10 Overrated Hard Rock Albums Of The '90s
8. Prince - The Black Album (1994)
The lore of the late, great Prince makes the film National Treasure look like a 2-piece jigsaw puzzle. The eccentric artist was famed for his stylistic decisions both in his music, and in his character, including renaming himself to an unpronounceable symbol, later regarded by fans as the "Love Symbol".
Released in the midst of Prince's "can't stop, won't stop" phase which saw him release 12 albums in the decade alone, 1994's 'The Black Album' was initially meant to be released in 1987 as a follow-up to his highly acclaimed album 'Sign o' the Times'.
However, following a bad trip with MDMA, Prince pulled the album days before release, an act he later attributed to a demon called "Spooky Electric" and brandished the album "evil". Don't do drugs kids.
7 years later, Prince (under the encouragement of A LOT of money) begrudgingly released the cursed follow-up to his 1987 classic and the results were.. fine. Just, fine.
As far as the evil goes, "Bob George" is an uncomfortable quasi-spoken word affair, "Dead On It" berates hip hop, and "When 2 R in Love" just describes sex which is pretty evil if you're not married.
But for such an "evil" album though, it hardly reads like Cannibal Corpse does it?