Controversy (Prince album)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Blender	^[2]
Robert Christgau	A−^[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+^[4]
Rolling Stone	^[5]
Rolling Stone	^[6]
Piero Scaruffi	5/10^[7]
Spin	(8/10)^[8]
Virgin Encyclopedia	^[9]

Controversy is the fourth studio album by Prince, released on October 14, 1981. Keith Harris of Blender calls the album "Prince's first attempt to get you to love him for his mind, not just his body" and comments that it "refines the propulsive funk of previous albums and adds treatises on religion, work, nuclear war and Abscam."^[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Prince.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Controversy"	7:15
2.	"Sexuality"	4:21
3.	"Do Me, Baby"	7:43

Side two
No.	Title	Length
4.	"Private Joy"	4:29
5.	"Ronnie, Talk to Russia"	1:58
6.	"Let's Work"	3:54
7.	"Annie Christian"	4:22
8.	"Jack U Off"	3:09

Charts

Chart (1981)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	21
U.S. Billboard R&B Albums	3

Personnel

Lisa Coleman - backing vocals (on "Controversy", "Ronnie Talk to Russia" and "Jack U Off"), keyboards ("Jack U Off")
Dr. Fink - keyboards ("Jack U Off")
Bobby Z. - drums ("Jack U Off")
All other vocals and instruments performed by Prince.

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Singles and Hot 100 chart placings

"Controversy" (#70 U.S., #3 U.S. R&B)

"Controversy"
"When You Were Mine"

"Let's Work" (#104 U.S., #9 R&B)

"Let's Work"
"Ronnie, Talk 2 Russia"
"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" (U.S. 12")

"Do Me, Baby"

"Do Me, Baby"
"Private Joy"

"Sexuality" (German/Japan/Australia single)

"Sexuality"
"Controversy" (DEU, JAP)
"I Wanna Be Your Lover" (AUS)

Notes

↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Prince: Controversy at AllMusic. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Harris, Keith (June–July 2001). "Every Original CD Reviewed - Prince". Blender (Alpha Media Group) (1).
↑ Christgau, Robert. "Prince". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
↑ Browne, David (21 September 1990). "Purple Products". Entertainment Weekly (Time) (#32). ISSN 1049-0434. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
↑ Holden, Stephen (21 January 1982). "Prince: Controversy". Rolling Stone (Wenner Media) (RS 361). ISSN 0035-791X. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
↑ Hoard (2004), p. 655. Portions posted at "Prince: Album Guide". RollingStone.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
↑ Scaruffi, Piero (1999). "Prince". pieroscaruffi.com. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
↑ Weisbard, Eric (10 October 1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide (1st ed.). Vintage. ISBN 978-0-679-75574-6. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
↑ Larkin, Colin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise 4 ed.). Virgin Books. ISBN 978-1-85227-923-3. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
↑ http://princevault.com/index.php/Album:_Controversy

References

Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

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Filmography	Purple Rain Under the Cherry Moon Sign o' the Times Graffiti Bridge

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Live albums	One Nite Alone... Live! C-Note Indigo Nights

Extended plays	The Beautiful Experience 1999: The New Master

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1970s	"Soft and Wet" "Just as Long as We're Together" "I Wanna Be Your Lover"

1980s	"Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" "Still Waiting" "Sexy Dancer" "Bambi" "Uptown" "Dirty Mind" "Do It All Night" "Controversy" "Let's Work" "Do Me, Baby" "Sexuality" "1999" "Little Red Corvette" "D.M.S.R." "Delirious" "Automatic" "Let's Pretend We're Married" "When Doves Cry" "Let's Go Crazy" "Purple Rain" "I Would Die 4 U" "Take Me with U" "Paisley Park" "Raspberry Beret" "Pop Life" "America" "Kiss" "Mountains" "Anotherloverholenyohead" "Girls & Boys" "Sign "O" the Times" "If I Was Your Girlfriend" "U Got the Look" "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" "Alphabet St." "Glam Slam" "I Wish U Heaven" "Batdance" "Partyman" "The Arms of Orion" "Scandalous!"

1990s	"The Future" "Thieves in the Temple" "New Power Generation" "Gett Off" "Cream" "Diamonds and Pearls" "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" "Insatiable" "Thunder" "Sexy MF" "My Name Is Prince" "7" "Damn U" "The Morning Papers" "Pink Cashmere" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "Peach" "Pope" (remix) "Come" "Letitgo" "Space" "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" "P Control" "Dolphin" "Endorphinmachine" "I Hate U" "Gold" "Dinner with Delores" "Betcha by Golly Wow!" "The Holy River" "Somebody's Somebody" "Face Down" "The Truth" "Extraordinary" "The Rest of My Life" "5 Women" "It's About That Walk" "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold"

2000s	"Man'O'War" "Baby Knows" "The Work, pt. 1" "She Loves Me 4 Me" "Last December" "Musicology" "Call My Name" "Cinnamon Girl" "Te Amo Corazón" "Black Sweat" "Fury" "Guitar" "Chelsea Rodgers" "The One U Wanna C" "Dance 4 Me" "Crimson and Clover"

2010s	"Extraloveable" "Dance 4 Me" (remixes) "Rock and Roll Love Affair"

Promotional singles	"Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" "Erotic City" "Love Sign" "Purple Medley" "NYC" "U Make My Sun Shine" "Supercute" "Days of Wild" "S.S.T." "The Song of the Heart" "One Song" "Cybersingle" "Bataclan" "Controversy (Live in Hawaii)" "Live from Paisley Park" "Strange Relationship (Live)" "Glass Cutter" "F.U.N.K."

Other songs	"I Feel for You" "When You Were Mine" "Head" "Private Joy" "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" "17 Days" "The Beautiful Ones" "Computer Blue" "Darling Nikki" "Baby I'm a Star" "4 the Tears in Your Eyes" "Adore" "Don't Talk 2 Strangers" "I Can't Make U Love Me" "La, La, La Means I Love U" "One of Us" "Everyday Is a Winding Road" "A Case of U"

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