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DISCID=680a4809
DTITLE=Prince and The Revolution / Purple Rain
DYEAR=1984
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=Let's Go Crazy
TTITLE1=Take Me With U
TTITLE2=The Beautiful Ones
TTITLE3=Computer Blue
TTITLE4=Darling Nikki
TTITLE5=When Doves Cry
TTITLE6=I Would Die 4 U
TTITLE7=Baby I'm A Star
TTITLE8=Purple Rain
EXTD=Music from the Motion Picture "Purple Rain" (West German ''Target'' Pressing)\nPrince and The Revolution\n\nOriginally Released August 6, 1984\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Prince designed Purple Rain as the project that would make him a superstar, and, sur
EXTD=prisingly, that is exactly what happened. Simultaneously more focused and ambitious than any of his previous records, Purple Rain finds Prince consolidating his funk and R&B roots while moving boldly into pop, rock, and heavy metal with nine superbl
EXTD=y crafted songs. Even its best-known songs don't tread conventional territory: the bass-less "When Doves Cry" is an eerie, spare neo-psychedelic masterpiece; "Let's Go Crazy" is a furious blend of metallic guitars, Stonesy riffs, and a hard funk bac
EXTD=kbeat; the anthemic title track is a majestic ballad filled with brilliant guitar flourishes. Although Prince's songwriting is at a peak, the presence of the Revolution pulls the music into sharper focus, giving it a tougher, more aggressive edge. A
EXTD=nd, with the guidance of Wendy and Lisa, Prince pushed heavily into psychedelia, adding swirling strings to the dreamy "Take Me With U" and the hard rock of "Baby I'm a Star." Even with all of his new, but uncompromising, forays into pop, Prince has
EXTD=n't abandoned funk, and the robotic jam of "Computer Blue" and the menacing grind of "Darling Nikki" are among his finest songs. Taken together, all of the stylistic experiments add up to a stunning statement of purpose that remains one of the most 
EXTD=exciting rock & roll albums ever recorded.  -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com essential recording\nMaybe this music by Prince & the Revolution will never quite sound as, well, revolutionary as it did in 1984 (and nothing else has ever sounded
EXTD= like the extraordinary cooing and fluttering of "When Doves Cry"), but it's a pop landmark in Prince's Artist-ic career. The hit movie was really just a big-screen showcase for Prince to perform these songs (some of them in tear-the-roof-off "live"
EXTD= versions set in a Minneapolis club). I don't know why that warped sermonette introduces "Let's Go Crazy" (one thing you've got to love about Prince: he's always been weird), but somehow I'm glad it's there. Other highlights include the sexual scorc
EXTD=her "Darling Nikki" (with its crazy backwards coda) and that anthemic title tune. Don't you miss Wendy and Lisa, too? --Jim Emerson \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe very best Prince album, September 12, 2006\nReviewer: C. Tolley "Chris Tolley" (h
EXTD=ampton, tn United States)\n\nThere is no understating how huge this album was in 1984. All the various styles and influences of Prince's career intersected in this one album. From beginning to end, this stands as Prince's most unified, cohesive, acc
EXTD=essible work. Many Prince classics are here, from "Let's Go Crazy", the ultimate party track, to "When Doves Cry", possibly the most perfect song Prince ever did, to the title track. The other songs on the disc are not merely filler, either. "I Woul
EXTD=d Die For U" was a hit song in its own right, and "Darling Nikki" is perhaps the most notoriously famous song on the whole album. Yes, "Darling Nikki" was the reason Tipper Gore got so hot and heavy into album ratings for children. Actually, it's no
EXTD=t as erotic as most of Prince's earlier work, it's just Mrs. Gore never noticed until this. Anyway, this album equaled the record for most consecutive weeks at #1 on the album chart, and had two #1 songs and a couple more hit top ten. Of course, Pri
EXTD=nce has never equaled the impact or achievement he got with this album, and really there's no way he could. With the #1 soundtrack, movie, and single all at the same time, Prince was everywhere in 1984. While the album doesn't seem so ahead-of-its-t
EXTD=ime anymore, hardly a surprise 20 years later, the music is still incredible. I consider this Prince's finest work, and so very worth being in anyone's music collection.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nNo praise is undue., February 7, 2006\nReviewe
EXTD=r: Lucas W. Reynolds "doctor_mindbender" (VA USA)\n\nPrince is an artist who polarizes most music fans. To some, he is an unparalleled genius and even his apparent mis-steps are merely "beyond our scope" to understand. Others are confused by his sex
EXTD=uality, vulgarity or general behavior and find it more convenient to dismiss him as a overhyped wierdo. I tend to think of him as a genius who sometimes makes bad music (and I don't toss around the g-word lightly), but it doesn't really matter. Rega
EXTD=rdless of what you think of Prince personally, I can't imagine that anyone wouldn't recognize the monumental talent required to write and perform the songs on Purple Rain. \n\nBarely a minute into "Let's Go Crazy", the tone is set. This is Rock. Thi
EXTD=s is Funk. This is Pop. This is something else entirely. This is music with the cockiness and strut of an artist who is in full command of his considerable skills and knows it. What follows is a journey that is more vibrant and dramatic than the mov
EXTD=ie that bears the same name. Prince is demonstrating that he is beholden to no convention, but doesn't throw that fact in our faces. When he makes a decision on this album, there is no ulterior motive to show off or be controversial. His only purpos
EXTD=e is to advance the "musical narrative". The level with which he succeeds can only be matched, not surpassed. \n\nMany people will point to Sign of the Times or 1999 as Prince's best effort, but neither of these albums boast a collection of songs th
EXTD=at cling together so organically, or pulse with so much energy. This is a soundtrack that renders the movie unnecessary. Each new song unfolds like a fresh scene or chapter, evolving out of the previous music. Check out the transitions between "The 
EXTD=Beautiful Ones" and "Computer Blue" and "Darling Nikki", or the melding of "I Would Die 4 U" and "Baby I'm a Star". Whether its the squeal of the purple one's gutiar or his voice, the conviction is clear. He has committed fully to his work, and so w
EXTD=ill you. \n\nPurple Rain is the rare album that is perfect to throw on at party, but also holds up through a pair of headphones with all of your focus on every note. One of the top ten albums of all time.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\n"The Revolu
EXTD=tion" will not be televised........., April 29, 2004\nReviewer: hiphopforlife (Dunnellon, FL)\nPrine is having a great 2004; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, he has a new album coming out called "Musicology"(go check it out) and his 198
EXTD=4 masterpiece "Purple Rain" is being re-mastered. Speaking of that.....\nWhile it serves as the soundtrack of one of the WORST movies of all time, it's influence on modern popular music cannot be denied. This album has been influenced people like Th
EXTD=e Neptunes(and their side project N.E.R.D), D'Angelo, Musiq, Bilal, Beyonce, Pink and TLC just to name a few. The music is so inventive, yet would not sound as good without his long time backing band, comprised of Wendy and Lisa, Dez, Fink and Bobby
EXTD= Z. This album rocks, and I don't mean it in the metaphorical sense; this album truly ROCKS! With its Hendrix-like guitar solos is "Let's Go Crazy', and "When Doves Cry" (which is played without a bassline; UNSPEAKABLE for a black artist!) will apea
EXTD=se any rock fan. This album is also revolutionary in another way; "Darling Nikki"(which the Foo Fighters did a wonderful cover of recently), got Tipper Gore in a tizzy, which would eventually lead to all record companies requiring warning labels for
EXTD= explicit content. The title track ballad is one of the best title tracks in music history; it's closes the album in resounding fashion. This album would make His Royal Badness into a mega-star, rivaling only Michael Jackson and Madonna is popularit
EXTD=y. While he would hit his true accomplishment with "Sign O' The Times", this worthy of anybody's music collection.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nI'VE GOT A SECRET!, July 31, 2000\nReviewer: Matt Cox (St Helena, SC USA)\nThe weird backwards-soundi
EXTD=ng ending to "Darling Nikki" with the rain and chanting vocals is actually another "song"!\nIf you play this part backwards (which I did back in the 80's on my dad's turntable - remember those?), it says:\n\n"Hello. How are you? I'm fine, fine, 'cuz
EXTD= I know that the Lord is coming soon. Coming again soon."\n\nThese words are sung to a very strange tune in an erie, almost unsettling harmony of voices. Haunting and unforgettable!\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nContributing artists: Apollonia \nProducer:
EXTD= Prince & The Revolution \n\nAlbum Notes\nPrince & The Revolution: Prince (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Wendy Melvoin (vocals, guitar); Lisa Coleman, Matt "Dr." Fink (vocals, keyboards); Brown Mark (vocals, bass); Bobby Z (percussion).\n\nAdditional 
EXTD=personnel: Apollonia (vocals); Novi Novog (violin, viola); David Coleman, Suzie Katayama (cello).\n\nEngineers include: Susan Rogers, Peggy Mac, David Riukin.\n\nA soundtrack to a movie so appalling that it is infinitely wiser to let the record stan
EXTD=d on its own merits. While Prince cavorted in purple kitchen foil and rode his Harley in high heels, the real star of the film, the music, was doing all the talking. A knit of funk and rock, a heavily stylized Hendrix guitar lick here and there, and
EXTD= a wilfully danceable backbeat all made for a huge commercial smash, and the first real international introduction for many people to a star-in-waiting. 'Darling Nikki' accidentally set the PMRC ball rolling, but the heady lilt of the title track an
EXTD=d the crushing 'When Doves Cry' can pardon him that.\n\nIndustry Reviews\nRanked #2 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties survey.\nRolling Stone (11/01/1989)\n\nIncluded in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century\nVibe (12/01/19
EXTD=99)\n\nRanked #9 in EW's 100 Best Movie Soundtracks - ...A genre-bending smorgasbord...a monument to mad ambition...\nEntertainment Weekly (10/12/2001)\n\nRanked #15 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1984\nCMJ (01/05/2004)\n\nRanked #72 in Rolli
EXTD=ng Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...[The album] showcases Prince's abilities as a guitarist...\nRolling Stone (12/11/2003)\n\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nThe spirit of Jimi Hendrix must surely smile down on Prince Rogers Nelson. Like Hendrix
EXTD=, Prince seems to have tapped into some extraterrestrial musical dimension where black and white styles are merely different aspects of the same funky thing. Prince's rock & roll is as authentic and compelling as his soul and his extremism is endear
EXTD=ing in a era of play-it-safe record production and formulaic hit mongering. "Purple Rain" may not yield another smash like last year's "Little Red Corvette," but it's so loaded with life and invention and pure rock & roll thunder that such commercia
EXTD=l considerations become moot. When Prince sings "Baby I'm a Star," it's a simple statement of fact.\n\nthe Hendrix connection is made overt here with the screaming guitar coda that ends "Let's Go Crazy," with the manic burst that opens "When Doves C
EXTD=ry" and in the title song, a space ballad that recalls "Angel" with its soaring guitar leads and a very Hendrixian lyrical tinge ("It's time we all reach out for something new - that means you, too"). There are also constant reminders of Sly Stone i
EXTD=n the ferocious bass lines and the hot, dance-conscious mix. But like Jimi and Sly, Prince writes his own rules. Some of his effects are singularly striking - note that eerie, atonal synthesizer touches that creep in at the end of "The Beautiful One
EXTD=s" and the otherworldly backward-vocal montage in the frankly salacious "Darling Nikki" - and his vocals continue to be among the most adventurous and accomplished on the current scene. Prince also does wonderful things with string-section sounds, a
EXTD=nd his band - if it's not actually him playing all the parts - burns throughout.\n\n\nAnyone partial to great creators should own this record. Like Jimi and Sly, Prince is an original; but apart from that, he's like no one else. (RS 426/427 - Apr 13
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