I've never heard either of these albums and was wondering how they compare to Xpectation and N.E.W.S.

rialb said:

No, they're much better. They were apart of the jazz-funk sound that Prince had during the Parade/Sign O' The Times era.

lite funk-jazz. the same realm as Xpectation. If you liked it, you will like Madhouse.

rialb, to compare them to news and xpectations in terms of SOUND is interesting.

madhouse has a very very in your face, raw sound. it sounds sharp and cutting, not mellow in the slightest, like a lot of prince's earlier funk. Not at all like the excellently produced news/xpectations/TRC more mellow and rounded sound.

the compositions on the other hand, on 8 at least, are generally much funner and structured.

I actually like all these albums very much though, and would have a hard time choosing between Mahouse 8 and news.

I liked Madhouse 8 a lot. Madhouse 16 was barely ok, it had some high points, such as 9 and 16- but 8 was where it's at. Although, I think I might actually prefer Xpectation to 8. NEWS was more along the lines of 16 to me, it had some good parts, but on a whole I have a hard time sitting through the whole thing.

Funk Jazz Fusion

Gotta love Eric. He's the man...
[This message was edited Sun Feb 29 18:07:59 2004 by cracknbush]