http://www.slantmagazine....m-turns-25

A very positive article about a commercially very successful album that many fans still have mixed feelings about.

"Although this is the first album Prince cut with a credited group, the New Power Generation, since disbanding the Revolution half a decade earlier, it often doesn’t sound like a full band effort: Songs like “Daddy Pop” and “Get Off” are built around rigid drum machines, while the evangelical benediction “Thunder” is a pocket symphony of synthetic instrumentation and samples. There are, of course, scorching guitar solos, and no one should undersell Michael Bland's crisp jazz drumming on “Strollin',” but throughout, Prince uses beats that sound a few years behind the times, which led many to conclude that he wasn't setting the pace in pop anymore. And while that may have been true, those beats frequently provide the perfect, muscular base for some of Prince's best songs since 1987's Sign 'o' the Times."

Thanks for the reference. Interesting take on it. I was relieved that the writer, while praising the album, had the sense to realize the Jughead and Push shouldn't have both been on the album .