We all have our skip songs on a Prince album.

Excluding "The Arms of Orion" or "I Love U In Me," what are you top few skip songs for whatever reason. (Give a reason if you wish.) In no particular order.

Here are mine (up to Emancipation for me):

Shy (The Gold Experience)

Arrogance ( )

Jughead (Diamonds and Pearls)

Slave (Emancipation)

New World (Emancipation)

Graffiti Bridge (Graffiti Bridge)

When We're Dancing Close and Slow (Prince)

99% of the times, I listen to whole albums —Prince or otherwise—, no skips for me.

It's often allowed songs to grow on me. And TBH songs don't make me "cringe" (to use a verb I've often read online). Even if I'm not particularly into a song, I'm not 17 anymore: I can listen to it without getting upset.

That said, I've almost always worked from home while listening to music and I don't have children: my listening time is pretty much all day long, so I don't need to get picky.

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what the hell I'll play along. These days I'd say this

For You none

Prince none

Dirty Mind none

Controversy "Annie Christian", "Ronnie Talk 2 Russia"

1999 none

Purple Rain none

ATWIAD none

Parade none

SOTT none

Black Album none

Lovesexy none

Batman "Lemon Crush", "Vicki Waiting"

Graffit Bridge "Love Machine", "Tick Tik Bang"

Diamond And Pearls "Walk Don't Walk", "Juughead", "Push"

Love Symbol "Sweet Baby", "The Flow"

Come "Solo", "Orgasm"

Gold Experience "We March", "319", "Shy"

Chaos And Disorder "Right The Wrong",

Enancipation "Courtin Time", "I Can't Make You Love Me", "Mr Happy", "Emale", "Curious Child", "Let's Have A Baby", "Style", "Da Da Da", "The Love We Make"

Crystal Ball "Rippopgodazippa", "2morrow", "Tell Me How You Wanna Be Done", "Cloreen Baconskin", "The Ride", "P Control Remix",

The Truth everything other than "The Truth" and "Don't Play Me"

Newpowersoul "Shoo Be Do", "Push It Up", "Freaks On This Side"

The Vault "My Little Pill", "There Is Lonely"

Rave un2 "Tangerine", "The Sun, The Moon & The Stars", "Sillyy Game", "Strange But True"

The Rainbow Children all of it

One Nite Alone all of it

Xpectation all of it

NEWS all of it

Musicology "Life O The Party", "What Do You Want Me 2 Do", "If I Was The Man In Your Life", "On The Couch", "Dear Mr Man"

The Chocolate Invasion everything expect for "Supercute", "Vavoom", "High", "U Make My Sun Shine"

The Slaughterhouse all of it

3121 none

Planet Earth none

Lotusflow3r "Love Like Jazz", "77 Beverly Park",

MPLS "Here", "Valentina", "Better With Time",

20ten all of it

Plectrumelectrum everything except for "Prtezelbodylogic", "Fixupyolife", "Funknroll"

Art Official Age "U Know",

HitNRun Phase 1 none of it (shockingly)

HitNRun Phase 2 none of it

Welcome 2 America none of it

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The only song I'd skip if I'm not alone is "Orgasm". And probably a couple of others if my 7-year-old son is around (like "Lovesexy", "Lady Cab Driver", etc.). I'm lucky to be a non-native English speaker, so I'll gladly play "Sister" while he's there, though.

If I'm alone or wearing earbuds, I don't skip anything.

TrivialPursuit said:

We all have our skip songs on a Prince album.

Excluding "The Arms of Orion" or "I Love U In Me," what are you top few skip songs for whatever reason. (Give a reason if you wish.) In no particular order.

Here are mine (up to Emancipation for me):

Shy (The Gold Experience)

Arrogance ( )

Jughead (Diamonds and Pearls)

Slave (Emancipation)

New World (Emancipation)

Graffiti Bridge (Graffiti Bridge)

When We're Dancing Close and Slow (Prince)

All of these I really love a lot, except for Arrogance and Shy.

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My list : People seriously gonna kill me for this.

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Wedding Feast (all of it, who doesn't? )

Pussy Control (annoying disco drum synth, and boring chorus)

Guitar (too less, too boring, too flat, too easy)

Peach (same, too less, too boring, too flat, too easy)

Fury (same same, too easy and throwaway)

Black Sweat (that horrible sqeaking synth)

2 Y. 2 D. (could've been so much more, a sort of overproduced really funky tune, instead of a pop song,)

Emancipation (powerless, too-light, with weak chorus and annoying lyrics)

The Work (never liked the pace of it, lame unfunky drums, lyrics hurt my ears)

Prettyman (idem dito, too easy, should've been done by Morris)

Rainbow Children (lyrics obviously, song could've been stronger, less voice effects)

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (...skip! too much sugar to my taste)

Sexy MF (because of the lame irritating rap the song is ruined for me, love the horns though)

We March (... something about it is boring as fuck. next!)

Black Muse (could've been a sort of 'Strange Relationship' tune, if production was stronger and more 'fun')

Diamonds & Pearls (can't stand it, too much Rosie for me)

Big City (oh god, the lyrics... boring as fuck, tune and all)

Million $ Show,

+ Shut This Down

+ Ain't About To Stop

+ Like A Mack

+ Fallinlove2nite

+ X"s Face

+ Hardrocklover (Seriously? Hit'nRun fast as you can! All of it is the worse Prince ever did. Even worse than Kamasutra. The ultimate lower than low Josh woosh-woosh failure production. Why, Prince? Why? Did you ran out of ideas? Was Jehova telling you to do this horror? I wonder who listens to this album anyway?)

Gold (never liked it, even after listening to it again recently, the lyrics? uh)

3 Chains O Gold (super meh over the top boring)

Funknroll (really?)

Extralovable (Hit'nrun Phase Two version. Completely misses the great funk of the original. Why did you fuck this up Prince?)

Everybody Loves Me

The Max

Future Baby Mama

Feel Better Feel Good Feel Wonderful (hell no!)

77 Beverly Park (elevator music. would've been a much better piano-ballad fitting UTCM era)

Get On The Boat (... Prince repeating himself over and over)

Insense and candles (horrible production)

Walk In Sand

Beautiful Loved and Blessed (same boring production)

Blue Light (... skip skip skip fast!)

The Flow

Get Yo Groove On

We Get's Up

Courtin' Time

Mr. Happy

The Jam Of The Year (lyrics... uh!)

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(...) I could go on (...)

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As you can see, both 'Hit'nRun Phase 1 and Two' are not up to my likes at all. The both lack all the “fun” in the world, and the feeling of “happiness” is nowhere to be found. (Compare it to any other album from before 1990). It's as if those albums were made with extreme precision (dry) and without any ‘joy’ (chickengrease, squirrelmeat, know what I mean?). There is also too much involvement from others that don't bring any value to the music. The quality of the songwriting on both albums is so seriously low, and lyrically it's as if Prince hasn't seen the outside world for a decade or more. There isn't a single song that melodically stands out, or, that has a daring musical approach, or, an interesting production level. Bash me if you like.

Vannormal said:

TrivialPursuit said:

We all have our skip songs on a Prince album.

Excluding "The Arms of Orion" or "I Love U In Me," what are you top few skip songs for whatever reason. (Give a reason if you wish.) In no particular order.

Here are mine (up to Emancipation for me):

Shy (The Gold Experience)

Arrogance ( )

Jughead (Diamonds and Pearls)

Slave (Emancipation)

New World (Emancipation)

Graffiti Bridge (Graffiti Bridge)

When We're Dancing Close and Slow (Prince)

All of these I really love a lot, except for Arrogance and Shy.

Let's stop here. You're saying you really love "Graffiti Brige" (the song) a lot? And "Jughead"?

I mean: I don't skip them. And I actually quite enjoy "Jughead". But loving them a lot?

Except for HnR 1 and 2, I can relate to about 80–90% of your list, in the sense that they're also songs that I enjoy less.

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olb99 said:

Vannormal said:

All of these I really love a lot, except for Arrogance and Shy.

Let's stop here. You're saying you really love "Graffiti Brige" (the song) a lot? And "Jughead"?

I mean: I don't skip them. And I actually quite enjoy "Jughead". But loving them a lot?

Yep.

I have to say the song 'Graffiti Bridge is something I don't skip.

I know it sounds super 'meh'.

Let's call it a guilty pleasure, is that acceptable?

And as a music lover, i have to say it is a really bad song, yes.

But I don't skip it (yet). Maybe because there's some feeling of 'joy' in the end chorus that I like?

I have to think...

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Jughead is a song i never skip. It is a good song? Hell no.

But has its funky moments. And it's the only moment I like Rosie (for some unclear reason).

Jughead could've been so much more. The basics are there. I can hear more potential in that one.

It's also the one time i can stand Prince's silly rappin' too.

It's all just a feeling you know, why we like something and why not.

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Oh, and I have to add 'Cream' to my list as well.

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Everybody Loves Me.

Woww I am so surprised by some of these so far, who skips Tick Tick Bang, or the entirety of The Rainbow Children!? Do yourself a favour and consider revisiting your skipped songs someday

I don't skip stuff very often. Almost never!

On Controversy, I do skip Ronnie Talk 2 Russia though
On Graffiti Bridge, I skip the cheesy title track but I love everything else.

I skip the segues on Exodus, just as I do with all the segues on every Janet album ever

On Emancipation, The Human Body and New World are not for me, skip.

And finally PlectrumElectrum, I've only ever listened to it fully one time and I disliked most of it. It's Prince's cringey lyrics mainly.

I would never skip Arms of Orion or I Love U In Me, all of his ballads are my jam.

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Vannormal said:

olb99 said:

Let's stop here. You're saying you really love "Graffiti Brige" (the song) a lot? And "Jughead"?

I mean: I don't skip them. And I actually quite enjoy "Jughead". But loving them a lot?

Yep.

I have to say the song 'Graffiti Bridge is something I don't skip.

I know it sounds super 'meh'.

Let's call it a guilty pleasure, is that acceptable?

And as a music lover, i have to say it is a really bad song, yes.

But I don't skip it (yet). Maybe because there's some feeling of 'joy' in the end chorus that I like?

I have to think...

-

Jughead is a song i never skip. It is a good song? Hell no.

But has its funky moments. And it's the only moment I like Rosie (for some unclear reason).

Jughead could've been so much more. The basics are there. I can hear more potential in that one.

It's also the one time i can stand Prince's silly rappin' too.

It's all just a feeling you know, why we like something and why not.

-

-

Oh, and I have to add 'Cream' to my list as well.

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I was mainly teasing you, but thanks for replying.

I know what you mean about GB.

We all have guilty pleasures. It's not only acceptable but fun to have them.

You could say the entirety of HnR 1 is a guilty pleasure to me. Yes, I'm one of those persons who not only listen to that album, but actually like it.

peedub said:

Considering he has over 30 albums, it'd be better to ask what the skips per album are. Now I'm all confused.

I'll just pick a few albums for now and list the songs I skip.

Controversy : Annie christian, Ronnie talk to russia, Jack u off

For you : For you, So blue

Prince : With you, Bambi

Dirty mind : Sister

1999 : Something in the water (I prefer the live versions), Free, Delirious

Purple Rain : Darling Nikki.

For now.

Never been a fan of Sweet Baby on Love Symbol.

Never been a fan of Delirious on 1999.

Never been a fan of It's Courtin Time on Emancipation.

Never been a fan of Solo on Come.

Those plus the Black Album and NEWS in general I'm likely to skip. (Never got into them - maybe I'll give them another chance...)

Dauphin said:

I dunno, Arms of Orion is okay. (Checks avatar)

I put that in there because I happen to love "The Arms of Orion" and "I Love U In Me," but the crowd here tends to disfavor those.

The Rainbow Children. All of it.

nxx said:

Woww I am so surprised by some of these so far, who skips Tick Tick Bang, or the entirety of The Rainbow Children!? Do yourself a favour and consider revisiting your skipped songs someday

I don't skip stuff very often. Almost never!

On Controversy, I do skip Ronnie Talk 2 Russia though
On Graffiti Bridge, I skip the cheesy title track but I love everything else.

I skip the segues on Exodus, just as I do with all the segues on every Janet album ever

On Emancipation, The Human Body and New World are not for me, skip.

And finally PlectrumElectrum, I've only ever listened to it fully one time and I disliked most of it. It's Prince's cringey lyrics mainly.

I would never skip Arms of Orion or I Love U In Me, all of his ballads are my jam.

The segues on Exodus are unbelievably awesome, I even skip songs to hear them.

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A Janet album? Can't stand her super weak voice. I skip her albums, but love the instrumental tracks done by Jam & Lewis. I have a whole list of Jam & Lewis Janet-instrumental album.

Two Janet tracks I kinda can take is the one she did with her brother; 'Jam' and 'What Have You Done For Me Lately', a track I always wished they would've done with Prince on vocals instead.

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Plectrum electrum has its moments, but indeed...

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I absolutely LOVE 'Arms Of Orion'. I only wish I had a version with Prince in his Camile voice in duet with Sheena. AI soon can help me out.

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olb99 said:

Vannormal said:

Yep.

I have to say the song 'Graffiti Bridge is something I don't skip.

I know it sounds super 'meh'.

Let's call it a guilty pleasure, is that acceptable?

And as a music lover, i have to say it is a really bad song, yes.

But I don't skip it (yet). Maybe because there's some feeling of 'joy' in the end chorus that I like?

I have to think...

Jughead is a song i never skip. It is a good song? Hell no.

But has its funky moments. And it's the only moment I like Rosie (for some unclear reason).

Jughead could've been so much more. The basics are there. I can hear more potential in that one.

It's also the one time i can stand Prince's silly rappin' too.

It's all just a feeling you know, why we like something and why not.

Oh, and I have to add 'Cream' to my list as well.

I was mainly teasing you, but thanks for replying.
I know what you mean about GB.
We all have guilty pleasures. It's not only acceptable but fun to have them.
You could say the entirety of HnR 1 is a guilty pleasure to me. Yes, I'm one of those persons who not only listen to that album, but actually like it.

You're officially defriended. Where can I find you to do so? ))))

paisleyparkgirl said:

Considering he has over 30 albums, it'd be better to ask what the skips per album are. Now I'm all confused.

I'll just pick a few albums for now and list the songs I skip.

Controversy : Annie christian, Ronnie talk to russia, Jack u off

For you : For you, So blue

Prince : With you, Bambi

Dirty mind : Sister

1999 : Something in the water (I prefer the live versions), Free, Delirious

Purple Rain : Darling Nikki.

For now.

?????

:-O

pdiddy2011 said:

Never been a fan of Sweet Baby on Love Symbol.

Never been a fan of Delirious on 1999.

Never been a fan of It's Courtin Time on Emancipation.

Never been a fan of Solo on Come.

Those plus the Black Album and NEWS in general I'm likely to skip. (Never got into them - maybe I'll give them another chance...)

Can't believe this.

(don't worry, i won't hurt you, i only want you to have some... )

OK... for N.E.W.S. I can understand most people.

I for one love it because of Eric Leeds and Prince. Always a perfect outcome.

To me it's such a great well build strong instrumental album.

Wish there's more in the vault like this.

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Vannormal said:

nxx said:

Woww I am so surprised by some of these so far, who skips Tick Tick Bang, or the entirety of The Rainbow Children!? Do yourself a favour and consider revisiting your skipped songs someday

I don't skip stuff very often. Almost never!

On Controversy, I do skip Ronnie Talk 2 Russia though
On Graffiti Bridge, I skip the cheesy title track but I love everything else.

I skip the segues on Exodus, just as I do with all the segues on every Janet album ever

On Emancipation, The Human Body and New World are not for me, skip.

And finally PlectrumElectrum, I've only ever listened to it fully one time and I disliked most of it. It's Prince's cringey lyrics mainly.

I would never skip Arms of Orion or I Love U In Me, all of his ballads are my jam.

The segues on Exodus are unbelievably awesome, I even skip songs to hear them.

-

A Janet album? Can't stand her super weak voice. I skip her albums, but love the instrumental tracks done by Jam & Lewis. I have a whole list of Jam & Lewis Janet-instrumental album.

Two Janet tracks I kinda can take is the one she did with her brother; 'Jam' and 'What Have You Done For Me Lately', a track I always wished they would've done with Prince on vocals instead.

-

Plectrum electrum has its moments, but indeed...

-

I absolutely LOVE 'Arms Of Orion'. I only wish I had a version with Prince in his Camile voice in duet with Sheena. AI soon can help me out.

[Edited 10/9/25 5:30am]

Oh, I love Janet, her whole body of work is amazing. Been a fan ever since Control!

I guess this thread proves we're all different
At least we agree on Arms of Orion being awesome!

Vannormal said:

olb99 said:

I was mainly teasing you, but thanks for replying.
I know what you mean about GB.
We all have guilty pleasures. It's not only acceptable but fun to have them.
You could say the entirety of HnR 1 is a guilty pleasure to me. Yes, I'm one of those persons who not only listen to that album, but actually like it.

You're officially defriended. Where can I find you to do so? ))))

If you ever come to Lausanne, Switzerland, let's have a beer and talk about how Like a Mack is actually awesome.

olb99 said:

Vannormal said:

You're officially defriended. Where can I find you to do so? ))))

If you ever come to Lausanne, Switzerland, let's have a beer and talk about how Like a Mack is actually awesome.

I'm at least once a year in Neufchatel & Zurich...

Deal!

Everybody loves me

Arrogance

Do u lie?

Little red corvette

Dirty Mind: Do It All Night

Controversy: Ronnie

1999: Free

PR: Baby I'm A Star

ATWIAD: hmmm The End of Tempation

Parade: no skips

SOTT: Slow Love

Lovesexy: no skips

Batman: Trust sometimes

GB: eeeks only counting Prince songs: Tick Tick Bang

D&P: Jughead

Symbol: Blue Light yikes

Come: none

Gold Experience: We March

things get a little crazy after this.. so I will leave it here

From 1991 onwards I skip pretty much everything.

D&P has more misses than hits for me and post D&P is where my appreciation for Prince ends. Similar to Stevie Wonder when he entered the 80s - he lost it too.

Personally, I've revisited emancipation a couple of times but all it does is remind me how prince had lost it. His musical output from the 90s onwards does absolutely nothing for me. I've heard them all but the magic is gone from that music.

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