How about... 10 Let’s Go Crazy 09 Take Me With U 10 The Beautiful Ones 08 Computer Blue 05 Darling Nikki 10 When Doves Cry 10 I Would Die 4 U 10 Baby I’m A Star 11 Purple Rain I just don’t really like Nikki and it’s a shame it’s right in the middle of the album but given the rest of the album it’s Inconsequential. IWD4U and TBO are among the best of the best but at the risk of being predictable, I still think the title track is his best ever moment.
As an alternative... his other iconic moment (for me) 08 Thunder 09 Daddy Pop 11 Diamonds & Pearls 10 Cream 07 Strollin’ 09 Willin’ And Able 10 Gett Off 09 Walk Don’t Walk 08 Jughead 10 Money Don’t Matter 2Night 07 Push 08 Insatiable 08 Live 4 Love I wish more people appreciated 90s Prince.
10 Wild Heart 10 If Anyone Falls 10 Gate and Garden 10 Enchanted 8 Nightbird 11 Stand Back 6 I Will Run to You 8 Nothing Ever Changes 8 Sable on Blond 10 Beauty and the Beast
10 Norman Fucking Rockwell! 10 Mariners Apartment Complex 10 Venice Bitch 08 Fuck It I Love You 09 Doin' Time 10 Love Song 10 Cinnamon Girl 07 How to Disappear 11 California 08 The Next Best American Record 07 Bartender 09 Happiness Is a Butterfly 09 Hope Is a Dangerous Thing...
Oh Ultraviolence and NFR are certainly top ten for me. I’ll follow @Tisch ’s lead 09 Norman Fucking Rockwell! 09 Mariners Apartment Complex 10 Venice Bitch 10 Fuck It I Love You 09 Doin' Time 09 Love Song 13 Cinnamon Girl 10 How to Disappear 10 California 09 The Next Best American Record 08 The Greatest 10 Bartender 10 Happiness Is a Butterfly 09 Hope Is a Dangerous Thing... justice for how to disappear!
After more thinking 11 Run Away With Me 10 Emotion 09 I really like you 10 Gimme Love 08 All That 07 Boy Problems 10 Making the Most of the Night 11 Your Type 11 Let’s Get Lost 09 LA Hallucinations 10 Warm Blood 10 When I needed You 08 Black Hesrt 10 I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance 10 Favourite Colour 11 Never Got To Hold You 08 Love Again
10 Jesus To A Child 10 Fastlove 10 Older 11 Spinning The Wheel 09 It Doesn’t Really Matter 09 The Strangest Thing 09 To Be Forgiven 08 Move On 09 Star People 09 You Have Been Loved 08 Free also deserves extra points for the conceptual element of the album. Best listened to in full and in order
10 Monsters and Angels 11 Adonis Blue 09 I Think I Love You 09 Look At Me 08 Beauty To My Eyes 10 Just Like You 10 Little Gods 10 I'm Shooting Cupid 09 Say It 09 Perfect Place
10 Goodbye Cruel World 10 I Don't Care 08 My 16th Apology 08 Are We In Love Yet 08 Emotional Thing 10 Stay 08 Black Sky 10 The Trouble With Andre 07 Moonchild 09 Catwoman 08 Let Me Entertain You 11 Hello (Turn Your Radio On)
09 All I Want 09 My Old Men 10 Little Green 10 Carey 10 Blue 09 California 08 This Flight Tonight 11 River 10 A Case of You 10 The Last Time I Saw Richard
10. Mono 10. But Julian, I’m a Little Bit Older Than You 10. Hold Onto Me 09. Sunset Strip 09. All The Drugs 10. Almost Golden 09. I’ll Do Anything 11. Uncool 07. Life Despite God 09. Hello 08. Zeppelin Song 10. Never Gonna Be The Same
08 Second Hand News 10 Dreams 07 Never Going Back Again 10 Don't Stop 11 Go Your Own Way 07 Songbird 10 The Chain 09 You Make Loving Fun 10 I Don't Want To Know 07 Oh Daddy 09 Gold Dust Woman
10 Can You Forgive Her? 08 I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing 09 Liberation 08 A Different Point of View 11 Dreaming of the Queen 10 Yesterday, When I Was Mad 08 The Theatre 09 One & One Makes Five 08 To Speak is a Sin 08 Young Offender 08 One In a Million 10 Go West
10 - One Hundred Years 09 - A Short Term Effect 10 - The Hanging Garden 08 - Siamese Twins 11 - The Figurehead 09 - A Strange Day 09 - Cold 10 - Pornography
09 Drive 10 Try Not To Breathe 10 The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite 10 Everybody Hurts 08 New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 10 Sweetness Follows 09 Monty Got A Raw Deal 09 Ignoreland 09 Star Me Kitten 09 Man On The Moon 11 Nightswimming 10 Find The River
10 - Are You Satisfied? 09 - Shampain 10 - I Am Not A Robot 06 - Girls 11 - Mowgli's Road 11 - Obessesions 07 - Hollywood 10 - The Outsider 11 - Hermit The Frog 10 - Oh No! 11 - Rootless 10 - Numb 10 - Guilty
10 Fallen 10 World On Fire 10 Stupid 09 Drifting 10 Train Wreck 09 Push 09 Answer 11 Time 08 Perfect Girl 10 Dirty Little Secret
08 - Watch That Man 11 - Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) 10 - Drive-In Saturday 09 - Panic In Detroit 10 - Cracked Actor 09 - Time 08 - The Prettiest Star 06 - Let's Spend The Night Together 10 - The Jean Genie 4:06 10 - Lady Grinning Soul
10 Pale Green Ghosts 09 Black Belt 10 GMF 10 Vietnam 11 It Doesn't Matter To Him 08 Why Don't You Love Me Anymore 09 You Don't Have To 08 Sensitive New Age Guy 09 Ernest Borgnine 08 I Hate This Town 10 Glacier
08 Drive 10 Try Not To Breathe 07 The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite 08 Everybody Hurts 05 New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 11 Sweetness Follows 10 Monty Got A Raw Deal 08 Ignoreland 08 Star Me Kitten 10 Man On The Moon 101 Nightswimming 10 Find The River
10. SOB 11. The Road Between 10. Lights Out 08. Better Beware 08. Nobody Noticed It 09. Sinking In 11. Important 09. So Lovely 10. Indifferent 11. Gone 07. To Whom It May Concern
10 Money Changes Everything 08 Girls Just Want to Have Fun 10 When You Were Mine 10 Time after Time 09 She Bop 11 All Through the Night 09 Witness 09 I'll Kiss You 09 Yeah Yeah
08 pale green ghosts 11 black belt 10 gmf 09 Vietnam 10 it doesnt matter to him 08 why don’t you love me anymore 08 you don’t have to 08 sensitive new age guy 10 Ernest Borgnine 07 I hate this town 10 glacier another fave 13 preppy boy
I would love to say that I meant that but I've been drinking and meant to make it an 11! But I adore that song. When Stipe sings "September's coming soon", there's a very specific memory that triggers inside me. It's a bittersweet memory, as so many are.
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden 11 - The Rainbow 11 - Eden 11 - Desire 10 - Inheritance 11 - I Believe in You 11 - Wealth I am not kidding with those 11s either.
10 Sweet Love 08 You Bring Me Joy 09Caught Up In The Rapture 07 Been So Long 08 Mystery 11No One In The World 10 Same Ole Love (365 Days A Year) 10 Watch Your Step
10 Man! I Feel Like a Woman! 09 I'm Holding' on to Love (To Save My Life) 09 Love Gets Me Every Time 08 Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) 09 From This Moment On 09 Come On Over 11 When 09 Whatever You Do! Don't! 09 If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask! 10 You're Still the One 10 Honey, I'm Home 09 That Don't Impress Me Much 09 Black Eyes, Blue Tears 07 I Won't Leave You Lonely 08 Rock This Country! 08 You've Got a Way
10. Home Ain’t Where His Heart His Anymore 11. Any Man Of Mine 11. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? 10. (If You’re Not In For Love) I’m Outta Here! 10. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You) 11. Is There Life After Love 10. If It Don’t Take Two 10. You Win My Love 09. Raining On Our Love 09. Leaving Is The Only Way Out 11. No One Needs To Know
do you like their other stuff? I’m not totally familiar with all their work but I adore The Colour Of Spring. “Life’s What You Make It” is the best song of 1986 and one of the best songs of the 80s.
