it's one of prince's top slow ballads ever, the opening instrumentation is so strikingly authentic. i love this song

Yes, it's beautiful.

i remember being blown away the first time i heard this song, thinking it was so pretty and dark and emotionally explosive all at the same time. listening to that music for the first time while staring at that album art was a TRIP.

I would listen to that intro over and over. Even before the lyrics begin, the song has run a lovely emotional course. After hearing it the first time, I had to run and ask my parents who Clara Bow was.

That intro, from the heavy, echoing synth sounds to the crescendo and twittering guitars to the use of space and classically-influenced piano chord shifts -- i'm verging on being a broken record tonight -- is textbook Stevie Wonder.

ThreadBare said:

Not only Stevie but The Ohio Players as well.

I friggin LOVE this song! When I first heard this song, I was 8 and I was freaked out by it. When I listened to it again, I was 20 & let me tell you, I fell in love with. I felt like I was in a movie while the song was playing. It's in my top 5 favorite Prince ballads. It's pure class.

Oui.

i literally fell in love with this song last sunday- while hanging clothes on the line

never appreciated it til then- always skipped past it

Love it, Love it, Love it, his vocal range is fantastic!

It would take a more articulate man than me to say how good this song is. I've never heard another song quite like it. Sounds like it was written in a dream. Remarkable.

It's exquisite.

rusty1 said:

whill go and listen againg....never paid good atantion to it.