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Party O' The Times (Prince tribute)

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True Prince fans will find this CD as an insult to The Artist Formally Known as Prince. If you are going to do a tribute make it worth while. While most of the songs sound like 80's retro techno..only two songs save this CD. Adeva does a funky dance remake of 1999 and Rebecca Romin Stamos does a great (lesbian) version of Darling Nikki. The rest of the songs are truly a waste of time. There is no heart and soul in cuts like I Would Die For You, Pop Life, or Controversy. I do give a hand to Buddy Miles for his take on Baby I'm a Star. 3 out of 13 selections does not provide a real positive tribute. Next time get some real artist that can sing to real music.

I thought this was a fun album! I mean 3rd rate actors and GARY NUMAN make this album a gas to listen to. And the remakes are not THAT BAD. True, Prince sings them better...but what did you expect? By the way this is not WARNER BROS. as some other person said...it's put out by CLEOPATRA who has people like DEAD OR ALIVE, HEAVEN 17, and MISSING PERSONS doing these songs. And of course they sound 80s...most of the tracks were recorded in the 80s or by 80s bands. So get over yourself, and succumb to the joys of a trashy remake of a Prince song into dancey New Wave. It's fun! Definitely a party album!

I am a Prince fan and I found this cd very insulting. When I see a band do covers I like them to add some originality to the song so it doesn't just sound like karaoke.But in this case the only good songs are the karaoke songs. The artists variations on Prince's songs are painful to listen to. The joke that Ice-T calls "Head" can only be described as a car crash with an angry pimp.It should not have happened. Rebecca Romijn Stamos' version of "Darling Nikki" is sexy,when you think about it,but when you hear it... Rebecca is so Tone Deaf and sedated sounding when she sings that she makes Fiona Apple sound like a caffine addict with perfect pitch!This is going to sound sexist but Rebecca Romijn Stamos is one woman who should be seen and NOT heard! If you are a Prince fan you should buy this album,unless you want to respect yourself in the morning.

This "tribute" to Prince is slapdash to the Nth degree, right down to the drab PhotoShop artwork and packaging. I don't object to the artists involved, but often their take on Prince's music is tepid, at best. Ice-T's scurrilous rendition of "Head" wins the award for the most outrageously bad attempt, and that's really saying something for an album that features Rebecca Romijn Stamos. Gary Numan's bland reading of "U Got The Look" should have been a lot better, too. It would have been great to hear some of Numan's frigid appeal on such a smoldering original, but instead it comes off as Gary Numan at a karaoke bar.

You also wouldn't think a track like "Controversy" would be easy to screw up, but Information Society's difficult reading of it has all the appeal of a truck backing up. It's frustrating, because you WANT it to be good, but it just...isn't.

I'm also wondering what is up with the Dale Bozzio track, "I Would Die 4 U". It's labeled as the "Keoki Remix". OK, fine...where's her original version of it? And does it make more sense than the Keoki remix does?

The aforementioned cover of "Darling Nikki" by Rebecca Romijn Stamos is actually one of the best things on the album. "Pop Life" by Dead Or Alive is also not too bad. It has a little bit of a hook to it because they join it with "Kiss Them For Me" by Siouxsie & The Banshees.

Overall, a completely forgettable experience, as evidenced by the fact that to date, only five users have stopped by this page to offer any comments on it. Cleopatra went to the well too many times with these compilation/tribute albums. Next!

As you can see from the other reviews, this album seems to have a track or two for each listener, while the rest is apparently garbage. For me, the hands-down winner is, oddly enough, Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man." I honestly can't get enough of it, and it makes the whole album worth the price of admission. Honorable mentions go to Rebecca Romijm for "Darling Nikki," which isn't exactly brilliant, but the backing band is solid and her delivery is suitably sexy, and Dead Or Alive's "Pop Life," which sounds exactly what might have happened if Prince had offered this song to an '80s synth-pop band. Not brilliant or anything, but interesting. And that's this album in a nutshell - not brilliant, but interesting. Two stars for the bulk of the tracks, five stars for Sigue Sigue, so a three star overall. Well worth the buck from the used sellers, particularly for people who make mixes and like to have a library of odd-ball covers to pull from.

Gary Numan doing a Prince song? You do the math-- and I like Gary Numan.There is little here that does justice to the originals. A complete waste of your money. Seriously.

prince deserves better than this.if you want a true tribute get D'angelo,Maxwell&T boz and keep buddy miles.getting has-beens&3rd tier actors is a bad bad joke.this must be warner brothers doing.no wonder why prince got out of dodge? who else's music will be trashed next? you know it's the Puffy Era.