Warner Bros or not, Prince albums are just to diverse for most peoples musical taste (that's why we love to hate him)....two example in this list of 24 songs....

http://www.avclub.com/art...l,49441/2/

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I think this is a dupe thread.

I disagree with them, regarding both Free and Darling Nikki.

The same story has been posted and discussed less than 3 weeks ago:

http://prince.org/msg/7/349701

Free.... perhaps. It's the only song I skip on the album.

Darling Nikki? HELL TO THE NAW! That is a straight up classic.

Militant said:

Darling Nikki? HELL TO THE NAW! That is a straight up classic.

Preach.

Dreamer2 said:

Warner Bros or not, Prince albums are just to diverse for most peoples musical taste (that's why we love to hate him)....two example in this list of 24 songs....

Inventory The turd in the caviar: 24 songs that almost derail great albums

4. “Free,” Prince, 1999
Prince made classic albums before 1999, but his 1982 double album let him show the full breadth of his genius, from the apocalyptic pop of the title track to the thrilling weirdness of songs like “Lady Cab Driver” and “All The Critics Love U In New York.” Then there’s “Free,” an unexpected bit of flag-waving of the red, white, and blue variety, instead of Prince’s usual purple freak flag. While it’s kind of strange and cool to hear some unabashed patriotism thrown in the middle of a bunch of songs about sex, obsession, and partying—since those are also things that make America great—it’s still a funkless drag of a track.

11. “Darling Nikki,” Prince, Purple Rain
The cultural significance of “Darling Nikki,” the sole inessential track on Prince’s classic Purple Rain, lies not in its negligible creative worth, but rather in the outrage it inspired. Professional busybody Tipper Gore was so horrified by Prince’s dirty little ditty about a “sex fiend” he encountered “in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine” that it helped inspire her to form the Parents Music Resource Center to fight profanity and sexuality in pop music. “Darling Nikki” is filthy all right, a nasty, paper-thin funk vamp that would sound perfectly at home on one of Prince’s sprawling, overloaded later albums. But on the otherwise tight, perfect Purple Rain, it feels like a throwaway B-side that somehow made it onto a masterpiece. There are plenty of reasons to object to “Darling Nikki”; the sexual content is just one of them.

http://www.avclub.com/art...l,49441/2/

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lord have mercy

Free is the precusor to Purple Rain... there is not a song to skip on 1999 unless your Mom or kids are sitting next to you lol!

Darling Niki is just absurd to include as a turd

who writes this shit

a thread is already knocking about.. read this last week, but it didn't call them turdz!

these songs don't derail nothing

This is a joke... Both Free and Darling Nikki are great.

yeah! those 2 songs are pearls...

(pearls b4 the swine...)

Dreamer2 said:

The turd in the caviar: 24 songs that almost derail great albums

Best title for a thread on P Org ever

Free- Yeah, that song totally ruins the moody, electronic feel 1999 had going.

Darling Nikki is one of his best songs, but he should've switched out Take Me With U and the Beautiful Ones with Erotic City and 17 Days

Free is a great song .. it needed a ballad. i don't know. But of course International lover is the best : )

darling nikki is my favorite from purple rain

Alguy said:

Free- Yeah, that song totally ruins the moody, electronic feel 1999 had going.

Darling Nikki is one of his best songs, but he should've switched out Take Me With U and the Beautiful Ones with Erotic City and 17 Days