eireboy34 said:

MajesticOne89 said:

No there's actually freedom of speech where I come from! The lock was a joke, but I guess they don't have those wherever you're from!

Oh, I see the joke now...hilarious...

So let me get this straight...In a thread full of faint, shocked, omg and other various smileys, someone decides to post a lock in the same vein and you get all pissy? Amazing.

Anyway my 10

1. Dance On

2. Positivity

3. Venus de Milo

4. Arms of Orion

5. Sister

6. Trust

7. 200 Ballons

8. Escape

9. Girl

10. Good Love

[Edited 7/10/11 21:37pm]

^^^ IMO. You should be banned from this site for half of that list.

SoulAlive said:

MattyJam said:

Shame on all those who listed Hello and Escape - two of his best b-sides.

"Hello" is great but "Escape" sounds like a throwaway.

I love Escape, especially the end chant "Don't get on the scales if you ain't got the weight / It's more hard to love than it is to hate..."

Great track.

You know there is a 10 best songs of the 80s thread too, which is struggling at 16 replies, only 12 serious and 9 original. Some of the choices in this thread, make me question if some orgers even understand Prince or his music, Alphabet Street, Kiss, When 2 R in Love, what the fuck. Those people should hand in their cards already and be condemned in the Purple Court of Truth.

At least we all agree that the "Arms of Orion" is complete shite and would be the worst Prince song of the 80s.

Are my eyes deceiving me? Did somebody really put "When You Were Mine" on their list?!

Adorecream said:

You know there is a 10 best songs of the 80s thread too, which is struggling at 16 replies, only 12 serious and 9 original. Some of the choices in this thread, make me question if some orgers even understand Prince or his music, Alphabet Street, Kiss, When 2 R in Love, what the fuck. Those people should hand in their cards already and be condemned in the Purple Court of Truth.

At least we all agree that the "Arms of Orion" is complete shite and would be the worst Prince song of the 80s.

I can only speak for myself but it is much harder to make a list of his ten best songs than it is to make a list of his ten worst.

Prince songs in the '80s are like beautiful women. Some are tall, some are short. Some are skinny, some are thick. There are blondes, brunettes and redheads. They come in all shapes and sizes but nearly all of them are jaw droppingly beautiful. It's much easier to pick out ten uggos than it is to pick the ten hottest and most desirable.

[Edited 7/11/11 4:23am]

Adorecream said:

You know there is a 10 best songs of the 80s thread too, which is struggling at 16 replies, only 12 serious and 9 original. Some of the choices in this thread, make me question if some orgers even understand Prince or his music, Alphabet Street, Kiss, When 2 R in Love, what the fuck. Those people should hand in their cards already and be condemned in the Purple Court of Truth.

At least we all agree that the "Arms of Orion" is complete shite and would be the worst Prince song of the 80s.

Here it is: http://prince.org/msg/7/362614

YOU ALL MUST REDEEM YOURSELVES!!!

[Edited 7/11/11 7:35am]

Adorecream said:

You know there is a 10 best songs of the 80s thread too, which is struggling at 16 replies, only 12 serious and 9 original. Some of the choices in this thread, make me question if some orgers even understand Prince or his music, Alphabet Street, Kiss, When 2 R in Love, what the fuck. Those people should hand in their cards already and be condemned in the Purple Court of Truth.

At least we all agree that the "Arms of Orion" is complete shite and would be the worst Prince song of the 80s.

That's because a thread like that comes up all the time and people are tired of listing them over and over again.

The1592 said:

Love the ones I bolded.

Anyway, there's probably some awful B-Sides I'm forgetting, but in no order...

1. International Lover
2. 4 The Tears In Your Eyes
3. Lemon Crush
4. 200 Balloons
5. Anotherloverholenyohead
6. Hot Thing
7. Eye No
8. Dead On It
9. Scarlet Pussy
10. Hello

This is going to get ugly...

Dude those songs are classics.

Hell Hot Thing is one of the most slammin songs he has ever released.

Fuck this is going to be hard,

1. Ronnie Talk To Russia

2. All The Critics Love You In New York

3. Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

4. Dead On It

5. Temptation (The talking to God bit at the end, the rest i like)

6. Batdance

7. I Love U In Me

8. Annie Christian

9. ?

I'm stuck, couldn't think of any more.

[Edited 7/11/11 9:29am]

Yall nuts

Scandalous

Eye No

Glam Slam

Dance On

Play In the Sunshine

La, La, La, He, He, Hee

Do U Lie

Venus De Milo

Tamborine

Annie Christian

2 nigs united for west compton

802 said:

Ten songs! Hardest list ever!

The truly awful tracks are in bold.

Ronnie Talk To Russia

Free

God [vocal]

Alexa De Paris [average]

Good Love [average]

LoveSexy [a bit of a mess]

Dance On [a bit of a mess]

Positiviety [sounds like Adam Lambert]

Alphabet Street [Cat's rap only, the rest of the song is genius]

Arms Of Orion

Was Adam Lambert even alive when Positiviety came out

vainandy said:

Adorecream said:

You know there is a 10 best songs of the 80s thread too, which is struggling at 16 replies, only 12 serious and 9 original. Some of the choices in this thread, make me question if some orgers even understand Prince or his music, Alphabet Street, Kiss, When 2 R in Love, what the fuck. Those people should hand in their cards already and be condemned in the Purple Court of Truth.

At least we all agree that the "Arms of Orion" is complete shite and would be the worst Prince song of the 80s.

That's because a thread like that comes up all the time and people are tired of listing them over and over again.

Umm! Andy, so do these threads about, what are the worst of ........., except the worst things always outdo the best, and as I recall a search listed no specific threads about 10 best songs of the 80s, had a lot of best 1, 2, 5, 25 songs so on, or best songs off each album and decade, but no one had pegged the 80s down to 10 songs lately (I say that as some pedantic fool is likely to dredge up one from 2007)

People respond more to bad things than good things.

Look at the news.

Anyways, still don't get the hate for "200 Balloons" but whatever.

frazetta said:

Scandalous

Eye No

Glam Slam

Dance On

Play In the Sunshine

La, La, La, He, He, Hee

Do U Lie

Venus De Milo

Tamborine

Annie Christian

JoeTyler said:

Yall nuts

You knew what you was doing creating this shit.

Dance On - Nice drums, but the song goes nowhere and is missing something

Annstesia I havent used this word in this context since i was 12 but i will use it now, Gay. Its gay

Condition Of Heart - Same as above, but i listened to it the other day it may start growing on me

Lemon Crush - Sounds like he whippped it up in 10mins

God - Cheesy, his vocals are horible in this

Pink Cashmere - i know its unreleased, but this song is awful

BruthaMoorice said:

Pink Cashmere - i know its unreleased, but this song is awful

WHAT!? 1st, it's not unreleased and 2nd the song is not awful

802 said:

BruthaMoorice said:

Pink Cashmere - i know its unreleased, but this song is awful

WHAT!? 1st, it's not unreleased and 2nd the song is not awful

And 3rd it was officially released in 1993!

bigd74 said:

802 said:

WHAT!? 1st, it's not unreleased and 2nd the song is not awful

And 3rd it was officially released in 1993!

I was going to mention that, but I don't know what the rules are in this. Does it count as a 90s song if it was released (but not recorded) in the 90s?

I think we can only pick songs that were actually released in the 80s,which would exclude a song like "Pink Cashmere"

BruthaMoorice said:

Dance On - Nice drums, but the song goes nowhere and is missing something

Annstesia I havent used this word in this context since i was 12 but i will use it now, Gay. Its gay

Condition Of Heart - Same as above, but i listened to it the other day it may start growing on me

Lemon Crush - Sounds like he whippped it up in 10mins

God - Cheesy, his vocals are horible in this

Pink Cashmere - i know its unreleased, but this song is awful

Why is Annastesia gay? Is that a term of abuse or complement. If its not, I interpret that as Homophobia, which is unaccepatble on this site.

[Edited 7/13/11 6:05am]

BruthaMoorice said:

Dance On - Nice drums, but the song goes nowhere and is missing something

I agree.The drumming is great but the song lacks a melody and a strong hook.It doesn't really go anywhere,sounding like a weak,unfinished demo.

BruthaMoorice said:

Lemon Crush - Sounds like he whippped it up in 10mins

plus,I don't think this song fits on the Batman soundtrack.It's poorly written with a frantic,late-80s production that is really annoying.

NouveauDance said:

JoeTyler said:

including the B-Sides and the Black Album, but NOT the unreleased/demo material...

chronological order

-Ronnie Talk to Russia

-Free

-Tambourine

-Do U Lie?

-Dead On It

-Eye No

-Escape

-The Arms of Orion

-Lemon Crush

-200 Ballons

uggh...

Holy hell, this reads like my favourites list, I'd agree with Arms & Lemon Crush though - bolded are in my all time top 20!

Top Ten:

- Slow Love

- Delirious

- Arms Of Orion

- Lemon Crush

- Positivity

Errr, tbh - everything else I'd feel kinda bad about putting it on the list!

I will say it blows my mind, but explains a lot when you see people's lists in this thread, then look at another thread and folks are all "Musicology and 3121 are great albums" -- you guys!

[Edited 7/8/11 5:21am]

Really? From what I read and the vibe I got from you, plus taking into account the other songs you usually praise, I thought that you must be in love with Delirious. It's quirky, it has this rockabilly vibe to it, it's quite bland but still very on-point and it's passionate.

BruthaMoorice said:

Dance On - Nice drums, but the song goes nowhere and is missing something

Annstesia I havent used this word in this context since i was 12 but i will use it now, Gay. Its gay

Condition Of Heart - Same as above, but i listened to it the other day it may start growing on me

Lemon Crush - Sounds like he whippped it up in 10mins

God - Cheesy, his vocals are horible in this

Pink Cashmere - i know its unreleased, but this song is awful

Give it a few more spins, it's a great track. So much feeling in it and Prince's double tracked vocals are very nice.

The1592 said:

SquirrelMeat said:

Leave. Now.

Yep, I had a feeling... but I certanily didn't think "4 The Tears In Your Eyes" would be a controversial pick. I thought that one was obvious...

I love 4 the Tears in Your Eyes, nothing WORSE about that song, you picked some seriously good songs as worse... All the Critics Love U in NY?? are you serious? Have you ever heard that song performed live?

HELLO is history and funky

The1592 said:

Wildboy said:

Tamberine- Self explanitory.

I don't understand. This is, I'm not joking, probably my favorite song from ATWIAD.

I with U one of my favorites from my favorite album

Tamborine is like Tick Tick Bang it's a wild release of lust

stripped bare right amount of new sounds ie finger cymbols popping off, gutter bass and wild drumming with tamborine pops