Averett said:

SOTT screams out for my love and yet those damn PR b-sides always tip the scales...

You almost had me jumping board, but the real SOTT has with him the Holy Trilogy...
If we're allowed to include some non-album tracks, then there's the whole Camille Album...

I go for SOTT, for its more matured visions.

PR is an adolescent's explosion, and a testimony to that.
SOTT is for the longer run, and the uneasy path.

I'm a gonna go with SOTT, if not for Adore alone, but it's got so many dayum killer trax, If I was your Girl Friend, Housequake, Sign of the Times, Strange Relationship, I could go on. Of course the same could be said for PR, but it's a bit too cliche for me at this point, I listen to SOTT way more than PR trax.

Why not just appreciate them both and take them for what they are? Two completely different albums filled with great music.

Every song is a winner on Purple Rain. Not so with Sign "O" The Times--"Forever In My Life", "Slow Love", "Strange Relationship"

rusty1 said:

It's silly to put down "sign o'the times" Almost every song is a winner. "U got the look" the weakest on that album. A classic double album

"U got the look" is the only song I would skip! It was the biggest hit here in England guess its been overplayed.

Why was Sheena Easton on that song?

zennabell said:

rusty1 said:

It's silly to put down "sign o'the times" Almost every song is a winner. "U got the look" the weakest on that album. A classic double album

"U got the look" is the only song I would skip! It was the biggest hit here in England guess its been overplayed.

Why was Sheena Easton on that song?

Ow c'm'on. Every great double album has to have its FM silly song.
What about "Lost In The Supermarket" (London Calling, The Clash) or "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (The Beatles a.k.a. The White Album, The Beatles)?

Genius is in the track sequencing. Disc 2 starts with the opposite effect of disc 1.

"Sign 'O' The Times" gloomy view on the world leaves place to the joys and hopes of "Play In The Sunshine".
"U Got The Look" bratty view on the "World Series Of Love", and the spread importance of vanities,
leaves place to one of pop's most profound lyrics on the couple relationships subject.

Which is followed by "Strange Relationship".
Which is followed by "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man".

Side 1 of disc 2 is all about the War Of The Sexes. "Purple Rain" is as well, to some extent.
"Darling Nikki" will kick asses for ever, but "It" is a better sum of all previous Prince experiments
to achieve the frustration and madness sex can bring. It's more adult, he doesn't have to call her a whore.
And the Fairlight orchestra stab riff is an 80's-filtered recall of John Cage's violin in "Venus In Furs" (The Velvet Underground).
There's a whip in the room, you can tell.

But I still vote for "Sign", mostly because of the title track and its video, which was so ahead of its time
that it looks like an Apple Itunes commercial, or a Flat Design manifest.
Johnny fucking Ive ripped it all.

The heritage? The video is an 80's-filtered recall of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues".

Musically?
He accomplishes more in one song that a whole lotta musicians in their whole career.


And "Adore" is one of the best ballads of all time, it's up there in the top 10, along with James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder.
It's the only one to be so androgynous ("I'll give you my body" is unheard in a man's vocable),
so rock'n'roll ("They know U R my fix" — who? Why, the angels of course! "WTF..." thinks the male,

hearing Prince seducing every woman through the speakers with an unmatchable elegance, his own girlfriend included),
so deep ("I'll give U my time").

"Purple Rain" may be stellar, but "Adore" is heaven.

bonatoc said:

zennabell said:

"U got the look" is the only song I would skip! It was the biggest hit here in England guess its been overplayed.

Why was Sheena Easton on that song?

Ow c'm'on. Every great double album has to have its FM silly song.
What about "Lost In The Supermarket" (London Calling, The Clash) or "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (The Beatles a.k.a. The White Album, The Beatles)?

Genius is in the track sequencing. Disc 2 starts with the opposite effect of disc 1.

"Sign 'O' The Times" gloomy view on the world leaves place to the joys and hopes of "Play In The Sunshine".
"U Got The Look" bratty view on the "World Series Of Love", and the spread importance of vanities,
leaves place to one of pop's most profound lyrics on the couple relationships subject.

Which is followed by "Strange Relationship".
Which is followed by "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man".

Side 1 of disc 2 is all about the War Of The Sexes. "Purple Rain" is as well, to some extent.
"Darling Nikki" will kick asses for ever, but "It" is a better sum of all previous Prince experiments
to achieve the frustration and madness sex can bring. It's more adult, he doesn't have to call her a whore.
And the Fairlight orchestra stab riff is an 80's-filtered recall of John Cage's violin in "Venus In Furs" (The Velvet Underground).
There's a whip in the room, you can tell.

But I still vote for "Sign", mostly because of the title track and its video, which was so ahead of its time
that it looks like an Apple Itunes commercial, or a Flat Design manifest.
Johnny fucking Ive ripped it all.

The heritage? The video is an 80's-filtered recall of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues".

Musically?
He accomplishes more in one song that a whole lotta musicians in their whole career.


And "Adore" is one of the best ballads of all time, it's up there in the top 10, along with James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder.
It's the only one to be so androgynous ("I'll give you my body" is unheard in a man's vocable),
so rock'n'roll ("They know U R my fix" — who? Why, the angels of course! "WTF..." thinks the male,

hearing Prince seducing every woman through the speakers with an unmatchable elegance, his own girlfriend included),
so deep ("I'll give U my time").

"Purple Rain" may be stellar, but "Adore" is heaven.

Purple Rain's themes and the Crosses them are more similar about salvation, redemption, reconciliation. Purple Rains focus is more on relationships(any relationship) the Cross is more focused on nature, the universe, man/nature and it's creator

.

the Beautiful Ones & Adore or more alike in being ballads. I think TBO's overruns Adore like beautiful tidal waves. Both of these songs have the same focus. And they definately compliment each other. The former being the seduction, the wooing of the object of his affection, the latter continues the focus. Both stellar.