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If after swallowing that Elixer, you still have the stamina for more, you will be amply rewarded by Minneapolis Sound, or as Prince spells it, MPLSoUND.
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Mplsound is sometimes stronger still [than "Lotusflow3r"], with the party whoop of '(There'll Never B) Another Like Me,' the delicious dirty mind of 'Chocolate Box' and 'Ol' Skool Company,' which will have you partying like its 1985.
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MPLSound appeals to nostalgia both implicitly (a reminder of the reasons for our adoration) and explicitly (the album sounds good because it sounds like Sign O’ The Times).
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MPLSound, the funkiest of the three discs--transcends its own hectoring. The put-downs aren’t half as good as the come-ons.
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Five of MPLSoUND's nine songs sound like lost B sides from assorted classic Prince albums (Dirty Mind, 1999, Controversy, etc.); these days, even a really good Prince song usually reminds the listener of a better, earlier one. What really hamstrings the album, though, is a four-song sequence in the middle.
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MPLSound might be the most pristine for what it ultimately lacks: the sense of real, lusty sin.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 19
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Mixed: 1 out of 19
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Negative: 6 out of 19
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MarkLMar 31, 2009