Acclaimed Music is a site that takes basically every year end list/ranking and every decade list/ranking and all the critics poll and all the 500 best songs ever! and such and compiles it into a consensus ranking. It's not perfect but it is a way of gauging criticial consensus.
Lenny Kravitz All Time Album Ranks
- Let Love Rule #1674 (#30 album of 1989)
- Mama Said #2085 (#34 album of 1991)
Prince All Time Album Ranks
- Sign O' the Times #30 (#1 album of 1987)
- Purple Rain #47 (#1 album of 1984)
- 1999 #207 (#3 album of 1982)
- Dirty Mind #419 (#6 album of 1980)
- Parade #661 (#10 album of 1986)
- Around The World in A Day #1439 (#20 album of 1985)
- Lovesexy #2492 (#48 album of 1988)
- O(+> #2656 (#47 album of 1992)
I'm guessing the staunchly pro-Prince folks were in high school/college in the late 80s/early 90s? Maybe Lenny Kravitz at his very best is comparable to Diamonds and Pearls era Prince in that specific early 90s era (even then give me Prince all day long) but saying the two are anyway close is IMO ridiculous. Prince has released some of the greatest songs albums of all time. Lenny Kravitz has released 35 different takes on "Are You Gonna Go My Way" and "It Ain't Over Til It's Over".
Here's where their songs fall by that Metric
All Time Rank - Artist - Song Title
- 31 - Prince - When Doves Cry
- 168 - Prince - Purple Rain
- 175 - Prince - Kiss
- 179 - Prince - Little Red Corvette
- 199 - Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
- 396 - Prince - 1999
- 1259 - Prince - Raspberry Beret
- 1380 - Prince - Let's Go Crazy
- 1404 - Prince - When You Were Mine
- 1508 - Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend
- 1879 - Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
- 2026 - Prince - Controversy
- 2136 - Prince - I Would Die 4 U
- 2242 - Prince - Alphabet St.
- 2271 - Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
- 3048 - Prince - I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
- 3152 - Prince - Pop Life
- 3179 - Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over Til It's Over
- 3446 - Prince - Erotic City
- 3486 - Prince - Sexy M.F.
- 3499 - Prince - Cream
- 3758 - Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
- 4104 - Prince - Gett Off
- 4598 - Prince - U Got the Look
- 5196 - Lenny Kravitz - Always on the Run
- 5564 - Prince - Diamonds and Pearls
- 5608 - Prince - Dirty Mind
- 6282 - Prince - Batdance
- 6466 - Prince - Darling Nikki
- 6510 - Prince - Adore
- 7109 - Prince - 7
- 7134 - Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
- 7502 - Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April
- 7555 - Prince - Mountains
- 7598 - Prince - Girls & Boys
- 7629 - Prince - Black Sweat
- 8305 - Prince - The Beautiful Ones
- 8691 - Prince - Paisley Park
- 8925 - Prince - Joy in Repetition
- 9937 - Prince - Housequake