Thanks everyone. I hadn't even thought of "Let's Go Crazy". It's a good suggestion though. I'd mostly been bouncing between "1999" and "Kiss", though if it were for myself, "Little Red Corvette" all the way. (So to speak.) I think, though, that "When Doves Cry" has to be the winner. (But I like Tom's point about the apocalyptitude of a lot of Prince's early stuff, I'd never noticed that before.)
What this is for: while we were on our cruise, Biyi joined the ship's Christmas choir. Reading through their playlist was an instructive experience:
"White Christmas", good choice... "All I Want For Christmas Is You", cheesy, but fair enough... "Eye Of The Tiger"? The Hell?
Leaving aside the unanswered question of what Survivor was doing in there (and whether a choir with a median age of 60+ can credibly pull off the slow fist-pump), the more important point is the Biyi really liked this song. The most important point is that she'd never heard it before. So, resolving that it's about time Biyi was introduced to the music of the 80s, I've been pulling together some playlists to record for her. Categories:
Rock
Ballads
Pop (2 CDs)
New Wave
For the most part, I'm trying to limit any one artist to one song, and it's still been extraordinarily difficult to get the list down to just five CDs. (It was originally supposed to be four.) Prince was one about which I was dithering, hence the question.