{{{"It's the clearest definition of creative freedom I have ever heard. I was 16, and went to see the film Under The Cherry Moon and fell in love. The soundtrack went from rock to computerized blues to jazz to pop and classical. I grew up listening to jazz and blues, to Ella Fitzgerald, Hendrix and sure, I loved Bach and Mozart. But Prince came along and amalgamated them all. The writing was so descriptive and colourful. I used to stay up and listen to the album over and over again on head phones. When everyone else was outside playing and running about on a Saturday afternoon, I'd be locked in my bedroom or sat on the porch listening to the LP and I'd be immediately transported away from all the problems in my neighborhood to the French Riviera where the movie is set.}}}

Prince uses so many different vocal tones and that was a real beginning for me. His voice would change to accommodate the story, the lyrics --something I choose to do with my music. Any poet, singer, writer wants to live in the moment of each and every song and this is the method by which to do it. He switches Anotherloverholenyohead to a song like Do U Lie (sings), "When I lie awake at night in my boudoir" and automatically the sun comes out, the rays shine through the window, the room becomes light. The track Christopher Tracy's Parade taught me a new sense of rhythm. Using a computer, he created a different heart rhythm. You don't listen to that song, you fall inside it and become it. He added car sounds - - I mean, who did that in those days? And he sings like he never planned a thing. Like they play the music and he's not sure how it's going to go, he just opens his mouth and starts to sing. It doesn't feel rehearsed, but fresh, full of life.

It's a classic album and lyrically an inspiration. He's capable of being a very personal writer but he's also very skilled. When you listen to the music, the picture is always clear, the imagination provoked -- that's the kind of writer I want to be. Like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, he makes forever music.

The instrumentation is wonderful. He had a computer create the sound but didn't falsify it by pretending its another instrument. He chose to play a computer as itself! His guitar -- how he would go from being rock and out there and strong and immediately change the sound to sensitive and loving and soft -- that is brilliance. I don't know if the music was a genuine reflection of a part of his life or a fictional creation but quite honestly I don't care because I feel it regardless. I feel blessed just listening to this record."

Mojo magazine, March issue, page 30
Interview by Lois Wilson

Parade
Recorded: Paisley Park, summer 1985
Released: April, 1986
Chart Peak: US #3, UK #4

First

I think i saw this post already here a few weeks ago

Jill Scott is a great artist!

That's how Prince used to elavate us to another plane!

Beautifully described Jill!

4everYoung said:

Apparently all the yakking on this site causes people to not remember what's been posted before:

http://www.prince.org/msg...1&tid=9167

BartVanHemelen said:

Quite right Bart, but you forgot that even that earlier post was a repretition of something which had been posted 3 days previous!!!!!:

http://www.prince.org/msg...1&tid=9034

I know you're a stickler for detail
[This message was edited Mon Mar 25 4:13:20 PST 2002 by langebleu]

i've always loved that lp but i believe prince again was over radios head except on a few tracks they did'nt play much of this because it was'nt purple ranish.from then on it seems he got very little air play. radios lost.

Isn't time funny? When this came out it was widely hated by the press and "Purple Rain" fans. Nobody was expecting this! It was too new, too fresh for radio and the massive bank of fans he was already starting to shed. Except for "Kiss", none of it was heard on the radio. I have always thought of it as a masterpiece. It had its own inner life and took chances no major star was taking then (or now.) It definitely had a New Position with new funk. I am glad he made it.

I've been crazy about Jill Scott ever since I heard A long Walk on the radio. Now I've got both her albums. They are so good and to hear her about Prince just makes me wanna say, Jill I love you! Keep it up girl. Fatback Taffy Sho Feels Good to me!

brianr54 said:

All of this no doubt applies to where you are from, but this was certainly not the case in Europe.

BartVanHemelen said:

no need to get mad about it...

sorry for the repeat Bart and I do appreciate you staying on top of Prince so well . . . .

what a sweetie.

Why izzit that Bart only feels the need to chime in when he feels he's found a reason to correct something...lol...we won't hear from Bart again until someone makes a typo...

I love this album as well, and Jill does a great job describing it. I'm glad this got posted more than once, because there is too much yaking on this site and I don't have time to look through everything sometimes!

It's always made me sad to know that Prince himself called the album "a disaster". I hope this was misquote or somehow taken out of context. Anyone know?

wellbeyond said:

I think it's referred to as being anally retentive.


bloody typos
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PARADE: The GREATEST Prince album ever

The Most JOYOUS Prince album ever

The most ADVENTUROUS Prince album ever


The most TIMELESS Prince album ever



PARADE: When Prince was about new directions and creativity in music, not about ANYTHING else!


I LOVE this album- it made me a fan for life

"Christopher Tracy's Parade", + "Under the Cherry Moon",+ "Girls and Boys",+"Mountains",+"Do U Lie",+ "Kiss", +"Anotherloverholeinyohead"= brilliant.....



(the outtakes are spectacular too: "All My Dreams", "Others here with Us","Old Friends for Sale" ....too MUCH!

That Christopher Tracy was on FIRE!

Yes, i'll have another Caesar!

PARADE FOREVER!

Where does the line "I saw your friend first that's who I danced with.." come from- "Electric Chair"?

Bravo, Now that is what this LP is, an enigma. This LP has never been the most loved by the masses or the fans. Most of the masses loved Purple Rain most of the fans loved Sign 'o' the Times/Lovesexy, but me, yes me, I loved Parade from the very start, truly brilliant.

Ironically this (1986) was Prince's "true" downfall from "love" of the masses( not ATWIAD). Also the more in depth mainstreaming of "RAP" music (RUN DMC, LLCOOLJ,Beastie Boys, SCHOOLY D, and yes the FAT BOYS)