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Purple Rain (Verse 3)
It’s Prince’s contribution to the Great American Songbook, a modern-day standard that transcends (almost) all categories of generation, genre, and taste.
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Purple Rain (Verse 2)
Listening to the recording today, almost 40 years after it was captured from a mobile unit parked outside First Avenue, is an almost eerie experience.
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Darling Nikki
“Darling Nikki” would become Purple Rain’s standard-bearer for the “danger” of Prince albums past.
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Let’s Go Crazy
There are plenty of legitimate claims to make for the precise moment when Prince became a superstar; but by any metric, “Let’s Go Crazy” is close to the top.
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Electric Intercourse (The New Master)
Musically, “Electric Intercourse” is assembled from the same basic components as the songs from 1999… But this new track has a warmer, more organic feel–an apparently purposeful step away from the cold, mechanical textures of the previous album.
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Lust U Always (Divinity)
Had “Lust U Always” come out on 1999, Prince may have forced the issue of music industry self-censorship two years early.