Tag: head
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Roundup: Dirty Mind, 1980
It’s been a long six months since my last roundup post, but this time I’m not going to make any promises about picking up the pace: my inherent slothfulness aside, Dirty Mind also marks the beginning of my personal favorite era for Prince, and I want to do it justice. Hopefully, with this latest batch of posts,…
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Do It All Night
Prince had been structuring his shows as a kind of mass seduction since his first “official” live dates in 1979. Now, he had a custom-built vessel for these audience flirtations.
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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.