SoulAlive said:

Why does everyone dislike the songs by other artists?

Because Prince has a lot of deaf fans (they are the ones that have bought his music in this century).

SoulAlive said:

Why does everyone dislike the songs by other artists? I think "Shake" is a great song,and so is "Round and Round" and "Love Machine".The collaboration with George Clinton,"We Can Funk",is the funkiest jam on the album.It's clear that Prince wanted to make a real soundtrack album this time and that's why the songs by other artists are included.

The production on the album loses a lot of people, me included. I pretty much prefer the alternate version (some live, some studio) of every track on the album that i've heard an alternate version of.

There is nothing wrong in songs by other artists.

Taken one by one they are nice/decent songs.

The problem to me is the choice to make a mixed tracklist.

If there was 2 separate chapters of the soundtrack ("Prince Tracks" and "Other Artists Tracks") we could had a proper P album and at the same time a full soundtrack to the movie. (I understand it would be strange for a single CD release).

Anyway, I like to play the P songs in sequence (including "Graffiti Bridge" just for title-track explanation, I know it far from be a masterpiece but it makes sense to have it in the tracklist) and it sounds a great album listening, apart from 3 things:

1) "Thieves In The Temple" - I switched the album version for the full Remix version

2) "Tick Tick Bang" - I would have preferred it to be an "Other Artists" track, so I could cut it from the tracklist as it deserves. Unfortunately I'm a somewhat purist so I let it.

3) No homemade editing is possible to the horrible segue between WCF and JIR, one of the greatest mistake in any P album release. Unfortunately.

Always a fan of this album. Except for Tick Tick Bang and the title track its a solid album...esp the Prince only tracks. I do prefer the 86 We Can Funk, but this one is cool too.

Cant Stop - good intro song - sounds like it wouldve been written and recorded originally (and maybe it was) 8 years before it was put on GB. Needed more rockabilly like Horny Toad or Delirious if that's what he was aiming for.

NPG - great song, excellent song - could have been the lead single

Release It - would have been better recorded by only Prince

Q of U - great song

E & F - great song

Round - turrible

We Can Funk - pretty good song, would have been better w/ just Prince

Joy in Repitition - great song

Love Machine - turrible

Tick Tick Bang - andother old song - would have rather it been the original version

Shake - love it, should have been a Prince song and a Prince official single

Theives - great song

Latest fashion - not good

Melody Cool - probably better as just a Prince song (there's a theme here)

Still Would Stand All Time - Eh, ok I guess. Awful placement in the movie

GB the song - boooooring

Overall a solid 7.5.

Movie is a solid zero.point.zero.

[Edited 3/7/16 9:54am]

Just take the Time cuts off the album and it becomes much stronger.

SWSAT is amasterpiece, what's wrong with the song, some of you say it just and "ok" song.

Yeah I have made my own 'special edition' with just the Prince tracks including the b-sides. Awesome. The forced Time tracks and others kinda takes away the steam. Its too long and disjointed as a whole but individual tracks are very strong barring The Latest Fashion and Tick Tick Bang remake. I do generally like Love Machine, Melody Cool and Round And Round but they could have been saved for their own albums

it's annoying that the time got there own album as well, so did george and mavis, tevin. its a bit like a 1-800 label comp. so that's why its not up there as a classic p album. he should of just had his own songs onit. the fact remanis that the songs are no way near as good as PR songs, so it was never gonna be stellar.

SoulAlive said:

midnightmover said:

The big mistake was including tracks by all these different artists. It gave the album a messy, cluttered feel.

This album is a movie soundtrack.So naturally,it has to include all the songs that are in the movie Yes,in 1984,Prince released an album that contains only the songs that he performed in Purple Rain,while the other artists in the movie (The Time and Apollonia 6) had their own albums featuring their songs.But this time around,I think Prince (and/or Warners) simply wanted one complete soundtrack album with all the songs in the film.

You made the obvious counterargument yourself. PR contained only Prince songs and the other artists' songs were featured on their own albums. That was smart. P should've done the same thing with GB.

An album is not just a collection of songs. It has to have some cohesion and be balanced well. GB fails on that score which is a shame since there are so many great songs on there.

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SoulAlive said:

Why does everyone dislike the songs by other artists? I think "Shake" is a great song,and so is "Round and Round" and "Love Machine".The collaboration with George Clinton,"We Can Funk",is the funkiest jam on the album.It's clear that Prince wanted to make a real soundtrack album this time and that's why the songs by other artists are included.

"R&R" is great. It's just on the wrong album. Same goes for "Shake".

"LM" is shit. It would've made a good b-side for The Time though.

214 said:

SWSAT is amasterpiece, what's wrong with the song, some of you say it just and "ok" song.

Agreed. Great song. But then I like the title track too which everyone else seems to hate.

BoraBora said:

There is nothing wrong in songs by other artists.

Taken one by one they are nice/decent songs.

The problem to me is the choice to make a mixed tracklist.

If there was 2 separate chapters of the soundtrack ("Prince Tracks" and "Other Artists Tracks") we could had a proper P album and at the same time a full soundtrack to the movie. (I understand it would be strange for a single CD release).

Anyway, I like to play the P songs in sequence (including "Graffiti Bridge" just for title-track explanation, I know it far from be a masterpiece but it makes sense to have it in the tracklist) and it sounds a great album listening, apart from 3 things:

1) "Thieves In The Temple" - I switched the album version for the full Remix version

2) "Tick Tick Bang" - I would have preferred it to be an "Other Artists" track, so I could cut it from the tracklist as it deserves. Unfortunately I'm a somewhat purist so I let it.

3) No homemade editing is possible to the horrible segue between WCF and JIR, one of the greatest mistake in any P album release. Unfortunately.

[Edited 3/12/16 8:18am]

feeluupp said:

BoraBora said:

There is nothing wrong in songs by other artists.

Taken one by one they are nice/decent songs.

The problem to me is the choice to make a mixed tracklist.

If there was 2 separate chapters of the soundtrack ("Prince Tracks" and "Other Artists Tracks") we could had a proper P album and at the same time a full soundtrack to the movie. (I understand it would be strange for a single CD release).

Anyway, I like to play the P songs in sequence (including "Graffiti Bridge" just for title-track explanation, I know it far from be a masterpiece but it makes sense to have it in the tracklist) and it sounds a great album listening, apart from 3 things:

1) "Thieves In The Temple" - I switched the album version for the full Remix version

2) "Tick Tick Bang" - I would have preferred it to be an "Other Artists" track, so I could cut it from the tracklist as it deserves. Unfortunately I'm a somewhat purist so I let it.

3) No homemade editing is possible to the horrible segue between WCF and JIR, one of the greatest mistake in any P album release. Unfortunately.

have u lost it???

Nah, he's right that that's a pretty clumsy segue, but I never thought about it before until I read his post so it can't be that big a problem. Editing the rap out of "The Latest Fashion" is a far more pressing issue.

frazetta said:

Cant Stop - good intro song - sounds like it wouldve been written and recorded originally (and maybe it was) 8 years before it was put on GB. Needed more rockabilly like Horny Toad or Delirious if that's what he was aiming for.

NPG - great song, excellent song - could have been the lead single

Release It - would have been better recorded by only Prince

Q of U - great song

E & F - great song

Round - turrible

We Can Funk - pretty good song, would have been better w/ just Prince

Joy in Repitition - great song

Love Machine - turrible

Tick Tick Bang - andother old song - would have rather it been the original version

Shake - love it, should have been a Prince song and a Prince official single

Theives - great song

Latest fashion - not good

Melody Cool - probably better as just a Prince song (there's a theme here)

Still Would Stand All Time - Eh, ok I guess. Awful placement in the movie

GB the song - boooooring

Overall a solid 7.5.

Movie is a solid zero.point.zero.

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how many songs would be better (in his career) if HE SANG THEM?

midnightmover said:

214 said:

SWSAT is amasterpiece, what's wrong with the song, some of you say it just and "ok" song.

Agreed. Great song. But then I like the title track too which everyone else seems to hate.

I dig it too, but it really sounds corny.

midnightmover said:

Nah, he's right that that's a pretty clumsy segue, but I never thought about it before until I read his post so it can't be that big a problem. Editing the rap out of "The Latest Fashion" is a far more pressing issue.

It is a BIG problem when you listen to the uncut version of JIR with the drum intro.

After that, you understand how disgraced is the segue in GB.

it was ok. had a few gems. the music wasn't focused enough. he was too busy directing a bad movie when he should've hired a real director. the original version of We Can Funk should have been on the album. at least GB was better than Batman

Would have liked "Good Man" to have been a GB inclusion. Great song of the era I think could have been a successful commercial single release.