Have U ever Danced with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight?

Possessed the Rise & Fall of Prince

chapter 11 Fantastic p 156

Immediately after wrapping up the Lovesexy tour, Prince returned to Paisley Park and set to work on Batman. Becoming fascinated with the characters(and especially the Joker), he sampled portions of the dialogue and synced his songs directly to scenes. Prince seemed convinced that his contributions would permeate the entire film. "This is going to be my movie!" he exclaimed to studio engineer Femi Jiya.

I love the Batdance funk jam,

this song sounds like nothing else in music history... it's unique for Prince to release such a "different track"..

in a good way for me, I love the guitar and the rhythms.

And the Jack Nicholson & Kim Bassinger dialogue in the song,

I have good memories to Batdance.

A shame it was ridiculed by so many,

I have always loved the Batdance song.

And.. the music video.. excellent..

the guitar is amazing..

^ Credits: "Batdance" pic is made by Kazuo.

18 (R U Legal Yet?)

My father's got a shotgun

I hope he doesn't use it

r u legal yet?

18

My father's got a shotgun

My father's got a shotgun

r u legal yet?

I hope he doesn't use it

18

Love the pics!

I love the whole Batman album! Batdance is such a unique song. So funky, so rockin'. Also sounds like with that intro it helped to pioneer house and club music. It seems like nothing else Prince had done before that point.

Possessed: the Rise & Fall of Prince p 157 Chapter 11 Fantastic

Only rarely did any genuine experimentation occur during the sessions. Batdance, slated as the first single, was an intriguing collage of samples, jarringly different musical sections, and searing guitar work. The project's other major compositional effort was "Dance With the Devil", an eerie-sounding piece with Prince singing a descending minor-key melody over a drum-machine pattern. Unfortunately, he shelved the song and it remains unreleased.

Batman arrived in theaters in mid-June 1989 and quickly became one of of themost successful movies of all time, grossing $0 million on its opening weekend and eventually taking in $250 million at the box office. The marketing division of Warner Bros. Pictures deftly exploited the film's simple poster image - a black bat against a gold background - for tie-ins of products ranging from toys to cereals. Prince's soundtrack, released at the same time as the movie, benefitted significantly from this hype and became his biggest hit in years, selling 4.4 million copies worldwide and reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Chart. Although hardly a Purple Rain scale success, the album reconfirmed his status as a major star.

Critical response to the album, however, was mixed. "It's hard to avoid the suspicion that some of the songs on Batman were already sitting around Paisley Park as part of Prince's vast outpouring of music," wrote John Parales in Rolling Stone. David Sinclair of the London Times observed that "there is a distinctly throwaway quality to much of this material."

1 Pic from Batman:

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The Batman era is defintely one of my favorite eras, if not my all time favorite! I love the album, his look and basically just the whole vibe you get from that time..To me, it's just as exiciting and great as the Lovesexy era.

Also for me the Nude tour has always been my favorite tour because of the Batman songs in the setlist..It's like the unofficial Batman Tour .. I would have loved to see him include 'Arms Of Orion', 'Electric Chair' and 'Vicki Waiting' in the setlist as well.

Come On (4:40)
My Love Will Find U (4:44)
I Wanna (4:33)
2 Naughty (4:52)
Love At First Sight (5:24)
Show Me (4:41)
Action, Action (4:36)
Color Of Sex (4:06)
Will U Stay With Me (4:14)

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Hollywood Affair (1989)
For Once, A Justifiably Unreleased Album

In the 80s, 90s and 00s, Prince made concerted attempts to build stables of recording artists around himself, all bound by his aesthetics, production and compositional styles. That Prince has always wanted to be more than just a singer (producer, film star, fashion icon, music mogul, etc.) is no secret. That he kept coming back to the idea – via The Time & Jill Jones in the 80s, Tevin Campbell & Mayte in the 90s, and as recently as Bria Valente in the 00s (and dozens of others over the decades) – displayed a stubborn belief in his own abilities to be a viable star maker. That’s not even mentioning the career resuscitation he attempted on already established artists like Chaka Khan, Larry Graham & Mavis Staples, among others. Why virtually all of these attempts failed to breach the public’s consciousness is one of the more puzzling aspects of Prince’s career. Surely, no more so than to Prince himself.

There’s no mystery, however, as to why this collaboration with actress Kim Basinger never made it out the recording studio. Ms. Basinger, for all her attributes, just can’t sing. As simple as that. And, you have to believe that Prince eventually found that out, as most of the tracks from Hollywood Affair seem unfocused and unfinished, by The Purple One’s standards anyway. Hell, there are those in related forums that have suggested Prince wasn’t even involved in these sessions (though, he clearly is to some degree), while others have detailed the pair’s dating habits to establish probability. Basinger did work with Prince during the making of the film, Batman (she starred, he soundtracked). She even contributed spoken word vocals to Prince’s post-Batman Maxi-Single, The Scandalous Sex Suite (below). But Hollywood Affair is so obscure that tracks have even failed to show up on those magnum, multi-disc collections of unreleased Prince material… and the best quality we’ve ever been able to find so far is @128. So, I’m not going to bother critiquing this non-release, mainly since I’ve rarely listened to it in-depth myself. But, you’re invited to satisfy your own curiosity. We’re previewing the song “Love At First Sight” because the multi-layered harmonies best disguise Ms. Basinger’s limitations. It should be noted… she also sang for her supper on a 1992 Was (Not Was) tune, “Shake Your Head.”

thedance said:

the guitar is amazing..

^ Credits: "Batdance" pic is made by Kazuo.

Bought the vinyl 2 months ago...

Wow, the sound is amazing.

Electric chair is my fav track. Great guitar and vocals.

Partyman? OMG!

All in all, the album is funky as hell.

Thanx for this thread.

GUILTYYYY... for all my future crimes...

Electric Chair came on in the car today. Holy fuck, what a jam! I had to rewind it like 5 times. The build up and eventual scream at the end is just a classic moment.

Dig this whole album and era Batdance, The Future, and Scandalous are my faves. I wonder why don't talk about The Future much, it's awesome. And Scandalous is definetly one of his best ballads and I think Prince himself know's it. The videos in this era were very creative too.

Batdance sounded like nothing before it . . . unless you listen to Queen's "Flash" from Flash Gordon.

Of course they sound nothing alike musically, but they both use movie samples throughout an original song composition, and are both title tracks for their respective albums.

Se7en said:

Batdance sounded like nothing before it . . . unless you listen to Queen's "Flash" from Flash Gordon.

Of course they sound nothing alike musically, but they both use movie samples throughout an original song composition, and are both title tracks for their respective albums.

How is Batdance a title track?

aardvark15 said:

Se7en said:

Batdance sounded like nothing before it . . . unless you listen to Queen's "Flash" from Flash Gordon.

Of course they sound nothing alike musically, but they both use movie samples throughout an original song composition, and are both title tracks for their respective albums.

How is Batdance a title track

Of course it's not the title track.

And the Batman soundtrack is one of the very few Prince albums that I never listen to. It was his first truly crappy album. He sold out with this one...and even more sad right after Lovesexy when he had a true point of view and message to share.

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I love this album. How funky would it be to see him do the batdance one more time? I talking about the one from TV.

FunkiestOne said:

aardvark15 said:

How is Batdance a title track

Of course it's not the title track.

And the Batman soundtrack is one of the very few Prince albums that I never listen to. It was his first truly crappy album. He sold out with this one...and even more sad right after Lovesexy when he had a true point of view and message to share.

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always wonder where all the lovesexy people come from, it barely went gold at the time and the songwriting wasn't that great. Prince was rumored to be broke and deserved some commercial breaks after all the brilliance that the public ignored. I liked the album at the time, Lemon Crush was a fave, Vickie Waiting, Arms of Orion, the vids were some of his absolute best and just like Batman, Prince played with duality so he was a natural for the movie. His lyrics in electric chair are pretty good and echoed (to me) Bruce Springsteens "Nebraska" lyrics, always wondered if he heard the album. The score was even better than Prince's music though I think. The album as a whole was probably his weakest since maybe say, controversy.

Batdance" was a last-minute replacement for a brooding track titled "Dance with the Devil", which Prince felt was too dark.[1] Incidentally, though "Dance with the Devil" remains unreleased, some of the lyrics appear on the album's liner notes.

"Batdance" is almost two songs in one—a chaotic, mechanical dance beat that changes gears into a slinky, funky groove before changing back for the song's conclusion. The track is an amalgam of many musical ideas floating around at the time. Elements from at least seven songs (some unreleased) were incorporated into "Batdance": "200 Balloons", "We Got the Power", "House in Order", "Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic" (later released on the album, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic), "The Future", and "Electric Chair", as well as the 1966 "Batman Theme" by Neal Hefti. Some of these were mere snippets, and other segments showed up only in remixes of the track. The song was also loaded with dialog samples from the film.





The song's music video, directed by Albert Magnoli and choreographed by Barry Lather, featured dancers costumed as multiple Batmen, Jokers and Vicki Vales. Prince appears both as himself, and as well as a costumed character in face paint known as "Gemini", with one side representing the Joker (evil), and the other, Batman (good). The Batmen and Jokers alternate dance sections, while Prince/Gemini sing the lyrics. Eventually the video ends with Gemini hitting a detonator, exploding an electric chair (referenced in the song), and Prince warning, "Stop" as the video abruptly ends. The video also features one Vicki Vale wearing a shirt with the words "All this and brains too", a reference to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, in which a female news presenter wears a top with the same slogan.

Gemini is Prince's astrological sign, and is a reference to the duality throughout his music. "Gemini" would also make an appearance in the "Partyman" video, but with the "Batman" half replaced by Prince's normal appearance.




Batdance

B-side "200 Balloons"
Released June 8, 1989

"Oh, I got a live one here! Ha, ha, ha..."
Get the funk up! - Batman
Get the funk up! - Batman
Get the funk up!
"Go, go, go with a smile"

Batdance!
Do it
Keep bustin'

(Do it) {Repeat in BG}
I've seen the future and it will be
I've seen the future and it will be
Batman, Batman
I've seen the future and it will be
Batman (House, house)
"And where, and where is the Batman?"

(Do it) {repeat}
Let's do it {x2}

"Stop the press"
"Stop the press, who is that?"
"Vicky Vale"
"Vicky Vale"
"I like..." Batman, Batman, Batman
"Oh, bats"
"Hi, Bruce Wayne"
"I tried 2 avoid all this, but I can't"
"I just gotta know - are we gonna try 2 love each other?"
"Stop the press, who is that?"
"Vicky Vale"
"She is great, isn't she?"

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
I wanna bust that body
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
I wanna bust that body right ("I'd like 2")
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah ("But he's out there right now")
I wanna bust that body
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
2night

"Well, Miss Vale"
"U ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
"I always ask that of all my prey"
"I just like the sound of it"

"I've gotta go 2 work" – Batman
"I've gotta go 2 work" – Batman
("Work') {Repeat in BG}
If a man is considered guilty 4 what goes on in his mind
Then gimme the electric chair 4 all my future crimes – oh!
Electric chair

Hey Ducky, let me stick this 7-inch in the computer
Ha, ha, ha...

Hey, we got the power
Oh, we got the soul
Hey, we got 2 sho'nuff get off
Make the devil go, go

"This town needs an enema!"

(Let's do it) {sampled in BG}
"I'm gonna kill U" - Power
"I'm not gonna kill U" - Soul
"I'm gonna kill U" - Power
"I'm not gonna kill U" - Soul
"I'm Batman" - Batman
Don't stop dancin'!
"I'm Batman" - Batman
Don't stop dancin'!
Batman {x3}
Don't stop, don't stop, don't stop dancin'!
Batman {x2}
Don't stop dancin'! {x2}
No, damn it!
Turn the music back up!
Oh, son of a bitch!

"Have U ever heard of the healing power of laughter?"

Who's gonna stop 200 balloons? Nobody!
"Ha, ha, ha..." {looped}
"Batman" - Stop!

© 1989 Controversy Music - ASCAP

Hey Oldfriends:

I would be proud of these threads of yours, if I was Prince himself..

Great, so please continue, at least I like them, haha...

thanks once again......

(and now I will put on: the Batman CD).

thedance said:

Hey Oldfriends:

I would be proud of these threads of yours, if I was Prince himself..

Great, so please continue, at least I like them, haha...

thanks once again......

(and now I will put on: the Batman CD).

thanks my Friend

And I have been listening to a lot of Batman/outtakes too and it's some very creative stuff going on, commercial too because it's for a movie, but still good stuff

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And I absolutely love the partyman video. He hams it up and dispenses with his usual mystery and takes a cartoonish air on for the duration. Has he ever looked so happy in video? so childlike? It's been said that the Batman theme was the first song he ever played on piano.