I was listening to 3121 yesterday, the 1st time in a long while, I have it mixed in with Musicolgy, 2010 and Planet Earth... I must say of those albums, 3121 is far better... Anyone agree with that?

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I like 3121. Took awhile for the opening song to grow on me but I like almost every one now. Black Sweat is a masterpiece!

My intro to Prince world. Absolute masterpiece for me

Yes I agree completely. I always really loved that album It is one of his best albums after 1994.

One of my top 5

1. Signs of the times

2. 1999

3. Purple Rain

4.

5. 3121 - the best - Love, Black Sweat, Lolita, The Dance and The Word. all the others are solid good listening music.

MIRvmn said:

Not a great album but it has 3 really good songs on it, Te Amo Corazon, The Word and The Dance

Opinions. They nearly always differ from mine and my opinion is the only one that matters to me.

I love 3121. If i recall correctly, Prince released this electrofunk album before Timberlake's similar one the same year and JT had the audacity to say he was the one bringing sexy back..LOL. And when P joked mildly imo about sexy having not gone anywhere, JT had a bit of a hissy fit (well, he wrote a bit of a diss song.)

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BTW< I like both albums and don't mind JT usually. But 47 year old Prince was still sexier than JT to me and he did it without Timberland or any curse words. The Dance is sexy as a mofo..

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I like 3121. The yardstick with absolute classic Prince albums is vertiginous. As a result, I put this album down a couple of tiers.

It is an album that I would rate higher than Musicology and Planet Earth. That being said Musicology has a lot of quality material like the title track, IIWTMIYL, the Marrying Kind and Illusion coma, pimp and circumstance.

I think 3121 is a fun album with lots of highly listenable tracks. 3121 the track is a monster.

This may come as a surprise, even a shock to most of you, but all of Prince's post-88 albums are overrated.

Unfortunately, that autotune song that I fortunately forgot the name of, is on there, so... Really like the title track and The Word, though.

Phishanga said:

dance4me3121 said:

Phishanga said:

Unfortunately, that autotune song that I fortunately forgot the name of, is on there, so... Really like the title track and The Word, though.

Are you referring to "Incense and Candles"?

Ugh, yes...

rayfeb09 said:

One of my top 5

1. Signs of the times

2. 1999

3. Purple Rain

4.

5. 3121 - the best - Love, Black Sweat, Lolita, The Dance and The Word. all the others are solid good listening music.

Think you might mean Sign O the Times

Marrk said:

Opinions. They nearly always differ from mine and my opinion is the only one that matters to me.

Indeed. In the immortal words of Dirty Harry "Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one"

I feel like almost all of his post 80's albums are way underrated, but that's just my opinion.

Classic Prince album in the latter years for Prince

The album contains 3 very good songs: the title track, "Black Sweat" and "Fury". Y'all can keep the rest.

I find it to be enjoyable, middle of the road Prince. Noting earth-shattering. There are few great tracks in my opinion. 3121, Lolita, Black Sweat (although the lead synth kind of hurts my ears these days on certain stereos... getting old I guess).

The rest ranges from pretty decent to not that good. Like, I'd rank Love as okay. Incense suffers from that awful auto-tune - probably my single most hated vocal affect of all time. I pretty much dispise anything that uses it. Fury was better live, but the production here neuters it. The Word - okay I guess. Get on the Boat is a solid effort, but not as strong as others in this vein.

So yeah... not bad. I pop it on once in a while.

by the way, reason for the edits: how in the hell do you put paragraph space breaks on this forum? None of the typical ways work for me.

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Phishanga said:

Unfortunately, that autotune song that I fortunately forgot the name of, is on there, so... Really like the title track and The Word, though.

Yea, but autotune in that song has purpose like some vocal filter -- a nice touch, it's not forced to correct his vocal... Prince is not a crap singer.