With a band to spread the word on the road, Prince was ready, in 1980, to unleash Dirty Mind, his bawdy 3rd album.

engineered by Jamie Starr 1980 Warner Bros.
Produced, arranged composed & performed by Prince

recorded "Somewhere in Uptown",

I'll give U some money 2 buy a dirty mind

When U were mine I gave U all of my money

But I'm so scared cuz he might do something 2 U that U'd like

U see I, I spent it all on a long distance phone call

Now where I come from
We don't let society tell us how it's supposed 2 be
Our clothes, our hair, we don't care
It's all about being there

I must confess, I wanna get undressed and go 2 bed

She's the reason 4 my, uh, sexuality
Revolutionary rock ‘n' roll

rel October 8. 1980
RUDE Boy intro Lisa Coleman
Uptown concept the Rebel project in this one

engineer Don Batts

New Wave

Dirty Mind When You Were Mine Do It All Night Gotta Broken Heart Again Uptown Head Sister Party Up Gotta Stop (Messin' About)

American Jam Big Brass Bed Bulgaria Eros I Don’t Wanna Stop #1 Lisa Plastic Love Affair
Rough When the Shit Comes Down

previous http://prince.org/msg/7/417879?pg=1

the PRINCE era 1979 -1980

It's a breathtaking, visionary album, and its fusion of synthesizers, rock rhythms, and funk set the style for much of the urban soul and funk of the early '80s.

neva heard this ..is it on Tidal???

Dirty Mind is so good it's scary.

this is where it REALLY begins.

Look back on the live Prince era shows, it seems the live shows with the band gave huge inspiration to this next level of Dirty Mind

Bobby Z Tivkin (Drums) Dez Dickerson (Guitar) Lisa Coleman (Key) Matt Fink (Key) Prince Andre CYmone (Bass)

The only thing worse than listening to Dirty Mind from front to back is being stuck in plane woithout front to back placne Cx

Ah ha! I see u alolll wuth hbig plainms. So big plakins.

Cx

And travel too

mrsquirrel said:

thedoorkeeper said:

mrsquirrel said:

The only thing worse than listening to Dirty Mind from front to back is being stuck in plane woithout front to back placne Cx

Ah ha! I see u alolll wuth hbig plainms. So big plakins.

Cx

And travel too

Yum. I want some of whatever you are having!!!

WTF!!??

UPTOWN video shoot 10.24.1980 Producer's Studios – Stage 9 in LA

The shoot was done with a studio audience that was made aware of the 2 PM shoot via the means of flyers distributed in the neighborhood.

7 UPTOWN (4:09)
Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by Prince
Engineered by Jamie Starr
Recorded somewhere in Uptown
Remixed by Prince, Mic Guzauski and Bob Mockler at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
Assistant: Ron Garrett
Published by Controversy Music, administered by WB Music Corp. ASCAP/Ecnirp Music Inc., administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. BMI
From DIRTY MIND

mrsquirrel said:

She saw me walking down the streets
Of your fine city
It kinda turned me on when she looked at me
And said, "C'mere"
Now I don't usually talk to strangers
But she looked so pretty
What can I lose,
If I, uh, just give her a little ear?
"What's up little girl?"
"I ain't got time to play."
Baby didn't say too much
She said, "Are you gay?"
Kinda took me by suprise
I didn't know what to do
I just looked her in her eyes
And I said, "No, are u?"
Said to myself, said
"She's just a crazy, crazy, crazy
Little mixed up dame.
She's just a victim of society
And all it's games."
Now where I come from
We don't let society
Tell us how it's supposed to be
Our clothes, our hair
We don't care
It's all about being there
Everybody's going Uptown
That's where I wanna be
Uptown
Set your mind free
Uptown
Got my body hot
Get down
I don't wanna stop, no
As soon as we got there
Good times were rolling
White, Black, Puerto Rican
Everybody just a-freakin'
Good times were rolling

She started dancing in the streets
Ow, girl, she's just gone mad
U know, she even made love to me
Ooh, best night I ever had
Ah yeah
I never talk to strangers
But this time it's all right
See, she got me hot, ah
I couldn't stop, ah
Good times were rolling all night All night, yeah
Now where I come from
We don't give a damn
We do whatever we please
It ain't about no downtown
Nowhere bound
Narrow-minded drag
It's all about being free
Everybody's going Uptown
It's where I wanna be
Uptown
U can set your mind free, yeah
Uptown
Keep your body hot
Get down
I don't wanna stop, no
Uptown
Ooh, ooh, yeah
Uptown
Everybody's going, everybody's going
Everybody gotta gotta
Uptown
Now go-go-go, go-go-go
They're going
Uptown

Uptown
Yeah, yeah, now, all now
Uptown
Gotta go-go-go
Uptown
Yeah, gotta go, gotta go
Uptown
C'mon, c'mon, you
U have to, you gotta go
Uptown
oh yeah
YEAH!

OldFriends4Sale said:

ROLLING STONE (1981)

Will the little girls understand?
By Bill Adler

Snaking out from the wings toward center stage at the Ritz, prancing like a pony with his hands on his hips and then flinging a clorine kick with a coquettish toss of his head, Prince is androgyny personified. Slender and doe-eyed, with a faint pubescent mustache, he is bare-chested beneath a gray, hip-length Edwardian jacket. There's a raffish red scarf at this neck, and he's wearing tight black bikini briefs, thigh-high black leg-warmers and black-fringed go-go boots. With his racially and sexually mixed five-piece band churning out the terse rhythms of "Sexy Dancer" behind him, the effect is at once truly sexy and more than a little disorienting , and his breathy falsetto only adds to his ambiguity -- for sheer girlish vulnerability, there's no one around to touch him: not Michael Jackson, not even fourteen-year-old soul songbird Stacy Lattisaw. At age twenty, Prince may be the unlikeliest rock star, black or white, in recent memory -- but a star he definitely is.

As quickly becomes apparent, Prince's lyrics bear little relation to standard AM radio floss. In addition to bald sexual come-ons and twisted love plaints, he champions the need for independence and self-expression. And one song, "Uptown," is, among other things, an antiwar chant. Further complicating the proceedings are the heavy-metal moans Prince wrenches out of his guitar and the punchy dance-rock rhythms of his band (bassist Andre Cymone, guitarist Dez Dickerson, keyboardists Lisa Coleman and Dr. Fink and drummer Bobby Z.), all of whom are longtime cohorts from Prince's hometown -- Minneapolis, of all places.

"I grew up on the borderline," Prince says after the show. "I had a bunch of white friends, and I had a bunch of black friends. I never grew up in any one particular culture." The son of a half-black father and an Italian mother who divorced when he was seven, Prince pretty much raised himself from the age of twelve, when he formed his first band. Oddly, he claims that the normalcy and remoteness of Minneapolis provided just artistic nourishment he needed.

"We basically got all the new music and dances three months late, so I just decided that I was gonna do my own thing. Otherwise, when we did split Minneapolis, we were gonna be way behind and dated. The white radio stations were mostly country, and the one black radio station was really boring to me. For that matter, I didn't really have a record player when I was growing up, and I never got a chance to check out Hendrix and the rest of them because they were dead by the time I was really getting serious. I didn't even start playing guitar until 1974."

With his taste for outlandish clothes and his "lunatic" friends, Prince says he "took a lot of heat all the time. People would say something about our clothes or the way we looked or who we were with, and we'd end up fighting. I was a very good fighter," he says with a soft, shy laugh. "I never lost. I don't know if I fight fair, but I go for it. That's what 'Uptown' is about -- we do whatever we want, and those who cannot deal with it have a problem within themselves."

Prince has written, arranged, performed and produced three albums to date (For You, Prince and Dirty Mind), all presenting the same unique persona. Appearances to the contrary, though, he says he's not gay, and he has a standard rebuff for overenthusiastic male fans: "I'm not about that; we can be friends, but that's as far as it goes. My sexual preferences really aren't any of their business." A Penthouse "Pet of the Month" centerfold laid out on a nearby table silently underscores his point.

It took Prince six months alone in the studio to concoct his 1978 debut album, because, he says, "I was younger then." Prince required six weeks. He controlled the making of both records, but notes that they were "overseen" by record company and management representatives. Dirty Mind, however, was made in isolation in Minneapolis. "Nobody knew what was going on, and I became totally engulfed in it," he says. "It really felt like me for once."

The result of this increased freedom was a collection of songs celebrating incest ("Sister") and oral sex ("Head") in language raw enough to merit a warning sticker on the album's cover. "When I brought it to the record company it shocked a lot of people," he says. "But they didn't ask me to go back and change anything, and I'm real grateful. Anyway, I wasn't being deliberately provocative. I was being deliberately me."

Obviously, judging by the polished eclecticism of Dirty Mind, being himself is the best course. "I ran away from home when I was twelve," Prince says. "I've changed address in Minneapolis thirty-two times, and there was a great deal of loneliness. But when I think about it, I know I'm here for a purpose, and I don't worry about it so much."

ROLLING STONE, FEBRUARY 19, 1981

Really a great album, very great sound

Thanks oldfriends4sale another cool thread , in my top 5 Prince albums= masterpiece .

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

She saw me walking down the streets
Of your fine city
It kinda turned me on when she looked at me
And said, "C'mere"
Now I don't usually talk to strangers
But she looked so pretty
What can I lose,
If I, uh, just give her a little ear?
"What's up little girl?"
"I ain't got time to play."

Is he singing about someone famous?

I think it was a mulatta chick he met in Minni while they were bike riding naked

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I think it was a mulatta chick he met in Minni while they were bike riding naked

Oh.

lol do you remember that interview? about bike riding nude to stir things up?

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol do you remember that interview? about bike riding nude to stir things up?

No. But I believe it. Lol. Do you have it?

PRINCE: Well, you know, it's like...I worked a long time under a lot of different people, and most of the time I was doing it their way. I mean, that was cool, but ya know, I figured if I worked hard enough and kept my head straight, one day I'd get to do this on my own...and that's what happened. So I feel like...if I don't try to hurt nobody...and like I say...keep my head on straight...my way usually is the best way.

MOJO: Growin' up in Minne-wood, as it's been now called, simply because that is the hot point on this planet right now.

PRINCE: Well, it's been called a lot of things, but it's always Uptown to me.

MOJO: Uptown?

PRINCE: Yes.

MOJO: What was it like growin' up Uptown?

PRINCE: Pretty different. Uh, kinda sad, to be exact. (laughs) I mean, the radio was dead, the discos was dead, ladies was kinda dead, so I felt like, if we wanted to make some noise, and I wanted to turn anything out....I was gonna have to get somethin' together. Which is what we did. We put together a few bands and turned it into Uptown. That consisted of a lot of bike riding nude, but ya know...it worked. We had fun. That's why I wanted to come here on my birthday...'cuz I wanted to give them a little taste of where we live and get a little taste of where you all live. To me, this is like my second home. If I could spend the night at somebody's crib, I would...'cuz this hotel.... They're real nice to us, but, this bed is hard!

Electrifying Mojo Interview with Prince 1985