thisisreece said:

U r INCORRECT. U R the weakest link...goodbye.

Sott is flawless but for slow love. This is actually factually true. If u read preverbs 12:13 backwards and record it and then play it forward at 45 rpms while recording and play THAT backwards...it says so.

BobGeorge909 said:

You forgot to carry the X. Go back and start over. No running.

Purple Rain may well be his only 'flawless' album. However, albums like 1999 and Parade come very close. SOTT is just too long, though the title track is easily one of his finest compositions.

One flawless album is much better than most artists. Good luck trying to find a flawless album by The Beatles

starguitar said:

Revolver.

KingSausage said:

starguitar said:

Purple Rain may well be his only 'flawless' album. However, albums like 1999 and Parade come very close. SOTT is just too long, though the title track is easily one of his finest compositions.

One flawless album is much better than most artists. Good luck trying to find a flawless album by The Beatles

Revolver.

The whole album is 35 minutes long

Pretty much every Prince album would be flawless if it was only 35 minutes long. That's less than half of a single disc of Emancipation.

Militant said:

Parade is 40:57. Dirty Mind is, what, 28 minutes? Let's not split hairs.

KingSausage said:

starguitar said:

Purple Rain may well be his only 'flawless' album. However, albums like 1999 and Parade come very close. SOTT is just too long, though the title track is easily one of his finest compositions.

One flawless album is much better than most artists. Good luck trying to find a flawless album by The Beatles

Revolver.

Good Day Sunshine says no

KingSausage said:

DAMNIT!

KingSausage said:

Militant said:

The whole album is 35 minutes long

Pretty much every Prince album would be flawless if it was only 35 minutes long. That's less than half of a single disc of Emancipation.

Parade is 40:57. Dirty Mind is, what, 28 minutes? Let's not split hairs.

Yes, and those albums are flawless!!! I'm saying, Emancipation, Symbol. D&P, etc would all be flawless if they were 35 mins long.

Example, a 35 minute D&P could look like:

Thunder
Daddy Pop

Diamonds & Pearls

Cream

Gett Off
Money Don't Matter Tonight

Insatiable.

To me that's a flawless record right there.

Militant said:

Okay. I got you now. I totally agree!

Hmmm...very interesting question although can't agree with the flaws identified.

I've never played 'For You' or 'Prince' all the way through. It's just 'not there as Prince' for me.

On Dirty Mind through Batman any 'flaws' are just part of the charm. Can probably only skip tracks because I want to hear another one over again.

Couldn't get with Graffiti Bridge as an album at all but had no probs with playing the film instead.

D&P is also a complete entity whose flaws are part of the album experience although one I never play anymore, it having got very tied up with its time, somehow.

Symbol, along with The Rainbow Children, I can only in entirety.

They're journeys and you can't get off the bus til they're over.

'One Night Alone...Live' has this quality but it's an experience where you can hop on hop off but again, there are no problems with any part of it.
Probably 'The Truth' as well although I never seem to finish that journey.

Conversely, I rarely play 'Lovesexy' in its entirety even though there's supposedly no choice on my copy. It IS a journey but it's not one I always wanna take, preferring some of the signposts as standalones.

'Emancipation' has lots of flaws but on each play, they're different tracks. No way I can do the whole thing in a sitting. 'Crystal Ball' has never worked for me as an album concept, leaving man of its tracks unplayed, forgotten. I couldn't even say what's on it, really. It was conceived as a bootleg and kind of is.

The rest of them, I don't treat as album experiences, much. It's more a kind of 'Oh that track...what album's it on?'

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Militant said:

KingSausage said:

Militant said: Parade is 40:57. Dirty Mind is, what, 28 minutes? Let's not split hairs.

Yes, and those albums are flawless!!! I'm saying, Emancipation, Symbol. D&P, etc would all be flawless if they were 35 mins long.

Example, a 35 minute D&P could look like:

Thunder
Daddy Pop

Diamonds & Pearls

Cream

Gett Off
Money Don't Matter Tonight

Insatiable.

To me that's a flawless record right there.

I have my own flawless version of that album, neither Thunder nor Daddy Pop are on it. Sometimes I think prince is right in releasing the amount he does, the rest of us can't bloody agree on what his good songs are.