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Thread started 04/09/21 9:29am

lurker316

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3121 the song (not the album)


I recently started a thread about how much I love the song Lovesexy and was surprised to learn other fans also love it. I had a similar experience with 3121. That's my favorite song from his post-2000 career. I thought other fans might like it (I didn't expect it to be a hated song), but I didn't think other people would rate it as highly as I do.

However, it came in #1 on the Peach & Black Podcast's poll of the Top 20 songs of the 2000s. In fact, they said it wasn't even close -- it was #1 by a mile. I was happy, but surprised.


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Reply #1 posted 04/09/21 9:39am

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Out of context on the album, but a great jam on it's own, although too short for that monster groove.

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Reply #2 posted 04/09/21 9:49am

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An excellent song with quite a hypnotic groove...Although I prefer live versions of it more, where the bass is a little heavier.

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Reply #3 posted 04/09/21 9:50am

lurker316

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nayroo2002 said:

Out of context on the album, but a great jam on it's own, although too short for that monster groove.


Agreed on both counts. Doesn't totally fit with the rest of the album... and there should be a much longer version. I'm hoping there's one in the vault we eventually get to hear,



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Reply #4 posted 04/09/21 10:12am

LoveGalore
Actually I was blown away when I heard it. I was fully expecting a continuation of what he did with Musicology and whatnot which I thought was a decent album but not one I was super jazzed about. This track changed that.

The trio of Prince, Bland, and Thompson is gold. Period. I don't think Prince ever sounded more at home than with these two and it shines on a song like this which is loose, weird, stanky, futuristic but also old school, and just quintessential Prince. His best late career title track, imo.
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Reply #5 posted 04/09/21 10:18am

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PurpleColossus said:

An excellent song with quite a hypnotic groove...Although I prefer live versions of it more, where the bass is a little heavier.

The Live versions Thump! Love this track. Another song that wudve been tight as a 12"...those were the days.

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Reply #6 posted 04/09/21 10:25am

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I remember the moment I really dug into the song. I like his combination of his lower register and high pitched camille-esque voice.
Sometimes I'll put Wall of Berlin on right after just to see what could of been, a lot of the 2006-2008 material was interconnected!
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Reply #7 posted 04/09/21 10:33am

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Love the Song! For me the best Version is BET Award with Will.
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Reply #8 posted 04/09/21 11:10am

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"3131" & "Boom" and "From the Lotus" & "Back 2 the Lotus" all share similar sound effects and underlying vocal gasps and groans.

They should have been in a sequence!

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Reply #9 posted 04/09/21 11:41am

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Nice revisit of the Days of Wild groove. Shame we never got the original 'From the Lotus flower' configuration to hear it in context.
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Reply #10 posted 04/09/21 1:09pm

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I like the song

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Reply #11 posted 04/09/21 3:49pm

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In some ways, "3121" remixes of "The Exodus Has Begun." Both are a bottom heavy jam, weird vocals and odd sections thrown in seemingly random, but wholly planned out. I also enjoy the fact that Sonny T. and Michael B. are on it.

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Reply #12 posted 04/09/21 3:57pm

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The First Avenue 7-7-2007 performance of 3121 is my favorite.

I highly recommend seeking it out if your dig this track, its a monster groove live.

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Reply #13 posted 04/09/21 8:51pm

RODSERLING
I loved when it came in, but now I think the harmonies are terrible and the sound oversaturated.
It could have been great, like a SOTT track, but the Prince of the 2000's didn't care much about the dynamic of the sound.

It really sounds ugly to me now that my ears are more " Experienced".
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