Jan 22nd, 2017
Prince #5: 1999
TweetShareTo me, age 12 in 1982, Prince seemed to come out of nowhere with 1999. I certainly didn’t know he’d had four previous albums, nor that he’d had hits with “I Wanna Be Your Lover” and “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad.” I do remember Casey Kasem talking about how Prince played all the […]
Jan 11th, 2017
Prince #4: Prince
TweetShareThere are two types of songs on Prince, Prince’s 1979 named-like-a-first-album second album: there are the songs you forgot you knew (“I Wanna Be Your Lover,” “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” and “I Feel For You,” the latter of which was reshaped into a giant Chaka Khan hit five years later); then there […]
Jan 8th, 2017
Prince #3: Around The World In A Day
TweetShareIf you’re over 40, Around the World In A Day is the Prince album you bought and listened to once. It’s the most un-Purple Rain album Prince could possibly have released to follow up Purple Rain, and it functions as a neat dividing line between Real Prince Fans and everyone else. (A line Prince would […]
Jan 6th, 2017
Prince #2: Come
TweetShareLet’s be clear: Come is pathologically, hilariously blunt in its sexual language. On the title track, we go from Prince telling a woman he’s going to ejaculate, variously, in her hair AND her eye (forewarned is forearmed, I guess) to saying “it’s no wonder there’s a puddle there” to what can be the only appearance […]
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