Tag: with you
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Oh, Baby
“Oh, Baby” is merely pleasant: a muted, languorous slow jam, a little like “When We’re Dancing Close and Slow,” except without that song’s genuinely erotic ache.
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Roundup: Prince, 1979
Well, here we are: another album’s worth of posts complete. I’d always preferred Prince’s second full-length to its predecessor, For You, but I rediscovered it in a big way while writing about it for this blog. Critical consensus tends to cite 1980’s Dirty Mind as the moment when the pieces all fell into place, but I’d actually argue that…
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Still Waiting
Heartbreak is the bread and butter of country and soul music alike; Prince employs these well-worn tropes with lines so note-perfect they seem almost timeless.
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Donna
With its double-tracked harmonies and simple acoustic guitar accompaniment, “Donna” points the way toward a few of the songs on Prince’s 1979 sophomore album.