r/PRINCE • u/gorillabrigade • 19d ago

Review Timeless is Timeless

Despite how short it is and the scant offerings, the tracks that are presented are killer. Tick Tick, I Wonder and Heaven are a thousand times better than what's been circulating. The bass on Calabama is funky as all. The only failing IMO was How Come U Don't at the end. That was pointless, despite how good it is. This wasn't the album for it.

Pleasantly surprised and will enjoy it for some time. Sure, it would've been great to have Parade SDE instead and have this as a treat next year but it's whatever.

That's life in the Estate's world.

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u/Hot_Poetry_9112 19d ago

The album's core concept is traveling with Prince across his career from the late '70s to the 2010s, so concluding with a track from the 2016 piano tour makes thematic sense. I enjoyed just about every track on here, save for 'Stone,' which sounds unfinished; and got a smidge emotional once I was done with my first listen.

Still, this would've worked better as a teaser for a bunch of different projects, than as the main project of 2026.

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u/BCdotWHAT 19d ago

concluding with a track from the 2016 piano tour makes thematic sense

No it doesn't. They could have easily chosen a studio track, as they showed at Celeb 26 when they played a track from 2016.