RAVE un2 the JOy fantastic
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RAVE un2 the JOy fantastic
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic is the twenty-third studio album by American recording artist Prince under the unpronounceable "Love Symbol", as shown on the album cover. Distributed on November 2, 1999 by NPG Records and Arista Records, the album was issued shortly after the release of The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale (1999). It includes several guest appearances, including by Gwen Stefani, Eve, and Sheryl Crow; Prince also completed a cover of Crow's 1996 single "Everyday Is a Winding Road". A pop and R&B album, it departs from the soul genre found on Prince's previous efforts - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
The quality of these few sublime moments outweighs the lackluster album around them.
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AV Club
Prince's lyrics remain as dippy as ever, and moments of self-indulgence abound, but it works as a goofy, lightweight pop record.
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Rock NYC
it sounds as though it should be big and important and it is nothing of the sort
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NME
To paraphrase Woody Allen, genius is like a shark; it has to move forward or it dies. And what we have here is a patchily impressive, fleetingly satisfying, but very, very dead shark.
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All Music
There are a couple of cool moments on this overlong, 70-minute album and, curiously, most of those are tracks with superstar collaborators.
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People
2 good 2 b ignored
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Goldie's Parade
successful in its production, a highly engineered album and the platform Prince intended to make his commercial comeback
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Orlando Weekly
Though never unruly, the album pushes and shoves its way through the funk, from stripped-down drum machines to Prince's pungently funky, post-Hendrix guitar growling. As for overall expectations, Prince has once again failed to lower his.
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The Harvard Crimson
These tracks serve as poignant reminders to former and current Artist fans that talent has become overtaken by image in Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
it's brimming over with instrumental, vocal and compositional brilliance, but he has nothing much to say
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Clems Music Reviews
Truth is, this album just isn’t that great.
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