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Thread started 07/20/09 1:50pm

purpleworld

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Batman Appreciation: 20th Anniversary

20 years ago the Batman soundtrack was released. I love this album! Vicki Waiting is a classic and Electric Chair is a perfect combo of pop/rock, not to mention that the videos were wild!!

Share your love and thoughts on the Batman album!
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Reply #1 posted 07/20/09 1:59pm

ravein2thejoy

Yeah i love this album too

Partyman is my favourite

i loved the videos and his appearence in them was so charasmatic as Gemini

They always make me smile biggrin
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Reply #2 posted 07/20/09 3:04pm

dannyd5050

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20 years!?!?! eek




Shit. confused
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Reply #3 posted 07/20/09 3:08pm

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Batman is an incredible collection of masterful work. I believe the album is completely underrated! It was a clever and creative way to demonstrate a different type of musicianship. The arrangement of “batdance” was like nothing we had heard on the radio before. Love it! biggrin
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Reply #4 posted 07/20/09 4:45pm

nurseV

Damn it's been 20 yrs? eek
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Reply #5 posted 07/20/09 5:58pm

ernestsewell

I JUST brought this album up to my friend today. We were talking about old cars and our first cars. Mine (at age 21) was a 1969 Delta 88. It was HOT, and in near excellent shape. It was my grandpa's, and I got it when he died.

Anyway, the car still had the original AM radio in it. I had a great boombox that I put in the car. I put the speakers in the back floorboard, and the main part of the boombox on the console. (The front seat was one big seat, but there was still a hump in the floor board that I could sit the box on. I sat it on its back so I could turn it off and on, and even hit RECORD when I heard a song on the radio I wanted. (Old habits never die).

This all happened in 1989, and Batman was out that summer. I LOVED when "Batdance" came on the radio. I'd blast it all the way home. Every time I think of the Batman album, I think of that car, the boom box, and a great summer of Prince music. Hell, I moved to Los Angeles in Jan of 1990 and there was still music coming off that album. I remember buying the single and sheet music to "The Arms of Orion" and learning it straight away.
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Reply #6 posted 07/20/09 6:03pm

nyse

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good album but for sur his weakest of the eighties....the songs seemed
rushed...with out tru inspiration...

lemon crush and the future are amazing though
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Reply #7 posted 07/20/09 6:19pm

Anxiety

'arms of orion' is the one wormy spot that i cut around on this otherwise perfectly sweet apple of an album. i love the spirit and energy of the batman soundtrack because it's so playful and dark and cartoonish and..."batmanny". lol

for me, i can always see tim burton visuals when i listen to this album.
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Reply #8 posted 07/20/09 6:23pm

nurseV

Anxiety said:

'arms of orion' is the one wormy spot that i cut around on this otherwise perfectly sweet apple of an album. i love the spirit and energy of the batman soundtrack because it's so playful and dark and cartoonish and..."batmanny". lol

for me, i can always see tim burton visuals when i listen to this album.


I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion boxed lol
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Reply #9 posted 07/20/09 6:26pm

Anxiety

nurseV said:

Anxiety said:

'arms of orion' is the one wormy spot that i cut around on this otherwise perfectly sweet apple of an album. i love the spirit and energy of the batman soundtrack because it's so playful and dark and cartoonish and..."batmanny". lol

for me, i can always see tim burton visuals when i listen to this album.


I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion boxed lol


someone's gotta, i guess. lol
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Reply #10 posted 07/20/09 6:32pm

errant

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Anxiety said:

nurseV said:



I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion boxed lol


someone's gotta, i guess. lol




every bad track has a fan. having seen absolutely EVERY rotton apple in Prince's catalog get some love by SOMEONE on here, i'm convinced that the supreme being, or whatever, upon the release of every Prince album picks one special person out of all the people in the world, points its finger at them and says "you... you are the one that's going to love jughead. you alone."
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Reply #11 posted 07/20/09 6:32pm

nurseV

Anxiety said:

nurseV said:



I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion boxed lol


someone's gotta, i guess. lol



That's cold Anx lol falloff
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Reply #12 posted 07/20/09 6:34pm

ernestsewell

nurseV said:

Anxiety said:

'arms of orion' is the one wormy spot that i cut around on this otherwise perfectly sweet apple of an album. i love the spirit and energy of the batman soundtrack because it's so playful and dark and cartoonish and..."batmanny". lol

for me, i can always see tim burton visuals when i listen to this album.


I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion boxed lol


I love it too.
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Reply #13 posted 07/20/09 6:41pm

nurseV

ernestsewell said:

nurseV said:



I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion boxed lol


I love it too.



dancing jig another Orion lover highfive
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Reply #14 posted 07/20/09 6:52pm

Anxiety

nurseV said:

ernestsewell said:



I love it too.



dancing jig another Orion lover highfive


this is why i don't turn over logs when i go for walks in the woods. boxed
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Reply #15 posted 07/20/09 7:01pm

nurseV

Anxiety said:

nurseV said:




dancing jig another Orion lover highfive


this is why i don't turn over logs when i go for walks in the woods. boxed



eek eek eek eek Really cold lol
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Reply #16 posted 07/20/09 7:13pm

coolcat

nurseV said:

ernestsewell said:



I love it too.



dancing jig another Orion lover highfive


I like it too. nod
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Reply #17 posted 07/21/09 12:19am

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coolcat said:

nurseV said:




dancing jig another Orion lover highfive


I like it too. nod


I like it too. "Orion's arms are wide enough to hold us all together..." grouphug
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Reply #18 posted 07/21/09 3:50am

lotusflw3r

The album that got me into Prince. I liked Batman comics so when the film came out I devoured everything to do with it including the funk of Prince!

I think I knew about 5 or 6 people that bought it aswell, which is a wierd thing when i think back. never happened since. maybe Diamonds and Pearls?

Also bought The Badman Is Robbin' 12" by Hijack, because it had a Batman reference!
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Reply #19 posted 07/21/09 3:57am

Swa

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A great album in my opinion. Check out the indepth discussion of each song here in A CELEBRATION: BATMAN http://prince.org/msg/7/312437

Swa
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Reply #20 posted 07/21/09 4:40am

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ernestsewell said:

nurseV said:



I guess I'm the only orger who likes Arms of Orion boxed lol


I love it too.


Love it too. I'll take it any day over Vicki Waiting or Lemon Crush.
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Reply #21 posted 07/21/09 4:48am

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That was like the greatest thing in the world at the time. I'm a Batman fanatic and, at the time, a Prince fanatic. I listened to that album all summer long. Had the limited-edition tin and all of the 12 inch singles. Anyone riding with me knew they were going hear Batdance.
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Reply #22 posted 07/21/09 9:02am

Tame

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Happy Anniversary, "Batman." cool
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Reply #23 posted 07/21/09 11:46am

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Thats my favorite to this day.
Someday I hope we get a SPECIAL EDITION with
tons of b-sides.
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Reply #24 posted 07/21/09 11:49am

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I really like this album, although i agree it's several notches below his best work of the decade. The only song that I truly hate is Scandalous... just can't stand his vocals on that one.

I also really like 200 balloons and I wish it had been on the album.
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Reply #25 posted 07/21/09 12:20pm

ernestsewell

NoVideo said:

I really like this album, although i agree it's several notches below his best work of the decade. The only song that I truly hate is Scandalous... just can't stand his vocals on that one.

I also really like 200 balloons and I wish it had been on the album.


I'd take "Scandalous" over "Insatiable" anyway. "Insatiable" is a poor copy cat of "Scandalous". "200 Balloons" was a prototype for "Batdance". I'm glad it was at least a B-side for "Batdance". I REALLY wish it was in the movie. They could have played "Trust" while the balloons were releasing the deadly gas.
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Reply #26 posted 07/21/09 2:16pm

unkleg

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coolcat said:



I like it too. nod


I like it too. "Orion's arms are wide enough to hold us all together..." grouphug


Count me in, the lyrics are brilliant and I love the duet.

"This is what it's like at the cheese factory oh-oh..." wink
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Reply #27 posted 07/21/09 2:50pm

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unkleg said:

dannyd5050 said:



I like it too. "Orion's arms are wide enough to hold us all together..." grouphug


Count me in, the lyrics are brilliant and I love the duet.

"This is what it's like at the cheese factory oh-oh..." wink


highfive

Love the cheese
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