 | 1999 by Prince
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £4.10 1982's double LP is Prince's finest moment. The 4 singles make up side 1, the 3 remaining sides are a mind-blowing trip through an electro-Funk New Wave orgasm
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 | Parade: Original Soundtrack - Under the Cherry Moon by Prince & the Revolution
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.79 1986's final official Revolution album, and Prince's most inventive and imaginative record. The album flows beautifully, but each track is it's own creation.
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 | Controversy by Prince
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.27 Often-overlooked 1981 release, here we have proto-House, New Wave, electro-Funk, this is like a rough template for 1999, and all the better for it
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 | Dirty Mind by Prince
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.21 It's 1980 and Prince does a complete 180 degree turn away from his previous 2 records with this demo set of rough Rock/Funk. Finally getting the critical attention it deserves.
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 | The Black Album by Prince
Buy used from: £20.00 1987's unreleased side-project finally got an official release in 1994 - This is the night to Lovesexy's day, Prince's funniest and funkiest album, as the opening says, the New Testament, Funk Bible.
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 | Purple Rain by Prince & the Revolution
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.00 1984's quintissential Prince hit record for the casual listner or Prince newbie - All killer, no filler
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 | For You by Prince
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £3.80 Prince's 1978 debut is a stunning record for someone so young - A great collection of Disco-tinged Soul/Funk
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 | Prince by Prince
Buy new: £6.28 / Used from: £4.72 For this 1979 sophomore release, Prince honed the ideas on his debut to pack a more commercial punch, very accessible
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 | Around the World in a Day by Prince & the Revolution
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £2.38 1985 & Prince follows up monster-hit Purple Rain with change in direction - This is what fans love about Prince, he could've so easily made a 'Purple Rain II' - that would be too easy for Prince!
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 | Lovesexy by Prince
Buy new: £6.18 / Used from: £2.98 It's 1988 and this is the album that bookends Prince's most prolific period - A concept album about God, Love and Sex (business as usual then!)
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 | The Rainbow Children by Prince
Buy used from: £29.93 2001 and another spiritually-tinged concept LP, this time a paean to Prince's conversion as a Jehovah Witness - But forget all that nonsense and enjoy Prince's most interesting record since the 80s
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 | Gold Experience by Prince
Buy used from: £11.48 If Prince hadn't shot himself in the foot with all the name-change nonesense, this 1995 release could have been his biggest hit since Purple Rain - It's that good.
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 | Sign 'O' the Times by Prince
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £3.89 1987's double LP is the critics choice and a tour-de-force of everything in Prince's artillary
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 | The Love Symbol Album by Prince & The New Power Generation
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £0.70 This 1992 sprawling follow-up to the commercial hit Diamonds & Pearls continues that album's themes and sounds, only bolder and brighter!
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 | Diamonds and Pearls by Prince & the New Power Generation
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01 1991's commercial mega-hit. It hasn't dated too well, what with the rappers and such, but there are still a few gems on here
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 | Graffiti Bridge: Original Soundtrack by Prince
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £0.16 The cracks are beginning to show on this double LP from 1990, but at it's core it's still an LP of solid material, mostly dating from Prince's glory days of 1985-7
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 | Come by Prince
Buy new: £6.28 / Used from: £0.09 This 1994 album was the first casuality of Prince's name-change nonesense. Despite being an uneven release, many of the tracks sit along side the Gold Experience as the best of his 90s output
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 | Chaos and Disorder by Prince
Buy used from: £2.00 1996's kiss-off to old label, Warners - Harpooned by fans & critics alike at the time of it's release. Time has been kind to C&D though, it's angry rock-funk sounds better than 90% of what came after
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 | Emancipation by Prince
Buy used from: £1.28 Hailed as 'The album he was born to make', this pleasant but tedious triple album suffers from samey production and a saggy middle of almost a whole disc of sickly sweet ballads and mid-tempo drawl.
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 | Crystal Ball by Prince
Buy used from: £37.50 1998's disappointing 3 CD out-takes set is saved only by 4th disc, the acoustic album 'The Truth' and a too-few sprinkling of 80s tracks and genuinely brilliant 90s unreleased numbers
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 | 3121 by Prince
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £0.25 2006 saw yet another attempted commercial comeback fail to ignite due to an almost total lack of genuinely interesting material (barr the interesting re-working of the ballad 'The Dance').
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 | Musicology by Prince
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £0.93 2004, & another comeback attempt fizzles due to Prince chasing the latest fads . A couple of genuinely decent numbers can't carry the weight of another 'Prince by numbers' CD.
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 | The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale by Prince
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.39 Compiled alongside 1996's Chaos & Disorder, but not released by Warners till 1999, this uneven Jazz-tinged out-takes collection doesn't quite hit the mark
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 | N.E.W.S by Prince
Buy used from: £11.94 Holding back on the previous year's superior, but internet-only, instrumental release 'Xpectation', 2003 saw this meandering and painfully dull elevator muzak get a CD release instead, shame
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 | Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic by The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
Buy used from: £3.24 1999's commercial come-back mega-flop limps along in the most depressing and flacid manner - 'Prince by numbers', for completists and masochists only
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