I have just finished a week long exercise properly ranking all of the Prince albums I have heard and was surprised. I did it as I wanted to be more unified on my opinions of his works.

Before I go any further, I want to state its my opinion only and not universal, you may agree with it or think its garbage. from one fan to another I hope you can see the method in the madness. I got the idea when there were a few a few, rank and rate song threads back in April.

What I did was take each album and rank each track from 10 being the best down to 1 for the worst. I eliminated all halves and point scores, so every track got a whole number score.

Being Prince I have given out a lot of 10s. I also gave out a few ones, but the bulk of the songs scored between 5 and 9 and most were at least a 6. These are for Prince songs, and therefore a 8/10 Prince song is probably like a 9/10 for someone else.

Out of fairness I did not rank segues, npg operators or non music tracks, instrumentals did get rated. So far I have just rated studio albums I have heard (Hence omissions)

I will rank Protege albums, hit collections and even a bootleg or two as I come to them.

I then took all the song marks and added them together, and divided the mark to get a score out of 100, and diod rounding in the case of albums that did not have 10 tracks (Most of them). Example is the Gold Experience got 107/120 for song marks quantified to 100 made 89.133, so I just round it down to 89. I then graded them (the teacher in me) and here I can present my new list best to worst. In the case of ties, I have put the older album first.

In the case of Multi disc albums like Crystal Ball and Sign I have included the overrall mark, but in brackets are the mark for each disc in order such (Disc 1, Disc 2 etc)

Here we go

1. Sign o the Times 98 (97,100), A+

2. Purple Rain 96, A+

3. Parade 93, A+

4. 1999 91, A+

5. Dirty Mind 90, A+

6. Gold Experience 89, A

7. MPLsOUND 87, A

8. Around the World.. 85, A

9. The B sides 84, A-

10. Lovesexy 83, A-

11. Lovesymbol 82, A-

12. 3121 80, A-

13. Controversy 79, B+

14. Crystal Ball 79 (81,79,76), B+

15. Black Album 77, B+

16. Musicology 75, B+

17. Come 74, B

18. Planet Earth 73, B

19. Lotusflow3r 72, B

20. The Vault, Old.. 71, B

21. Rave un2 the .... 69, B-

22. Prince 68, B-

23. Batman 68, B-

24. Graffiti Bridge 66, B-

25. Diamonds and Pearls 65, B-

26. Emancipation 65 (73,65,57), B-

27. The Hits (4 songs) 63, C+

28. For You 59, C

29. The Rainbow Children 59, C

30. NEWS 53, C-

31. The Truth 47, D+

32. Chaos and Disorder 44, D

33. Newpowersoul 42, D

A = Exceptional, B = Good, C= Passable, D = Fail, E = Bad fail

So this is the list so far. I was surprised how much I really do like the Around the world in a day album and MPLsOUND which both have done well, no surprises with my Top 5, although I see I like Parade more than 1999. It also proves that none of his albums are superbad, the worst albums score in the 40s which is weak rather than bad. I have not rated Kamasutra as I have only heard a few tracks.

I would love to see nice comments rather than "Who fxxkin cares" type shit, but welcome stuff like, what do you mean you only gave TRC 59.

Has anyone else tried to rank albums scientifically or share your list if u want 2.

Your list sucks!

callimnate said:

Your list sucks!

Why, give me some valid reasons instead of just name calling.

Adorecream said:

callimnate said:

Your list sucks!

Why, give me some valid reasons instead of just name calling.

Im only joking.

I saw Gold and MPLS way ahead of Controversy and the likes, and though this list sucks.

But I appreciate how you came to, so its no disrespect to your work.

You've done a lot of work Adorecream (yeah school holidays coming up! It's a well thought thorough way to judge something.

I see from your ratings that our taste of music differs though NPS would also be low on my list.

I am interested as to why TRC and TBA score quite closely and what it is that makes TGE score higher than both? Despite the segues being eliminated. Also why are the Bsides and the Hits included? Aren't these songs on other albums? I've never really understood the Bsides love, except for 17 days as I never had vinyl. Have any songs been rated twice?

It would be interesting to research the fans loves in total, seeing not only which albums are favoured most but why. I suppose naturally it would be the 80s but it's puzzling to me why.

Bohemian67 said:

You've done a lot of work Adorecream (yeah school holidays coming up! It's a well thought thorough way to judge something.

I see from your ratings that our taste of music differs though NPS would also be low on my list.

I am interested as to why TRC and TBA score quite closely and what it is that makes TGE score higher than both? Despite the segues being eliminated. Also why are the Bsides and the Hits included? Aren't these songs on other albums? I've never really understood the Bsides love, except for 17 days as I never had vinyl. Have any songs been rated twice?

It would be interesting to research the fans loves in total, seeing not only which albums are favoured most but why. I suppose naturally it would be the 80s but it's puzzling to me why.

Good questions !!!!

Yes My taste may be different, my tastes would be for his music with instrumental depth (guitar and drum solos), vocal quality and also his more adventorous stuff. I love his dancy stuff and adore the sexy seduction ballads, but essentially I give better marks to song writing with depth and gravitas.

I included Bsides and hits, because even though they are all over the place, the org talks about them alot, Bsides are important as they are there on singles and anyone who bought that set will have them. The Hits part is just the four songs not on earlier albums (Nothing compares 2 u, Pope, Peach and Pink Cashmere, I have not rated the rest yet. All of the Bsides on that album only appear elsewhere as Bsides and not as album trax.

For segues, its just cruel to ram down the mark of a good album like TGE or the Love symbol because of a few boring segues, if I had added all 5 segues or 7 NPG operators and marked each separately, each album would have lost 15 or so percent. Then again even if it was a lesser album in which a funny segue might push its mark up, I wouldn't use it either. I even tried marking all of these intrusions once, but in each case, the album gained 3 or 4 marks without this.

I have endeavoured not to rate songs twice, the only time I may have would have been When 2 R in Love as it appears both on the Black Album and Lovesexy, one book I have says the versions are slightly different but they sound the same song to me, I really love it, so that was easy give it the same mark (In that case a 10).

Don't get next question, TRC I gave 59, a C as its not as bad as I used to wail on it, but really the stuff isd average and theres only a few great songs like Last December, The Work and Everlasting now. The Black Album I gave a 77, a strong B+ as Le Grind and Cindy C are very good and Rockhard is also to me a great song. Also it has When 2 R in love, its weakest tracks I think Bob George and 2 Nigs got 5's

The Gold Experience well, that is a fantastic album, the ballads Dolphin and Gold, the superlative Shh, Eye Hate U and Endorphinmachine are just the best he's done, they all got 10s, the rest was 8s and 9s and only We March got an average 7. It got 89, but if it had Days of Wild it would be 90s.

Generally the marks are biased towards albums with 8 to 12 tracks, but if these albums has 5 of 6 9s and 10s the marks add up, compared to say GB which has 17 tracks and 5 are filler I will give 3s and 4s too, drags the mark down really.

As for the 80s, well yes my list is biased towards them, but surprisngly in my case TGE and MPLsOUND came up real well and most his 2004 input onwards gained marks in the 70s meaning mostly songs rating from 6 to 9 out of 10.

I totally agree with the last statement, if more fans could do something like this and we could all combine the marks and get a unified Org stock going where album average marks go up and down as each orger marks an album. They can mark as many or as few albums as they like at a time.

Here:

My top 38 Prince albums,

from best album to worst:

01. Purple Rain (10)
02. Sign "☮" The Times (10)
03. 1999 (10)
04. Lovesexy (10)
05. Parade (10)
06. Around The World In A Day (10)
07. The Gold Experience (10)
08. Dirty Mind (10)
09. Controversy (9)
10. Diamonds & Pearls (9)
11. Love Symbol Album (9)
12. Come (9)
13. Black Album (9)
14. The Rainbow Children (9)
15. Graffiti Bridge (8)
16. Prince (8)
17. For You (8)
18. Batman (8)
19. Crystal Ball (8)
20. Emancipation (8)
21. LotusFlower / MPLSound (8)
22. 20Ten (8)

23. Musicology (7)
24. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (7)
25. The Truth (7)
26. Chaos & Disorder (7)
27. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic (6)
28. The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale (6)
29. The Chocolate Invasion (6)
30. Slaughterhouse (6)
31. 3121 (5)
32. Planet Earth (5)
33. Newpower Soul (4)
34. One Nite Alone... Piano (3)
35. N.E.W.S. (2)
36. One Nite Alone... Live (2)
37. Indigo Nights (2)
38. Kamasutra (0)

as posted many many times here, already

Adorecream said:

Yes My taste may be different, my tastes would be for his music with instrumental depth (guitar and drum solos), vocal quality and also his more adventorous stuff. I love his dancy stuff and adore the sexy seduction ballads, but essentially I give better marks to song writing with depth and gravitas.

I go for lyrics & vocals too plus instrumental depth though I'm not fond of heavy electric guitar.

I included Bsides and hits, because even though they are all over the place, the org talks about them alot, Bsides are important as they are there on singles and anyone who bought that set will have them. The Hits part is just the four songs not on earlier albums (Nothing compares 2 u, Pope, Peach and Pink Cashmere, I have not rated the rest yet. All of the Bsides on that album only appear elsewhere as Bsides and not as album trax.

Ok, I never bought singles. I have two Hit cds which have soft and wet, head & Pope, which I don't know or which cd they're from originally. I agree segues (boring or not) are not the music part of the album so shouldn't be rated.

I have endeavoured not to rate songs twice, the only time I may have would have been When 2 R in Love as it appears both on the Black Album and Lovesexy, one book I have says the versions are slightly different but they sound the same song to me, I really love it, so that was easy give it the same mark (In that case a 10).

I'm not going to rate TBA ,coz I don't like it, or all the cds like you did, I'm too lazy

My number one cd is probably OFFS the Vault, all numbers I know would score well. It would be up there with Lotus, PR, Lovesexy, Parade as 10s with 20Ten at an 8. The Truth as a 9. Symbol and Come I won't rate either. I do need to give Emancipation more listening time though. I like 3121 too (certain songs)

Don't get next question, TRC I gave 59, a C as its not as bad as I used to wail on it, but really the stuff isd average and theres only a few great songs like Last December, The Work and Everlasting now.

I'd give TRC a straight A+. Total Prince cd. Even better than PR actually. Just such diversity & great concept.

The Gold Experience well, that is a fantastic album, the ballads Dolphin and Gold, the superlative Shh, Eye Hate U and Endorphinmachine are just the best he's done, they all got 10s, the rest was 8s and 9s and only We March got an average 7. It got 89, but if it had Days of Wild it would be 90s.

I relistened to TGE but Dolphin has yet to grab me. Shss is nice (I recognise the intro in recent stuff) but it gets too noisy for my liking and I don't like the lyrics too much. They're ok. Days of wild, I've listened to a few times but can't remember it which means it was not memorable for me. We're in agreement with We march. Endorphinmachine has a great back beat and intro but it's too rocky for me. My overall ranking for the album is 5. The points come from the songs I like on it and they are fantastic imo.

As for the 80s, well yes my list is biased towards them, but surprisngly in my case TGE and MPLsOUND came up real well and most his 2004 input onwards gained marks in the 70s meaning mostly songs rating from 6 to 9 out of 10.

Although there are outright classics from the 80s of Prince I can't listen to something to death without getting bored. And that would be any music from any artist. I listen mostly from 2000 onwards, with about 20% of the 90s, not more than 10 tracks from the 80s but quite a few old outtakes which I really like for their minimalism. Plus of course any chocolate easter eggs that pop up here and there of live show 80s songs or new stuff.

Bohemian67 said:

Adorecream said:

Yes My taste may be different, my tastes would be for his music with instrumental depth (guitar and drum solos), vocal quality and also his more adventorous stuff. I love his dancy stuff and adore the sexy seduction ballads, but essentially I give better marks to song writing with depth and gravitas.

I go for lyrics & vocals too plus instrumental depth though I'm not fond of heavy electric guitar.

I relistened to TGE but Dolphin has yet to grab me. Shss is nice (I recognise the intro in recent stuff) but it gets too noisy for my liking and I don't like the lyrics too much. They're ok. Days of wild, I've listened to a few times but can't remember it which means it was not memorable for me. We're in agreement with We march. Endorphinmachine has a great back beat and intro but it's too rocky for me. My overall ranking for the album is 5. The points come from the songs I like on it and they are fantastic imo.

As for the 80s, well yes my list is biased towards them, but surprisngly in my case TGE and MPLsOUND came up real well and most his 2004 input onwards gained marks in the 70s meaning mostly songs rating from 6 to 9 out of 10.

Although there are outright classics from the 80s of Prince I can't listen to something to death without getting bored. And that would be any music from any artist. I listen mostly from 2000 onwards, with about 20% of the 90s, not more than 10 tracks from the 80s but quite a few old outtakes which I really like for their minimalism. Plus of course any chocolate easter eggs that pop up here and there of live show 80s songs or new stuff.

Okay then points taken.

But I think you have got the separate discs of the Hits 1 and The Hits 2, the Bisdes come in the 3cd set, and is not sold separately like the other two. Out of all due respect that disc is a pretty essential purchase, because those Bsides are pretty important to most of us. When he issued that Hits album, they had the G rated stuff on the Hits 1 and the sexier stuff (Head, Cream etc) on Hits 2 and the Bsides it was whatever goes.

But thanks fro your contribution and keeping the thread alive.

MPLSound?

Science has nothing to do with opinion and since art is 100% subjective you cannot claim any part of this is scientific. Having to do some basic math to add up your song-rating totals is not scientific. Also, you mention you listen for drum solos and instrumental depth, ect... when rating the songs. I feel compelled to tell you that you're rating the songs based on performance and sounds, NOT on the quality of the songs.

Just letting you know.

smoothcriminal12 said:

MPLSound?

I know, right? There's no science involved with that being so high in the list, it's clearly witchcraft!

callimnate said:

Your list sucks!

As opposed to yours. Oh, that's right. You haven't done one.

t.y.p.i.c.a.l.

I do like that the list is color coded is sherbert flavors. I love science!

Very interesting list indeed but like someone pointed out the title is misleading. You broke the albums down to songs, rated those and then added up the score - that's great but still, the way you graded these albums has nothing to do with science. You just ranked them by using both numeric and alphabetical grade system. (I see you consider 80/100 is A- and 71 is B.......Why can't professors @ my school be as generous as you )

But I wouldn't really do what you did because I have to consider how each album as a whole sounds when I try to rank them. I see Rainbow Children, Emancipation and Graffiti Bridge are down the list and Dirty Mind is way up there. I assume it was the "filler" songs that dragged down the average? To me, how the album flows overall, what story it delivers, how cohesive it sounds or how many different genres it covers, how it stays relevant with the title of an album etc etc. are all little factors I consider important. So ranking each songs and then calculating the average isn't really my style. But like I said, very interesting method!!

Adorecream said:

Okay then points taken.

But I think you have got the separate discs of the Hits 1 and The Hits 2, the Bisdes come in the 3cd set, and is not sold separately like the other two. Out of all due respect that disc is a pretty essential purchase, because those Bsides are pretty important to most of us. When he issued that Hits album, they had the G rated stuff on the Hits 1 and the sexier stuff (Head, Cream etc) on Hits 2 and the Bsides it was whatever goes.

But thanks fro your contribution and keeping the thread alive.

You're right. I looked up the B-sides and don't know the songs so guess that will be the next buy.

what's G stuff? I'll have to get it separately. I think 'witchcraft' is a great compliment for your method. In the old days, women got burnt at the stake for intuition, supposed witchcraft Call it what you like. It's yours and you should be proud. Not everyone has the passion you do and passion is the essence and fire of life! As I read somewhere, 'it's God just wanting to say hi'

Emancipation89 said:

Very interesting list indeed but like someone pointed out the title is misleading. You broke the albums down to songs, rated those and then added up the score - that's great but still, the way you graded these albums has nothing to do with science. You just ranked them by using both numeric and alphabetical grade system. (I see you consider 80/100 is A- and 71 is B.......Why can't professors @ my school be as generous as you )

But I wouldn't really do what you did because I have to consider how each album as a whole sounds when I try to rank them. I see Rainbow Children, Emancipation and Graffiti Bridge are down the list and Dirty Mind is way up there. I assume it was the "filler" songs that dragged down the average? To me, how the album flows overall, what story it delivers, how cohesive it sounds or how many different genres it covers, how it stays relevant with the title of an album etc etc. are all little factors I consider important. So ranking each songs and then calculating the average isn't really my style. But like I said, very interesting method!!

hahaha... yeah adorecream, knock it off! You list would never pass peer review for any reputable journal!

You people need to calm down. Scientifically is just a title. I am using the science of numbers. Someone mentioned grades, well here in New Zealand we grade differently to America (But it varies from place to place). My university and most of my high school stuff was graded on this scale.

A= 80 -100 Distinction Pass (Excellent)

B= 65 -79 (In some cases 79. marks are rounded up to 80) Credit or Merit pass (Good)

C= 50 -64 Pass - (Adequate)

D= 35 -49 Marginal Fail

E or F under 34 Poor Fail

I understand in Aerica its something like 59 percent is an F?

My University of Auckland marks went something like

A+, 90 -100 High First Class

A, - 85 -89 Clear First Class Pass

A-, 80 -84 Bare First Class

B+, 75 -79 High Second Class

B, - 70 -74 Clear Second Class

B-, 65 -69 Bare Second Class

C+, 60 -64 Sound Pass (There is not a 3rd class)

C, 55 -59 Pass

C-, 50 - 54 Marginal Pass

D+, 45 -49 Marginal Fail

D, 40 -44 Clear Fail

D-, 35 -39 Heavy Fail

E or F, 0 -34 Poor Fail (Not graded further)

I, = Incomplete

DIS, = Disqualified, no credit

DNS, = Did not sit

W, - Withdrawn.

Anyway I just wanted to show everyone what I thought of the albums and how I reached these results, but most of the replies make me feel like I am on trial and that everyone is acting like they have a PHD.

Loosen up y'all

^^ Sowwy I wasn't that serious about the whole "scientific" thing and I'm sure others weren't either always really liked your posts!

Anyway NZ sounds awesome. You're right about the US, I think in most universities it goes like this:

93 or higher = A (usually there's no difference in A+ and A when calculating GPA...)

90 - 92 = A-

87 - 89 = B+

83 - 86 = B

80 - 82 = B-

77 - 79 = C+

73 - 76 = C

70 - 72 = C-

And 60's in the D range and if you get 59 or lower you fail. But technically D is not acceptable for all the required classes for your major and minor so D can be considered as a failing grade as well. I love how you guys have different names for D and Fs...Marginal fail, clear fail, heavy fail, poor fail.....as if just getting an F isn't clear and poor enough!! lol jk

Emancipation89 said:

^^ Sowwy I wasn't that serious about the whole "scientific" thing and I'm sure others weren't either always really liked your posts!

Anyway NZ sounds awesome. You're right about the US, I think in most universities it goes like this:

93 or higher = A (usually there's no difference in A+ and A when calculating GPA...)

90 - 92 = A-

87 - 89 = B+

83 - 86 = B

80 - 82 = B-

77 - 79 = C+

73 - 76 = C

70 - 72 = C-

And 60's in the D range and if you get 59 or lower you fail. But technically D is not acceptable for all the required classes for your major and minor so D can be considered as a failing grade as well. I love how you guys have different names for D and Fs...Marginal fail, clear fail, heavy fail, poor fail.....as if just getting an F isn't clear and poor enough!! lol jk

Interesting, I think they would mean the same but they use less of the precentage spectrum. A high C- 72 in ur country probably has the same meaning as a 54 C- here. If you are doing a minor you can get away with 3 conceded passes in total, these are D+ 's, usually in the sake of compassion, many people will round up 49 to 50 and a C-.

Thats only university, at high school now they go on a more simple system as it has to be politically correct (As we have a high number of ethnic minority learners that are 'disadvantaged' by the old system. That is Excellence, Merit, Achieved and Not Achieved, all but Not achieved are passes, theres no numerical limits, but the emphasis is that Achieved is very easy for most people to get and 80% of a class should have an achieved. Subjects are divided up into 6 or 7 units and people gain credits through the year. So you can not achieve in some areas and achieve in others and pass. Merits and Excellence usually only take up 30% or less of the class in total (Unless your class is accelerated). Its politically correct alright.

I kind of new D's were passes, but bad ones as on The Cosby Show when Theo and Denise got D's they always got in trouble.

Thanks for your love 2, love is in short supply on the org at times.

Some more data, I have ranked the albums further and got some more statistics. (These statistics are based on each disc of Sign o the times, Crystal Ball and Emancipation ranked separate.

Total albums ranked: 34 (But 38 whole discs ranked

Mean album score out of 100: 74 (Amazing eaxtly, the albums got 2812 marks out of 3800)

Standard Deviation 14.50 Marks, so a score of 100 would mean its 1.794 SD above average

Median score 3rd Disc of Crystal Ball 76, Musicology 75

Mode scores of 79 (Controversy and Disc 2 of Crystal Ball), 68 (Prince and Batman), 59 (For You and Rainbow Children)

Best for each decade (Decades are 0 to 9, so 1990 is 90s not 80s), 90s includes Crystal Ball and the Bsides albums with many 1980s tracks on them.

1970s 2 albums, Best Prince 68, worst For You 59, average score 63.5

1980s 9 albums (10 discs), Best SOTT disc 2 - 100, worst Batman 68, average score 88.1

1990s 14 albums (18 discs), Best Gold Experience 89, Worst New powersoul 42, average score 68.7

2000s 7 albums (7 discs), Best MPLSOUND 87, Worst NEWS 53, average score 71.3

So its obvious Prince was at his best in the 80s, but the last decade was an improvement on the 90s. The 70s can not really be rated as its only 2 albums and he was just getting started.

The List shows my calculations, the SD figures are from the mean, so New power soul is 2.208 SD's below the mean not above it.

Coming up the songs

My song rankings

Total songs ranked 407

Number of songs getting 10/10 - 82 20.15% 1 song in 5 is a stone classic, what other artist has that many crowd pleasing songs

9/10 - 67 16.45% nearly 2 in 5 Prince songs are incredible

8/10 - 70 17.20%

7/10 - 67 16.45% That means at least 70 percent of his album tracks are good or great

6/10 - 42 10.32%

5/10 - 29 7.12% 6/7 of his musical output is at least decent or much better

4/10 - 23 5.65% 15/16 of his music is listenable

3/10 - 13 3.19%

2/10 - 10 2.48% His bad songs make up less than 5% of his output

1/10 - 4 0.99% Only 4 songs are this bad and they are extreme exceptions.

Albums with most 10/10 songs Sign of the Time Disc 2 7/7, Disc 1 6/9, Purple Rain 5/9

Most consistently good albums, Sign o the time, Parade all 10s and 9s and 1 7, Purple Rain all 10s and 9s, Dirty Mind nothing under an 8.

Albums with most 1/10 songs - None have more than one song, those albums are Graffiti Bridge, Come, Emancipation Disc 2 and Disc 3.

Weakest albums overall, Chaos and Disorder and N.E.W.S have only one song given a 7 out of 10. Newpower soul has 5 tracks scoring 3/10 and only 3 songs over a 4.

Songs that got 1/10 - New Power Generation Part 2, Solo, The Plan, Da da da

2/10's Arms of Orion, Jughead, God, Had U, Friend Lover sister Motherwife, Face Down, The other side of the pillow, fascination, comeback (The Truth has the most 2/10 songs on any album), Shoo Bed Ooh,

Songs I gave 10/10 to

Dirty Mind, Uptown, Partyup, Controversy, Sexuality, Do Me Baby, 1999, LRC, DMSR, Free (Yeah I love it), International Lover, Lets go crazy, The Beautiful Ones, Computer Blue, WDC, Purple Rain, ATWIAD, Condition of the Heart, Raspberry Beret, UTCM, Girls and Boys, Mountains, Kiss, Anotherlover..., Sometimes it snows in April, Sign o the Times, Play in the sunshine, Housequake, Starfish and Coffee, Hot thing, 4eva in my life, All of Disc 2, U got the look right up to Adore, When 2 R in Love (On lovesexy and Black album), Alphabet Street, Anna stesia, Electric Chair, Joy in Repetition, Still Would stand all time, Cream, Insatiable, The Continental, 3 chains o gold, 7, Erotic city, Irresistable Bitch. La la la hee hee, 17 days, shes always in my hair, another lonely xmas, power fantastic, dark, Letitgo, Endorphinmachine, Shh!, Dolphin, I hate u, I cant make u love me, Curious child, Holy River, One of us, The love we make, dream factory, Crucial, Sexual suicide, good love, days of wild, last heart, she spoke 2 me, everyday is a winding road, Black Sweat, Lion of Judah, Dreamer, Dance 4 me, Ol skool company, no more candy 4 U!!!!!!

Wow you work hard! But it's nice to measure it. I like the songs idea. I'll do it with mine later when I have more time. Other priorities right now. But I took your advice, I've order the B-sides. I'll get the 2 hits cd again but I'll give those away.

You still haven't told me what the 'g' stuff refers to.

NZ sounds cool by the way, wouldn't mind moving down there. Weather is so much better than north EU.

Sorry Bohemian

G rated means general audiences, as the music on Hits 1 is a lot more 'clean' than that on the Hits 2. (I remember when they released it, Prince wanted to call it the Good, The Bad and the Ugly). That dosen't mean that the Hits 1 is Sunday school material, you still have sexy lines like "I ve got a sugarcane etc", but the songs on the disc are mostly less sexual ones such as Diamonds and Pearls, Pink Cashmere, 1999, WDC etc.

Hits 2 was the more xrated material, where the sex in the songs is more explicit, such as Cream, Head, If I was ur girlfriend.

New Zealand has its advantages yes, but it also has some big diadvantages that people in the EU and US don't notice, one is that we get very few big name stars visiting here, including Prince who just recently passed on coming here after Australia. People often confuse us for Australia, the infrastructure is poor, we have a serious poverty problem, ethnic issues and our country is in decline, we have massive under reported unemployment (I have been unemployed for 18 months) and a very unpopular government.

Our weather is very different to Australia's, its mostly cool and wet and we get a lot of storms and floods and very little sunshine in our winters, even our summers are cool and dull by international standards. At the moment its early winter, about 5 - 16 degrees, but 100% humidity and near constant rain, its not very pleasant, I would prefer the snow you guys get.

A bar chart is neccessary here.

As the chart clearly shows, while his output from the 80's is far superior to the rest of his discography, Musicology, 3121 and the Lotusflower(single disk) clearly bring up the average for the last decade and show the 2000's to be slightly better than the 90's

V10LETBLUES said:

A bar chart is neccessary here.

As the chart clearly shows, while his output from the 80's is far superior to the rest of his discography, Musicology, 3121 and the Lotusflower(single disk) clearly bring up the average for the last decade and show the 2000's to be slightly better than the 90's

Wow you don't like his later stuff very much do you? And where is For You

Heres my graph

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The gaps are the following albums Left to Right, Prince, Controversy, Purple Rain, Parade, SOTT Disc 2 (The one with 100), Batman, Diamonds and Pearls, The Hits, Come, The Gold experience, Emancipation Disc 1, and Disc 3, Crystal Ball Disc 2, The Truth, The Vault old friends for sale, The Rainbow Children, Musicology, Planet Earth, MPLsOUND. Numbers below all jumbled are just years, have no idea why the graph left those names out.

[Edited 6/5/12 19:39pm]

Your list is not bad, but I would want MPLSound should be much, much, lower on the list IMO.

Adorecream said:

Heres my graph

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The gaps are the following albums Left to Right, Prince, Controversy, Purple Rain, Parade, SOTT Disc 2 (The one with 100), Batman, Diamonds and Pearls, The Hits, Come, The Gold experience, Emancipation Disc 1, and Disc 3, Crystal Ball Disc 2, The Truth, The Vault old friends for sale, The Rainbow Children, Musicology, Planet Earth, MPLsOUND. Numbers below all jumbled are just years, have no idea why the graph left those names out.

[Edited 6/5/12 19:39pm]

Pretty cool.

Overall doesnt look too much diffrent than mine. But yours is much nicer.

kewlschool said:

Your list is not bad, but I would want MPLSound should be much, much, lower on the list IMO.

Sorry I am just realy feeling that whole album, the drum machines, the vocals ad the fact its 3 tight dance numbers, 3 great ballads, one funky sex rap and 2 very high quality funk/rock jams to end it all, and don't u just think No more candy 4 U is an amazing number. The album is his quirkiest and most playful thing in years. Lotusflow3r is alright too, but its predicatbale compared to this.