This is how i consider his official albums, (not including Madhouse etc)

1. For You

2. Prince
3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. Around The World In A Day

8. Parade

9. Sign o The Times

10. The Black Album

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. Graffiti Bridge

14. Diamonds And Pearls

15. Symbol

16. Come

17. Exodus

18. Gold Experience

19. Chaos and Disorder

20. Emancipation

21. The Truth

22. Newpower Soul

23. Rave Un2

24. The Rainbow Children

25. High (tracklisting leaked, pretty much a finished album)

26. One Nite Alone

27. Xpectation

28. NEWS

29. Musicology

30. slaughterhouse

31. chocolate Invasion

32. Musicology

33. 3121

34. Planet Earth

35. lotusflow3r

36. MPLSound

37. 20ten

38. Art Official Age

39. Hit n Run 1

40. Hit n Run 2

The Prince discography should include ONA Live, It aint over and Indigo nights. Even though they are live, they were officially released by Prince. I dont see why when people talk about his discography that they only count studio albums. His offial discogrphy of everything he released as Prince does include 3 live albums. And two of those were edited and mixed in the studio by Prince using different live show sources. Thinking about it, C-Note falls into that category.

NPS is an NPG release and belongs with Gold Nigga and Exodus because that is what it was released as.

Kamasutra and the Truth should be included because they are seperate projects from CB even though they were packaged within it, much like LF and MPLS are two seperate albums from the same package.

Rave In2 should be included because it was released through the NPGMC as was TCI and Slaughterhouse, which should also be included. And I think ONA piano would fall into the same category.

Basically, my view on the Prince discography should include anything that was released (either en mass or selectively through a website) that had his name on it. Be it Prince, Prince and the Revolution, Prince and the NPG, , and the NPG.... etc.

But for his entire discography the protege albums should also be included but it really starts to get messy once youve counted the entire albums that he wrote. You then get into albums that he contributed only a song or two to. And once you start doing that you need to include songs that never made an album.... And so it goes on.

Either way, its a MASSIVE discography and it appears that was just the tip of the iceberg.

[Edited 5/9/16 7:30am]

Trying to compile a list of albums produced by Prince (not in any order just off the top of my head)

1. For You

2. Prince
3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. Around The World In A Day

8. Parade

9. Sign o The Times

10. The Black Album

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. Graffiti Bridge

14. Diamonds And Pearls

15. Symbol

16. Come

17. Exodus

18. Gold Experience

19. Chaos and Disorder

20. Emancipation

21. The Truth

22. Newpower Soul

23. Rave Un2 (+ Rave In2)

24. The Rainbow Children

25. High (tracklisting leaked, pretty much a finished album)

26. One Nite Alone

27. Xpectation

28. NEWS

29. Musicology

30. slaughterhouse

31. chocolate Invasion

32. Musicology

33. 3121

34. Planet Earth

35. lotusflow3r

36. MPLSound

37. 20ten

38. Art Official Age

39. Hit n Run 1

40. Hit n Run 2

41. Plectrum Electrum?

42. ONA Live

43. It Ain't Over

44. Indigo Nights

45. C-Note

46. The Undertaker

47. The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale

Side projects (co-produced or heavily involved with (more than one song):

48. Goldnigga

49. 1-800 New Funk

50. Child of The Sun

51. The Voice

52. Time Waits For No One

53. The Time

54. What Time Is It?

55. Ice Cream Castles

56. Pandemonium

57. Vanity 6

58. Apollonia 6

59. The Family

60. 8

61. 16 (you could even include 24 and 24npg)

62. Glamorous Life

63. Romance 1600

64. Sheila E.

65. Jill Jones

66. Come 2 My House

67. GCS2000

68. Elixer

69. Back In Time

70. Carmen Electra

71. I'm Ready

72. True Confessions

73. T.E.V.I.N

74. Kamasutra

75. Taja Seville

76. Be Yourself

77. CK

78. In A Word or 2

79. Like a Prayer

80. The Lover in Me

81. Martika's Kitchen

82. The Unexpected

Unreleased Albums (as they are widely known to exist or mentioned by Prince):

Roadhouse Garden

Dream Factory

Crystal Ball

Camille

The Dawn

Happy Tears

Madrid 2 Chicago

Last December

Scorpio

Compilations:

Hits/the b-sides

Girl 6

Ultimate

Best of...

Can anyone add any more?

wouldntulove2loveme said:

What about Kamasutra?

Officially Kamasutra is an album by The NPG Orchestra.

RumAndRaisin said:

This is how i consider his official albums, (not including Madhouse etc)

1. For You

2. Prince
3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. Around The World In A Day

8. Parade

9. Sign o The Times

10. The Black Album

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. Graffiti Bridge

14. Diamonds And Pearls

15. Symbol

16. Come

17. Exodus

18. Gold Experience

19. Chaos and Disorder

20. Emancipation

21. The Truth

22. Newpower Soul

23. Rave Un2

24. The Rainbow Children

25. High (tracklisting leaked, pretty much a finished album)

26. One Nite Alone

27. Xpectation

28. NEWS

29. Musicology

30. slaughterhouse

31. chocolate Invasion

32. Musicology

33. 3121

34. Planet Earth

35. lotusflow3r

36. MPLSound

37. 20ten

38. Art Official Age

39. Hit n Run 1

40. Hit n Run 2

High was

1/ Unreleased

2/ A prototype of what eventually became The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse

.

We can't possibly include unreleased early configuration of albums released at a later date in an official discography.

Rebeljuice said:

The Prince discography should include ONA Live, It aint over and Indigo nights. Even though they are live, they were officially released by Prince. I dont see why when people talk about his discography that they only count studio albums. His offial discogrphy of everything he released as Prince does include 3 live albums. And two of those were edited and mixed in the studio by Prince using different live show sources. Thinking about it, C-Note falls into that category.

NPS is an NPG release and belongs with Gold Nigga and Exodus because that is what it was released as.

Kamasutra and the Truth should be included because they are seperate projects from CB even though they were packaged within it, much like LF and MPLS are two seperate albums from the same package.

Rave In2 should be included because it was released through the NPGMC as was TCI and Slaughterhouse, which should also be included. And I think ONA piano would fall into the same category.

Basically, my view on the Prince discography should include anything that was released (either en mass or selectively through a website) that had his name on it. Be it Prince, Prince and the Revolution, Prince and the NPG, , and the NPG.... etc.

But for his entire discography the protege albums should also be included but it really starts to get messy once youve counted the entire albums that he wrote. You then get into albums that he contributed only a song or two to. And once you start doing that you need to include songs that never made an album.... And so it goes on.

Either way, its a MASSIVE discography and it appears that was just the tip of the iceberg.

[Edited 5/9/16 7:30am]

Kamasutra was officially released by The NPG Orchestra. It of course belongs on a comprehensive discography alongside other side-projects but not on a "Prince" albums discography

Dandroppedadime said:

Trying to compile a list of albums produced by Prince (not in any order just off the top of my head)

1. For You

2. Prince
3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. Around The World In A Day

8. Parade

9. Sign o The Times

10. The Black Album

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. Graffiti Bridge

14. Diamonds And Pearls

15. Symbol

16. Come

17. Exodus

18. Gold Experience

19. Chaos and Disorder

20. Emancipation

21. The Truth

22. Newpower Soul

23. Rave Un2 (+ Rave In2)

24. The Rainbow Children

25. High (tracklisting leaked, pretty much a finished album)

26. One Nite Alone

27. Xpectation

28. NEWS

29. Musicology

30. slaughterhouse

31. chocolate Invasion

32. Musicology

33. 3121

34. Planet Earth

35. lotusflow3r

36. MPLSound

37. 20ten

38. Art Official Age

39. Hit n Run 1

40. Hit n Run 2

41. Plectrum Electrum?

42. ONA Live

43. It Ain't Over

44. Indigo Nights

45. C-Note

46. The Undertaker

47. The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale

Side projects (co-produced or heavily involved with (more than one song):

48. Goldnigga

49. 1-800 New Funk

50. Child of The Sun

51. The Voice more like a MS albums with a lot of Prince tracks nor all produced by him, I don't think Prince was very much involved with the final product and one third of the songs aren't him. It's a complicated case

52. Time Waits For No One

53. The Time

54. What Time Is It?

55. Ice Cream Castles

56. Pandemonium

57. Vanity 6

58. Apollonia 6

59. The Family

60. 8

61. 16 (you could even include 24 and 24npg) Those last 2 are unreleased, so no

62. Glamorous Life

63. Romance 1600

64. Sheila E. Only half the songs, another complicated case

65. Jill Jones

66. Come 2 My House

67. GCS2000

68. Elixer

69. Back In Time

70. Carmen Electra

74. Kamasutra

The following have minimal Prince contributions (down to one song for some!), either you include every possible album with a Prince song on it or you leave them out, but they can't possibly be considered Prince albums, just albums Prince gave some contributions to!

71. I'm Ready

72. True Confessions

73. T.E.V.I.N

75. Taja Seville

76. Be Yourself

77. CK

78. In A Word or 2

79. Like a Prayer

80. The Lover in Me

81. Martika's Kitchen

82. The Unexpected

Unreleased Albums (as they are widely known to exist or mentioned by Prince):

Roadhouse Garden content unknown if existing at all

Dream Factory a prototype of SOTT so no

Crystal Ball a prototype of SOTT so no

Camille a prototype of SOTT so no

The Dawn content unknown if existing at all

Happy Tears content unknown if existing at all

Madrid 2 Chicago content unknown if existing at all

Last December content unknown if existing at all

Scorpio it was only a rework of Child Of The Sun

Compilations:

Hits/the b-sides

Girl 6

Ultimate

Best of...

Can anyone add any more?

Maybe I should have began by posting this list...

If u want something as comprehensive as possible without including anything that has no business being there, here it is: https://sites.google.com/...iscography

Adorecream said:

Me too I agree, NPS is a Prince album, not an NPG one, prominent vocals and Prince songscapes. But it is still his very worst album ever released and probably why so many don't want to count it.

.

My list of so called official studio albums (No proteges, outakes, hits with 3 new songs, greatest hits, collabs or band albums, limited release music club issues)

.

1. For You

2. Prince

3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. ATWIAD

8. Parade

9. Sign o the Times

10. Black album (Issued after Come, but recorded between Sign and Lovesexy so I put it here)

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. GB

14. Diamonds and Pearls

15. Lovesymobol

16. Come

17. The Gold Experience

18. Chaos and Disorder

19. Emancipation

20. Newpowersoul

21. Rave in2

22. Vault

23. Raveun2

24. The Rainbow children

25. One Nite Alone live

26. One nite alone piano and aftashow

27. N.E.W.S.

28. Musicology

29. 3121

30. Planet Earth

31. Lotusflow3r

32. MPLSound

33. 20Ten

34. Plectrum Electrum

35. Art Official Age

36. Hitnrun Phase 1

37. Hitnrun Phase 2

37. The Truth

.

Seem to be a bit short here!, so I will add

38. The Truth

39. Kamasutra

40. 21 nights

.

Hits collections

1. Hits 1 and 2 (Separate albums)

2. Hits/Bsides (Complete set of 3 albums/discs) B sides not for sale separately)

3. The very best of Prince

4. Ultimate

.

Other Prince items

1. Crystal Ball (3cds of 1980s and early/mid 1990s outtakes)

2. Xpectation (All below to #5 are NPG Music club releases)

3. Cnote

4. Slaughterhouse

5. Chocolate Invasion

6. High (Unfinished 2000 project)

7. 94 East/ Symbolic Beginnings (Various permutations of 1975/77 recordings of Pepe Willie material which had Prince playing guitar on some tracks, a lot of music on these labums has no Prince involvement, either way none of this music was officially released until 1986 when Prince had broken through with Purple Rain)

.

That is the list I have always worked with, not including NPG albums, Proteges and the great unreleased projects, add these on and you are closing in on 75 to 100 albums!

.

I like your list. I just made a correction that fits my thinking. The Truth IS a coherent "stand alone" album with complete, new songs so it counts. Whereas Rave un2 is a rehash of another album with minor variations. Are you discounting Slaughter and CI and the other NPGMC releases because of HOW they were released or because you see them as primarily NPG albums?

datdude said:

Adorecream said:

Me too I agree, NPS is a Prince album, not an NPG one, prominent vocals and Prince songscapes. But it is still his very worst album ever released and probably why so many don't want to count it.

.

My list of so called official studio albums (No proteges, outakes, hits with 3 new songs, greatest hits, collabs or band albums, limited release music club issues)

.

1. For You

2. Prince

3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. ATWIAD

8. Parade

9. Sign o the Times

10. Black album (Issued after Come, but recorded between Sign and Lovesexy so I put it here)

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. GB

14. Diamonds and Pearls

15. Lovesymobol

16. Come

17. The Gold Experience

18. Chaos and Disorder

19. Emancipation

20. Newpowersoul

21. Rave in2

22. Vault

23. Raveun2

24. The Rainbow children

25. One Nite Alone live

26. One nite alone piano and aftashow

27. N.E.W.S.

28. Musicology

29. 3121

30. Planet Earth

31. Lotusflow3r

32. MPLSound

33. 20Ten

34. Plectrum Electrum

35. Art Official Age

36. Hitnrun Phase 1

37. Hitnrun Phase 2

37. The Truth

.

Seem to be a bit short here!, so I will add

38. The Truth

39. Kamasutra

40. 21 nights

.

Hits collections

1. Hits 1 and 2 (Separate albums)

2. Hits/Bsides (Complete set of 3 albums/discs) B sides not for sale separately)

3. The very best of Prince

4. Ultimate

.

Other Prince items

1. Crystal Ball (3cds of 1980s and early/mid 1990s outtakes)

2. Xpectation (All below to #5 are NPG Music club releases)

3. Cnote

4. Slaughterhouse

5. Chocolate Invasion

6. High (Unfinished 2000 project)

7. 94 East/ Symbolic Beginnings (Various permutations of 1975/77 recordings of Pepe Willie material which had Prince playing guitar on some tracks, a lot of music on these labums has no Prince involvement, either way none of this music was officially released until 1986 when Prince had broken through with Purple Rain)

.

That is the list I have always worked with, not including NPG albums, Proteges and the great unreleased projects, add these on and you are closing in on 75 to 100 albums!

.

I like your list. I just made a correction that fits my thinking. The Truth IS a coherent "stand alone" album with complete, new songs so it counts. Whereas Rave un2 is a rehash of another album with minor variations. Are you discounting Slaughter and CI and the other NPGMC releases because of HOW they were released or because you see them as primarily NPG albums?

I'd missed the Rave rehash. Of course it is an alternate version of an already existing album and can't be counted.

Aerogram said:

I didn't even cross my mind Prince should NOT be blamed for the entire record, so he should get credit where credit is due... and blame where it is justified.

There are some classic Prince tracks like Come On, The One and Wasted Kisses, but too much of the rest seems to a product of uninspired jamming at Paisley Park, with some pancrea-challenging tunes thrown in.

That said, he was dealing with massive grief when he made this album. It's almost a miracle it has at least three classic Prince tracks.

[Edited 5/7/16 16:10pm]

No love for When U Love Somebody?

datdude said:

Adorecream said:

Me too I agree, NPS is a Prince album, not an NPG one, prominent vocals and Prince songscapes. But it is still his very worst album ever released and probably why so many don't want to count it.

.

My list of so called official studio albums (No proteges, outakes, hits with 3 new songs, greatest hits, collabs or band albums, limited release music club issues)

.

1. For You

2. Prince

3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. ATWIAD

8. Parade

9. Sign o the Times

10. Black album (Issued after Come, but recorded between Sign and Lovesexy so I put it here)

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. GB

14. Diamonds and Pearls

15. Lovesymobol

16. Come

17. The Gold Experience

18. Chaos and Disorder

19. Emancipation

20. Newpowersoul

21. Rave in2

22. Vault

23. Raveun2

24. The Rainbow children

25. One Nite Alone live

26. One nite alone piano and aftashow

27. N.E.W.S.

28. Musicology

29. 3121

30. Planet Earth

31. Lotusflow3r

32. MPLSound

33. 20Ten

34. Plectrum Electrum

35. Art Official Age

36. Hitnrun Phase 1

37. Hitnrun Phase 2

37. The Truth

.

Seem to be a bit short here!, so I will add

38. The Truth

39. Kamasutra

40. 21 nights

.

Hits collections

1. Hits 1 and 2 (Separate albums)

2. Hits/Bsides (Complete set of 3 albums/discs) B sides not for sale separately)

3. The very best of Prince

4. Ultimate

.

Other Prince items

1. Crystal Ball (3cds of 1980s and early/mid 1990s outtakes)

2. Xpectation (All below to #5 are NPG Music club releases)

3. Cnote

4. Slaughterhouse

5. Chocolate Invasion

6. High (Unfinished 2000 project)

7. 94 East/ Symbolic Beginnings (Various permutations of 1975/77 recordings of Pepe Willie material which had Prince playing guitar on some tracks, a lot of music on these labums has no Prince involvement, either way none of this music was officially released until 1986 when Prince had broken through with Purple Rain)

.

That is the list I have always worked with, not including NPG albums, Proteges and the great unreleased projects, add these on and you are closing in on 75 to 100 albums!

.

I like your list. I just made a correction that fits my thinking. The Truth IS a coherent "stand alone" album with complete, new songs so it counts. Whereas Rave un2 is a rehash of another album with minor variations. Are you discounting Slaughter and CI and the other NPGMC releases because of HOW they were released or because you see them as primarily NPG albums?

I include Ravein2as it is remixes, but also as it has Beautiful Strange, a song that does not appear on Rave Un2, but Beautiful Strange is not just a song, but one of his very best.

.

I exclude NPGMC as they were not widely available. We could not get NPGMC albums in stores and I could not stream them in NZ, as we only got broadband in 2004 here. Internet only releases especially before about 2006, were hard to get and not widely available, also these albums were barely known outside the hardcore community.

since when is any Prince authored album not a Prince album?

Of course it's one of Prince's album releases. It was even in stores with his face on the cover, and he was performing the songs in concert and on TV to promote it.

duh..is NOT a prince or symbol album...why do u think he intentionally only put a few gems on it

databank said:

RumAndRaisin said:

This is how i consider his official albums, (not including Madhouse etc)

1. For You

2. Prince
3. Dirty Mind

4. Controversy

5. 1999

6. Purple Rain

7. Around The World In A Day

8. Parade

9. Sign o The Times

10. The Black Album

11. Lovesexy

12. Batman

13. Graffiti Bridge

14. Diamonds And Pearls

15. Symbol

16. Come

17. Exodus

18. Gold Experience

19. Chaos and Disorder

20. Emancipation

21. The Truth

22. Newpower Soul

23. Rave Un2

24. The Rainbow Children

25. High (tracklisting leaked, pretty much a finished album)

26. One Nite Alone

27. Xpectation

28. NEWS

29. Musicology

30. slaughterhouse

31. chocolate Invasion

32. Musicology

33. 3121

34. Planet Earth

35. lotusflow3r

36. MPLSound

37. 20ten

38. Art Official Age

39. Hit n Run 1

40. Hit n Run 2

High was

1/ Unreleased

2/ A prototype of what eventually became The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse

.

We can't possibly include unreleased early configuration of albums released at a later date in an official discography.

I only include High as its a personal fave of mine and it came very close to being released.

Musicology is listed twice. Where is Crystal Ball? Plectrumelectrum?

In my mind all the NPG albums are Prince albums... in the same way as Plectrum Electrum.

He just used it as a way to release more material, and give a bit more highlight to his band members, but they're still definitely Prince led albums.

Marco81 said:

Musicology is listed twice. Where is Crystal Ball? Plectrumelectrum?

didn't include Plectrum as Prince was fronting a new band and wanted it out as 3rdeyegirl. and you're right, Musicology is on there twice, oops

james said:

McD said:

NPS is way more than just Prince-led though. It has the exact same qualities as a Prince album in a way Exodus doesn't, credits and pictures Prince on the cover, and was toured as a Prince album. Claiming it isn't because it only has a 'few gems' opens the floodgates to removing anything you like. No Prince album in the last 20 years was released featuring the strongest available material, but I'm sure he believed in a lot of them as his best option at the time. The album is the way it is for two reasons... as some kinda deference to Larry and Chaka, and a realisation that Warners had been right all along - you CANT release 10 CDs of new Prince material in 24 months without haemorrhaging the fanbase. Only unlike Exodus or any other 'Prince-led' project, he was only half-assed about it, gave the album the same cover credit as Diamonds and Pearls, featured himself on the cover without even a backdrop, then toured the thing. Amazon UK list it simply as a Prince album. Amazon US list it as Prince and the New Power Generation. Neither do so with any albums merely 'Prince-led'.

It doesn't have the same cover credit as Diamonds & Pearls.

McD said:

Grog said:

Yes, I know, but I'm talking about the reality of the situation--names aside, they were Prince albums, right?

They have neither his name nor face on the cover, nor feature his lead vocals. And, in some cases for Paisley Park/ NPG albums involving Prince, a small percentage of tracks had no P involvement at all. Nor did he tour those albums as his current 'release'. Whole different ball game. Can you tell me the difference between Vanity 6 and Purple Rain as they pertain to being by Prince? Sure you can. Try it with NPS. Hell, he dominates one cover so much more than the other it isn't even funny.

All the associated artist albums with heavy Prince involvement are still Prince albums to me!!

If Prince played most/ all the instruments, wrote most/ all the songs and produced all/ most of the tracks and put the whole thing together, that makes it a Prince album to me, albeit an 'associated artists' one.

TheDigitalGardener said:

moussemaker said:

Was The Truth ever available on its own, not as a bonus CD to CB?

No.

Currently available to purchase on its own on Tidal.