SoulAlive said:

What's wrong with you all, Sexuality, The Cross, Paisley what's next IIWYGF, WDC?

SoulAlive said:

Temptation.

SoulAlive said:

I’m surprised to see “Batdance” on some of these lists.That song is very clever,edgy and very unique! No other artist could have created a movie song like that.The way he changes the groove midway through is sheer brilliance.

Wholeheartedly agree.

Ok you made me do it.

Essentially taking a track from each album with the right to break the rules.

My love is forever (I still like this song. It pains me to do this, For You is one of the best sequenced albums in Prince's career and I believe it flows and kisses with one synonymous motion)

Still Waiting (dishonorable mention with you and a couple of other tracks a really mixed album)

Gotta broken heart again (Still a solid tune)

Ronnie talk 2 Russia (a slight song, so I had to name and shame it. I do like it ok though)

Delirious (Never a fave, but I don't mind a live version, just be thankful I didn't mention FREE)

I would die 4 u (I love this song, Purple Rain is loaded I had to mention a song I do this under EXTREME protest)

The Ladder (and this is a grand song, just the bottom of a solid album, the live version kicks ass)

I wonder U (sorry I wonder u, I still like ya).

Forever in my life (because the album version is nothing compared to the live versions in the concert film etc, I almost mentioned U Got the Look which I now like more than I have ever done (slow burn)

Dead on it (not officially released till later but hey)

Escape (I just like Lovesexy a lot and it is one track after all lol)

Scandalous album version(because the scandalous sex suite versions make this album track obsolete, and confession I like Insatiable better because of the chords. Arms of Orion lives to fight another day)

That was painful are you happy now. Note I took a track each year so I would die 4 u would never appear normally.

In my opinion he didnt make any bad songs in this period. Maybe "Miss Understood" but this period of song writing was consistently brilliant for himself and others.

MIRvmn said:

SoulAlive said:

I like "The Arms Of Orion" I think,with this song,Prince was trying to come up with a big "love theme" for the movie.These type of songs are always big and schmaltzy.I think it's nice.

I also like this song It's a very beautiful ballad

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You are correct. It is very much so.

RJOrion said:

'Life Can Be So Nice' is one of the best joints on Parade... period

I don't get you guys. Alot of these are favs.

MIRvmn said:

1.Ronnie Talk 2 Russia 2.Jack U Off 3.Tamborine 4.Dance On 5.Partyman

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Tambourine?? Wow... one of my all time favorite Prince songs. It's so Prince. Sounds like nothing else, from anyone, and it has that bit of Prince-weird that makes it both dirty and interesting.

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SantanaMaitreya said:

SoulAlive said:

I like "The Arms Of Orion" I think,with this song,Prince was trying to come up with a big "love theme" for the movie.These type of songs are always big and schmaltzy.I think it's nice.

Yeah, well, I guess that's why Prince never made a James Bond theme song. Big and schmaltzy and Prince just doesn't go together and it's a shame that he even tried. Just imagine if Dance With the Devil had been the third track... That would have fit the mood perfectly. But maybe he didn't want to make the album too dark because it was, after all, the soundtrack of a movie, so you're right about that. But a song so full of clichés wasn't what you'd expect from a man who was known for always trying something new. [Edited 3/12/20 13:52pm]

His unrelenting fear of being "too dark" has to be my biggest irritation of his career 1978-1989. Because you wouldn't want the soundtrack to Tim Burton's Batman, you know, "The Dark Knight," an adaptation going out of its way to remove all the candy-colored brightness of the 60s take and instead re-envision the character as gothic as possible, you wouldn't want that to be "too dark."

Better instead to recycle the rainbow pep of the 60s theme song riff the movie is trying to make everyone forget and make a techno dance remix out if it. Now that's respectful of Tim Burton's vision, the king of dark gothic cinema.

[Edited 3/13/20 18:09pm]

Can't believe 'Temptation' is even getting a mention. It's a classic.

Are folks honestly saying they prefer 'Ronnie Talk To Russia', 'Horny Toad' and 'Lemon Crush'???

TheLotus said:

MIRvmn said:

1.Ronnie Talk 2 Russia 2.Jack U Off 3.Tamborine 4.Dance On 5.Partyman

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Tambourine?? Wow... one of my all time favorite Prince songs. It's so Prince. Sounds like nothing else, from anyone, and it has that bit of Prince-weird that makes it both dirty and interesting.

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I've been saying on the Org for nearly a decade that Tambourine is one of his worst songs!

MIR's list is nearly identical to mine, except I also have Condition of the Heart near the top.

SquirrelMeat said:

Can't believe 'Temptation' is even getting a mention. It's a classic.

Are folks honestly saying they prefer 'Ronnie Talk To Russia', 'Horny Toad' and 'Lemon Crush'???

People have always hated on "Temptation", I never understood why... is it the darth vader one-man dialogue with God?

"Ronnie Talk to Russia" I loathed as a teen but I gotta say I love it as an adult.... I really don't even quite understand why I flip-flopped on that. I used to really dislike "Tambourine" as well but now I get why people love that.

RANKED, from absolute worst of the worst to just kinda bad.

01. "Free" : People just like the message/lyrics. Remove those sentiments and stand aghast at what plays before you. This song makes the slab of steaming limburger that is "Arms of Orion" sound like "When Doves Cry" in comparison.
02. "Delirious" : It's like "Jack U Off" if the synth was super annoying and jacked off all over the song instead of in short tasteful bursts.
03. "God(Vocal)" : Caterwauling that would make Yoko Ono blush.
04. "Trust" : Just crap. I'm convinced this was bad on purpose because he was pissed at Burton/WB rejecting "200 Balloons".
05. "Positivity" : See everyone's "Free" rationalization, add annoying superfluous layers and exteeeeennnnd the mix.
06. "Lovesexy" : All these Lovesexy songs have too much going on honestly... way way too much. Make it stop. There might very well have been a good song here at some point, buried underneath 65 layers of multitrack.
07. "All the Critics Love U in New York" : Meandering. 1999 already won everybody by this point in the sequence, so it usually falls through the cracks... not on my watch, bub.
08. "Love or Money" : I've never heard the edit, I'd probably prefer the edit. This goes nowhere... for a long long time.
09. "Girls & Boys" : I'm probably just bias against the ducksynth quacking over every nook and cranny of this one (see: "Delirious" for similar annoying perpetual synth).
10. "Baby I'm a Star" : This was always the one glaring blight on maybe the most accessible album of all time, thankfully it's short. I do get why it's for others--but it's just not for me.

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WhisperingDandelions said:

SquirrelMeat said:

Can't believe 'Temptation' is even getting a mention. It's a classic.

Are folks honestly saying they prefer 'Ronnie Talk To Russia', 'Horny Toad' and 'Lemon Crush'???

People have always hated on "Temptation", I never understood why... is it the darth vader one-man dialogue with God?

"Ronnie Talk to Russia" I loathed as a teen but I gotta say I love it as an adult.... I really don't even quite understand why I flip-flopped on that. I used to really dislike "Tambourine" as well but now I get why people love that.

I like Temptation. Yes it has cheesy dialogue and is a turnoff for those opposed to anything religious-themed, but I don't believe in throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

Ronnie is a novelty song, nothing more than a political statement used as an album filler.

If the thread topic included songs through 2010, Purple & Gold would win hands down as his worst.

1. Ronnie Talk 2 Russia

2. Jack U Off

3. Tamborine

4. It

5. Lemon Crush

I agree that the coda to Temptation is a chore, but the song itself is good. If anything doesn't really do it for me on ATWIAD, it's The Ladder. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's never had much of an impact on me. Couldn't say why.

The lyrics to Still Waiting are pathetic. That is to say, Prince deliberately cuts a pathetic figure on songs like When U Were Mine, Gotta Broken Heart Again, Bambi and Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad?, but all of those songs have lyrics that are plausible, or could at least be taken as outbursts born of jealousy and frustration. But in the bizarrely saccharine Still Waiting, Prince's character (I hope and assume that the song wasn't overly autobiographical) hunts for a fetishised version of "love" like it were a Pokémon, and unimpressively declares that he cries about it all night, every night. It's both unbelievable and slightly unnerving. The worst thing is that it sticks in the mind 'cause it's damn catchy.

to me Temptation is one of his best... but you know there is so much that we can all have favorites that some just do not like...


I think I woiuld say several of the songs on For You and Prince and one each on Lovesexy and Batman would (if I needed to) be cut from a play list...

WhisperingDandelions said:

People have always hated on "Temptation", I never understood why... is it the darth vader one-man dialogue with God?

the "conversation" with God is creepy and ridiculous,but I think the entire song is terrible.

WhisperingDandelions said:

Poplife88 said:

Wolfie87 said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Good god yes. The Ladder. So bad I think I blocked it out. Proof that AWIAD is his first "not so great" album.

SanMartin said:

I agree that the coda to Temptation is a chore, but the song itself is good. If anything doesn't really do it for me on ATWIAD, it's The Ladder. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's never had much of an impact on me. Couldn't say why.

The lyrics to Still Waiting are pathetic. That is to say, Prince deliberately cuts a pathetic figure on songs like When U Were Mine, Gotta Broken Heart Again, Bambi and Why U Wanna Treat Me So Bad?, but all of those songs have lyrics that are plausible, or could at least be taken as outbursts born of jealousy and frustration. But in the bizarrely saccharine Still Waiting, Prince's character (I hope and assume that the song wasn't overly autobiographical) hunts for a fetishised version of "love" like it were a Pokémon, and unimpressively declares that he cries about it all night, every night. It's both unbelievable and slightly unnerving. The worst thing is that it sticks in the mind 'cause it's damn catchy.

Never understood all the hate for "Free" I think that's a great song,good message too.