Prince Discography ●

Prince’s discography is not a ladder to a peak. It’s a : messy, expanding, self-consuming, and generating new stars long after its central sun went dark. He made more mediocre albums than Bowie or Stevie Wonder—but he also made more impossible albums. No one else has a Controversy and a Sign o’ the Times and a Lovesexy and a The Gold Experience and an Art Official Age that all feel like different artists, yet unmistakably one spirit.

But the deep cuts haunt: The Rainbow Children (2001) is a bizarre Jehovah’s Witness jazz-funk concept album. Art Official Age (2014) is a futuristic R&B meditation on aging. His final two HITnRUN albums (2015-16) play with streaming-era fragmentation. And then, the vault—thousands of unreleased songs, many now emerging. The discography never truly ended. prince discography