Overrated: The Black Album & SCOTT
Underrated: The Gold Experince & The Symbol Album



"My name is Prince and I am funky" Nuff said!!

Over: SOTT - great, but not THAT far ahead of everything else Mr P has done.

Under: Grafitti Bridge. There are some CLASSIC songs on there (Still will stand all time, joy in repetition, tick tick bang). But then there are some pretty average ones...

I also think some of the early stuff is over-rated - but then I jumped on board the P bandwagon fairly late - in the early 90s.

r1ghteousone said:

The Come Album was very under-rated.

And I don't see the point in rating any album after Come, since he fell deeper and deeper underground from the Pop Industry. Not too many people even know he put out an album after that era.

Over - Purple Rain
Under - Exodus, Lovesexy

I agree that come is hugely under-rated.

Can someone clear things up for me...Moonbeam Levels...is that No Light In A Large Room? If so, then I think that this is a massively under-rated tune...but it's a bootleg so really doesn't count does it?

herb4 said:

co-sign on exodus herb. it's got some tight ass jammies

csharp57 said:

SCOTT??

Sign (Co-sign) O' The Times?

larksanders said:

Seriously, aside from 1999 being the explosion in coming out when it did, why is it "the holy grail"?

I like it and play it a lot, but, IMHO,it's got flaws that are overlooked, although the same flaws are criticized on other albums. For example:

Delerious is a great song but not groundbreaking after songs on DM and Controversy;

the funk beat is similar in many of the songs;

the drumming is not that impressive;

some of the songs are simply too long (Prince as Jerry Garcia? oh nooo!);

Free is a yawnfest (for me, at least);

and, only a Frenchman would top off a fine meal with a big chunk of cheese like International Lover

I'm not being a prick, just looking for an answer as one who wasn't there at it's birth. Help me out here.

BoySimon said:

No. Moonbeam Levels is sometimes called "A Better Place To Die."

Yesterday I tried to write a novel
But I didn't know where to begin
So I lay down in the grass...

That one.

Moonbeam said:

I was waiting for someone to get mad at me for that! I knew I could count on you, Moonbeam!

cborgman said:

ore are we just gonna start giving all the albums male names?

around the world in a day is now called DAVE

cborgman said:

Dirty Mind can be DOM, as in Dominic.

Over: Emancipation

Under: Prince or The Rainbow Children

Underrated: Come (easily), Lovesexy

Overrated: The Gold Experience...The perfect example of an album getting "Bootleg Status". It was "incredible" before it hit the stores.

Overrated: The Gold Experience (I still like It)

Underrated: ATWIAD, Controversy, Dirty Mind, For You

10 orgers mentionned COME as the most underrated album so far... You forgot its masterpiece ending, I suppose!
Underrated?

Defenitly the most under-rated Prince-album is:

For You

Cuz "In Love", "Crazy You" "Just as long.." and most of all "My love is forever" are very beautiful songs and they still grow on me after all those years. "My love is forever" makes Micheal Jackson duck

Most overrated Prince album goes to :

Around the World In A Day


Most underrated Prince album goes to:

The Truth

Underrated: Come
Overrated: Lovesexy, The Gold Experience

Pagey said:

The Gold Experience is the best "recorded" album since the beatles "White". If you listen to the songs, they all tell a chapter in a great story. Stand back and listen to 'I hate U', the organs in the background, the painful drums, man, it's a masterpiece at worst. At best it's a funky ode to a chick who wronged him. Dig the crazy guitar solo at the end.

I agree, The Gold Experience is by far the most underrated.

Overrated:Batman,Gold Experience

Underrated:Prince,1999(my fave btw),Dirty Mind

Moonbeam said:

Over:
Lovesexy

Under:
Come
Prince
Crystal Ball
The Gold Experience
Emancipation
Etc.

jackflash said:

there's something wrong with you

tough question. the old boy has made SOooo many albums.

and my opinion changes the more i play various albums:

ok the underrated albums (i'll name these 3 in order)
1.prince's second album: even though he claims it was him
making a commerical record to get the BIg wigs at WB off
his back (for over budgeting on "for you") this old
school dude really freaks out when i pull this out to play
from time to time)

p as smokey robinson (vocally anyway) with his own slightly
disco,rock orientated,ballady,soul style in da mix...
the outsatnding cuts to me:bambi,wanna be your lover...just
for the groove and the last part (digs that keyboard playing) sexy dancer ...why you wanna treat me so bad...
before i played guitar i used to do "air guitar like crazy on with him and dez on the solos like a motha

still waiting & close & slow (just cuz its so subtle and
i sing the hell outta it!)

2.dirty mind...i know critics hail it...but really its
better than U think.punk-funk never sounded this good
(sorry rick james!)
3.gold experience

overrated:
purple rain ;its not a bad album..its just p by the numbers.
if U didn't see the movie would these tunes still make U
make u gO CRAZY ? (There's great songs here :computer blue,
let's go crazy & beautiful ones)
i just think ole boy was trying to make radio friendly songs...in other words its p being commercial (like mj!)

lovesexy: i agree with what U peeps say about this one

emancipation: there's some cool tunes here but out of
50 cuts...no way is this worth the money i spent on it!

youngca

Overrated: Rave
Underrated: Come

What is the matter with y'all? Lovesexy overrated? Are we engaging in a little revisionist history here? That LP was slammin'. Period. The critics' received it lukewarmly at best. It is not one of P's better sellers, but it is more emotionally affecting and coherent than a lot of the allegedly "underrated" albums (albeit very good albums) y'all have listed.

As P said, you either had a mindblowing experience or you didn't. I did. And I gotta tell the org -- I just can't keep it 2 m'self!