Tag: 1979
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Oh, Baby
“Oh, Baby” is merely pleasant: a muted, languorous slow jam, a little like “When We’re Dancing Close and Slow,” except without that song’s genuinely erotic ache.
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Do Me, Baby
“Do Me” wasn’t the first piece of aural erotica to reach the American charts… But those songs, however suggestive, had stayed within the realm of plausible deniability; in contrast, there’s no question what Prince is doing at the end of “Do Me.”
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Lisa
“Lisa” points the way forward to the kind of electronic music we’d later hear on and around the 1999 album… even in the midst of engineering his second big reinvention, Prince already had a third one on deck.
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Dirty Mind
After two years of butting his head against the music industry’s racial divide, Prince was smuggling himself across the border, with Dirty Mind as his Trojan horse.
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Head
The foundation upon which Prince’s racial, sexual, and personal preoccupations of the next decade were built.
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Kiss Me Quick
A sparkling ideal of a disco track that could easily have made the Dance charts if its creator had bothered to put it out.