Tag: soft and wet
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Dirty Mind
After two years of butting his head against the music industry’s racial divide, Prince was smuggling himself across the border, with Dirty Mind as his Trojan horse.
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Head
The foundation upon which Prince’s racial, sexual, and personal preoccupations of the next decade were built.
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I am You: Capri Theatre, January 5-6, 1979
Prince spent the summer and fall of 1978 assembling a backing group, in hopes of touring behind his first album the following year. It didn’t go entirely to plan.
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Nadira
Prince’s lyrics are typical of his early songwriting, quivering with nerves and lust in the face of a vaguely-defined object of desire.
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My Life with You I Share: An Alternate Timeline Review of For You
The reclusive multi-instrumentalist known only as “Prince” may not be as much of a household name as, say, Shuggie Otis; but to aficionados of 1970s funk and soul, he inspires the kind of reverence normally reserved for the likes of Stevie Wonder.
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Roundup: For You, 1978
Well, it took a little longer than planned, but we’ve officially finished Prince’s first album! For You was a lot of fun for me to revisit, because like many who got into Prince through his ’80s work, I never really listened to it all that much. It’s still far from my favorite Prince album, but looking at…