Prince's 3 New Albums

[RobertScorpio]

Yeah, they're only at Target. He does have it for download on his site. I think it's a subscription fee of $77 which gives you the albums and supposedly other songs, and access to videos and concert seating or something. I'm not entirely sure though. I did hear that if you download the album from the site you don't get Crimson and Clover. That's a Target exclusive. For myself, I'm just getting it at Target on Sunday for $11.98. That's good enough for me.

Unfortunately, I live in a State county where retail stores are closed on Sunday by law.

Where do you live? I have never heard of that before...making me cry like a dove!!!

Rob

 

[exodus]

Yeah, they're only at Target. He does have it for download on his site. I think it's a subscription fee of $77 which gives you the albums and supposedly other songs, and access to videos and concert seating or something. I'm not entirely sure though. I did hear that if you download the album from the site you don't get Crimson and Clover. That's a Target exclusive. For myself, I'm just getting it at Target on Sunday for $11.98. That's good enough for me.

Unfortunately, I live in a State county where retail stores are closed on Sunday by law.

Where do you live? I have never heard of that before...making me cry like a dove!!!

Rob

Bergen county in N.J.
It started due to religious observation and has continued to this day despite arguements to drop the law. No store within the county can be open if they sell clothing or lumber. Stores like Home Depot get around it by roping off their lumber sections, retail stores don't have that luck.

I have to drive outside my county to the next one over if I wish to go shopping on Sunday. What's messed up is, my county also boarders NYC & NY State, where everything is open 24/7 but yet have a higher tax rate as well as tax on clothing. NJ has no such tax.

 

[Pingfah]

$11.98 for 3 albums, that's really good.

He really seems to not care about the money anymore, he gave his last album away for free with a newspaper in England.

 

[exodus]

$11.98 for 3 albums, that's really good.

He really seems to not care about the money anymore, he gave his last album away for free with a newspaper in England.

I think it's $11.98 each.


Yes, the man does give music away but that studio doesn't run itself.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Target and Leno, not the most Princely venues that come to mind.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Target and Leno, not the most Princely venues that come to mind.

I am actually GLAD the purple one is going mainstream...nothing wrong with it at all..and I can't stand Letterman so Im glad he did leno...

Rob

 

[rramarr]

According to princefans.com, "...those three albums will also be sold together for the low price of $11.99 starting Sunday, March 29th at Target retailers."

He gave the last CD away free and there was not one hit on it.

I love Prince like I'm gay or something - its really disturbing! But for the last 10 years he has not been exactly at his musical milestone level. I heard the first four releases from this CD or CDs and I was not all that impressed. Three CDs for 11.98 (a-steal-a-deal) when other artist charge nearly $15 - $20 bucks for one - That does not sound all that promising. I'm hopeful but 4 real. What will be worth the wait is the Family's new CD with Wendy and Lisa and the Time reunion album.

Controversy
Irresitable B-tch
Kiss
Purple Rain
Erotic City

 

[rramarr]

Last night's performance - watch while you can he does not like his stuff being on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd4iQwR1wtY

 

[RobertScorpio]

According to princefans.com, "...those three albums will also be sold together for the low price of $11.99 starting Sunday, March 29th at Target retailers."

He gave the last CD away free and there was not one hit on it.

I love Prince like I'm gay or something - its really disturbing! But for the last 10 years he has not been exactly at his musical milestone level. I heard the first four releases from this CD or CDs and I was not all that impressed. Three CDs for 11.98 (a-steal-a-deal) when other artist charge nearly $15 - $20 bucks for one - That does not sound all that promising. I'm hopeful but 4 real. What will be worth the wait is the Family's new CD with Wendy and Lisa and the Time reunion album.

Controversy
Irresitable B-tch
Kiss
Purple Rain
Erotic City

Well..I liked Rave to the Joy Fantastic...and I still play it from time to time

Rob

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

Prince just performed a song called Dreamer. Wow! I'm so glad I taped it. Gotta watch that a couple hundred times more. He played the hell out of his guitar. So cool when he handed it to a member of the audience at the end. The funny thing is it looked like his guitar tech then took it back.

 

[rramarr]

Prince just performed a song called Dreamer. Wow! I'm so glad I taped it. Gotta watch that a couple hundred times more. He played the hell out of his guitar. So cool when he handed it to a member of the audience at the end. The funny thing is it looked like his guitar tech then took it back.

The roadie took it one time as a hand off the second time Prince did his famous trademark (from most his performances starting with 1999) throw it off stage and the roadie catches it.

 

[Pingfah]

$11.98 for 3 albums, that's really good.

He really seems to not care about the money anymore, he gave his last album away for free with a newspaper in England.

I think it's $11.98 each.


Yes, the man does give music away but that studio doesn't run itself.

It's all 3 for $11.98 on the target website. I'd imagine he must be able to make a lot of money performing live.

Looks like this isn't coming out in the UK though, at least not yet, I can't find it on Amazon and we don't have Target here...

 

[exodus]

According to princefans.com, "...those three albums will also be sold together for the low price of $11.99 starting Sunday, March 29th at Target retailers."

He gave the last CD away free and there was not one hit on it.

I love Prince like I'm gay or something - its really disturbing! But for the last 10 years he has not been exactly at his musical milestone level. I heard the first four releases from this CD or CDs and I was not all that impressed. Three CDs for 11.98 (a-steal-a-deal) when other artist charge nearly $15 - $20 bucks for one - That does not sound all that promising. I'm hopeful but 4 real. What will be worth the wait is the Family's new CD with Wendy and Lisa and the Time reunion album.

Controversy
Irresitable B-tch
Kiss
Purple Rain
Erotic City

Having you heard Prince say several times that he no longer makes music for radio play because he hates the commercialization of the music industry?

BTW, "Call My Name" & "Black Sweat" got heavy rotation on stations in my area. "Black Sweat" was also a heavy rotation video on MTV, it was in the top 5 most requested videos for weeks.

 

[rramarr]

According to princefans.com, "...those three albums will also be sold together for the low price of $11.99 starting Sunday, March 29th at Target retailers."

He gave the last CD away free and there was not one hit on it.

I love Prince like I'm gay or something - its really disturbing! But for the last 10 years he has not been exactly at his musical milestone level. I heard the first four releases from this CD or CDs and I was not all that impressed. Three CDs for 11.98 (a-steal-a-deal) when other artist charge nearly $15 - $20 bucks for one - That does not sound all that promising. I'm hopeful but 4 real. What will be worth the wait is the Family's new CD with Wendy and Lisa and the Time reunion album.

Controversy
Irresitable B-tch
Kiss
Purple Rain
Erotic City

Having you heard Prince say several times that he no longer makes music for radio play because he hates the commercialization of the music industry?

BTW, "Call My Name" & "Black Sweat" got heavy rotation on stations in my area. "Black Sweat" was also a heavy rotation video on MTV, it was in the top 5 most requested videos for weeks.

He was on the radio in my area too but the sales were not that great. He did not create a hx buzz with those songs at least not with new fans. He's still good but he has fail from GREAT!!! I don't need commercialization. He was not a commercial success when I bought his first album in the 70s. I just want a familiar 70s/80s sound and this is not it yet.

 

[RobertScorpio]

According to princefans.com, "...those three albums will also be sold together for the low price of $11.99 starting Sunday, March 29th at Target retailers."

He gave the last CD away free and there was not one hit on it.

I love Prince like I'm gay or something - its really disturbing! But for the last 10 years he has not been exactly at his musical milestone level. I heard the first four releases from this CD or CDs and I was not all that impressed. Three CDs for 11.98 (a-steal-a-deal) when other artist charge nearly $15 - $20 bucks for one - That does not sound all that promising. I'm hopeful but 4 real. What will be worth the wait is the Family's new CD with Wendy and Lisa and the Time reunion album.

Controversy
Irresitable B-tch
Kiss
Purple Rain
Erotic City

Having you heard Prince say several times that he no longer makes music for radio play because he hates the commercialization of the music industry?

BTW, "Call My Name" & "Black Sweat" got heavy rotation on stations in my area. "Black Sweat" was also a heavy rotation video on MTV, it was in the top 5 most requested videos for weeks.

Wasn't me. I pretty much said what I wrote from the quote you used. He was on the radio in my area to but the sales were not that great. He did not create a hx buzz with those songs.

Yeah, but what does having been on radio matter these days when it is such a fractured media outlet anyway...anything on the so called 'heavey rotation' stations doesn't appeal to me anyway...

I like the songs...they are good..they are PRINCE..and that is all I need..

Rob

 

[rramarr]

I don't listen to the radio as much as I do my iPod. So I wouldn't know who is a major radio success but from the reviews I read. Its about personal taste and the Prince you guys have today is not the Prince I had in the late 70s to early 90s. You may not strive for commercialization but if you have the hit song it will find you. Nearly every song was a hit back on the 80s albums. My favorites were always the B-sides songs anyway, not the radio played songs. Again his good but not being commercial does not have to mean changing your style.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I don't listen to the radio as much as I do my iPod. So I wouldn't know who is a major radio success but from the reviews I read. Its about personal taste and the Prince you guys have today is not the Prince I had in the late 70s to early 90s. You may not strive for commercialization but if you have the hit song it will find you. Nearly every song was a hit back on the 80s albums. My favorites were always the B-sides songs anyway, not the radio played songs. Again his good but not being commercial does not have to mean changing your style.

I have been a PRINCE fan from the late 70s too...And I have followed his evolution through time and I have like all of it...so when you say he isn't the same Prince as he was back then? Well..that is a GOOD thing. Artist who stay to one sound, the King of pop for example, have no depth. Prince, and even Madonna, have warped their sounds through-out their careers and this is a testimony to their growth as artists...I like that.

20 albums that sounded like Exotic City would have gotten very old...Prince's ability to do all these different things he does is a strength..and if it doesn't sell his base, which has slid down Rap's dead-end, then good for him. I'd rather see Prince do his thing than be down there doing Rapping duets with whom ever..

Prince marches to the beat of his own drummer..and I wouldn't have wanted him o do it in any other way...He knows whats the best for him and he did it and I have been a fan of all of it...Just keeping it real

Rob

 

[exodus]

I don't listen to the radio as much as I do my iPod. So I wouldn't know who is a major radio success but from the reviews I read. Its about personal taste and the Prince you guys have today is not the Prince I had in the late 70s to early 90s. You may not strive for commercialization but if you have the hit song it will find you. Nearly every song was a hit back on the 80s albums. My favorites were always the B-sides songs anyway, not the radio played songs. Again his good but not being commercial does not have to mean changing your style.

I have been a PRINCE fan from the late 70s too...And I have followed his evolution through time and I have like all of it...so when you say he isn't the same Prince as he was back then? Well..that is a GOOD thing. Artist who stay to one sound, the King of pop for example, have no depth. Prince, and even Madonna, have warped their sounds through-out their careers and this is a testimony to their growth as artists...I like that.

20 albums that sounded like Exotic City would have gotten very old...Prince's ability to do all these different things he does is a strength..and if it doesn't sell his base, which has slid down Rap's dead-end, then good for him. I'd rather see Prince do his thing than be down there doing Rapping duets with whom ever..

Prince marches to the beat of his own drummer..and I wouldn't have wanted him o do it in any other way...He knows whats the best for him and he did it and I have been a fan of all of it...Just keeping it real

Rob

Well said, Robert.

Another prime example of an artist that changed his sound progressively over the years is the late great Miles Davis. However as I said before, Prince's success & genius isn't measured by his fanbase or his critics but rather by his peers within the industry. The ones who walk the walk & talk the talk.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I don't listen to the radio as much as I do my iPod. So I wouldn't know who is a major radio success but from the reviews I read. Its about personal taste and the Prince you guys have today is not the Prince I had in the late 70s to early 90s. You may not strive for commercialization but if you have the hit song it will find you. Nearly every song was a hit back on the 80s albums. My favorites were always the B-sides songs anyway, not the radio played songs. Again his good but not being commercial does not have to mean changing your style.

I have been a PRINCE fan from the late 70s too...And I have followed his evolution through time and I have like all of it...so when you say he isn't the same Prince as he was back then? Well..that is a GOOD thing. Artist who stay to one sound, the King of pop for example, have no depth. Prince, and even Madonna, have warped their sounds through-out their careers and this is a testimony to their growth as artists...I like that.

20 albums that sounded like Exotic City would have gotten very old...Prince's ability to do all these different things he does is a strength..and if it doesn't sell his base, which has slid down Rap's dead-end, then good for him. I'd rather see Prince do his thing than be down there doing Rapping duets with whom ever..

Prince marches to the beat of his own drummer..and I wouldn't have wanted him o do it in any other way...He knows whats the best for him and he did it and I have been a fan of all of it...Just keeping it real

Rob

Well said, Robert.

Another prime example of an artist that changed his sound progressively over the years is the late great Miles Davis. However as I said before, Prince's success & genius isn't measured by his fanbase or his critics but rather by his peers within the industry. The ones who walk the walk & talk the talk.

Miles Davis is a great example. He definately did things his own way. You could even say the same of Elvis who started off with his hillbilly rock and then matured to other sounds down the line...

The Beatles are a great example too..look at what they were singing at the start (50's influenced music) and what they were doing at the end (and what came in between as well). What I think makes the Beatles so relavent was that they were all over the place in terms of the kinds of music they did...

Has all of Prince's albums been great? No. I would never go so far as to say that...but some of his more obscure work (Graffiti Bridge, and the New Power Generation stuff) is some of my favorite Pince material. "What Is The Question of YOU" and the other songs from that album are some of my favorite Prince songs and most people have never even heard of them...

Rob

 

[exodus]

I have been a PRINCE fan from the late 70s too...And I have followed his evolution through time and I have like all of it...so when you say he isn't the same Prince as he was back then? Well..that is a GOOD thing. Artist who stay to one sound, the King of pop for example, have no depth. Prince, and even Madonna, have warped their sounds through-out their careers and this is a testimony to their growth as artists...I like that.

20 albums that sounded like Exotic City would have gotten very old...Prince's ability to do all these different things he does is a strength..and if it doesn't sell his base, which has slid down Rap's dead-end, then good for him. I'd rather see Prince do his thing than be down there doing Rapping duets with whom ever..

Prince marches to the beat of his own drummer..and I wouldn't have wanted him o do it in any other way...He knows whats the best for him and he did it and I have been a fan of all of it...Just keeping it real

Rob

Well said, Robert.

Another prime example of an artist that changed his sound progressively over the years is the late great Miles Davis. However as I said before, Prince's success & genius isn't measured by his fanbase or his critics but rather by his peers within the industry. The ones who walk the walk & talk the talk.

Miles Davis is a great example. He definately did things his own way. You could even say the same of Elvis who started off with his hillbilly rock and then matured to other sounds down the line...

The Beatles are a great example too..look at what they were singing at the start (50's influenced music) and what they were doing at the end (and what came in between as well). What I think makes the Beatles so relavent was that they were all over the place in terms of the kinds of music they did...

Has all of Prince's albums been great? No. I would never go so far as to say that...but some of his more obscure work (Graffiti Bridge, and the New Power Generation stuff) is some of my favorite Pince material. "What Is The Question of YOU" and the other songs from that album are some of my favorite Prince songs and most people have never even heard of them...

Rob

Great examples.

Besides, what artist from the 70's & 80's still makes music that sounds the same as it did back then anyway? Even Cyndi Lauper changed her style from pop to jazz as she got older.