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Purple Rain track ranking

9. Take Me With U (Track #2)
Score: 48 (Average Rank: 6.71/9)
Biggest Fan(s): RyoCaliente (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): ChichiriMuyo, Seanchan, HBJDubs (#9)

ChichiriMuyo: This song has such a dope intro, but I'm not really a fan

BlueCrystalTear: Never been too fond of this one. The strings are the best part. But the vocal layering makes it too sleepy, and I don't think it's supposed to be sleepy.

8. The Beautiful Ones (Track #3)
Score: 50 (Average Rank: 6.79/9)
Biggest Fan(s): HBJDubs (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): Johnbobb, BlueCrystalTear (#9)

Raetsel_Lapin: Ehh... I rail against repetition all the time, so it should almost go without saying that I got rather bored with this song quite quickly. I wanted to shut the song off by the 13th time he said "baby" & he manages to cram the word into the song 32 times before it ends. Along with a few "babe"s because of course he does. To be fair, there are some interesting bits as Prince gets progressively more desperate and unhinged in his singing as the song goes on, so the song isn't even half as bad as I'm making it out to be... but it's too little payoff for how tiring I find the first few minutes.

ChichiriMuyo: Kinda torn on this one. The beat is awesome, reminds me of Twin Peaks for some reason, but it doesn't quite click for me.

MetalmindStats: Impressive instrumentation, but I'm iffy about its lyrics.

BlueCrystalTear: I'm more familiar with Mariah's cover than the original. I think I like hers better since it's a duet, which softens the repetition.

7. Baby I'm a Star (Track #8)
Score: 51 (Average Rank: 6.5/9)
Biggest Fan(s): Seanchan (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): FoolFantastic, Raetsel_Lapin, RyoCaliente (#9)

ChichiriMuyo: I feel like this song is underrated. It's not deep, but it's a lot of fun.

MetalmindStats: Effervescent, including in its espousal of some of Prince's ideals. We are a star.

BlueCrystalTear: what ever

6. Computer Blue (Track #4)
Score: 57 (Average Rank: 6.14/9)
Biggest Fan(s): NFUN, ZeroSignal, Johnbobb (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): MetalmindStats, neonreaper (#9)

Raetsel_Lapin: I wish this were the full "Hallway Speech" Version. I do understand why the song was shortened so drastically for the album, but the cuts leave it feeling rather incomplete... that being said, the short version here is good enough that I'm not sure I'd rank the full length version any higher anyway. It'd be hard for me to take just about anything over the likes of "Purple Rain", "Let's Go Crazy", and "When Doves Cry" which shows just how crazy stacked this album is.

ChichiriMuyo: Pure 80s. Love it.

BlueCrystalTear: It's no surprise that the guy who sang about Y2K in 1982 would be singing about computers in 1984. Prince is clearly a time traveler. The techno-funk treatment here seems to indicate that.

5. Darling Nikki (Track #5)
Score: 59 (Average Rank: 6.14/9)
Biggest Fan(s): Johnbobb (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): ZeroSignal, MaxGalactica, Mega_Mana (#9)

Raetsel_Lapin: The main part of the song is too blatantly sexual for my purposes and I generally tune it out... but the outro is intriguing. Apocalyptic backmasked vocals? Water sounds? It's an odd twist that takes the song from "I hate this" territory to "actually this would probably get a decent ranking if this album weren't so stacked". [And before anyone points out that basically everything Prince ever did was incredibly sexual, I am aware. Darling Nikki is just less interesting about it than usual, for me personally.]

ChichiriMuyo: A fine song. A bit dirty, even for Prince, but the instrumentation matches the lyrics perfectly.

BlueCrystalTear: Risque. And yet... will porn end the world? Who knows?

4. I Would Die 4 U (Track #7)
Score: 101 (Average Rank: 3.79/9)
Biggest Fan(s): ChichiriMuyo, MetalmindStats, Mega_Mana (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): NFUN (#6)

ChichiriMuyo: My favorite Prince song, hands down. This album is already stacked, and this puts it over the top for me.

MetalmindStats: More about Prince's self-concept than the album's most obvious lyrical themes, which has little to do with the pretty happenstance yet highly personal reasons I hold it dear.

BlueCrystalTear: At least it's short, which is good for a repetitive song like this one.

3. Let's Go Crazy (Track #1)
Score: 105 (Average Rank: 3.71/9)
Biggest Fan(s): Seanchan, BlueCrystalTear (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): NFUN (#9)

ChichiriMuyo: Great way to start an album, and a movie.

MetalmindStats: To me, maybe one of the most marvelously composed and remarkably fun songs ever, and a perfect match for Purple Rain (the song).

BlueCrystalTear: Let's get nuts.

neonreaper: My memory of this song held it in higher regards than the listen-throughs for this topic.

2. Purple Rain (Track #9)
Score: 128 (Average Rank: 2.57/9)
Biggest Fan(s): Raetsel_Lapin, ZeroSignal, MaxGalactica, neonreaper (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): FoolFantastic, ChichiriMuyo, RyoCaliente, Seanchan, MetalmindStats, Mega_Mana (#4)

ChichiriMuyo: Great way to end an album, and a movie. Could rate higher, but it's much longer than it really needs to be.

MetalmindStats: He more than earned an indulgent ending, one which hits more than enough of the right notes.

BlueCrystalTear: It may be over eight and a half minutes long, but it feels like a full song, and the instrumentation is great.

1. When Doves Cry (Track #6)
Score: 129 (Average Rank: 2.64/9)
Biggest Fan(s): FoolFantastic, NFUN, RyoCaliente (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): Johnbobb, MaxGalactica (#6)

ChichiriMuyo: We get it, Prince, you are the total package. Send everybody home, completely do the entire song yourself, make it one of the best all time. Show off. :p

MetalmindStats: It simply speaks for itself.

BlueCrystalTear: An iconic song that would probably be my #1 if it were the shorter single version that didn't have all that screeching and moaning for over a minute.