Go 2 mtvnews.com and check out 2 articles dedicated 2 the 25th anniversary of the film Purple Rain including one article by Kurt Loder. U can also find a video clip as well dedicated 2 the film Purple Rain and u may catch some interesting footage from the film's premier that never made the 20th anniversary special edition dvd of the film. So go home and pop in the dvd of the film. Heck, go c it on tha big screen and like it was told 2 The Kid: Enjoy, don't 4get 2 bring girlfriend. Game... Blouses
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Everyone's joining the party except the dude who's supposed to be throwing it.

I remembered when it was at the movies...I was only 6 years old. My mom and aunt went see it and I was so mad b/c i wanted to see it. I ended up watching Disney's jungle book and I hated that I had to watch that instead.

I turned 16 in 1984, and it was just damn near perfect.

Here's an article from Kurt Loder on MTV news:

Purple Rain, 25 Years Later, By Kurt Loder
Prince's landmark achievement still stands.


It's not hard to grasp why Purple Rain was such an event when it was first released, 25 years ago this summer: The album was a dizzying synthesis of rock, pop and R&B, and it still sounds groundbreaking today.

This was a defining moment for Prince and his greatest band, the Revolution (with which he shared, for the first time, both an unambiguous cover credit and, inside, some co-songwriting nods). The musicianship displayed on the record is exceptional: The arrangements are intricately structured, and the vocal work is dazzling; the electro-percussion is fat and beautifully ornamented, the guitars range from full-crush to feathery arpeggiation, and there are times when synthesized or actual orchestral beds drift off into stretches of harmonic abstraction that's rare in music aimed at the pop charts. (Four of the album's nine tracks were Top-40 hits; two of them — "Let's Go Crazy" and the great "When Doves Cry" — went to Number One.)

Purple Rain is of course the soundtrack from the movie of the same name, which accompanied the record into the world. The film and the album set up a powerful synergy. The picture depicted the glitzless Midwestern capital of Minneapolis (Prince's hometown) as a glam-pop fairyland, where the men were flamboyant fashion studs, the women lightly attired babes, everybody had talent, and the music that filled the air was, pretty much without exception, fabulous. The album called this vision up every time you played it. Which made you want to see the movie again. And then go home and keep playing the album. (And of course the songs were all over the radio, too.) Small wonder the record spent 72 weeks on the Billboard chart, and has sold more than 13-million copies to date.

But even without the movie (which won a soundtrack Oscar), Purple Rain would probably stand as a mighty achievement on its own. Prince had already proved himself an outsized talent with the three albums that preceded this one: Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy ('81), and 1999 ('82). With Purple Rain, he confirmed his mastery of both rock and R&B idioms (and more, both of his parents being jazz musicians); and the Revolution, a racially and sexually integrated band, was his perfect instrument. (The group's distinctive sound owed a lot to keyboardists Matt Fink and Lisa Coleman, and to Coleman's lifelong friend Wendy Melvoin, who'd just been brought in on guitar). And so while the album's title track is a grand echo of Jimi Hendrix (the opening chords recall his "Little Wing"), and "I Would Die 4 U" is a flat-out terrific dance track, the record is peppered with other elements of striking originality. There's the dreamy vocal montage at the end of "Darling Nikki," which suddenly flips and starts running backwards, amid a gentle drizzle of falling-rain effects; and of course the epochal "When Doves Cry," which offers a new kind of hook — a carefully rushed lyrical structure in which the beginning of each verse is butted up against the ending of the previous one. (The track famously has no bass line — apparently there was one, but Prince dumped it. Who can now imagine this one-of-a-kind song sounding any other way?)

Purple Rain stands as Prince's commercial peak. He went on to have lots more hits ("Raspberry Beret," "Kiss," "U Got the Look," and so forth), to top the charts again (most recently with the 2006 3121), and to collect more Grammys (this album won two). But with Purple Rain, he ruled the world of popular music. And after all these years, the album itself still rules.

WOW! MTV need 2 re-air the Purple Rain premier 2day with no interviews deleted or edited. It was cool checking out that video clip 2 c Morris Day talk a bit on there. I wish that was on tha DVD!

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sms130 said:

Fuse is playing the movie tonight.