Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad

Automatic

1999

Lets Go Crazy

America

Sexuality

Kiss

Anotherloverholeinyourhead

I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

Batdance

Willing and Able

Te Amo Corazon

Black Sweat

When Doves Cry

Batdance

I Wish U Heaven

1999

U Got The Look

Automatic

Raspberry Beret

Partyman

Cream

7

I Would Die 4 U/Baby I'm a Star (live)
Take Me with U (live)
America (live)
Anotherloverholenyohead (live)
Electric Chair (SNL)
Gett Off (VMAs)
Vanguard Jam (NAACP Awards)
Fury (SNL)

Dolphin

That FURY SNL was KILLER!

Whend Dove Cry
Raspberry Beret
Kiss
Mountains
U Got the Look
I Wish U Heaven
7
Dolphin
Musicology
RockNRoll Love Affair

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DotsofU said:

That FURY SNL was KILLER!

I love that, too, but I'd consider it a live performance, not a video.

There was a video for Fury that tried to recreate the SNL performance, but it just wasn't the same.

rlittler81 said:

Dolphin

...is a really nice one.

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I like "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

The hair...

SoulAlive said:

When Doves Cry

Batdance

I Wish U Heaven

U Got The Look

Raspberry Beret

Cream

7

I like those, too!
also add:

Thieves In The Temple
Kiss
Gett Off
Dolphin
Crimson & Clover

"Kiss" indeed is great and fun. Never gets tired.

Add for me,

"Girls & Boys"

and for sure also

"Mountains" (for nostalgic reasons)/

"Raspberry Beret" (iconic)

"Automatic" (sexy as hell)

Plus :

"Sign O The Times" (great word/light effect, still!)

and,

"When 2 r In Love" with the all black screen & only subtitles.

Shame it never got much attention, pure art to me, daring and very UN-Prince as a choice. But it fitted the idea of the black album so well. only it should've been another song of that album.

Prince videos from the 80's were pretty mid (I'm speaking from a millenial perspective). I wish u heaven or Alphabet st haven't aged well at all.

From 89 and beyond things improved drastically.

I like Batdance, Cream , Diamonds and Pearls, Te Amo corazon, Musicology.

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Violet The Organ Grinder

Insatiable

Scandalous

Face Down

paisleyparkgirl said:

Prince videos from the 80's were pretty mid (I'm speaking from a millenial perspective). I wish u heaven or Alphabet st haven't aged well at all.

From 89 and beyond things improved drastically.

I like Batdance, Cream , Diamonds and Pearls, Te Amo corazon, Musicology.

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The I wish I heaven video made me love a song I hadn't appreciated at all previously.

paisleyparkgirl said:

Prince videos from the 80's were pretty mid (I'm speaking from a millenial perspective). I wish u heaven or Alphabet st haven't aged well at all.

They're abominable.

It's like the exact same video over and over until Purple Rain era.

Then it's like cornball graphics or bad miming. Wendy wildly strumming a non-existent acoustic guitar throughout the verses of "Kiss".

The two best videos of the 80s were "When 2 R in Love" and "Scandalous". They should all be like either, just Prince staring you down 1 man 1 mic or a black screen with lyrical text.

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"The One"

Money Don't Matter 2nite

Damn U

Sexy MF

Automatic

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

7

Insatiable

Eye Hate U

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WhisperingDandelions said:

paisleyparkgirl said:

Prince videos from the 80's were pretty mid (I'm speaking from a millenial perspective). I wish u heaven or Alphabet st haven't aged well at all.

They're abominable.

It's like the exact same video over and over until Purple Rain era.

That's true, but it was true of many music videos in the '70s and early '80s. Most bands simply mimed a peformance on a stage. It was lack of imagination. Eventually people realized you could do so much more with music videos.

paisleyparkgirl said:

Prince videos from the 80's were pretty mid (I'm speaking from a millenial perspective). I wish u heaven or Alphabet st haven't aged well at all.

From 89 and beyond things improved drastically.

I like Batdance, Cream , Diamonds and Pearls, Te Amo corazon, Musicology.

IIRC, Prince said once that he didn't like making video's.

(Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do remember him stating that.)

For sure he was more of a performer, rather than a videoclip maker.

The 1999 video's all are great. He's performing... simple.-

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I need to add another one I like;

"Paisley Park."

Very unPrincy as well. And indeed it also looks very dated, but nice for it's psychedelic approach, and the kids singing...

lurker316 said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

They're abominable.

It's like the exact same video over and over until Purple Rain era.

That's true, but it was true of many music videos in the '70s and early '80s. Most bands simply mimed a peformance on a stage.

Until Michael Jackson showed everybody how it's done.

Violet the Organ Grinder

Actually, i find most of the "Alphabet St." video meh.
Though I like the idea with letters and numbers.
But his dancing is somehow underwhelming.

happyshopper said:

He was never good at videos, but here’s a few that stand out. . Kiss Girls and Boys Raspberry Beret SOTT I Wish U Heaven

All of those videos are lazy and look like they were recorded in one take, no variety, different scenes etc...

America

Mountains

Raspberry Beret

1999

Controversy

I Wish U Heaven

U Got the Look

Girls & Boys

WhisperingDandelions said:

lurker316 said: