Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL — Art Official Age / Plectrum Electrum

Well, there are two new Prince albums. Sorta? And one is fuzz rock sung by people who aren't Prince? And the other is EDM produced with the assistance of a former Deadmaus collaborator? Sure, makes sense…

watmm, I wanna be clear with you. I purchased these albums. They are, as you may expect, SPOTTY. But… I love Prince. I will not tolerate any run-of-the-mill 21st-century-Prince hatred in this thread.

This thread is for CONSTRUCTIVE discussion Re: wringing Princely enjoyment out of these two albums. First observations:

• these albums are mastered ridiculously loud. Like Clark loud. It's crazy
• each album has a different version of "FUNKNROLL" on it. Pretty sure the versions are both bad
• Art Official Age strikes me as the stronger record after a single listen. Not only Breakfast Can Wait, but also some solid 20ten-style vibes and futuristic zydeco synth fizz party jams
• There is a very beautiful jam called Another Love hiding near the end of thee 3RDEYEGIRL album, however. Not sure what other recurring enjoyment I am going to be able to wring out of that record, though
• WATMM CD CLUB PACKAGING NOTES: the 3RDEYEGIRL CD has some very nicely-produced liner notes included

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I would say, "where da links at?" but Prince hates the internet.

I'm down with prince. Haven't listened to this though.

thought this was humorous. but the link in Prince posts is interesting:

http://www.nme.com/news/prince/80095

  On 10/1/2014 at 5:27 PM, patternoverlap said:

I would say, "where da links at?" but Prince hates the internet.

Not so! He changed his mind. Art Official Age is in some ways a CONCEPT ALBUM about the Internet?

Breakfast Can Wait:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHbyNrGXpAA

Plectrum Electrum:

http://vimeo.com/61739791

Breakdown [snippet]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE6g-jnEhew

FIXURLIFEUP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u91IeitvQIU

  On 10/1/2014 at 5:34 PM, olo said:

I'm down with prince. Haven't listened to this though.

 

thought this was humorous. but the link in Prince posts is interesting:

http://www.nme.com/news/prince/80095

lol incredible hahaha

He actually put Breakfast Can Wait on the album, lol

damn why can't he sing on the whole rock album? Psychedelic Prince would be unstoppable!

  On 10/1/2014 at 5:48 PM, Ascdi said:

 

  On 10/1/2014 at 5:27 PM, patternoverlap said:

I would say, "where da links at?" but Prince hates the internet.

 

Not so! He changed his mind. Art Official Age is in some ways a CONCEPT ALBUM about the Internet?

 

Breakfast Can Wait:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHbyNrGXpAA

 

Plectrum Electrum:

 

http://vimeo.com/61739791

 

Breakdown [snippet]:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE6g-jnEhew

 

FIXURLIFEUP:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u91IeitvQIU

 

  On 10/1/2014 at 5:34 PM, olo said:

I'm down with prince. Haven't listened to this though.

 

thought this was humorous. but the link in Prince posts is interesting:

http://www.nme.com/news/prince/80095

 

lol incredible hahaha

 

there were some good posts to his facebook.

The 432hz article was good though. made sense in a cosmic kinda way

Huge fan here... but I honestly lost track of him since like the late 90s.

Liking Plectrumelectrum, channeling his Hendrix influences?

Gave Plectrum Electrum another spin today, it’s growing on me a little bit. Still, some major clunkers on there.

smoked weed and listened to musicology with a girl in 2004 and was shocked by how much i enjoyed it. then we made out.

The Musicology tour was great, half the arena was empty so we got 3rd row seats! Also the album was free @ the door.

  On 10/2/2014 at 10:08 PM, colunga said:

smoked weed and listened to musicology with a girl in 2004 and was shocked by how much i enjoyed it. then we made out.

Matthew McConaughey: alright, alright, alllright...

Musicology is criminally underrated.

I'll definitely be checking these out. I always like/love roughly half of every Prince album, and don't care for/wince at the rest. I believe he's the only artist I can say that for. He's responsible for some of both my favorite and most hated songs of all time. Might be exaggerating a bit there, but it's almost true.

I prefer AOA than PE... PE is a fusion style (or funk fusion or rock fusion) & AOA is electro-funk-soul!

don't care what do u think about these albums... i love them. it's an evolution (especially AOA)

I wanted to like it as usual, but as usual he channels so much cheese, has no higher aesthetic calling filter. Skimming through I'd be like, oh it's a funky proper prince track and then, oh fS.

I'm a huge Prince fan, and I mean huuuge. Been collecting releases for years and have over 200 bootlegs, as well as all his albums and most of his other official stuff. I was really looking forward to this for a long time, but when I finally had them I merely skipped through them and though, ok.. more Prince. Nothing new here, just more. Sad thing, I know. I hope i can fixmyselfup real soon...

From what I've gathered I quite like both of them although I've never been a big fan of Prince songs without him singing, so AOA will be the one I will pick up again first.

Prince killed it on SNL, a really great psych performance from The Purple One

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-performance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759

  On 11/2/2014 at 2:44 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Prince killed it on SNL, a really great psych performance from The Purple One

 

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-performance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759

Yeah, it was great! Shame all the videos online are pretty low-quality. It was quite lush live on my TV.

  On 10/2/2014 at 4:05 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Liking Plectrumelectrum, channeling his Hendrix influences?

Sounds more like a Zeppelin riff. Can't remember the exact track I'm thinking of.

  On 11/2/2014 at 2:44 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Prince killed it on SNL, a really great psych performance from The Purple One

 

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-performance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759

I wanted to see Prince on SNL, but the show was so awful I just said fuck it & went to bed. Thanks for the link. Helluva musician.

  On 11/2/2014 at 2:44 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Prince killed it on SNL, a really great psych performance from The Purple One

 

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-performance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759

Funny how the link collapses into 'theconcourse....turd'. heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh hehe

Well what did he think was going to happen when the third eye was winking at him.

  On 11/3/2014 at 4:19 PM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 10/2/2014 at 4:05 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Liking Plectrumelectrum, channeling his Hendrix influences?

 

Sounds more like a Zeppelin riff. Can't remember the exact track I'm thinking of.

 

The Zep riff you're thinking of is from The Ocean. The first half of that Plectrumelectrum riff is also remarkably similar to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1fUgpYSdpo

the new stuff has no direction. Its just epic stuff thrown at you while missing a consistent theme that holds everything together

Yeah the Pantera sounded familiar

I liked how he completely forgot to plug his guitar in, took forever to realize what was going on even though the cord was dangling from the mic stand in front of him, and then when he plugged it in the song instantly got 10 times better.