coming up with the 5 best prince records is pretty impossible. i’m a big fan of his early stuff, so i’ll lean that way, in no particular order.

  1. pop life
  2. i feel for you
  3. why you wanna treat me so bad?
  4. when you were mine
  5. i wanna be your lover

honorable mentions to uptown, controversy, and i would die for you. the volume and quality of his output was nothing short of incredible.

    303abuser might have been lockdown getting to me, but one of our few indoor gettogethers last summer was for the 4th of July. We ended up watching it and having a total blast.

        zackster amazing album. Couldn’t he play some stupid amount of instruments too? Just picked them up, got the basics and then proceeded to jam like he had played it all his life. A major talent.

            Can’t have a Prince thread without the Charlie Murphy story

            Purple Rain
            Sign of the Times
            Dirty Mind
            Parade
            1999

            The Beautiful ones
            Erotic City
            Controvery
            Pop Life
            Sign of the Times

            Millsy yeah he played like sax, keys, drums, guitar and probably more shit too. I think it’s super respectable that he was such a beast guitar player, yet rarely featured massive solos on his albums. Like, compare that to someone like Eddie Van Halen, who I also love, but he quickly turned all of their output into “listen to me jam”.

              zackster i haven’t seen it in at least 20 years, but i don’t remember enjoying it. maybe i’ll give it another go when i’m bored.

                add 17 days to the list, that’s a great track too.

                edit: the piano in this version …

                A top 5 singles list is ridiculously difficult to compile. When you are omitting tracks like Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette and When Doves Cry, you know you have got a problem

                  alistair When Doves Cry

                  Difficult to nail down, but probably my fav Prince track.

                    Can we get a fucking trisco-bantz vax already? Beyond needed around here.