1. 1999
2. Sign 'O' The Times
3. Parade

...at the moment.

1 Lovesxy
2 Black
3 The Truth



love em all

SOTT
Purple Rain
1999

TheFrog said:

Well for the first time in a long time Parade has CREAMED out of my top 3-- for now.

1. 1999
2. Sign O' The Times
3. The Gold Experience

SOTT
TRC
PR

close 4th

TGE

1999
Sign
Purple Rain
That's what I feel today, anyway.

SoTT
Purple Rain
Dirty Mind

(en 1999 is equally good as the above)

1. Dirty Mind
2. LoveSexy
3. Parade

Spanky said:

Those are my 80's choices

For the 90's

1. TRC
2. Come
3. TGE

the 90's:

love symbol album
Diamonds and Pearls
gold experience

Batman

1999

Sing of the Times

1.ONA live
2.Emancapation
3.Dirty Mind


and yes I like them all

1) Lovesexy
2) Sign 'O' The Times
3) Purple Rain
1999 almost there, maybe #3 in next week chart

Purple Rain
Sign 'o the Times
Crystal Ball

Gold Experience
Emancipation
Rainbow Children

JUST KIDDING!

1999
Purple Rain
Sign O the Times

Very hard to pick 3 but
Come
Purple Rain
The Gold Experience

kisscamille said:

1. Sign O' The Times
2. The Truth
3. The Black Album

1.

2. Purple Rain

3. 1999

4. The Gold Experience

In the words of the 4 Tops, "It's so haaaaard..." but if all i get is triple, then...


1999

Parade

Prince



HONORABLE MENTION:

Dirty Mind

SignoftheX's

Purple Rain

Diamonds and Pearls

no partic order:

Prince
Around The World In A Day
Parade

also very good:
The Rainbow Children, Purple Rain, Sign O The Times, 1999, Lovesexy,...

In no particular order:

- Grafitti Bridge
- NewPowerSoul
- Rave un2 the Joy Fantastic

Lovesexy
SOTT
1999 #1 Party ALBUM!!

Lovesexy
Grafitti Bridge
The Love Symbol

This is my consistent top 3 since 2001 (in no particular order):

Dirty Mind
Parade
The Rainbow Children

Also great are: Black Album, 1999, SOTT, Controversy, Prince.

The rest of his albums aren't consistent enough, eventhough all of them contain a few "diamonds & pearls"...

Dirty Mind
Parade
SOTT

I kno that i am horribly younger than the majority of the "seasoned" prince fans. But to choose a top 3 of albums is incredibly hard as is choosing a top 25 of songs but i agree with all of the albums listed.

We all know how hard this question can be. Well I'm going to cheat by using my own rules. I'm going with certian eras in Prince's evolution! I'm goint use some assumptions and stretches to pull this off

1999 era - Having the 1999 double album (I had to hide from parents after bringing Controversy into the house. No, I didn't put up the poster insert!). We all know Prince wrote, The Time's - What time is it and Vanity 6's album. One was awesome summer. FUNKY!

Sign of the TImes to Lovesexy - A true renaissance. He wrote the funkiest, jazziest, soulful music of his career. This is really cheating. There was probably enough material for 8 records.
Rock hard in a funky place NUFF said!

Gold experince - NO BS just damn good.

PaisleyPark said:

I like the Around the World In A Day call, gutsy, I also included Prince in my top 3 but Around is such an eclectic mix of great tunes often overlooked amongst 1999, PR, and Sign. I Salute you and your great choices.

Rev said:

Yeah! break it down Reverend
I like your keyboard scratches Rev

jizzinparis said:

this is what i was thinking as i was scrolling
through this thread.
Of course it IS difficult (& fun) to try to break it
down to just 3. I wanted to have Lovesexy in there.
and The Rainbow Children. Hell, even Purple Rain.
When you step back from Rurple Rain, you can
tell that it is a ~really~ cool album..... but so is
Parade (especially if you include the b-sides &
12" versions, right? )
thank you Prince for so many awesome albums!