Truthfully,you could have any number of Prince top 10s. This is just one …Choosing the 10 best songs by the most ludicrously prolific – and riotously diverse – artist of the rock’n’roll era seems on the face to it to be flatly absurd. Where would you start? How could you possibly stop?Even the most demanding of selectors could compile a suite of 10 worldbeaters from Prince’s pre-fame dirty mac years alone, or from songs written by Prince and made distinguished by other artists – not only Nothing Compares 2 U but also the Bangles’ Manic Monday and Chaka Khan’s I Feel For You. Or why not the 1999 to Batman Imperial period of MTV and effortless global hits? Or B-sides, and album cuts,and songs he never even released? And what approximately the bewildering post-Emancipation years when Prince began to write and record at a rate no record label and few fans could even keep up with? He was protean, a world unto himself, or seemingly containing multitudes. For it all to close so early seems grossly unjust.
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Source: theguardian.com