Purple Rain by Original Soundtrack/Prince & the Revolution

Pros: This album isn't the least bit tired or overplayed after two decades.
Cons: This album doesn't come with a photo of Apollonia's bodacious boobies.

Every rock star secretly harbors one ambition, it seems-to be a movie actor or actress. If you really look at it, every popular musician from Michael & Madonna to Garth & Billy Ray to (insert name of rapper here) has decided to drop the mic for a script ...

Pros: Production, Performance, Lyrics, Versatility, Arrangements, & Vocals.
Cons: None baby!

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Pros: Six of the tracks hit the 3-star mark (at least).
Cons: One-note; repetitive; overrated; pretentious.

It's evident within the first twenty seconds of this record that Mr. Nelson was entirely wrapped up in his own pretension in 1984, a year that produced some of the greatest music in the world. I'm sure that anybody who has following my series of Prince ...

Pros: Great guitar work, great lyrics, FINALLY a Prince record that's not over-produced.
Cons: Okay, so the Purple Rain outro is a LITTLE over-produced

One of the common mistakes when it comes to Purple Rain is trying to separate the soundtrack from the movie. Purple Rain IS a soundtrack, and there IS an accompanying movie. The two were made to go together like no other pair before them. Not even the...

Pros: The most perfect pop soundtrack for a film ever recorded...
Cons: ...except for one song

Rhythm - a powerful force bending sound into palpable pressure 1985, most weeknights, 1 AM “Ok, time to close!” I probably said this phrase several hundred times over the course of my career at Taco Bell, and in many of these ...

Pros: High quality and inventive pop/rock/funk with personal character and musical complexity.
Cons: A couple of songs are great while the album's on, but don't stick afterwards.

Well, this is the biggie. While Prince’s 1982 album "1999" had introduced him to mainstream audiences with crossover hits like the title track and “Little Red Corvette”, 1984’s “Purple Rain” was the release that made him a ...

Pros: Exceptionally jovial, and emotional all at once.
Cons: Either you like Prince, or you loathe him.

Whoa, EricaAnn you like Prince? Is the response I get majority of the time I roll up playing this. It seems to others to be totally out of character for me. Ok, I admit it I love Prince. Always have, always will. I have stood by his music even with the...

Pros: Emotional, Multi Genre Brilliance.
Cons: Computer Blue doesn't make sense, dammit!!

Such controversy has surrounded Prince and not just the album of the same name either, but the majority of his extremely prolific and impressive career. One thing I’ve noticed about most people is that they either love or hate Price. Some ...

Pros: Ultra catchy, vibrant, colourful, charismatic, romantic, infectious, funky.
Cons: Depends what your views on sex are, "Darling Nikki" might offend.

I have been ignorant for far too long of the talents of the short purple one. When I was a teenager, the single "1999" was one of my favourite songs of daring rebellion. More recently, for a while I've been a huge fan of one of Prince's ...

Pros: This album just kicks ass all around.
Cons: Only 9 songs...?

There was a time I was listening to the song Purple Rain on a road trip with a few friends, singing along at the top of my lungs, when one of the more musically challenged of them asked me "Is there anything that could make you stop loving that little ...

Pros: Absolute Commercial Success For Prince
Cons: Two Songs Don't Measure Up To The Rest of the Album

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December 1997. First semester, junior year of college. UNH's Hetzel Hall. Every Wednesday night the dorm held what they called "hump night." The innuendo was meant to breed excitement, rather than the reality of a cheesy get-together among all the floors, ...

Pros: Prince makes some of the best music of all time.
Cons: A few dated bits.

There are some artists who get so caught up in being icons that they often wind up letting the thing that gets people interested in them get overshadowed: the music. It happened to David Bowie, it happened to Lou Reed, it happened to Jim Morrison. But...

Pros: Prince beating everybody at their own game. Slow songs, dance numbers, rockers- DAMN!
Cons: Wish they would've included some of that eerie incidental music from the movie.

I’ve always identified strongly with Prince. In addition to being a fellow Gemini (along with speeddemon, roheblius, and Jim Nabors, three of my favorite people), he’s had an unusual and sometimes tumultuous life. He also likes to watch exotic ...

Pros: Big songs, big production etc.
Cons: Unfortunately, about half of these songs have dated. Badly.

Alright, let me get this straight before it’s 2 late and (eye) start 2 cry This is the album (eye)’ve been waiting 4, the 1 (eye) fantasized But all of U Prince’s fans out there – to U (eye) must apologize …for Purple ...