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When Doves Cry (Why the Butterflies)
More perhaps than anything else, “When Doves Cry” existed for Prince as a symbol of what he was capable of when he pushed his artistry to its absolute limits.
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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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Lady Cab Driver (Rearrange)
What keeps “Lady Cab Driver” distinct from 1999’s other transportation-themed erotic fantasies, “Little Red Corvette” and “International Lover,” is its pervasive sense of angst.
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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.”