Just thought I'd listen to Lotusflower today and loving Boom all over again Its always been my favorite song from the cd anyway...loving it and missing Prince

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NorthC said:

It's not really a "song". It's an introduction to an album the way Christopher Tracy's Parade and Art Official Cage were: these songs aren't meant to stand on their own, they serve as a warm up for things to come.

Well its a helluva introduction I still love it

NorthC said:

And yeah, I'm missing Prince too.

CalhounSq said:

Boom is my shit!!!

YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!

NorthC said:

It's not really a "song". It's an introduction to an album the way Christopher Tracy's Parade and Art Official Cage were: these songs aren't meant to stand on their own, they serve as a warm up for things to come.

Seems like a song to me. We have From The Lotus serving the purpose you describe.

TheEnglishGent said:

"we go BOOM!"

that's my jam!

NorthC said:

^Dooz, is there an actual CD of that version or was it download only?

It was the version of the album that you could download with your lotusflow3r.com membership; digital only. Crimson and Clover wasn't on the digital version. It was replaced with The Morning After and had a different segue from Boom.

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The physical vs. download version comparison is here:

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http://www.princevault.co...otusflow3r

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Makes no sense to this day since the video for Crimson and Clover was featured on the lotusflow3r.com site; but you could only get the song if you bought the physical release.

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Prince, you baffled people.

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NorthC said:

Okay, thanks for the reply. I guess that was something that only made sense in Prince's mind. I never heared that version, but I really like The Morning After.

Boom just ends a little more clearly to me on the digital version, if I remember right. I downloaded the wav files from the site and burned a CD for safekeeping. I'll need to dig it out. On the physical release, it always bugged me a bit that the last beat of Boom is the first beat of C&C...kind of an odd blending.

Love this cd. I listened to it twice over the past weekend!

BOOM is some fun listening!

Thanks nursev i just played it again after a long time and forgot how great it is.

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Is that where the primordial gives birth?

paisleypark4 said:

Is that where the primordial gives birth?

You mean down around 33 rpm?

Some of the nastiest lyrics he ever wrote. I always thought it was about a wet dream, based on the "celibate mushroom canopy" thing. He isn't really doing the deed, but he's dreaming about it. "Butterscotch mountains" (breasts), "run your fingers up and down the obelisk in the earth" (give him a hand job), "dine on one another's ooze" (oral sex), "volcano magic" (I don't think I have to explain that). Yeah - it's pretty much all there.

I've been meaning to get out the LP and run the choruses backward to find out what he masked.

Genesia said:

Some of the nastiest lyrics he ever wrote. I always thought it was about a wet dream, based on the "celibate mushroom canopy" thing. He isn't really doing the deed, but he's dreaming about it. "Butterscotch mountains" (breasts), "run your fingers up and down the obelisk in the earth" (give him a hand job), "dine on one another's ooze" (oral sex), "volcano magic" (I don't think I have to explain that). Yeah - it's pretty much all there.

I've been meaning to get out the LP and run the choruses backward to find out what he masked.

please do. there have been a few threads on it, i think possibly even one started by me
but i don't think there was ever any conclusive answer to what the backwards bits say
in this song. something about solomon, iirc?

IstenSzek said:

Genesia said:

Some of the nastiest lyrics he ever wrote. I always thought it was about a wet dream, based on the "celibate mushroom canopy" thing. He isn't really doing the deed, but he's dreaming about it. "Butterscotch mountains" (breasts), "run your fingers up and down the obelisk in the earth" (give him a hand job), "dine on one another's ooze" (oral sex), "volcano magic" (I don't think I have to explain that). Yeah - it's pretty much all there.

I've been meaning to get out the LP and run the choruses backward to find out what he masked.

please do. there have been a few threads on it, i think possibly even one started by me
but i don't think there was ever any conclusive answer to what the backwards bits say
in this song. something about solomon, iirc?

Of course its about sex...its a Prince song and he did it very well too

IstenSzek said:

"we go BOOM!"

that's my jam!

Guitarhero said:

Thanks nursev i just played it again after a long time and forgot how great it is.

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No prob GH

Great guitar work on Boom!

How do I navigate this thing?

3rdeyedude said:

Great guitar work on Boom!

How do I navigate this thing?

that site was awful I gave up on navigating it on like the second visit there

nursev said:

3rdeyedude said:

Great guitar work on Boom!

How do I navigate this thing?

that site was awful I gave up on navigating it on like the second visit there

they made navigating it so hard because otherwise you'd have sussed out
the fact that apart from the albums, there was no real content

IstenSzek said:

nursev said:

that site was awful I gave up on navigating it on like the second visit there

they made navigating it so hard because otherwise you'd have sussed out
the fact that apart from the albums, there was no real content

its true there wasnt anything good on it at all...where did Prince find these web designers at?