Tag: sunset sound
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3 x 2 = 6
Just as he’d done for his own Controversy, Prince put the finishing touches on the Vanity 6 album at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. The last song he recorded for the album, on April 5, 1982, was also the last song on the track list: a gauzy synthpop ballad arithmetically titled “3 x 2 =…
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Let’s Pretend We’re Married
Against the mechanized backdrop of “Let’s Pretend We’re Married,” Prince delivers a vocal performance that is pure flesh, utilizing every gasp, pant, slurp, and scream in his ever-expanding repertoire.
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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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Turn It Up
Prince dives into “Turn It Up” with impressive sincerity and single-minded intensity, as if “horny radio” were the role he’d always dreamed of playing.
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Wild and Loose
“Wild and Loose” is centered around one of the most prevalent scenarios in the life of a touring musician: the backstage (and back-of-bus) dalliances between the band and their young, female admirers.