Man, I think that PRINCE is the VERY BEST when it comes down to DARK/EDGY music, almost every LP/SONG got some dark/edgy sides(well except the 1st 2 lps). In my openion, Come & 1999 are the MOST haven't heard the Black LP tho,,,
[This message was edited Mon Jul 15 14:00:45 PDT 2002 by Harlepolis]

"When I Lay My Hands On U"
Is the one that pops immediatley to mind. something about that song...it has an air of menace to it.
darkest album? The Black album. Why? Cause there is none more blacker...(Spinal Tap)

Song: 'Wasted Kisses' - chilling.
Album: Black album, what else could it be?

"There is Lonely"
"There's Others Here With Us"

There's Others Here With Us
Crystal Ball
The Future
Dance With The Devil
Bob George
Shockadelica
Power Fantastic

These songs will send chills up and down your spine.

"Smack, Smack oooh papa papa..."

Don't abuse children...

Solo
Something in the Water
-Sherm Stick edit(Let it Go)
Bob George

Bob George
Pheremone
Something In The Water
Annie Christian
Papa
Starfish & Coffee

Dance with the devil...& dig u better dead

"others here with us"...that song creeps me the phuc out.

Condition of the heart
Strange Relationship
Sometimes it snows in April
Solo
Dark

Others here with us
Had U
Dig U Better Dead
There is lonely
Papa
What's my name
Wasted Kisses

From Sunny Spain.

stevenpaul said:[quote]"When I Lay My Hands On U"
Is the one that pops immediatley to mind. something about that song...it has an air of menace to it.


Do you feel it is threatening stevenpaul?

Rebirth of the Flesh... it's all over you.

is it an american thing to spell opinion - openion ?

it's annoying me.

Song - Others here with us
LP - Come ( I know everybody says that the Black album is his dark one, and it is, but the Come album is just the edgest one he's done in a while )

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

me too..i've prolly only listened to it about 3 times...

There's a certain flavour on ATWIAD that is a bit dark.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Good choice.
I agree.
Just look at the pics on the Come lp &
Letitgo cd single:
creepy...
I also L O V E the song SOLO.
A lot of ppl don't like it, but
I find it very effective.
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as a Album Around the World in a Day&the Black Album.both kinda Creppy to me overall. as for Songs:Old Friends 4 Sale Original Version.

Billy's Sunglasses

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Never heard it.

Therapy said:

I Agree with you 110% it seems like a Bad Acid Trip or a Dark time out at the Park.

that's odd, I never think of ATWIAD in this way. It's moody but I wouldn't say dark.

i have to agree with organgrinder, i never hear that sinister edge to ATWIAD either.

i'd just like to say that i really love prince. i mean, we all do. but today i was listening on the walkman to 1999 (the album) and then the cassette single IIWYG/shockadelica; and, hmm, you know when you just remember how much you love prince and it hits you again all over and you haven't had that HIT hit you so hard for awhile and you carry on walking and listening and thinking "i really am glad i'm on the planet at the same time as this man, this is really good fun" and shockadelica gets to the bit with all the orchestral hits and you get goosebumps even though it's a very sunny day...

i mean, brr!

back on topic, parade and sott give me the chills because the "engines" of the songs are so rare and tweaked and freaky and dark and flickery and refined and fucking nuts. on parade i'm thinking especially of anotherloverholenyohead, and if you listen to the 12" (maybe my favourite prince 12" a-side), you can hear that engine powering along, supercool... listen near the end, the "put your love on the rock"... that to me is sinister, controlled stuff, it's impeccable.

on SOTT there's just loads more. i mean, when you get a really good listen of "housequake" and you can hear, i mean really HEAR, how it works; and you get inside its landscape... that stuff is urban, abstract, higher plane funk, that stuff is engine music.

how about "strange relationship", again, it's just one solid solid canvas for prince to paint on. it's a solid engine and he drives it so well.

this to me is edgy, wild wild wild.

Tiger, I agree 1000%. Housequake is the higher plane of funkiness. It is a machine. You get on and it won't let you off until the last skip of the scratchy record.

I think God has a very spooky kind of edge to it. The vocals of that song just hit you right in the soul. I can only imagine what Prince's emotions were like as he sang it. It must have been powerful, you can hear it all over his voice.

man, "hot thing" is flipping nutty too. the bit in (if memory serves) the first instrumental break where the guitar takes over the keyboard line just once and never again. i'd been listening to that song for years before i noticed that. the tone of the guitar just roaring up at the back of the mix is SO taut and lustful it just about blew my head off.

back to ATWIAD, i like to compare it to the album lovesexy. both albums detail times in prince's life of some religious epiphany, and they seem highly connected to me. as if they are somehow versions of each other. ATWIAD, it has been said, is prince's most "organic" and least electronic album of the 80s, with the emphasis on traditional instruments higher than on his other albums. then look at lovesexy, which is what you get after prince has been through the enormous and inspired evolutions of parade and SOTT. like ATWIAD, it is a very personal and idiosyncratic "kooky" album. nine tracks long...

for me lovesexy is the strung-out abstraction of ATWIAD. "positivity" is "temptation" put through the mill and turned from hellfire r&b into strange control music. "positivity" freaks me out, it's so great. it's down the line with that high-pitched beat, straight down the line. strange control stuff.

i'm not sure people know what i'm talking about here, but this for me is prince's edginess, when it doesn't sound like anything but what it is, when it doesn't sound like anything except what prince wanted it to sound like. "all the critics love u in new york", "the beautiful ones", others that just sock it to me as well...

thanks for listening, it's late and i need some sleep.

Pheromone
Melt W/ U

There Is Lonely
Solo
Papa

Bob George and Papa...

1999? Sometimes it Snows in April? Come on. I couldn't have come up with a more half-assed reply if I had tried.

Papa
Solo