IMO
Diamonds and Pearls (although a few great cuts)
"the SYMBOL" album (although a few great cuts)
The Gold Experience (only 2 great cuts)

Touchy subject, but I'm game. There is a different between worst and favorite, however.

Least favorites:

For You- too immature for my taste.
Black Album- Very important, but I'm glad we got Lovesexy instead.
New Power Soul- He didn't even want to put his name on this one.

Worst:

For You
New Power Soul
Graffiti Bridge- I LOVE Prince's input, but the extraneous tracks should be dropped! If it were only Prince's material, this would be top 10 for me.

feltbluish said:

WHAT?!?!??!

WHAT!???

HUH?!?!?!?!?

My Lord, if I knew where u slept. Diamonds & Pearls has Insatiable, Cream, Gett Off, Live4Luv, the list goes on.

has The Continental, 7, Morning Papers, Love 2 the 9s, My Name is Prince...

And G O L D is my favorite Prince album ever. Every cut on there is priceless. God, where should I BEGIN?!!?


[This message was edited Wed Jul 3 17:18:54 PDT 2002 by INSATIABLE]

Moonbeam said:

I completely agree. I LOVE this album, but I can't take some of the songs - esp. "Graffiti Bridge" and "Melody Cool." They are pure crap.

However, feltbluish, I've got to disagree with you - I think , Diamonds and Pearls, and Gold Experience were all great (but I hate the NPG Operator).

i like this question...

NewPowerSoul
Raveintothejoyfantastic
and
...

1-800-NEW-FUNK (the cd)...

if i cant count that one, then...KAMASUTRA..damn that sucked!! Or Graffiti Bridge..the least played out of his studio releases (with me anyways...)
[This message was edited Wed Jul 3 17:23:52 PDT 2002 by SkletonKee]

WHAT?!?!??!

WHAT!???

HUH?!?!?!?!?

My Lord, if I knew where u slept. Diamonds & Pearls has Insatiable, Cream, Gett Off, Live4Luv, the list goes on.

has The Continental, 7, Morning Papers, Love 2 the 9s, My Name is Prince...

And G O L D is my favorite Prince album ever. Every cut on there is priceless. God, where should I BEGIN?!!?


[This message was edited Wed Jul 3 17:18:54 PDT 2002 by INSATIABLE]
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I knew this would B ruff!

U got the right tracks from diamonds and pearls, don't forget strollin' but the rest of it was WAY too busy/jumbled/Tony M./Rosie G.(great voice, but a little overbearing and monotonous)weak beats, weak samples, just WEAK

Symbol- best cut = Damn U, runners up = Sweet Baby, love 2 th 9s

Gold only good songs = SHHH and Billy Jack Bitch
SHY is pretty good too. I think Pussy Control is possibly the worst song ever recorded by the man.

ONA,TRC,AND NEWPWERSOUL.THEY JUST SUCKED 2 ME.NO INTENSITY
AND 2 POLISHED.

SkletonKee said:

shit...there's songs on RAVE that make me cry
NEWPOWERSOUL is funky as hell, with the exclusion of FUNKY MUSIC which is not!!! Freaks on this Side is the dope smackety smack
The song graffiti bridge is crap!!! But HIS songs on there R SOOO good, that that album can't B one of the worst

i actually havn't heard ONA yet, i reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally want to though!

Moonbeam said:

And YOU!!!

INSATIABLE said:

I must add that I do think that all of his albums hold merit to some degree. Picking least favorite Prince albums is like picking your least favorite relatives- I love them all but some just get on my nerves at times...

The Rainbow children - While the music is good the lyrics and the computer voice ruin this album to the point where I can't listen to it.

Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic - The original wasn't very good so why would he release a remix album of the same material? The new versions are just terrible. The only thing that makes this cd worth owning is "Beautiful Strange"

Diamonds and Pearls - A few great tracks, but this album has never flowed for me. I find myself constantly hitting skip if I bother putting it into the player.

For You: Prince's first album, and aside from Soft and Wet, did not contain any "signature" songs or any real "character" yet. This album is a sacrificial lamb in Prince's catalog . . . just served to get his name out there.

Chaos & Disorder: Basically comprised of "throw-away" songs, this was released simply out of contractual obligation. I doubt most of these songs would've seen the light of day otherwise. There are[.i] a few very good tracks on there, but we are talking about entire albums.

New Power Soul: I don't know if you can count this one, since technically it is a NPG album, but realistically it [i]is a Prince album . . he even promoted the shit out of it on TV. The songs just all sound too "dull" and the lyrical content is just silly. I understand the concept was to capture the "live" feel of a show, but at the time it was NOT what Prince needed to release. There are a couple of decent tracks on this one, but not enough.

If NPS is disqualified, then I only have one other one that might even come close to this list, and that would be Come. But I love that album, so it's not on my list!!

Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic - The original wasn't very good so why would he release a remix album of the same material? The new versions are just terrible. The only thing that makes this cd worth owning is "Beautiful Strange"


MAN! i don't have this either...I was wondering where I would find Beautiful Strange...was this a NPGMC release?

INSATIABLE said:

Marry me?

Good question feltbluish.

I would say: NPS, Rave, and ONA.

And I enjoy NPS. I really do. Mad Sex, Come On, Freaks on this Side, whatever...

Hmmm..now lets think here...Hmmm


NewPowerSoul

The Rainbow Children

Chaos & Disorder (it was supposed to slap Warners in the face..but did it have to slap ours as well...dayum!)

oooh..I have more!

One Night Alone

Emancipation (should've been 2 cd's instead of 3)

RaveIn2thejoyFantastic

RaveUn2thejoyFantastic

Crystal Ball (only because...well...`these boots don't fit)


Hmmm...so thats everything from 1996..until now...
Do we see a pattern here, perhaps!?!?

And G O L D is my favorite Prince album ever. Every cut on there is priceless.

1. Come "U can tell he didn't give it is all when he made that CD" Sorry, that's the only bad cd eye can think of!

Paisley said:

I think "dark" may B my favorite ballad of prince's...well, one of them anyway

My least favorites (and why)...

Diamonds and Pearls (why: Tony M.)
For You (why: just too boring)
Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic (why: he tried too hard...)

I still very much like a few tracks off of each one, though-- namely Gett Off, The Greatest Romance Ever Sold and Beautiful Strange (off the remixed CD).

-neokyle

WHY do you guys hate Tony M. sooo much?! I liked him. Anyway:

1. Chaos and Disorder: Never heard it but didn't want to after seeing the video for "Dinner With Delores."

2. The Black Album: Heard one song and got sick

3. Come: I couldn't get into it. The only song I like is "Dark"
[This message was edited Wed Jul 3 19:25:25 PDT 2002 by Janfriend]

GRAFFITI BRIDGE-3 outstanding tracks.1 good one.OUT of 17 songs.
DIAMONDS AND PEARLS-the rapping and over production on this record make it hard to sit through
CHAOS AND DISORDER-3 good songs
NEWPOWER SOUL -i only like Come On and Wasted Kisses
THE VAULT-No....definitly not representative of the man's hidden treasures.
[This message was edited Wed Jul 3 19:31:56 PDT 2002 by silentflute]

2 more than 3; I'm in a generous mood at the moment..


5th worst: Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic
Wannabe "trendy" & all over the place

4th worst: Grafitti Bridge
"Tick Tick..", title song.. UGH. This is 1 bridge that deserves to be burned

3rd worst: Come
No.. GO - far away from this 1

2nd worst: New Power Soul
cliché, derivative, uninspired; weaker than watered-down Kool-Aid



THE WORST: Chaos & Disorder.
EXACTLY.

JimmyNothing said:

I agree entirely with this list.

New Power Soul (Lifeless; nothing new, powerful or soulful about it.)

Chaos & Disorder (Phoned it in to complete a contractual agreement and it damn well shows. A few songs had promise had he not had a case of sonic premature ejaculation.)

Come (See Chaos & Disorder. So forgettable I sincerely forgot what was on it.)

Since he was just starting out as a neophyte kid, diving in full throttle for the first time with For You, I can't put that on the list. Aside from "Soft & Wet" it's not that distinctive, but at the same time he had not set any sort of standard for himself. It's a pleasant album, not a terrible one. But it would put me to sleep. Graffiti Bridge doesn't feel like a true Prince album because he allowed too many cooks in the kitchen on that one. The great tracks overshadow the middle of the road and weak material.
[This message was edited Wed Jul 3 20:19:43 PDT 2002 by Supernova]

DAMN...I love trax on all the albums mentioned here! That said I would have 2 say 'Prince', 'For You', and Dirty Mind,Eventhough there are song I love on these albums I'll love 4ever, someof the tunes r elevator-musicish.

I have to agree with PART of the first post...

Prince's early 90's records (Diamonds and Pearls and O+>) I think are WAY to self-consciously commerical to even come CLOSE to competing with his early material. I just listened to O+> last week (for the first time in about 3 years), and I was shocked at how little it held up for me 10 years later.

For the 3rd record, I'd have to go with Rave, just because I haven't listened to it in a year, and I can't imaging when I will again.

Graffiti Bridge (Thieves, Still Would r the best cuts)

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

The Rainbow Children
[This message was edited Wed Jul 3 21:01:46 PDT 2002 by parreuss]

INSATIABLE said:

I agree Insatiable. Those albums are incredible. Grrr.

INSATIABLE said:

We March is the worst song only topped by Now whcih he tries to compare to Irresistable Bitch and Sexy Mf. Some cuts were OK but these were terrible!