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

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

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

The Gold Experience

Come

The Truth

Love Symbol

Diamonds and Pearls

Art Official Age

LotusFlow3r

Batman

3121

Emancipation

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.

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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

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!!

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!

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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

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.

Emancipation

Crystal Ball

20ten

o--(--> Symbol

Batman

Come

The Gold Experience

Rainbow Children

Planet Earth

PLECTRUMELECTRUM

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

01. The Gold Experience (10 out of 10) (masterpiece!)
02. Diamonds & Pearls (9) (I love the big singles)
03. 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.

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.

"Loveexy"..?

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

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

Pentacle said:

1.

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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