Man, this video... As an editor, I've give ANYTHING to get my hands on all the original footage, and remaster the entire thing with today's technology. . I'd keep it soft focus, keep every single cut the way it is, but the chromakey stuff needs a serious overhaul. . And if were shot on film, I'd upgrade everything to 4K so it would look better. . This is my favorite Prince video, so I'd like to see it as perfect as it could possibly be. | |
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I totally hear U.
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She's Always In My Hair -Bside rel 5.15.1985
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All in all this is an album made more for being heard as a cohesive body of work rather than as individual singles. Perhaps that's the reason that some of Prince's most commercial songs ever did not appear on this album but were used as b-sides to the album's singles. Take for example the fab "She's Always In My Hair", b-side to the first single release of the album ("Raspberry Beret" in the US, "Paisley Park" in the UK). The song is fantastic, with more chart potential than anything in the album, yet it's pop and doesn't really suit the melancholia of the record. So it was a b-side, albeit one that was played thousands of times by every Prince fan and some more.
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Man, I so wish that we would have left the Around The World in A Day song the way it was originally. Infinately better than the released version! | |
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In my top 10 Prince albums 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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TAMBORINE
Oh my God here U are
Tamborine | |
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The lyric for the singular verse "Tamborine" is actually "Troubling" as in it is troubling that he would be spending lonely nights thinking of the Tamborine. One of my all time favorite Prince songs. 2010: Healing the Wounds of the Past.... http://prince.org/msg/8/325740 | |
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thanks OMG i forgot One of my all time favorites too wicked, the fiery finger cymbals... I pair this with Darling Nikki Can U imaging a longer version, with a ripping guitar
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This may or may not be a very stupid question (I'm not very good at identifying people's faces): Is this Jill Jones who modeled for the old woman crying? . I couldn't find anything in any of the articles that said who it was. But I did see this on Jill Jones' daughter's instagram (jonesyluv is Jill Jones):
I said no! is your mama? | |
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That is Wendy Melvoin modelling the part.
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I also remember when I bought ATWIAD too and how I felt....bewildered.....and with ATWIAD my 7 year obsession/love affair with Prince had come to a grinding halt. I sang along to Pop Life, but no longer lived and breathed Prince and this was my final Prince purchase...... until 2016 when I re-purchased For You and H&RPhase2. Wish I had not stayed away so long | |
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ooh man, this album, felt like such an intimate letter 2 me as a fan of all the previous stuff.
I still have my lp from 1985
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ATWIAD Masquerade Ball 6.7.1985
You are requested to attend 'AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY" Masquerade Ball Location: Prom Center, 1190 University Ave Saint Paul #612-645-0596 Friday, June 7th Time: 7:00 pm, till 3:00 am . Best costume will be judged at midnight Admits you and one guest No costume No admittance the 2nd and last official birthday show[of the 80s], Prince & the Revolution, Sheila E & Eddie M, Jerome, Susannah Melvoin St Paul & Eric Leeds ie the Family previews of A Love Bizarre, Sometimes It Snows in April, Mutiny, Hollyrock This was a very loose high energy show, very fun creative interaction between all the musicians . Rock star Prince and 800 friends held a purple masquerade at the Prom Cneter in St. Paul to celebrate his 27th brirthday. Prince flew in people from all over the United States, said Harry Givens, owner of the Prom Center. "It's great," Given said. "It's a masquerade and the ballroom's never been decorated like this in my 30 years." Inside were giant spiral purple staircases, two big brass beds, glittery booths, candies everywhere, mirrors, mannaquins, international food stations, pinball machines and a "carnival atmosphere," according to one guest
6.7.1985 27th Birthday Concert Prom Center-St Paul Minnesota
1. A Love Bizzare 2. Mutiny 3. Sheila E drum solo 4. Sometimes It Snows In April 5. Irresistable Bitch 6. Possessed 7. the Bird 8. Drawers Burnin 9. Holly Rock
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artwork by Prince... artwork by Prince?
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4.7.1985 Purple Rain tour finale in Florida 4.12.1985 We Are the World rel -4 the Tears In Your Eyes (full band version) 4.15.1985 4 the Tears In Your Eyes [accoustic video version] 4.22.1985 Around the World in a Day released May rehearsal possibly for the 1985 birthday show 1. Bedtime Story 2. Do Me Baby 3. Baby Baby Baby(Aretha Franklin) 4. G-Spot 5. Let's Go Crazy 6. When Doves Scream 7. A Love Bizarre 6.7.1985 Birthday Show Prom Center-St Paul Minnesota July 1985 A.Cymone Dance Electric rel 7.11.1985 7th Street Entry show [1st Avenue 1.) Girls & Boys 2.) Hollyrock 8.13.1985 the Family 1st Avenue performance 8.26.1985 Romance 1600 album released September the Family album released
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Jill Jones: The picture on Around the World in a Day, when he showed me the cover, he pointed out who everybody was. Jerome was the little old man with the cane. He told me Sheila was combined with Melvoin] with the violin. And he goes, "And this is you." And it was the old maid crying, with a blue dress and these horrible boots. I'm still: Why was I always crying? I cried in Purple Rain, I cried in Graffiti Bridge, before he cut it out. He always had me crying, and I'm crying on the cover. And then he said, "I'm gonna know you until the very end of this—you're gonna be here." And I said, "Why aren't you in the [picture]?" He said, "I'm up the ladder. I'm gone."
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Rasberry Beret video shoot
2 days before the 6.7.1985 Masquerade Ball
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Me too ! In a plastic cover, in very good condition. My precious | |
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I just received the vinyl records for Parade and Around the world in a day. Like them both. The album art for Around the World is pretty nice. | |
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America - Prince & the Revolution 10.2.1985
America, America
America "America" was the final U.S. single off Prince and The Revolution's 1985 album, Around the World in a Day. The song is appreciative of the mid-1980s United States, condemning Communism, and worrying about nuclear war. The song begins as if it is a record being spun by a DJ. This leads into a guitar solo and a rising keyboard line. The main tune is standard rock and roll and fades out at 3:40.
A m e r i c a
23 February, 1985, The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA
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"America," the song that begins the album's second side, is brisk, driving and decidedly urban; like a 60's protest song, it addresses an idealized spirit of "America" and demands that it "keep the children free." But just as the psychedelic- style songs on side one are notably free of drug references, side two's "America" might be termed a patriotic protest song. No draft cards are being burned here. In fact, one of the song's capsule character sketches seems to suggest that those who reject patriotism and dabble in nihilism may get their just rewards in a nuclear cataclysm:
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Around the world in a daze AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY BY JOHN PARELES
Now Prince has come out of the bedroom. Only three of the nine songs on Around the World -- Prince's lowest proportion by a long shot -- aim below the waist.
"America," a mock-Slavic rewrite of the tune we all know, plus a funk beat, threatens a boy who doesn't pledge allegiance with permanent residence on a "mushroom cloud." Prince gets more mileage than Alice Walker from the color purple, his shorthand symbol for the end of the world, which shows up in the first song of the album and in the last.
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A m e r i c a
- 1984
Drum technician, and crew member. He has been in the industry since 1970, and worked for a large number of rock bands before joining Prince in 1980. On his departure from Prince's crew in 1990, he joined the Phil Collins set-up, and has worked for him since this time.
Drum Tech. for Bobby Z., Sheila E., and of course Prince. Also Michael Bland briefly.
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A m e r i c a (extended)
The Warehouse, St. Louis Park; 1984 12" single: 21:46 2 October 1985
America was the final U.S. single off Prince and The Revolution's 1985 album, Around the World in a Day. The song is appreciative of the mid-1980s United States, condemning Communism, and worrying about nuclear war. The song begins as if it is a record being spun by a DJ. This leads into a guitar solo and a rising keyboard line. The main tune is standard rock and roll and fades out at 3:40. The 12-inch single extended version is notable for being over 20 minutes and including various instrumental solos. The song even fades in this version; in the original extended version the listener can actually hear the audio tape run out, being that Prince and the Revolution had jammed the song out until there was no more room on the tape.
Teacher, why won't Jimmy pledge allegiance?
Clocking in at nearly 22:00 long, this "original version" of America "was the version Prince and bandmates wanted to include on "Around The World In A Day," but agreed to instead use a less lengthy, edited version for the LP at Warner Brothers' request. Warner Brothers desire to truncate the song on the LP stemmed from concern that putting a 20+ minute jam session version of one song would be great for die-hard fans, but as "Around..." was the follow-up to the "Purple Rain" soundtrack, WB wanted to keep as many people coming back to buy "Around..." as possible. Original version or not, WB didn't want to risk a 21:46 song possibly putting off critics and consumers alike.
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reprinted in ROCK & SOUL * APRIL 1986 THE PRINCE INTERVIEW By Michael Shore
Speaking of singles and videos, your latest is "America." This is one of the most political songs you've ever done. Could you tell us what the song is supposed to say to people? For example, is it straightforwardly patriotic or more complicated than that? Straightforwardly patriotic.
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This could be me, but I find it funny that even though this album wasn't completely raved about back in the day, 30 years later it sounds better than almost any mainstream release in 1985!! Feel free to disagree but this is what I think. | |
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