*** I considered it a bit of a throw-away at the time. But I recently revisted Planet Earth, after imupulse-buying the vinyl, and I can say now it's turned into one of my fave later-era Prince albums. I can't get enough of it. I was NOT a fan when it came out...esp the title track and Guitar...but even those have become faves. Chelsea Rogers is cranked up at this very moment

***New Power Soul the album and Come are also slow burners for me. Both were pretty much ignored when they were released and now have been in heavy rotation years later...

Anyone else have a few slow growers??

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Poplife88 said:

*** I considered it a bit of a throw-away at the time. But I recently revisted Planet Earth, after imupulse-buying the vinyl, and I can say now it's turned into one of my fave later-era Prince albums. I can't get enough of it. I was NOT a fan when it came out...esp the title track and Guitar...but even those have become faves. Chelsea Rogers is cranked up at this very moment

***New Power Soul the album and Come are also slow burners for me. Both were pretty much ignored when they were released and now have been in heavy rotation years later...

Anyone else have a few slow growers??

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Planet Earth for me, also. I love every bit of it except that weird bridge in the title song that seems to come out of nowhere. Guitar has always been a jam.

But my BIG rediscovery has beenChaos and Disorder. I love everything on that one.

So much music.

Wolfie87 said:

I recently went to the gym with Graffiti Bridge from start to finish. Up until Tick, tick Bang it's an absolute pleasure and stunning experience to go through. Yes, there is also room for sequence with Tevin and it fits (!!). After Tick, tick bang though it takes a massive dive. And it's that combined with one of the worst big block buster movies that makes this album a definite failure. [Edited 7/1/21 12:59pm]

Graffiti Bridge was a big blockbuster film?

For You

laytonian said:

runningbear said:

Disliked Diamonds and Pearls. Slowly was okay with it, but when technology came around and I was able to edit Tony M. out, it was much, much better. But it still feels disjointed in some way. Putting things like "Strollin'" and "Daddy Pop" or "Push" on the same record is a bold choice.

I do think Graffiti Bridge would've been better as just a Prince record.

I still don't like, and probably never will, The Rainbow Children. I'm not big on Musicology, but enjoy 3121 and Planet Earth (mostly).

I can't think of anything relevant or interesting on the Lotusflow3r set.

For You was a grower. So new, polished, smooth, very much unlike his stuff later.

TrivialPursuit said:

trivialpursuit's hatred of the god tier tony m is my least favorite schtick on the site

Phase3 said:

You don't like "colonized mind"?

I just never listened to the album much. I tried, but I didn't get into it. It's not that "Colonized Mind" is bad. I don't recall enough about the album to reference it.

runningbear said:

For You

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Me too.

Now it is one of my favourites even.

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runningbear said:

For You

OMG, yes! This one too. I never gave this one the time of day when I picked it up in the 80s. But back in the mid-90s when we all CD changers, I put For You in there when we had some friends over. When it came on and we all realized how great it really is. Crazy You is one of my absolute fave songs from him.

For You was his weakest album until probably Diamonds & Pearls. In Love, Crazy You and I'm Yours don't quite work. Trust me. I'm a musicologist.

fortuneandserendipity said:

Listen to 'Vault 77-78' to hear how good For You could have been.

fortuneandserendipity said:

Listen to 'Vault 77-78' to hear how good For You could have been.

I've heard them...Yep, it prolly would've been stronger after hearing those tracks. But musicologist aside, Crazy You is amazing imo and I return to the album regularly...so there!

New Power Soul. I hated it when it first came out,years and years later. I enjoy it as a funky album to listen to while driving.

Wolfie87 said:

laytonian said:

Graffiti Bridge was a big blockbuster film?

High budget film or whatever you want to call it. A big studio behind it (WB) and his return to the big screen. I was just 3 years old, but from what I can gather, that movie was going to be big. His Purple Rain II to kickstart the 90's. But it's atrocious. There was literally pouring out steam from the hot chili peppers. Cartoon from the getgo.

It wasn't big-budget; it was low budget (about the same as Purple Rain's production costs).
A blockbuster film is one which makes many times its original investment.

laytonian said:

Wolfie87 said:

laytonian said:

It wasn't big-budget; it was low budget (about the same as Purple Rain's production costs).
A blockbuster film is one which makes many times its original investment.

Wrong of me then. Looks expensive though. And extremely artificial. There is literally no natural lighting in the entire movie, except when Prince and Ingrid walks the streets of MPLS.

"Billie Jean" looks better as a cityscape than the sets Prince put up in Paisley Park for Graffiti Bridge. Ain't no goddam high budget movie pulling out an old ass Ghostbusters-esque ambulance and whisking a girl off site unseen like that.

Like Mico said, "Damn this is embarassing!"

Rainbow Children springs to mind.

When I first listened to it, I thought my man had lost his fucking mind.

The Truth also took a while to grow on me once I passed the first 2 songs.

Welcome 2 America! (hopefully!)

The Album that had that effect on me was Lovesexy.