We all know (even if we don't all admit)that Princes output can range from a a beautifully tarmaced motorway to a bumpy farmtrack (mostly in recent years) but what are the real potholes in the road you avoid, those albums u own but wish u didn't or those u just won't buy and would rather they hadn't been made.

The Vault
NEWS
Xpectation

ONA is only spared for Arboretum
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NEWS
Kamasutra
ONA Piano
Xpectations

Indigo Nights
ONA... Live

those live albums are terrible, imo.

The same 3 that u mentioned, plus Graffiti Bridge(it would have been better if it was just him on that CD, not everyone else and it included God Is Alive), ONA, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, PE, 3121, TRC, and Musicology!!!
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purpledoveuk said:

oh dear.

Those are albums I actually keep forgetting they exist

purpledoveuk said:

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic for sure. I listen to it every once in awhile, but it's hard to go through it.

The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale and One Nite Alone - Piano gettin' no love? That's crazy talk.

Exactly imago...I was scanning by cd collection for some tunes this morning and thought "wooah...I'd completely forgotten about those". But equally I sometimes think why the he'll haven't I listened to this for a while - dirty mind, controversy and parade being the 3 main ones

Musicology and Planet Earth. after 16 years of adoration i thought it would
be near impossible to be left so cold by a prince album that i would not be
in the mood to pick it up and play it at all after the first week. it was a shock
that it happened not once but twice in the span of 3 years.

IstenSzek said:

Ive been onthe edge of that feeling since perhaps New Power Soul with a few excetions (it's when his falseto singing became 'out of tune' style instead of that crisp Scandalous voice). I'm actually at the stage where I'm thinking if I buy Lotusflow3r then I'm a fool for not learning

The Rainbow Children.

purpledoveuk said:

crazy ass newbie-just listed 2 of my fave prince albums

go back and do some homework

I guess that I pretend that, "Yellow," doesn't exist. I absolutely love it.

I know that Prince has redone some of the songs on this, and given some songs to other artists, although I would love to hear new versions of: ~Spirit ~Open Book ~Uh Huh.

none.

there all chapter's in the mans phenomenal story, why would i skip pages?

There really are not any that I pretend do not exist because for me, I find at least 2 gems off every last album.
However...I have a few that I rarely listen to...
One I have not spun in the player for a minute is Karmasutra.

jonylawson said:

npggirl77 said:

Off with the R!

By the way, that's one hell of a good record to me.

Newbie???? Dude ive been on here for over 5 years.

And congratulations for being the first inevitable "everything is perfect" post

Sorry...second - wetdream beat you to it

squirrelgrease said:

I agree wtf

Lovesymbol2 said:

Two of my favorite Prince records.

They are both 2 very fine examples of half-baked albums. Prince even said that ONA was a demo and as for the Vault it's clearly contract filling dirge.


But that's just an opinion that some peole share and some people don't....if anything it illustrates how Prince is able to live the lifestyle he does ...that and selling Loutisflow3r for over £30

purpledoveuk said:

Hush newbie.

All hail the oldest newbie in town

There R precisely only 2 albums I don't ever listen 2...

The Gold Experience and Diamonds & Pearls.

So how U like me NOW?

Giovanni777 said:

I Love those 2!

But I'm not gonna quarrel on that, Giovanni, not in this life

Me too...d&p has the edge over Gold...probably the last time I bought a Prince album that didn't have tracks that I could happily skip everytime.

Some people won't like them because it's too commercial but for me it was the pint before he shackled himself with 'regret' and tried to censor his past. Also the last time somebody was able to rein him in to avoid the resulting self-indulgence

jonylawson said:

dude, purpledoveuk has been a member for a long time

Giovanni777 said:

diamonds and pearls, i can understand. the prince songs are good enough
but the production and the rapping makes the album as a whole pretty much
the one that aged worst of all his albums imo.

but why the gold experience? i can see how some of the tunes have aged
pretty bad as well but the guitar tracks and the more timeless funk on
it is straight up some of his best material.

what is it that you don't like about it?

IstenSzek said:

fuck that shit. You're my bitch.
You'll be shocked what I can do twice in a span of 30 minutes

Imago said: