Check out Controversy. It really brings the funk!
Just the title track alone is worth the album, 7 minutes of stripped-down lean funk that's more fun than the single edit, I just get excited how he uses rhythm like that clap on the 4th of every other bar. In fact, compared to his later work, early albums like Controversy and 1999 are masterpieces of understatement.
So I guess they just make the dead mediocre musicians sit on the sidelines?
Remember y'all, we all gotta go sometime. Regardless of whether we're good musicians or not.
Rest in Power, Prince. I'm going to put on Purple Rain in your memory today.
Did you ever hear "Controversy", Qman? I don't know that it's my favourite (Dirty Mind => black album is quite a streak), but as an album it's Prince at his most new-wave/post-punk, maybe.
Speaking of that album, what do we as Beatlefans have to say about that verse in "Annie Christian"?
Here is my Top 100 Prince songs list!!!
I don't think I have heard Controversy beyond the title track, actually. I'll put it on now.
I very much enjoyed it, particularly the title track, which I had heard before. Good album. Now to listen to 1999.
It took me awhile to get into 1999. I didn't start fully getting into the album until about 6 months ago and now i consider it one of his bests.
Thanks for your RYM ranking - there are at least 15-20 I've never heard at all. A good little roadmap...a Purple Book!
(My own ranking, which was never asked for, would have had "1999" much, much higher. And "Delirious" far lower, because that one is truly the "Dizzy Miss Lizzy " of the Prince/Revolution catalog!
Gonna rewatch "Purple Rain " tonight (saw it maybe twice on cable back in the day) and see if the non-musical bits look any better (or worse!) to me now.