Yall are tripping!

Best (In no particular order, except Lovesexy IS #1!)

1) Lovesexy (This is the CD that made me love Prince!)

2) The Black Album (Too nasty for words!)

3) Purple Rain (Classic)

4) Sign o' The Times (Classic)

5) Diamonds and Pearls (Lots of great catchy songs)

6) Symbol Album (Again, lots of catchy songs, though it sorta falls apart near the end)

7) 3121 (One of his new-era best)

Worst (In no particular order, except Musicology IS #1)

1) Musicology (I can't even listen to this CD. Once a year I'll give it a try, and give up.)

2) Come (fluff filler)

3) Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (ugh)

4) Chaos and Disorder (more fluff filler. Some good songs, but they can't save it)

5) Around The World In A Day (eh. Tambourine is awesome, though!)

[Edited 4/20/11 7:43am]

Best

1) Parade

2) SOTT

3) Dirty Mind

4) 1999

5) TGE

Worst

1) Chaos and Disorder

2) Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

3) Musicology

4) Lovesexy

5)

[Edited 4/20/11 9:05am]

oh god, Kamasutra has a few good tracks - The Plan, The Ever Changing Light and Promise/Broken.

BEST:

1. The Gold Experience

2.

3. Diamonds & Pearls

4. Emancipation

5. Purple Rain

WORST:

5th worst: Around The World In A Day

4th worst: The Rainbow Children

3rd worst: New Power Soul

2nd worst: Graffiti Bridge

1st worst: The Black Album

[Edited 4/20/11 10:18am]

Best 1-5:

Purple Rain (best)

Sign "O" The Times

1999

Parade

Lovesexy

Worst 1-5:

Newpower Soul (worst)

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Prince

Diamonds & Pearls

I'm not putting things like "Kamasutra" or the NPGMC "albums" on the worst list, even if they deserve to be there. Just proper releases (... and no, I don't consider the magazine releases like "20ten" or "Planet Earth" etc to be among his worst either).

Best Albums: (Ordered Chronologically, 'cause I can't decide my favorite)

1. 1999
2. Parade
3. Sign O The Times
4. The Rainbow Children
5. 3121

Worst albums (Excluding NPG or NPG Orchestra)

5th Worst - Planet Earth (I love "Somewhere Here On Earth". The rest is decent, except "Chelsea Rodgers", which is really bad.)

4th Worst - The Slaughterhouse ("Hypnoparadise" saves this from being #1)

3rd Worst - For You (Might not be so bad if he rerecorded it)

2nd Worst - The Black Album ("Dead On It" is embarrasing; "Bob George" is barely music; "When 2 R In Love" is great; and the rest is just dull)

Worst - MPLSound (The first Prince album where I don't love anything. About 1/3 of it's good (not great), though)

[Edited 4/20/11 9:57am]

so i have counted up scores....

at now.....

THE BEST ALBUM: SIGN 'O' THE TIMES (79)

THE WORST ALBUM: NEWPOWER SOUL (-51)

Others:

1. 1999 (51)

2. Purple Rain (49)

3. The Parade (45)

4. Lovesexy (30)

5. Controversy (14)

6. The Gold Experience (13)

7. Diamonds & Pearls (9)

8. Dirty Mind (9)

9. Crystall Ball (5)

10. Exodus (3)

11. The Black Album (3)

12. The Love Symbol (3)

13. Emancipation (2)

14. Around The World In A Day (1)

15. 3121 (1)

16. Lotusflow3r (-2)

17. The Vault (-2)

18. The Chocolate Invasion (-2)

19. Batman (-2)

20. C-Note (-3)

21. Xpectation (-3)

22. Planet Earth (-4)

23. One Nite Alone (Piano) (-5)

24. One Nite Alone LIVE (-5)

25. Goldnigga (-5)

26. Graffiti Bridge (-6)

27. Prince (-9)

28. Come (-9)

29. The Truth (-9)

30. Chaos & Disorder (-12)

31. The Rainbow Children (-12)

32. 20Ten (-12)

33. NEWS (-14)

34. The Slaughterhouse (-14)

35. Musicology (-15)

36. MPLSound (-17)

37. Kamasutra (-18)

38. For You (-19)

39. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (-31)

[Edited 4/20/11 11:13am]

[Edited 4/20/11 11:16am]

chelsearodgerslovesya said:

so i have counted up scores....

at now.....

THE BEST ALBUM: SIGN 'O' THE TIMES (79)

THE WORST ALBUM: NEWPOWER SOUL (-51)

Others:

1. 1999 (51)

2. Purple Rain (49)

3. The Parade (45)

4. Lovesexy (30)

5. Controversy (14)

6. The Gold Experience (13)

7. Diamonds & Pearls (9)

8. Dirty Mind (9)

9. Crystall Ball (5)

10. Exodus (3)

11. The Black Album (3)

12. The Love Symbol (3)

13. Emancipation (2)

14. Around The World In A Day (1)

15. 3121 (1)

16. Lotusflow3r (-2)

17. The Vault (-2)

18. The Chocolate Invasion (-2)

19. Batman (-2)

20. C-Note (-3)

21. Xpectation (-3)

22. Planet Earth (-4)

23. One Nite Alone (Piano) (-5)

24. One Nite Alone LIVE (-5)

25. Goldnigga (-5)

26. Graffiti Bridge (-6)

27. Prince (-9)

28. Come (-9)

29. The Truth (-9)

30. Chaos & Disorder (-12)

31. The Rainbow Children (-12)

32. 20Ten (-12)

33. NEWS (-14)

34. The Slaughterhouse (-14)

35. Musicology (-15)

36. MPLSound (-17)

37. Kamasutra (-18)

38. For You (-19)

39. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (-31)

[Edited 4/20/11 11:13am]

[Edited 4/20/11 11:16am]

Good idea but please add my Graffiti Bridge as a Fav (+1)

Best

Dirty Mind

Controversy

Emancipation

20Ten

Worst

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

The Vault

A.T.W.I.A.D.

Graffiti Bridge

Planet Earth

... I actually like ALL of P's albums but the one's mentioned are the one's I play the least.

1999

Purple Rain

SOTT

Parade

The Rainbow Children

NEWS

Kamasutra

The Vault

Planet Earth

20Ten

[Edited 4/20/11 13:37pm]

Five best: DM/1999/PR/SOTT + Gold Experience

Five worst

1.Rave

2.New Power Soul

3.Chaos and Disorder

4.Instrumental albums + the NPG online albums

5.Old Friends for Sale (his biggest turd)

and I could have easily included other albums like MPLSound, The Truth or even Emancipation...

the whole 96-03 era was a disaster...

Spinlight said:

worst:

for you

prince

dirty mind

20TEN

MPLSound

JoeTyler said:

5.Old Friends for Sale (his biggest turd)

What!

Veego said:

How the hell does Emancipation & 3121 make anybodys worst list?!!!!

don't worry, some individuals have also included TGE, LoveSymbol, Dirty Mind or The BlackAlbum

802 said:

Best:

1 - Sign O The Times [10]

2 - Dirty Mind [10]

3 - Purple Rain [10]

4 - LoveSexy [10]

5 - Around The World In A Day [10]

Worst:

1- NEWS [2]

2 - Xpectation [2]

3 - The Rainbow Children [4]

4 - New Power Soul [4]

5 - 20Ten [4]

[Edited 4/20/11 17:17pm]

802 said:

JoeTyler said:

5.Old Friends for Sale (his biggest turd)

What!

the beginning of the "pseudo-jazz/lack of memorable choruses-melodies, real-music/real musicians bullshit" years...

the songs should have remained unreleased...

JoeTyler said:

802 said:

What!

the beginning of the "pseudo-jazz/lack of memorable choruses-melodies, real-music/real musicians bullshit" years...

the songs should have remained unreleased...

It's much better than most of the latter ones [The Rainbow Children]

Tremolina said:

V10LETBLUES said:

Best

1. SOTT

2. Purple Rain

3. 1999

4. Parade

5. Controversy

Worst

5th worst = Emancipation

4th worst = Diamonds And Pearls

3rd worst = MplSound

2nd worst = The Gold Experience

Worst = The Rainbow Children

We don't agree on Prince music but you still get a

JoeTyler said:

Spinlight said:

worst:

for you

prince

dirty mind

20TEN

MPLSound

How could anyone put Dirty Mind below albums like NEWS and New Power Soul?

802 said:

JoeTyler said:

the beginning of the "pseudo-jazz/lack of memorable choruses-melodies, real-music/real musicians bullshit" years...

the songs should have remained unreleased...

It's much better than most of the latter ones [The Rainbow Children]

TRC is the only album that I moderately enjoy/respect off the whole 96-03 era, so I don't agree lol...

Veego said:

How the hell does Emancipation & 3121 make anybodys worst list?!!!!

How does New Power Soul or 20Ten?!!!

BEST:

1) Black Album

2)SOTT

3)1999

4)Parade

5)Purple Rain and the list goes on....(Crystal Ball, Emancipation etc)

WORST

1)Batman

2)Grafitti Bridge

3)Come

4)The Gold Experience

5)....

I'd like to add that just because a song is on my "worst" list does not mean the whole album is horrible. It just wouldn't be an album I'd listen to often and there are only about one or two songs on that particular album that I actually like. But, I'd like to say that Come is to me the absolute worst and should have been #1 on my list.

[Edited 4/20/11 19:56pm]

SUPRMAN said:

Veego said:

How the hell does Emancipation & 3121 make anybodys worst list?!!!!

How does New Power Soul or 20Ten?!!!

20Ten among a few other newer albums would go on my best list but alas I have no room for them.

Has anyone tried to do a Condorcet poll on this?

http://www.cs.cornell.edu.../civs.html

It might actually produce a meaningful ranking if enough people participated. On the other hand, it sounds like it would be near impossible to decide which albums should and should not be included in the poll.

[Edited 4/20/11 20:28pm]

Veego said:

How the hell does Emancipation & 3121 make anybodys worst list?!!!!

They suck big fat greasy donkey balls?

1.sign o the times

2.1999

3.purple rain

4.dirty mind

5.controversy

worst

5.the vault

4.new power soul

3.lotusflow3r

2.chaos and disorder

1.rainbow children

I started a Condorcet poll. The link is in this thread:

http://prince.org/msg/7/357438

This will produce an overall ranking based on the preferences of all who participate. The results may be interesting if enough people actually vote.

That is a better idea. Ranking the five best and five worst cannot be used for making a list of all the albums.