I've been checking this one out a lot on www.amazon.com. It sounds pretty good. Overall, tracks 1-5 are amazing. I couldn't check out tracks 6-8 because they didn't have sound samples for them. All Music Guide called Dirty Mind, Prince's first masterpiece. So is it good or bad? What are your experiences of it. Is it worth buying because I'm a big Prince fan. Is it really true what they say about it?

Head made the whole album worth it for me. When prince talks about pushing the envelope off the table, this is the album that started all that.

I love the album.

zach
lifelong fam

Wait 'til Dansa gets a hold of this thread...

"Dirty Mind" is undenaibly Prince's most incredible early album (i.e. of the first four). This is just raw, homemade funk...dirty, smooth, cool and classic. Buy it.

(BTW, you can buy the album from the iTunes Music Store for $7.92.)

Doozer said:

Party Up, Head, Uptown, When U Were Mine - ALL timeless mothafuckin songs. I'd say this is my third favorite Prince album, behind Sign and Rain. (yeah, sellout, I know).

Nah, it's kinda daft.





MOTHERFUCKING SIKE!!!!!


Dirty Mind is my all-time summer jam drivin'-in-my-ride album.....you MUST get it, NOW.

Black, white, Puerto Rican, everybody just-a-freakin'

God bless Prince and 1981!!

1980, actually.

theblueangel said:

You're right...but I didn't start listening to it until 1981. Was that not clear in my previous post??

Ohhhhh just get it already

get yourself a copy or else you shall FEEL MY WRATH.

buy this and you will be listing to it for the rest of your life

oh yeah, uptown is the bomb track, 2.

zachypoo said:

And "Head" will make you fling yourself into a wall for not having it all these years!!

CalhounSq said:

This is why most rooms have four walls --

One for "Head."
One for "Partyup."
One for "When You Were Mine."
And a fourth just for the album cover alone.

Doozer said:

right awn.

Doozer said:

BTW, is this one in the gallery yet?

i just realized sumfin: this cat ain't even heard "head" yet...oh m'lawd...it's official: silverchild, this album is an absolute must for you to get next time you're at the wrecka sto. the last 3 songs on the album are like the coup de grace.

Do It All Night is one of my top ten fave Prince tracks. It's never talked about but it's a classic.

The only track which I think is a little bit off is "Sister".... it still makes me feel uncomfortable..... but hey I guess that means it's successful in its artistic intention.

the album obliterates our normal conception of good vs. bad. to call it good doesn't do it justice -- it's so far beyond "good." to say anymore is just plain blather. listen. you'll be set. think you won't?

To me, this is a 'perfect' Prince album. You must get it!!

SnowQueen said:

Thanks

silverchild said:

You're going to love it.

SnowQueen said:

With 8 tracks of artistic brilliance, I know i'm goin' to like it.

YES...LIKE IT VERYYYYY MUCH

PurpleKnight said:

This album is one of Prince's greatest.....EVER!!!!!

You ain't a real Prince fan if you don't own Dirty Mind, I don't care what anyone says. It's an absolute classic!

Right, Handclaps?

NWF said:

i don't really care about this "you ain't a fan if you don't have it"-stuff, all's i know is that dm is one of the bare essentials in one's prince collection.

that, and if someone hasn't heard it or they don't have a copy, they're gettin a cyber chin-check from me.

Send me your address and I'll burn you a disc of 3 second snippets of tracks 6-8.

silverchild said:

CLASSIC!!