Incredibly overrated guy. Had a style and could lay a few instruments, but his scrawny voice matched his scrawny body. Overly emotive to the point of silliness.

Must be a generational thing but Prince runs the risk of sounding like a heaping pile of overrated garbage to me. He's got moments here and there that make me think "okay maybe there's a reason gen-x'ers incessantly nut over this" but purple rain is middling at best and sign o the times is just painful for me to even make it through it.

I want to like Prince, I've attentively listened to his albums a dozen times or so. Lyrics suck, music is repetitive uninspired, and IT'S SO INCREDIBLY CHEESY, nothing is remarkable, songwriting is painfully bad. It's like if Michael Jackson had no songwriting ability.

HOWEVER - when he's not singing or attempting to write songs the instrumental sections of his songs can be really great. "I could never take the place of your man" becomes enjoyable after he stops singing and just plays the jam. Great musician, cheesy as heck songwriter.

All due respect to Michael Jackson and all the Pixies and Smiths out there, but this guy was the definitive artist of the 80s. He dominated the decade like no other musician. Nine records in ten years, all of them ranging from good to absolutely brilliant. That doesn't happen very often. His proficiency, creativity and originality were outstanding, his talents as a producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist were borderline inhuman, his vocal range was huge and his overall impact in the music landscape is undeniable. He was the whole package, a once-of-a-kind genius who could do it all. There is no doubt in my mind that he was one of the most brilliant minds in modern music, and as far as solo musicians go, if someone deserves to be up there in the top 10 alongside Bowie and Dylan, that's definitely Prince.

What else is there to say? Prince was one of the best pop acts of all time. Class, style and coolness rivaled by no one else, and musical innovation that most could only dream of. A talent whose influence we may never fully realise.

Nobody even close... not even within eye shot.

Great compositions, but could have done better on the mixing. I really don't enjoy the sound of the drums in mostly of his songs. Prince sounds like Michael Jackson's demos.

A very talented man. He nailed singing, dancing and playing instruments... But as song writer and producer, i think he's too much overrated. His best work, Purple Rain, isn't that good thing the people talk about.

A genius.

He's my favorite musician of all time. No one else combined so many genres of music in the most satisfying way. His death was a shock and a devastating loss. Thankfully he left a huge discography. I still am having trouble wrapping my head around it.

Damn. 2016 sucks.