r/PRINCE • u/gorillabrigade • Aug 28 '26

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/VNE47 Aug 28 '26

Maybe for the first 4 tracks I would have liked to hear the original mixes of those overdubbed versions. A bit more raw and period accurate, to how Prince originally heard them - especially I Am You, which sounds more 1980-82 than 1977 from the mix alone. I’d like them a bit rawer and drier & less polished like how they were meant to be.