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'My Name Is Prince and I Am Funky': A mixtape of essential songs

Here's how the Star Tribune's music critics would program their Prince collections:

By Staff

April 22, 2016 at 3:10AM
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Jon Bream

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Erotic City

(with Sheila E, 1984)

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A Love Bizarre

(with Sheila E, 1985)

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(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Girls and Boys

(1986)

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When Doves Cry

(1984)

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Anotherloverholenyohead

(1986)

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Eye Can't Make You Love Me

(1996)

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Delirious

(1982)

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Do Me, Baby

(1981)

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Nothing Compares 2 U

(with Rosie Gaines, 1992)

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Black Sweat

(2006)

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The Holy River

(1996)

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Purple Rain

(1984)

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Endorphinmachine

(1995)

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7

(1992)

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D.M.S.R.

(1983)

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Gotta Broken Heart Again

(1980)

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The Beautiful Ones

(1984)

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Paisley Park

(1985)

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My Name Is Prince

(1992)

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When U Were Mine

(live, 2002)

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The Cross

(1987)

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The Holy River

(1996)

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Alphabet Street

(1988)

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I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

(1987)

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Call My Name

(2004)

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