I've been having a bit of a Prince CD spree and brought 3 of his albums in HMV earlier this week.
One of those albums was "Parade"
Having given it a quick listen over I was only digging 2 of it's tracks.
"Kiss" and "Anotherloverholenyohead"
Then, by chance I left the CD running till the end and was absoulutely entranced by "Sometimes It Snows In April"
OMG!
It must be the best ballad ever written.
Please share your thoughts on this AMAZING track

Indeed, one of the man's finest works and perhaps the best song on Parade.

Give the album a few spins, and the rest of the songs should click with you - The first 4 tracks are my favorites, as they're sequenced in a really cool way - For some reason they remind me of walking down a street and running into several totally different parties or something.

One of my favorite Prince tracks ever. Hauntingly beautiful.

Great, great, but you better prepare for some heat... 2 tracks?!?!

This song was performed so well on the acoustic part of the LA Musicology tour opening...

calldapplwondery83 said:

HEAT INDEED!!!!!

2 TRACKS?? That's IT??? 2 Tracks???

Mountains? New Position? Life Can Be So Nice? Do You Like?

The WHOLE CD is bangin'. It's different from anything he's done, but consists of some of his nouveau-funkiest works!

But I digress... Sometimes it Snows... is a very nice song. I had a friend of mine get hit by a car right around the time of that albums release. He didn't die, but he was never the same. That song reminds me of him whenever I hear it.

But I digress again... 2 SONGS?????

Clean out the earwax!!! lol...

Enjoy the CD newbie!

You didn't even like "Girls and Boys"?

"Those kind of cars don't pass u every day"

One of my all time favourite Prince lyrics.

Give the album a few more spins. It is a grower.

It took me a while to really like it, but it's great !

Mountains is also amazing.
This is without a doubt my favorite Prince song ever.

And yup, Sometimes it snows in April is fantastic.

I guess mountains is a pretty cool track as well...

Sometimes It Snows is my least fave track on that album...but Parade ROCKS!

Mountains
Girls & Boys
New Position
Kiss

those are the jams...

Didn't he do all the drums to the first four songs in one sitting, without any breaks inbetween?

8up said:

mjfanatic said:

I found it to be an amazing Joni Mitchell style ballad when I first heard it. It's one of my favorite songs from that era. I was always disappointed that he never did anything similar in the future but then discovered that Wendy & Lisa wrote the music for this and Mountains. If you like the style of those tracks you might like their first album, too.

It is one of my favorites from PARADE along with Mountains and Kiss

...an album that you have to listen to in one sitting with headphones...I can't just pick tracks out of it...kind of like The Rainbow Children.

BananaCologne said:

And on blank tape, too!

mjfanatic said:

Do you often by chance leave the CD running til the end? Is this a form of behaviour for you that tends to happen frequently?

While I haven't heard every single track Prince has ever released, SISIA is probably my personal favourite - IF I had to chose. The lyrics are so fantastic and the music is heartbreaking. A mini-masterpiece!

calldapplwondery83 said:

Again I'm impressed with how much you all know...where do you learn things like this...??? (maybe it's here on the forum!)

its when i read threads like this i get really jealous.
I mean how amazing would it be to be discovering the entire back catalogue for the first time, now.




although you might want to do something about your avatar.

PurpleRein said:

The Uptown/Per Nielsen books like Days of Wild or Turn It Up 2.0 are a realy treasure island for little Prince anecdotes. Mostly coming from recording engineers (sp? ) like Susan Rogers, in this case.

I cried the first time I heard it. One of my top 5's.

M

Yawn

speaking of.....


i just got this parade tour cd and it has to be one of the last shows, if not THE last.
iw as wondering, is WENDY CRYING during this song? her voice is quivering really bad in most spots and it soudns like she is losing it a lil bit.

anybody kno?

its sad to listen to, all things considering what would happen a week or so later

Prince also says "Wendy and Lisa" in such an unusual voice after the song ended.


BTW, how exactly did it go down, W&L said to him that they wanted to quit the Revolution (as I understand it, as touring members) but wanted to keep doing music with him and then he decided to getrid of the Revolution altogether?

I don't really understand the reports on this sometimes, because they say that W&L told Prince they wanted to quit but the same books/reports also say that Prince fired them? How does that go together?

"she had the cutest ass he'd ever seen...."

calldapplwondery83 said:

No, W&L intended to quit the band, period, back in early '86. From the reports, it seems like they really wanted to contribute more, artistically, but would never have room for growth with Prince and due to Prince's controlling nature would not let them work with other artists, either. Prince actually dispatched Bobby Z to go and stop them at the airport. IIRC, Alan Leeds negotiated with them to stay on. After the Parade tour was over, Prince invited them up to his house and sacked them, then called Bobby Z while they were still there and sacked him, too, saying he was disbanding the Revolution.

Not a album I really play too often but Moutains, Anotherlover., Kiss, and New Position are definite jems for me. I just can't get into Sometimes it Snows in April though

I love hearing the song done live. The ONA DVD and box set versions sound great. And when do we get to hear the Musicology versions?