Just found my very treasured but rarely listened to cd copy the other day. What a weird album.
Side note. Though I like Prince I’ve never loved him but I did really enjoy his first couple of post-symbol albums, both rave (or is that technically his last symbol album?) and the groovy funk jam of Christian Science (or 7th day Adventist?) rapture from a couple years later. Fwiw
There is that other Black Album too. Or Black Record, from La Monte Young... but that came out in 1969. I always dismissed Prince more than I should have because it was the music my aunts liked, and I liked to make fun of it as a kid. Purple Rain became Purple Brains whenever I'd hear the women in my family singing his music, and I still mostly associate Prince with my aunts.
I think we must've bought our bootlegs at the same shop. I remember afterwards going somewhere (The Ritz or Roseland) to see Terrance Trent Darby. Oh, the good old days.
Just found my very treasured but rarely listened to cd copy the other day. What a weird album.
Side note. Though I like Prince I’ve never loved him but I did really enjoy his first couple of post-symbol albums, both rave (or is that technically his last symbol album?) and the groovy funk jam of Christian Science (or 7th day Adventist?) rapture from a couple years later. Fwiw
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There is that other Black Album too. Or Black Record, from La Monte Young... but that came out in 1969. I always dismissed Prince more than I should have because it was the music my aunts liked, and I liked to make fun of it as a kid. Purple Rain became Purple Brains whenever I'd hear the women in my family singing his music, and I still mostly associate Prince with my aunts.
I think we must've bought our bootlegs at the same shop. I remember afterwards going somewhere (The Ritz or Roseland) to see Terrance Trent Darby. Oh, the good old days.
The copy I bought had two extra songs - "Old Friends 4 Sale" and one other I can't remember now.
I can’t remember either. Oh well…but, I did enjoy your essay very much.