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Prince's Funkiest Album? I love many of his Purple Majesty's albums, and find myself often in awe of his musical genius. Today a new question came to mind; of all the wonderful work he's done, which Album is the "FUNKIEST" of them all???
My choice would be...
"1999"
due to the title track, DMSR, Automatic, & Lady Cab Driver. #FONK personified.
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The Black Album, or ONA: It Ain't Over if we're counting live as well The world's problems like climate change can only be solved through strategic long-term thinking, not expediency. In other words all the govts. need sacking!
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DIRTY MIND,1999, The Black Album [Edited 10/26/14 6:04am] | |
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Exodus. | |
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Exodus or New Power Soul. They're not funky in the way most people want them to be though [Edited 10/25/14 5:46am] | |
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The Black Album. "Drop that stereo before I blow your Goddamn nuts off, asshole!"
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It's a tie between 1999 and The Black Album.
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1999 of course and The Love Symbol album. Yeah, that's right! I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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Exodus What are you outraged about today? CNN has not told you yet? | |
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dirty mind | |
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Balck Album and Exodus. 1999 comes in third place, then Controversy. RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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I think Come is up there as one of the funkiest (atleast the whole first side) ... it's terribly under-rated but holds up so well.... | |
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Come is the only album from the 90s I love equally to 80-88. it's old school. Space is glorious,so is the title track and letitgo. where the gold experience was plastic,Come was real. [Edited 10/25/14 11:27am] | |
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Come Prince's funkiest album? Never. Maybe most underrated album. For me, Come grows with every year from a mediocre album from first listening to one of my Top 10 albums. Most funky album? The Black album imo, followed by Exodus, the Symbol album and Dirty Mind. | |
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Nothing comes even close to 20Ten, the most underrated and funkiest album of his career. Cold, hard, relentless funk. มีเพียงความว่างเปล่า  只有空虚 Dim ond gwacter 만 공허함이있다 唯一の虚しさがあります  There is only the void. | |
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Camille is and would've been the funkiest Prince album had it seen a proper release. Blows the The Black Album away! __________________________________________________
2 words falling between the drops and the moans of his condition | |
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Black Album Exodus 1999
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Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? I know a lot of people don't like NPS (I do) but Exodus is hard to argue with as a funk album.
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Come to think of it, Prince hasn't ever really done a full funk album, has he? The Black Album is closest, wall to wall, but it always felt too...I dunno...synthetic or something. There's some thick shit on it for sure (Bob George, RHIAFP, Dead On It, LeGrind) but a few songs get lost in the drum programing (Cindy C., 2 Nigs, SuperFunkaCali) and are missing something on the bottom end, while "When 2 R in Love" doesn't fit on the album at ALL. I like The Black Album but I wish it were more organic sounding. I guess that's why I prefer Exodus. Sounds like a real band is playing it.
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Someone should start a thread: Prince: The Funk and list 12-15 quintessential Prince funk tracks. It's probably been done bt it'd be fun to see everyone's different choices. | |
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@herb4 thats a great Idea. Why dont u start that thread? | |
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herb4 said:
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? I know a lot of people don't like NPS (I do) but Exodus is hard to argue with as a funk album.
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Come to think of it, Prince hasn't ever really done a full funk album, has he? The Black Album is closest, wall to wall, but it always felt too...I dunno...synthetic or something. There's some thick shit on it for sure (Bob George, RHIAFP, Dead On It, LeGrind) but a few songs get lost in the drum programing (Cindy C., 2 Nigs, SuperFunkaCali) and are missing something on the bottom end, while "When 2 R in Love" doesn't fit on the album at ALL. I like The Black Album but I wish it were more organic sounding. I guess that's why I prefer Exodus. Sounds like a real band is playing it. I totally disagree. While Exodus is sn album full of fillers, The Black Album is one solid album with its main focus on one thing, pure funk with nice and well fitting breathing pauses like When 2 R In Love. | |
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The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
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The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams | |
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I got two sides... and they're both friends. | |
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....I wish it was released that way! [Edited 10/25/14 23:56pm] | |
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1999, as it is funky and set the template for all later Prince funk. The only track not funk infused is Free, the rest even Something in the water has funk running through it. DMSR is the funkiest song he ever done. . SOTT comes close, Housequake, It, Forever in my life, Sign extended, U got the look and Strange Relationship are all funkafied. . Later albums, I would say MPLSOUND is the closest he gets to true funk, even for Ol skool company alone, that thing is funkalicious. . Most of his albums have at least some funky cuts though. Sexy Dancer is funk, most of DM is funk, same with Controversy. Not so much funk on Purple Rain, but Erotic city extended is really funky (Got some creamy human jive). Black Album and Lovesexy are quite funky too. [Edited 10/26/14 1:03am] Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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Lovesexy | |
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Newpower Soul. A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ |
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How could i omit 1999 ?? the most new wave sounding album he's probably done, and it's still god damn funky. Oh yeah it is Prince we're talking. The world's problems like climate change can only be solved through strategic long-term thinking, not expediency. In other words all the govts. need sacking!
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Controversy is my pick. Controversy, Sexuality, Private Joy, Let's Work, Jack U Off. Throw in one of his greatest slow sexy song ever, and 2 very quirky tracks to thread the funk together. Yep, Controversy's my pick. The bass line and synths in Let's Work alone are worthy of Funkiest. [color=#44444:a11d7cd6ce] "this is where the PURPLE PARTY PEOPLE be" | |
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Parade for Quirky Prince Funk Dirty Mind for rough & raw Prince Funk. | |
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