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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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The Dawn: How Prince’s Troubled Followup to 1999 Almost Became His Feature Film Debut
After the runaway success of his breakout album 1999, Prince had carte blanche to do almost anything he wanted. So, typical of his vaunting ambition circa 1982, he decided to follow up with both an album and a major motion picture. Sadly, the world never got to see the fruits of his cinematic vision; but…