Prince - Prince

Advantages: HIGH OCTAVE RANGE
Disadvantages: NONE

...Prince, formerly known as the ‘Sign’, and also the ‘Artist’, now back to Prince again, has a list of chart topping songs and has got to be credited for the music he’s shared amongst other artists. Purple Rain is a movie featuring Prince as an actor, however, I’m not commenting on the movie.. it’s the album you’re all interested in. During his years, Prince had a fascination with girls on keyboards that were trying too hard to seduce the camera crew and microphones, so he ventured further, eventually making the superb ‘Diamonds and Pearls’, and ‘The Most Beautiful Girl In The World’ songs. Excellent tracks. However, this album, Purple Rain, the first song ‘Lets Go Crazy’, makes you feel like you want to. After that, you can sit back and chill out... Read review

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Advantages: Prince doing what he does best
Disadvantages: Only 1 poor track

...When I first started full time work and received what I thought at the time was a very respectable wage packet, the very first thing I bought was Prince’s back catalogue on CD. I had all of the albums on tape, but with my new found means, I wanted to get bang up to date. I was a huge Prince fan, and one of the best concerts I have ever been to was when he played at Maine Road in 1992, and I still think ‘Purple Rain’ is one of the best songs ever written. Then in the mid 1990’s, something happened inside Prince’s mind, and as most of you will know, he refused to acknowledge he had a name, and would only be referred to as a symbol, and was adamant that he was a slave to the record company. At this point, his music lost it’s edge too, and I wholly expected Prince to disappear into oblivion, and be remembered as someone who could have been... Read review

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Advantages: prince is back to his best form
Disadvantages: none

...This album is for everyone who enjoyed Prince when they were teenagers (early 80s). The first song on the album made me stand up in my own living room and move those hips that have been static for way too long! I have kept moving around the room throughout the all 12 songs. Afterwards, I listened to it again, this time paying attention to the lyrics. I was moved by the words of ‘Cinnamon Girl’ and laughed to the words of ‘On the couch’. Over the years there were many stories about Prince, about his change of name, change of religion, change of his record label, and I have to admit I did loose an interest in his songs, and for a long time didn’t want to buy any of his music. For anyone who liked Prince’s old stuff (remember ‘Purple Rain’ or ‘Kiss’?) but couldn’t listened to some of his other songs, this album is for you, funky yet... Read review

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Advantages: Do Me Baby, great love song
Disadvantages: Too many fillers

...Looking back, Controversy really doesn't seem to fit as the album realised before 1999. You really wonder where 1999 came from after this. But why should we be surprised? Prince has been doing this all his career. Controversy is a good album but not one of Prince's best.(In my opinion). Some of the tunes are absolute belters, some are nothing more than funky fillers. The title track is a good one and I still enjpy listening to it today. The sands of time have been fairly kind to this. The track of the album,as far as I'm concerned, is the beautiful kinky love song, 'Do me Baby'. It is a wonderful song to listen to and even better to be romantic too. Prince thumps out a heavy beat and repeats how he wants his baby to do him over and over. It is Prince's equivalent to Madonna's 'Justify my love'. 'Private Joy' is a song about... Read review

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Advantages: prince is back to his best form
Disadvantages: none

...This album is for everyone who enjoyed Prince when they were teenagers (early 80s). The first song on the album made me stand up in my own living room and move those hips that have been static for way too long! I have kept moving around the room throughout the all 12 songs. Afterwards, I listened to it again, this time paying attention to the lyrics. I was moved by the words of ‘Cinnamon Girl’ and laughed to the words of ‘On the couch’. Over the years there were many stories about Prince, about his change of name, change of religion, change of his record label, and I have to admit I did loose an interest in his songs, and for a long time didn’t want to buy any of his music. For anyone who liked Prince’s old stuff (remember ‘Purple Rain’ or ‘Kiss’?) but couldn’t listened to some of his other songs, this album is for you, funky yet... Read review

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Advantages: A Return to form, Accessable
Disadvantages: Not much of a progression from his previous work

...The best thing about this album is that unlike every Prince album for the past decade or so it doesn't sound like Prince is trying to prove some point or other. Instead he is relaxing and doing what he does best, entertaining! The lyrics are his usual. Love, bragging and dippy philosophy! He also mentions the War On Terror but his take on it is to encourage fairly vague peace and love vibes and unlikely to offend one way or the other. The album recalls his eighties classics although it never quite reaches those peaks. Highlights include "Cinnamon Girl", the stately "A Million Days" and the funky title track. Although he has become a Jehovah's Witness he proves that being religious doesn't mean you cant be sexy. Especially on the track "On The Couch" Prince plays and produces everything himself and the album's main weakness is that he... Read review

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