The best:

1. Lovesexy

2. The Hits

3. Sign O The Times

4. Come

5. Parade

The worst:

1. 20ten

2. HitNRun

3. MPLSound

4. Lotusflow3r

5. Emancipation (tacky cover and artwork)

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Yeah i'd largely agree with your list, I kind of like Lotusflow3r though. Chaos & Disorder is fairly diabolical.

BEST

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Parade

TRC

Sign 'o' the Times

NEWS

WORST

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Emancipation

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Chaos & Disorder

Musicology

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All time worst cover: NPS ...

Best Covers

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1. Art Official Age - Simplistic and cool

2. Lotusflow3r/MPLSOUND/Elixer - The foldout CD pack with all the combined art is noce and spacey

3. Around the world in a day - Will never date

4. Lovesexy - Perection and sums up the music and feel well.

5. Dirty Mind - Nice and sleazy, Prince looks like a bad MF

.

The Time 1981 - Cool cover, the baddest looking pimps/homosexuals around?

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Worst cover

1. The Rainbow Children - Artist looks like he has drawn them on a drug trip, grim

2. The Vault - Cheep ass photoshop with god awful graphics, plus the 1994 Typhoon hairdo never did it for me.

3. Newpowersoul - Shitty cartoons and music

4. Hitnrun - Lazy ass reindition of AOA cover which was a million times better

5. NPGMC covers - all that rubbish with the banknote, big lipped chick with dreadlocks etc

6. One nite alone Piano - whats with the net and the egg, just ugly.

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Good life single by NPG - Cheep ass ghetto kiddie art

Best: Dirty Mind, 1999, Parade, SOTT, TBA, Come, TRC. All great album covers. My favourite is probably eith SOTT or Come.

Worst: New Power Soul, Rave, Musicology, Lotusflower, Plectrumelectrum, AOA, Hitnrun. Close contender: The Vault OF4S, which would have been a great cover had they just used the photo of Prince on the stool without all the horrible photoshop.

BEST:

Controversy, Purple Rain, Parade

WORST:

Rave Un 2 The Joy Fantastic

I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but I actually quite like the covers to Rave and NPS. I like the half-animated/half-real thing. And the font on Rave is pretty cool!

thisisreece said:

Best: Dirty Mind, 1999, Parade, SOTT, TBA, Come, TRC. All great album covers. My favourite is probably eith SOTT or Come.

Worst: New Power Soul, Rave, Musicology, Lotusflower, Plectrumelectrum, AOA, Hitnrun. Close contender: The Vault OF4S, which would have been a great cover had they just used the photo of Prince on the stool without all the horrible photoshop.

MattyJam said:

The best:

1. Lovesexy

2. The Hits

3. Sign O The Times

4. Come

5. Parade

The worst:

1. 20ten

2. HitNRun

3. MPLSound

4. Lotusflow3r

5. Emancipation (tacky cover and artwork)

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Would add Purple Rain, Around the world in a Day to your best list and Dirty Mind.

Best: Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999(I think the one with him and the band would have been perfect) Around the World in a Day, Parade, Sign o the Times (and I actually like the Lovesexy)

Worst: 20Ten, LotusFlow3r/MSound, Plectrumelectrum, Emancipation, Musicology, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

Best, imo:

Controversy
Parade
Lovesexy

Worst:

NPS
Emancipation
Musicology

OldFriends4Sale said:

thisisreece said:

Best: Dirty Mind, 1999, Parade, SOTT, TBA, Come, TRC. All great album covers. My favourite is probably eith SOTT or Come.

Worst: New Power Soul, Rave, Musicology, Lotusflower, Plectrumelectrum, AOA, Hitnrun. Close contender: The Vault OF4S, which would have been a great cover had they just used the photo of Prince on the stool without all the horrible photoshop.

That black and white natural photo style would have been so much better.

pray4rain said:

All time worst cover: NPS ...

100% AGREE

MattyJam said:

The best:

1. Lovesexy

2. The Hits

3. Sign O The Times

4. Come

5. Parade

The worst:

1. 20ten

2. HitNRun

3. MPLSound

4. Lotusflow3r

5. Emancipation (tacky cover and artwork)

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Come instead of Dirty Mind? butt otherwise I agree ....99 %..

funny how that Jeff Katz dude took some of the most iconic pics inteh 80s yet he done fucked up big time in the 90s...ha ha ha ...I thought bringin Katz back would lead to some great album covers butt I gueesss I was wonrg ha ha ha

Princes albums looked so cool back in the day...butt now they kinda cheap...all that steve Park shittt...fucked up...butt I aint blamin Steve cuz dudes got mad talent...its prince whos calling the shots....and his weird taste leads to results likke new power Soul...

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OldFriends4Sale said:

BEST:

1. ATWIAD

2. 1999

3. PR

4. Controversy

5. SOTT

OK:

6. Dirty Mind

7. D&P

8. Parade

9. For You

10. Graffiti Bridge

AWFUL :

All the rest

WORSE THAN AWFUL

1. Lovesexy

2. Prince

I always thought this would have been the best album cover. The single covers were good.

Lovesexy is undisputadly the worst

I love the Parade album and the Parade cover is cool
But I wonder what was the inspiration for the cover? Why these poses with a title like Parade

Thizz said:

Lovesexy is undisputadly the worst

Hardly the worst, it's actually not a bad photograph. Like 1999 if it was a single cover or inner sleave art, I don't think people would take issue with it.

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Everything post Warners has been terrible, tacky, amateurish, cheap crap. Embarrassingly so.

Prince and Dirty Mind are not mentioned enough here - they are the images that made Prince knows and set him apart

FUNKYNESS said:

Prince and Dirty Mind are not mentioned enough here - they are the images that made Prince knows and set him apart

Best album cover: Controversy

Worst album cover: Rave

Why Controversy is his best album cover---you look at it and it just seems so intriguing.....the alarming newspaper headlines......the 'serious' look in Prince's eyes.....it makess you curious to buy the record and see exactly what's going on here!