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Prince makes Time Magazine's top 100 albums 2x

In short, see the 80's section for Purple Rain and SOTT.


From http://www.time.com/time/...100albums/

The All-TIME 100 Albums
All-TIME 100 Albums
Illustration for TIME by QuickHoney
1 of 101 Next
By JOSH TYRANGIEL AND ALAN LIGHT Published: Monday, November 13, 2006
So here's how we chose the albums for the All-TIME 100. We researched and listened and agonized until we had a list of the greatest and most influential records ever - and then everyone complained because there was no Pink Floyd on it. And that's exactly how it should be. We hope you'll treat the All-TIME 100 as a great musical parlor game. Read and listen to the arguments for the selections, then tell us what we missed or got wrong. Or even possibly what we got right.
The Complete List

2000s
Album Artist Label/Year Released
The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years
Hank Williams
Mercury, 2005

The College Dropout
Kanye West
Roc-a-Fella, 2004

Portrait of a Legend 1951 - 1964
Sam Cooke
ABKCO Music & Records, 2003

Elvis: 30 No. 1 Hits
Elvis Presley
BMG/Elvis, 2002

The Anthology, 1947 - 1972
Muddy Waters
Chess, 2001

Kid A
Radiohead
Capitol, 2000

Stankonia
Outkast
LaFace, 2000

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
PJ Harvey
UMG Recordings, 2000

The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem
Interscope, 2000

1990s
Album Artist Label/Year Released
Sunrise
Elvis Presley
BMG / Elvis, 1999

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Lucinda Williams
Universal, 1998

OK Computer
Radiohead
Capitol, 1997

Time Out of Mind
Bob Dylan
Sony, 1997

Endtroducing...
DJ Shadow
Mo' Wax, 1996

(What's the Story) Morning Glory
Oasis
Sony, 1995

Live Through This
Hole
Geffen, 1994

My Life
Mary J. Blige
MCA, 1994

Ready to Die
The Notorious B.I.G.
Bad Boy, 1994

Slanted and Enchanted
Pavement
Matador, 1992

The Chronic
Dr. Dre
Death Row/Interscope, 1992

Achtung Baby
U2
Island, 1991

Nevermind
Nirvana
DGC Records, 1991

Out of Time
R.E.M.
Warner Brothers, 1991

Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969)
Various Artists
Abkco, 1991

Ropin' The Wind
Garth Brooks
Capitol, 1991

Star Time
James Brown
Polydor, 1991

The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest
Jive, 1991

1980s
Album Artist Label/Year Released
Like a Prayer
Madonna
Sire/London/Rhino, 1989

Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys
Capitol, 1989

The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
Jive, 1989

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Public Enemy
Def Jam/Columbia, 1988

Straight Outta Compton
N.W.A
Priority, 1988

Document
R.E.M.
I.R.S. Records, 1987

Paid in Full
Eric B. and Rakim
Island, 1987

Sign O' The Times
Prince
Paisley Park, 1987


The Joshua Tree
U2
Island, 1987

Graceland
Paul Simon
Warner Brothers, 1986

Master of Puppets
Metallica
Elektra/Wea, 1986

Raising Hell
Run-DMC
Arista Records/Profile, 1986

Legend
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Island/Tuff Gong, 1984

Purple Rain
Prince
Warner Brothers, 1984


Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads
Warner Brothers/Wea, 1984

The Great Twenty-Eight
Chuck Berry
MCA, 1982

Thriller
Michael Jackson
Sony, 1982

Back in Black
AC/DC
Atlantic, 1980

1970s
Album Artist Label/Year Released
London Calling
The Clash
Sony, 1979

One Nation Under a Groove
Parliament / Funkadelic
Warner Brothers, 1978

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols
Warner Brothers/Wea, 1977

Rumours
Fleetwood Mac
Warner Brothers, 1977

Hotel California
The Eagles
Elektra/Wea, 1976

Ramones
The Ramones
Sire, 1976

Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder
Motown, 1976

Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
Sony, 1975

Horses
Patti Smith
Arista, 1975

Red Headed Stranger
Willie Nelson
Sony, 1975

Call Me
Al Green
The Right Stuff, 1973

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John
MCA, 1973

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie
RCA, 1972

Exile on Main Street
The Rolling Stones
Virgin, 1972

Talking Book
Stevie Wonder
UMG Recordings, 1972

The Harder They Come
Jimmy Cliff and Various Artists
Island, 1972

Blue
Joni Mitchell
Warner Brothers/Wea, 1971

Coat of Many Colors
Dolly Parton
RCA, 1971

Hunky Dory
David Bowie
RCA, 1971

Led Zeppelin IV (a.k.a. Zoso)
Led Zeppelin
Wea International, 1971

Paranoid
Black Sabbath
Warner Brothers, 1971

Sticky Fingers
The Rolling Stones
Virgin, 1971

Tapestry
Carole King
Ode/A&M, 1971

What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
Motown, 1971

Who's Next
The Who
Mobile Fidelity, 1971

After the Gold Rush
Neil Young
Reprise, 1970

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel
Columbia, 1970

John Lennon
Plastic Ono Band
Apple/EMI, 1970

Moondance
Van Morrison
Warner Brothers/Wea, 1970

1960s
Album Artist Label/Year Released
Abbey Road
The Beatles
Capitol, 1969

Bitches Brew
Miles Davis
Sony, 1969

Stand!
Sly & the Family Stone
Epic, 1969

The Band
The Band
Capitol, 1969

Astral Weeks
Van Morrison
Warner Brothers/Wea, 1968

At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
Sony, 1968

Lady Soul
Aretha Franklin
Atlantic, 1968

The Beatles ("The White Album")
The Beatles
Capitol, 1968

Are You Experienced
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Experience Hendrix, 1967

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Aretha Franklin
Atlantic, 1967

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles
Capitol, 1967

The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground
Polydor/Pgd, 1967

Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan
Columbia, 1966

Pet Sounds
The Beach Boys
DCC, 1966

Revolver
The Beatles
Capitol, 1966

Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan
Columbia, 1965

Otis Blue
Otis Redding
Atlantic, 1965

Rubber Soul
The Beatles
Capitol, 1965

A Love Supreme
John Coltrane
Impulse, 1964

Live at the Apollo (1963)
James Brown
Polydor, 1963

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Ray Charles
ABC/Paramount, 1962

King of the Delta Blues Singers
Robert Johnson
Columbia, 1961

1950s
Album Artist Label/Year Released
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis
Sony, 1959

Here's Little Richard
Little Richard
Specialty, 1957

Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Frank Sinatra
Capitol, 1955

In the Wee Small Hours
Frank Sinatra
Capitol, 1954
[Edited 1/2/07 12:10pm]
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Reply #1 posted 01/02/07 12:06pm

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Here's Time's reasoning for the choices of PR and SOTT....

PR:
"The fact that Prince was the most gifted musician in modern times — well, at least since Stevie Wonder — wasn't in question. And with 1999, his previous release, the Minneapolis dynamo demonstrated that he could write for the pop charts and not only his multicultural cult of funkateers. But by streamlining his songs and moving his guitar-hero wizardry up front, Prince made the decision that Purple Rain — the movie and its soundtrack — would be the project to catapult him to megastardom. The quasi-biopic featured a laughable script but riveting performance footage, and the grinding, angular "When Doves Cry" (with the bass line removed from the track for extra weirdness) is one of the greatest singles of all time. For all his erratic genius in the years that followed, Purple Rain guaranteed that Prince's music would 4ever live 2 see the dawn."


SOTT:
" With songs culled from a series of aborted albums during the nadir of Prince's Purple Rain hangover, Sign O' the Times has no business being anything but a career-sinking mess. Instead, it's the best album of the 80s. Most of this is attributable to genius; Prince flips back and forth between R&B and rock like a kid popping wheelies, but that's more virtuosity than the G word. Genius is knowing that "If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "The Cross" don't need much adornment and the "Housequake" does. Genius is also the ability to usher in a succession of female vocalists—Camille, Susannah, Sheila E. and Sheena Easton, playing way out of her league—and coax career-defining performances out of them." falloff
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xpsiter said:

Here's Time's reasoning for the choices of PR and SOTT....

PR:
"The fact that Prince was the most gifted musician in modern times — well, at least since Stevie Wonder — wasn't in question. And with 1999, his previous release, the Minneapolis dynamo demonstrated that he could write for the pop charts and not only his multicultural cult of funkateers. But by streamlining his songs and moving his guitar-hero wizardry up front, Prince made the decision that Purple Rain — the movie and its soundtrack — would be the project to catapult him to megastardom. The quasi-biopic featured a laughable script but riveting performance footage, and the grinding, angular "When Doves Cry" (with the bass line removed from the track for extra weirdness) is one of the greatest singles of all time. For all his erratic genius in the years that followed, Purple Rain guaranteed that Prince's music would 4ever live 2 see the dawn."


SOTT:
" With songs culled from a series of aborted albums during the nadir of Prince's Purple Rain hangover, Sign O' the Times has no business being anything but a career-sinking mess. Instead, it's the best album of the 80s. Most of this is attributable to genius; Prince flips back and forth between R&B and rock like a kid popping wheelies, but that's more virtuosity than the G word. Genius is knowing that "If I Was Your Girlfriend" and "The Cross" don't need much adornment and the "Housequake" does. Genius is also the ability to usher in a succession of female vocalists—Camille, Susannah, Sheila E. and Sheena Easton, playing way out of her league—and coax career-defining performances out of them." falloff

Do some people still think Camille's a real person? lol
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r1ghteousone said:


Do some people still think Camille's a real person? lol[/quote]

I'm thinking so... lol
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Reply #4 posted 01/02/07 3:19pm

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LMAO, what does it say about music in this century when 4 out of the 9 albums from the 2000's are comprised of songs recorded in the 1950's?
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Reply #5 posted 01/02/07 4:35pm

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If you added the album 1999, that's my holy Prince trinity of albums.
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Reply #6 posted 01/02/07 4:46pm

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RodeoSchro said:

LMAO, what does it say about music in this century when 4 out of the 9 albums from the 2000's are comprised of songs recorded in the 1950's?


Good point. hmmm
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Reply #7 posted 01/02/07 5:11pm

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great, thanks!
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