Hypothetical situation - for whatever reason you're forced to select only 5 Prince albums to listen to for the rest of your life. Here's the twist - they need to be chronological and consecutive (and "proper" Prince albums only, no Madhouse, etc...). Which 5 do you choose?

For me there's only 2 options:

1 - DM/Controversy/1999/PR/ATWIAD

2 - 1999/PR/ATWIAD/Parade/SOTT

...the head says option 2, but, in my heart of hearts, I can't not listen to Dirty Mind for the rest of my life, so option 1 wins.

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Oh too hard! I'll probably have to choose this option...but how I'd live without Crazy You I don't know!

1. Prince/Dirty Mind/Controversy/1999/Purple Rain

or to be brutal and recognize my need for Scandalous and the Electric Chair in my life.

2. Around the World in a Day/Parade/Sign of the Times/Lovesexy/Batman

Purple Rain / Around the world in a day / Parade / Sign "O" the Times / LoveSexy

Untouchable run of records

Hmmm...this is very hard, I cannot fathom only choosing 5 albums but if you must insist:

Option no.1:

1. 1999

2. Purple Rain

3. Sign O' the Times

4. 3121

5. Lotusflow34

Option no.2

1. Prince

2. Dirty Mind

3. Black Album

4. Come

5. Art Official Age

I guess option 1 would be my pick though since the first 3 are my favorites...

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Purple Rain / Around The World In A Day / Parade / Sign O The Times / Black

I personally place Black chronologically after SOTT in my collection as that's where it was originally planned to be released.

Gold experience
Chaos and disorder
Emancipation
Crystal ball
The truth

Or

Around the world in a day
Parade
Sign o the times
Lovesexy
Batman

And now I read Consecutive? - Why? what is this grade school?

1. Prince

2. Dirty Mind

3. Controversy

4. 1999

5. Purple Rain

.

Back up set

1. ATWIAD

2. Parade

3. SOTT

4. Black album (Released in 1994, but earlier bootleg release and recorded between 3 and 5)

5. Lovesexy

.

Batman is too shitty to go on a list.

.

1. 3121

2. Planet Earth

3. Lotusflow3r/MPLSOUND

4. 20Ten

5. Art Official age

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purplemajesty23 said:

Hmmm...this is very hard, I cannot fathom only choosing 5 albums but if you must insist:

Option no.1:

1. 1999

2. Sign O' The Times

3. 3121

4. Lotusflow3r

5. Purple Rain

Option no.2

1. Black Album

2. Come

3. Dirty Mind

4. Prince

5. Art Official Age

I guess option 1 would be my pick though since the first 3 are my favorites...

Not to be too much of a stickler, but the OP specified that the five albums needed to be a chronological run...

1. Dirty Mind

2. 1999

3. Purple Rain

4. Parade

5. Lovesexy

Option 2

1. Controversy

2. ATWIAD

3. Sign O The Times

4. Gold

5. Hit and Run Phase 2

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CAL3 said:

purplemajesty23 said:

Hmmm...this is very hard, I cannot fathom only choosing 5 albums but if you must insist:

Option no.1:

1. 1999

2. Sign O' The Times

3. 3121

4. Lotusflow3r

5. Purple Rain

Option no.2

1. Black Album

2. Come

3. Dirty Mind

4. Prince

5. Art Official Age

I guess option 1 would be my pick though since the first 3 are my favorites...

Not to be too much of a stickler, but the OP specified that the five albums needed to be a chronological run...

yep - chronological and no skips!

This would mean I have to choose between 1999 and Lovesexy...

PR

ATWIAD

Parade

Sign

Lovesexy

hw3004 said:

CAL3 said:

Not to be too much of a stickler, but the OP specified that the five albums needed to be a chronological run...

yep - chronological and no skips!

Fixed

Chronological and no skips:

1999/PR/ATWIAD/PARADE/SOTT

Parade

SOTT

The Black Album

Lovesexy

Batman

CAL3 said:

purplemajesty23 said:

Hmmm...this is very hard, I cannot fathom only choosing 5 albums but if you must insist:

Option no.1:

1. 1999

2. Sign O' The Times

3. 3121

4. Lotusflow3r

5. Purple Rain

Option no.2

1. Black Album

2. Come

3. Dirty Mind

4. Prince

5. Art Official Age

I guess option 1 would be my pick though since the first 3 are my favorites...

Not to be too much of a stickler, but the OP specified that the five albums needed to be a chronological run...

Everyone's selections have been chronological. There's a difference between chronological and consecutive.

Genesia said:

CAL3 said:

Not to be too much of a stickler, but the OP specified that the five albums needed to be a chronological run...

Everyone's selections have been chronological. There's a difference between chronological and consecutive.

4. Lotusflow3r (2009) 5. Purple Rain (1984)

3. Dirty Mind (1980) 4. Prince (1979)

....aint chronological! I've edited the original post for clarity...

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Its too easy to pick the early stuff. I might be the only person to pick these, but this was when I was at the height of my Prince fandom....

D&P

Come

TGE

Chaos and Disorder

The Black Album is in the middle there, but I dont consider that within the flow of his new work. I also appreciate the other stuff squashed in like The Undertaker, Exodus, the Come remixes, The Beautiful Experience, and a few other nuggets of greatness.

Option 1

1. 1999

2. Purple Rain

3. ATWIAD

4. Parade

5. Sign O' The Times

Option 2

1. 3121

2. Planet Earth

3. Lotus Flower

4. MPLSound

5. 20Ten

His last 5:

HitnRun2

HitnRun1

Art Official Age

Lotu3flwr

MPLSsound

Option2

Old Friends 4 Sale

Emancipation

Chaos and Disorder

Gold Experience

Black Album

THIS QUESTION IS INSANITY!!! OMG, so hard...

1: For You/Prince/DM/Controversy/1999

2: 1999/PR/ATWIAD/Parade/SOTT, but I'd swap ATWIAD for any of the first 4 albums in a heartbeat

Bottom line - a scenario without 1999 ain't no scenario!

Prince
Dirty mind
Controversy
1999
Purple rain
_____
Back up set..

Gold exp
chaos and disorder
emancipation
crystal ball
rave

..... mainly becaus of the sure length of emancipation and crystal ball

[Edited 8/4/16 9:23am]

Going off of https://en.wikipedia.org/...iscography

Option 1

1. Lovesexy

2. Batman

3. Graffiti Bridge

4. Diamonds and Pearls

5.

Option 2

1. 1999

2. Purple Rain

3. Around The World In a Day

4. Parade

5. Sign O The Times

nyse said:

I'd go with ur option 1 as well-- would love 2 hear Prince perform all those 5 albums live in order beginning with I Wanna B Ur Lover and ending with Purple Rain.
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Genesia said:

CAL3 said:

Not to be too much of a stickler, but the OP specified that the five albums needed to be a chronological run...

Everyone's selections have been chronological. There's a difference between chronological and consecutive.

Alrigtht I forgot the word consecutive, my intended point was that the OP asked for chronological AND consecutive.

CAL3 said:

Genesia said:

Everyone's selections have been chronological. There's a difference between chronological and consecutive.

Alrigtht I forgot the word consecutive, my intended point was that the OP asked for chronological AND consecutive.

Not initially.

Words have meaning.

Looking at the way Tidal is offering the albums, two other options:

.

Lotusflow3r/MPLS

20Ten

AOA

Plectrum (meh)

HnR 1&2

.

Symbol

Hits/B-Sides (most of the 80s hits and essential B-sides)

Come

Black album

Gold exp.

rainbowchild said:

Yess.. Prince's evolution from his debut album to purple rain was phenomenal. With each album her perfected his craft

thisisreece said:

Chronological and no skips:

1999/PR/ATWIAD/PARADE/SOTT

Same for me

Genesia said:

CAL3 said:

Alrigtht I forgot the word consecutive, my intended point was that the OP asked for chronological AND consecutive.

Not initially.

Words have meaning.

Christ on a bike...I wish I hadn't bothered my arse...

No Madhouse? That's not fair!

1999 thru Sott i guess