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What is Prince's best album, lyrically? The best one of the 80s is Around The World In A Day imo. I don't know about his best one overall. | |
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Elixer.
Cause you know I didn't write that shit. NewYorkMike = Bria Valente
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Either 1999 or Sign O The Times. The former has Little Red Corvette and the latter has The Ballad of Dorothy Parker - his two strongest songs lyrically. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Easily these two albums, especially LRC because of the great metaphors throughout the song. __________________________________________________
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Seriously, this time. Prince's lyrics aren't analyzed to death the way Dylan's are, but he surely has a gift for writing lyrics. His whole vision about love and sex and God and society comes out best in Sign o' the Times and Lovesexy. It's no coincidence that those are also his best albums musically. Everything comes together on those two. Sometimes I feel that with those albums he has simply said all he had to say and that afterwards, songwriting has become a trick for him. And the succes of a new album depends on how well he performs that trick. | |
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Around The World In A Day, without a doubt. Second place to Lovesexy. Sign O' The Times could be the third, but, apart from some great lyrics, it has rather mediocre ones too, like It, Slow Love and U Got The Look. [Edited 10/24/11 13:39pm] | |
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1999 closely followed by SOTT also great: Purple Rain and Around The World In A Day Have a look at 'The W2A: Euro Tour Song Survey' http://prince.org/msg/12/362417 | |
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Parade "So fierce U look 2night, the brightest star pales 2 Ur sex..." | |
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SOTT, Come, Prince, Controversy, Parade | |
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Around The World In A Day.....My Fave.. Dave Is Nuttier Than A Can Of Planters Peanuts...(Ottensen) | |
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Romance 1600. | |
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For you
I STAN and SLAY for Prince LOL. | |
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The Black album.
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Sign of the Times:
Especially the title track, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, Starfish and Coffee, If I was your girlfriend, Strange Relationship and Adore are among his finest / most 'mature' lyrics.
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Can you guys please please pleeeeaaazzz explain why you like those lyrics? Just mentioning a title doesn't say anything. | |
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Around The World In A Day is my favourite because it is introverted and uplifting at the same time. It's sparkling. | |
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Little Red Corvette and The Ballad of Dorothy Parker need no explanation. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Sign 'O' Times & Around The World In A Day, and I also think 1999 is a good one. And Lovesexy as well too. | |
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TGE Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. | |
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If I had to pick ONE it would be Controversy and that's not even my favorite album. | |
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Hardly. You might argue that hose are two of his best songs, but lyrically? Little Red Corvette is about as subtle and witty as a turn in a punchbowl and Dorothy Parker is total surreal nonsense supposedly based on a dream. Prince wouldn't know what to do with Dorothy Parker if he ever met her or read her work. He thought Sinead was bad...
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So basing lyrics on a dream makes them bad? In what universe?
We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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how can u pick ? | |
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Not in my universe. SOTT is my favourite cd and I think it also has some of the best lyrics. Dorothy Parker is a great piece of work and very original too. | |
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Emancipation with his new found freedom, feeling closer to God and finding his one true love. | |
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SOTT or Parade. | |
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1999
lovesexy
emancipation | |
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I doubt it's his best, but it's certainly one of my favorite, lyrically: The Gold Experience
Lawd,......
Whenever evil wants 2 groove
Of course, being that the song is about the gossip columnist C J, this "see J" addition to a song about her was just ....clever.
Even the stupid lyrics like "Frontin' more booty than Peru got keyes" are delivered with some degree of awesomeness! | |
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