Purple Rain (Original Soundtrack) - Prince & The Revolution

...donned a Louis XIV wig, purple frills, straddling a purple motorbike and rode it as his entrance on stage. We could forget for one moment that it has been over two years since any releases from him. Hard to believe he is soon to be 48. 'Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life….' like a James Brown sermon in The Blues Brothers, we open this album with Prince the Preacher dictating to us his understanding of ...
...this circus piece from the purple big top….. 'When The Doves Cry' was number one in the U.S and number four in the U.K when it was released in June 1984. The first track from this album it cuts to the chase with its hard hitting lyrics with equally cold blooded drum machine. Starting with a riff that would sound at home on a Jimi Hendrix track, the track consists at first of just a voice lowered to sound hard and cold hearted and a steady drum machine. ...

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...The Songs: 1. Let's Go Crazy 2. Take Me With U 3. The Beautiful Ones 4. Computer Blue 5. Darlin' Nikki 6. When Doves Cry 7. I Would Die 4 U 8. Baby I'm A Star 9. Purple Rain ...

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1984 was the year of Purple Rain. The album, the film, the phenomenon. In his native America, Prince spent an astonishing 24 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Album Chart with this masterful mix of explosive, effervescent and tender pop/rock. Assimilating some of the great icons of black music - Hendrix, Little Richard, James Brown - into his already blossoming musical canon, the Purple One struck pure gold. The previous year's double-album "1999" had ...
...as it may seem now, Purple Rain was considered a somewhat left-field success at the time. Once it had cast its spell over audiences across the globe thanks to some truly awesome single releases (When Doves Cry in particular), it of course entered modern pop-culture history...but only then. In Britain, the album was a slow-starter. It took several months to reach its peak position of # 7, but ended up spending almost two years on the chart. Purple ...

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...on the album - PURPLE RAIN - there cant be anyone alive that was about in the 80's that never heard this song. Its a very slow song, never intended to be a dance hit or anything like that, in fact it fits into no other category that i know apart from 'Prince'... "I never meant 2 cause u any sorrow" "I never meant 2 cause u any pain" "I only wanted 2 one time see u laughing" "I only want to see u laughing in the Purple rain" An absolute classic. ...
...man with the high voice, I'm sure that if you listened to this album and some of the lyrics then there is something for everyone. A definate classic from the early Prince, set aside and very much in front of the other music in the charts at that time. ...

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...in the mists of time-The purple one has never again reached such a pinnacle as he did with his band The Revolution, as he did playing The Kid in this semi-autobiographical music fest.It follows the rising sucess of a struggling young musical genius,who goes thru all the angst you d expect from such a film-true love, the ups and downs of quarrelling parents, the fight within himself to become a star, and protect those he loves.The songs are easily ...

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Purple Rain is an amazing cd. Its so uniqe and original, i have never heard anything like it! Its a mixture of 80s pop and rock, with princes unique sound. Every song on 'Purple Rain' has something different about it, like the emotional title track, amazing guitar solo on 'Computer blue', 'I Would Die 4 u' is a great sing along kind of song and then theres the daring 'Darling Nikki'. I have had 'Purple Rain' for quite a while and every time i listen ...
...never gets boring. The fact that there is only 9 songs on this album could actually be a good point, as every one of the songs are excellent and have a different quality and emotion to them. I think anyone could enjoy 'Purple Rain', i cant think of any bad points about it it is definitly Prince at his best. ...

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Review of Purple Rain (Original Soundtrack) - Prince & The Revolution