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There are some startling omissions for me.
From the Dirty Mind album, the funky 'Uptown' and the beautiful 'When You Were Mine'.
From the latter day work, the title track from Musicology deserves a place.
The writer says that Lovesexy was his last unequivocally superb album. I thought it was a dreadful album compared to the rest of his career up to that point.
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- Mar 2008
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- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
Originally posted by blameless View Post1 Raspberry Beret
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2-50 Everything else
The link doesn't work for me (it just pushes me to a general Guardian front page), but when someone is ranking 50 songs I'm having a hard time believing that anyone is going to feel cheated.
I haven't purchased any of the reissues yet but I'm glad to see the family is doing what Prince didn't and starting to empty the vaults. I wonder if Prince was thinking a giant payday might come, so he held back the music. Or if he felt the music wasn't his best so held it back. But he released a lot of junk in the decade before he died so if his reason was the latter, I'd argue that his assessment of quality was probably off a bit.
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostThe smiles on their faces suggest a profound inner peace
Ask where they're going, they'll tell you nowhere
They've taken a lifetime lease
On Paisley Park
For me, Mountains and Gett Off aren't top 10 (although they'd be a career high for most other artists)
Dirty Mind, I Would Die 4 U, Take Me With U and Controversy deserve promotion, and Purple Rain is #1 because of the guitar solo. He was really quite good at guitar.
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- Mar 2008
- 7495
- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
This post doesn't fit the thread. I thought about creating a new all purpose Prince thread, but let's just go with this one. It's amazing to me that he was so tight with the rumored vaults of programs. Then he passes and the family is churning out multi-CD/LP box sets. We all know they are cashing in while they can, but man, he needed to release this stuff. Don't be treat the music as being inferior because it's not what was recorded today. Anyway, here's a version of "I could never take the place of your man" that was first recorded in 1979. Long before it was re-done for Sign o the times. It definitely has a late 1970s new wave/rock sound. There's kind of an early Tom Petty vibe to the music itself. I dig it. Don't know if I will spend the cash for the reissue since I haven't bought any of the other reissues, but I certainly appreciate, as I already said, that I could if I wanted to. Haha.
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