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Prince Album Survivor Results & The final Org Ranking of Prince's 80's works. The SOTT fans came out in full force last round. While it had a great run with tons of support, 1999 is officially the last album eliminated.
With a whopping 28 votes in its favour, Sign 'O' The Times has cemented its place amongst hardcore Prince fans once again as the champion of the 80's Prince albums. 
"It begins as a great book would, with the setting. "In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name." In 1987, when Prince's double-album masterpiece Sign 'O' the Times was released, no one had to be told he was talking about AIDS. The title track syrups on, mentioning crack and nuclear bombs -- painting the Eighties as if Revelations had arrived and no one had realized. The direct political address recalls Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," but where Gaye was pleading for change, Prince is mournful, desolate and sadly accepting. But then he's upbeat and dancing, prancing with "Play in the Sunshine," washing away the doomsday reportage with childish glee. If 1999 showed off Prince's funk potential and Purple Rain made him a rock star, then Sign 'O' the Times is his soul assault, with ballads ("Forever in My Life"), midtempos ("I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man") and dance anthems ("Housequake"). After Purple Rain, Prince was moving toward guitar-god status, but here the bass is the star, so sweet it's giving up melodies, so expressive you know it's talking to you in another language, so funky that if you ain't groovin' you might be dead. On "If I Was Your Girlfriend," he ponders aloud, "Would you run to me if somebody hurt you, even if that somebody was me?" -- but, like a true philosopher of love, he never finds the answer and leaves the question for you to run with. Both discs are heavy with songs about hot sex ("Slow Love," "Hot Thing"), but those songs are outweighed by the towering ballads about love and commitment. "Adore" remains one of the greatest love songs of all time and continues to make women weak and wet with its opening promise: "Until the end of time, I'll be there for you." Even in a world so hopeless, Prince seems to say, love can conquer all."-Rolling Stone Magazine Your winner! The final Org ranking: #1-Sign 'O' The Times #2-1999 #3-Purple Rain #4-Controversy #5-Dirty Mind #6-Parade #7-Around The World In A Day #8-The Black Album #9-Lovesexy #10-Batman And that's that. Thanks for playing, Orgers. This is the last survivor thread I'll do, so in the words of Prince at the end of ATWIAD; "goodbye."  The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
"You still wanna take me to prison...just because I won't trade humanity for patriotism." | |
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N'awwwww, poor 1999! I think I remember it won the last album survivor though? 
So cool Controversy made it so far  | |
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Wow, that's great. A lot of my favorite Prince songs comes from this record. I'm very proud and glad 2 it win and stand on top as the greatest. [Edited 8/22/05 0:12am] Some people think I'm kinda cute
But that don't compute when it comes 2 Y-O-U. | |
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i would say thats about right.
good work. Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
KrystleEyes 22/03/05 | |
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What happened to Lovesexy... don't u know it's the glam of 'em all?? | |
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Snap said: What happened to Lovesexy... don't u know it's the glam of 'em all??
F'real! What's the deal? | |
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Well sign is a VERY overrated album! I cant believe alot of people say it's his best work. It does have some of his best songs, but there is waaay better albums from the 80's. "Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system" - Bruce Lee |
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