Tag: 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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Don’t Let Him Fool Ya
While it’s clearly a throwaway, I defy anyone to get through “Don’t Let Him Fool Ya” without at least a head bob and a smile.
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Lust U Always (“Divinity”)
Had “Lust U Always” come out on 1999, Prince may have forced the issue of music industry self-censorship two years early.
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Roundup: What Time is It?, 1982
It’s been a much shorter time than usual since the last roundup post; I won’t pat myself on the back too hard, though, because this one has been a long time coming. Fortunately, the Time’s second album happens to be my favorite of their slender catalogue by a long shot: the perfect crystallization of the…
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I Don’t Wanna Leave You
It’s hard to hear this closing track without imagining a stronger alternative in its place: something that would end the album with a bang, rather than a whimper.
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Onedayi’mgonnabesomebody
Recorded around the same time as “777-9311” in late Spring 1982, “Onedayi’mgonnabesomebody” was a slight, palate-cleansing trifle to fill out the first side of the album.