Man, when Prince was great, he was simply unbelievable. Even some of his later albums were pretty good. Not to mention, he was a god-tier virtuoso musician. He was funky to the core, but could also melt your face right off.
the most complete package of all time...nothing he couldn't do better or at least as good as any other artist in all areas...writer, musician, singer, producer, dancer, arranger, ...from prodigy to icon...one of the rare ones who exceeded unreal expectations....trend setter...duff mckagen was listening to prince albums while recording appetite for destruction to show his widespread influence on 80s music. had the number 1 album, song , and movie at the same time..basically captured popular culture in 84.. .then made a complete left turn instead of cashing in with a retread of purple rain...changed the sound of music in the 80s..then changed the business end in the 90s. one of the best live performers ever...A wealth of talent that is almost otherwordly.
So glad you covered Prince. Despite his pop star status I still feel like he truly doesn’t get the recognition he deserves as a stellar musician, songwriter and performer. He was the pop Mozart imo. No album/song sounds the same. Musician of all trades.
Great show Armand and Pete. A fresh take on Prince's oeuvre which really got me excited to discover the box sets of PR and Sign and his whole later catalogue past Diamonds and Pearls. If you look around internet Prince rankings usually rank his first 10 records as his best in a similar order. They were of course culturally impactful in their day, but I don't get fired up hearing them as much as discovering the deep cuts from PR and Sign box sets, and the to me new discoveries Emancipation, 3121, Welcome 2 America that contain vibrant, joyful music with a more current sound. To me this was probably the most worthwhile ranking show on SoT that I have watched.
@@poliziagrammaticale9430 it was a great show. Nice to have a different music talked about for a change. I don't know much about Prince except for about 4 of his songs and the movie Purple Rain.
Prince is an absolute genius like Bowie his music takes you on a time frame life journey with twists and turns like a rainbow of many colours of styles and like Bowie if you love him you love his time frames he was a gift for all music fans willing to open there mind to alternative styles LEGEND brilliant show Pete pushing the envelope great 🏴🤟👍🏼
I don’t regret much. But one thing I absolutely regret was not going to see Prince when he played here in Oakland on his “Piano and a Microphone” solo tour just a couple of weeks before he died.
Prince was an amazing artist. I was lucky enough to see him on the opening and closing nights of a 7-day run in San Francisco during the Purple Rain tour! Unbelievable performances! But….the highlight for me was attending the Bangles show in SF for their Manic Monday tour! Prince came out to play with them on Manic Monday and also came back out to play Whole Lotta Shakin’’ Going on! Now that, was what he excelled at, surprise visits and just tearing the place down! Great. Memories!
Are you the real Eric Johnson? i mean the guitar player who released the fantastic album Venus Isle? i believe that Prince was a great artist, he is in my list of the 5 best and greatest artists in history, along with Frank Zappa and David Bowie, Prince was involved in every aspect of his music, he was a great vocalist and a great musician that could play a lot of instruments amazingly, he had 42 albums in a short period, the only artist who had more albums in a short period relatively was Frank Zappa with 62 albums!!!!!!!! you have some great albums too!
Thank you Pete. For addressing this artist. You are correct a Melting Pot of Music came from this artist. I'm a huge fan. I would have to say Purple Rain, Sign O times. Have to be at the top of the list. It was always an absolute thrill when he picked up the guitar. He was a incredible guitarist. A lot of people don't know that.
1) Purple Rain 2) Sign o’ the Times 3) 1999 4) Chaos and Disorder 5) Dirty Mind 6) Plectrumelectrum 7) Around the World in a Day 8) Controversy 9) Parade 10) Lovesexy 11) Prince 12) Graffiti Bridge 13) The Gold Experience 14) The Rainbow Children 15) Love Symbol 16) Diamonds and Pearls 17) Emancipation 18) Musicology 19) Batman 20) NEWS 21) For You 22) The Black Album 23) 3121 24) Planet Earth 25) Lotusflow3r 26) Xpectation 27) Welcome 2 America 28) One Nite Alone 29) The Chocolate Invasion 30) The Slaughterhouse 31) Art Official Age 32) 20Ten 33) Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic 34) Hit n Run Phase Two 35) Hit n Run Phase One 36) Come
Very much appreciate this episode, for which I've been hoping for quite a while. Prince was an extraordinary musician and as noted in the episode so diverse in his talents and ability to play different genres. You should consider doing a concert playlist or top songs of Prince as well. My album ranking is: 1) Purple Rain (a masterpiece with no filler songs) (FWIW, my favorite version of the title track is from the live concert he did at Paisley Park in 1999, and the reworking of Let's Go Crazy with 3rdeyegirl is deliciously raunchy in a heavy metal way). 2) Lotusflow3r (a gem that I was surprised was on neither list, with awesome songs such as Colonized Mind, Wall of Berlin, Dreamer, and a great cover of Crimson and Clover) 3) 1999 (my favorite is the underrated Lady Cab Driver) 4) Graffiti Bridge (includes some of my favorite Prince songs: Joy in Repetition and The Question of U) 5) Plectrumelectrum (title tracks is a great rock instrumental) (this period with 3rdeyegirl includes some of his best concert performances) 6) Sign o' the Times (worth it for the title track, alone, but I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man is also particularly great) 6) Chaos and Disorder (great title track and his rockiest album, as Pete note) 7) Crystal Ball (Calhoun Square and The Ride are favorites from this one) 9) The Black Album (luckily, you can listen to this funky one on UA-cam) 10) Love Symbol (includes The Morning Papers, which has some great riffs, and 7, a very catchy tune) Honorable Mention: C-Note is a great instrumental live album.
I love Prince! My top 10 would be: 1. Purple Rain 2. Sign o' the Times 3. Prince 4. Come 5. Lovesexy 6. Around the World in a Day 7. Diamonds and Pearls 8. Parade 9. 1999 10. Emancipation
Die-hard Prince fan here! Here's my own top ten: 1. Purple Rain* 2. Sign O' the Times* 3. 1999 4. The Gold Experience 5. Dirty Mind 6. Around the World in a Day 7. Musicology 8. [Love Symbol] 9. The Black Album 10. Lovesexy *On any given day, I could swap these for number one. Both are basically perfect albums to me! I'd put Diamonds and Pearls at 11. I think for many it's easy to just assume that his classic period--which I would extend up to his 'retirement' around Hits 1 & 2--is the best, and anything after was lesser. I couldn't disagree more. His 90's output was really good. Some of his fan club-only albums in the early 00's are definitely worth a listen. And his final surge of material before he passed deserves more attention.
This is a very welcome surprise! I never expected to see a Prince album ranking on SOT! Actually, though, Prince might be a *perfect* SOT artist, as he was restlessly creative, and eclectic too, quite musically adventurous, with many different "eras" of his music, like Bowie, as Pete mentioned. I was recently listening to the ending "string section" part of "Purple Rain," and I even thought, "Hey, this sounds proggy!" :-)
Great to see you do a retrospective on His Royal Badness! Prince Nelson Rogers was probably responsible for turning me onto metal via Purple Rain! Well done mate! Regards S RIP Prince 💜
Love this channel and so pleased my favourite artist has made it on. Not my usual music taste but I loved Prince - just wish more guitar based albums were put out cos he's a genius
This was a brilliant show very informative very balanced. Armando is great and very knowledgeable. Prince was a wonderful artists who never stood still.thank you again tim x
Commented with respect to an earlier SoT show that Purple Rain was the only Prince album needed to enjoy Prince. It remains my favorite and is played often. But this show has rekindled an interest in revisiting more of his catalogue so thanks to Armando and you, too, Pete, for accomplishing that task.
1 - Sign O' The Times / 2 - Purple Rain / 3 - Dirty Mind / 4 - 1999 / 5 - Parade / 6 - Prince (79) / 7 - Around the World in A Day / 8 - Diamonds and Pearls / 9 - Lovesexy / 10 - Controversy
Big respect for putting NEWS so high. Prince fans don't usually have much to say about that album, but it covers a lot of musical ground and is very worthy as a jazz fusion album. The way he padded out the end of the tracks so they all add up to exactly 14 minutes makes for some unnecessary time there though. Weird.
Prince was a unique voice, his catalogue is filled with wondrous music. Besides the obvious highlights there is much gold in every era. Lately I've been addicted to Lotusflower, 3121, Xpectation and The Rainbow Children. All from the 2000s. Not everything is great, but a high portion of it is. A wealth of worthy material.
Annie Christian is one of my favorite Prince songs, really deep lyrics. Controversy was the first album I ever bought and the lyrics on that album freaked me out as a pre teen back in the eighties. Controversy is an amazing album.
Good job Pete it was nice to hear about a different type of music. I relistened to it because I started it late. Is Purple Rain the best ablum to get or is there one better. I know 3 of his songs. A college friend of mine liked his movie back when it came out she said that it was good. I don't see her anymore so I can't ask her about his albums. Thanks for the show Pete and Armando.
Great video gents! I absolutely love Prince, I've got most of his albums that were released on CD, I'm only missing crystal ball and the 3 disc lotusflow3r/MPLSOUND, but they're like rocking horse shite here in the UK, but one day hopefully!!
10. Lovesexy 9. Graffiti Bridge 8. Parade 7. Around the World in a Day 6. Love Symbol 5. Dirty Mind 4. Sign o the Times 3. Controversy 2. 1999 1. Purple Rain
I saw Prince twice on the "Emancipation" tour. One show was in a small club, the other was in and arena. Both of them are still 2 of the funkiest shows I have ever seen. You could not fuck with that dude in a live setting! A big highlight was he and Rhonda Smith cutting heads on the bass during "Face Down". And, yes "Rainbow Children" is wicked...aside from "The Feast", ugh, showtunes, all set. And, no love for "Lovesexy"? At the end of the day, "Sign Of The Times" is my jam. I have 3 copies on wax.
I never got into Prince but always considered him a top musician and songwriter. I have seen him play some truly facemelting guitar solos on UA-cam videos and I'm always like "Why don't you do that on an album?"
My intro was I Wanna Be Your Lover, which I didn't think too much of - who's the dude with the high voice? Jumped in when I heard Little Red Corvette and got the 1999 LP for my birthday.... expect it was the single LP version! I never knew it was meant to be a double until I saw it a couple of years later on the shelf, what the hell? So I had these tracks: 1999, Little Red Corvette, Delirious, Free, Side 2- Let's Pretend We're Married, Something In The Water, Lady Cab Driver
Pete just wanted to drop a note I did buy news when it came out in 2003 at music plus in White Plains New York. The album might be different but I really liked it thought it was really good.
I was shocked when he listed it because he had some momentum with Musicology then he goes and does an all instrumental Jazz thing. No one bought that thing.
Used to be into him but got fed up with waiting for purple rain type hard rock and lost interest, guitar solo on little red corvette is magnoficent though
I'd like to hear Pete's top 5 Prince recommendations (songs, not albums) for people that don't like dance music or synth pop etc. It seems to me that's all I've ever heard from Prince, but I've only heard the radio songs. I know he does have that pretty awesome guitar shredding at the end of one of his otherwise very commercial pop songs from the 80s (probably something from Purple Rain?). I don't like the song but I like the guitar part at the end,; I could tell he had chops. What are the best psychedelic pop songs? He has hard rock songs? I'm curious. I'm just thinking if there was this whole other side or sides to him, why weren't these more rocking or psychedelic songs ever played on FM AOR back in the day. I'll take anyone's recommendations; I'm intrigued...
10. Symbol 9. Controversy 8. Lovesexy 7. Around the World in a Day 6. Parade 5. Diamonds and Pearls 4. Gold Experience 3. 1999 2. Purple Rain 1. Sign O’ the Times
Absolutely LOVE Prince. A one of a kind musician. He was also an incredible guitar player! One of the most talented artists to ever live. He is missed. Here are some of my favorites (not as familiar with a lot of his catalogue as I should be.): 1999 Sign o' the Times Controversy Prince Purple Rain The Gold Experience Dirty Mind
Thanks for an interesting show. Have to say, I have tried, but agree that much of his material sounds the same - lots of filler. 1999 and Purple Rain are the best. Would recommend a few artists of the R& B psyche soul rock genre to do a future show - Isley Brothers, War, Chambers Bros, Mandrill, Chango, Catalyst, rotary connection, Lou bond, undisputed truth, Curtis mayfield
What was put out as hits ... Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette, Purple Rain, Party Till It 1999... cant rock me. I wont even look into the deep cuts if those are the good songs. Loved his look. Music as a finished product doesnt rock me. Did hear he wrote good stuff for other people secretly.
I just checked out "Cinnamon Girl". That is _not_ psychedelic pop. It's not horrible but it's nothing I would ever need to hear twice. Is this representative of 'psychedelic pop Prince'? If so, I'm not impressed.
As much as I love Prince, I absolutely hated most of his production techniques. Another band that would fit that bill are New Order, absolutely loved New Order in the 80s, but jeez, a lot of their albums sounded terrible!
10.) Around The World In A Day (1985) 9.) Emancipation (1996) 8.) Lovesexy (1988) 7.) Controversy (1981) 6.) Dirty Mind (1980) 5.) The Gold Experience (1995) 4.) Parade (1986) 3.) 1999 (1982) 2.) Sign O' The Times (1987) 1.) Purple Rain (1984) Honorable Mentions: Come (1994) The Love Symbol Album (1992) Graffiti Bridge (1990) Chaos & Disorder (1996) LOtUSFLOWeR (2009) Crystal Ball (Unreleased) (1986) The Undertaker (Unreleased) (1994)
I always want to pick a more obscure album as my favorite when the subject of Prince comes up, but at the end of the day, Around The World In A Day is by far and away the one I listen to the most.
I'm not the biggest Prince fan but, I know a few of his albums. It was tons of fun watching this particular ranking of the albums because I learned a few things about Prince. I'm glad Pete, for whatever reason, you decided to talk about Prince. It's a welcome change from Iron Maiden and Judas Priest 🤣However, on Monday, I will give my opinion on Whitesnake vs. Rainbow😊
1. Diamonds and Pearls 2. Emancipation 3. Purple Rain 4. Love Symbol Album 5. The Gold Experience 6. Sign 'O' the Times 7. The Black Album 8. Controversy 9. 1999 10. Chaos and Disorder
So hard to rank these! And if anyone hasn’t seen it, check out Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show! Awesome! 1. Purple Rain 2. Sign O The Times 3. Chaos and Disorder 4. 1999 5. Around The World In A Day 6. Diamonds and Pearls 7. Love Symbol Album 8. Batman Soundtrack 9. Rave Un 2 The Joy Fantastic 10. Hit n Run ( phase 2)
My favorite artist I own all of his albums including the 12 reissues that were released last week. We have to have the original and we shoot for every album of his My top 10 favorites 1. purple rain 2. Sign o the times 3. 1999 4. Diamonds and pearls 5. Around the world in a day 6. Musicology 7. Emancipation 8. Dirty mind 9. Controversy 10. Prince It doesn't count but Prince's best album is the besides disc that comes with the hits to besides collection absolutely perfect some of those songs it's a shame they went on on the albums.
That co-host never shuts up and skipped over his choices. Not so with pete. Born in '58 means he was 18 eighteen years later, not 16! Best albums: 1999, purple rain, sign.
1. Sign "O" Times 2. The Rainbow Children 3. Dirty Mind 4. Parade 5. Lotus Flow3r 6. Controversy 7. Around The World In a Day 8. 1999 9. The Gold Experience 10. LoveSexy
I've yet to listen to all of his albums, such a prolific artist and definitely a genius. He made real almost perfect albums but I agree that many of his albums were not fully fleshed, that's why I compared him to Frank Zappa because Zappa also rarely made a perfect album because they had so many ideas going on at the same time it was hard for them to stay in a lane for too long. This would be my preliminary list in no particular order except for the first 4 spots and honorary mentions making it to the top 10 sometimes: 1. Sign O the Times 2. Around the World in A Day 3. Old Friends For Sale 4. Diamonds and Pearls 5. Emancipation 6. For You 7. Chaos and Disorder 8. Welcome to America 9. N. E. W. S. 10. Purple Rain 11. The Gold Experience 12. 1999 13. Batman 14. Symbol I really enjoyed Armando's input, he know what he's talking about and I love his sense of humour. High five.
I think most essential album is " Lovesexy " . " Sign of o times " are masterpiece . Best album is " Purple Rain " ( deluxe have even better songs then original ) , love " Batman " for sentimental reasons - had original tape , maybe one of first albums i bought . Then i lost him ...Grunge overwhelming everything . After i listen Prince songs and love some albums but all that was to pretension for me as 20 years old kid . Yes , " All Day Around World " and " Parade " are so unique and different in a positive way . Congratulation guys - great show ! I enjoyed so much . Thanx .
The best Prince album for me must be Purple Rain, let me tell you why, i am a rock and metal fan primarily, nobody expected Prince at the time to do an album with rock orientation, it contains very hard rhythm guitar playing and some great guitar solos, fantastic songs and fantastic lyrics, and the vocals of Prince are perfect, to hear in the same song the clean and high vocals and then to hear some of the most agressive vocals from Prince is totally mindblowing, and there was the movie so everyone could see Prince as a great performer on live shows, when taking all these together we got the triumph combination, cheers to Pete and Armando.
1. Sign O the Times 2. Purple Rain 3. Around the World in a Day 4. Parade 5. Diamonds and Pearls 6. Black Album 7. Piano and Microphone 8. Originals 9. 1999 10. Lovesexy
PRINCE .... The One and Only .... here are my Top 10 1. Purple Rain 2. 1999 3. Sign O' The Times 4. Parade 5. Around The World In A Day 6. Prince (1979 self titled) 7. Controversy 8. The Gold Experience 9. Chaos And Disorder 10. Plectrumelectrum there you go .... Enjoy !!
Enjoyed this video and have loved Prince's music since buying 1999 on vinyl way back when. My top 10, any of the top 4 could be my #1 1: Sign 'O' The Times 2: 1999 3: Parade... The complete opposite of SIgn 'O' The Times. More succinct and to the point. 4: Purple Rain 5: Lovesexy.... Love this album. The attitude of the cover art, that the whole album is one track on CD and the songs are underrated. 6: The Gold Experience... My most played Prince album over the last 18 months 7: Around The World In A Day 8: Black Album 9: Emancipation 10: Love Symbol... "My Name Is Prince And I Am Funky"
Just read that N.E.W.S. Is PRINCE lowest sales ever, just 30,000 copies. But , after PETES positive comments, that will change.( lol). This was a good episode. Not gonna lie, I only know.a portion of PRINCE s discography, but I am a music fan, and I know LEGENDS when I hear 👂 them. PHENOMENAL guitarist./ artist !👍💯
In honor of his classic 2007 Super Bowl Halftime Performance 1. Purple Rain (1984) 2. 1999 (1982) 3. Prince (1979) 4. Controversy (1981) 5. Around the World in a Day (1985)
Man, when Prince was great, he was simply unbelievable. Even some of his later albums were pretty good. Not to mention, he was a god-tier virtuoso musician. He was funky to the core, but could also melt your face right off.
One of the most important artists of all times. I cherish every he did between 1982 and 1992.
the most complete package of all time...nothing he couldn't do better or at least as good as any other artist in all areas...writer, musician, singer, producer, dancer, arranger, ...from prodigy to icon...one of the rare ones who exceeded unreal expectations....trend setter...duff mckagen was listening to prince albums while recording appetite for destruction to show his widespread influence on 80s music. had the number 1 album, song , and movie at the same time..basically captured popular culture in 84.. .then made a complete left turn instead of cashing in with a retread of purple rain...changed the sound of music in the 80s..then changed the business end in the 90s. one of the best live performers ever...A wealth of talent that is almost otherwordly.
So glad you covered Prince. Despite his pop star status I still feel like he truly doesn’t get the recognition he deserves as a stellar musician, songwriter and performer. He was the pop Mozart imo. No album/song sounds the same. Musician of all trades.
Awesome video, guys! Also, rest in peace, Prince, and your mom, Armando. 🙏🏻
I would like to thank Pete for taking a chance and doing a show that was unexpected.
Good to see you on the show Armando. You did a good job about Princes ablums.
Great show Armand and Pete. A fresh take on Prince's oeuvre which really got me excited to discover the box sets of PR and Sign and his whole later catalogue past Diamonds and Pearls. If you look around internet Prince rankings usually rank his first 10 records as his best in a similar order. They were of course culturally impactful in their day, but I don't get fired up hearing them as much as discovering the deep cuts from PR and Sign box sets, and the to me new discoveries Emancipation, 3121, Welcome 2 America that contain vibrant, joyful music with a more current sound. To me this was probably the most worthwhile ranking show on SoT that I have watched.
Great show. Unexpected and much appreciated.
@@poliziagrammaticale9430 it was a great show. Nice to have a different music talked about for a change. I don't know much about Prince except for about 4 of his songs and the movie Purple Rain.
It’s a tough ranking Armando, Prince has many albums, good job.
Prince= great musician
Prince is an absolute genius like Bowie his music takes you on a time frame life journey with twists and turns like a rainbow of many colours of styles and like Bowie if you love him you love his time frames he was a gift for all music fans willing to open there mind to alternative styles LEGEND brilliant show Pete pushing the envelope great 🏴🤟👍🏼
I don’t regret much. But one thing I absolutely regret was not going to see Prince when he played here in Oakland on his “Piano and a Microphone” solo tour just a couple of weeks before he died.
My understanding is he was to some degree a victim of benzodiasapins, still a bit of a hidden epidemic in the mainstream unfortunately.
Prince was an amazing artist. I was lucky enough to see him on the opening and closing nights of a 7-day run in San Francisco during the Purple Rain tour! Unbelievable performances! But….the highlight for me was attending the Bangles show in SF for their Manic Monday tour! Prince came out to play with them on Manic Monday and also came back out to play Whole Lotta Shakin’’ Going on! Now that, was what he excelled at, surprise visits and just tearing the place down! Great. Memories!
Are you the real Eric Johnson? i mean the guitar player who released the fantastic album Venus Isle? i believe that Prince was a great artist, he is in my list of the 5 best and greatest artists in history, along with Frank Zappa and David Bowie, Prince was involved in every aspect of his music, he was a great vocalist and a great musician that could play a lot of instruments amazingly, he had 42 albums in a short period, the only artist who had more albums in a short period relatively was Frank Zappa with 62 albums!!!!!!!! you have some great albums too!
Sign of the times for me . Deluxe edition last year is amazing
Thank you Pete. For addressing this artist. You are correct a Melting Pot of Music came from this artist. I'm a huge fan. I would have to say Purple Rain, Sign O times. Have to be at the top of the list. It was always an absolute thrill when he picked up the guitar. He was a incredible guitarist. A lot of people don't know that.
1) Purple Rain
2) Sign o’ the Times
3) 1999
4) Chaos and Disorder
5) Dirty Mind
6) Plectrumelectrum
7) Around the World in a Day
8) Controversy
9) Parade
10) Lovesexy
11) Prince
12) Graffiti Bridge
13) The Gold Experience
14) The Rainbow Children
15) Love Symbol
16) Diamonds and Pearls
17) Emancipation
18) Musicology
19) Batman
20) NEWS
21) For You
22) The Black Album
23) 3121
24) Planet Earth
25) Lotusflow3r
26) Xpectation
27) Welcome 2 America
28) One Nite Alone
29) The Chocolate Invasion
30) The Slaughterhouse
31) Art Official Age
32) 20Ten
33) Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
34) Hit n Run Phase Two
35) Hit n Run Phase One
36) Come
Very much appreciate this episode, for which I've been hoping for quite a while. Prince was an extraordinary musician and as noted in the episode so diverse in his talents and ability to play different genres. You should consider doing a concert playlist or top songs of Prince as well. My album ranking is:
1) Purple Rain (a masterpiece with no filler songs) (FWIW, my favorite version of the title track is from the live concert he did at Paisley Park in 1999, and the reworking of Let's Go Crazy with 3rdeyegirl is deliciously raunchy in a heavy metal way).
2) Lotusflow3r (a gem that I was surprised was on neither list, with awesome songs such as Colonized Mind, Wall of Berlin, Dreamer, and a great cover of Crimson and Clover)
3) 1999 (my favorite is the underrated Lady Cab Driver)
4) Graffiti Bridge (includes some of my favorite Prince songs: Joy in Repetition and The Question of U)
5) Plectrumelectrum (title tracks is a great rock instrumental) (this period with 3rdeyegirl includes some of his best concert performances)
6) Sign o' the Times (worth it for the title track, alone, but I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man is also particularly great)
6) Chaos and Disorder (great title track and his rockiest album, as Pete note)
7) Crystal Ball (Calhoun Square and The Ride are favorites from this one)
9) The Black Album (luckily, you can listen to this funky one on UA-cam)
10) Love Symbol (includes The Morning Papers, which has some great riffs, and 7, a very catchy tune)
Honorable Mention: C-Note is a great instrumental live album.
I love Prince!
My top 10 would be:
1. Purple Rain
2. Sign o' the Times
3. Prince
4. Come
5. Lovesexy
6. Around the World in a Day
7. Diamonds and Pearls
8. Parade
9. 1999
10. Emancipation
Die-hard Prince fan here! Here's my own top ten:
1. Purple Rain*
2. Sign O' the Times*
3. 1999
4. The Gold Experience
5. Dirty Mind
6. Around the World in a Day
7. Musicology
8. [Love Symbol]
9. The Black Album
10. Lovesexy
*On any given day, I could swap these for number one. Both are basically perfect albums to me!
I'd put Diamonds and Pearls at 11. I think for many it's easy to just assume that his classic period--which I would extend up to his 'retirement' around Hits 1 & 2--is the best, and anything after was lesser. I couldn't disagree more. His 90's output was really good. Some of his fan club-only albums in the early 00's are definitely worth a listen. And his final surge of material before he passed deserves more attention.
“Around The World in a Day” is my favorite album.
Emancipation, The Gold Experience, 3121 and Come are also great Prince albums and are underrated in the Prince catalog.
Wow honestly didn't expect this one! Really cool!!
1999, Purple Rain and Sign o the times are all excellent albums
This is a very welcome surprise! I never expected to see a Prince album ranking on SOT! Actually, though, Prince might be a *perfect* SOT artist, as he was restlessly creative, and eclectic too, quite musically adventurous, with many different "eras" of his music, like Bowie, as Pete mentioned. I was recently listening to the ending "string section" part of "Purple Rain," and I even thought, "Hey, this sounds proggy!" :-)
Great to see you do a retrospective on His Royal Badness!
Prince Nelson Rogers was probably responsible for turning me onto metal via Purple Rain!
Well done mate!
Regards S
RIP Prince 💜
Love this channel and so pleased my favourite artist has made it on. Not my usual music taste but I loved Prince - just wish more guitar based albums were put out cos he's a genius
Purple Rain number one for me, but I'm really fond of the 3 disc Emancipation.
Gold album was solid too.
This was a brilliant show very informative very balanced. Armando is great and very knowledgeable. Prince was a wonderful artists who never stood still.thank you again tim x
Commented with respect to an earlier SoT show that Purple Rain was the only Prince album needed to enjoy Prince. It remains my favorite and is played often. But this show has rekindled an interest in revisiting more of his catalogue so thanks to Armando and you, too, Pete, for accomplishing that task.
1 - Sign O' The Times / 2 - Purple Rain / 3 - Dirty Mind / 4 - 1999 / 5 - Parade / 6 - Prince (79) / 7 - Around the World in A Day / 8 - Diamonds and Pearls / 9 - Lovesexy / 10 - Controversy
Absolutely nobody would choose NEWS as their second fave Prince album. Except Pete. (I gave it another listen and it is quite nice)
His piano and voice album is superb
This is a really good episode. It.s amazing all the things he reinvent himself with different sounds.
Great show!
My favorite Prince album is Rainbow Children.
Big respect for putting NEWS so high. Prince fans don't usually have much to say about that album, but it covers a lot of musical ground and is very worthy as a jazz fusion album. The way he padded out the end of the tracks so they all add up to exactly 14 minutes makes for some unnecessary time there though. Weird.
Great guest funny guy
Great call on News and Rainbow children Pete! We can only hope there is more stuff like that in the vault. 😀🤟🏼
Prince was a unique voice, his catalogue is filled with wondrous music. Besides the obvious highlights there is much gold in every era. Lately I've been addicted to Lotusflower, 3121, Xpectation and The Rainbow Children. All from the 2000s. Not everything is great, but a high portion of it is. A wealth of worthy material.
1999 just purely brilliant, sign o the times, lovesexy, dirty mind and Batman 1989 soundtrack so many great albums to pick from but these are my top 5
Annie Christian is one of my favorite Prince songs, really deep lyrics. Controversy was the first album I ever bought and the lyrics on that album freaked me out as a pre teen back in the eighties. Controversy is an amazing album.
I own 8 albums (6 LPs and 2 on CD) and 1 compilation CD, so a lot of Prince's work to catch up with. Good to detour from usual topics on SoT.
He may not have liked Warner Bros in the end, but that’s where he did his best work.
Good job Pete it was nice to hear about a different type of music. I relistened to it because I started it late. Is Purple Rain the best ablum to get or is there one better. I know 3 of his songs. A college friend of mine liked his movie back when it came out she said that it was good. I don't see her anymore so I can't ask her about his albums.
Thanks for the show Pete and Armando.
1. Love Symbol
2. The Gold Experience
3. Purple Rain
Great video gents! I absolutely love Prince, I've got most of his albums that were released on CD, I'm only missing crystal ball and the 3 disc lotusflow3r/MPLSOUND, but they're like rocking horse shite here in the UK, but one day hopefully!!
He died on 4/21/16 , I Would Die 4 U"
4=April U=21
Thanks for doing this show.
Cool. Rank Prince protegees and Prince related albums next. Those are almost as good as Prince's albums.
10. Lovesexy
9. Graffiti Bridge
8. Parade
7. Around the World in a Day
6. Love Symbol
5. Dirty Mind
4. Sign o the Times
3. Controversy
2. 1999
1. Purple Rain
I adore Prince but I prefer the deeper cuts rather than the hits.
My top 5 albums are
5 Controversy
4 Lovesexy
3 Sign of the times
2 1999
1 Dirty Mind
I love the Musicology album. A Million Days is my favorite track.
I saw Prince twice on the "Emancipation" tour. One show was in a small club, the other was in and arena. Both of them are still 2 of the funkiest shows I have ever seen. You could not fuck with that dude in a live setting! A big highlight was he and Rhonda Smith cutting heads on the bass during "Face Down". And, yes "Rainbow Children" is wicked...aside from "The Feast", ugh, showtunes, all set. And, no love for "Lovesexy"? At the end of the day, "Sign Of The Times" is my jam. I have 3 copies on wax.
Very much a fan of Prince's 80s output. In 82/83 I bought Prince's Purple Rain together with Metallica's Kill 'em All.
They cut DSMR to fit 1999 on one CD. Which is a shame, because that song rocks
I never got into Prince but always considered him a top musician and songwriter. I have seen him play some truly facemelting guitar solos on UA-cam videos and I'm always like "Why don't you do that on an album?"
My intro was I Wanna Be Your Lover, which I didn't think too much of - who's the dude with the high voice?
Jumped in when I heard Little Red Corvette and got the 1999 LP for my birthday.... expect it was the single LP version! I never knew it was meant to be a double until I saw it a couple of years later on the shelf, what the hell? So I had these tracks: 1999, Little Red Corvette, Delirious, Free, Side 2- Let's Pretend We're Married, Something In The Water, Lady Cab Driver
Dont know much about most of Prince's catalog, however Purple Rain is a masterpiece.
Go check out his live cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Total awesome.
@@liquidvizionsmadferit I'll look into it thanks for the recommendation
Pete just wanted to drop a note I did buy news when it came out in 2003 at music plus in White Plains New York. The album might be different but I really liked it thought it was really good.
I was shocked when he listed it because he had some momentum with Musicology then he goes and does an all instrumental Jazz thing. No one bought that thing.
I actually prefer _1999_ over _Purple Rain_, but just barely. Both are absolutely awesome albums.
Used to be into him but got fed up with waiting for purple rain type hard rock and lost interest, guitar solo on little red corvette is magnoficent though
I'd like to hear Pete's top 5 Prince recommendations (songs, not albums) for people that don't like dance music or synth pop etc. It seems to me that's all I've ever heard from Prince, but I've only heard the radio songs.
I know he does have that pretty awesome guitar shredding at the end of one of his otherwise very commercial pop songs from the 80s (probably something from Purple Rain?). I don't like the song but I like the guitar part at the end,; I could tell he had chops.
What are the best psychedelic pop songs? He has hard rock songs? I'm curious. I'm just thinking if there was this whole other side or sides to him, why weren't these more rocking or psychedelic songs ever played on FM AOR back in the day.
I'll take anyone's recommendations; I'm intrigued...
Yes! Yes! Yes!
10. Symbol
9. Controversy
8. Lovesexy
7. Around the World in a Day
6. Parade
5. Diamonds and Pearls
4. Gold Experience
3. 1999
2. Purple Rain
1. Sign O’ the Times
Nobody picked Lovesexy? I'm shocked! 😲
I love Lovesexy, absolutely great album.
Prince did an instrumental jazz album called xpectation you might like Pete. If you haven't heard it
1. Purple Rain
2. Diamonds and Pearls
3. The Gold Experience
Love them all really but I'm missing a couple..
Absolutely LOVE Prince. A one of a kind musician. He was also an incredible guitar player! One of the most talented artists to ever live. He is missed. Here are some of my favorites (not as familiar with a lot of his catalogue as I should be.):
1999
Sign o' the Times
Controversy
Prince
Purple Rain
The Gold Experience
Dirty Mind
Thanks for an interesting show. Have to say, I have tried, but agree that much of his material sounds the same - lots of filler. 1999 and Purple Rain are the best. Would recommend a few artists of the R& B psyche soul rock genre to do a future show - Isley Brothers, War, Chambers Bros, Mandrill, Chango, Catalyst, rotary connection, Lou bond, undisputed truth, Curtis mayfield
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darling nikki is the best song on the album for me.
What was put out as hits ... Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette, Purple Rain, Party Till It 1999... cant rock me. I wont even look into the deep cuts if those are the good songs. Loved his look. Music as a finished product doesnt rock me. Did hear he wrote good stuff for other people secretly.
The majority of his tracks not for me but some are ok but still a entertaining show👍🏻so surprised he did that many albums.
I just checked out "Cinnamon Girl". That is _not_ psychedelic pop.
It's not horrible but it's nothing I would ever need to hear twice.
Is this representative of 'psychedelic pop Prince'? If so, I'm not impressed.
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As much as I love Prince, I absolutely hated most of his production techniques. Another band that would fit that bill are New Order, absolutely loved New Order in the 80s, but jeez, a lot of their albums sounded terrible!
Not really a fan but he is a good guitar player but not for me how about a much better funk and blues and rock band Funkadelic review
Or Mother Finest
His guitar solo at the rock hall of fame while my guitar gently weeps from 2004 is killer
Just wish he had done more guitar rock oriented work
Michael Jackson is a phenomenal musician. Fact. Period. (:
10.) Around The World In A Day (1985)
9.) Emancipation (1996)
8.) Lovesexy (1988)
7.) Controversy (1981)
6.) Dirty Mind (1980)
5.) The Gold Experience (1995)
4.) Parade (1986)
3.) 1999 (1982)
2.) Sign O' The Times (1987)
1.) Purple Rain (1984)
Honorable Mentions:
Come (1994)
The Love Symbol Album (1992)
Graffiti Bridge (1990)
Chaos & Disorder (1996)
LOtUSFLOWeR (2009)
Crystal Ball (Unreleased) (1986)
The Undertaker (Unreleased) (1994)
"Around the world in a day" is my #1. Prince's most creative output imho. Cheers.
I always want to pick a more obscure album as my favorite when the subject of Prince comes up, but at the end of the day, Around The World In A Day is by far and away the one I listen to the most.
I'm gonna say it. The Prince halftime show was a beautiful event.
100%. It was amazing
Unlike today's Super Bowl halftime show with Hip-Hop artist. Where mostly everything, if not everything, was lip-synced and the music pre-recorded.
It was the best one.
Absolutely
Yes it was.
I'm not the biggest Prince fan but, I know a few of his albums. It was tons of fun watching this particular ranking of the albums because I learned a few things about Prince. I'm glad Pete, for whatever reason, you decided to talk about Prince. It's a welcome change from Iron Maiden and Judas Priest 🤣However, on Monday, I will give my opinion on Whitesnake vs. Rainbow😊
1. Diamonds and Pearls
2. Emancipation
3. Purple Rain
4. Love Symbol Album
5. The Gold Experience
6. Sign 'O' the Times
7. The Black Album
8. Controversy
9. 1999
10. Chaos and Disorder
So hard to rank these! And if anyone hasn’t seen it, check out Prince’s Super Bowl halftime show! Awesome!
1. Purple Rain
2. Sign O The Times
3. Chaos and Disorder
4. 1999
5. Around The World In A Day
6. Diamonds and Pearls
7. Love Symbol Album
8. Batman Soundtrack
9. Rave Un 2 The Joy Fantastic
10. Hit n Run ( phase 2)
" Batman" is great , yes .
Prince is awesome. His songwriting and guitar and piano skills. Insanely good. Very impressed and didn't see this ranking coming!
He was a helluva performer too. Guy danced like James brown on steroids
Sign O' Times is a perfect album. Not only my favorite Prince album but my favorite album period. Rock, funk, soul, jazz, psychedelic masterpiece.
Title track is sublime
Yes one of my favorite Prince songs. Very deep lyrics that was written over thirty years ago and still resonate today.
@@venanciahopkins5035 yes it really does! Sad that the world hasn’t progressed in 30 years
@@wildrosesfortheexit the best song of 1987
My favorite artist I own all of his albums including the 12 reissues that were released last week. We have to have the original and we shoot for every album of his
My top 10 favorites
1. purple rain
2. Sign o the times
3. 1999
4. Diamonds and pearls
5. Around the world in a day
6. Musicology
7. Emancipation
8. Dirty mind
9. Controversy
10. Prince
It doesn't count but Prince's best album is the besides disc that comes with the hits to besides collection absolutely perfect some of those songs it's a shame they went on on the albums.
Thank you, Armando and Pete.
That co-host never shuts up and skipped over his choices. Not so with pete. Born in '58 means he was 18 eighteen years later, not 16! Best albums: 1999, purple rain, sign.
1. Sign "O" Times
2. The Rainbow Children
3. Dirty Mind
4. Parade
5. Lotus Flow3r
6. Controversy
7. Around The World In a Day
8. 1999
9. The Gold Experience
10. LoveSexy
Prince is the greatest musician of all-time, he could play more than 27 different instruments.
Cardi B is the greatest musician of all time
I've yet to listen to all of his albums, such a prolific artist and definitely a genius.
He made real almost perfect albums but I agree that many of his albums were not fully fleshed, that's why I compared him to Frank Zappa because Zappa also rarely made a perfect album because they had so many ideas going on at the same time it was hard for them to stay in a lane for too long.
This would be my preliminary list in no particular order except for the first 4 spots and honorary mentions making it to the top 10 sometimes:
1. Sign O the Times
2. Around the World in A Day
3. Old Friends For Sale
4. Diamonds and Pearls
5. Emancipation
6. For You
7. Chaos and Disorder
8. Welcome to America
9. N. E. W. S.
10. Purple Rain
11. The Gold Experience
12. 1999
13. Batman
14. Symbol
I really enjoyed Armando's input, he know what he's talking about and I love his sense of humour. High five.
Great comparison with Zappa. I totally agree!!
This was really cool And didn’t see this coming I’m sure the Top Motley Crue discs will be upcoming !??????
I think most essential album is " Lovesexy " . " Sign of o times " are masterpiece . Best album is " Purple Rain " ( deluxe have even better songs then original ) , love " Batman " for sentimental reasons - had original tape , maybe one of first albums i bought . Then i lost him ...Grunge overwhelming everything . After i listen Prince songs and love some albums but all that was to pretension for me as 20 years old kid . Yes , " All Day Around World " and " Parade " are so unique and different in a positive way . Congratulation guys - great show ! I enjoyed so much . Thanx .
What makes him more legendary,..... he COULD NOT read music.
I love the Madhouse album he did back in 1987, jazz and funk. Really great album.
The best Prince album for me must be Purple Rain, let me tell you why, i am a rock and metal fan primarily, nobody expected Prince at the time to do an album with rock orientation, it contains very hard rhythm guitar playing and some great guitar solos, fantastic songs and fantastic lyrics, and the vocals of Prince are perfect, to hear in the same song the clean and high vocals and then to hear some of the most agressive vocals from Prince is totally mindblowing, and there was the movie so everyone could see Prince as a great performer on live shows, when taking all these together we got the triumph combination, cheers to Pete and Armando.
1. Sign O the Times
2. Purple Rain
3. Around the World in a Day
4. Parade
5. Diamonds and Pearls
6. Black Album
7. Piano and Microphone
8. Originals
9. 1999
10. Lovesexy
PRINCE .... The One and Only ....
here are my Top 10
1. Purple Rain
2. 1999
3. Sign O' The Times
4. Parade
5. Around The World In A Day
6. Prince (1979 self titled)
7. Controversy
8. The Gold Experience
9. Chaos And Disorder
10. Plectrumelectrum
there you go .... Enjoy !!
My top 5
1. Diamonds and Pearls
2. 1999
3. Purple Rain
4. Around The World in a Day
5. Sign O the Times
My top 5 Prince albums:
1. Purple Rain
2. Sign O The Times
3. 1999
4. Dirty Mind
5. Love Symbol
"7" from the Love Symbol is an amazing song!
I really enjoyed this video been searching for something like this for so long
Enjoyed this video and have loved Prince's music since buying 1999 on vinyl way back when.
My top 10, any of the top 4 could be my #1
1: Sign 'O' The Times
2: 1999
3: Parade... The complete opposite of SIgn 'O' The Times. More succinct and to the point.
4: Purple Rain
5: Lovesexy.... Love this album. The attitude of the cover art, that the whole album is one track on CD and the songs are underrated.
6: The Gold Experience... My most played Prince album over the last 18 months
7: Around The World In A Day
8: Black Album
9: Emancipation
10: Love Symbol... "My Name Is Prince And I Am Funky"
Just read that N.E.W.S. Is PRINCE lowest sales ever, just 30,000 copies. But , after PETES positive comments, that will change.( lol). This was a good episode. Not gonna lie, I only know.a portion of PRINCE s discography, but I am a music fan, and I know LEGENDS when I hear 👂 them. PHENOMENAL guitarist./ artist !👍💯
In honor of his classic 2007 Super Bowl Halftime Performance
1. Purple Rain (1984)
2. 1999 (1982)
3. Prince (1979)
4. Controversy (1981)
5. Around the World in a Day (1985)