Tag: leaving for new york
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Purple Music (Welcome 2 the Freedom Galaxy)
“Purple Music” feels like the private tinkering of an unhinged genius: a funky Aleister Crowley drawing ritual circles in his suburban Boleskine House; a post-disco Dr. Frankenstein cackling over his Tesla coil-powered drum machine.
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Drive Me Wild
At the core of Susan Moonsie’s dirty-schoolgirl persona was “Drive Me Wild,” one of the handful of songs originally recorded for the proto-Vanity 6 Hookers project in 1981.
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Broken
“Broken” feels like Prince having fun, taking his new piano-recording capabilities for a test drive.
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Roundup: Ephemera, 1975-1976
Hi, everyone! In an effort to break up the flow of this blog a bit, I’d like to insert the occasional “Roundup” post whenever we come to the close of a particular phase of Prince’s musical career. So, now that we’re officially finished with 1976 ephemera and moving into For You territory, here are the songs so…
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Leaving for New York
The delicate, ever-shifting melody and impressionistic lyrics–including, it’s been noted, the first recorded use of Prince’s favored words “purple,” “rain,” and “dawn”–are the strongest indications to date of Joni Mitchell’s influence on his songwriting.
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Soft and Wet
Like most great works of popular music, “Soft and Wet” came into being through a combination of sexual and chemical indulgence and cynical commercial calculus.