thanks2joniandu said:

I still feel that if she's always in my hair were on the album particularly after raspberry beret it would have been a stronger album. for me temptation kind of ruins it.

for me, Temptation is genius!

ComeHereLetMeCutYourHair said:

thanks2joniandu said:

I still feel that if she's always in my hair were on the album particularly after raspberry beret it would have been a stronger album. for me temptation kind of ruins it.

for me, Temptation is genius!

The best song on the project.

Love the album as a whole. The title song ATWIAD sounds very oriental-influenced. I picture some kind of traditional Chinese dancing crew every time I hear it =>

For me his weakest album of he 80s. Tamborine and Temptation just aren't musical so can't give them more than 2/5. Paisley Park, Raspberry Beret and Pop Life however are genius throwaway pop.

fortuneandserendipity said:

For me his weakest album of he 80s. Tamborine and Temptation just aren't musical so can't give them more than 2/5. Paisley Park, Raspberry Beret and Pop Life however are genius throwaway pop.

jaawwnn said:

fortuneandserendipity said:

For me his weakest album of he 80s. Tamborine and Temptation just aren't musical so can't give them more than 2/5. Paisley Park, Raspberry Beret and Pop Life however are genius throwaway pop.

When u listen to complex classical and jazz music the way i do, probably all pop music has a throwaway quality to it. It's not meant derogatorily, and Graffiti Bridge being the best example of this, has a similar vibe throughout.

Both Tamborine and Temptation sound really bad in places, so that's why to me they aren't musical.

Susan Rogers: Frankly I think all three–Around The World In A Day, Under The Cherry Moon, and Sign O’ The Times–are equivalent artistically…they’re all different. Sign O’ The Times represented the third record after Purple Rain. As an artist, the first record you ever make is just a point and anything after that is a direction, so follow up records build on what came before. But the interesting thing is when you have a massive hit record you get to start over. This is what artists do. So when you have a record that totally says you’ve arrived, after you arrive, you get to start a new journey. You can think of Purple Rain as being a singular point, the apex of where Prince was. So now that he’s shown the depth of what he can do, that he’s hugely talented and very creative, now he has to show the breadth of it and how far he can go stylistically. So he did Around The World In A Day, which was heavily influenced by rock music,

thedance said: