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Which 3 Prince albums would you choose to recommend to your friends? Asked this about a different artist, and considering how different each Prince album is, what 3 albums would you choose to introduce someone who’s never listened to Prince before. | |
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I'm a bit uncompromising. Your question depends on who are your friends (what do they actually like, or their age) and then will choose what's more suitable for them. I know of some grown-ups who only got it through the Small Club bootleg, for instance. You never know. |
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Purple Rain Sign O The Times . Then choices: 1999, Parade or Dirty Mind |
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It depends on how old they are, what type of music they usually listen to etc... |
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Like Paisleyparkgirl said, it depends entirely on who I'm recommending it to. Prince's stuff was so diverse that you could recommend three albums to one person that they would love but another person might hate and vice versa. However, for the purposes of the game, I would choose; Purple Rain It's his most well known album and contains several of his most well known songs. If you can't find ANYTHING on this album that you like, then there's no point in even continuing with any more recommendations. 3121 One for the 90s RnB lovers, this album was one of the two albums my cousin played for me to get me into Prince's music. (As a bonus, the other album was Hit'n'Run Phase Two). 3121 has a diverse collection of ballads (Satisfied), uptempo songs (Fury) and cool-as-shit RnB (Black Sweat). Plus, it's not THAT old so younger people shouldn't immediately turn their noses up at it. The Hits & B-Sides Ok, so maybe this is cheating, but I often find that the best albums to check out first when you're unsure about an artist who is new to you is their greatest hits. I did it with Lenny Kravitz, Hall & Oates and Shania Twain and given that The Hits & B-Sides collection contains several deep cuts as well as the big hits, it really is the best place for someone to start. | |
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All my friends KNOW Prince! If you grew up in his era no introduction is needed. |
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None.
People either already know and get Prince. Or they don't. In my experience.
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Purple Rain
The Hits/The B-Sides
Sign O The Times
(If not The Hits/The B-Sides then 1999)
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There's a whole generation that barely know him, and there plenty in other generations who know a handful of hits. . I know one person who became a huge Prince fan (because of me) who wasn't that interested after seeing him play Baby Knows on Top of the Pops. I popped in The Rainbow Children when I gave him a lift home from university. The next day, he sought it out and bought it from the one store in the city that was stocking it. He never looked back. Within two years we had crossed the Atlantic to see him at MSG (and if it hadn't sold out, he would have come to the Celebration in 2002, only months after hearing TRC). . You know who you are |
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I remember when it was all about cassette and making mix tapes for people...friends would ask me to make them a Prince mix (they knew who to go to |
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. I used to make one side Purple rain with Erotic City & 17 Days, and other side songs from 1999 and SOTT with a few other Bsides. It was a sure-fire hit.
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Like others have said...depends on their age. Prince's best album is SOTT but a youngin' might not get it because they've been raised on shitty trap rap garbage. Trap rap music especially mumble rap is straight up trash and ANYONE can do it. |
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Same. "New Power slide...." |
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It seems like a pretty easy question, however I’m struggling because honestly, they probably wouldn’t rate em! They wouldn’t have the patience for the album to grow on them! |
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1999, Purple Rain and SOTT, hands down the best 3 Prince albums! | |
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Diamonds And Pearls Love Symbol 1999 |
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Controversy, Prince and 1999. [Edited 6/19/25 1:02am] "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing." - Socrates | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0 | |
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Sign O The Times The Gold Experience Parade Every day when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being ME. |
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TrivialPursuit said: The Gold Experience Bold choice, I think you'll probably loose 90 % of listeners at P.Control. |
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On the other hand, I know someone who became a fan specifically because of that song. |
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Parade - My favourite album, (so why waste time not showing people what you love?). Not only does it clock in at a digestible runtime, it’s grounded by one of his most recogisible and beloved songs and closes with one of his most beautiful, while retaining all the weird qualities and musical dynamism I love Prince for. The album is utterly unique, it almost stands apart from time. If they’re not pulled in by sheer magic of the album’s opening 4 song suite, then we are so musically opposed that I don’t care if they never come to appreaciate Prince. I don’t think the album gets credit for the audacity of its first ten seconds, undoubtedly the boldest opening of any Prince album - what I would give to hear that for the first time again. Dirty Mind - it’s raw, it’s fun and funky, and actually a little shocking for people who don’t know much about Prince (in my experience they’re surprised and really admire the lack of polish). The Undertaker - for much the same reason as Dirty Mind. Tend to stay away from SOTT (it’s too much), Purple Rain (there’s no sense of discovery with an album everyone knows is a classic), or even 1999 (sometimes the production turns people off at first, it did for me in my early Prince days, though I quickly attuned). Hundalasiliah! |
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Purple Rain - Iconic and classic HITNRUN Phase 2 - some very great tunes, catchy Custom Mix Playlist - I would probably have to grab like 10 songs and mix them in. Preferably with Videos, like the SOTT movie If I was your Girlfriend, It's About That Walk, etc -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Still it's nice to know, when our bodies wear out, we can get another -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |
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Purple Rain The Undertaker The Rainbow Children NPG Radio:
https://open.spotify.com/...63VlWY6m1A |
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Every day when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being ME. |
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Great Friend: "yeah, that was a hoot, but check out his cover of 'Creep' at Coachella..." Autopen Signature |
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Purple Rain 1999 Diamonds and Pearls | |
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TrivialPursuit said:
I don't disagree. Any album that includes Shhh is worthy of inclusion as far as I'm concerned | |
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I would suggest avoiding 1999 initially. As a whole, it's not a super accessible album. . Purple Rain is a cert. Sign O the Times an abvious pick. Maybe throw in something later like The Gold Experience, Art Official Age or something a bit different like One Nite Alone. I'd choose a third album based on the person. . Or just start with The Hits 1 and 2 |
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Purple Rain Sign O' The Times Parade
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I would just simply pick my three favorite Prince albums 😁 1999,Dirty Mind and Purple Rain. I’m pretty sure they would find something they like on these three albums. | |
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