Graffiti Bridge is a good album (except the title track, 'shake', 'love machine', and that damn 'meldoy cool' song).

I just find it very weak by Prince standards...he could've done that stuff in his sleep; JIR and The Question of U are the only songs on there that sound like actual effort was put into them
[This message was edited Sat Jan 10 19:46:21 PST 2004 by lovebizzare]

KatSkrizzle said:

rdhull said:

"butt sandwich"...that's right up there with "a bunch of ass"...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

LOL..that's gonna be my new saying

Number23 said:

I seem to remember RS giving Prince nothing but top-billing four/five-star reviews consistently up until around the symbol album, and then when he started going off on his anti-WB tirades, they quite interestingly did an about-face on his subsequent releases. These days Prince is lucky to get a little two-star blurb tucked between a Duran Duran remix LP and a Pat Benetar jazz record.

And let's not forget, Jann Wenner himself wrote an asskissing FIVE STAR REVIEW of Mick Jagger's last solo album.

Anxiety said:

RS come up again?

ANYONE who places The Olsen Twins on the cover of a magazine that is not usually read by 10-year-olds holds absolutely no credibility.

They can praise ANY Prince album all they want nowadays, they're still complete idiots.

i find it interesting that there more people willing to post that they dislike this album than those who actually do like it.

for me, it was a geat album and i still listen to it.
i mean it has the best songs he ever wrote and released in the 90s. like the review says the first four songs cover more ground than most bands do in their whole careers.
the ONLY gripe i have with the album is that it included the other artists' songs. if it was just a Prince album i believe it would have been appreciated a lot more than it actually is.
as for the title track which i believe is disliked a lot, well there's nothing new on there. it's a preachy song and hopefully we all know by now that Prince has always been preachy, even way back in the early 80s.
his preachy stance now is nothing new. it is evident thru out his whole career.
[This message was edited Sat Jan 10 20:16:25 PST 2004 by Milty]

and as for RS, who cares? one minute we complain about poor reviews and in the next breath we find a complaint about the album that got slated.
Prince fans are really difficult to please.

JOY IN REPETITION, WE CAN FUNK!!!

everything else is shit...

This album has a few really good songs,but it's not very consistent.Too often,on this album,a really good song is followed by a mediocre track.I love "We Can Funk","Thieves In The Temple","Can't Stop This Feeling I Got" and "Still Would Stand All Time".But unfortunately,this album also contains forgettable,uninspired songs like "The Latest Fashion","New Power Generation" and the title track.

Considering Prince's knack for composing excellent soundtrack albums ('Purple Rain','Parade' and 'Batman'),this one was a slight disappointment.