What are your top-10 albums from Prince this past decade?

Here's my top-10 albums 2000-2009...

1. 3121
2. Planet Earth
3. Lotusflow3r
4. One Nite Alone...Solo Piano And Voice
5. Musicology
6. The Rainbow Children
7. One Nite Alone...Live!
8. MPLSound
9. The Chocolate Invasion / The Slaughterhouse
10. Indigo Nights
[Edited 1/6/10 15:56pm]

1. 3121
2. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic
3. Planet Earth
4. Ultimate

The end.

1. 3121
2. Lotusflow3r/MPLSound
3. Musicology
4. One Nite Alone...Solo Piano And Voice
5. Planet Earth

1 lotus/mplsound

2 planet earth

3 TRC

4 musicology

5 3121

I only really adore 3121 and One Nite Alone, but I quite like LotusFlow3r and Planet Earth, too.

Changes weekly, but here goes:

Lotusflow3r
The Rainbow Children

3121
Planet Earth

NEWS 1/2
Musicology 1/2

MPLSound
One Nite Alone
Xpectation

Chocolate Invasion
Slaughterhouse

I'm not including live albums as they're too hard to compare.
[Edited 1/6/10 21:52pm]

Lotusflow3r 1/2
The Rainbow Children
3121
One Nite Alone Live
Indigo Nights 1/2
Planet Earth
Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic
MPLSound 1/2
Musicology 1/2
One Nite Alone 1/2

The Chocolate Invasion 1/2
The Slaughterhouse 1/2
NEWS
Xpectation ? I don't even remember what it sounds like

1. One Nite Alone...piano
2. One Nite Alone...live
3. Lotusflow3r
4. 3121
5. The Rainbow Children
6. Musicology
7. Expectation
8. NEWS
9. MPLSound

Chocolate and Slaugtherhouse are not real albums..more compilations imo..

Planet Earth and Indigo can't be named for obvious reasons....although for Planet not everyone agrees..

I won't use the word "best" or rank albums but here's what I play on a regular basis:

Trc
Xpectation
Lotus (just Lotus, not Mplsound or Elixer)
News
Ona piano

More and more lately, Musicology and 3121 are getting plays too.
Never got into Planet Earth, gotta give it another spin soon.

Here's my top-10 albums 2000-2009...

1. Lotusflow3r/ MPLSound
2. The Rainbow Children
3. Musicology
4. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic
5. The Chocolate Invasion / The Slaughterhouse
6. 3121
7. Planet Earth
8. One Nite Alone...Live!
9. One Nite Alone...Solo Piano And Voice
10. Indigo Nights

3121 and PE are really bad albums, imo
[Edited 1/7/10 10:28am]

1. 3121 - has the most indiv. songs that i LOVE and listen to separately
2. TRC - his riskiest, most conceptual and cohesive album. i was pleasantly surprised. even the darth vader took a back seat to the great music
3. Musicology - aptly titled, quite diverse. put him back on the map for those who'd slept or had forgotten
4. Lotus - a GREAT rock album to me. i even LOVE Love Like Jazz
5. PE - Wrongfully hated on IMO. several great trax
6. MPLSound - could've been better. but i enjoy it. Here was quite an unexpected gem that didn't "fit" but i love it
7. Rave - not as bad as ppl make it seem. [

Don't have the NPGMC stuff so i can't comment. my list might be different


[Edited 1/7/10 12:53pm]

datdude said:

I love Rave too, but it's from 1999! It's one of my favorites from the 90s.

I like this one

My current top 10 of the 2000s:

1. Chocolate Invasion
2. Musicology
3. Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic (MINUS THE HORRIBLE REMIX of Man O War...give me
the Un2 version, thank you very much )
4. LotusFlow3r
5. Planet Earth
6. 3121
7. One Nite Alone (Piano and Voice)
8. MPLSound
9. NEWS
10.Xpectation

First, I am missing Alot of it.
I only have 3121, musicology, TRC, Planet Earth,Indigo and Lotusflow3r and also Rave (which may be from 1999).
Out of what I have 3121 is the one that I own an unopened copy of just in case something happens to the one I play now.
I would get another Indigo because I liked the way he started off with the Scott Joplin # and had alot of horns all the way throughout (spelling?) the CD.
The only one I hated, truly hated was Elixer and Lotusflow3r, Mpls wasn't so bad, but not so good either.

3121 is on my top 4 Prince albums of all times list. It's the one that I'd play for a friend who hasn't heard a Prince song that's older than "Diamonds and Pearls".

1. 3121
2. The Rainbow Children
3. Lotusflow3r
4. One Nite Alone... Live!
5. Planet Earth