I personally loved it then, and appreciate it more now. The Dance, The Word, Fury all are killer songs. That 2003-2006 is the last era of Prince that I really loved.

3121, the song, is an ABSOLUTE MONSTER JAM.

And Fury is a killer track too, albeit live it was even better.

Black Sweat really holds up as well.

In all, it's a decent album with a few fantastic tracks. Definately in Prince's Top Half of albums, I'd say.

I love it. Black Sweat, 3121, Fury, etc. are some of my favorite 00's songs from him, and actually rate up there in his whole catalog.

Lolita doesn't bother me too much, but I can't say I'd ever seek it out to play on its own. The one song that bothers me probably the most is Incense & Candles, specifically the Auto-Tune intro. Again, I don't seek this song out but I'll let it play out if it comes on.

The song that surprised me the most was Beautiful, Loved And Blessed. I love how mature Prince sounds on it.

3121, LotusFlow3r and The Rainbow Children, are (to me) his best albums of the 00's.

RJOrion said:

i can only think of 3 Prince albums that i enjoy or play, less: Chaos And Disorder Planet Earth The Gold Experience theres not 1 song on 3121 that i would miss if i never heard it again... and at least Planet Earth had Chelsea Rodgers TGE had Shy and Shhh Chaos & Disorder had Dinner With Delores.. there are no personal favorites on 3121 for me...

Definitely rank it alongside Planet Earth, 20Ten etc for dullness. Just sounds so flat and uninspired. And yes, like all his albums, there are a few nice production touches and a couple of nice melodies but overall, truly average.

I like the album

I enjoyed it from the get go. "3121" is a great stand-alone track. The fact that Sonny & Michael played on it make it only better. You can hear it's just a jam underneath (much like he took IGBABN and made it into a song). "Lolita" feels demo-y to me.

3121 - one of the funkier things he'd done in recent years

Lolita - demo-feeling kitschy

Te Amo Corazon - a nice little ballad; beautiful video

Black Sweat - in a minority here but it's my least favorite song. It's screechy and annoying

Incense and Candles - It's okay, nothing special, feels like a cousin to "The Sun, the Moon & Stars", the vocoder effects are a bit blood-curling

Love - a favorite; musically it's a bit thin but perhaps on purpose to show off the lyrics which are great, I really feel that song

Satisfied - one of his better sexy ballads in recent years

Fury - a great song, needed a live "band" take on it (why didn't he record this with Sonny & Michael???)

The Word - a mid-tempo semi-etheral dogma-laced chant; almost comes across as a meditation, not horrible

Beautiful Loved & Blessed - a pretty song, not sure why some fans scoffed at it so much (I remember negativity around a song literally about self-positivity)

The Dance - a much better version than the 2004 NPGMC version

Get On The Boat - musically fun, but lyrically a commercial for his local Kingdom Hall.

I like it. It's not my top 5, but I do enjoy most songs on the album.

The Dance is pure Prince. Great song!

Initially thought it had a few good tracks, especially 3121, but mostly wasn't too in to it and rarely listened to it.

Then about a year ago, popped the CD in the car and really fell for it. I think it's a really strong late album. For me, only 2 tracks I don't care for, 6 good songs and 4 stand out.

Certainly not top 10, but probably floating around 15 - 20th.

TrivialPursuit said:

I enjoyed it from the get go. "3121" is a great stand-alone track. The fact that Sonny & Michael played on it make it only better. You can hear it's just a jam underneath (much like he took IGBABN and made it into a song). "Lolita" feels demo-y to me.

3121 - one of the funkier things he'd done in recent years

Lolita - demo-feeling kitschy

Te Amo Corazon - a nice little ballad; beautiful video

Black Sweat - in a minority here but it's my least favorite song. It's screechy and annoying

Incense and Candles - It's okay, nothing special, feels like a cousin to "The Sun, the Moon & Stars", the vocoder effects are a bit blood-curling

Love - a favorite; musically it's a bit thin but perhaps on purpose to show off the lyrics which are great, I really feel that song

Satisfied - one of his better sexy ballads in recent years

Fury - a great song, needed a live "band" take on it (why didn't he record this with Sonny & Michael???)

The Word - a mid-tempo semi-etheral dogma-laced chant; almost comes across as a meditation, not horrible

Beautiful Loved & Blessed - a pretty song, not sure why some fans scoffed at it so much (I remember negativity around a song literally about self-positivity)

The Dance - a much better version than the 2004 NPGMC version

Get On The Boat - musically fun, but lyrically a commercial for his local Kingdom Hall.

Last Prince album that had any enjoyable songs for me. Liked 3121, Beuatiful Loved, and Get On The Boat.

I really like it. Don't care much for Incense and Candles but there's a lot of great stuff on there for me.

To me "The Word" was an immediate standout track. Absolutely love it. Unfortunately I played it to death, and have to hear it sparingly now. Always loved "Beautiful, Loved & Blessed". I kind of like "Fury" but the SNL version was sooo much better, that I can't help but wish I was listening to that version rather than the album version. "Love" is decent.

3121 is deeply dissatisfying, despite fine tracks like "Fury" and "Black Sweat."

I haven't played the entire album in years.

Between Musicology and 3121 you can just about scrape a half decent late-era pop album together, but there's nothing on there that truly shines. It's a tighter Rave, a less lazy NPS. A safe follow-up to a safe comeback album.

The title track is fun but goes nowhere (this is what the old 12" mixes were for), Black Sweat was a (kind of) hit and deservedly so, although I don't personally like it. Nothing else of note really, lots of treading water and ticking of boxes (guitar pop, check, seduction ballad check, funk workout check...)

The WHOLE 3121 concept was incredible! The album, show performances,Vegas run,movie, exclusive ULTRA private hotel & house parties etc. It was FUN TIMES for me!

The 3121 album also debuted at number#1 selling over a half a million copies.It became the first Prince(r.i.p) album ever to debut at number 1, with 183,436 sold in its first week. It was also Prince's(r.i.p) first number #1 album since the multi platinum 1989's MEGA hit Batman soundtrack.

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It is one of my top five favorite albums.

3121 -- amazing song. It's funky, it's original, it's got a great hook, it's weird... It's everything you'd want in a Prince song. One of my favorite songs of all time.

Lolita -- a gimmick song. I don't mind it, but I often skip it.

Te Amo Corazon -- a nice song, and I respect that Prince once again explored a completely new genre of music.

Black Sweat -- the only song on the album I strongly dislike. I find the synth to be annoying like fingers on a chalkboard.

Love -- It may be a throw-away pop song, but it's incredibly catchy. It's better than most any other throw-away pop songs you'll hear on the radio.

Fury -- pretty good, but I'm not as in love with it as many fans. To me it sounds like derivative rock.

The Word -- Like Love it's a throw-away pop song. It's not as good as Love, but it's got a great hook. Very easy to listen to.

Beautiful Loved & Blessed -- I should hate this song. I'm cynical and can't stand self-affirmation. But the melody is infectious. In fact, it's my second favorite song on the album after 3121.

Get on the Boat -- it's okay. I said Fury was a derivative rock song. Similarly, I think this is a derivative funk song.

I'm ambivalent about Incense and Candles, Satisfied and The Dance.

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Surprised at the dislike/indifference to "Lolita" here. It's one of my favorites from that period.

The title track is up there with other classic P joints. I like about half of the album. Plus, had been waiting twenty years for P to ask me to skate. /finally

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