Personally I consider them both having 2 real standout albums each. Purple Rain, SOTT, Off The Wall and Thriller.

Having been a Prince fan for "18 and Over" years and something of a music fan in general I feel somewhat qualified in proclaiming SOTT Prince's best and Off The Wall MJ's best.

However in Q magazine this month they did yet another top 100 all time albums as voted by the readers and the only ones that got in were Thriller at no. 56 and PR at no. 94. How can all those readers leave out two of the world's greatest musical genius' very best albums. Have people completly lost their sense of taste or am I just completly deluded?

By the way the first two positions were taken up by Radiohead FYI.

omnithanos said:

Lists like that really annoy me. I agree with you.

i don't know if P and MJ should have had more presence on that list, but i think it's completely ridiculous that radiohead occupy the top two spots...and i consider myself a radiohead fan.

You can't look to the Q readership for back-up on such things, they're stuck in their eternal white boy college rock band loop.

Their polls always end up the same - the top ten is always an exercise in licking the collective arseholes of The Beatles, Oasis, Radiohead, Coldplay, Nirvana and whichever flavour of the month can currently do no wrong as long as they give the mag the big 15 page tour interviews they like to do so much.

NouveauDance said:

It's like - Are you white ? Do you have long hair and a look that says you don't give a shit about your appearance ? Do you all stand around and look non-plussed about everything ?

Yes ? Well you must be good then ...

Dangerous was MJ's best IMO.

Just because Prince and MJ sing in falsetto doesn't mean you should never mention one without mentionning the other.

There's been too much Prince n MJ lately. I vote for moving any thread that mention MJ to the other music forum.

You know your list is bad when Rolling Stone is superior, I guess that's what happens when fans vote.

SOTT and since you mentioned MJ (Off The Wall) are easily top 20 albums.

That list was a joke, I guess Radiohead are the Beatles now.

Anxiety said:

I also consider myself a radiohead fan (in that I own all their albums and have seen them live a coupla times) and I thought that result was ridiculous, too.

As far as Prince goes, I checked that list four times over for SOTT and it still wasn't there, so I figured I was dreaming.

purplerain and thriller

I'd say 1999 for Prince, and the only time MJ even came close to producing anything similar was with some songs off of Dangerous.

Aerogram said:

I sometimes think there should be a special
Prince& Micheal: Music and More Forum on the org

I have a couple of younger mates who have Thriller and Purple Rain on their ipods/walkmans etc. and they generally agree that these albums piss all over anything released these days!!

Time to re-reducate the kids methinks!!

NouveauDance said:

Aye. They should just call it "The 90 Best White Male Rock Albums Ever + 10 Other Albums By Non-White Males".