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Thread started 10/22/02 7:28pm

rdhull

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the best parts of Parade

The best parts of Parade:

the transitional drumming from New Position to I Wonder U to UTCM. He supposedly did all the drumming for three songs in one take.

The bass on New Position..sweet

The slow groove of I Wonder U..and the ending of it with that heaviness...and that muted horn throughout..and the girls laid back vocal...and the geetar picking at the very end

In UTCM where Prince goes "thats alright" in the breakdown bridge..and U can hear the horns having a field day with headphones

How Girls and Boys has that push me pull you rubbery bottom like Bowies Fame. When the girls sing I Love U Baby, I Love U so Much--damn!The kazoo keyboard and the linn drum "kuhh!" sound at the end

how Life Can Be So Nice starts up real fast and has that "kah" sound at the beginning with the keyboard lines..then it stops when Prince starts to sing...when he says "Kisses never lie" it all starts up again--this is Roadhouse Garden material--really.
Then near the end it all comes crashing together with the vocals going wild! the drums live being played furiosly, then it ends

how Venus just pops up giving the sense of having just reached climax and now your laying there letting it happen....and the mournful horns polaying near the end--I picture an overcast dock when they play..and that last piano key played

then the very best part is the opening of Mountains..that linn drum making it like rubber and the "puhc puck' sounds interlaces throughout the fake heavy drums...the falsetto--nice and "dry"...the part that says "the sea would one day overflow with all your tears, and love will always leave ya lonely"..the ethereal choir (or is it synth) that gets higher in register...the horn blasts like staccato keyoard synths..the break fucking down...the part where he says "guitar and drums on the one, huh!"..then the guitar strumming..slurp..then part where he goes "and the girls say/sing"...

the bass seprated in Do U Lie...when he says "mama mama" or something like that..and when he comes back for the bridge and says "when I lie..."

the JB geetar lick that opens Kiss..almost like a reverse of when Venus starts, inside out..the push push sound like moving furniture...the denseness of the production..sounds like its "air tight"...the drum sound and that synth tha spounds like nothing else...the wah wah geetar part..saying Dynasty, one of the only few pop culture references hes ever used..the ending geetar licks like its being strangled

the droning strains of Anotherlover..and the drums beating like they're waitng for something..then the boom of the piano and sludge...the bottomness of the whole song..his lackadaisical singing..(this song is POP Life inside out btw)...how the girls etc sing with Prince a few beats behind then it all comes together for the chrous after the second verse...the geetar strains in th e bridge..and when he says "baaad"...thers gonna be a riot and when they say that thers that piano key rise real quick


Sometimes Snows In April..The "ahs ahs oh ohhhs", the tuba sounding Prince singing with that first ones..then the real horn blwoing...the strumming of the acoustic...the chorus voices mixed on the title part and when they sing "sometinmes I feel so bad"...when he says "now looking at his picture I realize"...
[This message was edited Tue Oct 22 19:47:03 PDT 2002 by rdhull]
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Reply #1 posted 10/22/02 7:33pm

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DAMN, I love this thread... woot!
heart prince I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it prince heart
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Reply #2 posted 10/22/02 7:52pm

TRON

You're making me want to listen to this right now!
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Reply #3 posted 10/22/02 7:55pm

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Oh, and when they say "you dont understand face to face" in Anotherlover..fuck me!
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Reply #4 posted 10/22/02 8:18pm

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Cool post RD. biggrin
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Reply #5 posted 10/22/02 9:08pm

althom

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I'm going to listen to that album right now!
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Reply #6 posted 10/22/02 9:13pm

Moonbeam

Wonderful, wonderful post.
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Reply #7 posted 10/22/02 10:05pm

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Excellent Post. That is why Parade is my favorite Prince album. I think I'll listen to a song right now.
I'm not a fan of "old Prince". I'm not a fan of "new Prince". I'm just a fan of Prince. Simple as that
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Reply #8 posted 10/22/02 10:31pm

waterhead

You are a pimp, rdhull.
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Reply #9 posted 10/23/02 12:37am

starbuck

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Whenever I used 2 play the Parade album I tended 2 have this feeling that I couldn't shake, I'd be playing the album for weeks and revisit all the 12" and outtakes of that period, i was truly in a Parade mood smile Thinking about it, it's the only album that ever gave me those periods smile
Though Gold experience came very close!!!

I guess Parade really deserved it's high ranking in the Survivor series smile

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Reply #10 posted 10/23/02 1:19am

EDD

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the advantages of vinyl,

At that time,
you could easely see
that parade was the album I played the most,

wasn't parade all black and white ?
well, my copy is grey!
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Reply #11 posted 10/23/02 2:49am

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Wow, this thread has made a dull morning in an office in London a lot brighter...are you a musician yourself?
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Reply #12 posted 10/23/02 4:06am

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rdhull, i be jonesing for some Parade... right NOW!! Thank you for your cool words. Could you do this with some of the other albums as well? I be listening.
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Reply #13 posted 10/23/02 4:55am

milty

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if anyone ever gets their hands on the sheet music to this album you should. Cuz it looks like a classical score, it even looks a piece of art. beautiful.
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Reply #14 posted 10/23/02 5:14am

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rdhull said:

Oh, and when they say "you dont understand face to face" in Anotherlover..fuck me!


Oh yes! Also, on the Detroit Parade live video, Wendy's face when she's singing this line makes me go "woah" every time!

Actually, the song that got me into Prince in the first place was Mountains. It was so fresh and different to anything that was in the charts at that time so I went out and bought the 12". And once I heard the extended version and the Alexa De Paris B-Side, that was it, hooked for life!
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Reply #15 posted 10/23/02 5:23am

CrozzaUK

This album is just too good. I can listen to it again and again and hear something new every time. Ive read that it was touted as a disappointment when it came out, after the perfection that was Kiss, but i cant see how anyone would think that. It has everything an album should have and i cant see many ways it could have been improved.

Kiss is without a doubt the most complete song prince has ever recorded...perfect in every way. The clattering rhythms of Life can be so nice and Mountains, the unquestionable funk of Girls & boys / Anotherlover... The beauty of the lyrcis and melody to Sometimes it snows...

Apparantly prince was never happy with the album (particularly the final version of Kiss), but was too busy with other projects to spend time fine tuning it. This is baffling to me as I can't think of how it could have been improved other than adding extra songs (like all my dreams) but this may have ruined the flow of the album.

It is the easiest prince album to listen to completely as there is nothing to skip, it's short, and the sequencing is brilliant. Nuff said!
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Reply #16 posted 10/23/02 6:00am

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Always thought "Life Could Be So Nice" was too short.

That build at the end, gettin' all crazy, then poot.

It's over.

Always wished for one of those extended versions of that song.


Deffinately my favorite on that album.
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Reply #17 posted 10/23/02 6:14am

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rdhull said:

The best parts of Parade:

the transitional drumming from New Position to I Wonder U to UTCM. He supposedly did all the drumming for three songs in one take.

The bass on New Position..sweet

The slow groove of I Wonder U..and the ending of it with that heaviness...and that muted horn throughout..and the girls laid back vocal...and the geetar picking at the very end

In UTCM where Prince goes "thats alright" in the breakdown bridge..and U can hear the horns having a field day with headphones

How Girls and Boys has that push me pull you rubbery bottom like Bowies Fame. When the girls sing I Love U Baby, I Love U so Much--damn!The kazoo keyboard and the linn drum "kuhh!" sound at the end

how Life Can Be So Nice starts up real fast and has that "kah" sound at the beginning with the keyboard lines..then it stops when Prince starts to sing...when he says "Kisses never lie" it all starts up again--this is Roadhouse Garden material--really.
Then near the end it all comes crashing together with the vocals going wild! the drums live being played furiosly, then it ends

how Venus just pops up giving the sense of having just reached climax and now your laying there letting it happen...and the mournful horns polaying near the end--I picture an overcast dock when they play..and that last piano key played

then the very best part is the opening of Mountains..that linn drum making it like rubber and the "puhc puck' sounds interlaces throughout the fake heavy drums...the falsetto--nice and "dry"...the part that says "the sea would one day overflow with all your tears, and love will always leave ya lonely"..the ethereal choir (or is it synth) that gets higher in register...the horn blasts like staccato keyoard synths..the break fucking down...the part where he says "guitar and drums on the one, huh!"..then the guitar strumming..slurp..then part where he goes "and the girls say/sing"...

the bass seprated in Do U Lie...when he says "mama mama" or something like that..and when he comes back for the bridge and says "when I lie..."

the JB geetar lick that opens Kiss..almost like a reverse of when Venus starts, inside out..the push push sound like moving furniture...the denseness of the production..sounds like its "air tight"...the drum sound and that synth tha spounds like nothing else...the wah wah geetar part..saying Dynasty, one of the only few pop culture references hes ever used..the ending geetar licks like its being strangled

the droning strains of Anotherlover..and the drums beating like they're waitng for something..then the boom of the piano and sludge...the bottomness of the whole song..his lackadaisical singing..(this song is POP Life inside out btw)...how the girls etc sing with Prince a few beats behind then it all comes together for the chrous after the second verse...the geetar strains in th e bridge..and when he says "baaad"...thers gonna be a riot and when they say that thers that piano key rise real quick


Sometimes Snows In April..The "ahs ahs oh ohhhs", the tuba sounding Prince singing with that first ones..then the real horn blwoing...the strumming of the acoustic...the chorus voices mixed on the title part and when they sing "sometinmes I feel so bad"...when he says "now looking at his picture I realize"...
[This message was edited Tue Oct 22 19:47:03 PDT 2002 by rdhull]


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Reply #18 posted 10/23/02 7:27am

vivid

Very cool. THanks. My favourite album too (most of the time)
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Reply #19 posted 10/23/02 7:50am

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possibly his most "artistic" album. so colorful. he achieved a whole new sound with this one that hasn't been duplicated by anyone, including himself. he would never again sound like he did here.
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Reply #20 posted 10/23/02 9:15am

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Divine rdhull yay!
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Reply #21 posted 10/23/02 9:36am

Shorty

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mr.green
yeah! I love parade! and love your take on it rdhull smile
"not a fan" falloff yeah...ok
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Reply #22 posted 10/23/02 9:46am

EchoOfMySoul

Oh yeah babe, yet another Brilliant album!

Hey - thanks for the review nod


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Reply #23 posted 10/23/02 10:06am

milkyway

MOUNTIANS!!!
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Reply #24 posted 10/23/02 10:29am

papaa

PARADE IS SIMPLY...
A trip!

I love the bridge in Do U Lie - the dreamy background vocals with Prince's voiceover: "(Do U Lie / You're not around / I wear a frown)"

Truly adorable.
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Reply #25 posted 10/23/02 11:35am

CherryMoon

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And people ask why I call myself CherryMoon.

You have said it all. Parade is Truly one of my Top 5 Albums.

And I think the movie is hilarious also.


Your description is almost poetic. Thanks




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Reply #26 posted 10/23/02 11:45am

NuPwrSoul

paisley2002 said:


Have u ever considered writing 4 Rolling Stone? nod


frill tho. this is the bomb thread mad cool

You really captured it.
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Reply #27 posted 10/23/02 11:48am

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Parade is one long beautiful trip. This is one of Princes albums that gets a perfect 10 rating from me smile
I could listen to this album 24/7 and never get tired of it.
"The little 1 will escort u 2 the places within ur mind"
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Reply #28 posted 10/23/02 12:10pm

TheResistor

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One of my all time faves...hey can we have more brilliant reviews like this for the other albums...say lovesexy, SOTT...you definately know how to capture the "sound" with the written word...
rainbow

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literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry
while getting it wrong fundamentally
down at the church of "look, it says right here, see!" - ani difranco
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Reply #29 posted 10/23/02 12:31pm

Pagey

Great review for a great album. My all time fave Prince album. It has been since the 1st listen. It also has aged the best of all of 'em, in my opinion. Thanks for the wonderful words!
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