release 2010!!

feeluupp said:

Interesting Sony Legacy released some images and the vinyls appear will be purple...

OMG! They're so beautiful! & COMPLETE -----------!!!!!

The Prince Estate in Partnership with Legacy Recordings Announce First Wave of Physical Titles (CD/Vinyl) in Definitive Catalog Rerelease Project

Musicology, 3121, and Planet Earth Available for the First Time on Vinyl - Friday, February 8, 2019

Prince Music Videos Continue To See Weekly Release On All Streaming Services

Will be buying the vinyl editions of these, and avoiding the purple vinyl editions like the plague.

Facepalm.

Why do they do this gimmicky shit?

I know, I know, 'the kids' love that gimmicky shit = money.

When it comes to vinyl, for me, black is the new black.

Anyway, looking forward to having these on vinyl, even if they are three of Prince's weakest albums, haha.

Rimshottbob said:

Will be buying the vinyl editions of these, and avoiding the purple vinyl editions like the plague.

Facepalm.

Why do they do this gimmicky shit?

I know, I know, 'the kids' love that gimmicky shit = money.

When it comes to vinyl, for me, black is the new black.

Anyway, looking forward to having these on vinyl, even if they are three of Prince's weakest albums, haha.

Sadly the Estate have no idea what the collectors want.

The purple vinyl is becoming a very warn out cliche!!!

I hope they will do something nice with the CD as all of us collectors already have the card slipcase, digipak and jewel case versions and the additional lenticular CD version of Planet Earth.

just got the estate e-mail pitch and the Musicilgoy t-shirt uses Sign O' the Times font! - just bad!!!

Dandroppedadime said:

just got the estate e-mail pitch and the Musicilgoy t-shirt uses Sign O' the Times font! - just bad!!!

The Musicology Tour merchandise used the SOTT font as well as the 1999 logo. It may be because of this. Not an error. These were the official Musicology tour shirts.

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Take my money.

will the cd versions be remastered ??

Rimshottbob said:

Will be buying the vinyl editions of these, and avoiding the purple vinyl editions like the plague.

Facepalm.

Why do they do this gimmicky shit?

I know, I know, 'the kids' love that gimmicky shit = money.

When it comes to vinyl, for me, black is the new black.

Anyway, looking forward to having these on vinyl, even if they are three of Prince's weakest albums, haha.

Speak for yourself! Prince WON TWO GRAMMY'S & A NUMBER ONE DEBUT ALBUM from those so called 'weak albums". Even though they ABSOLUTE WASN'T!

Rimshottbob said:

Will be buying the vinyl editions of these, and avoiding the purple vinyl editions like the plague.

Facepalm.

Why do they do this gimmicky shit?

I know, I know, 'the kids' love that gimmicky shit = money.

When it comes to vinyl, for me, black is the new black.

Anyway, looking forward to having these on vinyl, even if they are three of Prince's weakest albums, haha.

I'll only buy them if they are remastered for vinyl and not the CD master dropped onto the vinyl.

I think 3121 and Planet Earth are strong albums and better then New Power Soul or Rainbow Children, Musicology was ok.

JorisE73 said:

I'll only buy them if they are remastered for vinyl and not the CD master dropped onto the vinyl.

For those outside the U.S. worrying about the price via Amazon etc... I live in the UK and checked how much it would cost to buy the (discounted) 3 album bundle direct from the official website. Price including standard shipping to UK is £77.64 at today's exchange rate (the £ isn't doing so well) but it still looks a cheaper option than buying them seperately from Amazon, HMV etc. I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong

pacey68 said:

For those outside the U.S. worrying about the price via Amazon etc... I live in the UK and checked how much it would cost to buy the (discounted) 3 album bundle direct from the official website. Price including standard shipping to UK is £77.64 at today's exchange rate (the £ isn't doing so well) but it still looks a cheaper option than buying them seperately from Amazon, HMV etc. I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong

Yes, it seems cheaper to post to the UK BUT we would probably get stung for customs, VAT at 20% adds roughly £15.

Then we would be charged a handling fee of £8 by Parcel Force as it enters the country to inform us that we need to pay the customs the £15.

Now it is £23 added. Not much to seperate the pair of them pricewise but if they arrive damaged I know it is a lot easier to return them to amazon.

My figures could be a bit off but and the parcel may slip into the country without attracting any additional fees but it isn't worth the trouble in my opinion.

Are these curretly available for pre-order on Amazon? I can't find them outside of the official estate website...

ThirdStrike said:

Are these curretly available for pre-order on Amazon? I can't find them outside of the official estate website...

If you mean amazon UK, check here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Musicology-VINYL-Prince/dp/B07K138YRW/?tag=sdepcw-21

https://www.amazon.co.uk/3121-VINYL-Prince/dp/B07JZB8FWH/?tag=sdepcw-21

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Earth-VINYL-Prince/dp/B07K17N46R/?tag=sdepcw-21

jaawwnn said:

Yeah I dunno, I might get them if they get a non coloured vinyl release and they sound good? I suspect they will just be CD's pressed to vinyl. I kind of feel my money might be better spent seeking out some more obscure 80's and 90's vinyl releases I still don't have.

That's sound judgment.

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What great pleasure it is to repeatadly have to wade through the comments of two individuals debating the correct interpretation of sale figures for different albums, thread after thread... yawn...

Tried to order these from the official store, 77 USD shipping charge (to Europe) and only one shipping option, so I cancelled and ordered from Amazon (thereby missing the T shirts I wanted to include with my order). I wrote to the store and asked them to review their shipping policy (and price options). If others agree, if we had a number of such emails, it might spark an interest with them. They're loosing business as is.

Peace and love to all.

ChocolateBox3121 said:

Rimshottbob said:

Will be buying the vinyl editions of these, and avoiding the purple vinyl editions like the plague.

Facepalm.

Why do they do this gimmicky shit?

I know, I know, 'the kids' love that gimmicky shit = money.

When it comes to vinyl, for me, black is the new black.

Anyway, looking forward to having these on vinyl, even if they are three of Prince's weakest albums, haha.

Speak for yourself! Prince WON TWO GRAMMY'S & A NUMBER ONE DEBUT ALBUM from those so called 'weak albums". Even though they ABSOLUTE WASN'T!

Of course I'm speaking for myself. Who else would I be speaking for.

Musicology was not bad... 3121 and Planet Earth verge on plastic garbage, some of the least inspired music of his career - a shadow of his former self....

And you may be the first person, well, ever, to equate Grammys and number ones with musical quality.... they don't have anything to do with each other.

I'll still buy them, haha.

And also, yes, these better be properly mastered for vinyl, not the shitty, brickwalled CD versions... I bought the 'semi-official', 'DJ version' or whatever it was of Musicology on vinyl years back. Sounded like shit. Kicked its arse out the door.

add the best of those 3 albums and u get 2 great albums

djThunderfunk said:

JorisE73 said:

I'll only buy them if they are remastered for vinyl and not the CD master dropped onto the vinyl.

how do we find out? these albums aren't likely to get pressed again. it'd be nice to know before spending the dough...

luvsexy4all said:

add the best of those 3 albums and u get 2 great albums

Kind of agree... I think Musicology is a very average album, 3121 is a little bit better in terms of stronger stand out songs... While the "musicianship" is always "good"... Planet Earth is one of the most dull and boring Prince albums, which is sad to consider a "Prince" album, when a Prince album was always sought to have an eclectic energy to it, Planet Earth is so boring...

But if you take the best songs from each... I could only say you would have ONE AVERAGE album... There was nothing spectacular from those 3 albums that you could call it "genius" or even compare to Prince's heyday of song writing and making...

peedub said:

djThunderfunk said:

how do we find out? these albums aren't likely to get pressed again. it'd be nice to know before spending the dough...

I expect we won't know until they ship and some who purchase (and can tell the difference) give us some reviews. I doubt they'll give us the details ahead of release. Hope I'm wrong.

RODSERLING said:

3121 IS thé last great Prince album. It's maybe the only album since Lovesexy where every track is strong, there is not one filler in it. . I think it s the last time Prince achieved this degree of excellence in his music, as if he were 25 years old, and not 48. . It s fun, smart, groovy, musically accessible and eclectic. . Musicology is good too, Planet Earth is more lazy but is easily listenable too. Far better than most of its 90'release. [Edited 12/13/18 14:03pm]

BURRRRRRRRP

darkroman said:

feeluupp said:

Great news... Wonder what happened with the WB re releases for vinyl... It stopped at SOTT if I remember correctly.

Didn't they announce The Black Album too last year then cancelled that re release.

It was a shame the follow-up releases were cancelled.

From my understanding the cancelled vinyl reissues are;

Black - I don't know what the scheduled date was.
Lovesxy - 31 December 2016.
Graffiti Bridge - 22 November 2016.
Diamonds & Pearls - 22 November 2016.
Symbol - 31 December 2016.
Batman - 31 December 2016.

Hopefully the Sony re-issues will give us vinyl formats we don't have as everyone will already have the CDs.

Time will tell.

Yep, I pre-ordereed all of these (except The Black Album) from Amazon back then and then I got an e-mail stating that they had been cancelled.

[Edited 12/13/18 16:25pm]

RODSERLING said:

3121 IS thé last great Prince album. It's maybe the only album since Lovesexy where every track is strong, there is not one filler in it. . I think it s the last time Prince achieved this degree of excellence in his music, as if he were 25 years old, and not 48. . It s fun, smart, groovy, musically accessible and eclectic. . Musicology is good too, Planet Earth is more lazy but is easily listenable too. Far better than most of its 90'release. [Edited 12/13/18 14:03pm]

Yes, there is no filler on it.... errrrr,

excepting, of course,

Love

Lolita

Beautiful, Loved And Blessed

The Word

possibly also Fury in this anaemic rendering...

but that's only 1/3 of the album.

Rimshottbob said:

RODSERLING said:

3121 IS thé last great Prince album. It's maybe the only album since Lovesexy where every track is strong, there is not one filler in it. . I think it s the last time Prince achieved this degree of excellence in his music, as if he were 25 years old, and not 48. . It s fun, smart, groovy, musically accessible and eclectic. . Musicology is good too, Planet Earth is more lazy but is easily listenable too. Far better than most of its 90'release. [Edited 12/13/18 14:03pm]

Yes, there is no filler on it.... errrrr,

excepting, of course,

Love

Lolita

Beautiful, Loved And Blessed

The Word

possibly also Fury in this anaemic rendering...

but that's only 1/3 of the album.

Just delete your account and start over. Maybe even shut down your Internet provider.

feeluupp said:

Musicology was released as a promo on vinyl... 3121 there is some debate, if it ever was released as a promo, they said that one "released" was actually a boot.

Hmm. I have a promo copy of 3121. I hope it's not a boot