listened to this for the first time in ages last night....what a perfect album...short but sweet and the running order is perfect....
so buy it/listen to it asap and PARTYUP !!!!

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Due to Prince's large catalog of songs I haven't heard much of his earlier stuff, but recently I've been listening to some of his earlier shit like Dirty Mind. It's just brilliant. When You Were Mine is one of his greatest songs. One question though, why's all his singing done in falsetto?

I just watched the dvd the first time last night and I looooove it!!!Great picture and sound quality and that band rawked!!!!

SEXYMOFO said:

Wow....I keep aging but my picture does not.....

It is a stunning album. One of the most explicit and rawest albums of the 80's. I wrote a review for it a month ago, read it here and please rate it if you can: http://www.amazon.com/gp/...96-7050525

possibly my favorite P album.

It is a pretty great album but not one of my fav's. Certainly worth a listen every so often tho.

It's the first album where P started to find his way, image wise. This was the blueprint for the superstardom he would later achieve with Purple Rain. From this album onwards, his attitude, imagery, using the letter "u" as opposed to "you", etc. His famed studded trenchcoat started here. This album is paramount in terms of how the world would latter relate to Prince. Overall, I think this album is a better album than "Controversy" album. It's more focased.

blackguitaristz said:

Although the song "Controversy" is one of my all-time favorite songs of Prince's.

I absolutely love this album, it along with a few others is always in my #1 prince album rotation. I remember getting the record and having to sneak it home. That and it fit on one side of a 60 minute blank tape. I don't mind short albums when they are this good. You just end up playing it a couple times in a row : )

Rhastus said:

It's definately a good album. I remember going to get the album when it first came out. Seeing the album cover was VERY odd. I'm eleven years old and shit, and I'm thinking "What the fuck?" Even the backside of the album isn't much better. By then, I was already kneedeep into cats like KISS, Parliament/Funkadelic, Bowie, Iggy, Rick James, etc. The more flashy the better. BUT, Prince at this stage, was definately looking, um,..strange. I remember feeling kinda uncomfortable taking the album up to the counter to pay for it. I remember the dude behind the register looking at the cover with this disgusted look on his face. And then he looked at me, this little 11 year old black kid with this huge afro like I was crazy. Oh well, the album is still killin'!

blackguitaristz said:

- I understand how you feel...the cover is indeed embarassing, but it´s a great album

SEXYMOFO said:

I TOTALLY forgot about When You were mine! Awesome song! Thanks.....now I have to dig it out and listen to it! I loved it when Cindi Lauper sang it, then when I became a Prince fan YEARS later.....well.....I'm sure you can imagine my falling in love w/it all over again!

GustavoRibas said:

How is the cover embarassing?

BeautifulOneJem said:

A 21-year old in a tight speedo with a coat with no shirt and a pensive attitude on his face? Isn't that really embarassing? My answer is YES!

No true Prince fan should be without this album, I don't care what anyone says. It's in the top 5 of best Prince albums. A true 80's funk classic!

Thats perfectly true!.....couldn't say it better. P's earlier work is his best in my opinion, so fonky!!!

This is my second favorite Prince album of all time. This one definately proved that Prince was a bad ass.

silverchild said:

he wasn't embarrassed to rock it. so why should you find it as such?

The world was not ready for this album in 1980. If I am not mistaken, it was one of the first if not the first album to come with some sort of warning sticker pertaining to the lyrics. This album is raw, funky and daring. The last four songs are as good as any album out there.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Yeah, I guess you're right. Prince was at the most riskest point of his career before the LOVESEXY-era, where he posed naked and turned off most of the public. The man was and probably still not scared of taking chances. That was a great point, Handclapsfingasnapz!

vainandy said:

I listened to the song "Dirty Mind" this week and it is definately an excellent song. The arrangement of the vocals, the instruments, especially when the beat slowed down a bit at the end. Great song.

It is not so much embarassing I think. What it really is, is the strange look u usually get and the explaination some people want, like someone said earlier. It happened to me last month! Of course as Prince fans we have grown a thick skin to this shit, especially the 'Prince is gay' stuff. All I really say to them is, " Ring it up or shut up!" then, I go about my merry way.


but...
How embarassed would u have been if the affectionately dubbed ' Wet rat pic' was the cover of Dirty Mind instead?
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