Since the streaming deal currently only includes the Warner albums (which is pretty much all of his most well-known stuff anyway), I'm gonna focus on his classic era right now. It looks like all his post-Warner stuff will be streaming soon though, they just signed a distribution deal for it plus music from his vault last week.
Honestly, the majority of his best albums were the Warner stuff. He had some gems after, no doubt, but you have the bulk of his genius there.
Yeah that's what I figured haha, it's the large majority of his "classic" albums. Really stoked to dig in, the albums I'm planning to listen to first (in a few cases I've heard them before) are: Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain, Parade, Sign O' the Times, Lovesexy, and the Love Symbol Album.
I've been working my way through his discography chronologically over the past year or so. I'm taking it slow - I'm only on 1999 right now - but it's been really enjoyable and rewarding.
Really glad to see The Time at the Prince tribute. For those who don't know, just about everything except Morris's lead vocals on those early Time records was Prince.
dude played like 10 instruments and killed it on every single one of them also, I wish he had recorded a full album with Miles Davis - that would have been the most incredible collabo in the history of music
Here to make the case for "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" being his most underappreciated song
Yeah but he's an artist who has myriad "big hits" and that one is a real shining star in my book. But it tends to get outshone by others in popular perception it seems.
Most under-appreciated of his hit/well-known songs I guess. We could dig up more obscure album cuts worthy of praise, but my point is that that's one of my favorite of his big 80s hits and I seem to be mostly alone in that regard
It is crazy to me how many people don't realize how much of The Family and The Time and Sheila E records were just him solo.
I know he gets credit as a musical genius, but I'm not sure he gets enough credit as a writer. He picked his spots lyrically. Some were just gleeful and shocking. Others were simple dance songs. But when he wanted to be a storyteller, he could really be incredible. Just the detail and nuance in "Raspberry Beret" stands up with the greatest.
Listen to a B-side or a deep-cut album in his memory today. Appreciate the depth of his accomplishments.
It's fucking Christmas, Prince fans: Listen to Unearthed Prince Song “Electric Intercourse” From New Purple Rain Reissue | Pitchfork "Electric Intercourse", "Wonderful Ass" and "Posessed"? I'm about to scream like a 1964 Ed Sullivan Show audience.