In honor of the music that formed the sonic core of the famed "Minneapolis sound," here are our picks for the 25 best Prince songs ever ... too hot for radio (well, Top 40 radio anyway).

Along with his band, the Revolution, Prince was a multi-talented, genre-bending music master and ... it's no wonder this song was his first to crack the top 10 of the Hot 100 chart.

The song that inspired Tipper Gore to launch the Parents Music Resource Center ... each competing for attention with Prince singing at the very top of his range. 25. “Sign O’ The Times ...

From "Purple Rain" and "1999" to "Kiss," "When Doves Cry," "Raspberry Beret" and "Little Red Corvette," here's the best Prince songs of all time. News Today's news US Politics World Tech Audio ...

Grieving fans are buying up Prince's catalog. In the four days after the music icon was found dead ... stay up at the top for a very long time." The jump is akin to that of Michael Jackson ...

Prince Rogers Nelson was born June ... the most influential recording artists in popular music. Scroll through our gallery of his 20 best songs above. Born and raised in Minneapolis, the artist ...

Hard as it may be to imagine, at the dawn of the ‘90s, Prince was ... The songs are stylistically diverse and offer an expanded view of what this band and this musician were capable of.