How I wrote down a list of every track and rated it out of 10, and then got a total figure, and turned it into a number out of 100.

Heres my marks feel free to critique if you like

Key to Marks, 100= Perfect, 90-99 Exceptional Classic, 80-89 Excellent Recommended, 70-79 Very Good, Totally worth hearing, 60-69 Good worth checking out, but may not be to everyones taste. 50-59 Flawed but ok, up and down, 40-49 Mediocre, a few nuggets but unremarkable, 20-39 Poor, really only 1 or 2 fair songs, 0-19 Avoid like the plague, nothing redeeming

Sign o the Times 96/100
1999 93/100
The Hits/Bsides disc 89/100
Parade 87/100
Dirty Mind 83/100
Controversy 81/100
Lovesexy 80/100
Gold Experience 78/100
Come 77/100
Black Album 76/100
Prince 74/100
Purple Rain 73/100
3121 71/100
Prince Ultimate Mixes Disc B 70/100
Emancipation 69/100
Diamonds and Pearls 67/100
Musicology 65/100
For You 64/100
Grafitti Bridge 63/100
Rave in2 the Joy fantastic 62/100
Batman 61/100
Planet Earth 59/100
ATWIAD 56/100
Indigo Nights 53/100
Lovesymbol 52/100
The Vault 37/100
Chaos and Disorder 33/100
New Power Soul 23/100
The Rainbow Children 8/100

Not rated, The Truth, Crystal, ONA both versions, NEWS, Chocolate Invasion, Slaughterhouse, Exodus, Xpectation (Havent heard them)

You have definetly got too much time on your hands, and this is only YOUR opinion isn't it?

Much love to you, huggiebear.

Gold Experience should be 100

Far too much time on your hands! Indigo nights, 3121 & Musicology should be way up on the list imo, can't get enough of those albums at the mo!

Are you insane?????

The Rainbow Children 8/100????

keesvanbommel said:

Agreed!!! and then under new power soul :O

I love New power Soul,what you did its to personal,doesent work.

Dayclear said:

I was just about to say the same thing! I'm so glad I'm not the only one going WTF to this.

8 for TRC is very generous. Only 2 albums over 90%? Just absurd.

Dayclear said:

Was they suggesting anything else?

Anyway, far too busy to do any rating myself.

Stun me and put ypur own opinions on. I do not throw praise out, I am not going to give a song I don't like 6 out of 10 or a good one 10/10. I come from a line of university markers, if an album gets 100% it would have to be flawless and a piece of pure oozing gold. Sign got 96 as I felt songs like Slow Love and Play in the sunshine were average rather than exceptional and most songs got 9s rather than 10s.
TRC got 8 as I only gave 3 songs a mark above 0, the best 1+1+1= 3 got a 4 and Undisputed a 3

Huggiebear said:

But that doesn't add up?!

That's not even on TRC.

But taking TRC as an album, how can you give all but 3 tracks a 0? That just doesn't make any sense to me, what were the 3 that got marks? It's one of my favourite albums, and one on which I don't skip any tracks.

Rainbow Children, Muse 2 The Pharaoh, The Work, The Sensual Everafter, The Everlasting Now and Last December are all fantastic. Mellow and 1+1+1 is 3 are the weak points for me but even they don't deserve 0!

Huggiebear said:

Dayclear said:

Who else's opinion would it be? What part of his clearly labeled and explained post did you fail to understand?

underthegraffitibridge said:

Huggiebear said:

I know hardcore fans love to hate the albums that everyone else likes, but to me your list loses all credibility based on this alone.

...and to me The Gold Experience can't be anywhere near 100 based on P Control being on it.
[Edited 2/27/09 16:47pm]

222 said:

It's extremely close to 100 but surely you made a type there? Surely you meant to type, 'We March'?

222 said:

222 said:

Huggiebear said:

Get back to work, my friend.

Pretty good, i' always mostly agree with your ratings,
But.....

Purple Rain should be just below SOTT

TRC should be a a ZERO

The Gold Experiance should be wayyy lower too, below Batman at least.



Otherwise pretty good.
[Edited 2/27/09 21:00pm]

Huggiebear said:

'Undisputed' isn't even on The Rainbow Children

squirrelgrease said:

Yeah, if u didn't even hear all his official material, you're a newbee-princefan.

:talk2thehand:

TheEnglishGent said:

Yes it does that song got a 4 and Last December (sorry not Undisputed off rave) got 3, The everlasting now a 1 and Muse a 1 = 9 marks, buts theres more than 10 songs on the album so when rounded it equals 8.

dawn74 said:

I told you already, you can not get these albums in New Zealand, they are either out of print, or were not released here. We have one record company called BMG which generally does not release Prince work, and I have limited funds to buy the rest. I have been a fan for 18 years, so knock it off. Not all of us are lucky enough to live in America or Europe

222 said:

Purple Rain

Lets Go Crazy 8/10
Take me with u 4/10
The Beautiful Ones 9/10
Computer Blue 8/10
Darling Nikki 4/10
When Doves Cry 10/10
I would die 4 u 8/10
Baby Im a star 8/10
Purple Rain 7/10

Total 66/90 = 73.3% round to 73%

Going by your methods.

Lets Go Crazy 7
Take Me With You 8
The Beautiful Ones 10
Computer Blue 10
Darling Nikki 7
When Dovs Cry 10
I Would Die 4 u 9
Baby I'm A Star 9
Purple Rain 8 (It once was a 10 but suffers from being his most over played song)

78/100 = i'm too crap at maths to work that out.

having ATWIAD at 56 and then having Rave, 3121, Planet Earth and Come above it is just wrong.

Huggiebear said:

You are closer to these albums than you realize. There is a torrential downpour just ahead for those with the will to see it through.