ahhh. Simpler times... when we'd wait for news about a Paisley Park After Dark party or random hitnrun show or new single or even album

I remember i woke up and i didn't even use itunes but i heard Prince dropped a new track and I felt like i had a duty to pay for the single out of respect to my hero Prince.

I listened to this with my headphones in bed basically and wow.... i was like "whoa Prince is really going for a modern-ish sound now"

and even tho I went on to hate on Phase One, i eventually matured and actually grew to love the album. The mastering is...yeah, too loud. But besides that, I think Joshua Welton did a damn good job for what he was going for. I mean who knows what to do when you're asked by Prince himself to PRODUCE HIS ALBUM??.... and also fuse Prince's sound with an EDM sound..... considering all of that, he did a great job

how does this track and this album hold up for you? do you miss these days? I know i sure do.

AvocadosMax said:

ahhh. Simpler times... when we'd wait for news about a Paisley Park After Dark party or random hitnrun show or new single or even album

I remember i woke up and i didn't even use itunes but i heard Prince dropped a new track and I felt like i had a duty to pay for the single out of respect to my hero Prince.

I listened to this with my headphones in bed basically and wow.... i was like "whoa Prince is really going for a modern-ish sound now"

and even tho I went on to hate on Phase One, i eventually matured and actually grew to love the album. The mastering is...yeah, too loud. But besides that, I think Joshua Welton did a damn good job for what he was going for. I mean who knows what to do when you're asked by Prince himself to PRODUCE HIS ALBUM??.... and also fuse Prince's sound with an EDM sound..... considering all of that, he did a great job

how does this track and this album hold up for you? do you miss these days? I know i sure do.

For me...I liked it a lot..because it was fresh and a new sound to me.

There were some songs by Prince in the former years that bored me or they were repetitive ...so this was good..in my opinion ...and a lot more on headphones, even if it wasn't that quality the songs in the 80ies were.

Pellwormer said:

AvocadosMax said:

how does this track and this album hold up for you? do you miss these days? I know i sure do.

For me...I liked it a lot..because it was fresh and a new sound to me.

There were some songs by Prince in the former years that bored me or they were repetitive ...so this was good..in my opinion ...and a lot more on headphones, even if it wasn't that quality the songs in the 80ies were.

right!

Now, Art Official Age and two or three tracks off Plectrum, I LOVED.

But Planet Earth, most of MPLSound and 20ten was meh.

HitNRun Phase Two, though, I felt was great. it was like a 57 year old Prince being young again but with all these toys (Horn Heads or NPGHorns and also Stringenius) but with the knowledge and wisdom of older Prince....

I only like two, maybe three songs on this album and find it almost unlistenable. I´m glad he released Phase 2, which is more to my liking. I liked AOC but AOC and Phase 1´s "EDM" inspired tracks are songs that I always skip and that I find absolutely unlistenable.

I understand that Josh and Prince were close and that Prince obviously liked him a lot but that doesn´t mean that he was the right person to co-produce Prince´s music.

I say it all the time. There is a stretch of songs from "Fallinlove2nite" to "June" (minus "Mr. Nelson") that are some of the greatest songs of his later career!

These albums are slightly less cohesive but otherwise musically better than D&P or .

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Never liked it.

Although I have to admid it has 1 moment i like; This Could Be Us.

But I do not understand what this song does on this ... album.

Josh 'woosh' Welton... in nearly every goddamn track he had these annoying

wooshes and out of fashion production.

First song is a 3:10 opening with a 40 seconds intro full of snippets of P's older songs?

Really ? How original. How promising. What does it acutally have to do with the rest of the album ?

HardRockLover sounds forced and just a two chord redundant throwaway to me.`Sorry folks.

He easily could've given it to Tina Turner or Deborah Allen, who would've made it better.

The whole production lacked 'space'. Funk needs space.

An absolute uncohesive album to me.

Most songs lack of the weak production of Joshua, and sound like second hand b-star britpop.

Prince's mind must've been somewhere else at that point.

What the hell made him decide to let another jehova guy produce him we'll never really know.

Bash me.

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