Prince

1999

Purple Rain

ATWIAD

Parade

SOTT

Lovesexy

AOA

I don't skip tracks. I play all my albums all the way through. Even the songs I don't like are important in the overall journey that is the album listening experience.

Having said that, these are the Prince albums where every song is rated at least 4/5 stars in my iTunes (3/5 rating I consider "meh"):

Dirty Mind

1999

Purple Rain

Parade

The Black Album

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kevinpnb said:

I’m pretty sure the first time I came across a Prince album with a song I just had to skip was the 0(+> album and “The Morning Papers.” I still have that impulse when that song comes up. Brilliant album...just something a little stale about TMP.

Wow. I love that song (TMP). It is one of my favorites. I think because it is such a hopeful, simple, happy love song (to me, anyway). And the video suits it PERFECTLY. I do have to admit its a MIGHTY SYRUPY song, but that looked like a naturally happy Prince and Mayte.

Prince
Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Around The World In A Day
Parade
Sign O The Times

So, eight.

I rarely skip songs on Prince albums. I will admit that I skip Animal Kingdom, but I can't think of any other's.

As a few others have said, I don't skip tracks when I listen to albums, but in terms of Prince albums where I like each song, I can consider my list of song ratings.

Albums where every song is rated a 8/10 or above:

Controversy
1999

Albums where every song is rated a 7/10 or above:

Dirty Mind
Purple Rain
Parade
Lovesexy
The Gold Experience


Albums where every song is rated a 6/10 or above:

Sign o' the Times
One Nite Alone

Poplife88 said:

Dirty Mind to Batman...the only tracks I don’t like are Temptation and Arms of Orion. Graffiti Bridge was his first album that contained a song I hate...the dreadful title track. Some other trax I don’t like: Symbol album...3 Chains of Gold Come...Solo and Orgasm Emancipation...the title track, Get yo Groove on, we gets up Chaos...I Rock Therefore I Am Rave: Hot With U, Everyday is a winding road, Baby Knows

Graffiti Bridge was the first album to have more songs on it I didn't/don't like than more songs that I did/do.

Like every single track.

For You

1999

Purple Rain (although 'Star' is very edgy)

Lovesexy


Missed our by a single track:

Prince (wanna be your lover)

Dirty Mind (partyup)

Controversy (sexuality)

ATWIAD (temptation)

Parade (snow in april)

SOTT (the cross)

Gold (gold)

RJOrion said:

people out here skipping The Morning Papers???...wow.

Me as well. It's his first of the dreadfull 'bland songs' that more or less became his standard from Musicology on.

Skipping over The Morning Papers is a crime. Those guitars solos ffs! If they don't make you tingle, you're dead inside.

I like every track on:

For You

Prince

Dirty Mind

Purple Rain

Around the World in a Day

Parade

Sign O The Times

Lovesexy

Batman

The Black Album
Come

The Vault - Old Friends 4 Sale

The Rainbow Children

One Nite Alone

Art Official Age

Hit N Run Phase 2

Quite a spread of old and new. There are side projects and protoge albums that I can barely get through at all.

The only songs I'd skip from his 70s and 80s material are Ronnie Talk 2 Russia and Free. From the 90s onwards things became a lot more variable.

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