what should i expect?

the symbol cd is awesome, my name is prince is funky as hell.

'Symbol' is my 3rd favorite Prince CD (right after 'Sign' & '1999'). Everyone has differing opinions but for me, it's one of his best.

It has some gems like My Name is Prince, Sexy MF, Love 2 the 9's, The Morning Papers, The Max, Blue Light, Damn U and God Created Woman. . .

The rest of it is shit.

the only song i know from this cd is "7" which i like

Well the 'Love Symbol' album only reveals its true colours following repeated listenings...but first tho, seven snippets:
1) Overweight NPG drummer Michael Bland believed that the CD should have been stored in a time capsule for ten years because he felt it was so ahead of its time in 1992 (he also felt that Lovesexy (particularly I No) was the best funk album of all time).
2) Prince obviously believed deeply in the record, releasing a (hilarious or deep, depending on your personal perception of reality) video collection and basing the 'plot' on his everservant feelings for a teenage Mayte and his initial 'toe testing the water' vibes concerning his name change.
3) It is the first album where the acute listener can detect 'the fear' in Prince. In other words, the wee man realised that he had to get his ass in gear to connect with the masses in a decade where listeners were demanding a more 'for real' level of communication from their artists (and one which he had signed a multi-million dollar deal with WB - it is an overwelmingly,commerical recording for such a, at the time, left-field artist).
4) It is Prince's first truly pretentious record, where his arrogance finallly overtook his vision. You've got to go with him on this trip and leave your preconceptions and previous conceptions of Prince at the door.
5) Prince, as ever, was stiving to be completely out-of-time with this recording (in the year of grunge, lumberjack shirts and back-to-basics, the man released a double vinal concept album about his love for an Egyptian Princess and how that love inspired a spiritual awakening invoking his spirit into changing his birth name into an unpronouncable symbol) Personally, as a deeply perverted dude and hater of the tide sway of popular culturte didtacted by the mass media, is one of the reasons why I initially fell in love with the guy.
6) It was the man's most respectable attempt (Diamonds and Pearls being the first) at releasing a truly commerical record on his own terms. In other words, forsaking the startling musical unity of previous 80s releases in place of a work where every song sounded different but could fit onto any seperate album. (Try fitting Alphabet St. onto SOTT or Girls and Boys onto Batman). Basically, the Symbol album, for all it's musical peak-scraping, is the death-rattle for the Prince that many fans on this site are still enraptured with. Popular music had finally caught up with him and he said to himself 'Fuck it', focusing on becoming a self-made Michael Jackson for the 90s.
7) Is my own disclaimer. I am not a hater. I truly respect every one of Prince Nelson's releases...only brain-deaf fools see no rewards in his 90's output. But, it is true, this is the moment where the greatest star of the 80s sold out - but it wasn't in a Whitesnake or Bon Jovi sense. It;s just that there was a lot more 'admiration' for this album than there was an all-encompasing 'adoration' for many of his previous releases. It 'feels' different, and that's because it is. A virgin listener's ears would take a ten inch boner at some of the sounds on ther Symbol album, but it stands for many fans as the monent where Prince lost his stunning uniqueness and sold his pert ass to The Man.
Truly tho, it is still a hundred times mightier than most other so called 'legendary' releases that same year...so enjoy my friend.
And what we should never forget, and it's a realisation that ALL people getting into Prince encompass at one point, is that there is NO-ONE better than this guy at making popular music.
It honestly makes made smile when I read about youngsters still getting into the man in 2003. He is the ultimate connesuer of modern music and your life will be immeasureably enriched by his incompararable talent. So let's all raise a glass to the little guy for making ALL our lives that little bit more endurable.
And speaking as a heterosexual 23-year-old male from Scotland, I can say that I truly adore the benelevant or loving force which created Prince Rogers Nelson to be the pillow for all our distress and turmoil in this scary and crazy world.
At the risk of sounding like the cheesiset man on Eart, now that we've found each other through the org, let's create a positive mindset that changes the world.
I'm not an easily-swayed fool my friends, but I think I dig where the man's heading now. Times are getting stranger and we truly all need to come together as one, race and religion be damned.
Cheers for paying attention. Peace 2 all.

The hard driving My Name Is Prince, Sexy MF...please. 3 Chains O Gold - Prince does his version of Bohemian Raphsody - i love it! The Sacrifice Of Victor - cool groove and gospel vocals by The Steeles. The Morning papers - good little love story. Damn U - how dare he write a song like that with those lyrics? no one was doing that in the early 90s.
a little cheesy mish-mash in the middle like The Max and I want To melt With U. Blue Light - AOR but cool. ...And God Created Women - one of the best soul/pop songs Prince has EVER written. i compare it to Anna Stesia.
7 - truly the man is genius. check the multi-tracked vocals on it. sublime! i believe Rolling Stone called this album a masterpiece or a masterwork. i'm not feeling this album like i used to but it is as they say a course study in popular music.
oh...i almost forgot, and a whole lotta awful rapping.