How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?

I started skipping songs on Parade, but I can deal with "Life Can Be So Nice" if necessary. But Graffiti Bridge is where I really started juggling tracks.

When I edited Tony M. out of the vast majority of the two albums he was on, D&P & were even better. I skip around a bit on Emancipation depending on the disk. Disk 1 is great in any formation. Shuffle that thing and it always sounds good.

I skip all of The Rainbow Children. After that, it was always spotty for me.

On almost every one of Prince's albums, there's at least one song that I don't care for very much. My favourite albums are PR and D&P. I'm not wild about Take Me with U and I don't like Jughead either. I can tolerate these songs, but I usually skip both of them when I'm listening to the respective albums.

I like every track of his albums till Batman, where I didn't care much for Lemon Crush after the first few listens. I still played it though. The first skippers are the rap songs on and D & P. The albums that I like all the songs after the 80s include One Night Alone, Chocolate Invasion, Musicology, and AOA. HnR2 just misses due to Screwdriver though it's okay in concert.

Purple Rain

Around The World in a Day

Parade

Black Album

Lovesexy

The Truth

N.E.W.S.

AOA

lonelyalien said:

How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?

I'm not emotionally 4 years old that if I hear a track that I don't fancy while listening to a whole record, I start blushing and cringing and moaning and stomping feet in impatience to the point that that I have to give-up doing whatever I'm doing and RUN to click "skip", or even better cry for my mommy to do it for me before I vomit my soup on the sofa because of that one nasty song that's upset me

The Prince album. (1979)

databank said:

lonelyalien said:

How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?

I'm not emotionally 4 years old that if I hear a track that I don't fancy while listening to a whole record, I start blushing and cringing and moaning and stomping feet in impatience to the point that that I have to give-up doing whatever I'm doing and RUN to click "skip", or even better cry for my mommy to do it for me before I vomit my soup on the sofa because of that one nasty song that's upset me

What on earth are you talking about?

databank said:

lonelyalien said:

How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?

I'm not emotionally 4 years old that if I hear a track that I don't fancy while listening to a whole record, I start blushing and cringing and moaning and stomping feet in impatience to the point that that I have to give-up doing whatever I'm doing and RUN to click "skip", or even better cry for my mommy to do it for me before I vomit my soup on the sofa because of that one nasty song that's upset me

What's your opinion about this, and this time with feeling!

1999 and Purple Rain for sure.

lonelyalien said:

databank said:

I'm not emotionally 4 years old that if I hear a track that I don't fancy while listening to a whole record, I start blushing and cringing and moaning and stomping feet in impatience to the point that that I have to give-up doing whatever I'm doing and RUN to click "skip", or even better cry for my mommy to do it for me before I vomit my soup on the sofa because of that one nasty song that's upset me

What on earth are you talking about?

"How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?"

gandorb said:

databank said:

I'm not emotionally 4 years old that if I hear a track that I don't fancy while listening to a whole record, I start blushing and cringing and moaning and stomping feet in impatience to the point that that I have to give-up doing whatever I'm doing and RUN to click "skip", or even better cry for my mommy to do it for me before I vomit my soup on the sofa because of that one nasty song that's upset me

What's your opinion about this, and this time with feeling!

lonelyalien said:

How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?

Why do you assume people wouldn't be honest?

sro100 said:

lonelyalien said:

How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?

Why do you assume people wouldn't be honest?

Yeah I also wondered about that. It's a bit like those "Let's face it" threads: they do not really give contributors the option to express any opinion that differs from the OP's, since it implies that any contradiction is necessarily dishonest (either because the contributor lies to others, or to themselves). It's never a good way to start a thread.

Come

Expectation

NEWS

The Slaughterhouse

The Chocolate Invasion

C-Note

Hit'n'run Phase 1

maybe Hit'n'run Phase 2, but I always skip Big City

donnyenglish said:

Here are the albums with the songs I dont like For You: So Blue Prince: Still Waiting Dirty Mind: N/A Controversy: N/A 1999: Delirious Purple Rain: Baby I’m a Star ATWIAD: Temptation Parade: N/A SOTT: It Lovesexy: N/A Batdance: Batdance, Lemon Crush, The Future, Trust Grafitti Bridge: Round and Round, Melody Cool, The Greatest Fashion, Tick, Tick Bang, Love Machine, Shake Diamonds and Pearls: Daddy Pop, Thunder, Push, Jughead Symbol: The Flow, Arrogance Black Album: Cindi C., Le Grind Come: Loose, Race, Phermone Gold: N/A NewPowerSoul: Push it Up, Shoobedoo, I like Funky Music Rave: Silly Game TRC: Mellow One Nite Alone: N/A Musicology: Life of the Party, On the Couch 3121: Satisfied Planet Earth: N/A 20ten: Compassion, Sea of Everything Lotus/MPLS: Wall if Berkin, There will never be another like me, Valentina AOA: N/A Plectrum Electrum: white caps, boytrouble, tic tac toe Phase 1: aint about 2stop, this could be us, mr. Nelson Phase 2: N/A

All of them, at least if it's a standard based on whether I can listen to the whole album without skipping at least one track. I honestly can do that--not every time, but if I'm going to listen to the rest of an album, I can usually listen to even the song I like least. Now, there are days when I'm just not in the mood for a particular album, and there might be a particular day when I can't handle a particular song, but it won't be because I just don't like the song. It'd just be some sort of mismatch between the music and me that particular day. I can name a least favorite song on most albums, one that is a definite low point--but even those I can usually enjoy on at least some level. They tend to be just sort of bland, or tracks that are clearly just lesser examples of some basic model that he did much better elsewhere. Nothing worth skipping, just not worth going back to listen to again real soon.

FullLipsDotNose said:

donnyenglish said:

Here are the albums with the songs I dont like For You: So Blue Prince: Still Waiting Dirty Mind: N/A Controversy: N/A 1999: Delirious Purple Rain: Baby I’m a Star ATWIAD: Temptation Parade: N/A SOTT: It Lovesexy: N/A Batdance: Batdance, Lemon Crush, The Future, Trust Grafitti Bridge: Round and Round, Melody Cool, The Greatest Fashion, Tick, Tick Bang, Love Machine, Shake Diamonds and Pearls: Daddy Pop, Thunder, Push, Jughead Symbol: The Flow, Arrogance Black Album: Cindi C., Le Grind Come: Loose, Race, Phermone Gold: N/A NewPowerSoul: Push it Up, Shoobedoo, I like Funky Music Rave: Silly Game TRC: Mellow One Nite Alone: N/A Musicology: Life of the Party, On the Couch 3121: Satisfied Planet Earth: N/A 20ten: Compassion, Sea of Everything Lotus/MPLS: Wall if Berkin, There will never be another like me, Valentina AOA: N/A Plectrum Electrum: white caps, boytrouble, tic tac toe Phase 1: aint about 2stop, this could be us, mr. Nelson Phase 2: N/A

I got zero respect for anyone who calls themselves a Prince fan and skips songs like "Delirious", "The Future", "Le Grind", "Cindy C.", "Loose!", "Race", "Pheromone", "Baby I'm A Star" or even "Temptation". Zero. They're not a Prince fan, they're a troll.

Prince to Lovesexy for me.

The following albums I listen to without skipping and overall like all songs on

Dirty Mind

1999

Purple Rain

Parade

Sign O the Times

Lovesexy

The Rainbow Children

Art Official Age

HitnRun2

sro100 said:

lonelyalien said:

How many can you honestly say you can listen to all the way without skipping cause you dont like a track?

Why do you assume people wouldn't be honest?

It's a playful expression. People say it all the time even though they have no expectation of dishonesty. Also, this is a Prince fansite, so some people here are bashful as being seen as spreading "negativity" about something if they claim Prince did anything bad. It's all silly to me, but the OP calling for honesty was not an assumption of dishonesty.

steakfinger said:

sro100 said:

Why do you assume people wouldn't be honest?

It's a playful expression. People say it all the time even though they have no expectation of dishonesty. Also, this is a Prince fansite, so some people here are bashful as being seen as spreading "negativity" about something if they claim Prince did anything bad. It's all silly to me, but the OP calling for honesty was not an assumption of dishonesty.

Exactly.

I will regularly listen to the following without skipping anything:

>

1. For You
2. Prince
3. Dirty Mind
4. Controversy
5. 1999
6. Purple Rain
7. ATWIAD
8. Parade
9. SOTT
10. Lovesexy
11. Batman

>

So the answer is 11. Could have been 12 if not for Jughead. I remember the first time I played that one... got about 30 seconds in and I just said "NOPE!!" I have never heard that song to this day.

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Also, could have been 12 if not for $ from LotusFlow3r. I always wondered if Prince lost a bet or something when it came to that one...

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There are others where I like 70-80%,others where I like considerably less.

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Most (not all) had some "throw-away" songs included among the good/great ones. Prince had fewer than most artists. But, after his peak during the 1980's I remember through 90's thinking, "gee, there is a lot of filler that could be trimmed off these albums that would probably raise the overall average rating for the ablum(s) by a lot".

Some of my top early Prince albums with fewest flawed play list, not in order.

1999, "Free" was the only fly in 1999's ointment.

Purple Rain was his pinnacle. I would say this one was flawless. If I had to cut one song, it would be "Baby I'm a Star" but that sounded so much like him celebrating his own success that I'd leave it.

Parade is very under rated in my opinion. "Life Can Be so Nice" gets a little to frenetic at the end so I end up skipping it.

Dirty Mind, "Party Up" would get nixed in pursuit of a 5-star record.

Sign O the Times could lose "Play in the Sunshine" and "Its gonna be a beautiful night" and be that much better for it.

I think beginning in the 1990's Prince began releasing albums that were more weighed down by "filler", which may have led to his decline in POPularity/sales. Of course, Pop music was changing and P's attempt to sprinkly wrap into his music was not working. I think he still put out good/great music during this period but may have been better served by slowing down releases and only putting out the "cream".

i may not like all of his songs on every album, but i aint skipping none of them shits...just in case i hear something at some point that changes my mind... i like to leave my mind open and keep trying to find the groove... happens all the time