Category: Ephemera, 1977-1978
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Down a Long Lonely Road
Were it not for the unusual delicacy of Prince’s singing voice, “Down a Long Lonely Road” would sound for all the world like some old Folkways recording of a Black church group.
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Just Another Sucker
Did Prince bring a dose of magic to “Just Another Sucker”–or did his own, much more lucrative take on the Minneapolis Sound owe an unpaid debt to Pepé Willie’s influence?
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Wouldn’t You Love to Love Me?
Prince seems to have discovered early on that he was better at writing about sex from a woman’s perspective: his sexual appeal is simply more convincing, more fully-realized, when he’s putting himself in the shoes of his own seducee.
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1978 Instrumentals
Prince’s 1978 instrumentals are fundamentally rough sketches, not unlike his untitled home recordings of 1976; the main difference is that both the aural fidelity and his musicianship had improved exponentially in the interim.