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Prince's pop life, song by song, in chronological order.

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Podcast: 40 Years of Dirty Mind

September 11, 2020

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Zachary Hoskins

in Dirty Mind, 1980, Podcast

Darling Nisi and Harold Pride return for a third episode in our series of in-depth retrospectives on Prince’s albums, this one for the 40th anniversary of 1980’s Dirty Mind.
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Podcast: 40 Years of For You

April 6, 2018

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Zachary Hoskins

in For You, 1978, Podcast

dance / music / sex / romance is fast approaching its third year, so to celebrate, we’re going…backwards? That’s right, to mark the 40th anniversary of Prince’s debut album, I thought now was the perfect time to go ahead with an idea I’ve been toying with for a while: our own sub-series of review podcasts looking at…
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Rough

December 5, 2017

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Zachary Hoskins

in Ephemera, 1979-1981

Its provenance as a side-project cut is clear, from the New Wave-tinged Rhythm & Blues sound to the lyrics, which sound exactly like the kind of thing one would write for a streetwise young Alexander O’Neal to sing.
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My Love is Forever

August 3, 2016

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Zachary Hoskins

in For You, 1978

Pleasant and frothy, if not especially memorable, “My Love is Forever” is Prince at his most self-consciously commercial.
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