Im gonna make a thread asking this but i was going thru Princes albums and he had i think 39.
Whats your 5 favorites.
I was playing my ipod yesterday and went to the prince section, he had about 800 songs on their, about a tenth of my entire music collection, the man was amazing. And that's not counting the other couple thousand songs he had locked away and the movies he made and all the live footage that he'd recorded over 35 years.
1. 1999-His best album, with his best and quintessential "Minneapolis Sound". Had the best song ever recorded, Little Red Corvette and was his first real step into superstar territory.
2. Purple Rain- Not as good as 1999, still had the quirkiness though and was of course linked to the movie. Some have called this his guitar god album, purple rain, lets go crazy were part gospel, part metal and part MOR. When Doves Cry was the breakout hit, I think it was no. 1 for like a month or something crazy. The lyrical content hearkened back to his first hit "i Wanna Be Your Lover" with it's theme of familial orientations and how they play a part in romantic relationships. Over the years I've seen that song as one of his most honest though at the time, it sounded like he was just doing a bit of mythmaking, which he was.
3. Sign o' The Times- The genius who rebuked superstardom and instead locked himself in a studio for hours on end and did whatever he wanted, some have claimed this was his best album and it may have been, it's just not my favorite.
4. Parade- After the dissapointing sales of Around The World In a Day, you'd think Prince might have went back to a funkier sound, but no, he starts working with a classical arranger and affecting Parisian/Euro themes. But with, Kiss and anotherloverholinyohead, he was still plenty funky. Many fans were really losing their patience with him by this point but the funk was their, you just had to work for it, the funk was all over the album. The movie? Of course it was an embarrassing flop, but the album is another that some say was his best.
5. Prince- Self titled, second album. The first album was near perfectly produced but the songs were nowhere near what they are on his second album, The recurring themes of Familial/romantic relations starts here as well as hints of the minneapolis sound. The single, "i wanna be your lover" sounds less princelike and more beegees in hindsight but for my money, it really is one of his strongest albums because the songs are just that strong. Chaka Khan would have a hit with "I feel for you" a few years later and the prince fanbase would always recognize "Bambi" when he'd play it decades later.
These are 5, didn't mention Dirty mind which many would put at number one, in the eighties, Prince had about the greatest run of any major artist in rock history. Prince was Prince, some have said he lost it after a certain point but even when he was putting out albums that didn't make a splash, I was listening and I was still saying, that "i'd rather hear a new Prince album than a new album by any other artist". He didn't put out any bad albums, I like them all, his standards and work ethic never really wavered. (many would disagree with this) And even in the years where his health was failing, he stopped putting out his customary album per year between about 2011 and 2014, so what does he do? He comes out with four right before he goes on to join the immortals. No one like him.
