Purple Rain (soundtrack album)
by Prince And The Revolution
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The best album by Prince is Purple Rain which is ranked number 72 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 15,910.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 6 hours ago |  Milhaud | 1,673 | 70/100 |
| ! | 19 hours ago |  NowhereMan | 1,417 | 78/100 |
| ! | 12/21/2025 23:34 | ArtyomJay | 144 | 93/100 |
| ! | 12/15/2025 13:09 | pago82 | 3,140 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2025 22:09 | Trooper44 | 98 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 83.4/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.
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Nice mix of styles on this. When Doves Cry being my favorite track though Let's Go Crazy comes close.
Along with Sign O the Times, Prince's best album (joint winners in my book) and one of the greatest soundtrack albums of all time. An absolute classic
HoldenM 06/16/2025 14:54 | #309562
Remember when Prince played the title track at the Super Bowl and it started pouring? Can't decide if God had to hand it to Prince in that moment or if Prince is God.
Anyway, masterpiece, obviously.
Shortlisted for album of the year in 1985. The winner was Can't Slow Down by Lionel Richie. This should have been the winner
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Prince at its best, great sound, great music and lyrics, it has Funk, new wave and some dark wave probably the best album of 1984.
JoaoMoreira 02/09/2024 01:06 | #301841
Great record!
Tight and eccentric.
Just like Prince ?
This album seems to divide opinion. I am on the side that likes it. Excellent musicianship. The title song is a classic, other tracks like 'When Doves Cry' and 'I Would Die for You' add diversity. This album was a soundtrack which is why there is so much diversity of styles. As with many musical genius, Prince died before his time.
Not a fan. Maybe it was groundbreaking at the time (although Thriller was released 2 years earlier which wipes the floor with this) but in 2023 it really isn't anything special to me. Very overrated. When Doves Cry is good. I don't get the love for the last song.
I don't get it. While the album disjointedly skips around different genres, each song is almost unbearably repetitive. The lyrics range from the overly simplistic ("Purple Rain, Purple Rain") to the painfully cringeworthy ("You - I would die 4 U").
While it was cutting-edge for its time, the synthesizer sounds and drum machines now come off as clichéd and overdone.
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