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Is Art Official Age more deserving of being Prince's swansong than Hit'n'Run?
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his next album would've been his 40th album | |
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Oh wow! I wonder if that was in the pipeline. | |
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It doesn't really matter whether or not AOA is more deserving, it will never be his final album. | |
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Hitnrun Phase II ends with Prince saying, "that's it", and as sad as it is, that's a hell of a way to end it. RIP ![]() | |
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The last proper album, thematically and musically. | |
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HitnRun Phase One is pretty bad by Prince standards. However, there are still some gems on it. 1000 Hugs and Kisses and June are really good. Phase Two is really good. Its not perfect. There's 3 songs that I have to skip (Baltimore, RnR Affair and Screwdriver) but the rest of the album is really good. It would be impossible to pick out any album and say that it's a suitable ending point for a career like Prince's, but Phase Two is as good as any, in that regard. | |
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I really like Hit 'N' Run Phase One. It's my favourite album of his since Musicology. You know, it sounds like an album, rather than a collection of random tracks. It had a very cohesive feeling. Yes, it's very poppy, but I was glad he was trying something new. As a venture into contemporary Pop, it's more successful than something like Madonna's MDNA album. | |
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Agreed. I like the HNRs a lot, but I dont see them as proper albums. They're collections of the odds and ends he's thrown out over the last few years. I would like to see more in the series. It'd be a great way to release the outtakes. AOA was the last true album. | |
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Yes. Personally, I considered AOA a return to the standards of 3121. A long way from his peak, but better than a run of albums that I'd have to label poor following in between the two. And, to be bluntly honest, HNR was another dip in that direction. I'm glad his final album at least kicked off with Baltimore, which was majestically produced. | |
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AOA was a ghastly album. HitNRun1 was ghastly as well. I like HNR2, but unfortunately it was evidently too late.
The lack of material from 2010-2014 was deafening and to be welcomed back with 2 horrible albums was distressing. Glad HNR2 serves as a bit of a hail mary. | |
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Yes; for my money it's the final masterpiece album.
With that said I have to agree that the line "That's it" is quite an ending to HNRP2 in hindsight. | |
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All three albums are pretty bad and ultimately forgettable. That's ok though and P was doing the best he could at the time. He has more incredible songs over his career than any other artist and probably by a factor of 5 or 10, when you include the unreleased ones. | |
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AhPook said: Agreed. I like the HNRs a lot, but I dont see them as proper albums. They're collections of the odds and ends he's thrown out over the last few years. I would like to see more in the series. It'd be a great way to release the outtakes. AOA was the last true album. But even though HNRP1 was somewhat of a compilation, it really does sound like a cohesive album. It really flows well. Maybe that has something to do with Josh Welton (re?)producing it. You know, like it was made to sound like it was all from the same emotional place & time. I don't think that AOA flows as well as HNRP1. Even if AOA was recorded as a specific set of songs for a specific album release, it just doesn't gel as a whole. | |
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I prefer AOA be the swan song. I posed a similar question about Hit n Run being the last thing remebered from him and was roundly attacked here for even mentioning it. AOA was a Prince album. HitnRun 1 will sound like an aging Prince and some unqualified and too young "producer" trying to get back on charts and in the clubs. Save America - Stop Illegal Immigration. God bless America. PEACE | |
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The only thing out of place in AOA is "FunkNRoll". | |
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AOA is, deservedly so, his final mainstream release.
The HnR releases are, as someone else said, no different than The Vault release it would appear.
However, I seem to recall comments attributed to Prince that you're only as good as your last release. It's sad that Phase Two was it. | |
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