PPUK Podcast - Season 2 Episode 10 - Timeless

Uh, before we start on a track by track, the concept of this album that was announced was 10 tracks, nine studio, one live, spanning Prince's entire career, so ev- every decade represented, so '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s, and 2010.

So what did everybody think of this as a concept? Anyone wanna go first?

I'll jump in.

I think it's a terrible concept.

[laughs] I think it's a terrible, terrible concept to do Prince's career in 10 tracks.

We haven't even got an analogy for it.

It's like may- maybe going to, like, a tasting restaurant, you know, but they just give you a grain of rice as one, a- a- a- as one dish, right? And then a look at a lentil as another, right? And then just, like, o- one of the other dishes is you just s- someone puts a, a glass of orange juice near you.

What is this?

[laughs]

This is not-

And I'll back Andy

...

this is not ...

I'm not gonna, right? This is a weird release, right? It's, I know it was gonna be called Decades at one point.

If something's called, is called Decades or if you wanna do a concept like this, give us five discs then, and do like-

That's exactly what I was thinking

... do, do something proper.

This is, this is one of the deepest catalogs in popular music, and this is a very ...

The, the concept isn't bad on paper.

The execution is bizarre.

It is.

It's not without its highlights, but it, it, it kind of like a taste of what it could've been, like a, a, a '70s disc this year, an '80s disc next year, a '90s disc after that, and a 2000, 2010.

This could've been a five-year project, an album a year, a CD a year, and I think people would've been really kind of excited about that idea.

You get to live in each decade and not base it around an album release.

I think that would've been a really good concept.