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Thread started 03/08/13 8:17pm

controversy99

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Group Prince's albums into 3 categories

Prince has an amazing catalog of records. But recently it seems that the more he releases, the more he taints his legacy. How would you group his albums into 3 categories?

Great, Brilliant
Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Parade
Sign o the Times
Lovesexy
Diamonds and Pearls
love symbol
The Gold Experience
Crystal Ball
The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!


Ok, solid but not amazing
For You
Prince
Around the World in a Day
Batman
Grafitti Bridge
Come
The Black Album
Emancipation
Chaos and Disorder
The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
Rave
One Night Alone
Xpectation
C-NOTE
NEWS
Musicology
3121
Lotusflow3r


Tainting his legacy
The Rainbow Children
One Nite Alone ... Live!
The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse
Planet Earth
MPLSound
20ten


edit -- i forgot to include rave initially. guess that shows about how memorable it is (although strange but true is a great song).
[Edited 3/9/13 17:05pm]
"Love & honesty, peace & harmony"
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Reply #1 posted 03/08/13 8:35pm

Fonkyman

They're all brilliant. Everything he ever does is brilliant. Saying anything else would be criminal and wont make you many friends in here. Especially if you repeat it. shhh

Super great and brilliant, every one.

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Reply #2 posted 03/08/13 9:08pm

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I'd swap The Gold Experience and Crystal Ball for Around The World In A Day and One Night Alone...Live.

thumbs up!

I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart.
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Reply #3 posted 03/08/13 11:31pm

Romeoblu

Classics

1999
Purple Rain
Parade
Sign
The Black Album
Lovesexy

Great

Prince
Dirty Mind
Controversy
Around The World
Batman
Graffiti Bridge

Very good

Diamonds and Pearls
Symbol
Come
The gold Exp
Emancipation
The rainbow Children
3121
lotus flower
20ten

Good

For You
Chaos and Disorder
New powersoul
Rave
Musicology
Planet Earth

Average

The Truth
One nite alone
Xpectation
News
Cnote
Chocolate Invasion
Slaughterhouse
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Reply #4 posted 03/09/13 2:10am

SuperSoulFight
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The Very Best:
1999
Purple Rain
Around the World in a Day
Parade
Sign o the Times
Lovesexy

Not as profound, but still good:
Dirty Mind
Controversy
Diamonds & Pearls
Gold Experience
Black Album
Musicology
3121
Lotusflow3r
Emancipation

Average:
prince
Come
Chaos & Disorder
The Truth
Prince
For You (well, he was still learning with those two)

Avoid these!
Batman
Grafitti Bridge
Rave

Love it or Hate it:
Rainbow Children
[Edited 3/9/13 2:12am]
[Edited 3/9/13 2:13am]
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Reply #5 posted 03/09/13 8:00am

maja2405

Fonkyman said:

They're all brilliant. Everything he ever does is brilliant. Saying anything else would be criminal and wont make you many friends in here. Especially if you repeat it. shhh

Super great and brilliant, every one.

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Reply #6 posted 03/09/13 8:43am

SoulAlive

Outstanding

Dirty Mind

Controversy

1999

Purple Rain

SOTT

Lovesexy

Love Symbol

Good

For You

Prince

Parade

Batman

Diamonds And Pearls

TGE

Average (these albums aren't terrible....I just don't think they're as good as the ones listed above)

ATWIAD

Graffiti Bridge

Come

Chaos And Disorder

Emancipation

New Power Soul

Rave

The Rainbow Children

Musicology

3121

Planet Earth

Lotus

2010

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Reply #7 posted 03/09/13 8:50am

jaypotton

*snip* double post

[Edited 3/9/13 9:00am]

'I loved him then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.' Mayte 21st April 2016 = the saddest quote I have ever read! RIP Prince and thanks for everything.
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Reply #8 posted 03/09/13 8:59am

jaypotton

I like Romeoblu's categories:

Classics
1999
Purple Rain

ATWIAD
Parade
Sign O The Times
Lovesexy

Diamonds and Pearls

The Gold Experience

Great
Dirty Mind
Controversy

Symbol

One Nite Alone...Live

3121
Lotus Flower

Very good

Prince

Batman
Graffiti Bridge
Come

Chaos and Disorder
Emancipation

The Vault Old Friends For Sale
The Rainbow Children (a Great album if you could lose the Darth Vadar voice over and focus on music)

Musicology
Planet Earth


Good
For You

The Black Album
New Power Soul
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Indigo Nights

MPLSound

20ten

Average
The Truth
One Nite Alone
Xpectation
News
Cnote
Chocolate Invasion
Slaughterhouse

'I loved him then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.' Mayte 21st April 2016 = the saddest quote I have ever read! RIP Prince and thanks for everything.
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Reply #9 posted 03/09/13 9:11am

JoeTyler

In order

Great, Brilliant
Dirty Mind

SOTT

1999
Purple Rain
Parade

---

The Gold Experience

prince
The Black Album

Lovesexy

Ok, solid but not amazing

3121

Diamonds & Pearls

Controversy

Around the World in a Day

---

Musicology

LotusFlow3r

20ten

Come

Prince

---

One Nite Alone ... Live!

The Rainbow Children

Batman

Grafitti Bridge

Emancipation

Planet Earth

For U
The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale


Tainting his legacy

Chaos and Disorder

One Night Alone

Rave Into the Joy Fantastic

MPLSound

C-NOTE

Xpectation
NEWS
The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse

tinkerbell
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Reply #10 posted 03/09/13 5:16pm

controversy99

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SuperSoulFighter said:

Love it or Hate it: Rainbow Children [Edited 3/9/13 2:12am] [Edited 3/9/13 2:13am]

The Rainbow Children does deserve it's own category. Instrumentally, it's in his top 5 ever. Lyrically, it's his worst, by far.

"Her children in subjection to her, She in subjection to the wise one" (there goes gender equality), "If you wanna be with me, ain't no room for disagree" (it's his way or the highway) ... I won't even go into the rest of it.

"Love & honesty, peace & harmony"
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Reply #11 posted 03/09/13 6:56pm

trax

Great, Brilliant

1999
Purple Rain

Diamonds and Pearls
love symbol
The Gold Experience

Around the World in a Day
Batman
Chaos and Disorder
Lotusflow3r

Ok, solid but not amazing

Dirty Mind
Controversy
Parade
Sign o the Times
Lovesexy

Crystal Ball
The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!

One Nite Alone ... Live!

For You
Prince
Grafitti Bridge
Come
The Black Album
Emancipation
Rave
The Rainbow Children
Musicology
3121
The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse
Planet Earth

Tainting his legacy


The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale

Xpectation
C-NOTE
NEWS
MPLSound
20ten

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Reply #12 posted 03/10/13 9:40am

Philly76

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Classic/Masterpiece
1999
Purple Rain

Sign O The Times
Lovesexy

The Gold Experience

The Rainbow Children

Great

Emancipation

3121

Musicology

Very good

Graffiti Bridge

Come

Parade

MPLSound

The Vault Old Friends For Sale

One Nite Alone...Live

ATWIAD

The Black Album

20ten

N.E.W.S.

Good

One Nite Alone
Xpectation

For You

Prince

Symbol

Planet Earth

Batman

Indigo Nights

Diamonds and Pearls

Cnote

Average
Dirty Mind

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Lotus Flower

Chaos and Disorder

Controversy

Below Average

Chocolate Invasion
Slaughterhouse

The Truth

New Power Soul

Awful

Kamasutra

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Reply #13 posted 03/11/13 3:04am

Adorecream

5 Stars - Classics, Essential in any collection cool

Dirty Mind

1999

Purple Rain

Parade

Sign o the Times

The Gold Experience

The Hits B Sides

4 Stars - Excellent - Definitely worth possessing biggrin

Controversy (Nearly a 5)

Around the World in a day (Also nearly a 5)

The Black Album

Lovesexy

Diamonds and Pearls (Just)

Lovesymbol

Chaos and Disorder (Yeah I said it, its great Fxxk u)

Crystal Ball set (3 Discs only)

3121

Ultimate Prince

Lotusflow3r/MPLSound

3 Stars - Good, Okay in its field but not for everyone smile

For You

Prince (Nearly a 4, but too many weak ballads weigh it down)

Graffiti Bridge (Barely)

Come (Pushing a 4)

Exodus

Emancipation

The Vault, old friends for sale (Pushing a 4)

Rave un2 the year 2000 (For Beautiful strange alone)

The very best of Prince

ONA live and Piano

ONA the aftershow (Barely)

Musicology

Planet Earth

20Ten

3rd eye girl (from what I have heard so far)

2 stars - Flawed, Caution advised neutral

Batman

Rave un2 the Joy fantastic

The Truth

N.E.W.S.

Slaughterhouse

Chocolate Invasion

Indigo Nights

1 star - Poor, Strictly for the completists only eek

Kamasutra

NewPower Soul

The Rainbow children

Goldnigga

[Edited 3/11/13 3:22am]

Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name
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Reply #14 posted 03/11/13 4:07am

fabriziovenera
ndi

Fortune kissed Prince

1999

Purple Rain

Around the world in a day

Parade

Sign 'o' The Times

Black Album

Lovesexy

You don't stop making music after Lovesexy: thank you Prince

O)-+>

Crystall Ball

Chaos and Disorder

The Truth

The War

Kamasutra

NPGMC mp3's

The Vault

The Rainbow Children

One Nite Alone

C-code

Xpetation

N.E.W.S.

Emancipation

Ok, you have to pay some bills, I can understand

Other albums

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Reply #15 posted 03/11/13 4:31am

thedance

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Brilliant, maximum from me 10/10:

Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Around the World in a Day

Parade
Sign 'O' the Times
Lovesexy

The Gold Experience

Great about 7 to 9/10:

For You
Prince

Batman
Graffiti Bridge

Diamonds and Pearls
prince Love Symbol

Come
The Black Album

Crystal Ball

The Rainbow Children

Rave In2

Lotusflow3r

MPLSound

not amazing, just okay, about 6 to 7/10:

Emancipation
Chaos and Disorder
The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
Rave Un
Musicology
3121
The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse

Planet Earth
20ten

Tainting his legacy, about 0 to 5/10


Kamasutra

Newpower Soul

One Nite Alone ... Live
One Night Alone.. piano
Xpectation
NEWS

O2 Indigo Nights

C-NOTE I still haven't heard this release...

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Reply #16 posted 03/11/13 4:32am

thedance

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^ sorry about the 4 categories. smile

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Reply #17 posted 03/12/13 6:29pm

Praxis

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It's all a matter of preference really. Prince himself sees his releases in terms of a growing process on different levels. My current rankings look something like:

A) Great

The Rainbow Children
Lotus
ATWIAD

B) for now Middle Ground

For You
Lovesexy

C) my not so favs but still love

Musicology
Rave
No justice, No peace
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Reply #18 posted 03/13/13 8:40am

Graycap23

Classic:

For You

Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Parade
Sign o the Times
Lovesexy
Diamonds and Pearls
love symbol
The Gold Experience
Crystal Ball

The Rainbow Children

Around the World in a Day
Batman
Grafitti Bridge
Come
The Black Album

One Night Alone
3121

NEWS

Chaos and Disorder
The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale


Near Classic:

Prince
Emancipation
Rave
Xpectation
C-NOTE
Musicology
Lotusflow3r

One Nite Alone ... Live!
The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!

The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse
MPLSound
20ten

Why bother:

Planet Earth

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Reply #19 posted 03/13/13 10:22am

NouveauDance

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Hotness

For You - Lovesexy, TRC

Dig deeper for rough diamonds

Batman - Gold, TV...OF4S, PE, NEWS, Xpectation, Lotusflow3r

Turd in a box

Emancipation - Rave, Musicology, 3121, MPLSound, 20Ten

edit: forgot The Vault

[Edited 3/13/13 10:24am]

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Reply #20 posted 03/13/13 11:19am

V10LETBLUES

Musts

Sign O The Times

Purple Rain

Parade

Dirty Mind

Controversy

The Black Album

Associated Musts

The Time- The Time

The Time- 777-9311

Madhouse-8

Madhouse-16

The Family

Great

Around The World In A Day

The Truth

For You

Lotusflow3r

Come

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Reply #21 posted 03/14/13 6:23am

callimnate

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Farken Awesome:

Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Parade
Sign o the Times
Lovesexy
Around the World in a Day
Batman
Come
The Black Album

Farken Brilliant but....:

For You

Prince
Emancipation
Grafitti Bridge
Diamonds and Pearls
O{+>
The Gold Experience
Crystal Ball

Chaos and Disorder
The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale

One Nite Alone ... Live!
The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!

Have Only Listened to Once:

The Rainbow Children

Rave
3121

NEWS

Xpectation
C-NOTE
Musicology
Lotusflow3r

One Night Alone

The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse
MPLSound
20ten

Planet Earth

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Reply #22 posted 03/14/13 10:05am

motherfunka

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Great/Brilliant - 1982-1988

Solid - 1989-1996

Tainted his legacy - 1997 to current

TRUE BLUE
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Reply #23 posted 03/17/13 5:29am

jaypotton

callimnate said:

Have Only Listened to Once:

The Rainbow Children

Rave
3121

NEWS

Xpectation
C-NOTE
Musicology
Lotusflow3r

One Night Alone

The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse
MPLSound
20ten

Planet Earth

eek I can sympathise but REALLY - only once! Give the following at least a second/third chance...

Musicology

3121

Lotusflow3r

'I loved him then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.' Mayte 21st April 2016 = the saddest quote I have ever read! RIP Prince and thanks for everything.
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Reply #24 posted 03/20/13 1:55pm

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The Very Very Good (in no order of greatness)

THE GOLD EXPERIENCE

PURPLE RAIN

SYMBOL

DIRTY MIND

CONTROVERSY

1999

AROUND THE WORLD

PARADE

SIGN O THE TIMES

LOVESEXY

DIAMONDS AN PEARLS

COME

THE TRUTH

CRYSTAL BALL

CHAOS AN DISORDER

RAINBOW CHILDREN

3121

PLANNET EARTH

LOTUS

ONE NITE ALONE

BLACK

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The Very Good Albums

RAVE UN2

20TEN

MPLS SOUND

BATMAN

FOR YOU

PRINCE

MUSICOLEDGY

GRAFITI BRIDGE

EXODUS

THE VAULT

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aint that familair with em as albums . but heard an liked the odd track

Xpectation
C-NOTE

One Nite Alone ... Live!
The Aftershow: It Ain't Over!

The Chocolate Invasion
The Slaughterhouse

an if I MISSED ANY OUT .. ITS A MISTAKE . they are all good .. the only 2 that are bottom of the list for my ears are FOR YOU an 20TEN although still both have good moments

whenever i want to hear some new music ...i make some - prince '99'
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Reply #25 posted 03/21/13 9:50pm

Shockedelicus

Great, brilliant
Purple Rain
Sign O' the Times

Controversy

Lovesexy
Ok, solid but not amazing
Parade

The Black Album

Around the World in a Day

Dirty Mind
Prince
Eh.

Batman

The Gold Experience

For You

Diamonds & Pearls
Who Cares?
Everything Else

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Reply #26 posted 03/21/13 10:30pm

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i really wish i could have more than 3, sorry that im so unorginal this list is more for me smile for you is excluded cause i haven't heard it. so far most 3rdeyegirl is a 2.25 in between 2-2.5

1. Could listen to anytime and like 60 percent or more of the songs. Love most of.

Purple Rain

Dirty Mind

1999

Sign O' The Times

Diamonds and Pearls

Love symbol

3121

Black Album

Gold

Bsides

1.5Albums the are in between: Come, Controversy, Rainbow Children, Parade

2. Albums that i either like 50 percent of the songs, Or I just Like the ALbum overall

Around the world in a day

Prince

Batman

The Truth

Musicology

New Power Soul (SHOCKER ITS ACTUALLY QUIET DECENT)

2.5 ALBUMS that a few songs make the album but majority i don't like

Crystal Ball

Grafitti Bridge

20ten

One night alone live belongs as 2.25

Indigo nights really belongs as a 2.25

Emancipation(if it was only disk 3 with addition of holy river, betcha, it might be a 2)

2.75 Albums that Don't make me shut off the stero but don't get me going and after listening to whole album make me say oh was i listening to something

Lovesexy

Chaos and Disorder

Most of emancipation

3. Terrible take a lap

RAVE UN2 THE JOY FANTASTIC (wat a terrible album wen greatest romance ever sold is the best song u know something is wrong)

MPLS (man this is just to cheesie)

News(other than north)

Planet earth(other than chelsea rodgers)

Kamasutra(does anyone like this album?)

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