what a staggering unbelievable run of pop mastery, funk laden rocked out new wave genius produce by this man named Prince

It is just shocking his ability during this period to flow from new wave punk, rock funk, rb soul, alternative experimental, artsy fartzy master peices.

I am listening to Parade right now and that thing is possibly Prince's best album ever! Girls & Boys is blasting right now. I have never in my life heard a song like that before or since. How many songs written by this man can we say this very thing.

Doves Cry
Sign of the Times
America
Something In the Water
Compter Blue
I Would Die 4 You
Adore
International Lover
Pop Life
I Know
Glam Slam
All the Critic Love U
Condition of the Heart
Paisley Park
If I Was UR Girlfriend


It is just a staggering breath of material that covers so many different generas and some of the songs he creates his own genera. Come on ya'll the ballad of Dorthy Parker...Kiss. I have you ever heard any shit like that before or since!

Mountains is blasting while I type this ya'll. Mountains!!! What a great song!

I love each of these albums equally they are brilliant in every way in their own right.

1999
Purple Rain
Around the World In Day
Parade
Sign of the Times
Lovesexy

Wow...dude was on a role!
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I hear ya...Mountainz...

so true. and he didn't stop creating stuff like this. just maybe not whole albums, but for a few. no one else has done this. part of why i'm (and others i'm sure) such a fan. i dare somebody to argue with this.

Sexuality
Do Me, Baby
Delirious
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Automatic
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
Lady Cab Driver

Let me pause right here to say that if this had been all that Prince had ever put out in his career, he would still have wowed me more than any other artist, even up to the present day. But there was still more to come.....

Let’s Go Crazy
The Beautiful Ones
Computer Blue
Darling Nikki
When Doves Cry
Hello
17 Days
Another Lonely Christmas
Irresistible Bitch (live)
Condition Of The Heart
Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix)
Hello
Girl
She's Always In My Hair
Girls & Boys
Kiss
Forever In My Life
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Adore
I Wish U Heaven (live)
Scarlet Pussy
We Can Funk
Joy In Repetition
Eye Wanna Melt With U
Peach
Pope
Le Grind
Cindy C.
Billy Jack Bitch
Chaos And Disorder (live)
Old Friends 4 Sale (original)
Love Thy Will Be Done
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Prince kix ass.

Illustrator said:

Man Joy in Repetition...what a classic. By far in my opinion his best song lyrically. It was also written around the tim of Lovesexy and includes the seque that appears on Lovesexy between I Know and Alphabet Street. Can you imagine how mind blowing Lovesexy would have been with Joy In Rep on it. Oh wait it already is mind blowing!

Alexandernvrmind said:

Joy In Repetition was written is June of 1986 as a solo project with no particular place at first as Dream Factory was being completed. It would later be segued from The Ball from the original 1987 Crystal Ball and then later dropped off as the album was cut down to create SOTT. Prince just recycled the segue for the Lovesexy album. However if you have the outtake with the long solo drum beating in the beginning rather than the segue, then you have a true gem.

Joy In Repetition was written is June of 1986 as a solo project with no particular place at first as Dream Factory was being completed. It would later be segued from The Ball from the original 1987 Crystal Ball and then later dropped off as the album was cut down to create SOTT. Prince just recycled the segue for the Lovesexy album. However if you have the outtake with the long solo drum beating in the beginning rather than the segue, then you have a true gem.[/quote]


Question was Play in the Sunshine inteded for the Ball/Crystall project as well. There are city and street sounds right before the song starts that sound very similar to those on "Crystal Ball" the song

Alexandernvrmind said:

Question was Play in the Sunshine inteded for the Ball/Crystall project as well. There are city and street sounds right before the song starts that sound very similar to those on "Crystal Ball" the song[/quote]

Play In The Sunshine was intended for the original Crystal Ball(1987) as it continuously runs from Rebirth of the Flesh. Its primarily the same song as SOTT, however it has machine gun shots at the very beginning of the song which was edited out of the SOTT version of the song.

The 3 great era´s of prince music:

This era (The First) which actually began with Dirty Mind, is without doubt the golden era, no other artist/band can lay claim to this productivity and quality. Take into account the work with the Time, the girls groups, Shiela E, Mazarati and Jill Jones, not to mention the volumes of out takes from this era.

The only other artist I can think of, who came anywhere near this with success was David Bowie.

The second era was from D&P to the Crystal ball

The 3rd era being TRC to present, although it has to be said PE should be excluded, as it is probably the weakest album P has ever done, it is the album that makes you thank modern technology, that allows you to skip, skip, skip

Whitnail said:

agree with all of that. I typically don't include the Dirty Mind and Controversy albums in the "Golden Era" like a lot of people do because they were so hit or miss IMO. The consistency IMO began with 1999. It was bubbling under with Dirty and certainly Controversy....he kicked the door open with 1999 and burned the house down with Purple Rain. It is staggering isn't it?
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