Andy1202 said:

Yes or No Why

I don't know how many he has.

well i suppose one album per year would be the benchmark - and i think he's pretty much achieved that, if you consider some years he released more than one album or the NPGMClub which had about 2-3 albums worth of songs (choc invasion/slaughterhouse) - plus you could add in the satellite projects (NPG, madhouse, Time, Sheila E, Family, Bria etc).

I've not counted but well over 50 albums!!!???

So in answer to your question: Umm, depends on definition of should he have DONE more already or should he release more from now onwards?

Yes he should release more.

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well i think it's pretty obvious that we as a hardcore fanbase could handle

a lot more than what he releases.

an album every 4 months would be ideal to me. so 3 albums each year

he could release the odd album commercially to stores or itunes and just

put the weird stuff or the fluff, whatever, up on his own site.

should have been doing that for years now and made a pretty penny in

the bargain. then, whenever one of his commercial releases hit big time

the traffic to his site would increase and more people would check out

the other stuff on the site.

win win situation.

but perhaps too much logic for prince world

of the top of my head roughly how many albums he should have out (at least): (in rough order)

0. as Studio musician (94 East, Lewis Connection etc)

1. Pre-For You outtakes and demos

2. For You

3. The Rebels

4. Prince

5. Dirty Mind

6. The Time

7. Controversy

8. 1999

9. What Time Is It?

10. Purple Rain

11. The Second Coming

12. Songs for others (1980-1984)

13. Ice cream Castles

14. Glamorous Life

15. Roadhouse Garden

16. Around The World In A Day

17. Parade

18. The Family

19. Madhouse 8

20. Madhouse 16

21. Romance 1600

22. Dream Factory

23. Sign O The TImes

24. Camille

25. Black Album

26. The Flesh

27. Songs for others (1985-1987)

28. Sheila E

29. Lovesexy

30. Madhouse 24 (1)

31. Corporate World

32. Times Squared

33. Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic (Original)

34. Batman

35. Sheila E (1989 unreleased)

36. MC Flash

37. Time Waits For No One

38. Cinderella Theory

39. Graffiti Bridge

40. Ingrid Chavez May ?? 1992

41. Diamonds & Pearls

42. Songs for others (1988-1992)

43. Symbol

44. Hits/bsides

45. Goldnigga

46. Come

47. Exodus

48. Madhouse 24 (2)

49. Gold Experience

50. Tora Tora Experience

51. Undertaker

52. Carmen Electra

53. Songs for others (1992-1996)

54. Chaos & Disorder

55. Old Friends For Sale

56. Girl 6

57. Child of the Sun

58. Emancipation

59.The Dawn

60. Crystal Ball

61. The Truth

62. Kamasutra

63. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic

64. Rave Un2 The Joy Fanatstic

65. GCS 2000

66. Come 2 My House

67. New Power Soul

68.Songs for others (1997-2001)

69. NPGMusicclub tracks (not on...)

70. Peace

71. Chocolate Invasion

72. Slaughterhouse

73. Madrid 2 Chicago

74. Best of...

75. Rainbow Children

76. Xpectation

77. One Nite Alone Live

78. One Nite Alone Piano

79. C-Note

80. N.E.W.S.

81. Ultimate

82. Musicology

83. Milk & Honey

84. 3121

85. Indigo Nights

86. Planet Earth

87. Lotus Flow3r

88. MPLSound

89. Elixer

90. 20Ten

91. 3rd Eye Girl

just to name a few.

SuperSoulFighter said:

^And people STILL want more?

please, i could handle all those in just over a year

Dandroppedadime said:

of the top of my head roughly how many albums he should have out (at least): (in rough order)

0. as Studio musician (94 East, Lewis Connection etc)

1. Pre-For You outtakes and demos

2. For You

3. The Rebels

4. Prince

5. Dirty Mind

6. The Time

7. Controversy

8. 1999

9. What Time Is It?

10. Purple Rain

11. The Second Coming

12. Songs for others (1980-1984)

13. Ice cream Castles

14. Glamorous Life

15. Roadhouse Garden

16. Around The World In A Day

17. Parade

18. The Family

19. Madhouse 8

20. Madhouse 16

21. Romance 1600

22. Dream Factory

23. Sign O The TImes

24. Camille

25. Black Album

26. The Flesh

27. Songs for others (1985-1987)

28. Sheila E

29. Lovesexy

30. Madhouse 24 (1)

31. Corporate World

32. Times Squared

33. Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic (Original)

34. Batman

35. Sheila E (1989 unreleased)

36. MC Flash

37. Time Waits For No One

38. Cinderella Theory

39. Graffiti Bridge

40. Ingrid Chavez May ?? 1992

41. Diamonds & Pearls

42. Songs for others (1988-1992)

43. Symbol

44. Hits/bsides

45. Goldnigga

46. Come

47. Exodus

48. Madhouse 24 (2)

49. Gold Experience

50. Tora Tora Experience

51. Undertaker

52. Carmen Electra

53. Songs for others (1992-1996)

54. Chaos & Disorder

55. Old Friends For Sale

56. Girl 6

57. Child of the Sun

58. Emancipation

59.The Dawn

60. Crystal Ball

61. The Truth

62. Kamasutra

63. Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic

64. Rave Un2 The Joy Fanatstic

65. GCS 2000

66. Come 2 My House

67. New Power Soul

68.Songs for others (1997-2001)

69. NPGMusicclub tracks (not on...)

70. Peace

71. Chocolate Invasion

72. Slaughterhouse

73. Madrid 2 Chicago

74. Best of...

75. Rainbow Children

76. Xpectation

77. One Nite Alone Live

78. One Nite Alone Piano

79. C-Note

80. N.E.W.S.

81. Ultimate

82. Musicology

83. Milk & Honey

84. 3121

85. Indigo Nights

86. Planet Earth

87. Lotus Flow3r

88. MPLSound

89. Elixer

90. 20Ten

91. 3rd Eye Girl

just to name a few.

Exaggeration or what. Loads of those either simply don't exist, or had little P involvement and can't be classed as his. If if you believe wholheartedly in what you typed, you missed TC Ellis' album. So nerrr.

Dandroppedadime said:

yes, immediately. his recent output has been most poignant.

I wouldn't lose any sleep if half a dozen of them were erased from history.

Andy1202 said:

Yes or No Why

No. First let him make beter albums.

Yes. Let him make proper live albums; no edits or dubs please; no hits please.

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Judging by his recent material (past five years), I would say one new studio album every two years and say half an album or so's 'odd tracks for download' per year (ie 3rdeyegirl stuff, ok but nothing outstanding imo. Minor material for me, but nice to keep the natives happy between hopefully stronger material on proper albums ).

He doesn't seem to have the creativity and the 'midas touch' anymore of being able to make almost everything he touches great, like he had in the '80s. And to be fair, no one else has since.).

IMO - he needs to concentrate more on writing stronger songs before recording them (he's always been too eager to record imo, hence some songs end up weak and underdeveloped), and working on creating a new/ more interesting production sound than he's used in recent years.

Also with his apparent short attention span, he should only release material he really cares about, so he'll be more likely to see all stages through, eg CD release, promotion, appearances, singles/ downloads, related website etc. Not just move on to the next thing without learning fully from the previous experience.

He's 54 now and more of a man of the world than he was 25 years ago. would like to hear more about where he's at now in his songs, like he did at times in the '80s and also during the Emancipation and Rainbow Children era imo, rather than what often sound like 'work songs I did to get some stuff out there' .

Releasing a few (admittedly quite fun) downloads certainly ain't the future imo, unless there's more thematic/ conceptual unity in the songs/ release order of the songs. His last good album for me was Lotusflow3r, more of a proper artistic statement than just a bunch of tracks put together as an album. Lotus would be good if released on CD or as download.