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On Fri, 01 Oct 1999 20:44:07 GMT, getblue@my-deja.com said in alt.music.prince about "Is Purple Rain heavy metal??":

>This isnt anything new but I have a cool book by rock crit Chuck Eddy
>called, The 500 best heavy metal albums in the universe, and Purple rain
> is number 73 on the list. I think its a stretch to call this album
>heavy metal but heres the review from the book.
>
>From book..
> "Not the purple people eaters best album, but close, and (though his
>most roof tearing thump, Bambi, dates back to before his well-hyped
>conversion to hard rock) certainly his most metal (not to mention his
>most profitable): Hi-volume Page/Hendrix/Hazel wah-blankets pop out of
>the pop everywhere, most blantantly at the begining and end of both
>sides, in Lets Go Crazy(sexnGod), Darling Nikki (bump and grind that
>starts to stop like Laurie Andersons O-Superman starts), When Doves Cry
>(slay the father, lay the mother, strip your beat till it bridges Slys
>Theres a Riot Goin On. Purple Rain (cosmic John Lennon nuke armagedden)
>Select lightweight passages forecast the 3d/sitar/quiet
>storm/new-age-psychology/smileyface/fuck patter beezwax we wanted to
>strangle him for circa Around The World in a Day and Lovesexy. Although
>sometimes he's lazy and lispy and devoid of the Gamble/Huff hooks he
>puts in his slow ones when he doesnt suck. Take Me With You, is crispy
>and flaky like a tasty pastry. The Beautifull Ones has a suicidal wail
>out of Funkadelics Into You. I would Die 4u is a prayer. and Baby Im a
>star's touch Sylvester disco hears Deep House on the way. Unlike allmost
> everybody else in the 80,s Prince's strangeness was no fluke. His
>message was totally wrongheaded or at least contradictory and he knew
>it, but like any true rock and roller he didnt give a shit. Always, when
>he's being really strange he kicks my ass. When he is just a little
>strange I want to kick his. Soaked in soulfull farfisoid zannyness that
>goes as many diffrent roughts toward the same goal as an ace choir. He's
>mostly the former. He left Erotic City. Which might of been the best
>track off..
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