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Purple Rain
Around the World in a Day Black Album ... Actually all of his WB material is mostly filler-free because they were short, and conceptually everything had its place. Nine songs, 2 or 3 B-Sides... no time for filler! It wasn't until he got into the Emancipation/Crystal Ball "put everything out!" mindset that we started to see a ton of filler (you'll notice very few post-WB albums in the posts here). |
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squirrelgrease said: I can play most of Ps albums all the way through, but to be honest Purple Rain has to be the most well-conceived album of Prince's career. Even the b-sides wouldn't have been filler on the LP, with the exception of another Lonely Christmas.
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While it's not my favorite, "Purple Rain" is hands down his most accesible, with absolutely no filler.   She has robes and she has monkeys, lazy diamond studded flunkies.... | |
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Poplife88 said: ATWIAD...The end of Temptation is embarrassing
I edited that one song from the 80's as well. It's just better this way. | |
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ernestsewell said: ATWIAD - leave the tag ending off "Temptation" (but I did an edit of that so I don't have to hear it)
Graffiti Bridge - Take out the associated artist stuff, and it's a much stronger album. Also, the title track, and NPG part 2, can disappear Gold Experience - by far my favorite album, but "Shy" has to go. In fact, I never ripped it to my harddrive anyway, so I never think about it. Exodus - the segues Emancipation - The Plan D&P - Jughead (this probably goes without saying), but I also have my Tony M. free edits of the other tracks, and enjoy the album a LOT more. I was never warm to this album at first. The Rainbow Children - cut everything but "Wedding Feast"  - I can do without Arrogance
3121 - Te Amo Corazon. It's just bland in comparison Planet Earth - another favorite album, but leave off "Lion of Judah" I don't listen to Lotus/MPLS enough to give a shit. I wonder how many of us fall into this habit. This alum seems at first glance that it would have all the makings of a great album set... Musicology and 3121 were so beautiful to me that I pretty much put away all of the old stuff and started over Princes music. Planet Earth, while sliding down hill in ENERGY, but not quality, is still good to listen to. Lotus... well I think it was mismanaged from top to bottom. 1. The only good things I got from Lotus were the live takes on the Canal channel. 2. The Lotus site is a miserable failure. I'm not even complaining about the price, I'm just saying the site itself fails. 3. I would have been glad to simply order the ENTIRE album with all of the cuts from the web site and have it come through mail instead of the downloads. Come on Prince, we are not afraid of this, everyone is doing the Netflix. I think all of the songs lack something that I can not put my hands on or wrap my head around. It's like they have all of the mechanics and are pitch correct... but lack heart. We are all so full of  here | |
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I have never heard any filler on any Prince album | |
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FunkyDissCo said: purpledoveuk said: Purple rain, SOTT (only IT and The Cross).
You didn't say that, did you??? 
Damn, I'm speechless. THE CROSS???? My favourite song on the album after "Adore" !!Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves. | |
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These are the albums l love the most :
PRINCE : Perfect DIRTY MIND : Perfect CONTROVERSY : - 'Annie Christian' & 'Ronnie Talk To Russia' (is that some political nursery rhyme?  )
1999 : - 'Something in the water'... And half the songs are waayyyy too long (l mean, 9 minutes???) PURPLE RAIN : Never been a fan of "Baby I'm A Star" AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY : Perfect (except for the screamings at the end of "Temptation") PARADE : Perfect DIAMONDS & PEARLS : - Jughead (looks like Prince is the only one loving this song )
THE GOLD EXPERIENCE : Perfect MUSICOLOGY (yeah I said it) : - Life O' The Party Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves. | |
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squirrelgrease said: LondonStyle said: [/b][/u]
His best CD ever every track a winner, the CD just a collection of great songs which sit in that place between funk/soul/pop/rock/jazz/hip-hop a mixture of technological and tradional music methods....lyrics are smart, funny, sexy... he's got them all in this CD foresure! A CD ahead of it's times but also timeless...  I don't disagree that Sign O The Times was Prince's high-water mark, as it's actually my favorite album. The breadth of genres and sheer amount of now classic songs make SOTT untouchable. But U Got The Look somehow doesn't fit this collection. It was (I think) the last song recorded, while most of the others had been around long enough to survive 2 other shelved albums. Prince didn't have time to reconsider inclusion of U Got The Look and it shows. I have to say I think U Got The Look is a very smart album track, its funny and risky, a very pop/rock sound but still it's miles above anything that was made around that time.... Looka here U got the look (U got the look) U musta took (U musta took) A whole hour just 2 make up ur face, baby Closin' time, ugly lights, everybody's inspected (everybody's inspected) But u r a natural beauty unaffected (unaffected) Did I say an hour? My face is red, I stand corrected (I stand corrected) .....now that's classic prince songwriting..... Da, Da, Da....Emancipation....Free..don't think I ain't..! London 21 Nights...Clap your hands...you know the rest..
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purpledoveuk said: Purple rain, SOTT (only IT and The Cross).
MOST filler is New Power Soul with The One and Come on not being filler, closely followedby TRC with 3 non-fillers Unless u include ONA Or NEWSas albums...they are 100% filler ONA piano is very very underrated...it is among his best stuff imo...NEWS i dont care for either though.... | |
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Brofie said: I have never heard any filler on any Prince album
Cocaine is bad for you. ACRYLIC
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mrdlf said: i agree that Dance On is the weakest song on the Lovesexy album, This is the only song on the whole album which sounds dated today. The rest is timeless
Graffiti Bridge - lose the associated artist stuff, especially round & round. The time's contributions should be on Pandemonium Purple Rain, 1999, ATWIAD - all no filler what so ever. I can't believe someone doesn't like Something in the water - but each to their own. Plus, i really like 90% of Lotusflow3r. I could lose 77 Beverly Park, but add Crimson & Clover to the download version - no filler then mrdlf No way! Dance On sounds the least dated on that album - there's a few pointers that identifies other tracks as being from the 80s, but not Dance On! All the studio trickery, samples, effects, techno-like pumping bass and an almost precursor to drum'n'bass rhythm.....it sounded futuristic then and still does now. ...we have only scratched the surface of what the mind can do...
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Dirty Mind
Purple Rain Parade Nobody's mentioned Old Friends 4 Sale.....minus the Little Pill ditty it's pretty solid. | |
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Gangstaglam said: ...the one you can play non-stop all the way through? For me its Parade. If it wasn't for Jughead I'd say Diamopnds and Pearls. I guess another good question would be. Which album would have been perfect if he had left "blank" off the album?
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