― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 3 March 2005 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 March 2005 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Hell, the same guy, a fucking Four Twaet fan, looked at me the same way when I played him glitchy melodic elctronica records.
― BARMS, Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
very underappreciated and awesome album. "Pop Life", the title track, "raspberry beret", man fuck people who don't enjoy this...with scissors and mayonaise
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I like a lot of this album actually. And the tracks I don't like are the gospel influenced somewhat repetitive ballads that also exist in the rest of his catalogue (for instance, the title track is the only thing I don't like much on "Purple Rain")
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
This was, if I recall, one of the first threads to which I contributed.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
(for instance, the title track is the only thing I don't like much on "Purple Rain")
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― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry for the triple post, something's up with my internets....
Your ire.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
"Pop Life"
When asked, I'll probably tell you this is my favorite Prince song 7 out of 10 times.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought it was intentional
xp
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, it did kind of inspire that level of "wtf"ness in me.
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever track 3 is called is also a favorite...
Geir doesn't like blues-based music, film at 11, posts very much in character, etc., etc.
Meanwhile, "Let's Go Crazy," with the exception of the pre-chorus, consists entirely of a I-IV chord change. Whereas "Purple Rain" is incredibly harmonically complex.
But it sounds like gospel.
But it's not that Geir doesn't like "black people" music.
But a song that's just I-IV, over and over, is better than the complexity of "Purple Rain." Also, too.
― a mix of music (Lionel Ritchie) and kicks (my tongue) (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Because this album is beloved by a coterie and I love Prince, I give it a chance every few months -- it's still mostly a dud.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, "Paisley Park" and "Raspberry Beret" are fantastic songs because they sound like something The Beatles might have done in 1967.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
And, no, "Purple Rain" is not complex. It has four chords. And that's it. And they are being repeated as an ostinato all the time with no build, not climax (other than some annoyingly improvised screaming, that is, but the climax shouldn't be in the performance, it should be in the melody).
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Propably still in my Top 5 but it could do with a good remastering/ fix up. If only to correct that pain in the arse lag between the left and right channels on Pop Life when you listen on headphones. I love it mind, full of brilliant tricks that you forget about like that stop-start-stop-start intro to America. Condition Of The Heart contains my favourite Prince lyric moment ever when the girl leaves him for 'a REAL prince.. from Arabia'. Anyone who doesn't get the warmth and the humour of the man after listening to this album is *nuts*.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Plenty of his albums before and since exude his warmth and humor.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I should have said upthread: maybe I'm tainted because I heard Parade first. ATWIAD, by contrast, was one of the LAST Prince albums I bought (2001? 2002?). I've written thousands of words in my rockcrit career defending unloved mutts, especially those released in the eighties, but this one, unfortunately, still sounds half-assed and nattering.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
This is my favorite Prince album.
― sharkless dick stick (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Parade is ironically the one I never liked much...although there are some amazing songs on it.
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
really the only Prince album I've ever heard that I went "uh, why?" was the one a few years ago with the song "Guitar" on it....
― ý never promýsed you a Weingarten (San Te), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I hear the title track and "Paisley Park" and think, well, okay, sitars and finger cymbals and Magical Mystery Tour -- so what?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The A side of this album is brilliant: the first tune is nice intro showcasing how he's changed his game, "Paisley Park" is one his most hearbreakingly beautiful pop songs, the ballad is good in the sort of pathetic-yet-credible way Prince can write ballad, "Raspberry Berret" is plenty fun, and "Tambourine" is a nice little funk workout. But the B side is kinda bad: "America" is musically nice but has dodgy lyrics, "Pop Life" isn't as great a pop song as the ones on side A, and the last two songs are just half-assed, formless attempts to make something "psychedelic". Prince should've just made the 20 minute version of "America" as the entire B side. Or at least replace the last two songs with "Girl" and "She's Always in My Hair". They're not the most perfect Prince songs, but they're certainly better than what's on the album.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah: "Girl," "Hello," "She's Always in My Hair" pwn most of the album tracks.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Basically absolutely LOVE "Raspberry Beret" and "Paisley Park". Also quite fond of the title track and "Pop Life". Not quite as keen on the rest.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly i only came around to "parade" as an album this year (before i would always listen to kiss, mountains, and maybe another lover and that's it).
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the title track is the only thing I don't like much on "Purple Rain"
O_O
Anyway, great album. I never latched onto Parade as strongly as this one, myself.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:36 (thirteen 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