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Post by ck100 on Jun 26, 2024 4:26:14 GMT
Any fans of this album? The album from Prince that took his career to a whole higher level thanks to songs like "Let's Go Crazy", "When Doves Cry", "Purple Rain", "I Would Die 4 U", "Take Me with U" and "Darling Nikki". The album got heavy play on radio and MTV during its time. ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Princepurplerain.jpg)
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Jul 2, 2024 19:20:38 GMT
LOVE this album! I think I might have seen the movie back in the day. Back when the Memorial Cup tournament was played, they would play the goal celebration song of the team who scored a goal. The Moose Jaw Warriors - their goal song was "Let's Go Crazy". However, upon hearing it, it was a little bit different than I remember. So, I Shazamed it, and it was listed as "Special Dance Mix". I downloaded it. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) FINALLY....Shazam came thru for me! ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Joker's Wilde
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Post by staggerstag on Jul 4, 2024 22:11:05 GMT
I think it's just a touch awkward as a collection, good songs individually, with three or four standalone belters. I think Let's Go Crazy was his poppiest tune at that point of his career and sounds like a more radio-friendly cousin to Jack U Off from the Controversy album a few years prior. It's a superb opener. Take Me With U I like most for the co-lead vocals by Apollonia which shows her abilities better than stuff like Sex Shooter, and the strings are enjoyable. A belter. The Beautiful Ones is for me the second belter with its soaring vocals the like of which were previously heard on Do Me Baby, Something In The Water Does Not Compute, Free and International Lover. I like Computer Blue with its switch halfway through from a guitar-heavy rocker to a pointedly mellower instrumental. Yes, it's the third belter. Darling Nikki is the song, I believe, which started the Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics stickers on products in the '80s. What was her name who took exception to this song - someone Gore? I'm not in awe of this track. Tipper Gore, that's her, the advocate for social issues, who overheard her young daughter listening to the track. I like that When Doves Cry has no traditional bass, it gives it a particularly crisp sound, and the vocal melody is pretty unchanged throughout verses and choruses. Kiss, on the Parade album a couple of years later, also had hardly any bass except on the 12" single version. Away from Purple Rain a moment, I like that Prince, or rather his associate David Z, utilized a couple of seconds of Peggy Lee for Kiss, unmistakably heard below in the first sung lines. I Would Die 4 U sounds like simplicity itself, if you're Prince. Or maybe it was a complex composition that just sounds simple. It's a belter. I think Baby I'm A Star is obviously for the benefit of the motion picture and as an album track doesn't get me going. The extended live performances of this number are very enjoyable. The final song on the album is that which, in a previous life, scared off Stevie Nicks. A country offering to her from Prince which allegedly so overwhelmed her that she refused it. I'm not sure I believe this story but Nicks herself has said it. All she had to do was write the lyrics for the 10 minute instrumental track which eventually found its way here as Purple Rain. It's a belter, yes. I like that he followed Purple Rain (with which he was still touring) with Around The World In A Day. No publicity, no singles off it for a month after release and no printed name on the cover (on my copy a transparent peel-away sticker you could hardly make out if you weren't looking for it) It went double platinum. I thought it was great. But lots of people asked for refunds. ![](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/nlwAAOSw4wVeWxrh/s-l1600.jpg)
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Post by needysboy on Jul 5, 2024 22:33:34 GMT
I believe Tipper Gore was really shocked by the Dead Kennedys. I think Frankenchrist set her off. The poster of artwork by H. R. Giger got them in legal trouble. The Warning sticker did no good as a defense.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 5, 2024 23:52:37 GMT
Not me.
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Post by staggerstag on Jul 6, 2024 14:29:52 GMT
I believe Tipper Gore was really shocked by the Dead Kennedys. I think Frankenchrist set her off. The poster of artwork by H. R. Giger got them in legal trouble. The Warning sticker did no good as a defense. I think Alternative Tentacles nearly went bust because of that. I loved the DKs especially their Plastic Surgery Disasters album and In God We Trust Inc EP. Jello Biafra admirably batted down Gore on the Oprah Show around that time. I think Darling Nikki was one of a few numbers that got on their nerves and I think the first record cover to be vandalized with the sticker was by some rap outfit.
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