Mine:

1. Emancipation (I can see the sun, I'm breaking free of the chains)
2. Dirty Mind (I don't care what you think...)
3. Purple Rain (I'm here on my bike, I'm confident and I've got a woman)

1. TRC (it's all about the music baby)
2. SOTT (There's more to me than Purple Rain..just look take a look)
3. 3121 (i'm back...now lets dance..)

TRC (Beautiful piece of art)
1999 (shows so much of Prince's personality)
SOTT (It's so junky and crammed until it's cool)

I like the Batman cover. If you look really hard, that thing on the cover looks like a bat.

Sign O the Times is the best cover.

1 SOTT
2 ATWIAD
3 PARADE
(4 LOVESEXY)

1. Dirty Mind
2. Controversy
3. Prince

1. Lovesexy - Daring
2. Dirty Mind - Reminds me of me (a pervert)
3. - Thought it was a cool CGI until I saw the video for 7 and realized
it was the set.

Parade
Sott
1999

The rest are pretty cheesy.

Controversy
Parade
Prince

Honourable mention: TRC (of course).

A lot of the related artists stuff have great covers too - Jill Jones, The Family, all the Sheila E and The Time records, Mazarati, Exodus, Ingrid Chavez, Eric Leeds' Times Squared is very good too, it reminds me of The Family a lot.



Sorry, but a lot of the post-WB album covers are utter rubbish - Emancipation, Musicology, Rave (wins the 'unintentionally hilarious' award).

NouveauDance said:

I loved the packaging on The Family's album. The packaging captured the music of the album.

I also loved Sheila E's self titled album cover. I just wish it had been a gatefold.

If we were voting for the worst, I would definitely give it to Musicology. I liked the booklet, but the cover art with the pixelated background and horrible font was very tacky.

~Purple Rain
~Planet Earth
and if the picture on ~lotusflow3r.com
is the new album cover...i would choose that 1 too

GottaLetitgo said:

well, DURRR! It's the bat symbol!

1.Parade. (my Favourite picture of P. Period.)
2.Dirty Mind (Not immediately obvious, the bedsprings behind him. Brilliant!)
3. 1999 (seeing as it was his own art, i dug this and was always checking the vinyl for anything hidden in it)

1. Lovesexy
2. Parade
3. Controversy

1. Lovesexy (HELLo Princely curves!)
2. Dirty Mind ( LOOSE them DRAWERS!)
3. Planet Earth (The pheronomes in your chest hair are driving me wild!)

1. Controversy
2. Lovesexy
3. 3121

Hi Everyone,

My fav, in no particular order:

1. UTCM
2. Diamonds & Pearls
3. Around the World in A Day

1 - come (why does this always get left out lol)
2 - SOTT
3 - 3121

honourable mentions for musicology and one night alone (wish i had the proper thing)

NouveauDance said:

What's hilarious about the Emancipation cover? I think it clearly demonstrates his message of liberation, not being too much or too little.

peter430044 said:

I just meant 'Rave'.


Emancipation isn't hilarious at all, just tacky.

NouveauDance said:

"Just tacky" I strongly disagree. If one wants to demonstrate liberty by breaking one's chains I think that is a very good way to do it.

As for the Rave cover, I'm lukewarm. I like the symbol as always but I never had warm feelings about that tight blue dress (from a heterosexual standpoint.)

1. LoveSexy
2. Sign O' Times
3. Diamond's and Pearls

1) sott
2)
3) the vault...old friends 4 sale

Alot of people are listing Lovesexy. That picture is NOT ok. I don't care who you are, where you're from or what you're high on, it is just NOT ok!

These R my faves:

1. Around the World in a Day
2. 1999
3. Come

1. 3121 (looks cool,simple and shexy)
2. Chaos and Disorder (very artistic)
3. The Hits/B-Sides (love that pic)

worth a mention....

4. The Beautiful Experience..would have been my number 1...but alas...it aint an album its an EP

1. Lovesexy
2. Dirty Mind
3. Around the World in Day

1999 nothing can come close..

1. Sign O' The Times
2. Around the World in a Day
3. The Hits/B-sides (3-disk cover with P's profile photo)

Lovesexy
Dirty Mind
Controversy