POLL - pick your top 10 favorite Prince songs

After the successful Xperiment of the Album POLL (see http://prince.org/msg/7/234943), I wanted to start a singles POLL. I thought this would be an interesting and unpredictable POLL as there are so many songs to choose from!

Songs can be any you like that are sung by Prince including demos, bsides, etc. Just your favorites!

I would like a top ten of songs, but if you cant think of 10, then up to ten is OK, for example, you may only want to mention 6 songs or even 2 songs, its up to you.

Please clearly mark what position they are, if you just mention a list of songs, I will assume the first song listed is your favorite, second is second favorite, etc...

also, if you want, please add sex, age and location.. these stats will help to determine other interesting profiles of what songs are favorites for which region, for example, KISS might be the favorite song in Sweden, and RASPBERY BERET the fav in Italy, etc...

Hopefully the thread doesnt die and it will be a (near) decisive factor on what the majority consider their favs..

It can be in any color or font you like as long as the result is clear to me.
Also, try not to rubbish or contest someone else's choices and please keep chat to a minimum as Im only really trying to get the statistics for this one..

Also, please no duplicates.. I will check anyway but it only ruins it for everyone!! Thanks and Peace to all!

M/35/UK
My top 10 fav. Songs
1. Another Lonely Christmas
2. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
3. Something in the Water
4. Right the wrong
5. Shes always in my hair
6. Head
7. My Love is Forever
8. Sexy Dancer
9. Life can be so nice
10.I wonder U

M/34/AUS

1 - Darling Nikki
2 - The Beautiful Ones
3 - The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
4 - Adore
5 - Sometimes It Snows In April
6 - Another Lonely Christmas
7 - Shes's Always In My Hair
8 - Erotic City
9 - Anna Stesia
10 - Days Of Wild

1 Computer Blue
2 When Doves Cry
3 All The Critics Love U In NY
4 Private Joy
5 Uptown
6 Erotic City
7 Adore
8 Dance On
9 Positivity
10 All My Dreams

Male 34 England

37/ male/germany

1. joy in repetition
2. kiss (extended version)
3. controversy
4. when doves cry
5. sign of the times
6. crystal ball
7. erotic city
8. if i was your girlfriend
9. ballad of dorothy parker
10. joint to joint

** Extended versions will be counted as the same as the song itself - if you are strongly against this please let me know! **

24/M Pol

1. SOTT
2. Insatiable
3. Letitgo
4. Joy in Repetition
5. Sometimes It Snows in April
6. Musicology
7. Soft & Wet
8. Muse 2 The Pharaoh
9. Sexy MF
10. Controversy

42/F/USA - Michigan

1. She's Always In My Hair
2. Pink Cashmere
3. Joy in Repetition
4. Soft & Wet
5. Private Joy
6. Adore
7. The Beautiful Ones
8. Let's Work
9. Sexy Dancer
10. Escape

This was hard as heck, I needed to pick 20 and putting them in order forget about it....

jmust giving this a bump! as i thought so far, no sign of any pattern here, this really needs lots of votes to work... !

37 F Australia

1.Raspberry Beret
2.Lets Go Crazy
3.Cream
4.SOTT
5.Little Red Corvette
6.1999
7.D&P
8.When Doves Cry
9.Money Dont Matter 2 nite
10. Sometimes it Snows in April

omg- these polls r hard- went 4 songs that had meaning/significance in my life.

M/14/UK

1.Emale
2.Dinner With Delores
3.Push It Up!
4.Chelsea Rodgers
5.TMBGITW (Album Version)
6.Controversy
7.Dolphin
8.Face Down
9.Holy River
10.1+1+1=3

bumping.

to be clear, I will not dittinguish between album versions, 12 inches, extended, etc.. only the song will get the vote...

Wow - this is gonna be hard to keep it to just 10...

I think that it depends on the mood I'm in and changes from day to day but today's to 10 are:

Female/29/UK

1 - If I Was Your Girlfriend (this will never change, it's my all time fave)
2 - Adore
3 - Mr Goodnight
4 - Girls and Boys
5 - Darling Nikki
6 - Take Me With You
7 - Erotic City
8 - The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
9 - Call my Name
10 - Anotherloverholeinyohead

You said singles, but then you said anything's ok, so here's my 'anything' list:

36/M/Canada

1. I Wish U Heaven
2. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
3. Alexa De Paris (12" version)
4. Last December
5. Another Lonely Christmas (12" version)
6. Mountains
7. Purple Rain
8. Life Can Be So Nice
9. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
10.I Would Die 4 U

only 10 voters so far in a couple of days... needs a good BUMP! So far everyone has voted for a different number one!

27/M/Michigan originally

1. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
2. 1999
3. Crystal Ball
4. The Cross
5. Anna Stesia
6. Peach
7. Positivity
8. 3 Chains o' Gold
9. Now
10. Controversy

too tough, too tough...
without spending too much effort on this, here's my list
of what i think worked well or could've worked well as singles...

37/M/USA-Reno

01. When Doves Cry 1984
02. Little Red Corvette 1982
03. When You Were Mine* 1980
04. I Wanna Be Your Lover 1979
05. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)* 1982
06. Gett Off 1991
07. The Word* 2006
08. Controversy 1981
09. Purple Rain 1984
10. Lovesexy* 1988

*never released as singles

something in the water seems to be getting the most votes for now, but surely this isnt the all time favorite prince single???? come on ya'll, lets get some more votes in!!

1. Paisley Park
2. Raspberry Beret
3. Play In The Sunshine
4. Dolphin
5. Gett Off
6. I Wish U Heaven
7. Kiss
8. Mountains
9. It
10. Sign Of The Times

F/33/USA

01. She's Always In My Hair
02. Strange Relationship
03. Computer Blue
04. DMSR
05. A Love Bizarre
06. 3121
07. Shockadelica
08. Adore
09. Sometimes It Snows In April
10. Alphabet St.

speciallove said:

35/M/California

Holy crap! I LOVE your list...

I think it will be hard to get decisive favorites, because probably everyone's list changes all the time! But what the heck, here are some of my favorites:

32/m/US
1.The Beautiful Ones
2.17 Days
3.If I Was Your Girlfriend
4.Pink Cashmere
5.Pop Life
6.The Love We Make
7.Xtra Lovable
8.I Wanna Be Your Lover
9.Purple Rain
10.If I Was The Man In Your Life

RenHoek said:

Thanks!!!!

If U ask me 2 do this again..im sure it be a totaly different list..
It all depends on the mood i'm in....but here go's..

01. Question of U
02. Around The World In a Day
03. Rebirth of The Flesh
04. High
05. She Loves Me 4 Me
06. Bob George
07. Rave into the Joy Fantasic
08. Beautiful Strange
09. Crystal Ball
10. Come

F/35/Michigan/Oklahoma/Texas


1-Diamonds and Pearls
2-Adore
3-I Wanna Be Your Lover
4-Private Joy
5-Automatic
6-International Lover
7-Uptown
8-Still Waiting
9-When Doves Cry
10-White Mansion

age 22/ female/ USA


1. Gett Off
2. Joy in Repetition
3. I Hate U
4. Pussy Control
5. Beautiful Ones
6. D.M.S.R
7. Strange Relationship
8. Diamonds & Pearls
9. Space
10. Fury
11. Gold
12. Bambi
13. She's Always in my Hair
14. Darling Nikki
15. We Can Funk

28/M/Hungary
#1 When Doves Cry
#2 Paisley Park
#3 Mountains
#4 If I Was Your Girlfriend
#5 Do Me, Baby
#6 Girl
#7 Another Lonely Christmas
#8 Good Love
#9 When 2 R In Love
#10 Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Too hard...

M/21/Holland

1) Life Can Be So Nice
2) Somewhere Here On Earth
3) Crystal Ball
4) Dance On
5) The Beautiful Ones
6) Mountains
7) Play In The Sunshine
8) Good Love
9) Dirty Mind
10) I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

bump

not enough votes so far to get any decent statistics...

to those who've voted, ya'll seem to have awesome taste in music...

27/M/Los Angeles

1. Just My Imagination (Live from Small Club) -- my fav song ever by anyone. I love the original, too -- but this is THE performance for me.
2. When Doves Cry
3. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
4. Sign O' the Times
5. Money Don't Matter 2Night
6. The Beautiful Ones
7. Come On
8. Mountains
9. Don't Play Me
10.The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

Honorable Mentions: When the Lights Go Down, Letitgo, Controversy, I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, Joy In Repetition, Take Me With U, Vicki Waiting, The One U Wanna C, Crazy You, Space, 1999, Condition of the Heart, When I Lay My Hands On U, Venus De Milo, Gett Off, AnotherLoverHoleInYoHead, Dionne, I Hate U... and I'm sure I left out dozens of great songs.

bumping, i know this is not easy, but the results will be very interesting, from what ive seen something in the water is the fav prince song??? need more votes!!!!