dodger said:

Genesia said:

Walk in Sand is a maxipad commercial going somewhere to happen.

Scrolled down waiting for it...

So glad I didn't disappoint.

lustmealways said:

Was Prince even interested in this? There's been only two Prince albums where I've never heard all the songs all the way through. I just couldn't muster the interest. These are 20ten (formulaic Prince) and Hit N Run V.1 (not even like Prince). I 'spose he couldn't win!

RighteousOne said:

Was Prince even interested in this? There's been only two Prince albums where I've never heard all the songs all the way through. I just couldn't muster the interest. These are 20ten (formulaic Prince) and Hit N Run V.1 (not even like Prince). I 'spose he couldn't win!

I'm telling you - this album should've been called "Hip Surgery Blues." He was completely checked out in 2010. He was offered a lump sum to put this on the cover of a newspaper - and he took the money and limped away.

I love Future Soul Song, I like Walk in Sand and Sticky Like Glue minus the rap part. Laydown is ok, too, a bit reminiscent of Days of Wild but the rest of the album is not my cup of tea. I find Everybody Loves Me almost unlistenable.

That´s still three or four songs I really like, and I think those couple of songs mixed with some of the songs on MPLSound would make a good album. Add to that some of the better songs on Lotusflower and you´d have a great double album.

emesem said:

Future Soul Song is the last great Prince song.

Lavaux is fun too. I liked this album.

Future Soul Song sounded great live... I want the expanded songs on the 2010 album Prince was supposed to release...

nayroo2002 said:

The page turner is now on the bottom LEFT!

COOL!!!

So it is. Why is that? And why are you so excited?

I haven't listened in a while, but I'm gonna say I've never liked Compassion (possibly his worst opening track on a vocal album), and I'm not wild about Act of God or Sticky Like Glue (made worse by my having an annoying habit of the phrase "Sticky, sticky like glue" popping into my head and occasionally out of my mouth at inopportune moments), but everything else is somewhere in at least the like range, with Beginning Endlessly and Walk In Sand probably at the top as far as the album goes. Maybe not, as I haven't listened in a while, and the differences in quality aren't really extreme in my opinion. Nothing is top-tier for career as a whole, but most is pretty good.

Except for that horrible shit hop sellout track "Laydown", it's a decent album for one of his 2000s albums. "Lavaux" is the best thing I had heard from him in ages. The synths and falsetto on that track felt a little like the "Old Prince".

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It was a groundbreaking album for me though. The fact that it wasn't available here in the United States, it was the first time that I had to rely on a download and not have a physical copy so that broke up the consistency of having every single physical release in my collection. When I heard "Fart Official Age" and how horrible it sounded, I had no desire to buy it and I actually didn't buy any more of them until "Purple Rain" Deluxe.

vainandy said:

You're right...RICH FRIENDS and AIN'T GONNA MISS U WHEN UR GONE fit very well into this album...were there another released songs around this time which would fit very well and would make this album a better one ?

20Ten is SOTT compared to the atrocities that he released after.

I think the Mirror or someone said it was his best since SOTT lol

It's both underrated and not worth anyone's time unless they're a BIG fan. A blip of an album.

Future Soul Song could probably make a compilation and maybe a live version of Laydown. Lavaux was interesting because it was a direct lift of Automatic by the Pointer Sisters which was sonically mimicking the 1999 sound anyway. I'm fond of the album but I don't point anyone towards it if they're looking for evidence of Prince genius.

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I've always loved that album mostly because of the middle tracks: Sticky Like Glue, Act Of God and Laveaux. Those are a great "triple threat". I don't know if Prince had an agenda with this album (it was unorthodoxically released after all) but I seem to love the albums that had an agenda like TRC or TGE. Or it was just a collection of songs he just wanted to put out this way. Either way, I think 20Ten is a tight little album.

Not enough love for "Laydown" here. Love that track. Just raw and bad ass.

herb4 said:

Not enough love for "Laydown" here. Love that track. Just raw and bad ass.

I've always liked that one, too.

I like Parade.

Sticky Like Glue is great, Laydown is great, Act of God is classic. The only dud is that cutesy tune.

Genesia get back 2 Walk In Sand babe.

I like the record. I wish it had gotten a proper release at the time. Once I was finally able to track it down I thought it was pretty great. The second half is less-than-amazing, but it's got some things I consider classics on the first half.

if more sanitary pad commercials had music like walk in sand, id even buy some.

Pellwormer said:

You're right...RICH FRIENDS and AIN'T GONNA MISS U WHEN UR GONE fit very well into this album...were there another released songs around this time which would fit very well and would make this album a better one ?

Milty2 said:

I've always loved that album mostly because of the middle tracks: Sticky Like Glue, Act Of God and Laveaux. Those are a great "triple threat". I don't know if Prince had an agenda with this album (it was unorthodoxically released after all) but I seem to love the albums that had an agenda like TRC or TGE. Or it was just a collection of songs he just wanted to put out this way. Either way, I think 20Ten is a tight little album.

Yeah, agreed, this is an exellent sequence of songs!

herb4 said:

Not enough love for "Laydown" here. Love that track. Just raw and bad ass.

When the extended version dropped as a d/l on the 3rdeyegirl website, it was like getting a new 12" single back in the 80's

Genesia said:

Walk in Sand is a maxipad commercial going somewhere to happen.

Kind of a bore. It was mellow in a Paul Anka covering Nirvana Smells Like teen spirit way. I do like a few tracks. Favorite by far has always been sticky like glue.