Why only up to 2001? Well after 2001 Prince started releasing more songs via other outlets that not all fans were are prevy too. Internet, The celebration and concerts. And I was going to address in a separate topic that period.
I had stated before in another reply and will repeat. I truly think Sometimes It Snows In April is one Prince's best compositions. PERIOD. As sad as it is, it is such a beautiful song.
With regards to emancipation. Truly his magnus opus. With lyrics like "Desparate is the day that is tomorrow...for those who do not know the time has come." and "Put down the Needle, Put down the spoon." Curious Child, Dream about you, Sex In the Summer. This set has it all. I don't think anyone will ever realize what the purple yoda created here. If Prince had been blind (ala Stevie Wonder) - everyone would have vehemently shouted "Genius!!" "Prince's Songs in the Key of Life" and given him Grammys and AMA's. | |
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Best Album: Purple Rain Reason: the only album with more than 5 of my favorite songs! Best Song: Something in the Water -not the one on the album Reason: when you hear it..it's like heaven!!!! Worst Song: Rich Friends Reason: ...seriously, it shows Prince's age Worst Album: Come Reason: none of the songs really stand out to me | |
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Purple Rain is somewhat iconic in my listening of Prince cd's. It is excellent but with the wrold now finally catching up and this cd being played to death-I have developed an adversion to it sans When Doves Cry.
I have never heard any other versions of Something In the Water but will say this was my favorite track along with Lady Cab Driver and DMSR.
Come cd is okay - I enjoyed the remix of Letitgo. I played the %$^%#%$# out of that in my car.
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I've always considered Adore as one of the most beautiful love songs. "U could burn up my clothes, smash up my ride! Well, maybe not the ride.." <- He didn't have to say that phrase, but he chose to be honest.(and humorous!) There are thousands of love songs out there that talk about how they're so in love, that they'd do anything for their lover. But I personally don't know any guy who's ok with me smashing up his ride even when they're madly in love (my bf would kill me lol)...So I appreciate the honesty, it actually makes me believe the phrase "Until the end of time, I'll be there for you" more lol And I know this sounds a bit weird, but I love how he never says "I love you" in that song, claiming that the word "love" is too weak to define. Sometimes I think the word "love" is way overrated and overused. Yeah sure the guy says he loves you, but he'll say that to his mom or his new vehicle too, though it's different kind of "love". I like how he found different word to describe his feelings, and at the end of the song, I understand that "adoring someone" is really, loving someone selflessly. Just my opinion.
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I don't know if I'm mood-swinging but your opinion almost made me cry. Everything you said is sooo true and this song is beautiful Thank you for getting me interested in this song again. I think I'm going to put it on repeat tonight | |
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haha you're welcome ^_^ gotta love Adore!!! <3 | |
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Favorite Song - Forever In My Life - This is the song I want playing in the background when and if I ever get married. And the live version (from the SOTT concert movie) still gives me chills.
Favorite Album - Sign O' the Times - How could you not love this album? This album from beginning to end is just incredible. I'm listening to "The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker" as I type this LOL!!
Least Favorite Song - Future Baby Mama - Why Prince, Why? Just couldn't get into it...no matter how hard i tried.
Least Favorite Album - Don't have one. I can always find at least one or two songs I like on any album he released.. | |
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Favourite album; varies. Mostly hops between Parade and Sign "O" The Times. >> | |
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Truly an impossible task, I'm looking at his body of work in my iTunes (yes I also have everything on Records, Cassette and CD for you purists) and almost every album has made a significant impact in my life and my memories are linked to the album from that year. Favorite song for a long long time was "The Cross" I'm not in anyway religious but the way the song starts so soft and quite and then rocks out is amazing and the lyrics are sung with such a raw passion.
I could list about 10 or 20 songs that are my favourite but if I was held at gunpoint I would have to say... Bambi. I saw him do this live in Manchester 91 and I was blown away.
Album choice is a bit easier (but not much), it has to be "The Black Album", I discounted it for a long time but with every listen it gets better and better, only one track is skipped - When 2 R in Love for obvious reasons, the rest is pure Prince in his funkiest, darkest and most humorous period.
Worst is a bit cruel and I feel bad for having to say this as I am extremely grateful for each and every track. The album I never really play is "Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic" this has maybe one good track and I hate Prince doing covers.
If I'm sticking to the rules then worst song or track, as its not really a song has to be "Orgasm", reasons are its just embarrassing for everyone involved.
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I agree with what you said about the song but it's not my least favorite - I actually still love it. I think it's got a great melody, vocal performance, etc... but the lyrics don't sound like someone in love.
"I was rappin' til the sun came up/Tellin' U just how fine U look/In a word, U were sex"
Sounds like someone trying to get sex. I'd never sing something like that to my lover.. | |
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Okay - @Babyjubilation - After reading your reply and rereading Emancipation89's - I had to go back and listen to Adore. I began to drift back thinking about slow dancing with my girlfriend at home. I guess I had forgotten how powerful and open these lyrics are. He's not singing a song to us...He's "rappin" to her. The One and only. "Tears of Joy pouring down on us." "They you know you are my fix" And for me the best being "Do you know what I'm saying to you this evening? Try, try ta say. Just trying to say That until, until the end of time. I'll be there for you." With all the claps and fingersnaps heard in the background. And the way the song changes at "Till the end of time, I'll be there for you." As the song closes (or appears to) it rebuilds - "Be with me darling til the end of all time. I'll give you my heart. I'll give you my mind. I'll give my body. I'll give you my time." This may be the best love song Prince has ever written. And no one else can ever touch it...to the end of all time. | |
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Forever in my life kicks (the late JFK jr actually played this at his wedding). I love background contrary lyrics. "U can make right" I alos love the guitar closing (ala Prince using his riff from When we're Dancing Close and Slow. And just as it fades, he starts to jam. The film version takes it to another level. Only Prince can make excellent better. Dorothy Parker was the hidden jam. Love it too.
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Anyone who dosen't like Adore, to me is not a true fan, I mean honestly talk about extreme with cream. What is there not to like, not every song has to be a sincere and true love offering. We all like it because its well written, funky, groovy and a lot of fun. I know I am being harsh, but honestly this cat should turn his/her card in. Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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As I said in my post, I love the song, but I don't consider it the ultimate love song, lyric wise. There's some nice lines, but also some lines that sound like they're more about sex than love. | |
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I'm embarrassed by this. "Climb in my fur." | |
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I hear what you are saying. For me, I hear Adore as what a man would say, has said (I'm guilty) and will say again to a woman that just enveloped him. Yes there is a copulative tone, but isn't that an aspect of love. I mean, Prince isn't being redundant as he and other song writers would state. Here he's (Prince) is telling it all - of how this woman has him open and devoted. I really wish I could find out who/what inspired hime to write this song. | |
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Best Song - there's dozens sdkjgfsdk but ones I can enjoy anytime are I Would Die 4 U/Little Red Corvette/Raspberry Beret/Phermone Best Album - Can't choose ughhgugh Worst Song - Make Your Mama Happy/Hot Wit U/Tell Me How U Want 2 B Done/Animal Kingdom/Love Like Jazz/Courtin' Time (take yo pick) Worst Album - Obviously RAVE how the fuq has only 1 person picked it is so damn bad even for Prince. :/ | |
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Aside from the last two, which I think are decent, those are all pretty good picks. I think I'd pick 'Animal Kingdom' as the worst of your picks, but 'make yo mama happy' and 'tell me how u...' are pretty damn bad too. | |
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I would die 4U. The long version I would (and I don't think I'm alone here) would lip sync as one of my closing numbers at home. I love the opening drum back and forth between Prince and Sheila E. and the way Wendy comes in with the guitar.
Rave is one of the worse creations from the hand of Prince. At what point did he say _"Hey this jams, I'm putting it out." Listening to this (20ten and the newer stuff makes one question, "Is this the same person who released Dirty Mind, Controversy, Purple rain? | |
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yah, if he would'a started screaming and shit, it would'a killed it
not bad, just kinda boring and yeah... well, bad For all time I am with you, you are with me. | |
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Yes okay, point taken, its about non commital fxxking, but is that a valid excuse to make it his WORST song, I mean really he has hundreds of lesser songs about fxxking around and you are saying Adore is worse than Da Da Da and Mr Happy, Jughead, Wedding feast and truly bad songs like that. I can understand its a lyrcial content puts u off, but Prince is mostly an oversexed satyr to start off with. Thats why myself and many others love him. Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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Most people's picks for least favorite song amaze me. One other person said 'Rich Friends', nobody said 'Purple & Gold' or 'Wedding Feast', nobody said 'Da Da Da' ... yet people bring up 'Adore', 'Diamonds and Pearls' etc.. it is amazing to me.
I love the song, but I just don't see it as the ultimate love song, when it sounds to me like Prince is more horny than in love. I don't have a problem with sex songs, though they're not my favorite, I just don't think you should say things like 'In a word - you were sex' when you're trying to explain what someone means to you, unless sex is all they mean to you. | |
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I took it in the context of that one phone conversation. She have at one point meant just sex, but she's obviously become much more. He's highlighting the contrast in how he views her. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. | |
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This question is pretty awkward considering we can only use releases from 1978 - 2001.
Nevertheless..I'll do it anyways.(Just for the heck of it..lol)
Best Prince Song: Power Fantastic (It's just THAT song that explains 'THIS'. It's dreamy, very beautiful and just one of the most amazing things I ever heard. It summarizes why I admire Prince and his work.
Best Album: LOVESEXY (The positivity in this album is sexual, quirky, loud, and just beautiful! Everything about it comes together and makes LOVESEXY really make no sense, yet have a clear meaning. I would also have to say 'SOTT' runs very close with 'Lovesexy'. The pattern he was on just makes no sense yet it does? lol
Least Favorite Song: 'Everyday Is A Winding Road' It's HORRIBLE! O my goodness, it's a mess that does nothing and goes no where. WHAT WAS HE THINKING? That's just it! He wasn't thinking..lol
Least Favorite Album: It's hard to judge his albums as a whole, because for me at least 2 songs make the album worth a listen? I guess I will have to go with NewPower Soul? But I love half the album, the rest is just -_-
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Best Prince album: Purple Rain. It has all the elements that I enjoy about Prince (tight album, all killers no fillers, variety, visionary production). Even if I wasn't a Prince fan, I would own this album because it's just the best album of the 80s (or at least the mid-80s)
Best Prince song: 1999. Can't really say why. This song "IS" Prince. Can't really say more.
Worst Song: too many. That's one of the fascinating things about Prince. He has like 200 amazing songs, but also 50 (or more) pathetic songs which, nevertheless, are so bad/freaky/misguided/wtf that are also worth checking out. Prince has released +50 bad songs, probably, but only 8-10 truly boring tracks.
Least favorite album: NEWS. Back in 2003, I thought it was the end. Prince doing instrumental jazz albums???? Wow. What a nightmare. And the album is just forgettable. Nothing special. Just a second-rate Madhouse-like album released by Prince, just as NPS was a second-rate NPG album released by Prince.
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Never looked at it that way; perhaps I need to listen again and really analyze the lyrics. I'm usually more focused on the singing and melody with this song. | |
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Please give it another listen. For it is really a beautiful song. | |
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Best Album>> Sign o the Times. Hands down, the absolute best package he has ever delivered. I wish he could equal that genuis level just one more time before either he or I die. It's like a trip into another world where Jim Morrison's laws prevail.
Best Song>> Condition of the Heart/ Anna Stesia / Housequake. I have a three way tie here. This was really tough for me. I imagined, if all Prince songs had only ten seconds before they were blown to bits, which one would I run and save. It would have to be one of these three, whichever was closest.
Worst Album>> Rave. Without a doubt the worst of the worst. I did buy it, I did regret it. I'd rather hear someone take a (Purple Rain came in a close second. Shocked? Everytime I tell someone I like Prince they say, yeah I love Purple Rain and begin to sing a little of it. They have killed my joy in this album. They have killed it.)
Worst Song>> Scarlet Pussy/ Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. Two way tie here. What the Hell Prince? It's one thing to write these, it's another to sit back and say, Hey that's good enough to go on an album. We are all so full of here | |
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Favourite Song: Gett Off Why?: Don't hate me, but I like Prince's rap.
Favourite Album: Crystal Ball Why?: I prefer 90's than 80's. And on Crystal Ball I can find everything, rap, funk, rock and some kind of r'n'b. (only album that have 8 songs on my Top 50, the nect one is The B-sides with 5 songs.)
Least Favourite Song: Jughead Why?: Tony M.
Least Favourite Album: One Nite Alone... Why?: A bunch of songs that make me sleep. [Edited 1/10/12 1:30am] So evil girl, if one of us has a date,
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Favorite song: "Automatic" Why?: It's edgy,adventurous and just alot of fun.When the first few seconds begin,you know you're in for a wild journey....fasten your seat belts,prepare for takeoff.....indeed!
Favorite album: 1999 Why?: It's his masterpiece.Funk,New Wave,pop,rock....it's all there. | |
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