Come - Prince

Advantages: some excellent different sounding songs
Disadvantages: some excessiveness ruins otherwise good songs

this album is the start of a long stream of prince albums designed to fulfill the remainder of his contract with warner brothers and not coincedentally is the first prince album i have heard (although some say it started with diamonds and pearls) that has more than one or two unmemorable songs. the whole album is grey in colour and while this shouldnt put anyone off the album it is quite ironic as the album at times is quite generic. the album ...
...to bother explaining what its about! but it is quite filthy at times! this is actually a good song and the first four, maybe five minutes are enjoyable. however, it lasts nearly twelve minutes and for no good reason really, other than to give the horns a solo. this ruins a perfectly good song and many times i have listened to this song and sort of 'woke up' nearly ten minutes later and think is this still playing? the second song is similar to 'come' ... Read review

Advantages: Um...the title track?
Disadvantages: 6 out of 8 tracks are pretty poor

...Before those of you who read my reviews start to think I'm totally biased when it comes to Prince, here's a little surprise. I do not like the album Controversy. The title track is a good song, although perhaps a little dated now, and at over seven minutes, a bit long. "Do Me Baby" is also worth a listen - it's a nice ballad. That's where my positive comments stop, I'm afraid. I keep this CD purely because it's part of the collection. It doesn't even have a decent inlay to read whilst you're waiting for the album to finish. This is thoroughly bland, disappointing, dated and... well, you get the drift. It's saving grace is that it STILL isn't as bad as New Power Soul. Anyone cottoned onto the fact that I don't rate that album at all yet...... Read review

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Advantages: Diverse styles; features "Kiss"
Disadvantages: Slightly too psychadelic in parts

...-------------------- Covering mild psychadelia, rip-roaring funk workouts and tender ballads, Parade is a very clever cross section of myriad styles that Prince likes to work with. I have listed the tracks below giving marks out of five, along with a Typical Bonkers Moment (TBM) - because he was madder than a bucket of bananas - for good measure: **1. Christopher Tracy's Parade (2:11)** Psychadelia City! Mad backwards drums and wayward trupmets are all over the joint on the intro to this song. Normality is restored by Prince's vocal arrival and the very catchy chorus of "everyone come behold/Christopher Tracy's parade". This form part of a segued trilogy at the beginning of the album and melds quite nicely into..... Mark: 4/5 TBM: The backwards drums at the beginning **2. New Position (2:20)** More backwards drums before a ticking clock and a steel... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Pure Hip Hop
Disadvantages: Some attempts at different styles which fail

...us with some quick rhymes. **Four Stars** 2. I'm looking For The One This has the feel of the good old days of R&B during the 90s when people such as Jodeci, BLACKstreet, and R. Kelly reigned, but though days are long gone, so it's nice to here something of the time which takes you back to the era even when I haven't heard the song before. The Fresh Prince relly kills this with his rhymes and his feel for the rhythm which allows his lyrics to become one with the music to make it all sound together and not a load of separate elements which all come together to make something which sounds over-complicated. 3. Boom! Shake The Room This must have been the first track I ever heard from the pair as it was the first CD I ever asked for, and I was only 3 a the time, so I love this track and I had no idea of the popularity... Read review

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