Followup Albums to Grammys 1985

Man, tracklist of "Private Dancer" is as nuts as "She's So Unusual."

so obv "around the world in a day"

If we're talking about what is almost implicit - biggest drop in quality after a culture-conquering 1985 Grammy nod record - then perhaps that underscores why the Prince is such a disappointment. I mean, I'm not sure what could have followed "Purple Rain," but this is the only record of the above bunch that willfully, erratically flouts expectations.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, February 24, 2012 11:32 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i kinda feel like EVERY prince record, at least when he mattered, is erratic and flouts expectations, even the good ones. when i finally heard Around The World after seeing it kicked around for years i was like damn, this may not be top tier but it's totally of a piece with his output of that era.

If you can access this link, Billboard ran a front page story a week after ATWIAD's release about the frustration from programmers who didn't get a single and record store owners who weren't selling as many copies because Prince refused to release a single.

He relented the following week, hence "Raspberry Beret."

in the Twin Cities they just played the song "Paisley Park" on repeat until "Raspberry Beret" came out

it's so surreal to think about a major artist dropping an album without an advance single, which i guess was a little more common back then, living in the era of yearlong singles campaigns before the release date

Oh hai, remember me? I'm The King of Limbs.

i mean like an artist whose singles people actually care about and play on the radio

Just realized now this is for albums, not songs--my post way above referred only to songs.

Was "Raspberry Beret" a video before it was a single?

xps dance around it all you want, but Radiohead is still a major artist despite having no radio presence. I think something like that happens about as often now as it did in the 80s (which is, to say, rarely).

i know it's always been somewhat rare. i just mean that pre-SoundScan first week sales weren't everything so not having a blitz of advance singles wasn't necessarily a Radiohead-style act of defiance. even something as deliberately engineered to be a blockbuster as Born In The U.S.A. just had its first single released exactly a month before the album.

05. James Brown - “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” 517 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdyf8SuoGI0

was this the first time the word "sex" was used in a hit song title?

man if this single had appeared on Dancing on the Ceiling...

haha oops

Cyndi would have fun with that track

not to mention Tina.

I don't hear songs like "Rosalita" and "Hungry Heart" as being beige. They're kind of shiny.

We would not have "Tambourine" had it not been for “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine”

Around The World in a Day by a wide margin

I don't know anyone born in California who gives a shit about Bruce.

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poor Lionel