Well the Batman soundtrack has one very good song on it in Scandalous! but the rest of the album isn't very good.  His last very good album was Diamonds and Pearls anything released after that was as bad as the Badman album or worse.

I can't choose between the Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous trifecta. 

I thought his Emancipation album was pretty decent, the song "Mr. Happy" is one of my all time favorite songs by him. 

Prince was a better musician no doubt. He could also dance really well. I've appreciated him more since he died as well.

Mr. Goodnight is probably the filthiest song I've ever heard. Prince was a freak.

I like Rasberry Beret, Guitar, Get Off, Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy.

I don't think anyone is going to debate that MJ hired the best choreographers, dancers, and producers that money could buy.  So what, though?  There are some people who care about that and others who do not.  Personally, I go to concerts for the musicians, not to watch a dance troupe.  

The rest is just hyperbole.  Energy, spectacle, and awe?  Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Pink Floyd, The Who, Rage Against The Machine, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, and others have all brought those criteria in spades--and Prince himself is widely considered one of the best live acts of all time.  

This isnt a thread for people to vent about how much the dont respect Michael Jackson. I only brought him up because he is THE musician of the 80s, not because they are similar. Prince has a very large musical range, and frankly has more funk in his pinky than Michael had in his entire body. That being said, Michael is the greatest dancer pop music ever has or will see.

In my community, there was a bit of a war over who was better, Prince or Michael Jackson. Not even sure why that was a thing. The more mature people liked the artistry and the sexually of Prince while the younger crowd liked the spectacle and pageantry of MJ. I grew up loving Mike but when I was grown, I came to appreciate Prince.

The guy could play like a million instruments, was a hell of a writer (you'd be surprised who he's written hits for) and spawned a whole wave of fake Prince "sound a-likes" in the 80s who thought the whole appeal was dressing crazy, having long greasy Bret Hart hair, and talking about sex.

I like Michael Jackson more. Michael was my childhood. I still listen to his stuff almost daily. Prince is right up there with him. The man was godly and I wish I knew how good he was at an earlier stage of my life. Luckily, I appreciated him long before he died--especially in the 90s.

Unfortunately not many people saw him perform live since he didn't tour much and mostly played smaller venues.  Also as far as I know he never toured overseas.  MJ had three massive world tours and probably could have done a couple more if he really wanted to. 

Sorry. I meant to tell you but...hm...I had a thing...

MJ's levels of fame/infamy are very uncanny, I mean has anyone ever been more famous than him? I mean there are a few that probably came close, Madonna, Elvis, Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles perhaps? 

Um, it's not really fair to compare Prince to MJ of all people. Prince was super popular in the US in the 80s in his own right (partly with his band The Revolution and part solo). He wasn't the mega star that MJ was on an entertainment level but he wrote a ton of music not just for himself but for other artists as well.

Remember, MJ was already a huge child star in the 70s with his brothers in The Jackson 5, and when he went solo in the late 70s / early 80s he really blew up, so by the time Prince hit the scene in the early 80s MJ had already crossed over into the mainstream of pop culture and music.