Which do you prefer:

Diamonds & Pearls or Love Symbol?

Comparisons:

Diamonds & Pearls:

Released: October 1, 1991

Sales: 6.4M World Wide

Singles/ U.S. Hot 100 Chart Position:

1. Get Off - #21

2. Cream - #1

3. Diamonds & Pearls -#3

4. Money Don't Matter 2 Night -#23

Track Listing:

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Love Symbol:

Released: October 13, 1992

Sales: 2.9M World Wide

Singles/ U.S. Hot 100 Chart Position:

1. My Name is Prince - #36

2. Sexy M.F. - #66

3. 7 -#7

4. Damn U -#105

5. The Morning Papers -#44

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In my opinion...

Diamonds & Pearls:

Strongest Track: Insatiable

Weakest Track: Jughead

Love Symbol:

Strongest Track: And God Created Woman

Weakest Track: Arrogance

feeluupp said:

'Gett Off' is my jam but I cannot listen to 'Cream' for 2 seconds.

'Love 2 the 9's'' is my favorite track of , 'Sacrifice of Victor' does nothing for me

I prefer Love Symbol.

The previous album Diamonds And Pearls is a strong album,but I think it's a really "safe" album.Nothing wrong with that.But the follow-up,Love Symbol is much more innovative,adventurous and energized! And might I add,it's more funky.

KingSausage said:

Symbol stomps on D&P.

Yeah that. D&P had its fantastic moments, but there was a lot of bullshit too. Symbol Album is just as guilty, but not as much. Just overall better songwriting on the Symbol Album.

I just cannot pick one ............ I like both Diamonds and Pearls and

Symbol LP is way better than D&P, IMO ..."Arrogance" is a weak song?...since when?

"what make a man wanna rule the world?.(A double A double arrogance)..make him man enough to say he 50/50 girl?"

P is in rare lyrical form on Arrogance...the beat is sick too...

"Sweet Baby" ... "Love 2 the 9's..."and god created woman"..."Morning Papers"

nothing on D&P can touch them...

and cosign whoever said they couldnt listen to Cream

i always thought "Cream" was Prince's most overrated song...i never liked it either

"Insatiable" and "Walk Dont Walk" and "Diamonds & Pearls" are the only songs on D&P that can hold their own with the best songs on the Symbol LP

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I suppose I'd give a slight edge to Symbol, but there's a great album in there if you take the best tracks from the both of them and ditch most of the rap and segues.

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D&P all the way. For Rosie Gaines alone it pisses all over symbol. Nothing on symbol comes close to Gett Off, Willing and Able, Insatiable, and the title track. I will always love 7 and God Created Woman, but with no Rosie, the rapping, Kirstie Ally, and over all cheesiness of symbol kills it for me.

Quite a difficult question but I think I'd have to say Symbol. D&P has some proper good tracks on it (Gett off, Live 4 love etc) but Symbol is more of a coherent album to listen to from start to finish. With D&P I'm skipping quite a bit where as with Symbol I think there is like 1 or 2 tracks that I skip? Also D&P has Jughead on it so that drags it down more than any other sub par song could ever do

feeluupp said:

In my opinion...

Diamonds & Pearls:

Strongest Track: Insatiable

Weakest Track: Jughead

Love Symbol:

Strongest Track: And God Created Woman

Weakest Track: Arrogance

This matches my opinion exactly!

xpertluva said:

I suppose I'd give a slight edge to Symbol, but there's a great album in there if you take the best tracks from the both of them and ditch most of the rap and segues.

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This describes soooo many Prince albums. You're right. You could actually make two mashups from these records, one with the funk stuff and one with the ballad stuff. I prefer Symbol myself. "Damn U", "And God Created Woman" and "Love 2 the 9's" alone put it at the top. "Gett Off" is pretty great though.

Both are pretty wack, but Symbol is somewhat less wack. So Symbol.

I really 'em both. But if I simply must pick one over the other, I have to go with because:

My Name Is Prince - It came about a little late maybe but there was a time when that should have been his anthem!

2 the 9's - If you've never wanted to be loved like that, my heart weeps for you.

Sexy MF - What? I can call people that I haven't talked to in years and that song will start playing.

The Continental - Why settle for a star, when you can have the sun? Seemed like a damn good question to me at the time.

Damn U - The same response I have for Sexy MF.

Do u have to ask? Some of D n P is cool, but mostly seems like just an attempt to showcase some hits whereas Symbol feels like a complete universe in album form.

Diamonds and Pearls has more classics. "Diamonds and Pearls," "Cream," "Insatiable," "Money Don't Matter 2 Night," "Thunder," "Strollin," and "Gett Off" are some of my favorites of his.

But LS is waaaaaaay more consistent.. D&P has a few clunkers but LS is consistently badass throughout. With the exception of "Arrogance" (which is shit). I even love "The Flow"

I love both though. A catchy pop 'n' B band album and a fantasy 'rock opera' set. He didn't lose originality in the 90s imo

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Of course feeluupp would post the sales-figures

Somebody post those pics of Prince rollerskating