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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Prince Week: The Most Talented Man in Music and why he Will Almost Certainly be Forgotten
Someday, when Michael Jackson and Madonna are still part of the pop cultural conversation, Prince will be forgotten. Despite his talent, his fascinating and difficult persona and truly impressive body of work, there will come a day that no one will remember Prince. A woefully bad self-editor and a terrible curator of his own music,Continue reading “Prince Week: The Most Talented Man in Music and why he Will Almost Certainly be Forgotten”
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