Since these rank and rate threads are all the rage I may slip in one. How about 1999, the first real classic album (Some may say Dirty Mind was too). What are your favourites and least favourites. Mine are

1. Little Red Corvette 10/10, Despite the fact it was a massive hot, it was also a brilliantly written and funky little pop song. The lyrics were great too. Unlike the Purple Rain hits, I can never get sick of this

2. 1999 10, the ultimate party anthem, again it's it sheer resistance to date in any way.

3. International Lover 10, Absolute soft porn, using the air travel as coitus metaphor, just brilliance and raunch in every way.

4. Lets Pretend were married 10, More brilliance, driving pop and again raunchy but catchy lyrics make it his best, it has some of the lust of his Dirty Mind stuff, but also has the panache of his later 80s sex ballads like When 2 R in love and Slow Love.

5. DMSR 10, More brilliant party funk and roll, this is a pop/rock/funk chanting breeze, supremely great party mucis.

6. Delirious 9, More accessible and catchy pop, he keeps its cute and again like Corvette the joyous pop chorus and stop start keyboarding, all reasons why it too became a big hit for him.

7. Something in water 9, Good but not as great as the others

8. Free, 9 Alot of people don't like it I do, catchy chorus and good piano bits, like the message too.

9. Automatic 8, All right at start but goes on too long, the bit about torture is funny though

10. All the Critics 8, the stuff about him definetly masturbating is funny

11. Lady Cab driver, 6 I don't like it, its crude and borders on the rapine.

So what r yours?

I'll rank, but won't rate as that's too hard:

1. Little Red Corvette
2. 1999
3. D.M.S.R.
4. International Lover
5. All The Critics Love U In New York
6. Let's Pretend We're Married
7. Free
8. Delirious
9. Lady Cab Driver
10. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
11. Automatic

1. Lady Cab Driver - One of my favourite P songs. It's not rude it's clever and original as fuck
2. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) - Genius
3. All The Critics Love U In New York - Again really original and a great groove
4. Little Red Corvette
5. 1999
6. D.M.S.R.
7. Automatic
8. International Lover - Very Prince. No one else could pull this off
9. Let's Pretend We're Married
10. Free
11. Delirious - Just never got this song. In fact I hate it

1. Something In The Water (THAT EMOTION!!)

2. Free (wonderful message, always one of my favorites)

3. Let's Pretend We're Married (Nobody can fuck with this. Amazing!)

4. Lady Cab Driver

5. Delerious (classic)

6. International Lover

7 Automatic (love the music video)

8. Little Red Corvette

9 All the Critics

10. DMSR (it's too repetitive and long for me)

11. 1999 (overplayed to death; and this old guy that covered it on youtube ruined it for me)

[Edited 4/21/12 7:27am]

all songs rated 11 on a 1-10 scale

rdhull said:

all songs rated 11 on a 1-10 scale

"Free" rates an 11/10?

rialb said:

rdhull said:

all songs rated 11 on a 1-10 scale

"Free" rates an 11/10?

You bet your sweet ass, it does.

rialb said:

rdhull said:

rialb said:

"Free" rates an 11/10?

Did I stutter type

Some of the live versions are marginally better but "Free" has always been a bit of a stinker.

Eh, what do I know? I love "Lady Cab Driver" and "International Lover" and they are often cited as being two of the weaker tracks on the album.

1. something in the water

2. little red corvette

3. 1999

4. lady cab driver

5. delerious

6. automatic

7. DMSR

8. lets pretend . . .

9. free

10. all the critics

11. international lover

1. Let's Pretend We're Married

2. D.M.S.R.

3. Lady Cab Driver

4. Free

5. 1999

6. Little Red Corvette

7. Something In The Water

8. All The Critics Love U

9. Delirious

10. Automatic

11. International Lover

1 Automatic (under rated)

2 1999 (perfectly rated)

3 Delirious

4 DMSR

5 Lets Pretend

6 Lady Cab driver (pure funk)

7 Something in the Water

8 Internatilonal Lover

9 Little Red Corvette (over rated)

10 All the Critics Love U

11 Free (0/10 Should have been Moonbeam Levels

rialb said:

rdhull said:

rialb said: Did I stutter type

Some of the live versions are marginally better but "Free" has always been a bit of a stinker.

Eh, what do I know? I love "Lady Cab Driver" and "International Lover" and they are often cited as being two of the weaker tracks on the album.

Anyone who feels LCB is a weak track does not understand Prince music, has no sense, and has no soul.

rialb said:

rdhull said:

rialb said: Did I stutter type

Some of the live versions are marginally better but "Free" has always been a bit of a stinker.

Eh, what do I know? I love "Lady Cab Driver" and "International Lover" and they are often cited as being two of the weaker tracks on the album.

I love International Lover. Such a great track.

1. Automatic 5/5 (Genius)

2. Little Red Corvette 5/5 (Pop perfection)

3. Something In The Water 5/5

4. Internation Lover 4.5/5

5. Let's Pretend We're Married 4.5/5

6. DMSR 4/5

7. Delirious 4/5

8. 1999 3.5/5

9. Lady Cab Drver 2.5/5

10. All The Critics Love U In New York 2/5

11. Free 0/5

ConsciousContact said:

rialb said:

Some of the live versions are marginally better but "Free" has always been a bit of a stinker.

Eh, what do I know? I love "Lady Cab Driver" and "International Lover" and they are often cited as being two of the weaker tracks on the album.

I love International Lover. Such a great track.

Yes. He went high rent with the slow jam but it was still raw.

Some of the live versions of "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)" circa 1983-1984 are insanely good.

rialb said:

Some of the live versions of "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)" circa 1983-1984 are insanely good.

Those are from my top rated boot

rdhull said:

ConsciousContact said:

I love International Lover. Such a great track.

Yes. He went high rent with the slow jam but it was still raw.

I'm a straight man but even I get a little giddy when he says "This is your pilot Prince speaking..."

I always told myself to believe that this is a fantastic album, but I have trouble listening to it these days without being bored out of my skull.

There are some nifty live versions though........I suppose.

rialb said:

rdhull said:

Yes. He went high rent with the slow jam but it was still raw.

I'm a straight man but even I get a little giddy when he says "This is your pilot Prince speaking..."

I end up throwing my boxers at the speakers myself.

Happy to give everything on that album a 10...

Except "Free", maybe a solid 8...

Probably my favourite album of all time by any artist.

NeonCraxx said:

This is bullshit. Why don't people love Free?

I think because it seems like an 'easy' song amidst all the rock synth fried groove of the rest of the record and I've also read in the past that the lyrics seem 'simple' making the song seem like a nursery rhyme etc. Be that as it may, the coda is a nice powerful part 2 addition with impassioned singing and passionate guitar runs imo.

^"Free" is a good song. But it's no "Moonbeam Levels" IMO

toejam said:

^"Free" is a good song. But it's no "Moonbeam Levels" IMO

It's still a 10.

If Moonbeam Levels was on 1999, there would bea lot of folks who would hate it.

aka we romanticize the unreleased

NeonCraxx said:

This is bullshit. Why don't people love Free?

Don't worry, I love Free. Actually, I seem to like a lot of songs that people on here don't.

Vict0r said:

NeonCraxx said:

This is bullshit. Why don't people love Free?

Don't worry, I love Free. Actually, I seem to like a lot of songs that people on here don't.

You are a good person

1. 1999

2. Lady Cab Driver

3. D.M.S.R.

4. Free

5. Little Red Corvette

6. Automatic

7. Let's Pretend We're Married

8. All the Critics Love U in New York

9. International Lover

10. Delirious

11. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)