The New Prince Album Kinda Blows
The party is over. Someone apparently broke Prince's bass. After two booty-bumping comeback albums — 2004's Musicology and last year's underrated 3121 — everyone’s favorite gnomish funk pirate has decided to cut the fun and make a tinny rock and R&B album that sounds DOA circa DeBarge. With the exception of one great guitar spazz-out, Planet Earth is, lo and behold, boring. In other words, the Purple One, so good at playing music from the waist down, has decided to make an album from the neck up. From the apocalyptic claptrap of the title track to an endless assortment of milquetoast slow jams (make-out music? -- Prince doesn't make out!), he fires off nary a hip-thrusty groove. The album's sole downloadable goodie is Guitar, a decent air-guitar jam that still wouldn't crack a greatest-hits box set. Forgettable is the nicest thing to say about Planet Earth.
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
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What are you trying to do, break some kind of record for hateful e-mails and phone calls?
That's what I like about you, you call them as you see them.
Posted by: sparky | July 25, 2007 at 10:49 AM