2freaky4church1 said:

databank said:

lynx said:

My 10 favourite albums of all time


Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Purple Rain - Prince

Abbey Road - The Beatles

Thriller - Micheal Jackson

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Breakfast In America - Supertramp

U2 - The Joshua Tree

Band On The Run - Paul Mccartney & Wings

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen

If I did a Top 30 there would likely be 5 or 6 Prince albums in there.

Dude, you're so maintream

Haha, I guess I am!. My Top 30 would be much more diverse but these albums have never left my side - ever in my life

lynx said:

rdhull said:

databank said:

Dude, you're so maintream

I wss going to say the same thing.

Took the words out of my mouth

mdmeridius said:

hhhhdmt said:

Would you place any Prince album in your all time top 10 albums by any artist? For me, Sign would be in my top 3 and Purple Rain/1999 might be in the top 10.

This question smacks of elitism; espcially on a Prince site.

Are we just "supposed" to say, of course, all the real "serious artists" would be our Top 10?

And maybe we'd be generous enough to put some Prince in there?

On a Prince site?

sro100 said:

hhhhdmt said:

Would you place any Prince album in your all time top 10 albums by any artist? For me, Sign would be in my top 3 and Purple Rain/1999 might be in the top 10.

This question smacks of elitism; espcially on a Prince site.

Are we just "supposed" to say, of course, all the real "serious artists" would be our Top 10?

And maybe we'd be generous enough to put some Prince in there?

On a Prince site?

i hate lists like i said, i love whatever phase i'm going through at the time and alot of artists blow my mind about equally, not just Prince. It's like picking your favorite child or something, it's just wierd.

1999 would be in my Top 10.

PeteSilas said:

sro100 said:

This question smacks of elitism; espcially on a Prince site.

Are we just "supposed" to say, of course, all the real "serious artists" would be our Top 10?

And maybe we'd be generous enough to put some Prince in there?

On a Prince site?

i hate lists like i said, i love whatever phase i'm going through at the time and alot of artists blow my mind about equally, not just Prince. It's like picking your favorite child or something, it's just wierd.

Yeah that's why I'd find it extremely hard to make a list like that. For a long time I've been considering to make a series of article for my blog about my 12 favorite album for each year from circa the mid-70's to now, and even there picking 12 records a year might be challenging at times. And the list would constantly change, for example I just discovered and fell madly in love with a record from 2006 that would definitely make the 2006 list.

Darshy said:

mdmeridius said:

My personal top 10 is: 1. SOTT, Prince and Melodrama, Lorde 2. Purple Rain, Prince 3. Falsettos, Falsettos 2016 Broadway Cast 4. Hamilton, Hamilton Original Broadway Cast 5. RED, Taylor Swift 6. +, Ed Sheeran 7. Faith, George Michael 8. Parade, Prince 9. Hounds of Love, Kate Bush 10. 25, Adele So Prince is easily the biggest artist on there.

Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Adele???!!! I thought I'd Prince fans had better taste!

Well, he lists Kate Bush, too, though.

But IDK if it's so much a matter of taste as much as a matter of "being exposed to".

In all those years here and all those threads about what else people listen to, I've come to realize that about one half of the fandom were people with a pretty big musical culture and diverse tastes, while another half was basically made of Top 40 people, which isn't so surprising all things considered since Prince was a Top 40 artist for a good part of his career. You'd think everyone that listens to Prince is a hardcore music afficionado who likes niche artists and owns thousanbds of records like you but why would they be? Most people have jobs, families, other interests and just don't have time to look for music and gladly take what the mass media feeds them. They may fall in love enough with Prince to come here but that doesn't mean they're gonna get this level of involvement with music in general.

Similarly, I've also came to realize that a good part of the fans were mostly rock listeners when I would have expected most of them to be primarily African-American music and electronic music fans like me. I mean given the music Prince was making that would make sense, wouldn't it? But no, tons of rockers dig Prince as well.

In a sense that was Prince's doing: he had this incredible, pretty rare capacity to make music that was appealing to pretty much everyone: hipsters and elitists as well as casual radio listeners, people that listened to all sorts of music including genres that weren't primarily what Prince was doing, etc.

It isn't surprising that Kate Bush made Mdmeriduis' list as well: she was also such a peculiar artist, at the same time incredibly experimental and yet capable of seducing the masses, that anyone could potentially like her stuff, granted they wouldn't find it too weird for their taste. Most of the people I've met who disliked Prince music did so because they found it too weird, too hard to put in a box.

Darshy said:

jdcxc said:

Darshy said:

The art police is here.

mdmeridius said:

mdmeridius said:

In my all-time Top 10, Prince is the rule - not the exception.

1999

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I can't pick!!!

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JohnShaft said:

databank said:

Dude, you're so maintream

While not wanting to turn this into a All Time Top 10, I just couldn't resist here:

Kiss - Lick It Up
Prince - Dirty Mind
Danielle Brisebois - Arrive All Over You
Paul Stanley - Paul Stanley
Kyle Vincent - Solitary Road
Icon - Night Of the Crime
The Temptations - For Lovers Only
Blue Murder - Blue Murder
Michael Stanley Band - You Can't Fight Fashion
Girl - Sheer Greed

tell me what's so good about the temptations album? I used to think of them as singles artists but then i got a four disk set and was blown away by the great stuff i'd never heard.

NorthC said:

mdmeridius said:

First of all, who made you the authority on what’s tasteful and what’s not? Second, while Ed Sheeran’s subsequent albums have been subpar, his debut was excellent. Third, I feel as though you prejudge these artists without fully listening to the albums. Taylor gets a bad reputation, but RED is an amazing album that contains one of my favourite songs (All Too Well). Fourth, I’m 17, am I not allowed to like some of the music of my generation? I’m sure your elders chided you for also having no taste when you listened to pop contemporaries as opposed to what was popular in their day. Fifth, Adele is a queen and (like it or not) the most popular artist right now. Don’t diss. I might not like Michael Jackson, but I respect that he was a talented performer who was incredibly popular and that there are a lot of people who do like his music.

If you're 17 and you like Kate Bush, you're my friend. Fuck what everybody else says!

Kate Bush AND Prince. Co-sign. And the kid's got a point. Maybe we can give teenagers a break

mdmeridius said:

Darshy said:

Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Adele???!!! I thought us Prince fans had better taste!

First of all, who made you the authority on what’s tasteful and what’s not? Second, while Ed Sheeran’s subsequent albums have been subpar, his debut was excellent. Third, I feel as though you prejudge these artists without fully listening to the albums. Taylor gets a bad reputation, but RED is an amazing album that contains one of my favourite songs (All Too Well). Fourth, I’m 17, am I not allowed to like some of the music of my generation? I’m sure your elders chided you for also having no taste when you listened to pop contemporaries as opposed to what was popular in their day. Fifth, Adele is a queen and (like it or not) the most popular artist right now. Don’t diss. I might not like Michael Jackson, but I respect that he was a talented performer who was incredibly popular and that there are a lot of people who do like his music.

Well constructed reply

You're only at the very beginning of your musical journey. We certainly all began by listening to Top 40 stuff, and even the most elitist among us (I'd be among those I guess) still listen to many of those "commercial" artists who were huge when we were young

I'll confess something: I like those 1980's Phil Collins records, I have them all

You're only at the beginning of your musical journey, keep your ears and eyes open, there's a whole galaxy of music to discover and you have all the time in the world

1999 is my all time favorite album. My Desert island Disc. Sign of the Times probably cracks my top ten. I adore Exodus.

Never really thought about it. Good question. A lot of great records out there that I love, Narrowing it down to 10 is rough. A lot of it comes down to mood and what I feel like listening to so when this subject comes up i always ask myself what I listen to MOST.

Man, I'd have to think on this.

JohnShaft said:

databank said:

Dude, you're so maintream

While not wanting to turn this into a All Time Top 10, I just couldn't resist here:

Kiss - Lick It Up
Prince - Dirty Mind
Danielle Brisebois - Arrive All Over You
Paul Stanley - Paul Stanley
Kyle Vincent - Solitary Road
Icon - Night Of the Crime
The Temptations - For Lovers Only
Blue Murder - Blue Murder
Michael Stanley Band - You Can't Fight Fashion
Girl - Sheer Greed

Holy shit, that's great. A KISS solo album in an all time top ten. I love KISS but i'd never go that far. You rock dude.

WE should start a separate thread for this. See how many prince albums make the cut,

I've got, off the top of my head, along with the Prince Albums...

Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
Physical Graffitti - Led Zep
Electric Warrior - T Rex
When The Pawn... - Fiona Apple
Axis Bold As Love - Hendrix
Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP
Rage Against the Machine
Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
Original Musiquarium - Stevie Wonder

...man, this is hard. Way too hard...Impossible. TEN? My mood shifts too much.

I'll join the top 10 party.

1. Prince - 1999
2. Prince - Lovesexy
3. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
4. The Cure - Disintegration
5. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
6. Madonna - Like a Prayer
7. Annie - Anniemal
8. Björk - Vespertine
9. Madonna - Ray of Light
10. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Controversy, The Gold Experience, and Sign o' the Times are also in my top 20.

Moonbeam said:

I'll join the top 10 party.

1. Prince - 1999
2. Prince - Lovesexy
3. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
4. The Cure - Disintegration
5. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
6. Madonna - Like a Prayer
7. Annie - Anniemal
8. Björk - Vespertine
9. Madonna - Ray of Light
10. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Controversy, The Gold Experience, and Sign o' the Times are also in my top 20.

I have all of those

Glad to see Annie get some love. Chewing Gum and Me Plus One are such perfect pop songs, you can't get catchier than those

It's funny you'd pick Sweet Dreams over Touch. Sweet Dreams is great, hell all Eurythmics albums are great, but Touch is THE Eurythmics record that blows my mind, it would definitely be among my all-time favorites. So would Vespertine (alongside Debut and Post).

It'd be interesting to make a Top 3 "favorite Madonna albums" thread. I think RoL would probably win, though my own darling is by far Music.

Parade, 1999 & Purple Rain!