Lovesexy possibilities of Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic album Graffiti Bridge still in the works

1/2 the Lovesexy band gone

the Batman movie project Prince releases Batdance & 200 Balloons

Oh! I gotta live one here

Get the funk up!

Batdance

Get the funk up!

Batdance

Get the funk up!

Go, go, go with a smile

Batdance

Do it Keep bustin

Love the batdance video. The split outfit for the gemini. Perfect.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Sorry to be off-topic, but what a great album cover that would have been!

I hope if we do get proper albums of material curated from specific eras, photos such as this - from the specific era - are used as artwork.

AGREEEEEE!!!!!! i also dispare when the best shots weren't used as albums covers!

thisisreece said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Sorry to be off-topic, but what a great album cover that would have been!

I hope if we do get proper albums of material curated from specific eras, photos such as this - from the specific era - are used as artwork.

"Oh, I got a live one here!"
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" repeated in the background]
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, do it, house)
"And where, and where ... is the BATMAN?"

Do it, do it
let's do it, let's do it
Do it, do it, do it, do it

"Stop the press..."
"Stop the press, who is that?"
"Vicky Vale", "Vicky Vale"
"I like..."
BATMAN, BATMAN, BATMAN
"Oh - that's nice"
"Hi, Bruce Wayne"
"I've tried to 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's 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 2 night

"Well, miss Vale"
"Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?"
"I always ask that of all my pray."
"I just like the sound of it."
(screams)

"I've got 2 go 2 work"
BATMAN
"I've got 2 go 2 work"
BATMAN
If a man is considered guilty
WORK!
4 what goes on in his mind
WORK!
Then gimme the electric chair
WORK!
4 all my future crimes-OH
WORK!
Electric chair

Hey Ducky, let me stick the 7-inch
In the computer
HA, HA, HA
Hey, we got the power
Oh, we got the soul
Hey, we got to sho'nuff get off
2 make the devil go, go

"This town needs an enema!"

"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
Let's do it
"I'm BATMAN"
BATMAN
Don't stop dancin'
"I'm BATMAN"
BATMAN
Don't stop dancin'
Do it, do it, do it, do it
BATMAN, BATMAN, BATMAN
Don't stop, don't stop
Let's do it
Don't stop dancin'
Let's do it, BATMAN
Let's do it, BATMAN
Don't stop dancin'
Don't stop dancin'
No, damn it! Turn the music back up!
You son of a bitch!

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

Who's gonna stop 200 balloons?
Nobody!
Batman
Stop!

I remember when Batdance hit #1 on the charts and MTV had some beach party. They played the track and it seemed like folks couldn't dance to it. Tough track I guess.

I always loved how Prince entertwined audio conversation from the movie to the music.

Not to mention the Rave sample was awesome. Good times.

thisisreece said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Sorry to be off-topic, but what a great album cover that would have been!

I hope if we do get proper albums of material curated from specific eras, photos such as this - from the specific era - are used as artwork.

I agree, I've thought the same thing. A fully realized Batman era would have been pretty cool I think. I guess the Nude tour was some kind of bridge with the Batman era into the Graffiti Bridge

But a Batman era band ie SNL band would have been fun.

"Batdance" is an incredible song.

thisisreece said:

RodeoSchro said:

RJOrion said:

RodeoSchro said:

"Batdance" is an incredible song.

Yes It is... often overlooked...

Batdance is an under-rated masterpiece.

The summer of 1989 was a time of seismic changes in my life. I graduated from college, I couldn't find a job because a recession was starting, my long-time girlfriend broke up with me, I had zero money, my parents were all over me because I didn't step out of college right into the workforce, I was isolated from all my friends... It was a tough time.

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But the one thing I had to look forward to was the "Batman" movie. I had been psyched since I saw the trailer in February of that year. And the promise of "Music by PRINCE"... Hot damn! June couldn't get there fast enough.

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Sometime in May, I was at my local theater seeing something (I think it was "Last Crusade"), and it turned out the theater was selling advance tickets for "Batman"! For a MIDNIGHT SHOW, no less! I'd never heard of anything so AWESOME. So I plunked down a few precious dollars for what I knew was going to be a great time at the cinema.

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But then a few weeks before the movie came out, I heard "Batdance" on the radio. It blew my tiny little mind. I couldn't believe how unique it was... and yet it sort of paid homage to the past. I popped for the cassingle (ah, the 80s) and played it to DEATH in my dad's crappy car stereo.

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And then the movie came out, and I was blown away. Okay, so time hasn't been too kind to the film... but the music... ah, the music! Later in the summer, I finally got a job, and one of the first things I bought with my first paycheck was the "Batman" soundtrack CD in the black metal film can. And, like the poor cassingle I wore out, I proceeded to play that damn CD over and over and over.

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But "Batdance" itself is still my favorite song on the album. It's a daring, weird, polyrithmic, subversive, kick-ass theme song that threw people for a loop... but still vaulted to Number One on the charts.

RodeoSchro said:

RodeoSchro said:

"Batdance" is an incredible song.

post that jazz bands rendition of Batdance

OldFriends4Sale said:

RodeoSchro said:

"Batdance" is an incredible song.

post that jazz bands rendition of Batdance

I forgot about that! Thanks, here it is!

RodeoSchro said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

post that jazz bands rendition of Batdance

I forgot about that! Thanks, here it is!

This was actually pretty cool

200 balloons is the sh#t

T C Ellis did to Prince with Bat Rap / Batdance sorta what Prince did to Jesse Johnson with Shockadelica

OldFriends4Sale said:

T C Ellis did to Prince with Bat Rap / Batdance sorta what Prince did to Jesse Johnson with Shockadelica

WTF?!? I've never heard of this. Need to hear it now!

200 Balloons. One of my all-time favorite B-Sides. So Hectic.

I had access to Prince and I (later) got a record deal. I had been going after my own project for four years. I was trying to educate Prince about hip-hop. He said “I really don't like rap.” I said “Prince, you're a virtuoso, how can you not like rap? This is the future of the music business.” He kept telling me "nah" and was blowing me off.

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After that, I put “Bat Rap” out. Weaver mixed it down and I put it out. Later on, as hood mythology says, Warner Bros. heard the record. KMOJ was playing it on the radio, right next to “Batdance” and they said "Who is the real Batman?" Warner Bros. asked who put out this rap record and knows all about the “Batman” movie? I guess they were asking Prince "Who is this dude? Do you know him?" I guess they were looking for me. So, rather then they get to me without Prince, he called me up and said "Hey, man, why don't you come out here and bring your music. Let's do some tracks." I said "Okay."

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OldFriends4Sale said:

I had access to Prince and I (later) got a record deal. I had been going after my own project for four years. I was trying to educate Prince about hip-hop. He said “I really don't like rap.” I said “Prince, you're a virtuoso, how can you not like rap? This is the future of the music business.” He kept telling me "nah" and was blowing me off.

I had a good relationship with Miko Weaver, who was Prince's lead guitar player at the time and they were doing a project for Warner Brothers when the very first “Batman” movie came out. So, Weaver and all these guys were seeing the dailies of that movie.

We would get in his apartment where he had his own studio. He lived in Symphony Place in downtown Minneapolis. It was a real nice luxury condominium. He had built a digital studio in his house. So, whenever I went over, he would tell me about the movie. I wrote this rap called “Bat Rap.” I laid the track, rushed it and put it out. It was the second single I released.

The first one was "Twin City Rapp," which I had put out a few years before (in 1985). Prince knew about that song and it was what I used to try to get through to him. But, he wasn't budging. It got some regional airplay. The whole rap broke down what was happening on the Minnesota music scene. That was the first project that I put out independently. “Bat Rap” was the second and that was motivated by Weaver.

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After that, I put “Bat Rap” out. Weaver mixed it down and I put it out. Later on, as hood mythology says, Warner Bros. heard the record. KMOJ was playing it on the radio, right next to “Batdance” and they said "Who is the real Batman?" Warner Bros. asked who put out this rap record and knows all about the “Batman” movie? I guess they were asking Prince "Who is this dude? Do you know him?" I guess they were looking for me. So, rather then they get to me without Prince, he called me up and said "Hey, man, why don't you come out here and bring your music. Let's do some tracks." I said "Okay."

I got my shit together, I went out to Paisley Park and started recording. I went out there and started working on the record. I was introduced to Levi Seacer. I thought I was going to work with Weaver; I was looking forward to it. That was who I really wanted to work with on the production.

But, Prince has his ways and I think he found out Weaver cut the record for me. So, he kind of took the (project) from Weaver and gave it to Seacer. I didn't really have the chemistry that I wanted with him. But, I went to work, because, it was an opportunity. I've always looked at it as business.

I started putting it down and from there Prince asked me to be in “Graffiti Bridge.”

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How did I never hear anything about this?!? I must hear it.

djThunderfunk said:

How did I never hear anything about this?!? I must hear it.

This is so cheesy but I love it. I don't know how it took 29 years for me to hear about this. Thank you OldFriends4Sale for the heads up.

djThunderfunk said:

djThunderfunk said:

How did I never hear anything about this?!? I must hear it.

This is so cheesy but I love it. I don't know how it took 29 years for me to hear about this. Thank you OldFriends4Sale for the heads up.

LOL Did you listen to it before or after Batdance, to see how it might have sounded on the radio?

OldFriends4Sale said:

djThunderfunk said:

This is so cheesy but I love it. I don't know how it took 29 years for me to hear about this. Thank you OldFriends4Sale for the heads up.

LOL Did you listen to it before or after Batdance, to see how it might have sounded on the radio?

I just listened to it by itself. It's cracking me up. So much fun..