Prince - 3121
Track List : 1. 3121
2. Lolita
3. Te Amo Corazon
4. Black Sweat
5. Incense and Candles
6. Love Listen
7. Satisfied
8. Fury Listen
9. The Word
10. Beautiful, Loved & Blessed
11. The Dance
12. Get On The Boat
There was a time when the prince is the gold standard for artistic expansion. Each of his opus "looted" for a new arena, and each shift in its approach increased correspondingly, the size of the venues of his visit. For more than a decade, he was unstoppable, picking up the baton freaky funk of George Clinton and parlaying into a true superstardom. Funny, though, how the short trip from the top of the pops "News of the Weird" marginalization can - 1990, he spent the better part of a decade roaming the desert, kicking poorly distributed albums ironically that could have reached a wider audience if he had not left Warner Brothers to go it alone.
From an image standpoint, the New Power Generation era saw the prince transformed into a bizarre caricature of justice, religious and others. But just as the path of the hollow crests can be covered quickly, artists can swing back so quickly, and in 2004 musicology praise collected by the bushel, partly restore the reputation of Prince criticism, as well as its commercial fortunes. In retrospect, it seems that the music has been marked a return to substance not to be a nuisance. 3121 is a little better than that, arrives with a handful of infectious songs - that is his best record since the symbol, but there is certainly a huge gulf between him and his masterpieces.
Speaking in terms of his classical period, the 3121 is more "Gett Off" than "Nothing Compares 2 U". The opening title of the album works almost entirely on the eccentricity, as a huge crowd of pitch-shifted Princes harmonise the amount of words that, in principle, to go to a party. At the other end of the piece, "Get on the Boat" is benefiting from strong horn arrangement (with Maceo Parker solos, no less) and a chassis vintage funk enough for coming directly from a Savings shop floor - and the loose, De live feel does not hurt either.
One thing "Get on the Boat" sets in its piano and timpani eruptions is a Latin who has more pervasive influence on 3121 than any previous album Prince. "Te Amo Corazon" is a beautifully nuanced ballad built on a slow, a little rock-tinged mambo beat, and there are snatches of Cuban piano and drums Brazilian exist everywhere. Crunchy electro is the dominant strain in most of the best songs of his first album, though, including the killer single "Black Sweat", the fractured keyboard riff of "Lolita" and "Love", inhabited by soft keyboard and a monster chorus that slashes Melody bottom buzzing with synth bass. "The Word" strikes a nice electro-acoustic dichotomy, layering and a spacey synthesizer programmed beat with acoustic guitar and a solid hook sax.
If the entire album has been given to these levels, we will be on something, but "Fury" emphasizes the impact of its incredible lead guitar part with a patch hopelessly dated keyboard and generic rock drumming. "Incense & Candles" is predictable room r & b based on overly manipulated vocals, rap-swerving into a bit like the passage exactly when I started thinking: "I bet there is a bit of rap-like passage in this song. "He could have at least brought to a guest to deliver something more interesting.
So two albums in a career revival, the prince is still little variety "return". He never going to be as surprising as it was at its peak, of course, and it is probably unfair to expect something like that from him. Overall, 3121 was a pretty ordinary sound record, largely stuck in another, more user-friendly sonic decade - namely 80 years. If nothing else, the Prince is slowly regaining the intrigue, and of course there is still a lot of major issues in his old catalogue to revisit everything he finds himself.
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