Just picked them up today, havent listened to them yet, your people's thoughts?

Parade is my favorite album! just love the vibe...gotta see under the cherry moon if you haven't

Very different albums...both fun....

Dirty Mind= Raw and Funky

Parade= Flashy and creative

I love Christopher tracy's parade.

Parade is my all time favourite album! I wanna die with the Parade vinyl in my hands!

Dirty Mind is my second fav from Prince! I love to dance to it! See ->

Dirty Mind is a crazy ass album, but in a good way. Sister is gonna blow Ur mind.

Parade is a very cool album some classical,jazzyful,R&B beats. I think that there is a lot of good songs on that album. I hope U enjoy it.

Rinluv said:

Just listened to both, very, very good albums. My collection is almost complete.

Shorty said:

Absolutely!!!!! Parade is the best and I love the movie "Under the Cherry Moon" Prince is so handsome in this movie!!!
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loisclark88 said:

Probably my 2 favorite Prince CDs...certainly the ones that felt the most groundbreaking in terms of creating his own sound

MidnightFunk said:

GodzHand said:

Fucking great albums both of 'em!! You're in for a treat!!

Two masterpieces in their own way.

GodzHand said:

Funny that you'd get to listen to both of these albums for the first time at the same time. When Parade first came out I remember a lot of critics saying that Prince had returned to the raw funk of Dirty Mind. Can you sense any similarities? To me, maybe with "New Position" and "Kiss"

Cheek said:

lol look wendy and lisa are like.."we were once moderators you know? and prince is all "'''''shut it!"

Dirty Mind is my favorite Prince album of all time. Parade's pretty good but it ain't got that raw funk feel that i love, like dirty mind does...don't know why critics said it did.... some of it's a bit too jazzy and orchestral for me.. still wicked tho.
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Parade is a strong album, if not a tad overproduced. I like the minimalist approach of Kiss and New Position and dare someone not to perk up when Mountains comes on (I love the whole song but the first thirty seconds or so are the best part of the song). Life Can Be So Nice, Anotherloverholenyohead (horrible title but great old school soul) and the slightly overrated but still good Sometimes it Snows are also favorites. I'm not crazy about Christpher Tracy's Parade and Do U Lie may be one of the most boring songs he ever produced. I also never really got the appeal of Girls and Boys. Overall, the album belongs just below the cannon of "great Prince albums" in my book.

Dirty Mind is raw and a tad dated but filled with bits of brilliance. It is the first album where it seemed like Prince was trying to create the persona of Prince and not just making music. The ambisexual punk funk revolutionary rebel was born on this album and that is why the album will always be an important one. Strongly recommend for historical perspective but also because it is a pretty freaking good record.

Christopher said:

"Dirty Mind" is one of the best Prince albums of the 1980s and "Parade" is one of the worst.

well from hearing those two albums yesterday. i love them both. but Dirty Mind has a new wave feel to it. while Parade has kinda a jazz feel to it. but all in all they are great albums.

I like them but in my opinion they are a little overrated. At least for me. They are so different I can see how divided people are on them. Dirty Mind sounds very dated but I like the songs. It is just not some of the songs that make me wanna dance around. I'm not saying that it isn't an amazing album but it is kinda like a person in that era putting an old James Brown record. It is awsome but it definatly takes you there to that era. You didn't experience that time first hand so it is not personal...you feel kinda removed from the music.

Parade is intersting....I love many of the songs on the album but alot of the music seems very cold to me and too impersonal if that makes sense. Very intresting but I can't dance to it. It is more for listening I think.

Dirty Mind is probably one of the dirtiest little albums Prince ever wrote, composed, arranged, and performed. Yes, all of the songs are dated and they are demoes, but you have to admire the production. It's so rough and raw, but the overall album is fresh. The first time I heard sister, it scared the hell out of me. Overall, it's an excellent album.

Parade, on the other hand, is a personal favorite of mine. It was a more accessible version of Around The World In A Day for me. The album as a whole is classy and it is a mix of jazz, european funk, soul that just blends together so smoothly. The production is interesting and very lust. The "expanded" Revolution band is at their best here and Prince, as always is just explosive!
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MidnightFunk said:

and there it is, in a nutshell


two of my alltime faves right thurr

It seems to me that Parade works best as a whole album together more than any of the others except PR. Maybe its because its a soundtrack, so all the songs have related subjects, but somehow it just all clicks.
Dirty Mind is a great album, lots of good tracks, but it doesnt gel together as well as Parade.

DIRTY MIND TO ME IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!! I LOVE THAT RAW APEAL THE ALBUM HAS...AS WELL AS CONTROVERSY AND PARTS OF 1999...MY ALL TIME FAVORITE IS HEAD CUZ ITS SOOOO NASTY.. AND EXPLICITE KINDA LIKE OLD SCHOOL 1980S PORN

SCARLETTPUZY said:

Go home, turn off the phone and do not answer the door.

Put on Dirty Mind, and listen to the whole thing three times through.

Clean yourself off (you may want to shower), and do the same thing with Parade.

You will never be the same.

My husband had never been a fan of Prince, he tolerated him, at best. He use to be in the habit of using my portable cd player while jogging. I always would have "Parade" in there and just always assumed he changed the cd, when he used it. Until the day I hear him in the shower singing in the distance....Girls and Boys!!
I have never let him forget this.