No.

BEST...

PURPLE RAIN, SOTT, 1999.

I don't know any from the 80s that isn't.

OperatingThetan said:

It should be safe to state your opinion about any of Prince's music. To my estimation, it is all subjective.

Indeed, although one pretentious arsehole orger once took exception to me saying that it's subjective.

Which of these 80s albums is Batman better than?

1980 - Dirty Mind
1981 - Controversy
1982 - 1999
1984 - Purple Rain
1985 - ATWIAD
1986 - Parade
1987 - SOTT
1987 - The Black Album (original planned release)
1988 - Lovesexy

If you can rate Batman higher than at least half of those, then your answer is Yes.

Personally, I would say No. That is not to say it's not great, it is just not one of his "Best 80s" albums.

Batman is his weakest 80s album in my opinion.

It felt like a light outs after a flawless run of classics, Dirty Mind-Lovesexy.

I was so dissapointed and to this day it's one my least played P albums.

Batman isn't the best 80's album, but it sure is good! The Future, Electric Chair, Vicki's Waiting, Scandalous, Partyman, Lemon Crush and Batdance are all great songs!

I personally love this album. But I will admit my adoration is forever tied to the comic book geek in me riding high when the movie came out.

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On its own... I don't know how high I'd be able to rank it. But the nostalgia kicks it up several notches in my Prince album rankings.

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Still, it contains one of my favorite Prince songs, "Vicki Waiting". So that alone makes it worthwhile.

Se7en said:

Which of these 80s albums is Batman better than?

1980 - Dirty Mind
1981 - Controversy
1982 - 1999
1984 - Purple Rain
1985 - ATWIAD
1986 - Parade
1987 - SOTT
1987 - The Black Album (original planned release)
1988 - Lovesexy

If you can rate Batman higher than at least half of those, then your answer is Yes.

Personally, I would say No. That is not to say it's not great, it is just not one of his "Best 80s" albums.

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This will probably get me raked over the coals by the hardcore fans on the Org, but...

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...I like "Batman" more than "Parade". Not to say I don't like "Parade"! But I enjoy "Batman" more. And again, like I said in a previous post, it's also because of the movie that I love it so much.

feeluupp said:

Se7en said:

Which of these 80s albums is Batman better than?

1980 - Dirty Mind
1981 - Controversy
1982 - 1999
1984 - Purple Rain
1985 - ATWIAD
1986 - Parade
1987 - SOTT
1987 - The Black Album (original planned release)
1988 - Lovesexy

If you can rate Batman higher than at least half of those, then your answer is Yes.

Personally, I would say No. That is not to say it's not great, it is just not one of his "Best 80s" albums.

The Batman album is better than Lovesexy. 4 me Lovesexy was too nice and a bit vanilla.

No.

Is his worst release from the 80s actually.

In my opinion it's his worst album of the 80s - or any decade, really.

Everything from For You through Batman is perfect. I would include Graffiti Bridge, but it has other singers on it. There was a clear shift in his approach to music during Batman, and his 90s catalog is a whole other beast.

It is about as safe as being a Orthdox Jewish evangelist in Iran outside the Ayatollah Khomeini mosque in downtown Zahedan.

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I rank it in DISTANT last place for the 80s, on my scale the marks out of 100 for each 80s album are

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1. Sign o the Times - 98.3

2. Purple Rain - 95.6

3. Parade - 94.4

4. 1999 - 92.5

5. Lovesexy 91.1

6. Dirty Mind 90.0

7. ATWAID 85.6

8. Controversy 82.5

9. Black Album 76.3

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10. Batman 60.0

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Electric Chair, Future and Scandalous are great songs, Batdance, Partyman are good songs

Trust, Vicki Waiting are meh! to poor, Lemon Crush and Arms of Orion are the very worst songs he ever made on the same level as Da da da, The Plan, The Flow and Boytrouble.

It wasn't my favorite. Took a while for it to grow on me.

lust said:

It’s a great album. It’s definitely in the top 9 for me (if we’re not including the Time or Family albums.

I may put it ahead of Apollonia 6 though

Purplegarden said:

Purplegarden said:

It is about as safe as being a Orthdox Jewish evangelist in Iran outside the Ayatollah Khomeini mosque in downtown Zahedan.

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I rank it in DISTANT last place for the 80s, on my scale the marks out of 100 for each 80s album are

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1. Sign o the Times - 98.3

2. Purple Rain - 95.6

3. Parade - 94.4

4. 1999 - 92.5

5. Lovesexy 91.1

6. Dirty Mind 90.0

7. ATWAID 85.6

8. Controversy 82.5

9. Black Album 76.3

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10. Batman 60.0

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Electric Chair, Future and Scandalous are great songs, Batdance, Partyman are good songs

Trust, Vicki Waiting are meh! to poor, Lemon Crush and Arms of Orion are the very worst songs he ever made on the same level as Da da da, The Plan, The Flow and Boytrouble.

I'm curious how your scale works. Those ratings are extremely precise.

No, but I would say it's better than its reputation, i'd prefer it start to finish over every 90's album bar maybe Come.

Purplegarden said:

Lianachan said:

It's not in the top half for me, but I still love it. I'd rank it right around Around the World in a Day, ahead of The Black Album but behind the others.

worst.....or best.... it's what you hear or feel in it.

So i would say 'yes it's safe to say'.

for me, it's not this one, but 'Parade'.

it's safe to say that whatever is YOUR favourite is 100% YOUR favourite. For some the song Graffitti Bridge is not a cheesfest & better than Purple Rain!...there is no 'best'!

It's in his top ten for that decade (if you don't count the protegés' albums).