I've never been able to understand why this album isn't rated highly by the fans. It contains two of his all time best tracks (Joy In Repetition and the awesome We Can Funk) and the entire album gels really well together. Even the outside contributions sit perfectly alongside the solo efforts.

Thieves In The Temple, New Power Generation and The Question Of U are more classic Prince tracks and more obscure numbers like Round And Round, Tick Tick Bang and the title track are also really funky!

What is there NOT to love about this album?

The only fault I can think of is that they didn't include the far superior original version of Joy In Repetition (the effect on the vocals gives the track an edge the album version lacks).
[This message was edited Mon Dec 29 5:18:58 PST 2003 by MattyJam]

Yes yes YES!!!

I agree with you 100%!! A lot of people like Joy in Repetition, but ive never found ANYONE who loves We Can Funk as much as i do!!

That song is unreal!!

Great taste MattyJam!!!

I actually really like this album, has a sort of Lovesexy meets Batman feel to it. The spirituality of lovesexy and the more ballsy Batman feel. Thieves in The Temple kicks ass!!! The Question of U shoulda been on Lovesexy, Shake is awesome but the exended remix is better than the album version (no shit sherlock!! I know most extendeds are better).

It is a better album than it's sometimes given credit for...but I wouldn't say it's his most underrated.

The fact is though, is that the album loses steam towards the end...the second half of the album can't touch the first, and from 'Joy' onwards the only great songs on the album are 'Thieves' and 'Still Would Stand All Time'.

Saying that though, the majority of the songs on 'GB' are excellent.

The Question Of U
Elephants & Flowers
We Can Funk
Joy In Repetition

Since you asked...



Reasons to NOT love Graffiti Bridge:

Shake!
Graffiti Bridge
Love Machine
and what the hell
Release It


I do agree with you for the most part. The Question of U and Joy In Repetition are 2 of the all time best Prince songs.

I just hate Prince's version of the Time on this album and in the movie. I always thought that songs from Pandemonium would have been SOOO much better in the movie.

Then again, i don't think better Time songs would have saved that thing.

Graffiti Bridge is and will always be my favorite Prince album. They even played We Can Funk at the Prince party I went to last night.

We Can Funk is one of THE great P. songs.

Never under-estimate the stupidity of a Prince fan.

Elephants and Flowers is good too!

Let's not forget it!

I'll agree with this if you slash all the non-P trax, with the exception of Release IT cuz that shit is too funkay

sorry ... its the only p album i dont like , i didnt work mixing with the other artists and 2 many poor songs. 4 great songs doesnt make an album 4 me, sorry again !

I don't really consider it a proper Prince album because of the songs by the other artists. It's more of a soundtrack album with Prince on it. Sure Prince wrote all the songs, but he doesn't perform them all. It's a Prince album like the Time albums are Prince albums...maybe moreso because of all the Prince vocal tracks, but still not a pure Prince album, and therefore impossible to compare with his others.

I think the reason I dislike this record so much is because I heard the demos of "can't stop" and "we can funk" and "joy in repetition" long before the official versions were released. nothing can compare to the demos of "we can funk" or "joy in repetition".