When Doves Cry Prince blazes out of the side two gates with a jarring guitar solo set over a weird industrial beat and horror movie sounds in the last and greatest of the album’s fake-out openings. Then we get into an irresistible keyboard hook and Prince starts singing nonsense real smooth and electronically over aContinue reading “Dig If You Will the Picture: Track by Track with Purple Rain (Side 2)”
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Electric Word Life: Track by Track with Purple Rain (Side 1)
Let’s Go Crazy Every song on the first half of Purple Rain starts with sections that are irrelevant to the rest of the song. “Let’s go Crazy” has the longest one, a full minute of free associative pseudo-preaching over a trembling keyboard solo. Then the song kicks into an up-tempo rocker that, minus a couple ofContinue reading “Electric Word Life: Track by Track with Purple Rain (Side 1)”
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