(in no particular order)
1. Musicology
2. Call My Name
3. Black Sweat
4. Guitar
5. Fury
6. Crimson & Clover
7. The Question Of U
8. U R Gonna C Me (both version)
9. Reflections
10.Wall Of Berlin

T.R.C
East
Reflection
The Word
3121
Black Sweat
Lion Of Judah
All The Midnites
Boom
Dreamer...Back To The Lotus
Here On Earth

wasitgood4u said:

Good point. I guess I included it here because it kind of summarises that album. And the live version kicks ass.

toejam said:

Yeah. Probably off-topic to have a discussion about it here, but:
I guess reviewing the track you could say it's just another JB-style jam, but it's one of those first singles from a new P album that got me really excited and grabbed me somewhere...
All those trax keep echoes of that effect even when they're old and overplayed (Kiss anyone?). Very few recent tracks have done that for me - BS and Fury did (that's why I like 3121) and maybe the opening track of TRC. That's about it since, I dunno, Dolphin?
So I thought you blokes under-rated the song. And some of you were dissing the digital bits - that's the genius of it! He's saying "real music by real musicians" as usual with his tongue way out in his cheek: he can do both! When he calls "horns" and the synths kick that's brilliant, coz he's saying: I can do James, but could James do this? Remember, after all that "real music" bullshit, most of the album is a one-man band and he followed it up with 3121!!!

Musicology
Call My Name
Black Sweat
Fury
3121
Better with time
Planet Earth
Chelsea Rogers
Lolita
Somewhere here on earth

He ends the decade in an interesting way with lotusflow3r his best of the decade and beyond, paired with one of his all time most cringeworthy.

For me,If he would have ended this decade with just Msound, i would have thought him to be just a great touring performer wih a awesome back catalog to back him up. But now but Lotus left open that he may still have more great new music in him.

1. Love
2. Chelsae Rodgers
3. 1 + 1 + 1 is 3
4. Lolita
5. Cinnamon Girl
6. Somewhere Here On Earth
7. She Loves Me 4 Me
8. U're Gonna C Me
9. Fury
10. A Million Days

1. F.U.N.K.
2. Reflection
3. When I Lay My Hands On U
4. Dreamer
5. Love
6. Dance 4 Me
7. She Loves Me 4 Me
8. Call My Name
9. Chelsea Rodgers
10. One Nite Alone

Sweet!

1) Dreamer
2) Colonized mind
3) Here
4) Black Sweat
5) The Dance
6) Beautiful Loved and Blessed
7) Fury (SNL) I know...live performance, but it was that good.
8) F.U.N.K
9) Dance 4 Me
10) One U Wanna C

violetblues said:

Totally disagree, Prince has ended the decade on top of his game, LotusFlow3r is a great 3 - CD Set that will only get better with time...sorry about the pun...

Happy New Year Orgers....and Quakers alike...

Misread it. Thought he'd been included in some obscure list. Shocked me he was mentioned. Which he wasn't.

(in no particular order)

Everlasting now
Last december
Xenophobia
Musicology
Chelsea Rodgers
Dreamer
3121
A million days
U gonna C me (ONA version)
Reflection

1. A Case of You
2. Guitar
3. On The Couch
4. No More Candy 4 U
5. Chocolate Box
6. Black Sweat
7. F.U.N.K.
8. $
9. U Make My Sun Shine
10. Cinnamon Girl

That list would probably change some if I did it tomorrow. I'm surprised more people didn't list A Case of You. He did a great job on that cover. It's my favorite recording he's done of someone else's track IMHO.

everlasting now
she loves me 4 me
call my name
life o the party
reflection
beautiful, loved, and blessed
funk
(i wish they would be easier to name :[)
illusion, coma, pimp, and circumstance
the work
i feel like all the memorably good stuff was in the 90's for me

My top 10:

1)3121-BET Awards
2)Fury-SNL Live performance
3) Cinnamon Girl
4) Black Sweat
5) The Word
6) The Digital Garden
7) Last December
8) Lion of Judah
9)Colonized mind
10) Dreamer

JudasCorby said:

Actually it would have been in my top 3..but i thought it was a cover so i skipped it.....i have made at least one none-prince fan interested in other prince material after hearing this cover btw...it is very beautifull indeed..as is the original as well of Joni...both songs are landmark songs for me...

1 - Reflection
2 - She Loves Me 4 Me
3 - 4 Ever
4 - Here On Earth
5 - Call My Name
6 - Lion Of Judah
7 - Dear Mr Man
8 - The Word
9 - Colonized Mind
10 - Love


today anyway.....

For me, this was a very difficult list to put together, not because there were that many songs to choose from, but its hard to decide how to rank them. I put Black Sweat on top because it took me by totally surprise him going back to his no-bass line 80's period on a single release. Dreamer is simply put, a jaw-dropping Hendrixian excercise.

1) Black Sweat
2) Dreamer
3) Dance 4 Me
4) Colonized Mind
5) Lolita
6) Dance 4 Me
7) Call My Name
8) Love
9) Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance
10)Fury

I can't seriously name more than 2 songs that I can caliber as good, his past albums have been straight awful to be honest...

This is too hard, but heres my try.

1. Dreamer
2. Colonized Mind
3. Black Sweat
4. Lion of Judah
5. Illusion, Coma, Pimp, and Circumstance
6. Last December (The melodies do it)
7. F.U.N.K.
8. Crimson and Clover
9. Misty Blue
10. 3121 (The song, don't u wanna come)

Very Very tough but off the top of my head:

Reflection
All The Midnights in the World
Resolution
Marrying Kind/If I was the man in your life
FUNK
U're going to c me (piano)
Last December
My Medalion
High

No particular order

Last December
S.S.T.
Musicology
Call My Name
Reflection
Black Sweat
3121
The One U Wanna C
Colonized Mind
Dreamer

(and about 10 others that were painful to keep off this list)

krayzie said:

Hmmm... but you are also the same guy who said that the only Prince album you can listen to straight through was 1999 and continually makes Troll posts....

So, it's hard to really take your opinion on all things Prince seriously....lol
[Edited 1/10/10 13:21pm]

In no particular order:

Musicology
Love
All the midnights in the world
Reflection (live version with Wendy on the Tavis Smiley show)
Fury (live version on Saturday Night Live)
F.U.N.K
You make my sun shine
Call my name
The Everlasting now (live version on the Alladin DVD, despite the lyrics)
On the couch

1. The Dance
2. When I Lay My Hands on U
3. Reflection
4. Last December
5. On the Couch
6. Call My Name
7. Fury
8. All the Midnights in the World
8. Somewhere Here on Earth
9. The One U Wanna See
10. Crimson and Clover

Chronologically some favs:

1+1+1 is 3
Pearls B4 The Swine
Musicology
3121
Love
Fury
The Word
Boom
U're Gonna C Me
Dreamer

I working on compiling all these list to come up with the .org's top Prince songs of the decade . Should have in a few days . Anyone wanna get their list in ?

Good stuff.

I went ahead a calculated eveyones lists . I assumed all lists were no particular order and each song mention was worth one vote. So here are the orgs Top 10 Prince songs of the decade.



10 F.U.N.K (2007)





On November 5, 2007, several fan sites of Prince formed "Prince Fans United" to fight back against legal requests they claim Prince made to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to Prince's likeness. While Prince's lawyers claimed that the use of such representations constituted copyright infringement, the Prince Fans United claimed that the legal actions were "attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince." On November 8, 2007, the site received a song named "PFUnk" providing a kind of "unofficial answer" to their movement.

On November 20, 2007 the song was released on iTunes, retitled "F.U.N.K.


9. Reflection (2004)




8. Dance 4 Me (2009)



7. Musicology (2004)




"Musicology" title track from his 2004 album Musicology. The song is an ode to James Brown's style of funk music popularized in the early 1970s.

In the United States, the song received solid airplay on Urban Adult Contemporary radio stations. The song arguably enjoyed larger success as a video with television airplay, as it was played regularly on MTV, BET, and VH1. Outside of the U.S., the song enjoyed considerable success on the pop charts in a number of countries. Specifically, "Musicology" went Top 40 in Argentina, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland.


6. Call My Name (2004)



"Call My Name" , from his 2004 album Musicology. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2005.

Although it was not commercially released as a single, it received enough radio airplay to reach #75 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #27 on the R&B chart.


5. Colonized Mind (2009)




4. 3121 (2006)



3. Fury (2006)



"Fury" , from his 2006 album 3121. The single was debuted live on Saturday Night Live on February 4, 2006. It was also part of Prince's four song set at the 2006 BRIT Awards.

The song was released as the third single from 3121 in the UK on May 30, 2006, and reached number sixty on the UK Singles Chart. The single's B-sides are a live version of the song, and "Te Amo Corazón", both performed at the 2006 BRIT Awards. In addition to being released as a CD single, it was also released on a 12" vinyl single as a picture disc. The CD single also had a video of the live performances.

2. Dreamer (2009)



Track from 2009 release Lotusflow3r. The song was featured in Target commercials for promotion of the album. "Dreamer" has received a 2010 Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance - Male.

1. Black Sweat (2006)



"Black Sweat" was released as the second single from his 2006 album 3121. The music video to accompany the single was released on February 2, 2006. At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.


For the week ending March 11, 2006, "Black Sweat" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number sixty, and at number eighty-three on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks chart. It also debuted at number one on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, which tabulates both physical and digital sales.

The song's initial surge of 11,500 digital singles sales was prompted by a month-long promotion with iTunes, in which four consumers would win a private concert performance by Prince

"Black Sweat" debuted at number two on the Canadian Singles Chart for sales. The track was released March 27, 2006 in the UK, and charted at #43 on the UK singles chart. In Italy the single peaked at #24.

Dave1992 said:

I could easily name at least 25 favs from this decade, so I hear you. I am not even going to try to narrow my list down to 10. I am a bit shocked that I don't see Muse 2 the Pharaoh on anyone's list. That would definitely be near the top of mine!
[Edited 1/15/10 15:16pm]

newpower99 said:

I think you have them in the wrong order..