Now we have ranked his consistent decade, lets rank the patchy decade the 90s. I will stick just to the official stuff which is 13 albums, heres my list.

1. Crystal Ball 9/10
2. The Gold Experience 8.5/10
3. Come 8.5/10
4. Love Symbol 8/10
5. Emancipation 7.5/10
6. Diamonds and Pearls 7/10
7. The Truth 6/10
8. Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic 6/10
9. Graffiti Bridge 5.5/10
10. The Vault 4.5/10
11. New Power Soul 4/10
12. Chaos and Disorder 3/10
13. Kamasutra (If u can call it an album) 1/10

Others that are or are not albums u decide

1. The Hits/ Bsides 8/10
2. Girl 6 6/10
3. Exodus 5/10
4. Goldnigga 4/10 (From what I have heard)
5. The Beautiful Experience 3/10 (Original song great, rest is unimaginable tosh)

emancipation
the gold exp
graffitti bridge
diamonds and pearls
come
o(+>
crystal ball
rave into the joy fantastic
the vault
new power soul

My pics for the 90s...

1. The Gold Experience 9/10

2. Come 8/10

3. Emancipation 8/10

4. Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic 7/10

5. Chaos and Disorder 7/10

6. 7/10

7. Crystal Ball 6/10

8. Graffiti Bridge 4/10

9. Diamonds and Pearls 4/10

10. The Vault 4/10

11. The Truth 4/10

12. Newpower Soul 3/10
[Edited 7/2/09 10:49am]

The Gold Experience 10/10
Come 10/10
Chaos And Disorder 10/10
Crystal Ball 10/10
Emancipation 9.5/10
Exodus 9/10
New Power Soul 9/10
Love Symbol 9/10
The Vault 9/10
The Truth 9/10
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic 8.5/10
Graffiti Bridge 8/10
Diamonds and Pearls 8/10
Goldnigga 7/10
Kamasutra 6/10

1. Come
2. The Gold Exp.
3. C&D
4.
5. Graffiti Bridge
6. D&P
7..... Everything else... (all 3 NPG albums not included)


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[Edited 7/2/09 5:42am]

1. Come
2. The Gold Experience
3. Diamonds & Pearls
4. Graffiti Bridge
5. Emancipation
6. O-+>
7. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
8. Chaos & Disorder
9. Exodus
10. The Vault
11. The Truth
12. New Power Soul
13. Goldnigga
14. Kamasutra

1. The Gold Experience 8/10
2. Love Symbol 7/10
3. The Truth 7/10
4. Come 8.7/10
5. Chaos and Disorder 7/10
6. Graffiti Bridge 6/10
7. Crystal Ball 6/10
8. Emancipation 7.4/10
9. Diamonds and Pearls 4/10
10. New Power Soul 4/10
11. Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic 3/10
12. The Vault 4.2/10
13. Kamasutra (If u can call it an album) 1/10

Others that are or are not albums u decide

1. The Hits/ Bsides 10/10
2. Girl 6 10/10
3. Exodus 1/10
4. Goldnigga 1/10
5. The Beautiful Experience 1/10

Gold Experience
Crystal Ball
Graffiti Bridge
Emancipation
Exodus
Chaos & Disorder
Come
The Vault
Rave In2
Diamonds and Pearls
Symbol
New Power Soul
Rave un2

1. emancipation

2. crystal ball

3. the gold ex

4. d & p

5. new power soul

6.

7. rave

8. come

9. the truth

10. graffiti brigde

11. the vault

12. chaos and disorder

1. Symbol
2. The Gold Experience
3. Crystal Ball
4. Diamonds and Pearls
5. Graffiti Bridge
6. Come
7. Chaos and Disorder
8. Emancipation
9. Rave
10. New Power Soul
11. Exodus
12. Gold Nigga
13. The Vault

1 The Gold Experience
2 Emancipation
3 o(+>
4 Crystal Ball
5 Chaos And Disorder
6 The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
7 Come
8 The Truth
9 Graffiti Bridge
10 Diamonds And Pearls
11 Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
12 Newpower Soul

The Gold Experience is either first, second or third. And the album is out of print, that's sad, one of Prince's BEST album, and it's not for all to hear! stupid WB. Give him back his f.cking Album RIGHTS!!!


Sorry... needed to let it out!!! It's cool, it's out of my system now, I'm cool... still sad, that album needs to be on the shelf again!


Richard.

lotusflower said:

I thought that Prince had ownership of the Gold Experience?

Don't be mad at WB for keeping Prince's music out of print he is just as bad, probably worse. Several of his post WB releases which he is sole owner of are no longer in print.

1.Crystal Ball
2.The Gold Experience
3.Love Symbol
4.The Truth
5.Emancipation
6.Come
7.Graffiti Bridge
8.The Vault
9.Rave..
10.Chaos and Disorder
11.New Power Soul
12.Kamasutra

lotusflower said:

TGE isn't out of print because of Warners.

His 90s output is not comparable to his 80s output, but it's still very solid.

Each album ranked 1-10.

Some rankings are moderate, that doesn't mean that these albums lack several great songs, it just means that there are too many ok songs or fillers on them.

1. The Gold Experience - 8.5
2. - 8
3. Diamonds & Pearls - 8
4. Come - 7.5
5. Emancipation - 6
6. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic - 6
7. Graffiti Bridge - 6
8. New Power Soul - 5.5
9. Chaos And Disorder - 5.5
10. Crystal Ball - 5
11. The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale - 5
12. The Truth - 4.5

1. Crystal Ball (incl. The Truth)
2. Graffiti Bridge
3. Emancipation
4. New Power Soul
5. Diamonds and Pearls
6. Love Symbol
7. The Gold Experience
8. Chaos and Disorder
9. Come
10. The Vault
11. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
[Edited 7/2/09 22:46pm]

1. The Gold Experience
2. Graffiti Bridge
3. Emancipation
4.
5. Diamonds & Pearls
6. Come
7. Chaos & Disorder
8. The Vault
9. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
10. The Truth (originally planned as its own release)

11. Exodus -NPG
12. Gold Nigga -NPG
13. New Power Soul -"NPG"
14. Kamasutra -NPG Orch

purposely left out the compilations Crystal Ball, Girl 6, The Hits, & The Beautiful Exp (maxi EP single or whatever you wanna call it)
[Edited 7/3/09 1:09am]

1. Crystal Ball 5
2. The Gold Experience 9
3. Come 3
4. Love Symbol 7
5. Emancipation 5
6. Diamonds and Pearls 8
7. The Truth 4
8. Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic 2
9. Graffiti Bridge 4
10. The Vault 3
11. Chaos and Disorder 1
13. Kamasutra (If u can call it an album) 0

Crystal Ball 5/10
The Gold Experience 7/10
Come 8.5/10
Love Symbol 7/10
Emancipation 5/10
Diamonds and Pearls 7.5/10
The Truth 2/10
Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic 6/10
Graffiti Bridge 4/10
The Vault 4.5/10
New Power Soul 0/10
Chaos and Disorder 3/10
Kamasutra (If u can call it an album) abortion/10

Some people don't like Crystal Ball very much, I don't know why its brilliant, theres classic 90s songs on it too like Lovesign, Hide the Bone, Ripopgodazippa, So Dark, Tomorrow and Calhoun Square, surely these are classics ?

Huggiebear said:

I like most of the material on CB individually (the Come/Gold era stuff is up there with the best of that era), but as a collection I don't think it works at all.

it's so funny that we have a 10/10 for chaos & disorder and from another fan a 1/10


such a diversity of opinions
i love it

1. Diamonds and pearls
2. Love symbol
3. The gold experience
4. Crystal Ball
5. Emancipation
6. Graffiti Bridge
7. Rave
8. New Power Soul
9. Come
10.Chaos and disorder.

01. The Gold Experience (10)
02. Diamonds & Pearls (9)
03. Love Symbol Album (9)
04. Come (9)
05. Graffiti Bridge (8)
06. Crystal Ball (8)
07. Emancipation (8)
08. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (7)
09. The Truth (6)
10. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (6)
11. The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale (6)
12. Chaos & Disorder (6)

THE HITS/ B-SIDES is a 10/10 masterpiece,

only weak track: Pope.
[Edited 7/3/09 11:24am]

01. Newpower Soul
02. Come
03. The Symbol Album
04. The Truth
05. Diamonds & Pearls
06. Emancipation
07. Graffiti Bridge
08. The Gold Experience
08. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
09. Chaos And Disorder
10. Kamasutra

I'm not including the compilations, 'Rave' remix album or 'Goldnigga' (which is more of a group effort than 'Newpower Soul').

Come 9
Chaos and Disorder 8
Love Symbol 6
Emancipation 6
The Truth 5.5
Crystal Ball 5.5
The Gold Experience 5
Graffiti Bridge 5
Diamonds and Pearls 2
Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic 2

1. The Truth 7/10

2. Come 6/10

3. Graffiti Bridge 6/10

everthing else a tie, with a 5/10

4. Chaos & Disorder 5/10

5. Symbol - 5/10

6. Emancipation- 5/10

7. Gold X - 5/10

8. Crystal Ball - 5/10

9. Diamonds & Pearls - 5/10

10. Rave - 5/10

Definitely patchier, but still great overall, in my book! The numbers are from my albumranker program to make relative comparisons more precise.

I'd say a comparable star rating would go as follows:

5 stars: 85+
4.5 stars: 75-85
4 stars: 65-75
3.5 stars: 55-65
3 stars: 45-55
2.5 stars: 35-45
2 stars: 25-35
1.5 stars: 15-35
1 star: 10-15
0.5 stars: 5-10
0 stars: 0-5

All-time rank in my albums list in parentheses:

The Gold Experience 89.2 (#11)
Crystal Ball 88.4 (#12)
87.6 (#17)
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic 81.2 (#61)
Come 62.6 (#192)
The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale 60.2 (#211)
Graffiti Bridge 54.8 (#258)
Diamonds and Pearls 51.8 (#275)
The Truth 37.4 (#376)
Emancipation 31.1 (#425)
Chaos and Disorder 28.4 (#445)
Kamasutra 11.2 (#565)
Newpower Soul 9.6 (#573)
[Edited 7/9/09 1:21am]

1. O.S. (Symbol album)
2. Crystal Ball
3. The Hits/Bsides (I guess I am calling it an album)
4. Diamonds and Pearls
5. Come
5. Gold Experience (the two 5th places are intentional)
7. Graffiti Bridge
8. Rave
9. Emancipation
10. Chaos and Disorder

I prefer to withhold my opinion of the other albums. Nonetheless, if all of the songs I like from those albums were compiled into one album, I would put it at 8.
[Edited 7/9/09 12:23pm]