Prince: The Albums - #28, LOtUSFLOW3R (Done!)

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Rank 1-12
From the Lotus...
Boom
Crimson and Clover
4ever
Colonized Mind
Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful
Love Like Jazz
77 Beverly Park
Wall of Berlin
$
Dreamer
...Back 2 the Lotus

LOtUSFLOW3R


I'm breaking up Prince's last multi-disc release into two parts and giving y'all a nice month of a cushion to get it done! Enjoy!

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JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME tim singingrulebritannia filthy God CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker Ling-Ling Doc Indie Party Rock .indulgecountry newpower Linnethia Monique samo🦕 Glove Slap jtd Thee Stallion Zach Unhinged Sir Benji mamooshka LBTrocks Mirago Kanenrá:ke Mayman alexcuse castleoblivion26 Tea-why

[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

OH LET'S MOTHERFUCKING DO THIS RIGHT HERE

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LOtUSFLOW3R (15 Days Left)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim
Ok, now here's the part where I start harassing y'all.

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LOtUSFLOW3R (8 Days Left)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim

So y'all like me knocking on doors? Got it!

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LOtUSFLOW3R (6 Days Left)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim

Ok, here I come cuz y'all playing with me!

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[.indulgecountry]

Keep knocking on my door 'cause I'm in the bathtub and it might take me 6 days to get to the door sorry luv ya doe <3

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LOtUSFLOW3R (5 Days Left)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim
3. Mirago

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LOtUSFLOW3R (4 Days Left)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim
3. Mirago
4. CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker

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[Sir Benji]

I’ll get this in soon

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LOtUSFLOW3R (2 Days Left)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim
3. Mirago
4. CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker
5. newpower
6. samo🦕


I will run this with six but just a reminder you still have the weekend. So do it. Or don't. Whatever.

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[Sir Benji]

My list will be in before Sunday

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LOtUSFLOW3R (Last Call)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim
3. Mirago
4. CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker
5. newpower
6. samo🦕
7. .indulgecountry

Can Linnethia Monique Sir Benji Kanenrá:ke make 10? We shall see.

[Sir Benji]

Oct 17, 2021 15:24:51 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

LOtUSFLOW3R (Last Call)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim
3. Mirago
4. CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker
5. newpower
6. samo🦕
7. .indulgecountry

Can Linnethia Monique Sir Benji Kanenrá:ke make 10? We shall see.

I’m at work typing my list now 😅

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LOtUSFLOW3R (Reveals Pending)

1. SHOOTER
2. tim
3. Mirago
4. CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker
5. newpower
6. samo🦕
7. .indulgecountry
8. Linnethia Monique
9. Sir Benji * (maybe)



In the early 2000s Prince was experimenting with many different ways to release his music, including online via his NPG Music Club and as a free offering in a daily newspaper, a distribution model he would use for both 2007’s Planet Earth and 2010’s 20Ten. For his 2009 three-album set, however, he opted to release the albums on his new website, lotusflow3r.com, and to return to a more conventional method and partner with a major retailer, the Minnesota-based Target, to get his music back into brick-and-mortar stores.

Unlike his previous triple albums like Emancipation and Crystal Ball, the new release included three separate, full-length albums: the psychedelic Lotusflow3r, the funky MPLSound, and the dreamy Elixer, an album he co-wrote and recorded for his protégé Bria Valente.

Songs on Lotusflow3r were developed around the time that Prince was recording his 2006 album 3121, and many of the same musicians that appeared on that release re-emerge on Lotusflow3r, including original NPG bassist Sonny Thompson and drummer Michael Bland, and members of Prince’s mid-2000s touring band like Joshua and C.C. Dunham, Morris Hayes, Shelby J., and Marva King.

Prince’s decision to release the three albums exclusively through Target in the U.S. proved that listeners were still more than eager to purchase his music in stores. The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart in the U.S. and reached number 1 on the Top Independent Albums and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. Although no official singles were released from Lotusflow3r or MPLSound, the song “Dreamer” was featured in a Target commercial promoting the album, catapulting it into the national spotlight.

[Sir Benji]

Ok list sent 😅

[SHOOTER]

From up in the clouds, the enemy of your seed
Performs a righteous deed...





*4th-Lowest SD*

Linnethia Monique : 7
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 8

LBTrocks : 10
newpower : 10
.indulgecountry : 11
tim : 12
Sir Benji : 12
SHOOTER : 12
samo🦕 : 12
Mirago : 12

...Back 2 the Lotus was recorded during the same marathon session in November 2004 that yielded several tracks which would be spread across 3121, Planet Earth and LOTUSFLOW3R.

[SHOOTER]

*2nd-Lowest SD*

Sir Benji : 6
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 9
Mirago : 9

.indulgecountry : 10
samo🦕 : 10
tim : 11
LBTrocks : 11
newpower : 11
SHOOTER : 11
Linnethia Monique : 12

Prince reportedly took a liking to the Portuguese stylings of Fado music and composed this instrumental piece for the album.

"Why does 77 Beverly Park start like that just to morph into some Customer Service Hold Menu/RPG village music?! 😩" - Linnethia Monique

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*6th-Highest SD*

samo🦕 : 5
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 7
Linnethia Monique : 8
tim : 9

SHOOTER : 10
Sir Benji : 11
Mirago : 11
LBTrocks : 12
newpower : 12
.indulgecountry : 12

See: ...Back 2 the Lotus

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LOtUSFLOW3R (Top-9)

$
4ever
Boom
Colonized Mind
Crimson and Clover
Dreamer
Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful
Love Like Jazz
Wall of Berlin

[.indulgecountry]

The obvious bottom 3. Good start.

[SHOOTER]

Galaxy of monumental delight
Or parallel hologram copyright?
The call comes unexpected like a mugger in the park
And the sound of the train interrupts the question mark...





*3rd-Lowest SD*

Linnethia Monique : 6
newpower : 6
samo🦕 : 6
LBTrocks : 7
.indulgecountry : 7
SHOOTER : 7
tim : 8
Sir Benji : 9

Mirago : 10
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 11

Originally planned for inclusion on 3121 ("it's goin' down, y'all, like the wall of Berlin..." was the ending line of the title track), Wall of Berlin was the tale of a fictional encounter with a German woman that Prince was inspired to write while reading the Old Testament.

"I've studied Solomon and David now. In biblical times sex was always beautiful. You come to understand that, and then you try to find a woman who can experience that with you." - Prince (Los Angeles Times, January 2009)

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When all the news just give me the blues
And make you wanna pop a pill
What difference does it make who gots the most bank?
It's just ink and chlorophyll...





*3rd-Highest SD*

CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 1
newpower : 4

LBTrocks : 6
.indulgecountry : 8
Mirago : 8
SHOOTER : 9

Linnethia Monique : 10
tim : 10
Sir Benji : 10
samo🦕 : 11

Prince never confirmed who the actual subject of $ was, only saying that he wrote it about "the most popular girl in the world" at the time. It was also rumored by those inside his camp that he had plans to release it as a single but scrapped it all once someone leaked audio of the song stolen from its video shoot.

[SHOOTER]

Run your fingers up and down the obelisk in the earth
Down to 33 RPMs where the primordial gives birth
Or else we lie neck high, you and I in one another's grooves
Volcano magic, sometimes we go...





*6th-Lowest SD*

samo🦕 : 3
Linnethia Monique : 4
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 4

tim : 6
.indulgecountry : 6
Mirago : 6
Sir Benji : 8
SHOOTER : 8
LBTrocks : 9
newpower : 9

I assume this has an origin story similar to Wall of Berlin.

[SHOOTER]

More rewards and accolades than anyone before or after
Twenty-first century, oh what a shame, what a shame, race, race still matters
A race to what? And where we goin'?
We in the same boat, but I'm the only one rowin'...





*2nd-Highest SD*

LBTrocks : 2
Sir Benji : 2
SHOOTER : 2
tim : 3
Mirago : 4
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 5

samo🦕 : 7
newpower : 8
.indulgecountry : 9

Linnethia Monique : 11

Although not an official single, Dreamer was used in an ad to promote LOTUSFLOW3R being a Target exclusive. The song itself was inspired by African-American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur Dick Gregory. It also earned Prince a 2010 Grammy nomination for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (losing to Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream).

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LOtUSFLOW3R (Top-5)

4ever
Colonized Mind
Crimson and Clover
Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful
Love Like Jazz

[LBTrocks]

Jam!! "Dreamer' should have easily made top 5

[Sir Benji]

Crimson & Clover better be in the Top 2!

[SHOOTER]

If I never get to kiss your lips
If I never get to feel your hips close to me
That's okay, I ain't gonna trip
Not now, no how, 'cause I've got...





*4th-Highest SD*

Linnethia Monique : 1
newpower : 2
tim : 4
.indulgecountry : 4
Sir Benji : 4
Mirago : 5

SHOOTER : 6
LBTrocks : 8
samo🦕 : 8
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 10

[SHOOTER]

If I never get to kiss your lips
If I never get to feel your hips close to me
That's okay, I ain't gonna trip
Not now, no how, 'cause I've got...





*4th-Highest SD*

Linnethia Monique : 1
newpower : 2
tim : 4
.indulgecountry : 4
Sir Benji : 4
Mirago : 5

SHOOTER : 6
LBTrocks : 8
samo🦕 : 8
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 10

[samo🦕]

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