what prince album you consider to have best production by prince?

my vote goes to controvery-music on that album just breathes .
while some ppl flame rainbow children production value i consider it to be great for it purpouse.
sign of the times while great album suffers from poor mastering.

The Gold Experience.

Rainbow Children or Exodus.

Even though it's not one of my faves, I always thought Musicology was nicely produced.

TheEnglishGent said:

That one too. If Eye Was The Man In Ur Life is brilliant, especially the repeating Wah-wah in the background, the moment the bass "slides" into action and those cracking drums.

Well done.

Dirty Mind

Minimal, immediate, and passionate. Prince is at his best that way.

i would actually predict that lotusflow3r will be his best produced. the tracks

we heard were off a very high quality, regardless if you like the songs or not
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jethrouk said:

On CD the songs will sound even better! Very mouthwatering

Dave1992 said:

i live in the uk and i don't like importing. so i will probs subscribe to the site and see if i can't get the flacs from somewhere.

jethrouk said:

I think the downloads will be of high quality too, anyway.

i always loved the production of parade... i think it's his most unique vibe and it's very 'warm' sounding. nice mix of synthetic to acoustic drums too. i think this album holds up the best for not being too dated sounding.
really cool use of different instruments that u don't hear everywhere.

Dave1992 said:

here's hoping. they may be 320kps, dunno how better flac. is compared to that?
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jethrouk said:

I don't have any figures, but flac is the best download format there is.

Dave1992 said:

FLAC is a lossless codec.

All lossless codecs contain the *exact* information as the source file.

No lossless codec is "better" than another (with regards to the information contained), since they're all lossless.
The differences are in the features - tags, encoding/decoding speed, compression ratio, ReplayGain support, etc.

The more popular ones are:

FLAC
WavPack
Monkey's (APE)
TAK
OptimFROG
WMAL
Shorten
ALAC

Personally, I dig WavPack.

BATMAN

it's certainly not my favorite prince album, but the symbol album has some pretty amazing production going on. maybe the production was a little TOO good.

well it has to be Purple rain-combining live and studio seemlessly. The mix's are spot on. All the albums up to Lovesexy are superb-i dissaggree that SOTT is badly mastered. To me-its more natural-or organic and less forced. I like its roughness. Lovesexy -now theres a mystery. great great record-BUT.....When you record-you get what we call a headphone mix-usually before the mix is fed to the house monitors. These mix's differ from the finishes mix. I think Lovesexy as good as it is-is a million times better on the headphones which is unusual. Don't believe me-try it n see-though decent headphones-none of that in your ear crap-some big phat head covering monsters

1999.

IMO, it's his most innovate album. People are STILL ripping off the production from this album!!!

The Rainbow Children
Musicology
3121

Parade

asideorderofham said:

I agree, Parade hands down.

Then Purple Rain

asideorderofham said:

What I love about this is the sequencing - on this particular record it was done perfectly in my opinion.

ForbiddenFruit said:

I'll go with Batman or Musicology

Paris9748430 said:

Very True

Anxiety said:

3121, Musicology and Sign 'O' The Times (in need of a remaster desperately).