I will mention only one: The Rainbow Children.

I listen to it sometimes trying to enjoy the experience but the album doesn't do it for me.

Too many fillers, processed vocals, spiritual references, i admit the music is great, some nice tracks, but i would say it's the weakest collection of songs he has ever released.

Don't hate me RC fans

Emancipation.
Hate it. No logical explanation possibel. Just hate it.

TweetyV6 said:

Emancipation.
Hate it. No logical explanation possibel. Just hate it.

Me too.

I don't hate it, I like many things on it, but as a whole I listened to it from start to end only the day of release.

After all the hype P created for it in the months/years before, maybe my expectations were too high. But to some extent it was a delusion.

TRC

Ive tried, and I will try again....and again, but I expect similar lackluster results.

HitNRun Phase 1.

There are a couple of songs on it that I like though.

DarkKnight1 said:

None for me. I've swam deeply in each and every Prince album, and had a ball with each of 'em.

Actually so far (but that may change) there is one exception to the above: Back In Time, but Prince was only a sideman and producer on that one, so even though I consider it part of his discography it's not a Prince album in the traditional sense of the term. I don't hate it though, but Judith' voice hurts my ears (literally, it's no metaphor!) if I play the record too loud, and I find both the compositions and P's arrangements pretty generic. On the other hand I really respect that Prince was, at long last, able to act as a real producer, not turning Judith into himself like he's done with everyone he had produced before, and thus creating a record that non-Prince fans who're into nu soul will enjoy much more than they would have enjoyed it if it had sounded more like Prince.

The Rainbow Children

Musicology (save your defense of it, I don't dig it as a whole, maybe a couple of songs tho)

C-Note

N.E.W.S.

HNR Phase 1

PlectrumElectruc (minus a couple of songs)

AOA (it's 50/50)

20ten

Planet Earth

The Rainbow Children (with a few exceptions)

NEWS

[Edited 12/22/16 10:27am]

Phase 2 is impossible for me to listen to........

databank said:

None for me. I've swam deeply in each and every Prince album, and had a ball with each of 'em.

Actually so far (but that may change) there is one exception to the above: Back In Time, but Prince was only a sideman and producer on that one, so even though I consider it part of his discography it's not a Prince album in the traditional sense of the term. I don't hate it though, but Judith' voice hurts my ears (literally, it's no metaphor!) if I play the record too loud, and I find both the compositions and P's arrangements pretty generic. On the other hand I really respect that Prince was, at long last, able to act as a real producer, not turning Judith into himself like he's done with everyone he had produced before, and thus creating a record that non-Prince fans who're into nu soul will enjoy much more than they would have enjoyed it if it had sounded more like Prince.

Empress said:

None! I listen to all his albums.

Granted, some are much better than others, but each one of them is unique and has their own gems and style. TRC is a musical masterpiece. Some of the lyrics are ridiculous, but the music is phenomenal.

^^^THIS^^^

I'm not much of a fan of Judith Hill but I do like Angel In The Dark.

On the whole of P's ouvere, I like P as a genre unto himself.

The things I like less (TonyM and a few other things), are just blips on the radar for me when I consider P's body of work as a whole, the context and events going on in P's history and world history as a whole.

It's not just a particular song/album, etc for me...It's the entirety of experiencing P's work together with my nearly 40 years of personal history as a P fan, what was going on all around me and in the Purple Bubble.

I can't seperate it all...and I wouldn't want to anyway.

Prince released a lot of albums to get out of his contract with Warner Brothers, so I'm sure he didn't use his best stuff.

LBrent said:

The Black Album for me also. I can't stand it! I tried over the years but I can barely make it to the end lol A close second is Emancipation.

lavie said:

The Black Album for me also. I can't stand it! I tried over the years but I can barely make it to the end lol A close second is Emancipation.

I didn't put TBA on my list, but honestly, about half of the songs are really listenable.

Stuff like "Dead On It" or "Bob George" are cutesy, but they're not something one can dig into as a listener. There's not a lot going on musically. They're minimal in production, and something like "Solo" comes off as much more interesting when it comes to a minimalistic song. "2 Nigs" becomes a bit too noisy and almost needs to be on something like Camille or as a b-side to "Housequake" or "U Got The Look". Perhaps it's because we've heard it on Lovesexy more and it's perspective with the listener at this point, but "When 2 R In Love" feels out of place on the record.

TBA is not a bad record, but it lost a lot of its oomph because it was broken up on Camille, Lovesexy, etc. Still - it's higher up on my list than the others I noted.

As far as Emancipation - lotta filler. It could easily be whittled down to a disk and a half. Some of the songs are lengthened for the sake of the 60 minutes-per-disk approach. Songs like "Jam Of The Year" "Big White Mansion", "Human Body", "New World", and "Sleep Around" sound stretched for the sake of that timing, rather than having a honed in, concise song that's stronger.

For You and the Truth, even though I love some of the songs on both. I never have been able to get into them as a whole for some reason.

easily, "Chaos & Disorder"...

i used to be indifferent to "The Gold Experience" too...but ive recently come to appreciate a little more, recently

Cindy said:

I was curious if Old Friends 4 Sale would make someone's list here.

I could listen to When the Lights Go Down repeatedly and never hear it enough times. This song, in my opinion, is a gem.

My next favourite on this album is 5 Women. 3rd would be a tie between There is Lonely and the title track.

I burned a cd of Prince music for a small dinner party last week. The cd was mainly stuff that non hard core fams would know. Included on the cd was When the Lights Go Down. Everyone LOVED it. Seriously they raved about that song. They could not believe it was Prince. I wish there were more songs similar to this one.

Sorry, I guess I'm off track here.

Back to the original question, my answer would have to be none.

The one song on Old Friends 4 Sale I could listen to repeatedly is "Extraordinary".

The Truth is the album I never liked as much as everyone else no matter how many times I've listened to it.

DarkKnight1 said:

Cindy said:

I was curious if Old Friends 4 Sale would make someone's list here.

I could listen to When the Lights Go Down repeatedly and never hear it enough times. This song, in my opinion, is a gem.

My next favourite on this album is 5 Women. 3rd would be a tie between There is Lonely and the title track.

I burned a cd of Prince music for a small dinner party last week. The cd was mainly stuff that non hard core fams would know. Included on the cd was When the Lights Go Down. Everyone LOVED it. Seriously they raved about that song. They could not believe it was Prince. I wish there were more songs similar to this one.

Sorry, I guess I'm off track here.

Back to the original question, my answer would have to be none.

New Power Soul. For me it sounds stale and generic. Just my opinion...

sexton said:

N.EW.S

I can listen it all day long and it still won't change my opinion on it.

CalhounSq said:

Cindy said:

I was curious if Old Friends 4 Sale would make someone's list here.

I could listen to When the Lights Go Down repeatedly and never hear it enough times. This song, in my opinion, is a gem.

My next favourite on this album is 5 Women. 3rd would be a tie between There is Lonely and the title track.

I burned a cd of Prince music for a small dinner party last week. The cd was mainly stuff that non hard core fams would know. Included on the cd was When the Lights Go Down. Everyone LOVED it. Seriously they raved about that song. They could not believe it was Prince. I wish there were more songs similar to this one.

Sorry, I guess I'm off track here.

Back to the original question, my answer would have to be none.

When the Lights Go Down is THE STAR of that album