I KNOW THIS IS A THREAD THAT HAS PROBS BEEN SENT A MILLION TIMES BEFORE.

BUT I DON'T THINK I HAVE SEEN IT UP FOR A LONG WHILE. IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW ECLECTIC THE AVERAGE PRINCE FAN IS, IN THERE MUSIC TASTES. PRINCE FANS THAT I AM FRIENDS WITH EITHER LISTEN TO THE MAN AND NOTHING ELSE OR ARE INTERESTED IN BROAD DIVERSE AREAS OF MUSIC EMBRASSING ALL. AS LONG IT IS QUALITY!

I REALISE THAT SELECTING YOUR FAVOURITE 5 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME IS HARD. NOTE FAVOURITE ( THIS IS PERSONAL TO U IT DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE SOLD MILLIONS OR BE CRITICALY LAUDED)

HERE WE GO!!

1) SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE STEVIE

2) SKETCHES OF SPAIN MILES

3) PARADE (LIVE BOOTLEG) PRINCE

NOT A GENUINE ALBUM BUT IT IS ONE THAT I LISTEN TO ON A REGULAR BASIS, WHICH GETS ME EVERY TIME.

4) LEWIS LEWIS TAYLOR

5) WHATS GOIN ON MARVIN GAYE.


WELL I HAVE HAD A GO!!!

THERE IS SO MANY THAT I THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING IN SUCH AS SLY, CLINTON, BROWN, CURTIS, AND HUNDREDS MORE

FAVS LIKE OMAR, BJORK, BEATLES, STONES.

BUT LIMITED TO 5. HERE IT IS!!!

GET POSTING!!! EVERYONE HAS THERE OWN INDIVIDUAL SELECTIONS. LETS SEE WHAT ALBUMS WE COME UP WITH ON THE ORG.

PEACE.

Nice post! I am feelin' your selection too:

Top 5 albums of all time 4 me:

1. What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

2. Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

3. Island life by Grace Jones

4. Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder

5. Diamond Life by Sade

Have some of that!

Now all say Eengerlaand for the World Cup - I thank you!

Paulie

some nice selections.

Is the grace jones album the one with slave to the rythem??? have not heard a lot of grace jones but i seriously like that tune.

Top 5 (no order! I just can't decide )

- Prince ""

- Blur "13"

- Joni Mitchell "Blue"

- Depeche Mode "Songs Of Faith And Devotion"

- Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral/Further Down The Spiral"

well, quite difficult... here is my own, not in preference order:

Lovesexy - Prince

Grace - Jeff Buckley

Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield

The Bends - Radiohead

Bellybutton - Jellyfish

Damn, it's hard...but Denmark beating France in the Soccer World Championship today gives me the extra energy to concentrate. Here it is...

Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (THE BEST!!)

Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life (STEVIE GODDAMMIT!!)

Erykah Badu: Baduizm Live (SOOO SOULFUL)

Marcos Valle: Samba 68 (BOZZA BABYYY)

Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (THE JAZZ MASTERPIECE)

Hi there!

By the way Prince's LoveSexy was JUST pushed off the top 5.

it will b less difficult if we can choose 10 albums...

1. Tie Between and The Gold Experience
2. Tragic Kingdom - No Doubt
3. The Velvet Rope - Janet Jackson
4. Butterfly - Mariah Carey
5. Urban Hang Suite - Maxwell

1. Crystal Ball/The Truth Prince

2. At The Close of a Century Stevie Wonder

3. Jeffrey Osbourne Ultimate Collection

4. Lovergirl: The Teena Marie Story

5. The Best of Sting and the Police

This was very hard. Next time we should do 10 albums.

This is nearly impossible to narrow down, but I will give it a shot. I will include only albums I can listen to all the way through repeatedly. lol

1. Sign O' the Times - Prince

2. 5 - Lenny Kravitz

3. Morning View - incubus

4. Girl 6 - Prince

5. Tie: Mama Said - Lenny Kravitz / Make Yourself - incubus

There are just too many!

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[This message was edited Wed Feb 26 0:43:36 PST 2003 by IstenSzek]

Never get tired of album polls...


The Beatles, Abbey Road
The Beatles, The White Album
Prince, Parade
Oasis, Definitely Maybe
Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti

'nuff said

umm let's see, in no particular order, the 1st 5 that pop in my head to take w/ me on a long drive...

1. Dave Matthews Band/CRASH
2. Prince/RAVE IN2 THE JOY FANTASTIC
3. newOrder/2o YEARS OF NEW ORDER[promo only]
4. Ani DiFranco/RECKONING~REVELLING
5. U2/ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND

can i have a sixth? [Sarah Brightman/EDEN or LA LUNA]

i can give you 5 on current heavy rotation, will that do ?

bilal 1st born second
gang starr full clip
the roots things fall apart
jaguar wright denials delusions and decisions
prince one nite alone

Antichrist Superstar- Marilyn Manson
Nevermind- Nirvana
Tragic Kingdom- No Doubt
Under The Pink- Tori Amos
Sign O The Times, Purple Rain, 1999, Parade, Lovesexy- Prince

Prince - Sign O' The Times

Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love

Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet

Not really in any order:

Danielle Brisebois - "Arrive All Over You"
Kiss - "Lick It Up"
Gerry Laffy - "Money & The Magic"
Girl - "Sheer Greed"
Prince - "Dirty Mind"

Hard to choose just 5. These are just off the top of my head:
Prince-Wonderboy (moonraker release)
George Michael-Older
Prince-SOTT
Massive Attack-Blue Lines
Madonna-Ray of Light
Prince-Black Album
Maxwell-Urban Hang Suite
Prince-Controversy
Michael Jackson-Thriller

Ok, I went over 5. So sue me.

(and this list will probably change tomorrow)

I'll probably change my mind just after I write this but here we go. Sketches Of Spain/Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis Around The World In A Day/Parade - Prince So - Peter Gabriel Achtung Baby - U2 Song In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder That was Hard!

1.Mama Said - Kravitz
2.Faith - George Michael
3.Prince - Prince
4.Me Against the World - tupac
5.Song From the weatcoast - Elton John

yikes this is near impossible but...

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Prince - Sign O' The Times
Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
Bjork - Homogenic
The Charlatans - Us and Us Only

(sorry LoveSexy and Blur's self titled, but 5 isn't very many!)

1. Purple Rain
unbeatable...

2. Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
8 shots of adrenalin

3. Brave - Marillion
the last great concept album

4. Unforgettable Fire - U2
their last truly original album

5. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
the sound of summer

this list is subject to daily fluctuations...

This is difficult man...

Peter Gabriel - Passion.
Prince - SOTT
Lenny - Are u gonna go my way?
Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
Wynton Marsalis Quintet - (not an album, was live at the proms in London quite a few years ago. Brilliant.)

I dont think this list is accurate though. Its off the top of my head.

Here's mine in NPO

D'angelo - Brown Sugar... classic
Beres Hammond - Love From a Distance - The BEST soulful Reggae
El Gran Combo - 35 Years Around The World - The inventors of SALSA IMHO Get your dance on...
Prince - Which Album undecided - place holder for fav P albumn of the week LOL
English Beat - Special Beat Service

Now, if you asked me for my favorite artists... I woulda come up with a completely different listing

Peace

Sign O' The Times
Songs In The Key Of Life
One of the early Funkadelic albums
Curtis
There's A Riot Going On

Something like that anyways.

I'm going to have to cop out on a couple and pick boxed sets like a few others have done. And I'm going to limit myself to 1 Prince album otherwise we could be here all night.

Start with the most popular favorite and for a good reason, it's one of the best albums ever:

Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Prince - Purple Rain (sentimental favorite, could, and will, change at a moments notice)
Genesis - Duke or The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (side 1)
Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Earth, Wind & Fire - The Eternal Dance (box set)
Jimmy Buffett - Bars, Beaches, Boats & Ballads (box set)
Joe Jackson - Blaze of Glory
Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?
The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle

Okay, so, I picked 10. Flame me for it why don't you!

Kudos to MayULive2SeeTheDawn for the Jellyfish selection. Always in rotation for me. If you like them you should check out some early Supertramp. I once saw an interview with Jellyfish and they cited them as a major influence.

I tend not to listen to whole "albums" anymore. I have a cd player in my car that plays mp3's so I have about 10 discs that have 150 - 200 albums on them and I hit random so I never know WHAT I'm going to hear next. I don't even bother labeling the discs. It's a hell of a lot better than the radio, that's for sure.

I tried to pick albums that, for me, have no songs that I would fast forward over.

1. SIGN O THE TIMES -My high school soundtrack.
2. PURPLE RAIN-The defining album of the 80's
3. PARADE- life can be so nice.
4. THRILLER -The only one who could compare.
5. THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION - we want the FUNK.

1. Parliament - Mothership Connection
2. Prince - 1999
3. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
4. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Ahhh The Name Is Bootsy
5. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On