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Prince's best and worst album covers? Princes best is of course the stunning Diamonds & Pearl's followed closely by the Purple Rain cover which is just iconic cuz appolonia in doorway glowing in the aftersex from Prince showing her 23 positions Worst is Lovesexy by far ...the baked light skinned vampire look was played out by 1988 and hip hop was taking over...what say u is the best & worst? | |
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Best is either Controversy or Parade or SOTT. Worst is either 20TEN or Love Symbol or Musicology. | |
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best: Lovesexy, Parade
worst: Gold Experience
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Best-Purple Rain (the image of Prince on the motorcycle is very iconic) Diamonds and Pearls (the 3D image) Come (love the pic of him in front of the gates Worst-The Black album Most of his albums have great covers | |
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BEST ALBUM COVER: Around The World In A Day
Runner Up: Purple Rain (silver deluxe)
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WORST ALBUM COVER: Hitnrun Phase Two
Runner Up: Love Symbol
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Best: 3121 (I'm still wondering what's on the back cover though)
Worst: 20Ten - just silly | |
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Best...Parade Worst...Planet Earth or Chaos and Disorder | |
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Best - SOTT Around The World In A Day Purple Rain
Worst - Prince 1999 Diamonds & Pearls |
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Best: The Rainbow Children Worst: New Power Soul | |
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I agree with lion's choices. |
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Best: Parade (it’s gorgeous and iconic)
Worst: The Symbol Album (ugly and stupid and looks like it was a photo from a middle school drama production) [Edited 6/18/21 7:56am] | |
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Best: Crystal Ball Worst: Parade I'm pretty sure I have those in the right order. | |
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Best: Controversy Worst: Chaos and Disorder | |
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the Lovesexy cover. Hip Hop had nothing to do with Prince. Why hip hop? There are so many other genre of music, why connect it to Hip Hop. The album music was nothing close to Hip Hop. It was uniquely Prince
. I think it's a beautiful cover. I appreciate it so much more than I did before
BEST Purple Rain/Around the World in a Day/Sign o the Times
Worst: Black album but more likely NPS | |
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No love for Dirty Mind? That photograph is so powerful to me. Prince's seething look, the way it glows, the raw bed spring. Anyway, fave is that or Sign. Plenty of others I like - Around the World, Parade, The Rainbow Children, 3121, Art Official, the Hit n Runs. Even 1999. So crude, but you know Prince made that himself (right?), so it's his most personal. I remember being shocked as a kid that someone would put a penis on an album cover. Least favorite: Musicology. |
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PJMcGee said: No love for Dirty Mind? That photograph is so powerful to me. Prince's seething look, the way it glows, the raw bed spring. Anyway, fave is that or Sign. Plenty of others I like - Around the World, Parade, The Rainbow Children, 3121, Art Official, the Hit n Runs. Even 1999. So crude, but you know Prince made that himself (right?), so it's his most personal. I remember being shocked as a kid that someone would put a penis on an album cover. Least favorite: Musicology. Prince didn't make the 1999 cover himself. Vanity drew it. | |
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Least favourite: Musicology. We could have had a painting by Monet, Turner, or Bob Ross.. The world's problems like climate change can only be solved through strategic long-term thinking, not expediency. In other words all the govts. need sacking!
If you can add value to someone's life then why not. Especially if it colors their days... | |
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LoveGalore said: PJMcGee said: No love for Dirty Mind? That photograph is so powerful to me. Prince's seething look, the way it glows, the raw bed spring. Anyway, fave is that or Sign. Plenty of others I like - Around the World, Parade, The Rainbow Children, 3121, Art Official, the Hit n Runs. Even 1999. So crude, but you know Prince made that himself (right?), so it's his most personal. I remember being shocked as a kid that someone would put a penis on an album cover. Least favorite: Musicology. Prince didn't make the 1999 cover himself. Vanity drew it. Get out! He let his gal do something creative on his own album? Wow. But he did make the cover for the Gett Off single, right? I thought they had a similar vibe. |
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Best - SOTT
Gold Experience would of been in the running if they had stuck with the "Foil" idea
Worst - Batman (should of had a bit more of a prince essense) he might have better luck if he was drummin with his Dick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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Steve Park seems like a nice guy, but his album covers are not to my taste. Unsure if that’s really his fault, or just that Prince didn’t have to consult with record label ‘experts’ anymore in the post-Warner’s era.
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i would say :
best : around the world in a day, 3121, the rainbow children, and i would add (even if it is not directly a Prince album) the Family album,
Parade, sign of the time, the forthcoming album : welcome to America, have good covers, i also like the cover of the Black Album, echoing the Beatles with their White album released in the sixties
20ten cover is not so good, nor are the ones of planet earth, diamonds and pearls and symbol albums,
the cover of 'Come' is gothic and dark and doesn't cause any trouble to a good album, whereas the one of 'For You' is sober with no particular pretention,
i like a lot the music of 'Rave' but i have not a particular opinion about its cover, neither especially good or bad, however the cover of Rave aesthetically doesn't chock me
next to the Batman one, for me the real disaster is the cover of the lovesexy album, i have never liked it [Edited 6/18/21 14:43pm] [Edited 6/19/21 10:08am] | |
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I have heard tons of stories about fans buying the lovesexy album and getting bad looks from the cashier's after they saw the cover Just think,what it would've been like had prince had his back turned showing off backside.That would've been a more memorable cover What's so bad about the chaos and disorder album cover? I always thought it looked really cool.With the broken 1999 LP.It was his FU to Warner Bros | |
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Almost everything post WB was abysmal. Formerly TheDigitalGardener etc. | |
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1999 is Prince's best album,imo.So naturally,I don't like the C&D album cover | |
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SoulAlive said:
1999 is Prince's best album,imo.So naturally,I don't like the C&D album cover Fair enough.Still cool looking though.Atleast it wasn't the purple rain LP | |
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Controversy best / Rave worst |
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Best: Parade / Dirty Mind / Controversy / 1999 / PR / ATWIAD / TRC Worst: Musicology / Planet Earth / Emancipation / Newpower Soul / The Vault / that solo piano album RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Best: lovesexy Worst: either love symbol or emancipation |
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It's gotta be SOTT for me. It's the one that has the most compelling interpretations. You can spend a lot of time thinking about why he did it that way and what it means. But purely in terms of beauty, Parade takes the cake. |
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Yes, Sign o the times, or Diamonds and Pearls are the best. Chaos and Disorder, or Love symbol, are the worst. | |
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