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PrintableGenesia said: paisley16 said: this would be incorrect as the first live Prince show I ever saw was for Parade at Madison Square Garden....I don't recall if there was a full blown tour but there were some dates at least. One US date does not a US tour make. It was actually 10 dates ( 2 were @ the garden)... he just hit up some key location....NY,LA,Detroit,etc..... | |
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Wonderwall said: This is THE album imo that has aged the best over the years. When it came out I, of course, loved it, but I really listened to the "highlights"...AKA, Kiss, Girls & Boys, Mountains, and Anotherlover...it took me a few years to appreciate it as a whole. Now when I put it on i have to listen to it from beginning to end. It has so much going on within each song and then the next song totally switches gears. Its just as fresh now as it was then. I personally think it IS one of his best.
it's probably his best sequenced album. i love the way the songs contrast and complement each other. this is probably widely known here, but d'angelo's song "africa" was inspired by parade. d'angelo and ?uestlove supposedly played the entire album and then recorded "africa." | |
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BT11 said: I know it is a fan's favorite, but Sign 'O' The Times, Dirty Mind and even 1999 are always the critics darlings. SOTT for its diversity, Dirty Mind for the groundbreaking lyrics and new wave and punk influences and 1999 obviously for the irresistable combination of electro and funk.
I get that, but none of these albums can match the exciting arrangements of tracks like Life Can Be So Nice and Mountains, don't have something extremely catchy as Kiss and Girls & Boys. The whole sound of Parade is so highly original and fresh, not to mention the instrumentation! To me it's his artistic peak. I know it's a matter of opinion but I mean this pure technically, so especially for the musicians and long time fans over here: Why isn't Parade considered Prince's artistic highlight? Hope you guys can help me out! Because it's too quirky for the average listener. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. -Miles Davis- | |
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Some folks was still pissed off that he didn't do Purple Rain II. | |
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its a beautiful, varied album with more musical shades and textures than anything since maybe, rainbow children.
a welcomed break from the linn dominated backbeats but shows some dating with the gated reverb on a lot of the tracks (a positive characteristic i think). girls and boys is my favourite live track and venus de milo is a wonderful piece (which i played to a friend last week who agreed and couldn't believe prince wrote it). kiss still doesnt fit though somehow. |
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yeah I do go Come and Rainbow Children over Parade.
this is not on the relative merits of songwriting, it's on the overall vibe and effect of the complete Albums.Headspace as much as tunes, I enjoy the intellectual part of Prince's work (or what I imagine them to be) and the actual playing of instruments and their respective challanges. (O.K. I like Jazz Fusion ssssshhhhh). Come was the best thing musically for me in its year of release and TRC blew my mind... I genuinely didnt think the Man had it in him. Well pleased to be proven very wrong. | |
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Maybe because it could have been even better. | |
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'Cause it ain't IGGNANT. ~ I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR ~
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Who the fuck cares what critics say...  | |
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Try and do a google search or something for the reviews of Parade from 1986... history, I know... you'll soon discover that it was a well appreciated album and a media favourite as well as a fan one. | |
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great album |
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foal30 said: yeah I do go Come and Rainbow Children over Parade.
this is not on the relative merits of songwriting, it's on the overall vibe and effect of the complete Albums.Headspace as much as tunes, I enjoy the intellectual part of Prince's work (or what I imagine them to be) and the actual playing of instruments and their respective challanges. (O.K. I like Jazz Fusion ssssshhhhh). Come was the best thing musically for me in its year of release and TRC blew my mind... I genuinely didnt think the Man had it in him. Well pleased to be proven very wrong. I agree come is brilliant! | |
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BoySimon said: Try and do a google search or something for the reviews of Parade from 1986... history, I know... you'll soon discover that it was a well appreciated album and a media favourite as well as a fan one.
Yes a favourite, but not like Dirty Mind, 1999 and SOTT.  | |
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parade is just like this one off album he made. sounds nothing like anything else he was doing then. it remains my favorite prince album ever.  | |
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Christopher said: parade is just like this one off album he made. sounds nothing like anything else he was doing then. it remains my favorite prince album ever.
I gotta agree...as I get older...I appreciate PARADE more than any other Prince album of his first decade. It is such a beautiful piece of work. In a perfect world I'd die over a re-issue with the B-sides, and tracks meant for the album but left off ('Others Here With Us')...a remastering of the album would make it sound unbelievable...it would take you on a mindtrip for sure...especially the first half of the album! Every minute of last night is on my face today.... | |
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Because it isn't? The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
"You still wanna take me to prison...just because I won't trade humanity for patriotism." | |
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PurpleKnight said: Because it isn't?
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I'm not really a fan of Parade. The production is too thin and cluttered. The songs have no low-end. Waay to much stuff going on for my taste. That being said, I love "Mountains" and "Sometimes it Snows..." A happy face, A Thumpin Bass, For A Lovin' Race. PEACE. | |
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unkemptpueblo said: I'm not really a fan of Parade. The production is too thin and cluttered. The songs have no low-end. Waay to much stuff going on for my taste. That being said, I love "Mountains" and "Sometimes it Snows..."
That's what I love about it! | |
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BT11 said: unkemptpueblo said: I'm not really a fan of Parade. The production is too thin and cluttered. The songs have no low-end. Waay to much stuff going on for my taste. That being said, I love "Mountains" and "Sometimes it Snows..."
That's what I love about it! I feel ya. I like a lot of stuff in the mix as well. Parade doesnt have enough bass to tie it all together for me,though. It seems like somethings missing. Some..oomph. A happy face, A Thumpin Bass, For A Lovin' Race. PEACE. | |
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I consider Parade and ATWIAD to be Prince's carnival albums. Both records are self-consciously theatrical, aware that he's putting on a show. He's not really sharing himself here, just taking the listeners for a ride.
And the frequency of lyrics that start with "everybody" during that period--Everybody's looking for the ladder. Everybody needs a thrill. Everybody on this earth has got a vice. Everyone come behold Christopher Tracy's Parade. He sounds like a carnie, not a serious artist. | |
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