For me it's all about Controversy and 1999

Purple Rain kicks Sign O' The Times ass!

rudeboynpg said:

You can't beat Purple Rain's

PurpleKnight said:

Hey, I'm in the 3rd group! I think Parade is his greatest!

(But if i can choose from the 2 of them above then I say Sign O' The Times of course...)

Lodger said:

Prince said "Parade was a disaster. Apart from 'Kiss' there's nothing on it I'm particulary proud of. The temptation is to go right back into the studio and make a killer album but I think half the problem with Parade is that I didnt have enough good material ready. That will never happen again."

I'm with group nr. 2....I think Sign of the Times is beter than Purple Rain. SotT has more variety; there's rock, funk, pop, jazz (sort of), beautiful balads, and is a dubble album. He was at his peak of his talent at that moment.

If you only look at the concert what kind of show it was...Than you realise that nothing can top that...

Purple Rain...then 1999

PurpleKnight said:

In the midst (or, rather, beforehand), "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" had a wonderous guitar duo toward the end.

Then, again, "Computer Blue" also had something great to offer, although, never shown to the public. (DAMNIT!!!)

I feel SOTT is better than PR, but nothing will ever top "When doves cry".

Commerically - Purple Rain
Artistically - Sign of the Times.

Pick an album that best sets your mood!!!!

They both kick ass!! Period amen.

SOTT is a better album, but I prefer Purple Rain--its faster, quicker, and makes my balls bounce more.

thecableguy said:

SOTT has a song with no chorus, a song with a reversed drum as the beat. SOTT is creative, PR is commercial.

I don't see the comparison, let alone thing that they can be compared.

The Ultimate battle should be between either 2 of Prince's most creative and artistic albums, or between 2 of Prince's most commercial albums, not one of each - that can't be compared because you go into the territory of skillfull musicianship defining better in order to resolve a battle without using opinion which would lead to nowhere.

Spookymuffin said:

SOTT and Batman?

Spookymuffin said:

Spookymuffin said:

I chose these two because they're the two albums that get picked most often as his absolute best.

Don't really see how you can just pass PR off as merely commercial. I mean, When Doves Cry was a single with no bassline and no emoting in the chorus. How is that not totally creative?

PurpleKnight said:

PR has it's creative moments, but when it sells over 10 million albums the public does not buy it for it's creativity, more likely for the commerical appeal, like take me with u, i would die 4 u, PR.

SOTT has more diveristy with differnt styles of music he chose from.

SexualSuicide said:

Agree....."When Doves Cry" is his masterpiece.....

Sign "O" The Times is my all time favorite Prince album!

Purple Rain is #2!

See, that was easy.

rudeboynpg said:

I read that too...

Emancipation took a year to finish, so is that one better?

I'm sure he likes Parade right now, then why does he play "Sometimes" and "Mountains" live?
I think he was just disappointed about the reactions and he tried to explain why the album is so odd...

I definately prefer the "old Prince". I consider "Purple Rain" as Prince's last "great" album, everything else that followed was only "good". "Purple Rain" is not my favorite though. It sounds like a weaker version of "1999".

I have been a Prince fan all the way back to his second album "Prince", but my favorite album is "1999". Then I prefer "Dirty Mind" and "Controversy", THEN I prefer "Purple Rain". After that would be "Prince" and after that would be "For You". Then I start with the later stuff.

Purple Rain is song for song the better album. The production is way better and each of the songs is among the best he's ever done. SOTT however has much more variety and quantity of material, so for me it's a draw.

Now, there are those who are of the persuasion that the full three discs of Crystal Ball would have been by far and away his true masterpiece. I somewhat agree and somewhat disagree. i think he recorded a lot of great stuff in the evolution from dream factory to camille to crystal ball, but I think the songs that eventually became sign o the times were the at the core of most of the configuations, and a lot of the major crystal ball outtakes are songs that only prince fans would think are great (crystal ball, shockadelica, good love, rebirth of the flesh).