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Prince
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.4704
Prince Album Rankings
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WithDirty Mind, Prince had established a wild fusion of funk, rock, new wave, and soul that signaled he was an original, maverick talent, but it failed to win him a large audience.
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The primary fault with Prince's two-partHitscollection is that both volumes are missing some important singles and are sequenced incoherently, thereby failing to give an accurate impression of his ast
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NeitherFor YounorPrincewas adequate preparation for the full-blown masterpiece of Prince's third album,Dirty Mind.
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LikeHits 1,Hits 2presents an illogically sequenced cross section of some of Prince's biggest hits and most notorious songs, including "Dirty Mind," "I Wanna Be Your Lover," "Head," "Delirious," "Littl
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Throughout his entire career, Prince has remained an enigma - undoubtedly this is exactly the way he planned it.
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Chris Willman Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly Has Prince's genius ever been in fuller bloom? Ever since he came up with that gambit to offer free CDs with concert ticke
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Right before the techno-thunderclap that introducesGraffiti Bridge, Prince, trembling, breathes: "Dear Dad – things didn't turn out quite like I wanted them 2/Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna expl
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What a damned shame that basically every critic in the universe used up their âPrince is back!â headlines two years ago, on his can-we-all-admit-now-that-itâs-not-really-that-great, er,
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10
It make me dance, it make me cry," Prince purrs on the title track of his tenth album, "and when I touch it, race cars burn rubber in my pants.
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While it isn't a truly comprehensive set, Prince's singles collection does contain most of his biggest hits.
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12
The tapes started circulating almost immediately.
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With this LP, our former Prince turns in his most effortlessly eclectic set since 1987'sSign o' the Times.
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Nine songs and forty three minutes of utter concise writing and when a song is lengthy, Prince makes sure it warrants the length.
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It’s a phenomenal album. And best of all, it’s unmistakably Prince.
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After the huge 'Purple Rain' Prince wanted to deliver something to confound expectations.
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Even geniuses (maybe especially geniuses) are taken for granted, not seen as geniuses, or only appreciated in small doses.
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It's 1999, and Prince aficionados know what that signifies: the 12th anniversary of his last great album, Sign O' the Times. But hope, like numerology, springs eternal.
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The last album Prince recorded before the messy breakup of The Revolution, and his second movie soundtrack.
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Prince gets himself a new band, which is all very good as 'Diamonds And Pearls' sounds like a natural, organic product as a result.
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Whether you like him or not - especially since his recent crackdown on fan sites - you gotta hand it to Prince. He never took the careful road when it came to his music.
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His most consistent work since 1991's Diamonds And Pearls, although you'll need to ignore the peculiar narrative episodes in order to fully enjoy it
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Each new release by [artist formerly known as Prince] only makes you anticipate the compilation that will rescue its two or three stunners from the dross. CHAOS AND DISORDER (Warner Bros.
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With Prince reportedly under some pressure to produce record sales following the disappointing performance of his debut, he really does step up his game here.
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The front cover sleeve reveals a 20 year old Prince with an afro and a blurry motion effect on one side of his head.
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Prince had stumbled commercially withLovesexy, which may be one of the reasons he decided to record the soundtrack forTim Burton's dark, gothic interpretation of the DC comicBatman.
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It's been a scant three months since the release of the poorly received Chaos and Disorder , the album that finally fulfilled Prince's long-standing obligation to Warner Bros.
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Prince fans may recognize Crystal Ball as the title of the aborted triple-album project that was ultimately released as the classic 1987 double-disc set Sign O' The Times .
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Like Hits 1, Hits 2 presents a cross section of some of Prince's biggest hits and most notorious songs, including "Dirty Mind," "I Wanna Be Your Lover," "Head," "Delirious," "Little Red Corvette," "I
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