If Tracks Are Good, Let's Get 2 Pollin - PRINCE TRACKS POLL RESULTS

Here was my list--not real sexy, because I hadn't played some of these albums in a while and didn't get to revisit them all...

1-Dirty Mind
2-I Wish U Heaven
3-When Doves Cry
4-Beautiful Ones
5-Purple Rain
6-Sometimes It Snows in April
7-The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
8-Little Red Corvette
9-I Wanna Be Your Lover
10-I Would Die 4 U
11-Condition of the Heart
12-I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
13-Lady Cab Driver
14-Annie Christian
15-Controversy
16-Under the Cherry Moon
17-The Morning Papers
18-When U Were Mine
19-Lolita
20-Emale

most of 51-60 would have been on my list had i voted

ah well

Uh xp - not much of a fan compared to u heads I guess.

I'm the most predictable part-time Prince fan alive:

1. "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" (shorter 45 version)
2. "Mountains"
3. "Nothing Compares 2 U" (Sinead O'Connor)
4. "Raspberry Beret"
5. "Erotic City"
6. "When You Were Mine" (Prince)
7. "The Glamorous Life" (Sheila E)
8. "U Got the Look"
9. "When You Were Mine" (Cyndi Lauper)
10. "Alphabet St."

I'd also completely forgotten about Chaka Khan's "I Feel for You," otherwise I would have dropped the duplicate "When You Were Mine" and been 10 for 10.

Here's my hastily put together list. Wish more (any?) unreleased stuff made it in:

Wonderful Ass
In All My dreams
Lady cab driver
Condition Of the Heart
The Beautiful Ones
Adore
When Doves Cry
Anna stesia
Soul Sanctuary
Come
Cool
Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
I Wish U heaven
Purple Music
Heaven
Dirty Mind
Controversy
Life can Be So Nice
Sometimes It Snows In april

My ballot

Sign O the Times
A Love Bizarre (Sheila E)
Anotherloverholenyohead
U Got the Look
Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
Pop Life
Kiss
When You Were Mine
Nasty Girl (Vanity 6)
Mountains
La, La, La, He, He, Hee
When 2 R in Love
The Glamorous Life (Sheila E)
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
I Wanna Be Your Lover
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
When Doves Cry
Girl
Alphabet St.
Controversy

My List:
1. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
2. Little Red Corvette (Dance Mix)
3. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
4. Kiss (Single Version)
5. U Got The Look (Long Look)
6. Baby I'm A Star
7. Let's Pretend We're Married
8. Train (Unreleased/Dream Factory Prince Version)
9. International Lover
10. Head
11. Cool (The Time)
12. Strange Relationship (Dream Factory Sitar Version)
13. I Wanna Be Your Lover
14. 17 Days (the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose. If U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose.)
15. Gotta Broken Heart Again
16. Bambi
17. The Glamorous Life (Sheila E)
18. Nothing Compares 2 U (The Family)
19. Peach
20. Jack U Off

Sister, Erotic City and Nasty Girl were all cut last minute, and I stupidly forgot about Another Lonely Christmas. Feel particularly bad about Nasty Girl.

Woah didn't see that one coming but great choice...Jamie any chance you can post everyone's top 20's??...please...

My ballot:
01. Erotic City
02. Controversy
03. 17 Days (Extended Version)
04. When You Were Mine
05. Lady Cab Driver
06. Housequake
07. Little Red Corvette
08. Raspberry Beret
09. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
10. Just My Imagination (Live at the Small Club 1988)
11. Sign O' The Times
12. Pop Life
13. I Wanna Be Your Lover (Live, Dimitri From Paris Re-Edit)
14. Kiss
15. Uptown
16. She's Always In My Hair
17. La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Extended Version)
18. P Control
19. Bob George
20. Temptation

Biggest omissions in hindsight were "Let's Pretend We're Married", "Shockadelica" & the Time's "777-9311"; surprised "Housequake" didn't make the top 60!

fine, here's mine -

1) When Doves Cry
2) Erotic City
3) Head
4) Let's Go Crazy
5) I Love U in Me
6) I Wanna Be Your Lover
7) D.M.S.R.
8) Baby I'm a Star
9) She's Always in My Hair
10) Lady Cab Driver
11) Black Sweat
12) When U Were Mine
13) 777-9311
14) Adore
15) Controversy
16) Cool
17) Dirty Mind
18) Automatic
19) Kiss
20) Darling Nikki

sorry dude a bit too busy to do that - off on holiday in the morning. thanks to everyone for voting, has been fun!

01. The Beautiful Ones
02. I Feel For You [Chaka Khan version]
03. If I Was Your Girlfriend
04. Erotic City
05. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
06. 4 The Tears In Your Eyes ["We Are The World" LP version]
07. I Would Die 4 U
08. Pop Life
09. Adore
10. The Question of U
11. U [Paula Abdul]
12. 1999
13. Nasty Girl [Vanity 6]
14. Sexuality
15. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
16. Private Joy
17. Joy in Repetition
18. Do Me, Baby
19. Purple Music
20. The Line

Probably should've made room for "The Bird" on my ballot.

1. Delirious
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U #39
Sister
D.M.S.R.
Little Red Corvette #3
Raspberry Beret #7
Let's Go Crazy #21
Pop Life #12
Sexy M.F. #34
Alphabet St. #13
Baby I'm a Star
Take Me with U #24
1999 #15
Erotic City #8
Sheila E - The Glamorous Life #36
I Wanna Be Your Lover #6
Let's Pretend We're Married #47
Play in the Sunshine
It
20. When Doves Cry #2

i like how Sister, Bambi, Nasty Girl and Bob George were all just outside the Top 50. ILX is filthy.

Kinda wish "Sister" was 8 minutes long sometimes.

1. Little Red Corvette
2. I Feel For You
3. Pop Life
4. Mountains
5. Raspberry Beret
6. Kiss
7. Let's Go Crazy
8. 1999
9. Delirious
10. When Doves Cry
11. I Wanna Be Your Lover
12. When You Were Mine
13. Alphaet St.
14. Purple Rain
15. Controversy
16. U Got the Look
17. Manic Monday
18. Girls & Boys
19. Sexy M.F.
20. Come

In retrospect I wish I'd put "Sometimes It Snows" in "Manic Monday"'s place.

surprise upset! not that i'm complaining.

"Bambi" made my ballot!

this is like some proto-chillwave shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PIfq-haO0E&feature=related

my ballot:

Sometimes It Snows In April
If I Was Your Girlfriend
The Beautiful Ones
Erotic City
When Doves Cry
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
Mountains
Housequake
Adore
Letitgo
Controversy
Alphabet St
P Control
Do Me, Baby
Strange Relationship
Kiss
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
The Human Body
Tambourine
Black Sweat

I wish I had put on "Let's Pretend We're Married"

Thanks to you people, I downloaded Come.

1. The Beautiful Ones
2. Private Joy
3. Mountains
4. 17 Days
5. The Morning Papers
6. Strange Relationship
7. I Could Never Take The Place of Ur Man
8. When U Were Mine
9. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
10. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
11. Tambourine
12. Joy In Repetition
13. The Cross
14. The Holy River
15. Chelsea Rodgers
16. Endorphinmachine
17. 7
18. Cream
19. Bambi
20. Erotic City

Let's pretend our ballots are Alfred married.

I didn't think about it a 'tall – I just thought of twenty Prince tracks I liked.

That's where the "pretend" part comes in.

Mine:

1 The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
2 Alphabet St.
3 Manic Monday (The Bangles)
4 When You Were Mine
5 Strange Relationship
6 Controversy
7 I Wanna Be Your Lover
8 The Belle of St Mark (Sheila E)
9 When Doves Cry
10 U Got The Look
11 Raspberry Beret
12 1999
13 Lady Cab Driver
14 Bob George
15 Take Me With U
16 Paisley Park
17 New Position
18 Eye Know
19 Uptown
20 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Dorothy Parker is a funny song... it doesn't have anything to do with the actual Dorothy Parker, did he just like the sound of her name or something?

I guess so - it's full of peculiar, slightly puzzling details like that - lyric's such a good fit for the wobbly, dreamy sound.

1. Head
2. I Wonder U
3. Kiss
4. 1999
5. When Doves Cry
6. Erotic City
7. Mountains
8. Let’s Pretend We’re Married
9. Raspberry Beret
10. Adore
11. Sign O The Times
12. I Wanna Be Your Lover
13. D.M.S.R.
14. Darling Nikki
15. Alphabet St.
16. Pop Life
17. Play In the Sunshine
18. “7”
19. Anotherloverholenyohead
20. Lady Cab Driver

Mine:
Pink Cashmere
Condition Of The Heart
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
Alphabet St.
Little Red Corvette
Raspberry Beret
The Morning Papers
Pop Life
Take Me With U
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
Sexy M.F.
Joy In Repetition
Money Don't Matter 2 Night
Black Sweat
Chelsea Rodgers
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Adore
The Holy River
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
I Feel For You

1. Little Red Corvette
2. Dirty Mind
3. When You Were Mine
4. U Got The Look
5. When Doves Cry
6. Raspberry Beret
7. It
8. Forever In My Life
9. Sign O The Times
10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
11. The Beautiful Ones
12. Slow Love
13. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
14. Kiss
15. Uptown
16. Do Me Baby
17. 1999
18. Mountains
19. Let’s Go Crazy
20. Starfish and Coffee

My top 20

Erotic city
Dirty mind
Something in the water (does not compute)
Do it all night
Automatic
Let's pretend we're married
Let's go crazy
U got the look
Electric chair
The future
My name is prince
Another lonely Christmas
Pope
Controversy
Sister
I could never take the place of your man
Head
Jack u off
When you were mine
Gett off

Erotic City
When Doves Cry
U Got the Look
Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Joy In Repetition
Black Sweat
A Love Bizarre
She's Always In My Hair
Another Lonely Christmas
Hot Thing
Come
Billy Jack Bitch
Money Don't Matter 2Night
Thieves in the Temple (Remix)
Strange Relationship
17 Days
Kiss
Bob George
Alphabet Street (Lovesexy Extended Version)
Something In the Water Does Not Compute

i was the other billy jack bitch fan apparently
almost interchangable with Pope for me in some ways

and y'all are missing out on Joy in Repetition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDiRUM_7T1I

Voted for it.

Glad "Pink Cashmere" got some love.

if i were to do my poll again now it would be unrecognisable from the one i submitted. the perils of rushing one through.

there's a disturbing lack of "sexy dancer" itt

my ballot:

Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
Little Red Corvette
I Would Die 4 U
Adore
She's Always In My Hair
Another Lonely Christmas
I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man
Tambourine
Darling Nikki
Endorphinmachine
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Call My Name
1999
Mountains
Pop Life
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
The Cross
The Morning Papers
Uptown
Come

here's how the albums shake out in terms of points for songs that placed in the top 50:

1. Sign O The Times: 2611 points for 10 songs
2. Purple Rain: 1980 points for 6 songs
3. 1999: 1439 points for 5 songs
4. Dirty Mind: 1331 points for 4 songs
5. Parade: 1082 points for 3 songs
6. Around The World In A Day: 980 points for 3 songs
7. Prince: 833 points for 3 songs (including "I Feel For You")
8. Controversy: 546 points for 2 songs
9. Diamonds And Pearls: 381 points for 3 songs
10. Love Symbol: 258 points for 2 songs

also:
994 points for 4 b-sides
490 points for 3 songs that were hits for other artists (including "I Feel For You")

actually no the last should be:

10. Lovesexy: 327 points for 1 song

ok i just heard 'mountains' 4 the first time :-O

Omg how can that be

"Mountains" is legit

I KNOW! NOW!

YAY!! I didn't vote but When You Were Mine is my favorite Prince song so WELL DONE FOLKS!

<3

Glad to see I was not the only one who voted for anna stesia, here is my quickly thrown together ballot, and oh yeah nasty girl shoulda been in the top 50

Biggest oh shit afterwards was something in the water does not compute

Also surprised by al the love for alphabet street which is great but did not expectto see that high

Adore
Anna Stesia
Pink Cashmere
When you were mine
Uptown
Erotic City
Starfish & coffee
If I was your girlfriend
The ballad of Dorothy parker
Little Red Corvette
Nasty girl (Vanity 6)
Mountains
I Could Never Take the Place of your Man
Computer blue
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?
I feel for you (Chaka Khan version)
I wanna be your lover
Sometimes it snows in april
Kiss
Housequake

(and oh wow, must be fun hearing mountains for the first time)

Here's mine

20. Crazy You
I know it goes against percieved wisdom but I adore the first album...pure anadulterated Prince...the sound of someone being let loose in the candy store...this is just lovely
19. Leaving For New York
Only discovered this fairly recently...a home demo from '76...Prince on the piano playing his little heart out...again it has essence of Prince all over it
18. Future Baby Mama
The only track I chose post 1987...think cos it contains that quirky major/minor Prince sequence and cos it sounds like something from 87!!
17. In Love
First proper track on first album...a bit corny I know but still brill
16. Tambourine
Weird funk groove...great drumming...off the hook vocals...Prince in a nutshell
15. Bambi
Prince goes metal and decides to turn a lesbian straight...now that's the kinda therapy I'm talkin about!!
14. Private Joy
Pure Minneapolis pop/funk...impossible not to shake your booty to this
13. Soft And Wet
First single I believe...love the story about Prince telling Warners that Maurice White would not be producing his album...He would!!
12. 17 Days
Prince's b-sides trumped most other artists entire catalogues...this is just extraordinary...
11. When You Were Mine
One of Prince's purist pop moments...but with so much soul
10 .Raspberry Beret
Wonder what the Warner execs thought when they heard ATWIAD...they must of been a lot of relief in the room when they this
9. Little Red Corvette
Sexy,sly and funky this track never gets tired...a track everyone can agree is genius
8. When Doves Cry
Heard this on the radio recently for the first time in ages and it slayed me like the first time I heard it...immense
7. I Wanna Be Your Lover
Michael had Don't Stop...Prince had this...Real men sing in Falsetto...if you don't dance to this you don't dance...
6. 1999
I remember hearing this for the first time as an 11 year old kid...Probably the most seminal musical moment of
my life...things would never be the same again
5.Kiss
Can't think of many greater 3 minutes in pop than this...pure perfection
4. Uptown
Black,White,Puerto Rican everyone just a-freakin...this is tight as fuck
3. Something In The Water(Does Not Compute)
Dark and Weird as you like...Prince as Norman Bates...They Don't make em like this no more
2. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
Can't think of another artist that could produce something as fucked up as this...thank god for Prince..
1. Condition Of The Heart
The track that defines the word Fey...there are'nt the words to describe my love for this...the most gorgeous sublime track ever recorded...

Great list, I'm delighted with the result.

My list

1. When You Were Mine
2. Controvesy
3. I Would Die 4 U
4. She's Always In My Hair
5. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
6. Pop Life
7. Take Me With You
8. Sometimes It Snows In April
9. If I Was Ur Girlfriend
10. Lady Cab Driver
11. Bambi
12. The Cross
13. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
14. Anotherloverholenyohead
15. Sign 'O' The Times
16. Starfish & Coffee
17. Dirty Mind
18. 17 Days
19. Gold
20. Jack U Off

1. I could never take the place of your man
2. Little red corvette
3. She's always in my hair
4. Another lonely christmas
5. When doves cry
6. If I was your girlfriend
7. How come u don't call me anymore
8. 'Nothing Compares 2 U' (Sinéad O'Connor)
9. Kiss
10. When u were mine
11. Take me with U
12. sexy MF
13. 7
14. Darling Nikki
15. Extra loveable
16. I wanna be your lover
17. The ballad of dorothy parker
18. Lady cab driver
19. Sign o' the times
20. Sometimes it snows in April