badujunkie said:

PurpleLove7 said:

... from my first listen to Parade I loved it. A.T.W.I.A.D. not so much

im feelin the exact opposite

ATWIAD kicked my ASS the other night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mmm, I believe that's what was so trippy about me back then. I was just coming into understanding music and then A.T.W.I.A.D album, when that first dropped, I wasn't a fan of P's music back then. I liked 'Raspberry Beret' and 'Pop Life' but, they were 'radio friendly' songs/music and it goes without saying that I would automatically like thoz tracks.

I didn't understand P's music back then and what he was attempting to say ... [img:$uid]http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/3.gif[/img:$uid] & I didn't understand P's music back then like I do now. I still don't fully understand what he's attempting to say (sometimes) ...

crazydoctor said:

Parade and ATWIAD are the two albums I can listen to all the way through...

I don't get the hype over SOTT... it's one of my least favorite 80s prince albums...

Same here

I love the whole SOTT era but the album as a whole I don't always listen to throught

And years later I know why ie Dream Factory

ATWIAD is still my fav, the B sides and the long version just tell another story that pulled me into Uptown even more

Mindbells9 said:

Parade is currently my favorite Prince album, tho I go back and forth between it and SOTT. I recently did an expanded version of the album and I've been playing it 2 death! Heres my vision of Parade:

Christopher Tracys Parade

New Position

I Wonder U

Alexa De Paris (7" edit)

Under The Cherry Moon

It's A Wonderful Day

Girls and Boys

Sexual Suicide

Life Can Be So Nice

Venus De Milo

Power Fantastic

Mountains (extended version, but faded out at 6:33)

Do U Lie?

In A Large Room With No Light

Love or Money (edit)

Kiss (extended version,faded out at 5:05)

Anotherloverholenyohead

4 The Tears In Your Eyes (Live Aid video version)

Sometimes It Snows In April

All My Dreams

This version 4 me is killer! Songs like Sexual Suicide and It's A Wonderful Day were thrown in cuz I know Sexual Suicide was in an early draft of "Under The Cherry Moon" and "...Wonderfu Day" is in the movie. In A Large Room With No Light just fits the album perfectly in my opinion.The Live Aid video version of 4 The Tears In Your Eyes is so beautiful and the way Prince, Wendy, and Lisa harmonize and the overall atmosphere of the song is a perfect way 2 go in2 Sometimes It Snows In April. This is the way I feel Parade should have been

I do the same but I have to add Old Friends 4 Sale Others Hear With Us & Heaven

I still see 4 the Tears In Your Eyes as a Purple Rain era song