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(There’ll Never B) Another Like Me (6:02) In contrast t FG,FG,FW, this song does sound like Prince was trying hard to make a song the kids would like. And he failed. Skip.
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My favorite songs from this collection is Wall of Berlin and Colonized Mind. The solo at the end of Wall of Berlin is in my opinion one of Prince's best solos on record. | |
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LotusFlower is my favorite album of his later years and I only ever skip Wall of Berlin. It took me a while to like Dreamer since it's definitely just a half baked Hendrix rehash. Mplsound has the brilliant Here which is in my top 10 of all time. I think what he did with Crimson & Clover is genius. I loved the original songs too. $ is obviously a crowd pleaser because it feels like old school P. I love Love Like Jazz and have never quite understood the hate it gets here. | |
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Just so happens Lotusflow3r is in my car's CD player as we speak Welcome home class. We've come a long way. - RIP Prince | |
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Finally! A thread calling for a response from me! I have to admit I really loved everything about the era but I'm sticking with"Crimson and Clover" as my favorite song from it. I love the website, I love seeing Prince with Bria and all the media involved. I REALLY love the T-shirt even though it's seen better days but I wear it proudly still to this day. I loved seeing the development of the live show and everything along with that. I guess I can say it's my favorite project overall but I'm not going to break down the track list because Crimson and Clover is just a really great song. Respectfully Submitted | |
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No one else into Ol' Skool Company? It's the only song on the albums I love. When he starts soloing (I'm think it's guitar, but it's so distorted it sounds synthy), my eyes roll back, I get the stank face, etc. | |
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. Love this song - probalby my favourite in this album. I remember the time when I had collection on shuffle and Ol' Skool Company was followed by DMSR - So good. | |
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I agree 100% with everything the OP is saying about Lotusflower. So there's nothing really for me to add to that. I sometimes fool myself into thinking that I like MPLSound more than I actually do. I think I really like it and then I actually listen to it and the only songs I don't skip are There'll Never Be Another Like Me, Chocolate Box, Dance 4 Me and Valentina. I will also sometimes listen to Ol' Skool Company but rarely will I listen to the whole song. It's too long and after about 4 minutes I get bored of it. | |
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I've always enjoyed Lotus, however MPLSound is unlistenable to me.
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Really | |
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You have to tell them because they're too busy thinking it's "Quit It" by Miriam Makeba. | |
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I can't consider the last time I listened to either of those albums. " ![]() | |
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Lotusflower is such a good album, I love everything about it and was very happy with it when it was released, despite it being coupled to that awful website and the somewhat ho-him MPLSound. "if U're lookin' 4 dirt look in Ur own back yard / plant some peace flowers in Ur warzone so I can fire my bodyguards." | |
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The Morning After is a great tune that should've been left on the album. | |
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He should also have just kept that whole Bria album for himself and just replaced a few songs off it something like perhaps: "if U're lookin' 4 dirt look in Ur own back yard / plant some peace flowers in Ur warzone so I can fire my bodyguards." | |
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Yeah, The Morning After isn't that great imo, but the download version is my go-to. Losing Crimson and Clover was never a hardship. | |
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I'd agree with this. It's the last really good thing he did. | |
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Yeah, I feel the same way. I find that both LoTUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND have an ecclectic feel for me. It feels otherworldly and one of my go to album(s) when it comes to just sitting back and watch the world turn ( so to speak ) Peace ... & Stay Funky ...
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PJMcGee said: No one else into Ol' Skool Company? It's the only song on the albums I love. When he starts soloing (I'm think it's guitar, but it's so distorted it sounds synthy), my eyes roll back, I get the stank face, etc. It's definitely the best track on MPLSound imo. The only songs I don't like on that album are Chocolate Box, Dance 4 Me and No More Candy 4 U but I like all songs on Lotusflow3r. Welcome 2 The Dawn | |
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Why are people acting like you can't discuss the 3rd album of this release? Is it because it's Bria Valenti and I don't remember what her married name is now not important. Purposely omitting something is just dumb and frankly insults the people involved with the record. Respectfully Submitted | |
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I'd forgotten that U're Gonna C Me was re-recorded for MLPSound, I'll have to go back and listen to it. The version on One Nite Alone is lovely. | |
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IanRG said:
. Love this song - probalby my favourite in this album. I remember the time when I had collection on shuffle and Ol' Skool Company was followed by DMSR - So good. Also love the Leno version. The great backup singers. I think the harmonica player goes off during the performance too. I thought he was wild and added a lot. (I may be conflating it with another Leno appearance.) | |
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mb71 said:
I'd agree with this. It's the last really good thing he did. Absolutely. Only The Rainbow Children passes it in his 2000s output (which I believe is a serious contender for Prince's best album). As for Lotusflower, it's a near classic. In one of my many speculative alternate-history Prince daydreams, 4ever is swapped for a Prince vocal Redhead Stepchild and Montreux 2009 2009 style versions of When Eye Lay My Hands on U and All This Love fit on the back end of the album somewhere (maybe in place of $, which I enjoy but doesn't really fit). Then it would be perfect. But alas, that's just my imagination - the album is fantastic as it is. 'From the Lotus' is a fantastic opener and immediately sets the album apart from its so-so predecessors. The production is warm, with an incredible psychedelic-jazz-rock bent. It is exactly the sort of music I wanted from latter day Prince. The rest of the album doesn't disappoint. 'Boom', the 'Crimson and Clover' cover, 'Colonised Mind', 'Wall of Berlin, 'Dreamer' and 'Return to the Lotus' are all incredible tracks (even if two of them are a wee derivative). Across the album, Prince's guitar is at the front and centre - and it is probably the best it has ever sounded on a studio album. Packaging this album with MPLSound demonstrates the duality of Prince. The great and the naff. While the former is Prince at his latter day best, the latter is Prince at his most embarrassing. MPLSound is a bad record. It sounds utterly lifeless, a calculated yet awfully realised stab at producing an album for contemporary audiences with a sort of stencil outline of his former sound (it sounds like what someone might create if you told them about the Minneapolis Sound without them ever hearing it). However, eat the shit and you'll spit out a few pearls. 'Here' is strangely beautiful and affecting. 'Old Skool Company's and 'No More Candy 4 U' are great fun tracks. And there's actually some pretty wild guitar thrown throughout, especially the Santanaesque stuff on 'Valentine's. The live shows from this period are incredible. A mature Prince just proving what a beast he is show for show. Hundalasiliah! | |
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heartpeacesheart said: Why are people acting like you can't discuss the 3rd album of this release? Is it because it's Bria Valenti and I don't remember what her married name is now not important. Purposely omitting something is just dumb and frankly insults the people involved with the record. No one is "acting" like that. They just don't care about the record. Imagine just sharing your honest opinion instead of speaking from such a codependent and starved perspective. | |
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