lurker316 said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Last great album: The Gold Experience

Last really good album: Emancipation

Last good album: 3121

Emancipation is "really good"??????????? That would be in my bottom three Prince albums.

For a long time I'd thought Gold Experience was great, but these days I'm not as big a fan. I don't think it's aged well.

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We're lucky he left such a diverse body of work - Emancipation is one of my favourite albums by anyone, it was the album turned me and some friends into serious Prince fans, and I go back to it often.

leecaldon said:

lurker316 said:

Emancipation is "really good"??????????? That would be in my bottom three Prince albums.

For a long time I'd thought Gold Experience was great, but these days I'm not as big a fan. I don't think it's aged well.

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We're lucky he left such a diverse body of work - Emancipation is one of my favourite albums by anyone, it was the album turned me and some friends into serious Prince fans, and I go back to it often.

I love Emancipation a lot !

That's the thing about Prince's music : One man's trash is another one's treasure haha.

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TrivialPursuit said:

Last great album: The Gold Experience

Last really good album: Emancipation

Last good album: 3121

I'm glad somebody made sure we remember the difference between "great" and good.

For me, I'd go back even further for "great", to Lovesexy.

Last really good album - The Gold Experience.

Last good album - The Rainbow Children (although I could do without most of the lyrics).

Maybe I'm an old Statler (or Waldorf), but although I enjoyed Emancipation, The Rainbow Children, The Gold Experience, AOA and HnR2... his last GREAT album upon first listen for me was Lovesexy.
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leecaldon said:

Love AOA and both HnR albums.

TheEclecticElectric said:

What makes you think those concepts were lost on someone?

The thread isn't "what's prince's last good, really good, and great albums?" lol

Anyway the last great album to me was clearly LotusFlower. Gold Experience before that. Symbol before that. Lovesexy. And on.

Last great 'album' was 'Art Official Age'.

HnR 1 & 2 were compilations of leftovers, one-offs, and remixes.

nayroo2002 said:

Last great 'album' was 'Art Official Age'.

HnR 1 & 2 were compilations of leftovers, one-offs, and remixes.

The same could be said about SOTT, but that was still a great album. After all, SOTT was leftover tracks from Camille and one-offs (U Got the Look) tacked onto the carcass of aborted projects (DF & CB)... It lacked a uniform sound in terms of genre or production (contrast Hot Thing with ICNTTPOYM)... And yet no one would every suggest SOTT's Frankenstein pedigree precludes it from being great.

yeah, but there was no attention to detail for those 'Hit&Run' compilations.

They were his own "bootlegs" for the fams

i dont understand the love for the hit n run albums.

yeah theres some good songs on them, but as a whole, theyre not amazing.

HNR1 is prince trying to sound modern, sometimes in a good way, sometimes not so good.

HNR2 is prince trying to sound like its 1974 again lol, very acurately in some ways, right down to that kind of stodgy 70s vibe, but its listenable ofc.

id rather listen to a recording of one of the shows from the last tour personally.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Hard to combat such wide generalities.

HNR2 is stacked with really great songs. It's amusing to see you say it sounds stodgy considering his sounds was polished AF by then.

PRINCE ALBUMs.

Since after 1990, I guess???

.

Diamands And Pearls

Come

The Gold Experience

Emancipation

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

The Rainbow Children

N.E.W.S.

Xpectation

Musicology

3121

Lotus Flower

20TEN

Art Official Age

.

everything else was a compilation.

i love all that stuff inbetween, but they were only forced as an album.

To me, an album is mostly comprised of current compositions, pertaining to that era.

'Graffiti Bridge' is a sick anomaly