Rainbow Children is brilliant - a Prince masterpiece. I have stood by that since it was released.

I always liked NewPOwerSoul - people will tell you how bad it si but then tell you how good half the tracks are (THe One, Wasted Kisses, Come ON, and Mad Sex).

Emancipation was too much to comprehend and digest properly for general public that has grown shorter on attention span, taste, and appreciation for real music since the early 90s. People immediately want to jump up and dictate how great a single disc of the best tracks would be when a multiple disc album is released - especially when it is Prince who is the only artist left who can actually do this.

New Power Soul and The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale. Both have aged well imo and get solid play to this day in my house.

Rainbow Childrena and Chaos and Disorder. For me two masterpieces and very underated. I think two of his best outputs of his career.

N.E.W.S.

Musically one of the best P album, but a lot of fans seem to not value as it deserves only because of the fact that P doesn't sing on it.

BoraBora said:

N.E.W.S.

Musically one of the best P album, but a lot of fans seem to not value as it deserves only because of the fact that P doesn't sing on it.

" /> love pottering round the house to this!!!

TRC - is this underrated? Maybe outside of P fans, because they don't know about it - but the people I know like it, and the whole ONA tour...

The segues do get on peoples tits though...

Hitnrun Phase I

BoraBora said:

RJOrion said:

1.For You 2.MPLSound 3.The Slaughterhouse 4.Chocolate Invasion

I culled Slaughterhouse & Chocolate Invasion into a single album...and it plays really well!

"N.E.W.S"..This is the only (somewhat) recent recording that I still play since day one. All of the others from "Rave" through "Hit And Run" are collecting dust.

The Truth (I remember a lot of silly review, "this is not funky!")

NEWS

For You and Prince, for some reason many think Dirty Mind was his first album. They seem to forget his first two. 78 to 95 is a perfect run to me.

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The Rainbow Children

N.E.W.S & The Rainbow Children

Both are underappreciated imo and underated.

In the case of the Rainbow Children, I think the subject matter went right over people's heads and they had no idea what message Prince was trying to send. A few got it, most did not and still don't understand the message of the project.

TRC, Rave, and NPS, are probaby the three most maligned (some of the latest albums are getting there but too early to be in the race yet).

TRC is the one that stands out to me as the most unfairly maligned. At the time I thought that was Prince at his most musically accomplished, mature and cohesive. It really is a masterpiece but unfortunately some found the message/religious and political undertones/overtones/lyrical content etc alienating. Jeez there was some mud flying around at the time.

The Rainbow Children is the answer for me.

Graycap23 said:

Graycap23 said:

N.E.W.S & The Rainbow Children

Both are underappreciated imo and underated.

In the case of the Rainbow Children, I think the subject matter went right over people's heads and they had no idea what message Prince was trying to send. A few got it, most did not and still don't understand the message of the project.

I've never understood the message, because I've never tried to, because I don't care to... I just love the album!

Cthulhu said:

Graycap23 said:

N.E.W.S & The Rainbow Children

Both are underappreciated imo and underated.

In the case of the Rainbow Children, I think the subject matter went right over people's heads and they had no idea what message Prince was trying to send. A few got it, most did not and still don't understand the message of the project.

Indeed and about the message of TRC; i am an atheist and i just don't care about the message. The music and sound is just ace. Like someone else said: Prince at his most mature. Even in clothing style etc.

I dig it.

It seems the message is what turns some people off.

I love it.

Emancipation.

Yeah, it's got too many R&B-ish tracks on it, but the amount of hate the set gets here is

FUNKYNESS said:

Rainbow Children is brilliant - a Prince masterpiece. I have stood by that since it was released.

I always liked NewPOwerSoul - people will tell you how bad it si but then tell you how good half the tracks are (THe One, Wasted Kisses, Come ON, and Mad Sex).

Emancipation was too much to comprehend and digest properly for general public that has grown shorter on attention span, taste, and appreciation for real music since the early 90s. People immediately want to jump up and dictate how great a single disc of the best tracks would be when a multiple disc album is released - especially when it is Prince who is the only artist left who can actually do this.

Honestly? All of them. While constructive and educated criticism is reasonable most of what I read is excessive, exaggerated, unexplained and uneducated statements such as "Album X is crap/a turd", which I believe is irrational and very, very arrogant. And it is shown pretty obviously by the randomness of the tracklists on the "make Emancipation a single record" threads that pop-up every 3 months or so: there are as many tracklists as people, which isn't as if a consensus could be reached as to which tracks are the 12 "good" tracks and which 24 are the "bad" ones.

NPS and Emancipation are among my favorite Prince albums, a lot of people totally missed their respective point if u ask me. So I'm totally with u on that one.

However no, Prince isn't the only artist left who can produce multiple discs albums, but he may indeed be the only mainstream artist left who can do it.

novabrkr said:

For You is actually a pretty good album. It's not avant garde like Dirty Mind was, but it had a good vice, nice romantic songs and is an important part of his discography.

Poplife88 said: