With all the vs. threads between Prince and Michael Jackson going around, I decided to start one on with Prince's real rival, Rick James. I know both albums were released in different years and eras but I wanted to make the battle between two albums that many people consider each artist's best work. I could have used "Purple Rain" but that would be too easy.

Anyway, which is it for you....."Street Songs" or "Parade"?

I choose "Street Songs" by FAR.
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Yeah but alot of people don't think Parade is P's best work.

I do.

So, Parade.

Street Songs in a Motown minute. Parade is prince's most overrated album among his fans. If it were Street Songs vs. Purple Rain, it'd a much closer match

What kind of contest is this? You really can't compare the two. But since I'm the bigger Prince fan (even though I've been grooving to "Ghetto Life" a lot lately), I'm going with Parade.

the movie was absolutely terrible



the album ,howevr, was great

vainandy said:

It should have been this match up:

Street Songs (Rick James) VS. 1999 (Prince)

Yes and Yes I think they're both defining pieces of their respective artist's career.

TonyVanDam said:[quote]

vainandy said:

It should have been this match up:
Street Songs (Rick James) VS. 1999 (Prince)


Or it should've been Street Songs VS. Dirty Mind
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silverchild said:[quote]

TonyVanDam said:

Agreed. This would've been a fair match definitely.

vainandy said:

But at the end of the day, I have to go w/Slick. Street Songs was better executed then Parade and stayed true to the Funk.

Too hard for me to choose, love them both

Parade.

Jillibean said:

I understand b/c they both are great artists.

Parade was hella garbage. God was I upset when I bought the record home, I was too young and expected PR, but still the albuum is not so great. Street Songs pisses all over it.
Rick lost it after Glow.

lilgish said:

You ain't lying! A lot of people on this site think the sun rose and set on Prince's ass when he made "Parade" but I see it as one of his weakest albums of the 1980s. Some of the "fams" next door at the "Prince: Music and More" side would be taking their blood pressure medicine if they were reading this.

I think Rick James fell off beginning with the "Glow" album and really fell off with "The Flag" album. That's one of the reasons I paired up "Parade" with "Street Songs". Prince became too comfortable when he made "Parade" and I would have loved to see him have some real competition at the time like Rick James. "The Flag" was out during the time of "Parade" and that Rick James album couldn't compete with anything.

I agree.



So true. I think a lot of them have it on the wall as a shrine.




True, but that would be too easy. Plus, I think a lot of people pretend to love "Parade" to fit in because so many other people praise it. That's why I posted it in the "Music: Non-Prince" section, to get honest answers. I don't think "Parade" is "all that" and wanted to see how it would do competing against "Street Songs".
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vainandy said:

Reflections (a greatest hit album) was the very last Rick James album worth buying.

One of the songs on that album was 17. THAT was Rick's final masterpiece.

And it was also that song that made me love the sounds of the Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer.
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TonyVanDam said:

You are right about 17. It was definitely a Slick Rick classic for sure. It's one of my favorites.

you know what's odd about this thread? Just the other day,I was thinking that a perfect thread would be 'Street Songs' Vs. 'Controversy'.Both albums were released in 1981.

DavidEye said:

Vain must have been reading your mind and mine b/c was thinking about the exact thing. Now, that's deep.

See, that's what I like about the "Music: Non-Prince" section over the "Prince: Music and More" section.....honesty.

Speak the truth dammitt because it will set you free.