Tag: stick
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Podcast: 40 Years of The Time – A Conversation with Darling Nisi and Harold Pride
Darling Nisi and Harold Pride return for another in-depth retrospective on the 1981 debut album by the Time.
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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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Dance to the Beat
“Dance to the Beat” feels tailor-made for live performances, giving Morris plenty of opportunities to exhort the audience with the title phrase while the lively synth and guitar riff provides some additional inducement.
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She’s Just a Baby
If one can get past the ick-factor, there’s a tenderness and loneliness at the heart of “She’s Just a Baby.”
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Roundup: The Time, 1981
Folks, it’s been a whole-ass seven months since the last roundup post on Dirty Mind–where has the time gone? Dunno, but here at least is where the Time has gone (sorry): five posts on the first album by Prince’s first and arguably most accomplished protégé act. My ranking this time is decidedly anti-climactic, since I basically…
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The Stick
If “Get It Up” was a proof of concept for the Time, then “The Stick” is the moment when their own distinct personality begins to shine through: cut from the same Minneapolis Sound cloth as Prince, but more unselfconsciously funky, with a sexuality that is less provocative than cartoonishly tongue-in-cheek.