Tag: Prince
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Play that funky music, white boys
The Best of Rare Earth 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection Rare Earth 2001 [Editor’s note: Last week I took on Prince’s Parade. Next up is Sign ‘o’ the Times, which requires more thought. Also, the World Series is about to start. While I’m doing all this extra thinking about…
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Women not girls rule my world
Parade Prince & The Revolution 1986 If I were a sensible person, I would’ve listened to Prince’s complete works first, identified continuing themes, drawn some tentative conclusions, and then, armed with this global perspective, returned to his debut and started the project. NFW. I didn’t do any thinking at all,…
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And if the elevator tries 2 bring u down, go crazy – punch a higher floor
Purple Rain Prince & The Revolution 1984 Purple Rain is the soundtrack to the movie of the same name. This soundtrack rocketed Prince to the level just below worldwide godhood – an orbit occupied at that time by only two North Americans, Michael Jackson and the ghost of Elvis. (Madonna…
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We are now making our final approach to satisfaction
1999 Prince 1982 Is there a better way to open a prom, a wedding, a bar mitzvah, an election, a Supreme Court hearing, the Ring cycle, or yet another Christmas production of the Messiah than with “1999”? You’re smiling just thinking about it, just like you do when you hear…
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Written with a pencil on the spot
When I was visiting my parents in July, I spent some hours tunneling through decades of debris in the old family mansion. My assistant was my 12-year-old nephew, Jared. We had hard hats, headlamps, rope, pickaxes, specimen bottles – everything you need when dealing with your parents’ lifetime store of…
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