. Plectrum Electrum
4. HnR Phase 1

Ranking phase 1 at #4 seems generous, even in a field of 4. I'd take almost any other P album over it, maybe save for Kamasutra and Indigo Nights.
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AOA 9/10

HNR Ph.1 9/10

HNR Ph.2 8/10

PLECTRUMRECTUM 7.5/10

KingSausage said:

HNR Phase Two AOA PLECTRUMRECTUM Smelling my own butt Watching my cats eat their own puke People farting on elevators Dentists saying "oops" HNR Phase One

Same.

1. Phase 2
2. AOA
3. Phase 1
4. Plectrum - why oh why did he not put Screwdriver on this. Would have made Phase two almost perfect.

HitnRun Phase 2

Art Official Age

HitnRun Phase 1

Plectrum Electrum

Well...

HnR2 7.5

AoA 7

Plecelec 6

HnR1 2

I dislike Baltimore but i despise the 1st track of AoA.

I even don't want to talk about HnR1, sorry.

HnR phase 2
HnR phase 1
PlEl
AOA

First post on the org!

Although I think the ORG is so over rating HnR Phase 2, just because it is not a "bad" album, it is a boring album imo, and when we compare it to his other 3 releases it becomes an "acceptable" album even though it's nowhere near the standards of Prince's past music, not just the 80's but the 90's as well...

However I feel with these 4 mediocre albums we got in the past year I feel there are a FEW GOOD songs:

U Know

Anotherlove

Hardrocklover

1000 X's & O's

June

Look At Me, Look At U

Revelation

KingSausage said:

HNR Phase Two AOA PLECTRUMRECTUM Smelling my own butt Watching my cats eat their own puke People farting on elevators Dentists saying "oops" HNR Phase One

You've just reminded me that when I was at the dentist last month I sat there for ages waiting to be seen. After a long delay the dentist called my name and I did think finally at last. The dentist then said sorry for the delay and that it was down to an extraction going wrong! Well.... you really don't want to hear your dentist say that at all! Luckily I just went in for a check-up

thedance said:

Adorecream said:

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Phase 2 has no bad tracks on it and is a true classic

Ok.. wow, I mean really.. is that how you feel...


Fine.. I feel the opposite, therefor I need to make this comment ( long post sorry)..


I respect it's your opinion AdoreCream.. you seem to like all these songs, ok, really I am so surprised to hear this, because.. Phase 2 have almost nothing but bad tracks imho..

Baltimore, YUCK
Stare, yuck
RnRLA, never liked this
Screwdriver, awful
Xtraloveable (Reload)... no.. but makes the original song sound even better though..

^ Yuck... the sound is "thin" and very awful on these and makes songs like Peach and Cream sound like Prince "masterpieces".

Amazing how we can disagree AdoreCream... right..?

You seem to love what I detest -- No bad tracks, you say...? Ok I wish this was true.. actually, because I can't appreciate (most of) the songs on Phase 2 at all. Worst of them is Baltimore. I can admit, two good tracks there.. but the rest of them, no no and no..


Well this is just imo of course..... and, only written because I am so surprised by what you just wrote.. ok.. I wish I could hear what you are hearing.. but I can't

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way too. I think Phase 2 is terrible. I compare it to Planet Earth (my leats favorite P album). I think this one has no money track. Even Revelation is just OK. I was really surprised by all of the positive reviews here. I thought that maybe there was something I was missing. Listened again and Nah it's just not working for me. It is such a corny record. Like real corny. Big City - WTF i couldn't even finish that song.

they are all pretty equal to me .. i suppose ultimately aoa had the most songs that i did not delete

with everything included from the hiatus to now i made a nice little mixtape that does not make me cringe .. i find the albums themselves to be awful in their compiling .. but to pick an choose there is really great stuff in there

1000 hugz should be pushed as a new prince classic (even tho it is old) and it is clearly the best thing he has put out since the hiatus .. it should be performed and promoted .. but the rest of hnr 1 is mostly crapola .. including the wretched june everyone raves about for some reason

same with hnr 2 .. mostly a snooze fest but damn if groovey potential isn't the best new ish song p has done in decades ..

people who rank any of these records above a 5 out of 10 are nutz! previously entire records went by with barely one song that didn't make me sick (3121,rainbow) slowly we've worked up to albums with a couple songs that are not too bad (2010,lotus) but now we have 4 records plus singles each with 1 or 2 outstanding songs ... that in my book is an improvement to be applauded

i would play groovy potention, 100hugz, another love and a few others for friends and not be totally embarrassed .. there is not much before the hiatus that I would be so brave with, save classic p of course

that said each record is kinda bad and barely ranks next to his classic all killer no filler era .. but the quality of the couple good tunes per record has gone up ... yay!

larksanders said:

thedance said:

Ok.. wow, I mean really.. is that how you feel...


Fine.. I feel the opposite, therefor I need to make this comment ( long post sorry)..


I respect it's your opinion AdoreCream.. you seem to like all these songs, ok, really I am so surprised to hear this, because.. Phase 2 have almost nothing but bad tracks imho..

Baltimore, YUCK
Stare, yuck
RnRLA, never liked this
Screwdriver, awful
Xtraloveable (Reload)... no.. but makes the original song sound even better though..

^ Yuck... the sound is "thin" and very awful on these and makes songs like Peach and Cream sound like Prince "masterpieces".

Amazing how we can disagree AdoreCream... right..?

You seem to love what I detest -- No bad tracks, you say...? Ok I wish this was true.. actually, because I can't appreciate (most of) the songs on Phase 2 at all. Worst of them is Baltimore. I can admit, two good tracks there.. but the rest of them, no no and no..


Well this is just imo of course..... and, only written because I am so surprised by what you just wrote.. ok.. I wish I could hear what you are hearing.. but I can't

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way too. I think Phase 2 is terrible. I compare it to Planet Earth (my leats favorite P album). I think this one has no money track. Even Revelation is just OK. I was really surprised by all of the positive reviews here. I thought that maybe there was something I was missing. Listened again and Nah it's just not working for me. It is such a corny record. Like real corny. Big City - WTF i couldn't even finish that song.

To be honest I'm confused... As all of us are... I can't even rate the records properly anymore.

It's just AGE that's the truth. People like this album because they are in their middle ages.

A song like U Know and AOA the album all the younger individuals like the record when I played it for them.

Phase 2 does have that Planet Earth vibe, a couple good songs, the rest is just boring... Good music for older people... But it is starting to get to be a boring record now after I've been listening to it everyday.

Phase 1 is not "better" but it's not as boring, and to be honest I feel Hardrocklover and 1000 X's & O's outshines ALMOST the whole ENTIRE album of Phase 2.