Who else loves this song? It's got a great, booming rock/soul vibe. It's very catchy. That chorus is ace. Yeah, it's a tad melodramatic and is found on a mostly poppy, disposable album (okay, in my opinion), but it rocks!

I do! I love that middle eastern vibe he was going for in the early ninties!

Thats one of the put in and can listen to all the time songs on that album.

i do

starr said:

Me too !!

I love it! Especially the feel of rain coming from the isntruments during the verses.

Love it! Love it! Love it! Put it on repeat and give me room to jam!

thekidsgirl said:

YEAAAH BAYBEEE!

I adore this song. Great to be the first song on D&P gives it a fresh start.

Love it! Really like the opening line...

I've loved it from moment 1. It stays good too.
Plus it's got that oriental vibe to it that he
used sometimes since the early 90's and I love
it whenever he does that.

I'm not wild about Thunder, it drips corny and you could bounce stones off the production - BUT! The Thunder Ballet he wrote for Billboards has an additonal five minUtes of ambient electronia that sounds like Brian Wilson sucking Aphex Twin's genitals, on a tiny wee spaceship, inside God's veins. It's probably my favourite pieces of composition ever, and I have equisite taste.

This song roars.

i love it when you can hear him say in each stereo speaker:

"don't do it like that... do it like this"

I love the massive power chords near the end.

I love this song...great energy, powerful imagery too.

Number23 said:

Well, damn right.

Cool song, hate the lyrics, great solo should be much much longer

Because we have been having really bad thunder storms out here on the east coast i have been singing it to my 3 month old!

It's so funny that you mention it.

I love the part where he says
"he said only the children born of me will remain"

Pellwormer said:

I know.

squiddyren said:

I love this song to death, unequivocally. The deliciously excessive production, the unabashed drama, the operatic vibe, the transcendent vocals. Fuckin' yum. You can't fuck with Prince when he's feeling Lovesexy, y'all. And that's the spirit of this song.

I was thirteen when this album came out, and I damn near wore out my D&P cassette tape rewinding this track.

I just last year "found" the extended 10+ minute version. I believe it is from the "Billboards" ballet show.

I too love the extended 'ballet' version. The middle 'ambient classical' part is gorgeous, tho I don't think it really works in the middle of the song. He should have maybe put it at the end and had the song melt away into the rain, as if the 'Thunder' had passed, and all that was left was beautiful rain...

A wonderful, over-the-top track. Only Prince could/ would have done this. Virtuosic, really.

Scares the shit out of me everytime it starts because i have the volume too loud

Sorry..."Thunder" doesn't exactly blow my skirt up.

When I first heard this, I had a bad feeling about the rest of the album. I was right...

I love Thunder. It was a great way to start D&P. And the way his voice is in the song, it's just haunting.

purplecam said: