Way Back home followed by This could be us.

Way Back Home, U Know, Clouds, This Could Be Us. It's a damn solid album.

Way Back Home, Affirmation III, Clouds, and Time. But honestly I like listening to this as a whole. Such a great album.

teach49 said:

roxy831 said:

Breakfast Can Wait.

Breakdown and Way Back Home make me cry. . Atleast after 6 months, I'm able to pull back tears dropping..

I can understand that. I was blown away with emotion the first time I heard Way Back Home last summer.

It can still make me sad, but now it also gives me some comfort. I hope some day it does for you as well.

[Edited 10/19/16 19:14pm]

Thanks, Teach

U know. This album is #2 for me behind Purple Rain. Just stellar.

Way Back Home is so good.

brassneck said:

Way Back Home is so good.

The most honest and personal song he had penned since the entirety of Emancipation, Disc 2.

jaawwnn said:

Thanks, everyone! I love to see the different perspectives. That's what makes Prince so unique -- he really offers something for everyone. This album as been a slow burn for me. I was taken by Way Back Home the first time through, and I loved the live version of Funknroll I saw on TV. I'm loving 3rdEyeGirl more and more these days (the live Manchester show is truly amazing), and find this album very interesting.

all of it. this is the album my daughter's claimed being Prince fans on their own (not just putting up with it because I played him around the house all the time) we were on a drive from Detroit to Indianapolis for a wedding and we played it all the there and back! it's our jam now

PeteSilas said:

see? I guess compared to himself he may not have been as active, who knows if he was doing things in the studio or not. but compared to any other artist, 4 years between albums isn't that uncommon. the actual music is subjective and really about as many opinions as people. some people loved 2010, some people hated it, seems like its a tradition with prince, some people think one album or another is a milestone, someone else thinks it was horrible. I guess, if i had to put my finger on the best spot where this fragmentation started it was lovesexy. yes, some people think it's his greatest album and it changed their lives, other people think it was the beginning of him losing his cutting edge. what I loved about Prince is he was always bustin. even in the period between 10-14, he was working ferociously with third eye girl. anyway, i'm just glad he never listened to the people here, he would have given up a long long time ago. People here were vicious for the most part.

He was so active throughout his career that I get exhausted just thinking about it.

It's almost like he was shoring up creative ideas in those four years, and then -- BOOM -- four albums, isn't it, in the last two years? Makes my head spin.

I cannot keep up with him even now. I'm just taking it slow. I missed some over the years because I ruminate over art that I love.

[Edited 10/20/16 18:29pm]

Lovejunky said:

PeteSilas said:

, i'm just glad he never listened to the people here, he would have given up a long long time ago. People here were vicious for the most part.

You know...I used to come to the org whenever something new came out...but I was always so put off ,by what I would call HARD CORE vitriol...for years It didnt compute with me that this was a FAN Community every time I looked there was some kind of heavy criticism ..

It used to hurt ME then now it breaks my heart that Prince might have read some of those things..

How crestfallen he might have been at times....after all the Love and Devotion he put into his Art,

and how much FUN he made it to be a fan...You had to search him out..and it was always a trippy ride.....

anyway

Back to the topic ..I Love the whole album ...

Its Profound in so many ways THe Artificial Cage is this body within which "I " reside

I hear him yearn for Freedom beyond this Earthly Realm...

Way back Home confirms it

I think so, too.

AnnaStesia91 said:

I actually love this album unlike a lot of folks on the Org This Could Be Us Clouds Way Back Home are my top 3

we need a bot that posts this in every single thread about every album.

jaawwnn said:

NorthC said:

jaawwnn said:

we need a bot that posts this in every single thread about every album.

Why? Orgers have been mostly positive about AOA ever since it came out.

And yet someone always manages to post about how they are the only one who likes an album.

it's a pet peeve of mine, i'll get over it.

[Edited 10/20/16 15:27pm]

teach49 said:

PeteSilas said:

see? I guess compared to himself he may not have been as active, who knows if he was doing things in the studio or not. but compared to any other artist, 4 years between albums isn't that uncommon. the actual music is subjective and really about as many opinions as people. some people loved 2010, some people hated it, seems like its a tradition with prince, some people think one album or another is a milestone, someone else thinks it was horrible. I guess, if i had to put my finger on the best spot where this fragmentation started it was lovesexy. yes, some people think it's his greatest album and it changed their lives, other people think it was the beginning of him losing his cutting edge. what I loved about Prince is he was always bustin. even in the period between 10-14, he was working ferociously with third eye girl. anyway, i'm just glad he never listened to the people here, he would have given up a long long time ago. People here were vicious for the most part.

He was so active throughout his career that I get exhausted just thinking about it.

It's almost like he was shoring up creative ideas in those four years, and then -- BOOM -- four albums, isn't it, in the last two years? Makes my head spin.

I cannot keep up with him even now. I'm just taking it slow. I missed some over the years because I ruminate over art that I love. And I am loving 3rdEyeGirl right now.

the man was a superman, even now, with his death and the deluge of music now available, i don't even have time to listen to it all. The stuff I do listen to is fine, lots of stuff that would have been as good or better than many songs he released. As a musician myself I'm trying to up my game feeling that I owe it to him. I have been saying since he died that the best tribute any musician could make to him it would be to raise their game. I am learning Purple Rain, but I'm even doing more to try and raise my own game and tap into the same work ethic he had.

purplethunder3121 said:

Lovejunky said:

You know...I used to come to the org whenever something new came out...but I was always so put off ,by what I would call HARD CORE vitriol...for years It didnt compute with me that this was a FAN Community every time I looked there was some kind of heavy criticism ..

It used to hurt ME then now it breaks my heart that Prince might have read some of those things..

How crestfallen he might have been at times....after all the Love and Devotion he put into his Art,

and how much FUN he made it to be a fan...You had to search him out..and it was always a trippy ride.....

anyway

Back to the topic ..I Love the whole album ...

Its Profound in so many ways THe Artificial Cage is this body within which "I " reside

I hear him yearn for Freedom beyond this Earthly Realm...

Way back Home confirms it

I think so, too.

the visual imagery the song gave me was of his spirit roaming anywhere it wanted to go. Who knows, maybe that's what he's doing now.

jaawwnn said:

NorthC said:

jaawwnn said: Why? Orgers have been mostly positive about AOA ever since it came out.

And yet someone always manages to post about how they are the only one who likes an album.

it's a pet peeve of mine, i'll get over it.

[Edited 10/20/16 15:27pm]

they weren't that positive, since i was booted off of here with an old username, i would just lurk and people were merciless, not everyone but a good contingent of people were just absolutely ruthless, i don't miss any oppurtunities to point that out just so these same cretins don't try to pretend different.

TheEnglishGent said:

anangellooksdown said:

TheEnglishGent said:

I don't see anyone here saying anything different?

Way Back Home is the best one for me too but I love the whole album except for Breakfast Can Wait.

I never thought it would happen but BCW grew on me too. How I wish though, that prince was in the video instead of that girl trying to look like Prince. Creepy. i think it was his last video, right?

The only thing I don't like is the Donald Duck voice on BCW.

Way Back Home, Affirmation III and Time.

Breakfast Can Wait. i LOVE the hell out of this song and play it LOUD as fuck. The lyrics, the sexiness of it, the weird sped up chipmuck voice. "Guess whos in charge naw....das rite..." YES PRINCE GIVE ME EVERYTHING. That popping bass throughout. When people said they don't like this song I wanted to reach inside and shake them LOL. This song is HOTT.

zenarose said:

PeteSilas said:

jaawwnn said:

And yet someone always manages to post about how they are the only one who likes an album.

it's a pet peeve of mine, i'll get over it.

[Edited 10/20/16 15:27pm]

they weren't that positive, since i was booted off of here with an old username, i would just lurk and people were merciless, not everyone but a good contingent of people were just absolutely ruthless, i don't miss any oppurtunities to point that out just so these same cretins don't try to pretend different.

Fair enough.

I like the merciless reviews tbh, even if I don't agree with them.

[Edited 10/20/16 16:38pm]