What would yours be??

Here is mine:

1. Soft and Wet

2. I Want To Be Your Lover

3. When You Were Mine

4. Do Me, Baby

5. Little Red Corvette

6. The Beautiful Ones

7. Raspberry Beret

8. Mountains

9. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker

10. Eye Know

11. Electric Chair

12. Gett Off

(This would be a sequence for potential fans, not necessarily my personal favourites)

1. For You
2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
3. Dirty Mind
4. Sexuality
5. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
6. The Beautiful Ones
7. Paisley Park
8. Mountains
9. The Cross
10. I Wish U Heaven
11. Electric Chair
12. Joy in Repetition
    
    
    

[Edited 5/31/16 15:56pm]

Difficult.

1. Soft and Wet

2. Bambi

3. Uptown

4. Contoversy

5. D.M.S.R.

6. Computer Blue

7. Condition of the Heart

8. Anotherloverholenyohead

9. Adore

10. Lovesexy

11. Electric Chair

12. The Question Of U.

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I think i'd be happy to put that on a playlist. I changed my mind on nearly every song once or twice.

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[Edited 5/31/16 15:48pm]

1. Just as Long As We're Together
2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
3. When You Were Mine
4. Private Joy
5. All The Critics Love U In New York
6. Computer Blue
7. Pop Life
8. Anotherloverholenyohead
9. Strange Relationship
10. Lovesexy
11. Vicki Waiting
12. Joy In Repetition
13. Cream (If you're skpping Batman (but why would you?)

EmmaMcG said:

By the way, did you guys forget about Graffiti Bridge??

D'oh! I'm gonna edit my post...

1) "Soft And Wet"....2) "I Wanna Be Your Lover".....3) "Uptown"......4)"Let's Work"...5) "Lady Cab Driver"....6) "Computer Blue".....7) "Tambourine".....8) "Girls And Boys"...9) "The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker"...10).."Anna Stesia"...11) "Electric Chair".....12) "Joy In Repetition"....13) "Gett Off"

1. For You
2. Still Waiting
3. Do It All Night
4. Private Joy
5. Automatic
6. Darling Nikki
7. Tamborine
8. New Position
9. It
10. Dance On
11. Electric Chair
12. Joy In Repetition

[Edited 5/31/16 17:08pm]

1. Soft and Wet
2. Bambi
3. When You Were Mine
4. Private Joy
5. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
6. I Would Die 4 U
7. Pop Life
8. Mountains
9. Strange Relationship
10. Anna Stesia
11. Scandalous
12. The Question of U/Joy in Repetition

Trying to decide between The Question of U and Joy in Repetition is torture. Two of my absolute favs, I had to cheat I'm sorry lol Narrowing all of this down was extremely difficult lol! Also Private Joy is tied with Do Me, Baby but ah well

this Q is a doozy!

1. My Love Is Forever
2. I Wanna Be Your Lover/Bambi (OMFG, I cannot choose!)
3. Head
4. Let's Work
5. D.M.S.R./Lady Cab Driver/Automatic (fuuuuuuck!!!)
6. Purple Rain/The Beautiful Ones (this is feeling impossible now)
7. America
8. Anotherloverholeinyohead
9. Adore
10. Anna Stesia
11. Vicki Waiting
12. Joy In Repetition

Damn, it's funny how choosing makes you feel like you're actually betraying amazing songs (like this will become law or something, it feels that serious) That was hard!

1. Soft and Wet
2. I Wanna Be Your Lover
3. Dirty Mind
4. Private Joy
5. Delirious or Let's Pretend We're Married
6. Purple Rain
7. Raspberry Beret
8. Kiss
9. Adore
10. Alphabet St
11. Vicki Waiting
12. Elephants and Flowers

1. In Love

2. Sexy Dancer

3. Uptown

4. Do Me Baby

5. International Lover

6. The Beautiful Ones

7. Paisley park

8. Mountains

9. Adore

10. Anna Stesia

11. Electric Chair

12. Joy In Repetition

....

Bonus

13. Insatiable

14. Damn U

15. Space

16. Endorphinmachine

17. Le Grind

18. I like it there

I'm Yours

Sexy Dancer

Head

Let's Work

DMSR

When Doves Cry

Raspberry Beret

Girls and Boys

Housequake

Anna Stesia

Vicki Waiting

Joy in Repetition

1. Crazy For You

2. I Wanna Be Your Lover

3. Uptown

4. Controversy

5. Lady Cab Driver

6. When Doves Cry

7. Paisley Park

8. Kiss

9. If I Was Your Girlfriend

10. Anna Stesia

11. The Future

12. Joy In Repetition

CalhounSq said:

Damn, it's funny how choosing makes you feel like you're actually betraying amazing songs (like this will become law or something, it feels that serious) That was hard!

That's exactly how I felt!

1. My Love Is Forever

2. Sexy Dancer

3. Party Up

4. Private Joy

5. 1999

6. When Doves Cry

7. Conditions Of The Heart

8. I Wonder U

9. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker

10. When 2 R In love

11. Electric Chair

12. Elephants & Flowers

I'll play--

1) For You (it's just such a perfect album/career opener. There's a reason he kept coming back to it. Other songs are maybe "better"--but it's got to be here.)

2) Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?

3) When You Were Mine

4) Sexuality

5) Something in the Water (does not compute)

6) When Doves Cry

7) Condition of the Heart

8) Anotherloverholenyohead

9) The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

10) Lovesexy

11) Vicki Waiting

12) Joy in Repetition

All right, that was not fun. Mainly because every time there were no clear standouts. I could make a case for 2 or 3 other songs (at least) from each album. The only time I've really tried to figure out "the essential" Prince, I ended up deciding I'd give myself 1/3 of each album/project as the cream, 1/3 middle range, 1/3 the bottom (relative to the rest of the album, not to the world at large). That was way easier to do, and to feel satisfied with. That let me recognize the greatness of the obvious hit(s) and the Princely weirdness both. If I did this again 10 minutes from now it would be different. For example, I've said before that The Beautiful Ones is my favorite Prince song--it isn't on this list. How did that happen?

Crazy You
When We're Dancing Close And Slow
Dirty Mind
Sexuality
International Lover
The Beautiful Ones
Condition Of The Heart
Sometimes It Snows In April
Adore
Superfunkycalifragisexy
Anna Stesia
Electric Chair

1. I'm Yours
2. Bambi
3. Dirty Mind
4. Controversy
5. Little Red Corvette
6. When Doves Cry
7. Raspberry Beret
8. Mountains (although if I could count the intro 3 songs as one I'd choose that instead)
9. Housequake
10. I Wish U Heaven
11. Batdance (mainly for the guitar work)
12. Elephants & Flowers

Probably not very original, but hey it's Prince, so there's no wrong answer!

leslievette said:

CalhounSq said:

Damn, it's funny how choosing makes you feel like you're actually betraying amazing songs (like this will become law or something, it feels that serious) That was hard!

That's exactly how I felt!

Isn't it weird!! I feel like I want to apologize to SONGS for leaving them out Prince will make mfs do some SHIT

1. I'm Yours

2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad

3. When You Were Mine

4. Do Me, Baby

5. Lady Cab Driver

6. When Doves Cry

7. Condition Of The Heart

8. Sometimes It Snows In April

9. If I Was Your Girlfriend

10. Anna Stesia

11. The Future

12. The Question of U

1. Just as long as we're together
2. I feel for you
3. Dirty Mind
4. Annie Christian
5. Lets Pretend we're married

6. The beautiful ones

7. Pop Life

8. Kiss

9. Adore

10. Anna Stesia (I would say when 2 R in love, but Anna Stesia is to me the centrepiece of the album)

11. Trust

12. Thieves in the temple

1. Just As Long As We're Together

2. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?

3. Uptown

4. Let's Work

5. D.M.S.R.

6. When Doves Cry

7. Around The World In A Day

8. Sometimes It Snows In April

9. Sign 'O' The Times

10. Alphabet St.

11. Electric Chair

12. Joy In Repetition

Don't mind me for jumping in... seemed like a good topic for my 1st post.

1. For You - Total Prince song - 4 or 5 vocal tracks, all performed by Prince

2. When We're Dancing Close and Slow

3. Got a Broken Heart Again

4. Sexuality - Do Me, Baby could easily have had this slot

5. Something in the Water - Free could easily have had this slot

6. Let's Go Crazy - still remember that feeling the 1st time in the theather in 1984 following "the afterworld..."

7. Tamborine - another total Prince song

8. New Position

9. If I Was Your Girlfriend

10. LoveSexy

11. Electric Chair

12. Release It

13. Money Don't Matter 2 Night (Need a bonus track, right?)

Keeping it funky...

1. For You

2. Sexy Dancer

3. Head

4. Controversy

5. Lady Cab Driver

6. Baby Im a Star

7. Tamborine

8. Anotherlover....

9. Housequake

10. I No

11. The Future

12. New Power Generation

I'll go with:
1. For You

2. I Wanna Be Your Lover

3. When You Were Mine

4. Controversy

5. Lady Cab Driver

6. When Doves Cry

7. Pop Life

8. Under The Cherry Moon

9. If Eye Was Your Girlfriend

10. Annastesia

11. Scandalous

12. We Can Funk