50 Essential Songs by PRINCE

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By DJ Funktual

Prince ~ 1979

1) I Wanna Be Your Lover

2) Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad

Dirty Mind ~ 1980

3) When You Were Mine

Controversy ~ 1981

4) Controversy

1999 ~ 1982

5) 1999

6) How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? (B-Side to 1999)

7) Little Red Corvette

8) Delirious

Purple Rain ~ 1984

9) When Doves Cry

10) 17 Days (B-Side to When Doves Cry)

11) Let's Go Crazy

12) Erotic City (B-Side to Let's Go Crazy)

13) I Would Die 4 U

14) Baby I'm a Star

15) Take Me With U (with Appolonia)

16) Darling Nikki

17) Purple Rain

Around The World in a Day ~ 1985

18) Raspberry Beret

19) She's Always in My Hair (B-Side to Raspberry Beret)

20) Pop Life

Parade ~ 1986

21) Kiss

22) Mountains

23) Anotherloverholenyohead

Sign 'O' The Times ~ 1987

24) Sign 'O' The Times

25) U Got The Look (with Sheena Easton)

26) If I Was Your Girlfriend

27) I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

28) Hot Thing

29) Starfish & Coffee

30) Housequake

Lovesexy ~ 1988

31) Alphabet St.

Batman Soundtrack ~ 1989

32) Batdance

Graffiti Bridge ~ 1990

33) Theives in the Temple

Diamonds and Pearls ~ 1991

34) Gett Off

35) Cream

36) Diamonds and Pearls

37) Money Don't Matter 2Night

Suddenly He Wasn't Prince Anymore...

(Symbol) ~ 1992

38) My Name Is Prince

39) Sexy MF

40) The Morning Papers

41) 7

The Hits - B-Sides ~ 1993

42) Nothing Compares 2 U (with Rosie Gaines)

The Purple Medley 12" ~ 1993

43) The Purple Medley (11-Minute version)

The Gold Experience ~ 1995

44) We March

45) Gold

46) 319

47) The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Chaos and Disorder ~ 1996

48) Chaos and Disorder

Musicology ~ 2004

49) Musicology

3121 ~ 2006

50) Get On The Boat

Remember This?

6 Greatest Prince Covers Ever!

  1. Manic Monday - The Bangles

  2. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor

  3. I Feel For You - Chaka Khan

  4. How Come U Don't Call Me? - Alicia Keys

  5. Sugar Walls - Sheena Easton

  6. A Love Bizarre - Sheila E.

His Dirty Dozen Best Songs

  1. WHEN DOVES CRY
  2. I COULD NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF YOUR MAN
  3. MONEY DON'T MATTER 2NIGHT
  4. MUSICOLOGY
  5. RASPBERRY BERET
  6. KISS
  7. I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER
  8. POP LIFE
  9. GETT OFF
  10. EROTIC CITY
  11. I WOULD DIE 4 U
  12. U GOT THE LOOK

Comments

thanasi 2 years ago

i came across this while googling 90's hiphop,

it's nice to see the prince support.

i'd expand on your list for those that like what you've introduced but wouldn't mind more and also for those that want to see a new side of prince. i left out what you already mentioned on your list.

organised by- Album name: songs, --, --,

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(prince albums most people know and readily available)

For You: In Love,Soft And Wet, Just As Long As We're Together, My Love Is Forever, I'm Yours

Prince: Bambi, I Feel For You

Dirty Mind: Dirty Mind, Do It All Night, Uptown, head, Partyup

Controversy: Sexuality, Do Me Baby, Let's Work

1999: D.M.S.R., Lady Cab Driver, International Lover,

purple rain: The Beautifiul Ones,

around the world in a day: The Ladder

the b sides: Feel U Up, Erotic City, Shockadelica, Irresistable Bitch, She's Always In My Hair, How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

parade: Girls & Boys, Sometimes It Snows In April

Sign O' The Times: Play In The Sunshine, The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker, Slow Love, Forever In My Life, Strange Relationship, the cross, Adore

lovesexy: glam slam, anna stesia, dance on, lovesexy, when 2 r in love,

batman: Electric Chair, Partyman, Scandalous,

Graffiti Bridge: New Power Generation, The Question Of U, Elephants & Flowers, we can funk, Joy In Repetition

Diamonds And Pearls: Willing And Able

O(+>: Love 2 The 9's, And God Created Woman

the gold experience: P Control, Endorphinmachine, shhh, dolphin, shy, billy jack bitch, i hate u,

Chaos And Disorder: I Like It There, Dinner With Delores, The Same December, Into The Light

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(r&b based)

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic: The Greatest Romance Ever Sold, Man O War, Mr. Pretty Man

Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic: The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Extended Remix), Man O' War (Remix), Beautiful Strange, Pretty Man (Extended Version),

(pop based. funky)

3121: Lolita, Black Sweat, Love, Fury, Beautiful, Loved & Blessed,

Planet Earth: Planet Earth, Guitar, Somewhere Here On Earth, Future Baby Mama, Chelsea Rodgers,

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(2009 album in my opinion it's great)

LOTUSFLOW3R: From the lotus..., Boom, Crimson and Clover, 4ever, Colonized Mind, Feel good Feel better Feel wonderful, Love like jazz, Wall of Berlin, $, Dreamer

(part 2 of the 2009 album, also great)

MPLSoUND: (There'll Never B) Another Like Me, Chocolate Box, Dance 4 Me, Ol' Skool Company

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(the prince most don't know)

(funk/r&b based tracks. 'the ride more bluesy)'

Crystal ball: Acknowledge Me, 2morrow, Tell Me How U Want 2 B Done, Last Heart, the ride, Interactive, Calhoun Square, Sexual Suicide, Good Love

(cool)

The Chocolate Invasion: high, supercute,

Exodus: Get Wild,New Power Soul,Return Of The Bump Squad

(funky/dark)

the black album: Le Grind, Dead On It, Bob George, Superfunkycalifragisexy,

(very jazzy album)

The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale: The Rest Of My Life, It's About That Walk, She Spoke 2 Me, 5 Women +, When The Lights Go Down, Old Friends 4 Sale, Sarah, Extraordinary

(funk/jazz)

The Rainbow Children: Muse 2 The Pharaoh, The Work Pt.1, Mellow, 1+1+1 Is 3, She Loves Me 4 Me, The Everlasting Now, Last December,

(very funky)

One Night Alone... Live!: 1+1+1 Is 3 (live in Lakeland, FL), Strange Relationship (live in Indianapolis, IN), Everlasting Now (live in Portland, OR), Joy In Repetition (live in New York City), Dorothy Parker (live in Los Angeles, CA),

C-Note: Empty Room

(progressive fusion jazz/ instrumental)

N.E.W.S. : West

(jazz- instrumental)

Xpectation: Xpectation, Xotica, Xogenous, Xpand

S.S.T. : S.S.T. , Brand New Orleans (Instrumental Jam),

(more so hiphop based album)

GoldNigga: Deuce & Quarter, Black M.F. in the House, Call the Law, Johnny,

(prince doing r&b)

Come: Come, Papa, Dark, Letitgo

(r&b based album)

Emancipation: Jam Of The Year, Somebody's Somebody, Get Yo Groove On, Betcha By Golly Wow!, I Can't Make U Love Me, The Holy River, saviour, Friend Lover Sister Mother/ Wife, La-La (Means I Love U), The Love We Make, Emancipation

(funky + some slow jams)

new power soul: New Power Soul, Shoo-Bed-Ooh, Freaks On This Side, Come On, The One, (I Like) Funky Music, Wasted Kisses

(accoustic guitar album)

the TRUTH: The Truth, Don't Play Me, The Other Side Of The Pillow,

very cool songs that aren't on an album: The United States of Division, PFunk, Jukebox With A Heartbeat, Uh Huh, Open Book, Get Blue, Neon Telephone, Don't Say U Love Me, Mad, Funky Design, In a Large Room With No Light, When Will We B Paid?, Come On (Remix), feel good, pair a dime, The Song Of The Heart,

thanasi 2 years ago

i mean't to say i'll expand on your list

not i'd expand on your list. sorry

FACE 2 years ago

What a bullshit list

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