C/D: Prince's "Around the World in a Day"

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though I think in the long run we're all basically in agreement, you're just being a hardass

this album came out nine months after Rain, it was like an extra, it happened so fast it didn't even feel like a followup, just a promise that he wasn't going to let the fame get to him. and the fact that it was so tossed off, personal and fans-only was a straight up relief. judging it so harshly seems like a real ROCK CRITIC thing to do, when I know you're a total hardcore fan

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

yep, you nailed me there (cough) (xpost)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

parade is awful. im sayin it. ATWIAD is very inconsistent, but has some pretty great shit on it. raspberry beret, pop life, paisley park, tambourine, the ladder, condition of the heart, title track - all really great. parade is thin, flat, and the melodies are boring. nowhere near the sonic or melodic quality of SOTT, or the earlier stuff. i mean, ok. "kiss" is a good song. but i could never get into any other songs on that whole album. so ill take half-baked over a-bad-recipe-cooked-twice.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

wait a second, I'm not supposed to be judgmental about musicians I like? sorry, not swallowing that one at all.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

you are no fun at all matos. you sound like someone complaining about bad head.
.....

though I think in the long run we're all basically in agreement, you're just being a hardass

Heavens, Milton! You know A LOT more about Matos than me, I guess. ;-)

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry, not swallowing that one at all.

-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...), March 1st, 2005.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll second that - Parade has its moments (Mountain, Kiss, Christopher Tracy's Parade) but it seems kinda limpid to me. I've never really been grabbed by it. ATWIAD, on the other hand, always keeps my interest, even when its being completely fucking ridiculous.

(no one likes my Beach Boys analogy = U ALL R GAY! *choke* sob)

x-post

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

parade is awful.

PUT THE CRACK-PIPE DOWN

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

oh ill put it down all right. put it down FOREVER.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Stop acting like a hard luscious ass, Dan. It's someone just gave you a horrible nibbly blow job..

*ahem*

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Boy, did I start a shitstorm! I'm pretty much with Matos on this one (which was I asked him to rally to my defense last night).

Just for that, Matos, I'm going to not only buy, but READ your book.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

yay! someone has to etc. (I kid)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm sorry.
I'll be good.
This time I promise,
Love is more important than sex.
Now I understand.
I have 2 go now.
I don't know when I'll return.
Good-bye

I wish Ludacris or somebody would end an album like this (though Eminem has a similar meta-hell capper to HIS Around The World In A Day

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

doesn't The Love Below count?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

tried to find & post a copy of the shower poster from controversy, just to gay up the thread a little more, then my head cleared

this thread's high school all over again but friendly

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

someone's got that poster taped in the window of their front outside at 24th and Mission. always makes me smile on my way home.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

haha I gave that poster to a cousin of mine for her birthday when we were kids. she had it up in her room forever.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

"front" = front door oops

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

doesn't The Love Below count?

sorta (and part of the reason I love it is its like sloppy Prince demos) but Andre's just dryly telling his tale at the end, not imagining divine retribution for his sins (in fact, God grants him another shot at a girl with a nice butt earlier on the album). 50 Cent shrieking "OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE!!! *satan laughing*" at the end of an album would be more in sync.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

My upcoming Stylus article will use the dialogue from this song as the purest example of what Rockism is, so dibs on it you biting bastards

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Prince doesn't believe in God: he believes in Linn drums.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

word, we might have avoided The 808 Children

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Prince's last album: "Musicology"
Prince's next album: "Rockism"

A natural progression.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard his next album was gonna be for Blue Note! (which I'm sort of intrigued as hell by, actually)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

(and yes, I have heard--and dislike--The Rainbow Children, so maybe my faith is misplaced here, if indeed it's faith and not plain curiosity)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, I bet whatever Prince does next its gonna be a pretty strange left-turn (hopefully away from the bad smooth jazz crap on Rainbow Children and, especially, N.E.W.S.)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

brought both Around and Parade to work today... listening to Parade I realize that part of the reason this album's never left that huge an impression on me is that so many of the songs are so goddamned short! that and some of the jazzy orchestrations make things bleed together to my ears, everything up to Girls & Boys may as well be one song... also I have a hard time disassociating some of this from the truly crap movie, which my wife has made me watch numerous times...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

"Under the Cherry Moon" is way cooler than "Purple Rain." Maybe if Kristin Scott Thomas starred in the latter and made it with Morris Day I'd enjoy it more.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Wonder U" is just awesome in its microcity, as is "Life Would Be So Nice"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

100% agreement with Dan - + any mixtape/soundtrack about/to me being love would have to include "Life Can be So Nice"

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Can/Would = Tomayto/Tomahto (or perhaps I'm just going senile)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgive anybody who love "I Wonder U" - how about we ignore Prince, and comprimise on "Life Could Be So Nice"

Thomayto

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 3 March 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Or "New Position" - best use of steel drum in rock history.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Songs I kept from Parade (I only keep 20 albums from any year and it didn't make the cut): "New Position," "Girls & Boys," "Life Can Be So Nice," "Kiss," "Sometimes It Snows In April"

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link

It's all just interesting evolution between the classics Purple Rain and SOTT for me - sorry so predictable

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Cut and pasted from an email I sent last week to a friend explaining why Prince rules:

Purple Rain - I'm a star, let's drink, fuck, and party like it's 1999. Then the beautiful one Nikki broke his heart and he only wants to see her dancing in the purple rain.

Around The World in a Day - Crushed, he retreats into his room with his Crayola 64 and Beatles albums. Draws lots of paisley parks and raspberry berets.

Parade - Shows said drawings of parks and berets to friends. They like! He starts to come out of his shell.

SOTT - Doesn't like what he reads in the paper about some new disease. Hits on waitresses in his favorite coffee shop, one of whom he'd love to date even though he can never take the place of her man. Rediscovers how much he loves Jesus. Not that it matters.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

oh I'd say his preoccupation with divine judgement matters a hell of a lot. it's the reason he didn't put out The Black Album and why he only does the clean songs and told me I needed to "open a bible and let it guide you to the purple rain" last year.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm glad he hasn't gone totally early-80s Dylan on us though: he implied horny fans should fuck his band instead.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

At least he's a God-fearing imp with reprobate instincts that manifest themselves on occasion (marrying a bellydancer).

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Anthony, how does the Bible help with Prince jerking off on your head anyway?

― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Does he appear with the first rustling of a page? That tentative slender fingering of an inky leaf? The initial leathery sensation of your fingers running down the spine and gripping the back firmly?

― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Bellydancers are such whores eh Alf

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, she worked it hard for the money.

― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Anthony, how does the Bible help with Prince jerking off on your head anyway?

hey, I didn't say it! He just told an arena full of central pennsylvanians that!

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Get one religious right.

― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

BARMS are you being an asshole, and why?

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Sourpuss, are you living up to your name in a mondo overtime way and if so, why?

― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

My answer to your question: no. I'm just curious about you, are you really accusing A.Miccio of being a member of the "religious right" based on what he said above, or are you joking around, or what?

By the way I like your choices on the calendar thread, we're locked in a duet over there.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm joking - there's no basis in Anthony's statement to accuse him of it in the first place. I'm just amused by the idea of such an incident, especially the repeated references I saw on old Prince message boards about what Purple Rain actually is. Maybe next time, I'll type "moral outrage". My humour is actually worse than normal because I'm working this week, I reckon.

Better get back to the calendar thread. I think I'll have to go find some of your choices, since I'm very much new to them.

― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

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