SoulAlive said:

SquirrelMeat said:

I just think its dull. Its too long and doesn't really go anywhere. Usually comes last tie with Free in every 1999 track poll too, so I can't be the only one.

We recently had a thread about the 10-track '1999' CD that omits the song "D.M.S.R".I said that it would have made more sense to remove "All The Critics..."

Serious? 'All the Critics' is genius. If anything I would think that 'Free' would make the most sense to remove.

seems everybody hates 200 balloons, its probably in my top 10 favorite :S

Wow. First of all, some of the stuff y'all picked is INSANE.

This was so hard i couldn't even come up with 10.

With this being my favorite era of Prince, i found it hard then and now to hate on much that he did. I could come up with like 20 from the next era easy.

All i could come up with was seven.

Initially i tried to come up with one throwaway from each album and i couldn't even do that because there were some albums i just couldn't touch because in my mind they were perfect.

So here's what i could come up with and why.

Take Me With U - light fluff duet with someone that can't sing. i could've done without that one.

U Got The Look - same reason. yes, Sheena has a much better voice but the song was just too fluff. I enjoyed "The Arms Of Orion" much more. (yeah, i said it)

Venus De Milo - Touching Parade at all was hard but in hindsight a barely 2 minute instrumental should've been an entire song. yes, i'm reaching. as i said i found this extremely difficult.

Good Love - one of those songs i think Prince just threw together. the lyrics are ridiculous.

Glam Slam - see above.

Dead On It - Prince trying to rap has been and always shall be a bad idea.

Scandalous - This song always bugged me and i don't know why. I just never liked it. With all the amazing ballads he's done over the years, this one just didn't do it for me.

okay, discuss.

[Edited 7/8/11 6:31am]

paniuroczy said:

uuhson said:

do people not like jack u off because of the lyrics? or do you guys just not like the song as a whole? i think its just completely genius

Lyrics don't bother me at all, I just don't like the song. It's ehh to me.

Yeah, the song didn't impress me until I heard the live version recently.

Never cared for "International Lover" either until I heard the Detroit show too

Can't think of 10, "Temptation" & "Arms of Onion" are the only ones I could think of.

u got the look is probably my favorite song from sott, especially the long look

edit: first many times i listened to it i thought it was bland and awful, but its somehow creeped up on me

[Edited 7/8/11 6:55am]

paniuroczy said:

SoulAlive said:

We recently had a thread about the 10-track '1999' CD that omits the song "D.M.S.R".I said that it would have made more sense to remove "All The Critics..."

Serious? 'All the Critics' is genius. If anything I would think that 'Free' would make the most sense to remove.

Genuis? I like it but I think it's slighly weaker than the other tracks.I can see why it was used as a B-side for the "Little Red Corvette" single.

"Free" is nice

1.I Feel For You

2.The Arms of Orion

3.Free

4.U Got The Look

5.Private Joy

6.Delirious

Thats all I can come up with. Its the only ones I just really dont like very much. Still listenable though. The worst is def. I Fell For You.

ButterscotchPimp said:

Wow. First of all, some of the stuff y'all picked is INSANE.

This was so hard i couldn't even come up with 10.

With this being my favorite era of Prince, i found it hard then and now to hate on much that he did. I could come up with like 20 from the next era easy.

All i could come up with was seven.

Initially i tried to come up with one throwaway from each album and i couldn't even do that because there were some albums i just couldn't touch because in my mind they were perfect.

So here's what i could come up with and why.

Take Me With U - light fluff duet with someone that can't sing. i could've done without that one.

U Got The Look - same reason. yes, Sheena has a much better voice but the song was just too fluff. I enjoyed "The Arms Of Orion" much more. (yeah, i said it)

Venus De Milo - Touching Parade at all was hard but in hindsight a barely 2 minute instrumental should've been an entire song. yes, i'm reaching. as i said i found this extremely difficult.

Good Love - one of those songs i think Prince just threw together. the lyrics are ridiculous.

Glam Slam - see above.

Dead On It - Prince trying to rap has been and always shall be a bad idea.

Scandalous - This song always bugged me and i don't know why. I just never liked it. With all the amazing ballads he's done over the years, this one just didn't do it for me.

okay, discuss.

[Edited 7/8/11 6:31am]

I agree with the parts I bolded - Prince shouldn't rap; I like Arms Of Orion; and even though I put Anotherlover... on my list, I still love it, as Parade is probably my favorite album, that song just isn't as good as the rest to me.

I disagree with not picking ten songs. Worst doesn't have to mean bad. Some of my picks I don't think were bad, they're just not as good as the rest of his 80s classics.

Ok, don't know why this firsst song didn't make EVERYONE'S list:

I Love You in Me- Hands down Prince's worst song from the 80's. Makes Arms of Orion look like Purple Rain. When she's making love it's like Surgery? WTF?!

Arms of Orion- It's strange that one of Prince's best songs (U Got the Look) and one of his worst songs (this shit) are collaborations with the same person. This song is so by the numbers and bland. It lacks anything interesting. I can't even remember most of it it's so Musak

Lemon Crush- I'd like to chalk this song up to heavy cocaine use, but we all know that's not true...

Free- Live, free is great, on the album it's cheese. Not even cheddar, we're talking strong cheese.

Private Joy- I never got this song. Sounds like someone trying to impersonate Prince's sound

Tamberine- Self explanitory.

Lovesexy- Race cars burn rubber in your pants? Skidmarks anyone? One really bad line CAN ruin a whole song if it's repeated often enough

Glamslam- Self indulgent just like most of the Lovesexy album. There are some really interesting elements here, but this song is just a big mess

BatDance- This is barely even a song. Somewhere somebody had the idea "Let's take 200 Balloons and fuck it up!" I do like the Riff during the "I wanna bust that body" part of the song, but it can't save the rest of this.

Wildboy said:

Ok, don't know why this firsst song didn't make EVERYONE'S list:

I Love You in Me- Hands down Prince's worst song from the 80's. Makes Arms of Orion look like Purple Rain. When she's making love it's like Surgery? WTF?!

I thought it was a 90s song.. I forgot it was '89. Add that to my list, then.

This is an interesting read. It goes to show how strong P's 80's material is when most of peoples top ten hated songs only come from a pool of about 20 songs.

They doing this for the 90's and it will be much more random.

Wildboy said:

Tamberine- Self explanitory.

I don't understand. This is, I'm not joking, probably my favorite song from ATWIAD.

Lovesexy- Race cars burn rubber in your pants? Skidmarks anyone? One really bad line CAN ruin a whole song if it's repeated often enough

that parts great though, especially with the sped up voice


every post here seems to add another one of my favorite songs to their bottom 10

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Wildboy said:

Ok, don't know why this firsst song didn't make EVERYONE'S list:

I Love You in Me- Hands down Prince's worst song from the 80's. Makes Arms of Orion look like Purple Rain. When she's making love it's like Surgery? WTF?!

Arms of Orion- It's strange that one of Prince's best songs (U Got the Look) and one of his worst songs (this shit) are collaborations with the same person. This song is so by the numbers and bland. It lacks anything interesting. I can't even remember most of it it's so Musak

Lemon Crush- I'd like to chalk this song up to heavy cocaine use, but we all know that's not true...

Free- Live, free is great, on the album it's cheese. Not even cheddar, we're talking strong cheese.

Private Joy- I never got this song. Sounds like someone trying to impersonate Prince's sound

Tamberine- Self explanitory.

Lovesexy- Race cars burn rubber in your pants? Skidmarks anyone? One really bad line CAN ruin a whole song if it's repeated often enough

Glamslam- Self indulgent just like most of the Lovesexy album. There are some really interesting elements here, but this song is just a big mess

BatDance- This is barely even a song. Somewhere somebody had the idea "Let's take 200 Balloons and fuck it up!" I do like the Riff during the "I wanna bust that body" part of the song, but it can't save the rest of this.

Kiss ya mutha with that mouth?

I can forgive the first 9, because Batdance is bad enough to fill the entire list!

I can forgive the first 9, because Batdance is bad enough to fill the entire list!

i listened to batdance for like an hour on repeat yesterday, i love that song

uuhson said:

I can forgive the first 9, because Batdance is bad enough to fill the entire list!

i listened to batdance for like an hour on repeat yesterday, i love that song

Batdance is probably one of the most creative and innovative songs he or anyone has ever done.

It's a musical collage of all of the original tracks on the album.

A MUSICAL COLLAGE.

Who else but Prince could do that?

ButterscotchPimp said:

uuhson said:

i listened to batdance for like an hour on repeat yesterday, i love that song

Batdance is probably one of the most creative and innovative songs he or anyone has ever done.

It's a musical collage of all of the original tracks on the album.

A MUSICAL COLLAGE.

Who else but Prince could do that?

I don't mind it, but its was a lazy out of date track. Prince was clearly attempting a popular dance track, but few clubs would play it (in Europe anyway) because it was already 3 years out of date and Prince could never get the BPM right.

ButterscotchPimp said:

uuhson said:

i listened to batdance for like an hour on repeat yesterday, i love that song

Batdance is probably one of the most creative and innovative songs he or anyone has ever done.

It's a musical collage of all of the original tracks on the album.

A MUSICAL COLLAGE.

Who else but Prince could do that?

A musical collage, yes. Muddled mess? Maybe

I 'do' like the change of direction 2/3rds of the way through though.

SoulAlive said:

paniuroczy said:

Serious? 'All the Critics' is genius. If anything I would think that 'Free' would make the most sense to remove.

Genuis? I like it but I think it's slighly weaker than the other tracks.I can see why it was used as a B-side for the "Little Red Corvette" single.

"Free" is nice

"All the Critics Love U In NY" is a very unique track. It's like this cyber jazz commentary, I find it very hypnotic. There is this ironic tone in this voice with a tiny little hint of vulnerability and sobriety all at once. Looove it.

NouveauDance said:

Top Ten:

- Slow Love

- Delirious

- Arms Of Orion

- Lemon Crush

- Positivity

I will say it blows my mind, but explains a lot when you see people's lists in this thread, then look at another thread and folks are all "Musicology and 3121 are great albums" -- you guys!

...

...

surprising results so far!!

and yep M/3121 are great albums

paniuroczy said:

- The Arms of Orion

- Ronnie Talk to Russia

- Jack U Off

- Tamborine

Ok...

paniuroczy said:

- Play In the Sunshine

- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

- I Wish U heaven

- When 2 R In Love

- When You Were Mine

you blew it!

ButterscotchPimp said:

Good Love - one of those songs i think Prince just threw together. the lyrics are ridiculous.

that was definitely my number 11 choice

but I listed Escape because that crap is UNLISTENABLE...

SquirrelMeat said:

This is an interesting read. It goes to show how strong P's 80's material is when most of peoples top ten hated songs only come from a pool of about 20 songs.

They doing this for the 90's and it will be much more random.

exaclty, I created this thread cuz I knew it would be difficult...

his 90's weakest material???? damn, that's a top40

rialb said:

JoeTyler said:

including the B-Sides and the Black Album, but NOT the unreleased/demo material...

chronological order

-Ronnie Talk to Russia

-Free

-Tambourine

-Do U Lie?

-Dead On It

-Eye No

-Escape

-The Arms of Orion

-Lemon Crush

-200 Ballons

uggh...

Really? It's a bit pedestrian but for me the drums kind of save it. It's very funky.

I prefer Dance On, it's similar and better, in my opinion. Tamborine sounds like a sterile demo of a real song that could have been a highlight, it's like a coitus interruptus... And it's placed between Raspberry Beret and America, and that doesn't help, lol

where's your top10 ??

I'm not fond of these on each studio album:

Do It all Night

Sexuality

Free

Computer Blue (I will always skip this song on the album, even though I enjoy the bootleg extended ones)

America (Seemed like everyone I knew hated this track too, back in 1985 as we kept listening to the album)

Christopher Tracy's Parade (Doesn't seem to have found the right mix hook for me, needed to be tinkered with more)

Do U Lie (seemed like a mildly amusing b-side)

Slow Love

U Got the Look

When 2 R in Love (It's actually quite trippy with slowed down hihats and such, but on both albums I'd rather skip it)

Arms of Orion (I just can't dig it)

Trust (too conventional to be released!)

ufoclub said:

You guys are nuts,

those lists would make a fantastic ALBUM,

wow those songs are great!

America is a trip............ all 21 minutes and 46 secs...........

paniuroczy said:

ufoclub said:

I'm not fond of these on each studio album:

Do It all Night

Sexuality

Free

Computer Blue (I will always skip this song on the album, even though I enjoy the bootleg extended ones)

America (Seemed like everyone I knew hated this track too, back in 1985 as we kept listening to the album)

Christopher Tracy's Parade (Doesn't seem to have found the right mix hook for me, needed to be tinkered with more)

Do U Lie (seemed like a mildly amusing b-side)

Slow Love

U Got the Look

When 2 R in Love (It's actually quite trippy with slowed down hihats and such, but on both albums I'd rather skip it)

Arms of Orion (I just can't dig it)

Trust (too conventional to be released!)

You have serious problems. [Edited 7/8/11 9:50am]

I like what he's done with "Free" in live version in the 2000's. And the live video of "America" was cool. I like the raw quality of "U Got the Look", but it's a silly melody to me, same with the melody of "Computer Blue" (and the lyrics). Both on "America" and "Computer Blue" I find the drum programming really boring too. And they are similar.

SoulAlive said:

paniuroczy said:

Serious? 'All the Critics' is genius. If anything I would think that 'Free' would make the most sense to remove.

Genuis? I like it but I think it's slighly weaker than the other tracks.I can see why it was used as a B-side for the "Little Red Corvette" single.

"Free" is nice

Harumph! I agree that All the Critics is genius. Brilliant song!

I can only come up with three. And even then, I'd be hard-pressed to say I actively hate these songs...I just see them as the weakest lyrically and/or musically and not good when compared to what he was doing at the time:

Free

It

The Arms of Orion