― ffirehorse (firehorse), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
When is the Little One releasing his 12"'s ?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Prince's quest to create an oasis of freedom and peace (Paisley Park) in the mixed-up muddled-up world (title track).
2. His glorification of the beautiful loser, the nerd, the freak, ("Paisley Park" the song, "Condition of the Heart" which is so overheated that you KNOW it's him talking), the black kids who listen to Joni Mitchell and Love.
3. His having to deal with the insanity he's created through fame, through arrogance, through beginning to piss off the music business that has finally embraced him ("Pop Life")
4. His walking away from the sex-crazed persona that America embraced, his trying to understand his religious underpinnings instead of just being flippant about it like before ("Temptation")
5. His backing away from his earlier Reagan-is-great stylings ("America").
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"Paisley Park" - I like the calliope. Sounds too much like "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Penny Lane." He did this strawberry-lemonade and tangerine trees shit better on the next album's "Christopher Tracy's Parade" and "Life Can Be So Nice."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Not that it's not a (really) good album.
Also, I don't think "America" is a turn away from "Reagan-is-great."
These lyrics, for instance:
Communism is just a wordBut if the government turn overIt'll be the only word that's heard
That's basically "Keep Ronnie, he's better than those Russkies."
― ffirehorse (firehorse), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
all of which is true, and none of which has anything to do with whether the album is any good or not
"Paisley Park" is a future-funk song and has nothing to do with drugged-out Brit-hippie music-hall wank
like FUCK it doesn't
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
fuck you! I had mad skillz!
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
The idea of "Take Me With U" as the theme song for "Sophie's Choice" is making me really nauseous
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
All the people that diss it but shot all the people that like it the most off-the-money
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Q. How are the Beatles like Jesus?A. They're just all right, to me.
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
MC: so is what you're saying that your not caring that much for the Beatles = that song doesn't ape them in any way? because that's an awful lot what it looks like
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Last time I played the album I loved all of it, although "Temptation" sure does sound goofy.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Again, I was responding to Alfred Soto talking about the Beatles.
And, again, I was only making a little joke that occured to me. ("Little" = "Microscopic") I have never heard Lennon/McCartney much in Prince's psychedelia, more like Love and Sly and Beach Boys. But hey I could be wrong, what the fuck.
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
and Stormy OTM about Sheila E and that's not just a reacharound
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
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yeah it's a mess, totally thrown off, bits of it careless, not as masterful as Parade, we know we know
you are no fun at all matos. you sound like someone complaining about bad head.
― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I understand nowlove is more important than sexI have to go now
I don't know when I'll return
goodbye
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Monday, 2 July 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Prince's worst 80s record?
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
way better than Lovesexy imo. i might prefer it to Parade too but i know that's a minority opinion.
― abandon al ships (some dude), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
temptation is pretty embarrassing
― buh, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, "Paisley Park" and "Raspberry Beret" are fantastic songs because they sound like something The Beatles might have done in 1967.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
I just heard "Pop Life" somewhere the other week, it made me happy like it usually does. I think most of the detractory commentary above is fair, but for somebody's decade low-point to include "Pop Life," "Raspberry Beret," "Tamborine" and "Condition of the Heart" says more about the decade he had than the actual merits of the album. Even the title track is pretty cool.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
'raspberry beret' makes my shortlist of the best pop records of all time, easy.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
"Temptation" is amazing, imo, always gives me chills
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'm hard-pressed to think of any song called 'temptation' that isn't awesome!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
I've voiced the identical sentiment about songs w/tambourines in the title!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Redirecting from this current sidebar: 'The Top' by the Cure: Classic or Dud?
imago— Definitely check out the b-sides from this album: 'She's Always In My Hair' (which is an absolutely classic song, full stop), 'Girl', and 'Hello.' There's also the twenty minute (no, really) version of 'America.'
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
Oh cool!
Yeah this was awesome. Didn't even falter in Side B, although I'm not sure the opener isn't my favourite track
― imago, Saturday, 19 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link