*The title is a Quote from a great 'Parade' Album review from 1986.

Link:

http://princetext.tripod.com/r_parade.html

Do you mean that Prince can't do a hyperlink and even if he could, it would lead straight to a dead page?

Brilliant stuff -- totally meta.

^ It works for me.

Worked for me too. Although I had no idea tripod.com was still around. Next thing you'll be telling geocities has risen from the grave!

^ right on.

I hate seeing the album cover on its side.

Interesting that Parade got some really bad reviews

That was a fun trip back, thanks!

Good quotes:

"'...On Parade, all sounds -- snippets of guitar, horn, percussion, voice -- are treated equally, erasing the line between "basic track" and "sweetening." Prince has achieved the effect of a full groove using only the elements essential to a listener's understanding -- and so has devised a funk completed only by the listener's response...'"

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"...Even more old fashioned is the vaudeville shuffle "Do U Lie," done up with wah-wah horns and Prince mouthing through an old-fashioned megaphone. It's so kitschy cute you could just fwow up..."

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critics, are we al...l

yikes, people really railed on him for being short... I'm glad you can't write reviews like that anymore...

I remember some of these reviews from that time. Going to cue this one up now. This album's sound is timeless.

^ Im glad you enjoyed it..

It took me back to my youth as well!

The link was not working this morning but I'm not going back there -- not with a Tripod link no thanks.

As for Parade's bad reviews -- oh yeah! Both ATWIAD and Parade were greeted with accusations of abject self-indulgence. It didn't help that Prince also released Under The Cherry Moon -- that was brutal. Those were hard years to be a fan, many people were turned off including almost everyone I knew at the time. I took a lot of teasing but thank god for Kiss, Girls and Boys and Moutains.

The link works great, and there are several interesting reviews from 1986 there.

kenkamken said:

I hadn't thought of the connection between 1999 and Manic Monday, similar melody structure I used to read reviews, articles, anything I could find about Prince and his music. Brings me back to those days reading done of these reviews again. Thanks

Never mind, it turns out I was referring to the Rolling Stone review in the link!

[Edited 12/3/14 15:24pm]