Rave In2 (Prefered because it has Beautiful Strange)

Rave Un2

The Truth

Chocolate Invasion
One Nite Alone

Slaughterhouse

PurpleColossus said:

Rave In2 (Prefered because it has Beautiful Strange)

Rave Un2

The Truth

Chocolate Invasion
One Nite Alone

Slaughterhouse

In this order:

One Nite Alone... (Piano)

The Chocolate Invasion

The Slaughterhouse

The Truth

Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Of the ones you listed, the only one I like is the Truth. I hate the rest and never listen to them.

How are you defining the pre-Musicology era?

He released Musicology, The Choloate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse all at the same time 2004, so those are contemporary with Musicology, not "pre" ... unless you're basing your list on the fact that most of their tracks were released as stand-alone internet singles earlier in the decade?

You reach all the way back to Truth, which was released in 1998, six years before Musicology. That's a pretty substantial gap. If you're going to include the Truth, why not its companion release, Crystal Ball?

It's your criteria, so if you want to go all the way back to the Truth, fair enough. But you skip multiple albums between the Truth and Musiciology, to include The Rainbow Children, NEWS and Xpectation. I can kind of understand skipping the two intstrumental albums, but Rainbow Children has to be included, doesn't it?

If you include Rainbow Children, that would be at the top of my list, followed by the Truth, and then nothing else from your list.

Chocolate Invasion ( One of last of his releases that I heard, and what a pleasant surprise)

Rave In2

Rave Un2

One Night Alone

The Truth

The Slaughterhouse ( by far my least favorite)

lurker316 said:

NoSwan said:

The Rainbow Children is pure Prince. Unpredictable, edgy, funky, lascivious, visionary and MF preachy in His Royal Own Way.

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One of my fave all time albums. Some people dislike it because of the lyrics, but the music is amazing.

OperatingThetan said:

lurker316 said:

Of the ones you listed, the only one I like is the Truth. I hate the rest and never listen to them.

How are you defining the pre-Musicology era?

He released Musicology, The Choloate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse all at the same time 2004, so those are contemporary with Musicology, not "pre" ... unless you're basing your list on the fact that most of their tracks were released as stand-alone internet singles earlier in the decade?

You reach all the way back to Truth, which was released in 1998, six years before Musicology. That's a pretty substantial gap. If you're going to include the Truth, why not its companion release, Crystal Ball?

It's your criteria, so if you want to go all the way back to the Truth, fair enough. But you skip multiple albums between the Truth and Musiciology, to include The Rainbow Children, NEWS and Xpectation. I can kind of understand skipping the two intstrumental albums, but Rainbow Children has to be included, doesn't it?

If you include Rainbow Children, that would be at the top of my list, followed by the Truth, and then nothing else from your list.

The material on The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse dates back to the first year of the NPGMC in 2001 when it was originally released in monthly installments. Several limited CD singles of 'Supercute', 'Daisy Chain' and others were also released in 2000 and considered for the 'High' album planned for release that year. So all this material is a direct follow-up to 'Rave'. 'Rave In2' was also originally released on CD by mail to NPGMC year one members only.

Excatly. I acknowledged in my post that the songs on the two NPGMC albums could be considered pre-Musicology era because they were released individually at earlier dates.

But that doesn't answer why he decided to go back as far as the Truth ... or why he skipped Rainbow Children.

lurker316 said:

Although I've warmed up to it over the last five years, I've never really cared for Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic. An album predicated on the ridiculous idea that it's "produced by Prince," who was a better editor than The Artist. An album where the title track was pretty much the same as the original from over a decade earlier. An album that has guest stars that, with the exception of Chuck D., might as well not even be listed because you would never know they were there if you weren't told that they were.

I like components of Chocolate Invasion and Slaughterhouse but, if I'm being honest, with the exception of that horrible reworked title track, The Vault:Old Friends 4 Sale is my favorite thing from the Rave era. New Power Soul has a couple of good parts too. Everything between Emancipation and The Rainbow Children is what I consider a dark period in Prince's catalog.

The Rainbow Children, for me, was a return to form for Prince. It was something no one was expecting, and was different than anything that had come before.

Chocolate Invasion

Rave In2

Rave Un2

The Slaughterhouse

To me the most uninspired, bland, mediocre music Prince ever released can be found on these albums. I barely created one good 12 track album from this mess

1. Rave un2

2. Vavoom

3. Peace

4. Man O War

5. High

6. So Far So Pleased

7. U Make My Sun Shine

8. Prettyman

9. Baby Knows

10. Supercute

11. Hot With U

12. The Greatest Romance (long version)

Rave (both versions) is a professional-sounding album that has a lot of great material. It might not have been a "hit", but I still like it a whole lot.

TCI/Slaughterhouse (with most of what's left of the "High" album) were just kind of a misfire to me. As I've said before, Prince was quite often a one-man-band in the studio, but these were the first releases that sounded like a one-man-band. Like Paisley Park was snowed in for a few weeks and he churned these out. A few good tracks, but mostly pretty dull.

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26ten said:

Oh! I haven't heard the 1999 'New Master. Little nervous honestly... gonna check it in a moment.... again - nervous haha

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WhisperingDandelions said:

26ten said:

Oh! I haven't heard the 1999 'New Master. Little nervous honestly... gonna check it in a moment.... again - nervous haha

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