danielboon said:

I think what David means (and I agree with him on this) is that gone are the days of an album release being an 'experience' - the only way 2 come anywherenear close 2 that now is 2 avoid hearing any online wavs/mp3's whatever - and listen 2 it fresh, outta tha wrappa.

Here's hoping its somethin funky - not flunky!

Who here hopes that the new CD will be a return to those wonderful days of buying a new Prince album? When you first heard about the tracklisting in the music press and wondered which song titles would be ballads and which would be uptempo (was that just me?). The purchase of the new single, which you'd play over and over again, desperate to listen to the album from which it came. Looking at that 'From the 4thcoming album...' notice over and over again, pondering over the new album's title and thinking about that delicious musical experience that you knew was imminently coming your way. That unbearable wait for the new album that made the final result far more sweeter. And as for that first viewing of all those copies of the new album on the shelves in the Wrecka Stow, which was usually your first glimpse of the cover art. Well, personally, that usually made me almost cream with excitement.

And that beautiful moment when you finally experienced that first listen...

I haven't heard 'Musicology' yet, but even if I'm disappointed with it (I was also disappointed with Gett Off when I first heard it), I know that the excitement of a new album will more than make up for it.

Even if this album is available as a download on the NPGMC before it's release, I'm going to try so hard not to download it. Not because of the expense of downloading it as well as buying the physical CD, but because I want, yet again, to feel that 'new album' experience that hasn't happened for waaaay too long.

I want that first playing of the physical CD to be a magical moment!

Regardless of how anybody's felt about Prince's output of the last ten years or so, I would imagine that most people here have felt a little spark, at the very least, that this is going to be a pretty exciting time to be a fan.
Or maybe it's just me..?

bananacologne said:

Maybe that's what Musicology is all about. This old feeling of discovery reborn again in "modern times"!!! I feel that the distribution of this album will be more traditional because it is all about old school!

Personally, one of my biggest thrills is getting a new Prince LP on Vinyl.

Who here hopes that the new CD will be a return to those wonderful days of buying a new Prince album? When you first heard about the tracklisting in the music press and wondered which song titles would be ballads and which would be uptempo (was that just me?). The purchase of the new single, which you'd play over and over again, desperate to listen to the album from which it came. Looking at that 'From the 4thcoming album...' notice over and over again, pondering over the new album's title and thinking about that delicious musical experience that you knew was imminently coming your way. That unbearable wait for the new album that made the final result far more sweeter. And as for that first viewing of all those copies of the new album on the shelves in the Wrecka Stow, which was usually your first glimpse of the cover art. Well, personally, that usually made me almost cream with excitement.

And that beautiful moment when you finally experienced that first listen...

I haven't heard 'Musicology' yet, but even if I'm disappointed with it (I was also disappointed with Gett Off when I first heard it), I know that the excitement of a new album will more than make up for it.

Even if this album is available as a download on the NPGMC before it's release, I'm going to try so hard not to download it. Not because of the expense of downloading it as well as buying the physical CD, but because I want, yet again, to feel that 'new album' experience that hasn't happened for waaaay too long.

I want that first playing of the physical CD to be a magical moment!

Regardless of how anybody's felt about Prince's output of the last ten years or so, I would imagine that most people here have felt a little spark, at the very least, that this is going to be a pretty exciting time to be a fan.

Or maybe it's just me..?

yeah.... after i downloaded TRC, i kinda wished that i hadn't... because when i went to the record store and bought it and opened it up, the only excitement was the excitement of the packaging, because i'd already heard everything inside...

but i did get the feelings you're talking about with "RAVE"... cause i bought the cd single to "the greatest romance" and it had that "from the 4thcoming cd" on it... and i couldn't sleep at night and shit waiting for that damn cd to come out...

and it may not have been one of the masterpieces, but coming after NPS, it sounded better than it actually was, because it was a noticeable improvement... to hear him screaming in the falsetto on the opening track... i was like "shit... we ready to rock this mutha now"...

so, yes... it would be cool to get that again... ...

EllisDee said:

The worst part of downloading TRC was with an old 28K modem. Going to bed night after night, waking up each morning, and looking to see how much was downloaded before I was disconnected. The morings I got another song or two were great mornings. Other mornings it was back to what was downloaded the previous day or two. I think it took a couple of weeks before I heard the brilliant "Last December" completely for the first time.

OMJ

I miss going the store and picking up a new album by him. I remember buying two copies of SOTT when it came out, i wasn't going to, i'd initially bought just one but as i sat in Mcdonalds staring at the cover and sliding the two albums out and contemplating the lyrics to songs i wasn't familiar with yet, something struck me. That nice blue heart shaped sticker on the front cover just had to come off when i got home, just so i could see the cover in full.

There was no alternative but to buy another copy, so i did. When i got home it was like a military operation trying to get that sticker off the cover without ripping it, but i did. Of course i finally got to hear the songs, rather than read the lyrics. I must have played that album non- stop from 10am to about 8pm that day. Fantastic.

I still have both copies, one mint, the other more than just a little worn out.

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Cloudbuster said:

Oh, you're just a hater! Your journey with Prince is over. Maybe it's time to leave and let the rest of us true fans carry on with our trip. Personally, I'm in this for life and I don't care what anybody else says. Maybe TRC didn't enlighten you like it did me, in fact it took me into the realm of Dungeons and Dragons!

Carry on living in the past and listen to your SOTT CDs LOL.

I still remember the days when I was six years old and first getting into Prince, and didn't have access to the internet, and heard no word of mouth about new albums - I just used to go into the store, pick up two or three CDs whose content I knew NOTHING about (first album I ever got was the Hits/B-Sides box set, after my brother played me Daddy Pop on his cassette player). Anyway, I remember I used to get real excited, get home, crawl up to my room, stick the CD in my discman, goe outside, lie down, stare up and the clouds and be funked. I did that with 1999, and was amazed, I must have listened to DMSR about 15 times in a row that day. I still crave for that feeling, but I know it'll never come again cause I hear about new album releases and I know so much about Prince now. Back then all I knew was that on these CDs that Prince had made was good music; I didn't know what year they were from, how popular they were or anything, but I loved everything on them. The first album I got told to buy from word of mouth was LoveSexy, and my bro told me to buy that and I remember I wasn't as impressed by the others as I was (of course, I am now), and the only song I truely enjoyed at that age was Lovesexy. I miss those days when there was an abundance of Prince albums still to get; I've got almost all of em now, and he isn't making more quick enough .

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