Was having this discussion with my sister the other night and it took us ages to make our minds up so i reckon its a good question for the forum. What are peoples favorite back to back prince albums. That means two albums released consecutively. Having put his work into pairs i noticed that the albums seemed to massively connected in terms of their styles.

Prince/For You - R&B
Dirty Mind/Controversy - Dirty Funk
1999/Purple Rain - Electronic guitar Funk
ATWIAD/Parade - Psychedelic pop music
SOTT/Lovesexy - Insular and Spiritual
Batman/Graffiti Bridge - Soundtracks
Diamonds and Pearls/Symbol - Hip Hop influenced R&B
Come/Gold Experience - Both born out of eachother

etc

You kinda get the picture and they don't neccesarily have to be in that order. Even his most recent work can be put into pairs..ie his recent jazz leanings. After much deliberation we decided on SOTT and Lovesexy because simply it was a man at the peak of his powers. The material was wildly diverse and the band and live shows from this era were incredible. Our least favorites were Batman and Graffiti Bridge. Simply we looked to our Cds and saw the ones collecting most dust and those were the two. Batman was OK for what it was but GB was poor with only a couple of good Prince songs and some terrible tracks by everyone else.

what does everyone else think?

2 fantastic double dunts !!

atwiad/parade
sott/lovesexy

poorest of the list you give...

batman/graffiti bridge, cos i dont like gb , but i liked batman.

WildheartXXX said:

If you're not putting the Black Album between Come and TGE, then you can't put SOTT and Lovesexy back 2 back either

The release date of the black album is out of squence.

I would the say the Black album/ Lovesexy

Fave: Sign O' The Times/The Black Album

Least fave: Batman/Graffiti Bridge

Rev said:

I agree. I always view those as two sides of the same album.

Rev said:

Absolutely agree!!

AsylumUtopia said:

I'm with you on this one.
I like to listen the two back to back and it sounds always like a musical journey from the dark to the light and strongly spiritual...

BEST BACK 2 BACK ALBUMS: Around The World In A Day / Parade: Two phenomenal albums that were really challenging his new audience after the explosion that was Purple Rain

WORST BACK 2 BACK ALBUMS: Diamonds & Pearls / : Some nice stuff on there, but generally unsatisfying Prince albums

ATWIAD/Parade - Psychedelic pop music

THE BEST!

Favorite:

Black Album/Lovesexy
Two wondeful albums that really are like opposite sides of the same coin. In fact, the "Lovesexy 88" tour somewhat reflected the sin and redemption that these two discs represent.

Least:

NPS/Rave

A craptacular double bill! Take the best songs off both of these, and you would have had an almost decent album.

Hmmm... In reality, The Black Album came inbetween Sign O' The Times and Lovesexy.

So I'm going to choose the double-crappy-whammy of Graffiti Bridge/Diamonds And Pearls.

Dirty Mind / Controversy or... ATWIAD / Parade.