I saw Crystal Ball for 21.99 at NB Comics and I was wondering if it was worth getting? I am a huge fan of Prince songs like 'Extra Lovable', 'Cross The Line', etc. Any stuff like that on there? Keep in mind I am quite tolerant for unfinished boot material

No dont get it. You're a Prince fan but you ask about CB purchase etc? Deep down there is malice here.

Don't be paranoid... so not cool for a Stones fan?

WatchThemFall said:

Ok if I am not paranoid than for a Prince fan thats so idiotic of a question..gee..should I get a 3 cd set of Prince music or not. There is malice here.

Frankie Says 'Relax', I am a huge Prince fan in the KAZAA sense.

In other words I dont want to be too disappointed, see-what-I'm-saying?

Yes, get Crystal Ball!

Aside from a few unnecessary remixes (P Control, Get Loose) and a few novelties (like Cloreen Bacon Skin), Crystal Ball is perfect. Plus, it might come with a 4th disc called The Truth (which is great too).

You're lucky to have avoided the fiasco surrounding the Internet/public release of this package! That's the only thing that soured most people to CB.

Get it, enjoy it. It's good!

WatchThemFall said:

... Frankie say Arm The Politician

The Truth alone is worth the $20.

buy the muthafucka

Se7en said:

HOLD UP HOLD UP HOLD UP!!!


Cloreen Bacon Skin is 2 funky!
its just silly jamming,but its funky,funny,just amusing.
like Bob George...its stupid,funny,musically funky as hell.

its all there

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I actually listen to CB as a full album,far more cohesive than Emancipation in some ways. It's awesome.

And Tommy Mottola is gone gone GONE! Gone to hell!

Cloreen Bacon Skin is worth the 20 dollars because you have never heard anything like this in your life and once you hear it, you never will hear anything like it again.

Oh yes

Much loce Pochacco

It's a great set with some amazing songs on it. And they're
all in good soundquality compared to what you can dowload
at Kazaa.

But beyond the 'vault' songs on the first 3 discs, the set
is worth 10 x it's money because it includes "The Truth" cd
which is the best thing o(+> [not Prince] ever released.


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[This message was edited Sat Feb 1 4:10:18 PST 2003 by IstenSzek]

Se7en said:

DEAR WATCHTHEMFALL:

Let ME set you STRAIGHT on "Crystal Ball; most of the people on this site are delusional and subjective to the point of embarassing themselves, just like poor "Se7en" above!Let me help you see the light!

HERE is "The TRUTH" about "CB": READ!:

1) There are only 8 good songs out of 30:

Crystal Ball
Acknowledge Me
Movie Star
Crucial
Good Love
Last Heart
The Ride
Goodbye

**These are songs that would have been decent filler on any of his "real" releases.


CRYSTAL BALL IS NOT A SERIOUS ATTTEMPT AT A COMPILATION WITH A THEME,VISION,STATEMENT,or PRODUCTION! It is just a bunch of songs. That is ALL.

There is NOTHING that could have been a single. NOTHING that would have stood out on a real album, save the title track. MANY sound like Prince just killing a day in the studio, like an artist just goofing off in a sketchbook.

The following songs, BELIEVE ME, you could enjoy the rest of your life without ever hearing:

1) Dream Factory: poor rythym,melody, and vocals colliding into an unpleasant chant.

2) LoveSign Remix: a LAZY, uninvolving (boring) remix of the dud single: LAME

3) Hide the Bone: in pretty pedestrian,with stupid lyrics and a very annoying vocal--typical of his sup-par 90's malaise. Useless.

4) Tell Me How U wanna Be Done: JUST listen to the end of "The Continental" over and over and over... and imagine a faster machine drumbeat underneath

5) So Dark: Just "Dark" with LESS r&b twinges and more bass-...that's ALL.

6) Ripopgodazippa: da-da da-da-da-da, da-da da-da-da-da, da-da da-da-da-da...thats the rythym OVER AND OVER AND OVER accompanied to the stupid sex lyrics of 90's Prince.

7) 2Morrow: this song is GAY. GAY, GAY, GAY. Faggy organ and vocals. You will HATE this song.

8) Interactive: Picked up my paper today/blah,blah,guess what they say/blah,blahblah,blahh blah: Interactive! This will make your ears bleed from the pain.

9) Da Bang: Fans will make you believe this track is good because of the guitar. It is noise. AGAIN: lyrics with a rythym na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na like RIPPOP or Days of Wild. It's a DRONING, DRONING stupidity

10) What's My Name: He hardly can even bring himself to put ANY energy into the indulgent lyrics - some nonsense about coffee and cream

11) Sexual Suicide: When "Girls & Boys" goes BAD

12) Cloreen Baconskin: a complete slap in the face in exchange for your $$$ unnless you ENJOY a 15min. drumbeat with nonsense free-association lyrics spoken with a voice needing a lozenge

13) Strays of the World: How embarassing "STHrrrays of the WURRRldd, all you boys and gurrrls/welcome 2...this is BAD showtune camp

14) Days Of Wild: rythym: nuh-nuh...nuhnuhnuhnuhnuh/ nuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhnuhn,,,you get the picture,,,Fans will tell you they like this song but just because he swears a lot, and Prince fans love lyrics like "jockstrap full of jizz"

15) She Gave Her Angels: Mayte-era suckiness with Emancipation minimal instrumentals.

16) P Control and Get Loose!: more of the crappy remixes you never wanted

17) 18 & over: it'll give you epilepsy, that repetitive loop--and lyrics that are not as sexy as Prince thinks, just embarassinng. AGAIN Prince fans will say it's cool, but they are just Pavlov's dogs about any sex song


WATCHTHEMFALL:

EVERY single time I played this album in front of friends, they ALL thought it was SHIT. In my car, at work...EVERYBODY HATED this disc. Specifically Interactive, Days of Wild, 18& Over,...and they are RIGHT! It DOES SUCK!! Girls, women, guys,.. they all thought it was annoying and bad. It's the worst reaction I ever got from playing Prince. Listen to your friends!! Sometimes they see clearer than Prince fans caught up in it all.

...AS for "The Truth",,,the songwriting IS good, BUT: the execution and musicianship is NOT why ANYONE buys a Prince album. There is not a solid standout in the heap. Prince fans want ANY album to say is good from Prince's late-90's downfall and this is elected by default.

Go buy "Grafitti Bridge" instead! "Can't Stop This Feelinng I got", New Power Generation" "The Question of U", "We Can Funk" "Joy in Repitition" and "Still Would Stand All Time" kick the paisley ass of any CB songs. Fand knock GB but most fans are idiots.

Joshy84au-

I never said Cloreen Bacon Skin wasn't funky! I agree, it IS funky!

I simply said it was a "novelty", kinda like Movie Star. Novelties are great too, they're just not "songs".

lovebird said:

And I think God for that.

pimpytheclown said:

pimpytheclown said:

Pimpy
Crystal Ball shits ALL over Graffiti Bridge ANYDAY!!

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dont think so, crystal ball is shit outtakes, graffiti bridge is a masterpiece

name me songs on crystal ball that r better than

1 elephants and flowers
2 question of u
3 joy in repitition
4 thieves in the temple
5 still would stand all time

???

FunkyBrotha said:

Hmm-lemme see!!
1-Crystal Ball
2-Goodbye
3-Ok...Joy is pretty near perfection
4-Acknowledge Me
5-Crucial

Nuff said!

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Go and buy the thing. When it came out everyone paid about $40.00 or so for this, and that was only $10 per disc.

Your getting a deal for any prince at $5 per disc. Some great stuff on there and not some. Just like every Prince cd. But the TRUTH is original and great by itself.

You won't be disappointed.

Peace.

pimpytheclown said:

Wow.

I disagree with your opinions about CB, but I think you should get some sort of Prince.org extra credit points for taking the time to actually write all that.

SUCH PASSION

pimpytheclown said:

jesus christ, i can see a blood vessel exploding on your temple while you wrote that. have you pondered hacking into prince.org, tracing his ip, finding out where he lives and paying a visit to his house? then you can tie him up and give him a more detailed explantion complete with audio samples as to why he should not and will not (because you told him so) buy it.

Wow, that was back in the day when you could get a 4 CD set for under $40. Nowdays it costs $100 and takes just as long to arrive at your door as the original CB fiacso.

You could get a used copy at Wherehouse for $6.99-- I've seen a few copies at the one close to where I live in Chicago-- and no one buys them still...

FunkyBrotha said:

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