Oh this is so very easy.

"Purple & Gold."

Yeah sorry I had to bring that bad memory back up, but consider alot of the other usually-named candidates for worst P track. For those you'll always find someone or maybe quite a few people who liked it or at least don't think it was that bad.

But P&G was. Never met anybody who liked it, and the source of massive ridicule from the fanbase and (especially) from the mainstream. What made it more funny was this was released through the Vikings website. So bad, it makes the 2011 Vikings look quite very good and respectable in comparison. So bad, Prince is spending his fortune to build a time machine to go back and prevent his younger self from creating it. So bad, 20Ten compared to it is Sign O' The Times.

Sorry but there is no other contender. We have our champion.

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"Purple & Gold."

this has to be the worst: I agree with you

But this thread is a repeat - there's so many about "the worst Prince song"

Actually, I'll go with Rich Friends - everything about it makes me want to barf.. the lyrics, music, vocals - everything! Then again, I'm not sure I've ever listened to Purple and Gold for more than 20 seconds.. I don't even consider it a real song, and I've never even bothered to download it. It's no more a real song than "Raspberry Sorbet" is.

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P&G is certainly a leading contender for worst song...to this day, the Vikings still haven't recovered,

I still say he should have given them Laydown! Tweak the lyrics a bit and that would have been a perfect fight song for a sports team.

And just to prove my point, the NBA ended up using it.

P&G definetly followed by Jughead

babynoz said:

P&G is certainly a leading contender for worst song...to this day, the Vikings still haven't recovered,

I still say he should have given them Laydown! Tweak the lyrics a bit and that would have been a perfect fight song for a sports team.

And just to prove my point, the NBA ended up using it.

YES! I totally agree.

I like it and I rate it 3 out of 5.

aardvark15 said:

P&G definetly followed by Jughead

jughead can be entertaining...

y'know that scene in shawshank redemption where the protagonist puts the record on the PA system? Right when it starts, it shows a guard sitting on the can reading a Jughead comic... you can see where I'm going with this...

and all the inmates gather round the speakers, dumbstruck by the beauty of what they're hearing

Maybe not his worst song, but my least favorite song is Strollin'.

Don't ask me why, it's just the one song that I've never...nah.

Purple & Gold

Hot Summer

any song off The Slaughterhouse/Chocolate Invasion

Life O' The Party

Reflection

All the Midnights in the World

White Mansion

New World

The Human Body

Style

Silly Game

I Luv U But Eye Dont Trust U Anymore

Valentina

JoeTyler said:

I Luv U But Eye Dont Trust U Anymore

I might be in the minority, but I actually like that one. I find it to be a highlight on an otherwise pretty dull album. Maybe it's just me.

JoeTyler said:

Reflection

White Mansion

I Luv U But Eye Dont Trust U Anymore

I agree with the others you mentioned but I don't mind these three.

Though Reflection does remind me of "elevator music".

RRA said:

babynoz said:

P&G is certainly a leading contender for worst song...to this day, the Vikings still haven't recovered,

I still say he should have given them Laydown! Tweak the lyrics a bit and that would have been a perfect fight song for a sports team.

And just to prove my point, the NBA ended up using it.

YES! I totally agree.

Prince hasn't been to a game or spent much time in Minnie this season...I'm sure a few Viking players are still looking for him,

I am overwhelmed, there are just so many. And so many of the newer ones make "Jughead" seem like a Beatles classic.

Off the top of my head..

Sticky like Glue

Everybody loves me

Purple and Gold

Laydown

Hot Summer

every song on Mplsound

Lolita

Love

+

Jughead

Arms of Orion

Sleep Around

Da,Da,Da

Joint II Joint

Freaks on this Side

Betcha By Golly Wow

Hot With U

I Like Funky Music

Everday is a ...f*ckin Road

Deconstruction

Digital Garden

Animal Kingdom

My Little Pill

Sensual Everafter

U Make My Sun Shine

Wedding Feast

Guitar (electro version)

Here

U R Gonna C Me

DJFreelan said:

JoeTyler said:

I Luv U But Eye Dont Trust U Anymore

I might be in the minority, but I actually like that one. I find it to be a highlight on an otherwise pretty dull album. Maybe it's just me.

I LOVE this song! I Think it's beautiful and heartbreaking..

But I'd go with The Human Body for the worst one... geez I always skip this one... it,s not even checked on my iTunes

JoeTyler said:

Purple & Gold - Yeah, U might B right

Hot Summer - LOVE IT

any song off The Slaughterhouse/Chocolate Invasion

- LOVE THEM ALL

Life O' The Party - SHAKIN LIKE A LEAF ON A TREE - LOVE IT

Reflection - OH DEAR - LOVE IT

All the Midnights in the World - BEST LITTLE DITTY AROUND - LOVE IT

White Mansion - LOVE IT

New World - LOVE IT

The Human Body - A HA HA - LOVE IT

Style - ???? WHO DOESN'T LIKE THIS? LOVE IT

Silly Game - LOVE IT

I Luv U But Eye Dont Trust U Anymore - KIDDING? LOVE IT

Valentina - LOVE IT

JoeTyler said:

+

Jughead

Arms of Orion

Sleep Around

Da,Da,Da

Joint II Joint

Freaks on this Side

Betcha By Golly Wow

Hot With U

I Like Funky Music

Everday is a ...f*ckin Road

Deconstruction

Digital Garden

Animal Kingdom

My Little Pill

Sensual Everafter

U Make My Sun Shine

Wedding Feast

Guitar (electro version)

Here

U R Gonna C Me

Wow, that looks like a "Best Of" CD...Jughead gets a bad rep....funky tune

Revolution said

Wow, that looks like a "Best Of" CD...

babynoz said:

P&G is certainly a leading contender for worst song...to this day, the Vikings still haven't recovered,

I still say he should have given them Laydown! Tweak the lyrics a bit and that would have been a perfect fight song for a sports team.

And just to prove my point, the NBA ended up using it.

I loved those TNT promos with Laydown. Good stuff!

I love Lolita (the beat goes hard), Sticky Like Glue, and Silly Game.

Prince has some deaf fans. Lovely.

Haven't heard Purple and Gold, so will reserve judgement on it.

Easily some of his bad 90s experiments like

Solo

Da Da Da

Mr Happy

Face Down

Freaks on the side

The sun, moon and stars

Pope

Arrogance

Damn U

Jughead

Walk don't walk

Graffiti Bridge

and then the 2000s

Deconstruction

Muse to the pharoah

The Work

Family name

Most of 20Ten

NEWS

ONA (Most of it)

In our Condorcet polling series, the lowest-ranked song on the lowest-ranked album was "Everyday Is A Winding Road," from Rave:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu...thm=runoff

However, we did not solicit nominations for bad songs that were not released on albums, so "Purple and Gold" hasn't been ranked in any of our polls. It might be interesting to repeat our experiment but ranking the worst songs instead of the best songs. You'd have to make clear, however, whether the rankings in each poll run from least bad to worst or vice versa.