Prince's final 4 CDs

Plec, AOA, HNR1, HRN2.

What's your favorite?

AOA - My favorite, Prince's last true fully realized album and for me, my favorite of his entire catalog.

AOA-but I still can't listen to 'Way Back Home' or 'Breakdown'. Maybe this week...we'll see.

Vox said:

AOA

CalhounSq said:

Vox said:

AOA-but I still can't listen to 'Way Back Home' or 'Breakdown'. Maybe this week...we'll see.

Way Back Home is instant tears for me, I won't be able to listen without crying for a WHILE. But I do better with Breakdown, as long as I don't think too hard about the line, "I don't wanna wanna wanna go, no no no no no"

Same for me.

There all really average 2 below average albums...

The best OVERALL ALBUM I would say is AOA... But I think the best songs out of all of them are from PHASE 1, with HARDROCKLOVER & 1000 X's & O's.

ANOTHERLOVE, REVELATION are the other great tracks.

HNR2 for me, then AOA. Although overall, I have more positive memories and associations with AOA, as I got into that album while Prince was still alive, and it made me revisit Prince for a while and add some Prince tunes back onto my ipod playlist.

I didn't keep up with the HNR releases and only purchased them in April. I really enjoy the sound he was developing on HNR2 and wish we could see what direction he would have taken next.

AOA, by far. It's even in my alltime Prince top10.

feeluupp said:

HNR2 on the first place but I love Anotherlove, Way Back Home too

I like AOA, there's some great stuff on but I find Time and What it Feels Like somewhat boring and can't stand Breakfast Can Wait.

The Prince vocal stuff on Plectrum makes up my favourite tracks from the 4 albums but the Hannah lead tracks bring it down for me as an album.

Hitnrun 2 also has some great stuff on it but is marred somewhat by the inclusion of tracks which we'd had for quite a while and I really don't like Extralovabel even though it improves on the original for me. Never liked the original very much.

So by default, the winner for me is Hitnrun 1. There's not a single track I skip on there and love pretty much all of it. The sequence of This Could B Us to 1000 Hugs is absolutely fantastic. The only downer for me is June but it's not something I've been inclined to skip yet.

2 of them are amazing, the other two are bad:

Art Official Age: 9/10 the best of these 4, brilliant
HitNRun Phase 1: 8.5/10 amazing album, the opener is not so good, the dat here is awful, but the rest of the songs are really great.

HitNRun Phase 2: 4/10 meh, a few great songs though, Revelation, Groovy Potential saves it being a disaster
PlectrumElectrum: 2/10 Wow plus AnotherLove are amazing, the rest sucks.

[Edited 8/15/16 2:49am]

Hit n Run Phase 2.

An incredible album, great music and no filler. Songs like Black Muse, Stare and Revelation are just genius, he really gave us his best before he left us.

.

AOA is pretty good too but has a skipper in Art Official Cage and the Affirmations.

.

The other two are very average and HitnRun Phase 1 is dreadful, but Boytrouble is by far his worst song since 1998's Newpower soul and the Rainbow children.

Hit n Run Phase 2...

AOA

BT11 said:

AOA, by far. It's even in my alltime Prince top10.

same here

RJOrion said:

sro100 said:

Prince's final 4 CDs

Plec, AOA, HNR1, HRN2.

What's your favorite?

AOA - My favorite, Prince's last true fully realized album and for me, my favorite of his entire catalog.

I actually don't know yet... Ask me in about five years.

(I just know this: not 'Plectrum')

AOA is a real solid album. I liked it then (mostly) and has gotten better with age IMO

AOA. This Christmas I am giving copies of it to almost everyone I know. For me, it is better than even the Purple Rain album.

1Sasha said:

AOA. This Christmas I am giving copies of it to almost everyone I know. For me, it is better than even the Purple Rain album.

I would agree. Simply it has a maturity and poignancy that would not have been possible before.

HNR phase 2, the record has a gem : Black Muse ; the overall organic sound of the record is in the style of the excellent D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah'.

I don't agree for 'Boytrouble', the track is excellent and has a remarkable bass work.

Don't agree too for the track sung by Hannah, 'Whitecaps' is nice, melodic, and near the style of what was doing The pretenders in the 80's.

I'm not very fond on AOA, of songs like 'The breakdown' or 'Way back home' ; however, the modern sound of this record is interesting.

i prefer the original version of '1000 hugs', i find it way better than the version on AOA.