50 Essential Songs by PRINCE
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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!
Manic Monday - The Bangles
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
How Come U Don't Call Me? - Alicia Keys
Sugar Walls - Sheena Easton
A Love Bizarre - Sheila E.
His Dirty Dozen Best Songs
- WHEN DOVES CRY
- I COULD NEVER TAKE THE PLACE OF YOUR MAN
- MONEY DON'T MATTER 2NIGHT
- MUSICOLOGY
- RASPBERRY BERET
- KISS
- I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER
- POP LIFE
- GETT OFF
- EROTIC CITY
- I WOULD DIE 4 U
- U GOT THE LOOK
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i mean't to say i'll expand on your list
not i'd expand on your list. sorry
What a bullshit list







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,