Best to Worst

1 Le Grind

2 Cindy C

3 2 Nigs United For West Compton

4 Anna Stesia

5 Alphabet St

6 When 2 R in Love

7 Rock Hard In a Funky Place

8 I Wish U Heaven

9 Positivity

10 Superfunkycalifragisexy

11 Glam Slam

12 Bob George

13 Lovesexy

14 Eye No

15 Dance On

16 Dead On It

1 Rock Hard In a Funky Place

2 Le Grind

3 Lovesexy

4 Cindy C

5 Eye No

6 Bob George

7 Anna Stesia

8 Alphabet St

9 Positivity

10 When 2 R in Love

11 Superfunkycalifragisexy

12 Dead On It

13 2 Nigs United For West Compton

14 Dance On

15 Glam Slam

16 I Wish U Heaven

1 Lovesexy
2 2 Nigs United For West Compton
3 Cindy C
4 Bob George
5 Anna Stesia
6 Le Grind
7 Superfunkycalifragisexy
8 Rock Hard In a Funky Place
9 Alphabet St
10 Dead On It
11 Eye No
12 Glam Slam
13 Dance On
14 When 2 R in Love
15 I Wish U Heaven
16 Positivity

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1. Bob George

2. Lovesexy

3. When 2 R In Love

4. Le Grind

5. Cindy C.

6. I Wish U heaven

7. Dead On It

8. Glam Slam

9. Dance On

10. 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

11. Alphabet St.

12. Superfunkycalifragisexy

13. Eye No

14. Rock Hard In A funky Place

15. Anna Stecia

16. Positivity

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Very hard to rate all these great songs by the way - and it's my favorite era too.

Even the so called weakest songs have their role to play.

So i'll rate it like this, since you asked for one.

...

These aren't ratings to me though, it was a playlist I made

of both albums, a long time ago.

I smoothly blended these songs into one another.

I called it my own ''BlackLovesexy'' album.

Actually I ended this list with ''Escape'' and ''I Wish You Heaven (pts II and III)'',

and after ''Dance on'' and ''2 Nigs...'' i had ''Scarlet Pussy'' up there too.

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This is really difficult. I absolutely love both of these albums from start to finish. There are no songs I dislike or skip expcet perhaps 2 Nigs (mainly because it's an instrumental).

1. Cindy C.
2. Rock Hard In A Funky Place
3. Eye No
4. Le Grind
5. Lovesexy
6. I Wish U Heaven
7. When 2 R In Love
8. Alphebet Street
9. Anna Stesia
10. Positivity
11. Glam Slam
12. Dead On It
13. Superfunkycalifragisexy
14. Bob George
15. Dance On
16. 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

1 Lovesexy

2 Le Grind

3 Rock Hard

4 Alphabet St

5 Cindy C

6 Eye No

7 Superfunkycali

8 Glam Slam

9 When 2

10 Anna

11 2 Nigs

12 I Wish U Heaven

13 Dance On

14 Bob George

15 Positivity

16 Dead On It

1. Le Grind

2. Cindy C

3. Superfunkycalifragisexy

4. Anna stesia

5. Rock Hard in a Funky Place

6. Alphabet St

7. Lovesexy

8. When 2 R in Love

9. I wish U Heaven

10. Positvity

11. Bob George

12. Dance On

13. Dead on It

14. 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

15. I know

16. Glam Slam

The whole of Lovesexy is better than the Black Album for me, and I don't know that I like any of the songs more than the other. I always listen to the whole thing.

Eye No

Alphabet St.

Glam Slam

Anna Stesia

Dance On

Lovesexy

When 2 R In Love

I Wish U Heaven

Positivity

Le Grind

Dead On It

Superfunkycalifragisexy

Cindy C

Rock Hard In A Funky Place

Bob George

2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

Speaking of Le Grind: I was looking up some lyrics the other day and noticed most of the lyric sites claim the line is, "Ce soir, la chantez, all night long," which is "Tonight, sing it, all night long," but I don't hear an 'n' in chantez, and to me it sounds like "Ce soir, la chatte, all night long," which is "Tonight, the pussy (cat), all night long." Any French speakers here have an opinion on that lyric?

SchlomoThaHomo said:

The whole of Lovesexy is better than the Black Album for me, and I don't know that I like any of the songs more than the other. I always listen to the whole thing.

Eye No

Alphabet St.

Glam Slam

Anna Stesia

Dance On

Lovesexy

When 2 R In Love

I Wish U Heaven

Positivity

Le Grind

Dead On It

Superfunkycalifragisexy

Cindy C

Rock Hard In A Funky Place

Bob George

2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

Speaking of Le Grind: I was looking up some lyrics the other day and noticed most of the lyric sites claim the line is, "Ce soir, la chantez, all night long," which is "Tonight, sing it, all night long," but I don't hear an 'n' in chantez, and to me it sounds like "Ce soir, la chatte, all night long," which is "Tonight, the pussy (cat), all night long." Any French speakers here have an opinion on that lyric?

Thought exactly the same.

I'm not French speaking, but I speak french, and I can here that too.

And ''la chatte'' is a cat indeed, although the ''e'' is not always pronounced.

...depends where you are.

SantanaMaitreya said:

SantanaMaitreya said:

I always thought of Lovesexy as a concept album rather than a collection of songs. I don't find the individual songs all that special, but together, they become more than the sum of their parts. Same with the Black Album, which is just a collection of funk jams. So there's no point in ranking them. Just enjoy the trip.

Well said. I do like some songs better than others (as I listed above). But I have had these two albums together for as long as I can remember. Back when the Black album was just a boot, one side of the cassette with TBA the other Lovesexy and they play really well as one continuous double album.

The one track I might skip over on a listen is shared by both albums.

But I also don't really get into "Glam Slam" much.

Overall I am a Black Album addict. I just love the sound, sequence, and concept of it, with all the talkiing, personalities and details. I think the arrangements and mixing is just intense, interesting, and works to create a cohesive album mood.

And it was just slap your face startling in context of what Madonna and Michael Jackson were doing at that time. You know his pop peers at that time.

Tough one as I usually listen to both of these as albums. The stand out tracks to me are:

I Wish U Ueaven, Alphabet Street, Bob George, Anna Stesia, Superfunky

The rest each have interesting features. I dont skip them nor will i go out of my to play them.

The only real clunker is Dead On It.

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2 NIGS UNITED 4 WEST COMPTON

ALPHABET ST.

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then the rest...

eye no

when 2 r in love

cindy c

le grind

rock hawd

alphabet st

i wish u heaven

super funky

bob george

2 nigs

dead on it

ufoclub said:

The one track I might skip over on a listen is shared by both albums.

But I also don't really get into "Glam Slam" much.

Overall I am a Black Album addict. I just love the sound, sequence, and concept of it, with all the talkiing, personalities and details. I think the arrangements and mixing is just intense, interesting, and works to create a cohesive album mood.

And it was just slap your face startling in context of what Madonna and Michael Jackson were doing at that time. You know his pop peers at that time.

Yeah I had that with When 2 R In Love too, but in recent years I have a newfound appreciation for this song. Nowadays I mostly let it spin.

Glam Slam was never a favorite of mine either, the chorus is jarring IMO. I do like the instrumental part with the violins (near the end iirc?) though.

And YES, the black album rules, totally agree!

funkaholic1972 said:

ufoclub said:

The one track I might skip over on a listen is shared by both albums.

But I also don't really get into "Glam Slam" much.

Overall I am a Black Album addict. I just love the sound, sequence, and concept of it, with all the talkiing, personalities and details. I think the arrangements and mixing is just intense, interesting, and works to create a cohesive album mood.

And it was just slap your face startling in context of what Madonna and Michael Jackson were doing at that time. You know his pop peers at that time.

Yeah I had that with When 2 R In Love too, but in recent years I have a newfound appreciation for this song. Nowadays I mostly let it spin.

Glam Slam was never a favorite of mine either, the chorus is jarring IMO. I do like the instrumental part with the violins (near the end iirc?) though.

And YES, the black album rules, totally agree!

I like the end "orchestral" type drama at the end of Glam Slam too.

The thing I really appreciate on When 2 R in Love is the trippy Linn hihat pattern. It is surreal.

I Wish U Heaven

Alphabet St.

Lovesexy

Glam Slam

Anna Stesia

Rockhard In A Funky Place

When 2 R In Love

Dead On It

Bob George

Le Grind

Positivity

Cindy C.

I Know

Superfunkycalifragisexy

2 Niggs United 4 West Compton

Dance On

My take on it....

1) Lovesexy

2) Anna Stesia

3) Superfunkycalifragisexy

4) Rock Hard In a Funky Place

5) Cindy C

6) I Wish U Heaven

7) Alphabet St

8) When 2 R In Love

9) Le Grind

10) 2 Nigs United For West Compton

11) Glam Slam

12) Postivity

13) Bob George

14) Eye Know

15) Dance On

16) Dead On It

First 4 are classic Prince songs...

1) Lovesexy

2) I Wish U Heaven

3) Anna Stesia

4) Superfunkycalifragisexy

5) Rock Hard In A Funky Place

6) Alphabet St.

7) When 2 R In Love

8) Dead On It

9) Le Grind

10) Glam Slam

11) Eye No

12) Cindy C

13) Positivity

14) Bob George

15) Two Nigs United 4 West Compton

16) Dance On

1) Rock Hard in a Funky Place

2) Bob George

3) Superfunkycalifragisexy

4) Le Grind

5) Cindy C

6) 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

7) Alphabet St

8) When 2 R In Love

9) Glam Slam

10) Anna Stesia

11) Eye No

12) Positivity

13) I Wish U Heaven

14) Dead On It

15) Lovesexy

16) Dance On

1. I Wish U Heaven
2. Alphabet St.
3. I Know
4. Le Grind
5. Cindy C.
6. Lovesexy
7. Glam Slam
8. Anna Stesia
9. Rockhard In A Funky Place
10. Positivity
11. Superfunkycalifragisexy
12. Dance On
13. When 2 R In Love
14. Bob George
15. Dead On It
16. 2 Niggs United 4 West Compton

I Wish U Heaven seems to be polarising people.

''Dead On It'' does not receive much love in general.

Often being rated as the last one.

Is it because of the somewhat silly lyrics (for the time being) ?

I do like that phat funky anti-song !

It's an in-your-face sloppy constructed funk piece at first, it could even be a throwaway piecehe had lying around, but so damn well made imho.

I like every sound of it.

Listen to it with headphones, and discover the excellent bass parts, the weird synths, the smart greasy samples, the fuck-you guitar licks, his voice that seems to come off as both fierce and couldn't-care-less attitutde. Love that weird un-Princey vocal arrangements all over.

And to me, he gets away with his own take on rapping.

And as someone said here, the party feel, the background crowd...

And yet still very Prince altogether.

Share the love for this track please.

Vannormal said:

''Dead On It'' does not receive much love in general.

Often being rated as the last one.

Is it because of the somewhat silly lyrics (for the time being) ?

I do like that phat funky anti-song !

It's an in-your-face sloppy constructed funk piece at first, it could even be a throwaway piecehe had lying around, but so damn well made imho.

I like every sound of it.

Listen to it with headphones, and discover the excellent bass parts, the weird synths, the smart greasy samples, the fuck-you guitar licks, his voice that seems to come off as both fierce and couldn't-care-less attitutde. Love that weird un-Princey vocal arrangements all over.

And to me, he gets away with his own take on rapping.

And as someone said here, the party feel, the background crowd...

And yet still very Prince altogether.

Share the love for this track please.

I love Dead On It musically, it is just the rap that brings the listening experience down a bit. But in the context of listening TBA it never gets skipped!

Vannormal said:

''Dead On It'' does not receive much love in general.

Often being rated as the last one.

Is it because of the somewhat silly lyrics (for the time being) ?

I do like that phat funky anti-song !

It's an in-your-face sloppy constructed funk piece at first, it could even be a throwaway piecehe had lying around, but so damn well made imho.

I like every sound of it.

Listen to it with headphones, and discover the excellent bass parts, the weird synths, the smart greasy samples, the fuck-you guitar licks, his voice that seems to come off as both fierce and couldn't-care-less attitutde. Love that weird un-Princey vocal arrangements all over.

And to me, he gets away with his own take on rapping.

And as someone said here, the party feel, the background crowd...

And yet still very Prince altogether.

Share the love for this track please.

Agreed. It's an essential Black Album track as far as I'm concerned. And the lyrics aren't anymore nonsensical than Housequake. In fact, they probably have more meaning since there's a parody happening. And one of his best rhythm guitar lines.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

Vannormal said:

''Dead On It'' does not receive much love in general.

Often being rated as the last one.

Is it because of the somewhat silly lyrics (for the time being) ?

I do like that phat funky anti-song !

It's an in-your-face sloppy constructed funk piece at first, it could even be a throwaway piecehe had lying around, but so damn well made imho.

I like every sound of it.

Listen to it with headphones, and discover the excellent bass parts, the weird synths, the smart greasy samples, the fuck-you guitar licks, his voice that seems to come off as both fierce and couldn't-care-less attitutde. Love that weird un-Princey vocal arrangements all over.

And to me, he gets away with his own take on rapping.

And as someone said here, the party feel, the background crowd...

And yet still very Prince altogether.

Share the love for this track please.

Agreed. It's an essential Black Album track as far as I'm concerned. And the lyrics aren't anymore nonsensical than Housequake. In fact, they probably have more meaning since there's a parody happening. And one of his best rhythm guitar lines.

That "laaa la la-la" part is a nod to Kurtis Blow's "If I Ruled The World", no?

A rapper tryin' to sing...

Def referencing Kurtis there. Which is probably the "realest" bit of the track. I think the song is purposefully awkward and intended as a joke/parody. I get it but still think its properly deemed the least of LS/BA.

nayroo2002 said:

That "laaa la la-la" part is a nod to Kurtis Blow's "If I Ruled The World", no?

A rapper tryin' to sing...