Reading "Rolling Stone Complete Covers" book and came across this poll in 1987 of the Top 100 albums of the last 20 years (1967-1987) among the editors of Rolling Stone magazine back in the day and picked Dirty Mind album at #20. Interesting that 1999 and Purple Rain soundtrack wasn't in the top 25. Neither was MJ's Thriller or Off The Wall albums. I don't have the complete list of the Top 100 as it only have the top 25 in the book I'm reading. Just goes to show that opinions can change over time. Gave me a better appreciation of the Dirty Mind album, too, while listening 2 the album 2day with songs like the title track, When U Were Mine, Uptown, Head and Sister.

rainbowchild said:

Reading "Rolling Stone Complete Covers" book and came across this poll in 1987 of the Top 100 albums of the last 20 years (1967-1987) among the editors of Rolling Stone magazine back in the day and picked Dirty Mind album at #20. Interesting that 1999 and Purple Rain soundtrack wasn't in the top 25. Neither was MJ's Thriller or Off The Wall albums. I don't have the complete list of the Top 100 as it only have the top 25 in the book I'm reading. Just goes to show that opinions can change over time. Gave me a better appreciation of the Dirty Mind album, too, while listening 2 the album 2day with songs like the title track, When U Were Mine, Uptown, Head and Sister.

That's interesting. They had another poll (perhap the late1990s)for the whole rock era and PR I believe was #2, SOTT was in top 10 (I believe 10th) and Dirty Mind was in the top 50. No artist did better except for the Beatles. Coincidentally, Rolling Stone just put out the top 200 albums of all time and PR and SOTT had dropped as they barely made the top 100 and 1999 wasa listed in the 2nd hundred. I wonder if their current critics are old enough to really know how Prince was such an unbelievable breath of fresh creativty for the music scene when he arrived.