Here is my fave P albums from the 1990's. Starting with my #1 album Diamonds and Pearls. Complete list:

1. Diamonds and Pearls
2. Emancipation
3. The Gold Experience
4. Exodus
5.

Again, just my personal preference

1) The Gold Experience
2) Lovesign
3) Come
4) Diamonds and Pearls
5) Emancipation

The Gold Experience
Come
The Truth (does that one count?)
Old Friends 4 Sale
Chaos and Disorder
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1.
2. Come
3. The Gold Experience
4. Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic*
5. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

*For those that think it is cheating to count the remix album as a separate release, then I'll say my "real" #5 would be Emancipation.

1. diamonds and pearls
2. o(+>
3. The Hits/The B-sides... i didn't know the b-sides until they came out on disc3 of this compilation,for many people the b-sides were new cause they were for the first time ever on cd -they never had a turntable or vinyls- and the new songs Peach, Pink Cashmere, Nothing Compares 2 U, Pope, Power Fantastic and 4 the tears in your eyes (video version, finally released under tihs compilation) were the reason to buy the 3-cd set.
4. Come
5. Gold Experience
6. NPG-GoldNigga + NPG-Exodus
-Not necesarily in this particular order-
7. Crystal Ball (the songs contained that were recorded in the 90s + The Truth cd are my favorite part from this compilation, do the 80s songs in cds 1-3 count as "from the 90s" because they were released in the 90s? should we consider "recorded in the 90s" and also "released in the 90s", for example the Black album? )
8. Black Album (i know its from 1988, but i didn't listen to it until it was released, in 1994!)
9. The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale (can anyone please tell me the year each song from this cd was recorded? it doesn't say in the liner notes, i know the title track is from the 80s)
10. Girl 6 soundtrack cd--i love it for the 2 new songs She Spoke 2 Me + Don't Talk To Strangers (very similar to Sweet Baby from album o+> but so much better vocally, the lyrics, musically).
11. The War cassette. i think it was as long as the whole Vault cd!


5 albums from the 90s is not enough. All the good stuff was released in the 90s.
I never liked Emancipation or NewPowerSoul or Rave Into The Joy Fantastic, i did like Chaos and Disorder but only for Zanalee and Dinner with Delores.

What about that live cd (i think it was a cassette, why not cd, i mean it was 1997! The War was also released officially on cassette only, why?) a live concert from Jam of the Year Tour i think, that was his first official live album, but was only released thru 1-800-new funk store. i just looked it up, was it just a 2 track cassette called NYC? "The single caused some controversy amongst fans for costing US $20 for a cassette (which was already considered an outdated format) with only two songs. Also, shipping charges outside of the U.S. often made the tape cost US $40 or more."
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The top five for me hmmm thats tough...

1.Diamonds & Pearls
2.The Gold Experience
3.
4.Chaos & Disorder
5.Grafitti Bridge

i like all of his 90's albums

The Truth
The Vault
D&P
Gold Experience
Come

Come
Emancipation
The Gold Experience
Crystal Ball

The Gold Experience
Emancipation
Come
Chaos And Disorder
Crystal Ball

Goodness these topics are getting repetitive.

1.
2. Crystal Ball
3. Gold Experience
4. Come
5. Diamonds and Pearls

1.
2. Come
3. Crystal Ball
4. Exodus
5. The Vault

The trick for me was the order of the five projects I liked from the 90's. I didn't care for Diamonds and Pearls, The Gold Experience, Emancipation or Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, and I never owned Chaos and Disorder.

LoDog said:

mine too.

Emancipation
The Gold Experience
Diamonds & Pearls
Crystal Ball

1. The Black Album (reissue)
2. Come
3. Rave into the joy fantastic
4. I could compile the best of the rest on 1 amazing CD

D&P
Emancipation
TGE
Come
Crystal Ball

1. Emancipation
2. The Gold Experience
3. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
4. New Power Soul (yes I said it)
5. Diamonds & Pearls

Excluding Crystal Ball (which I count a four disc release.)

1. Graffiti Bridge
2. The Symbol Album
3. New Power Soul
4. Emancipation
5. The Gold Experience

1) the gold experience
2) diamonds and pearls
3) the vault...old friends 4 sale
4) girl 6
5) the love symbol album

1. The Gold Experience (10)
2. Come (9.5)
3. (9)
4. Diamonds & Pearls (9)
5. Graffiti Bridge (8)

Top 5:

The Gold Experience

Chaos & Disorder
The Truth
Come

1.Come
2.Love Symbol
3.Chaos And Disorder
4.Crystal Ball
5.The Gold Experience

1. Diamonds And Pearls
2. The Gold Experience
3. Graffiti Bridge
4. Symbol
5. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

1.) Symbol
2.) Graffiti Bridge
3.) Gold Experience
4.) Emancipation
5.) Chaos & Disorder

1. Crystal Ball (Ranking includes the 3 discs and the Truth)
2. The Love Symbol Album
3. Come
4. Emancipation
5. The Gold Experience

1. The Gold Experience
2. Exodus
3. Come
4.
5. Chaos and Disorder
Honorable Mention 6. Emancipation Disk 1

n/m
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Chaos and Disorder
TGE
Chrystal Ball
Emancipation

The Gold experience
Diamonds & Pearls
Come
Grafitti Bridge
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