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psychodelicide said:

Thank you. 36 is the new 25!!!

I bought the Let's Go Crazy single and was playing Erotic City. My parents heard the record and made me destroy it. I was hooked on Prince ever since.

Ok so does anyone else think it's strange that MJ died on the 25th anniversary day that Purple Rain was released???

His best album for sure,

Prince will never top Purple Rain

Ah Purple Rain. My mom took my brother to see this in the theater when it came out. I didn't get to see it on the big screen cuz I wasn't born yet. She did however make me watch it on vhs when i was around 10. Then, I hated it. I found it pretty boring and I thought Prince was weird (in an unappealing way, probably thanks to Darling Nikki). That didn't stop me from wanting to be Morris though. Several years later I rewatched it and I became hooked on Prince.... and the Revolution. Now I'd rather be Wendy. Purple Rain will no doubt remain my fav movie of all time!

On this date in 1984, Prince released the "Purple Rain" album.

http://music-mix.ew.com/2...rsary.html

[link added by anx ]

LIBRA said:

wrong date, I'm sure someone has corrected this. It was July 27th 1984. Not quite yet.

thedance said:

Thats just SO WRONG !!!

Dare I say it? Purple Rain is not my favourite Prince song. Neither is it my favourite album. Maybe this is because I wasn't there at the time. Maybe its because I've heard it 3 billion times (Ironically Joy in repetition is my Purple Rain) or maybe its because it's simply not his best work.

I am sure that the album has paid for many a pair of hand made silk boxer shorts, funny shaped guitars, golden walking sticks and dates with some of the worlds hottest babes, but he too must be bored to death with it by now. Maybe thats why he, quite controversially, stopped playing it at gigs for a while. Maybe its why he tried tarnishing the films golden success by following it up with Graffiti Bridge, the worlds worst ever film (sorry, the worlds most misunderstood film). Or maybe thats why he wrote 22 new albums since!

Yes, 25 years have passed and the album still sounds great, but I find it quite sad that despite those 25 years and the 22 albums they have spawned, people still say, "Prince? OK, apart from Purple Rain what else has he done?".

So to all of you Prince fanatics that find this article blasphemous, move on and remember - if you stand in the rain for too long you'll never get a sun tan.

My first exposure to the whole phenomenon was when a friend played "When Doves Cry" for me on his radio after the single had just started getting airplay. I didn't think much of it at the time honestly (where's the bass?), but then I saw the TV ads for the movie and that's what did it. "Let's Go Crazy" and "I Would Die 4 U" set to a rapid-fire montage of an exquisitely dressed man and his band--I had to get that album right then and there. Needless to say I loved the LP from start to finish.

My mom took me later to see the movie and we arrived late and missed the whole "Let's Go Crazy/Jungle Love" opening scene! Theaters were a lot more lax back then so we just stayed until the next showing and watched the beginning then left. I've since seen the movie more times than any other film.

I remember being in a mall in Muncie, Indiana (lol) when the album was released...my college roommate and I were already big Prince fans but for some reason we didn't really keep track of when Purple Rain was being released (we would stop and stare tranfixed on the tv, though, whenever the video for "When Doves Cry" came on)...

I was in a Hallmark store or some small stupid store just mucking around...and there was a record store across the mall from where I was. All of a sudden I heard the screams from the end of "The Beautiful Ones" blaring throughout the tiny small town mall, and I said "What the hell is that!" lol...I went over to the record store, and just stood in the entry way listening, then said "Holy shit...that's Prince!"...the cashier smiled and nodded. My roommate saw me and walked over, and I pointed to the air inside the record store, said "Prince", his eyes got wide, and he bought the album on the spot

My roommate, my girlfriend and I all sat around together listending to the album...only time in my life I ever listened to a new album with other people like that. We wore that album OUT ...Also remember the VJs on MTV playing "Darling Nikki" backwards and talking about the message at the end of it...it was like a discussion group about Prince and the Purple Rain album. Made everything seem even more important at the time.