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Prince's Top 10 albums EXCLUDING Dirty Mind thru Loveexy

So take away his prime period, and what are his 10 best?

10. Emancipation

9. Diamonds & Pearls

8. Love Symbol

7. Come

6. Prince

5. Graffiti Bridge

4. 3121

3. Lotusflow3r

2. Art Official Age

1. The Gold Experience

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Reply #1 posted 12/24/14 7:55am

feeluupp

1. Love Symbol

2. Graffiti Bridge

3. Batman

4. Diamonds & Pearls

5. Prince

6. Come

7. The Gold Experience

8. 3121

9. Emancipation

10. The Rainbow Children

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Reply #2 posted 12/24/14 8:04am

warning2all

1)Rainbow Children
2)3121
3)Graffiti Bridge
4)Symbol
5)Come
6)The Vault


THATS IT.

He makes good individual songs, not albums.
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Reply #3 posted 12/24/14 8:27am

mordang

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1.The Gold Experience

2.The Rainbow Children

3.Plectrumelectrum

4.Art Official Age

5.One Nite Alone (piano)

6.N.E.W.S.

7.Graffity Bridge

8.Prince

9.Love Symbol

10. For You


"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
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Reply #4 posted 12/24/14 9:53am

rusty1

1)The Rainbow Children
2)emancipation
3)TGE
BOB4theFUNK
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Reply #5 posted 12/24/14 10:16am

dm3857

The Gold Experience

Come

The Truth

Love Symbol

Diamonds and Pearls

Art Official Age

LotusFlow3r

Batman

3121

Emancipation

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Reply #6 posted 12/24/14 6:48pm

thedoorkeeper

Come
The Truth
3121
One Night Alone
The Gold Experience
Emancipation
Art Official Age
Love Symbol
The Rainbow Children
Crystal Ball

I took Graffiti Bridge offf because it is a
movie soundtrack not a Prince album. IMHO
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Reply #7 posted 12/24/14 7:11pm

TASKAE

PlectrumElectrum

The Rainbow Children

NEWS

3121

The Gold Experience

MPLSound

Crystal Ball (the songs that would have made the Dawn)

Exodus

Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

NPGMC albums


That was harder than I thought it would be.

[Edited 12/24/14 19:11pm]

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Reply #8 posted 12/24/14 7:32pm

Adorecream

1. The Gold Experience

2. Art Official age

3. 3121

4. Crystal Ball

5. Lotusflow3r/MPLSound

6. Diamonds and Pearls

7. Chaos and Disorder

8. Prince

9. Planet Earth

10. Come

Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name
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Reply #9 posted 12/24/14 7:46pm

bobgeorge77

Love Symbol

Come

The Gold Experience

Art Official Age

Emancipation

Graffity Bridge

Batman

Crystal Ball

Prince

3121

wow....that was harder than I thought it would be!!

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Reply #10 posted 12/24/14 7:58pm

thanks2joniand
u

the rainbow children

the gold experience

lotusflow3r

art official age

3121

one nite alone (piano)

the truth

n.e.w.s

hmmmm.....i can't bring myself to complete this list.
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Reply #11 posted 12/24/14 11:55pm

datdude

This was hard, I found myself thinking about sales, hit singles, buzz, charting but then I decided it came down to my personal enjoyment, particularly upon first listen, and how often I go to (or went to) them, so here goes.

1) Prince

2) 3121

3) Lotusflower

4) Love Symbol

5) Batman

6) Come

7) The Rainbow Children

8) AOA

9) The Gold Experience

10) The Truth

I had to come back and just say, DAMN. this was a hard list to compile and it doesn't contain the "classic" albums. Man, not too many artists propose this dilemma. We're spoiled, but I'm grateful!

[Edited 12/25/14 0:15am]

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Reply #12 posted 12/25/14 1:46am

fabriziovenera
ndi

a) the truth

b) n.e.w.s.

c) crystal ball

d) the war

e) O)+>

f) the rainbow children

g) art official age

h) emancipation

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Reply #13 posted 12/25/14 2:09am

novabrkr

1-10

The Gold Experience
The Rainbow Children
Exodus
Emancipation
Graffiti Bridge
Planet Earth
Come
Chaos & Disorder
3121
Symbol


Emancipation ranks so high up, as it's just got so many songs among the 36 that I like. Planet Earth I put so high up there, because I find myself listening to it a lot more than many other records (even if they'd be artistically more ambitious, I don't find them as enjoyable to listen to).

I know D&P and Symbol are important albums and have some classic cuts, but there's too much silly macho bullshit and early-90s mainsteam style music on those for me to be able to listen to them too much anymore. Other "more serious" albums like Lotusflow3r sound just half-finished to me.

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Reply #14 posted 12/25/14 2:15am

m33kn3ss

Emancipation

Crystal Ball

20ten

o--(--> Symbol

Batman

Come

The Gold Experience

Rainbow Children

Planet Earth

PLECTRUMELECTRUM

Superfunkycalifragisexy!
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Reply #15 posted 12/25/14 2:37am

SuperSoulFight
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Hey, this is fun!
For You
Musicology
Lotusflower
Art Official Age
3121
20Ten
Emancipation
Gold Experience
Come
Chaos & Disorder
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Reply #16 posted 12/25/14 2:50am

MattyJam

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In order:

1. Love Symbol

2. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

3. Graffiti Bridge

4. Come

5. Emancipation

6. New Power Soul

7. Planet Earth

8. MPLSound

9. The Rainbow Children

10. One Nite Alone (piano and vocal)

I would probably rank AOA 11th.

[Edited 12/25/14 2:51am]

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Reply #17 posted 12/26/14 1:11pm

xpertluva

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1. Lotusflower

2. The Gold Experience

3. The Vault

4. The Rainbow Children

5. N.E.W.S.

6. Batman

7. 3121

8. Prince

9. Art Official Age

10. ONA (piano)

I agree though that Prince is better at making songs than compiling albums. To a lesser degree, that even applies to his heyday.

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Reply #18 posted 12/26/14 1:45pm

V10LETBLUES

The post peak era ones I listen to


The Black album

Graffiti Bridge

Come

Lotusflow3r

The Truth
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Reply #19 posted 12/26/14 4:02pm

Scooch87

1 - The Symbol Album

2 - Graffitti Bridge

3 - The Gold Experience

4 - Batman

5 - The Rainbow Children

6 - Emancipation

7 - Come

8 - Diamnonds & Pearls

9 - Lotus Flow3r

10 - 3121

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Reply #20 posted 12/26/14 4:33pm

williamb610

Difficult list...in no particular order

1. Art Official Age

2. Batman

3. Graffiti Bridge

4. The Black Album(didn't officially come out until the 90's)

5. Emancipation

6. Come

7. Prince

8. For You

9. Crystal Ball

10. The Truth

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Reply #21 posted 12/26/14 4:53pm

RJOrion

1. AOA

2. For You

3. Prince

4. Symbol LP

5. Black Album

6. Diamonds & Pearls

7. Emancipation

8. Graffiti Bridge

9. 20Ten

10. Come

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Reply #22 posted 12/27/14 12:33am

Javi

1. Graffiti Bridge

2. Diamonds And Pearls

3. Love Symbol

4. The Rainbow Children

5. Art Official Age

6. The Gold Experience

7. Planet Earth

8. Prince

9. Lotus Flow3r

10. For You

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Reply #23 posted 12/27/14 1:44am

LiveToTell86

1. Diamonds & Pearls

2. Love Symbol

3. 3121

4. LotusFlow3r

5. Musicology

6. The Gold Experience

7. Art Official Age

8. Planet Earth

9. Prince

10. The Rainbow Children

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Reply #24 posted 12/27/14 2:30am

thedance

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01. The Gold Experience (10 out of 10) (masterpiece!)
02. Diamonds & Pearls (9) (I love the big singles)
03. prince The Love Symbol Album (9) (brilliant!)
04. Come (9) (brilliant as well!)
05. The Rainbow Children (8)
06. Graffiti Bridge (8) (the Prince songs are great!)
07. Prince (8)
08. For You (8)
09. Batman (8)
10. Art Official Age (8)

I wouldn't choose 3121, Musicology, Planet Earth, 20Ten, LotusFlower etc...

......these are not even in my Prince top-20. Sorry just imho. wink

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Reply #25 posted 12/27/14 5:08am

Pentacle

thedance said:


06. Graffiti Bridge (8) (the Prince songs are great!)



You mean all 17 songs are great? I agree!


Anyone who doesn't list GB in this thread should be disqualified as a Prince fan.

Stop the Prince Apologists ™
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Reply #26 posted 12/27/14 8:09am

thedance

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"Loveexy"..?

I wonder why the guy (or girl) who made this thread still haven't made an edit correction to that headline?

eek

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Reply #27 posted 12/27/14 8:33am

warewolf95

In no order:

The Gold Experience

Come (the March 11, 1993 configuration)

Graffiti Bridge

Love Symbol

Musicology

Emancipation

The Rainbow Children

Art Official Age

3121

Lotusflow3r

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Reply #28 posted 12/27/14 9:49am

SuperSoulFight
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Pentacle said:



thedance said:



06. Graffiti Bridge (8) (the Prince songs are great!)






You mean all 17 songs are great? I agree!



Anyone who doesn't list GB in this thread should be disqualified as a Prince fan.


Well, disqualify me then! bringiton
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Reply #29 posted 12/28/14 6:49am

LuneCerise

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1. prince

2. Emancipation

3. Graffiti Bridge

4. The Gold Experience

5. BATMAN

6. Prince

7. For You

8. Crystal Ball

9. Chaos and Disorder

10. Musicology

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[Edited 12/28/14 6:54am]

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