For You

Stepping onto the world stage in 1978, Prince was already a wildly talented soul singer with an unusual taste for hard rock riffs and future-shock keyboard hooks. His sumptuous debut, *For You*, blends opulent disco-era arrangements with the raw lyrics and the wildly distinctive style that would quickly define him. While it’s not as expansive or experimental as the albums that followed, *For You* remains a luscious collection of offbeat electro-funk (“Soft and Wet”) and steamy slow jams (“Baby”).

On his debut album, For You, Prince shows exceptional skill for arranging and performing mainstream urban R&B and funk, but his songwriting remains conventional.

The Purple One’s discography rarely dipped below sublime sex-funk. We rank all 37 LPs from his polymathic 80s masterwork Sign O’ The Times to 2003’s saxophone-heavy N.E.W.S.