Dirty Mind
by Prince

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Dirty Mind by Prince
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-10-08
Overall rank: 904th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 438 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1980 (18th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (135th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (904th)

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Prince bestography

Dirty Mind is ranked 4th best out of 67 albums by Prince on BestEverAlbums.com.

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 15,231.

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Dirty Mind Lower ranked (1,111th) »
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Dirty Mind track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Dirty Mind
Average Rating: 82 (89 votes)Comments: View 0
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When You Were Mine
Average Rating: 87 (124 votes)Comments: View 1
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Do It All Night
Average Rating: 81 (79 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Gotta Broken Heart Again
Average Rating: 79 (76 votes)Comments: View 0
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Uptown
Average Rating: 83 (85 votes)Comments: View 0
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Head
Average Rating: 82 (81 votes)Comments: View 0
7.
Sister
Average Rating: 76 (76 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Partyup
Average Rating: 79 (80 votes)Comments: View 0

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Dirty Mind rankings

Dirty Mind rankings summary
Overall rank: 904th | 1980s rank: 135th | 1980 rank: 18th  Overall chart history
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Dirty Mind ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 438 votes)
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 !		05/23/2026 09:32 mash  Ratings distribution  1,49389/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.


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Dirty Mind forum mentions

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Dirty Mind comments

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From 06/14/2025 19:35 | #309532
Other than the incest song, this is basically perfect. (Edited)
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From 12/12/2023 07:50 | #300436
Prince's first masterpiece. For You is pretty forgettable, and the self-titled album is enjoyable but that's about it. Dirty Mind is a quantum leap forward, a masterful half an hour of music that blends funk with new wave, all produced in a very unique and idiosyncratic way like only Prince could. It's fantastic, front to back. (Edited)
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From 07/30/2022 11:20 | #287964
This album brings new things to funk, but for me there is no outstanding content.
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From 03/08/2022 06:12 | #282499
Best two tracks are the last two, "sister" and "partyup", Can listen to these two over and over but the rest of the album is average.
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From 12/11/2021 21:30 | #277387
Album Rating: 78.88
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Side one

1. "Dirty Mind" Prince, Doctor Fink 4:14 - 86
2. "When You Were Mine" 3:47 - 95
3. "Do It All Night" 3:42 - 71
4. "Gotta Broken Heart Again" 2:16 - 72

Side two

5. "Uptown" 5:32 - 79
6. "Head" 4:44 - 79
7. "Sister" 1:31 - 77
8. "Partyup" - 72
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