Here's a hypothetical situation. Imagine that prior to releasing the symbol album Prince asked you and only you to edit it down to 9 songs with the idea of Prince having as much commercial success as possible. Your word is final on the nine songs, but there must be 9, not 8, not 10, just 9. Even if you love every song or hate them for the sake of this thread just list nine. Which songs and in what order would you have put them?

Here's my Symbol album edit.

1. "The Morning Papers"
2. "You Sexy M.F"
3. "7"
4. "Blue Light"
5. "Continental"
6. "Damn You"
7. "When God Created Woman"
8. "3 Chains of Gold"
9. "Sweet Baby"

americanoarrogante said:

3 Chains o' Gold? That definitely would be OFF of my list. I would replace it with Love 2 the 9's. And Sweet Baby sounds like a song that should have been on his first 2 albums(For You and Prince). I would replace that with The Max

My Name Is Prince
Sexy M.F.
Blue Light
Love 2 The 9's
The Continental
Damn U
The Morning Papers
And God Created Woman
7

Or something like that.

I'll play

01. Sexy M.F.
02. The Continental
03. Love 2 The 9's
04. The Morning Papers
05. I Wanna Melt With U
06. Damn U
07. 7
08. And God Created Woman
09. 3 Chains O' Gold

Hidden track: The Max

// - I love that 7 is track #7, and surely if you dig as an album, you gotta like 3 Chains, if only for it's OTT camp tackiness.

NouveauDance said:

No i don't have to like 3 Chains O' Gold. It is a rip off of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody

TheDeacon said:

*lifts up hand-bag* Oooooo, ark at her!

NouveauDance said:

TheDeacon said:

You might have to be British (and from Yorkshire) to get that one!

NouveauDance said:

Well could you explain to those who are not British?

My Name Is Prince
Sexy MF
Love 2 the 9s
Morning Papers
Blue Light
The Continental
Damn U
Arrogance
7