Hallo everybody!

With the New Year at hand, I thought I'd take a second to write about a few Prince records which I have come to love. It would be lovely to hear which albums {and why?} are everybody's favorites. Please post your own shorts here over the Holiday Season.
With cheer & love,
Lolly


Essay On.....
AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY
by Lolly Pop

Around early 1986, I remember flipping through a magazine and coming across a poor review of AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY. I recall thinking whoever wrote the column must have been off their rocker because it was one of the most creative records I'd ever heard.

Listening to the title track, I felt a sense of adventure unfurl. I remember wondering if a place like Paisley Park existed (it sounded very magical). Quietly crying near the end of Condition Of The Heart ("He must be a very lonely singer", I thought). Cheering up and tapping my then-little toes to Raspberry Beret. Tambourine didn't seem to make much sense lyrically, but I was quite young. I literally thought it was about playing tambourine in a band. Now that I'm grown, that track makes me crack a great, big Cheshire-like grin EVERY time. America I couldn't understand: was he mocking it or supporting it? In the end, I didn't even care where he stood because the song had such BAD ASS guitar riffs on it. Pop Life had great party sounds and atmosphere/ambiance. Then there was The Ladder, which reminded me of Sunday school. After The Ladder came Temptation: a wild song with no set structure and loads of grit. I liked the "God" voice in it a lot; it made me wonder what God's actual voice sounded like.

Upon many, many listens later, I'm not only entertained by Around The World In A Day, but consider it one of his most important works.

Why?

Because if one listens carefully to the Prince records before it, they will find a great deal of very creative, wildly innovative but precise formula following. Around The World displayed so much growth {in sound, imagination & composition}, depth and promise. It was a departure that I feel earned our Mr. a new title: COMPOSER. To this day, Around The World fills me with an impending sense of adventure. When I hit play, I know I'm in for a ride. In a way, it sounds like what reading Charlie & The Chocolate Factory felt like. Critics may have slammed it, some may dismiss it as a "lesser work" but for me- and like Charlie & The Chocolate Factory- it has stood the test of time.


Next: Essay on PARADE
[Edited 12/15/06 2:24am]

Zoinks!
Should I have put this be in the MUSIC & MORE forum?
SORRY if so!
[Edited 12/15/06 2:20am]

yeah really...this should be moved to the prince music and more forum
hello moderators...any body got their ears on? come back.
that was a cool essay! I totally love ATWIAD. I can't claim to have known it when it came out...I only wish. I didn't discover it till approx 1993/4 but loved it immediately. I wrote a college paper about the ladder
[Edited 12/21/06 9:53am]

Shorty said:

Thanks Shorty!
I posted a thread in there which is more active... Moderators, you DEFINITELY more than have my permission to delete this!

Thanks so much-
:>
LP