ok now wtf is wrong with u prince nuts ... its never been the 'LOVE' symbol . its not a 'love' symbol its a 'sex' symbol ... gawd princ3 fans are DENSE .. its the two sex signs combined how does that make it a love symbol .. that was the joke u know the one that dint work .. prince wanted everyone to call him the sex symbol but even the prince fans were too stupid to figure it out .. so we got tafka ..

so the sex symbol record should becalled my name was prince ... there u go there is your title and as for 'the exodus has begun' shouldnt that be either the first song on the record or changed to 'the exodus just ended'

damn mr. strait edge (yeah right) must have been trippin on that halucination rain when sequencing that slab o space funk ..

yes prince did say every great album should have a great title track or something like that ... so lets call it pimp rag tootsie pop N a cane .. cuz thats what it is called anyway in p round about way in fact its funny how much he emphasized his name on that record then dumped it.

Graffiti Bridge shouldn't have.

I remember when it was on the charts, it was referred to as "Androgynous"

I don´t really feel the need to give it a name. And I agree with you, it is not really the best name for that album but hey, if it says so on an official WB single release, then who am I to come up with other names? I wonder what Prince called it back in the day because frankly, WB´s opinion doesn´t have the same weight as the artist´s opinion since Prince himself is the creator of it and maybe he´s not even aware of the fact that the "Peach" sleeve says "Love Symbol".

Three Chains of Gold makes more sense because of the video and the symbol consisting of three parts or chains and because there´s at least a track called Three Chains of Gold.
Prince himself used to say that every album should contain a title track.

I've never called it "Love Symbol"... if it has to be given a title, I'd call it
"the symbol album" or just "symbol". In much the same way as "the black
album" is titled, or Led Zeppelin's "four symbols".

Though I often used to call it "shhhhhding" too verbally, back in the day!

Neither "androgenous", "androgeny" or "love symbol" were ever used in any
official capacity (they were just terms coined by reviewers and fans etc.).

I do remember that all the official Warner Bros.internal and trade
communications at the time listed it as just "Prince & the NPG - Symbol".

So "Symbol" or "The Symbol Album" are as close to official titles as it gets.
WB reps always referred to it verbally as "the symbol album", though it was
always just written down as "symbol".

But I agree that if it had to be given an actual song title type name, then
the only logical choice is "3 Chains O' Gold" as that was the video-
album title, as well as the storyline name for the video and album-based first
half of the Act I shows.
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nuthinbuttamuffin said:

"From the funky new album entitled..."Shhhhhting

BorisFishpaw said:

Okay, I pretty much agree with you but what about that German "Peach"single where that album is clearly referred to as "Love Symbol"?
I think we both talked about this before, IIRC.

if it has to be given a title, I'd call it "the symbol album" or just "symbol".

Shhhhhting

(From the 1992 concerts)

There is a radio station in Australia called Triple J, and they had the same problem giving the album...and his eventual name, a title back when it came out, so they ran a national competition to give the symbol a pronunciation...and the eventual winner became "Dave" So...you could call this the "Dave" album....