Graffiti bridge: dated, uptempo pop album 1990 style!

d and p: contemporary, fun, yet for Prince, rather light album.

Symbol: ambitious, too long with annoying segues but funky

(goldnigga: cool rap songs and tony m was getting better and better)

come: dark and at first ordinary rnb album that demands repeat listens.

exodus: p funk esque thats flawed, but fun.

gold: artistically his most rewarding 1990's album

Chaos and disorder: demo like, a huge drop off from "gold....."

Emancipation: Pretensious, yet actual songs offer no surprises

new power soul: more like new power shit

rave unto.....: Prince took the worst of late 1990's top 40.

don't agree on the last 2

I like those better than DAP
I like emancipation better than DAP too

I never really like DAP all that much

Dewrede said:

U gotta do it now. Just so I can know, without reading for ages, what u like.

what about the truth,karmasutra etc

thesexofit said:

Graffiti Bridge - Half-baked to almost great.

Diamonds & Pearls - Half masterpiece, half filler.

Symbol - Sprawling, disconnected, unfocused, but not without merit.

Come - Masterpiece.

Goldnigga - Excellent.

Exodus - Goldnigga's less gifted son.

Gold - A masterpiece and Prince's last great album to date.

Chaos & Disorder - A fuck you to his record company and the fans who bought it.

Emancipation - Would have made a very good but still not great single album; Prince gets "free" of WB and does a by the book cover of "La La La I Love You" - c'mon now!

Karmasutra - Excellent

The Truth - Excellent

New Power Soul - Hugely underrated and mostly ignored, despite containing two of Prince's very best songs in Come On and the very creepy Wasted Kisses.

Rave Un2 - Prince in Santana makeover - you can't remake genius, only dilute it - a misfire, but not without interest

Rave In2 - Remixing a poor album didn't make it any better, just longer, BUT this does have Beautiful Strange on it.
[Edited 7/13/06 0:25am]

Graffiti Bridge - An excellent collection of Vault songs, spruced up with a few new tracks, only spoilt by minor flaws.

Diamonds & Pearls - Excellent commercial comeback with several highpoints, only spoilt by a few mis-steps and overplayed commercial hits.

Symbol - Excellent follow-up to D&P, barely a bum-note.

Come - Damaged from it's many re-tootlings, but still an enjoyably fresh album.

Goldnigga - Try-hard rap-pop featuring several excellent numbers and instrumentals, spoilt only by too many segues

Exodus - The best of the 3 NPG albums, marred only by far too many segues.

Gold - The commercial pop mega-comeback that never was.

Girl 6 - Simply a compilation, needs no mention (new tracks are decent, esp. She Spoke 2 Me)

Chaos & Disorder - Excellent flip-off rock-out, marred only by faceless rent-a-rappers.

Emancipation - Features many high points, but over-all flawed by Prince not pushing himself, lacklustre uniform production and a slew of flacid crooner ballads.

Karmasutra - Bzzzzz! Next. Listen back-to-back with NEWS for the ultimate reason to commit suicide.

The Truth - Interesting idea with some genuinely great high-lights marred by lack of song-writing ideas and melodic content.

Crystal Ball - Unsatisfyingly short, disorganised, poorly edited, collection of mainly mid-90s out-takes with the barest sprinkling of true gems, spoilt even further by inclusion of superfluous remixes.

New Power Soul - Solid, cohesive pop-funk record, that suffers slightly from overly-formulaeic and unexciting production.

The Vault: OF4S - Unsatisfy collection of jazz-tinged odds-n-sods with too few stand-out moments - what gems there are outshine everything else by far.

Rave Un2 - Dog shit.
[Edited 7/13/06 7:39am]

Still missing 1800 New Funk, Girl 6, Crystal Ball & The Vault.

NouveauDance said:

Damn...that's Hard!

.....

and crap too

GB - A little bit like a "best of 80s Prince" in the form of previously unreleased songs - great!

D&P - Especially at the time, it was fresh and poppy, therefore a nice album.

- One of his absolute, absolute masterpieces.

Goldnigga - Funky and still one of the best "funk goes rap" records.

Come - Mostly b-material on it, therefore still a disappointment.

Exodus - Very funky and the best NPG album.

TGE - A great album, but sometimes slightly overrated on here.

Girl 6 - I admit it now that I don't have it.

C&D - Great, rough, could be a real classic with 1-2 songs replaced.

Emancipation - One of his best records, outstanding songwriting.

Crystal Ball - Good outtake collection which could have been the absolute bomb with some songs being replaced ("Poom Poom", the remixes).

The Truth - Intimate accoustic album, I should listen to it more.

Karmasutra - The record that proves that Prince is Prince and that he should let Mike Oldfield be Mike Oldfield.

NPS - Half-baked - when it's good it's really good, but half of the tracks sound rushed to me.

The Vault - A great jazzy album that I've ignored for far too long due to its "contract filler" context.

Rave - Half-baked like NPS, but overall much stronger with some really great songs on it ("I love u...").

Grafitti Bridge-A collage of 80's prince & proto 90's (rap)
Diamonds & Pearls-Good, not great, album
Symbol-The most inspired work of the 90's
The Hits-Not truly comprehensive
Come-Except fopr "Loose", it's Prince by the numbers
Gold Experience-A classic with no real flaw
Girl 6-Crap;
Emancipation-Bloated and too bland
Crystal Ball-A roadmap of what might have been
The Truth-A direction Prince should have ventured down more.
New POwer SOul-Some decent songs, but is very vanilla
The Vault-Jazzy, but very mundane
Rave-Prince proves he was not Carlos Santana

"IT'S ALL GOOD"-2 me anyway..

Graffiti Bridge - 7
Diamonds And Pearls - 6
Symbol - 7,5
Goldnigga - 7,5
Come - 8,5
Exodus - 7.5
Gold Exp - 8
Girl 6 - 7-
Emancipation - 7
Crystall Ball - 7 -
The Truth - 7
Kamastutra - 6-
NPS - 7
The Vault - 7,5
Rave - 7,5
[Edited 7/15/06 7:27am]

Ill do one word answers.

Grafitti Bridge - Ambitious
Diamonds and Pearls - Poppy
Symbol - Overthetop
Goldnigga - funny
Exodus Crap
Come - Deep
G.E. Funky
Chaos and Disorder - Chaotic
Emancipation Overblown
Crystal Ball - Mindblowing
The Truth - Truthful
New Power Soul - Whatthefuck
Rave - Sellout
The Vault- better2havekeptitsealed