Just to get away from the moaning and groaning over P's latest free releases, how about stating your favorite Prince album that you love every track on? And yes, I know there is more than one in 30 years of music, but if you had to name one album with what you consider treasured tracks, what would it be? I have more than one--but the one I can definitively name is The Gold Experience. Every song on it is great lyrically and instrumentally and fits together as a cohesive whole IMO! So what is your Prince album you love every song on and why?

I think Parade.

I always go to other albums, but I gravitate towards Parade like a crackhead. It flows so fucking well and amazingly - waves of difference make an ocean.

The Dream Factory in a nutshell.

1999

atwiad

parade

lovesexy

the truth

musicology

ATWIAD

Parade

Purple Rain

1999

Controversy

Come

Batman

Lovesexy

The Beautiful Experience

Sign O The Times

with my edits:

Diamonds and Pearls

Emancipation

ernestsewell said:

ATWIAD

Parade

Purple Rain

1999

Controversy

Come

Batman

Lovesexy

The Beautiful Experience

Sign O The Times

with my edits:

Diamonds and Pearls

Emancipation

It's funny how much love Come gets on the Org. When it was released it was roundly panned by critics. Just goes to show you what they know.

Actually, an interesting thread would be listing examples where the critics got Prince wrong.

As far as my choice, it would have to be Parade. This album is pure brilliance. It sounds so fresh everytime I listen to it. Really underappreciated and ahead of its time.

ernestsewell said:

ATWIAD

Parade

Purple Rain

1999

Controversy

Come

Batman

Lovesexy

The Beautiful Experience

Sign O The Times

with my edits:

Diamonds and Pearls

Emancipation

What?! Ernest! No love for the Gold Experience? I don't believe it!

jdcxc said:

ernestsewell said:

ATWIAD

Parade

Purple Rain

1999

Controversy

Come

Batman

Lovesexy

The Beautiful Experience

Sign O The Times

with my edits:

Diamonds and Pearls

Emancipation

It's funny how much love Come gets on the Org. When it was released it was roundly panned by critics. Just goes to show you what they know.

Actually, an interesting thread would be listing examples where the critics got Prince wrong.

As far as my choice, it would have to be Parade. This album is pure brilliance. It sounds so fresh everytime I listen to it. Really underappreciated and ahead of its time.

Another very under-rated album in my opinion--many strong songs on it, including "Solo." Nothing embarrassing about it--except the fact that most people, if they live long enough, have been there at least once in their lives.

Every track? Dang....Uhh....

Just one: Sign 'O The Times.

Definitely Parade. Not my favorite album per se but there´s not one track that I skip on it....then again, Do U Lie is the kind of song that makes me turn the volume down because I don´t want my neighbors to hear it.

But I love every track on it. A close second would be Purple Rain, the album socalled fans love to hate, if that makes sense.

I love 1999 and SOTT but I can´t stand one or two songs on them.

poetcorner61 said:

ernestsewell said:

ATWIAD

Parade

Purple Rain

1999

Controversy

Come

Batman

Lovesexy

The Beautiful Experience

Sign O The Times

with my edits:

Diamonds and Pearls

Emancipation

What?! Ernest! No love for the Gold Experience? I don't believe it!

I don't like "Shy". If I could cut that out (and I do on my iTunes - I never ripped the track), then yes, I can listen to it straight through. I actually don't care much for "Life Can Be So Nice", but I can stand it enough to get through the album.

Emancipation.

ernestsewell said:

poetcorner61 said:

What?! Ernest! No love for the Gold Experience? I don't believe it!

I don't like "Shy". If I could cut that out (and I do on my iTunes - I never ripped the track), then yes, I can listen to it straight through. I actually don't care much for "Life Can Be So Nice", but I can stand it enough to get through the album.

Do you like the alternate version of "Shy" from the Free as a Bird boot anymore than the official version? For me "Shy" is one of the better songs on The Gold Experience.

rialb said:

ernestsewell said:

I don't like "Shy". If I could cut that out (and I do on my iTunes - I never ripped the track), then yes, I can listen to it straight through. I actually don't care much for "Life Can Be So Nice", but I can stand it enough to get through the album.

Do you like the alternate version of "Shy" from the Free as a Bird boot anymore than the official version? For me "Shy" is one of the better songs on The Gold Experience.

I like the "Shy" version on the Gold Experience but I would sure like to hear the alternative version! There seem to be so many alternative versions of songs--I'm having a blast discovering them! After not listening for fifteen years, I'm finding a treasure-trove of jewels to listen to--new and old--and I'm not jaded or burnt out at all... I'm loving hearing the old and the new!

ernestsewell said:

ATWIAD

Parade

Purple Rain

1999

Controversy

Come

Batman

Lovesexy

The Beautiful Experience

Sign O The Times

with my edits:

Diamonds and Pearls

Emancipation

I also have to agree with Ernest after several listenings to Emancipation that, with strategic editing, this album would be considered one of P's "masterpeices." Fortunately, in this day and time, we can turn it into one!

Sorry can't pick just one but i never skip a song on theses.....

Purple Rain

Lovesexy

SOTT

Emancipation Disc 2

Musicology.....

Prince and 3121

rialb said:

ernestsewell said:

I don't like "Shy". If I could cut that out (and I do on my iTunes - I never ripped the track), then yes, I can listen to it straight through. I actually don't care much for "Life Can Be So Nice", but I can stand it enough to get through the album.

Do you like the alternate version of "Shy" from the Free as a Bird boot anymore than the official version? For me "Shy" is one of the better songs on The Gold Experience.

I'm not a fan of the song in any form. It's banal and vapid to me. Prince on autopilot, at best. I took it out of my playlist (and took the sound effects at the beginning and end and tied them together), and it works great. It's a dip in the album's flow for me. Without, the album just screams right along.

poetcorner61 said:

I also have to agree with Ernest after several listenings to Emancipation that, with strategic editing, this album would be considered one of P's "masterpeices." Fortunately, in this day and time, we can turn it into one!

I went through and did some edits on a decent amount of the Emancipation songs. It keeps everything more focused and moving along. Stuff like "(There'll Never B) Another Like Me" suffers the same way "Jam of the Year" and "Sleep Around" do. There seem to be unfocued moments in the songs, where it just strays into dry drum sounds, or percussion breaks, and the flow of the song is totally lost. It's like a stop-start feeling to those types of songs. When you hone in on the thrust of the song, and edit it that way, it's spectacular. I cut the rap out of "Da Da Da" and "Mr. Happy" as well in my numerous edits. (Let the "BLASPHEMY" screaming begin.)

Lovesexy

Sign O The Times (Though I do sometimes skip thru Hot Thing once the vocals are done.)

1999

Parade

Sign O' The Times and 1999.

Dirty Mind

Controversy

1999

Purple Rain

SOTT

Black Album

Come

Lotusflower

Okay... I know that picking one Prince album is like licking to the center of a tootsie pop--you can't have just one lick! So, the other Prince albums that I love and know every lyric to are:

Dirty Mind

1999

Purple Rain (Duh!)

Around The World In A Day

Parade

The Gold Experience...

So how many of you are tied into your favorites because you were "gone" over them in your youth...or when the albums first came out? Be honest now..

The Chocolate Invasion

3121

Planet Earth

LotusFlow3r

LoveSexy

Purple Rain

Sign O' The Times

Controversy

Dirty Mind

Lovesexy

Planet Earth

Purple Rain

1999

MajesticOne89 said:

Dirty Mind

Controversy

1999

Purple Rain

SOTT

Black Album

Come

Lotusflower

omg how did i forget that one?!

basically I love all the Prince/ Warner albums.

True that Ronnie Talk To Russia,

the Time songs on Graffiti Bridge,

Jughead and

Orgasm are "weak".

but I still LOVE all of these WB. albums:

For You,

"Prince",

Dirty Mind, (masterpiece)

Controversy, (masterpiece)

1999, (masterpiece)

Purple Rain, (masterpiece)

Around The World In A Day, (masterpiece)

Parade, (masterpiece)

Sign "O" The Times, (masterpiece)

Black Album, (masterpiece)

Lovesexy, (masterpiece)

Come (yes definately 1 of his best albums, if only "Lovesign" had been on it too), (masterpiece)

The Gold Experience (masterpiece)

I also love:

Diamonds & Pearls

but these does not count, since they have a few weak songs..... like Blue Light, Arrogance, The Flow, The Max, Jughead, Push

edit: I'm not gonna mention all the weaker albums then.

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Keep in mind that the question is--what is the one (or in this case more than one) album that you love EVERY track on... Not the albums that you don't like some tracks on! I have several of those, including Lotusflower and MPLSound!