We are young, we are free on earth together. Let's fall in love.
You are fine, you are white, I am of color. Let's fall in love.
Ice cream castles in the summertime.
Ice cream castles in the summer.
I want you, you want me, we want each other. Is that so wrong?
It's raining. Mad sisters, why can't they realize, that it won't be long?
We're all ice cream castles in the summertime.
Ice cream castles in the summer.
Let's do something soon.
We are young, we are free. Let's come together before the end.
I am blue, you are too, what could be better? Let's make friends.
We're all ice cream castles in the summertime.
Ice cream castles in the summertime.
We're all ice cream castles in the sun.
Ice cream castles when we fall.
Ice cream castles in the summertime.
Summertime, summertime, summertime.
Is that what you need?
White girls, black girls, orientals, jamaican?
Ice cream castles in the summertime.
We're all ice cream castles in the sun.
Ice cream castles when we fall.
Ice cream castles in the summertime.
Summertime.
White girls, black girls, orientals, jamaican.
I want you, you want me, we want each other.
White girls, black girls.
We are young, we are free on earth together.
Let's do something, let's do something soon.
We are young, we are free. Let's come together

and?

well written song that deals with life and relationships. random brilliance. how can they be so fragile?

I like the title already

PEJ said:

Great track, their weakest album though.

Always though Prince could've gotten away with this himself, it would've made a good b-side or something.
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Yeah...
1+1=3
the Pythagoras Theorem of the
Isosceles triangle
you, me, and that which we become
when we allow our fragilities to melt
like ice cream castles and lose ourselves
in each other's ooze.

Falling in Love being a metaphysical
transformation
when the chemistry of two ready hearts
and spirits are set and beating in
passionate motion
and satisfaction is the betterment of not
just one's self, but of each other
if that be the electricity that fuels the lamp
and together they willingly and unhesitatingly
enter into the flame
the fire of Love will be as Divine and
bright as the afternoon sun

33

I like Ice Cream Castles alright, but I never thought it seemed like a very good fit for the Time.

how can this be their weakest album?

Jungle Love
The bird
Ice Cream Castles
My Drawers



I think I have 4 albums with The Time,

imo. Ice Cream Castles is great...

thedance said:

It's TOTALLY the weakest album. No one would have given a shit about it had it not been for "Jungle Love" and "the Bird". Two skits, and two other filler tracks, means only 1/3 of the album was good.

thedance said:

'What Time Is It?' is their masterpiece.'Ice Cream Castles' isn't nearly as good.

What Time Is It?
Pandemonium
The Time
Ice Cream Castles

THAT'S the order of Time albums, good to bad.

I rank Pandemonium as the weakest, only Jerk Out is great, IMO..

thedance said:

True, but that's one side of vinyl, the previous 2 albums are pretty much 2 sides of great tracks each. Pandemonium is great too. ICC has the hits, but not much else.

Was Prince trying to play down The Time at the moment he knew they all would have the biggest exposure? I dunno, but it seems like a Prince-ly thing to do.

thedance said:

Chocolate?!! Skillet!! Blondie!! Title track?

NouveauDance said:

I imagine he could see the writing on the wall with the Time and that it would no longer be a going concern by the time the movie/album came out. He probably just threw something together around the 2 hits featured in the movie to hold onto the better tracks (Chocolate & Jerk Out) for himself (or someone else) at a later time.

NouveauDance said:

Agreed. All great songs.

NouveauDance said:

Only Jerk Out and -okay- maybe Chocolate too,

I still prefer those classics: Jungle Love and The Bird,

2 of the greatest The Time "trademark songs"....

errant said:

Yeah, much like the Apollonia 6 LP.



The lyrics to ICC kinda go with other stuff from the time (no pun) like The Dance Electric, all the 'it's the apocalypse soon, so let's party' stuff. That's why I could see it being kept for himself, it's got more Prince-ly ethereal themes to the lyrics than the average Time track.

thedance said:

"Cool", and "The Walk" and "Gigolos Get Lonely Too" are the trademark songs. Those two you mentioned are the only ones the public remember.

I put Ice Cream Castles ahead of Pandemonium. ICC has four great songs; Pandemonium only three, imo. But both pale in comparison to the first two Time albums.

if the Kid can't make U come, nobody can
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NONSENSE said:

He didn't on that LP.

wrong forum

This is one of those songs that can take me right back down memory lane, in a good way I can listen to it now and it's still good!

I love this song. Coincidentally, I have been listening to it all week.

thedance said:

If the Kid can't make you come is the shit!

Efan said:

I agree.The first two Time albums are CLASSICS...truly essential.The other two albums have a few good songs,but nothing spectacular.