To me, Prince's albums in the 90's are incredible.

Everything from 1990's "Graffiti Bridge" to 1999's "Rave Unto The Joy fantastic" are vast in diversity and quality.

I know there are some here on the org that don't like this period but, I must say...WOW!!! I love it all.

There were some great hits, album tracks, emotions, vidoes, tours, after shows and creativeity!

I also love the NPG Exodus album, the name change to , the TV appearances and the MUSIC!!

There were so many great songs and albums that I can't seem to get enough.

Thieves In The Temple, The Qustion of U, Still Would Stand All Time, Diamonds and Pearls, Willing and Able, Gett Off, Thunder, Sexy MF, Damn U, 7, Peach, The Pope, Space, Letitgo, Dark, Gold, Dolphin, P Control, 319, The Most Beautiful Girl InThe World, Shy, Jam of The Year, The Holy River, Joint 2 Joint, Emancipation, In This Bed I Scream, Dreamin' About U, My Computer, I Like It There, Zanalee, The Same December, In2 The Light, Girl 6, She Spoke 2 Me, Don't Tallk 2 Strangers, The Good Life, Get Wild, Count The Days, How Ever Much U Want, When U Love Somebody, The One, Come On, New Power Soul, Ackwoledge Me, Days Of Wild, Goodbye, Interactive, So Far So Pleased, Where Ever U Go Whatever U Do, Man O War...just to name a few!

So if you feel the love of this era, please feel to show it. Positivity is always a plus.

High on Quantity, low on Quality compared to the 80's. If his 90's work were done by any other they would be proclaimed a genius, however P raised the bar too damn high in the 80's!.
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Prince in the 90's...What a Great Body!

sexxydancer said:

2 long hair

sexxydancer said:

2 all the music

funkyhead said:

I don't know...I hear the songs listed and I honestly can't say they are less in quality when compared to his 80's work.

To me it's not just all good but actually, EXCELLENT.

TikiColadas said:

he definately had good songs in the 90's...but I think his output was excessive...he could have spared an album or two and I think most of his 90's work would be better appreciated...

90's Prince and are real pieces of work.

I think he had never gone through such a huge, varied evolution as a person or an artist in any other decade.
Unfortunately, his work isn't always up to par the way it could have been.

This decade probably had the most "throw-away" albums and they were 's creations... or what they called in the "Purple Reign" documentary "spit records"...
A lot of 's output between Emancipation and Rave have been criticized and not thought of as "great". (Excluding Crystal Ball because its a compilation of outtakes).
I own one album from this time, NewPower Soul... not only is the album I've had to skip the most on, but its the most difficult to get back to it even after the skipping. Crystal Ball will be up for debate, but I have no interest in the other albums in between.

D&P could have had less NPG input, but its realy good material. The album is full of great tracks under many diff. genres. Come is a tight production that's also experimental and combined with various TGE, those are among the strongest albums he's ever released. His prolific nature really took over here and so fuels my curiosity about what makes as special and different as he is. I don't own Emancipation as of yet, but once I do, my collection will be complete.
As for Rave, full of variety, but it's a lot of really good material that I enjoy for so many reasons.

i wish people would finally stop talking about "trow-away albums"
or vault releases that are sub-par.

if those albums were not released and prince released "pheromone"
or "into the light/i will" today on his 3121.com site as outtakes
from that era, people would go absolutely nuts and rave that they
were amongst the best songs he ever recorded.

90's is easily my fav era for prince, love everything from around then

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Emancipation
Crystal Ball/The Truth/Kamasutra
New Power Soul
The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale
Rave...

Quite a bit of stuff in that period.

I agree about NPS, it can be a little bit difficult to listen to. If that's the only one of the above you own you really owe it to yourself to get the rest. All of them.

I wouldn't write off Crystal Ball 'as a compilation of outtakes' - it's a lot more than that. Plus you get The Truth, in my opinion one of his finest, and about as close to an acoustic album as we'll ever get. Unless you already have it? In which case ignore all that - you already know what you think of it.

The Vault has some great tracks too. As does Rave...

But "throwaway", they're definitely not. Perhaps wait 'til you own them before you decide to throw them away ?

I think Prince was struggling in the 90's, his life was a mess and it showed thru his music.

IstenSzek said:

GREAT POINT! Well said!!

Those 2 songs alone plus many more from the 90's decade are phenomenal. Chaos and Disorder is a powerful record. There is so much emotion and energy that I just can't see it let alone the other cd's as throw away records.

Is Lovesexy so much greater than Chaos and Disorder or Emancipation? Really?? I know Lovesexy is a sacred fav by many on here but come on....listen to all 3 closely. YES it is a matter of opinion but there is much more musical ground and diversity covered in Emancipation and Chaos and Disorder. To me all 3 are FANTATSIC in their own way. All are different and exceptional.

I'm just "glad" Prince is my favorite artist...I appreciate Prince...cuz; I can never get bored with his music...always something different, always something good.

Lovesexy, Purple Rain, Sign O The Times, Dirty Mind one day, The Gold Experience, Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, New Power Soul and Emancipation another day...And throw in Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth into the mix PLUS everything else and you have yourself an exquisite around the world, no wait, "around the universe" buffet of sound, color, mood and emotion.

Prince is Music.

TikiColadas said:

yes indeed. very well said. i have my fav albums much like everyone else
but that doesn't mean the rest is not up to scratch. every period of his
carreer has spawned some classic, timeless masterpieces. the rest r just
free bonus for me. a wealth of material to pick from, depending on what
mood you're in at the moment. there's not many other artists that offer
such a wide pallet of musical styles.

"I've never heard the "Good Life," and "Get Wild." Love everything else by
heart.

wlcm2thdwn said:

? yet again a dumb reply

The entire 90`s, sorry, but i think you mistook this for a MJ site

why are you continuously bitching at her ?
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Dewrede said:

the posts of the poster annoy me, I know that sounds stupid, but when i arrived home on the 22nd of September, it had posted crap all over the concert forum, ever since, when i see this crap arriving, i just shit back, so to say, my apologies if i am wrong

graf bridge is terrible compared to any album from the 80's

IstenSzek said:

I find this to be so true in alot of situations.


Most of Prince's release reactions are based on timing.

I he had released 3121 just after controversy or 1999, folks would be raving about it like it was a perma-erection.

Imago said:

you done lost your damn mind...

who are you??

roodboi said:

Give back the chains. If you don't you will die.

Imago said:

for...evvva

for...evvva

for...ev....ev....aaaaa

roodboi said:

giggling my ass off again

Imago said:

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these are the best days of my life....

i'm a throwback!
i'm gutted i missed the 90's...i thought he retired, tho i think i switched off afta the lovesexy album cover...

working my way through 90's since sept so big prince infusion. i'm on prince overload! out of control on princeage

roodboi said:

ok, i guess there were some cringeworthy moments in the 90's

PurpleKnight said:

to a certain extent that is true. but i just think of emancipation as
about 12 superb songs and another 24 just thrown in free just for fun

Sincerely, P only released two strong albums in the 90's, Love Symbol and Gold Experience. Also, anything he did between 96 and 00 was lame, very lame (The truth being the exception)
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