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When did "Parade" become so loved? Given the chatter about the potential of a "Parade" SDE release, I was wondering when "Parade" started getting so much love. I remember when the album came out, it was just seen as the soundtrack to UTCM and the album that featured "Kiss". It didn't take too long for the album to end up in the cut-out bins. I loved it from the moment that it came out, but I don't remember it being seen in such high regard.
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Mass hysteria. |
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Girls and Boys, Mountains, Sometimes it snows, New Position, Anotherlover.... they've been fan favorites since released, and the first 3 are considered some of his best. | |
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lavendardrummachine said: Girls and Boys, Mountains, Sometimes it snows, New Position, Anotherlover.... they've been fan favorites since released, and the first 3 are considered some of his best. And KISS! | |
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endiadj said: lavendardrummachine said: Girls and Boys, Mountains, Sometimes it snows, New Position, Anotherlover.... they've been fan favorites since released, and the first 3 are considered some of his best. And KISS, a #1 single! | |
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One of my favorites but not one of his most popular albums. Only the hardcore fans will be checkin' for that SDE . I hope that's not what's coming up next. There's too much overlap with SOTT. |
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I loved it from the get-go. I was initially disappointed with ATWIAD (which is covered in another existing thread), but something about Parade just landed right. It was this organic, textured, shag-meets-velvet production, scrappy yet put together album. I was even fascinated that the two sides were labeled INTRO and OUTRO. The artwork inside, the silly movie, everything was just appealing about it. It's aged well and it's still a fun romp through - frankly - a lot of different kinds of music. Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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What's not to love?
It is a great album all the way from the beginning to end. Love everything about this era.The music, the tour,the movie,Prince's short hair look. [Edited 1/23/21 20:16pm] | |
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I loved it since the beginning. | |
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Maybe the US didn't embrace it, but in the Netherlands is was seen as a classic album right away, and is still together with Sign Of The Times seen as his highpoint. So... it's always been loved, never heard anything bad about it.
I guess from my European perspective, I always wondered how 1999 got so beloved and why it got the SDE treatment before his classic albums. Paisley Park is in your heart - Love Is Here! |
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I think it was always one of the albums people who know more than just the hits would know well. Here in the US of course Kiss is one of Prince's biggest, but 1999 and Purple Rain are the two most casual Prince listeners know of in full | |
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When??
Meldody Maker/Album of the year 1986 - #2 Parade NME/Album of the year 1986 - #1 Parade
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...i‘m with prince on this one...not enough strong songs...lot of fillers. Doesnt make a great record (4 classic songs). If it wasnt for kiss, which by the way is a rip off and was produced by an outsider, the record would tank...in the last 30 years i tried to like it, but its nothing i go to listen to... Anyway the remastered one i would still buy.. | |
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It started getting re-examination after UtCM was voted worst film of the decade  I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. | |
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really like it, but i dont love it. Saying that, Kiss is up there for me as his best single. |
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I have always loved it, but my love grew stronger over the years. I love everything about it. 10/10! RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Just when I thought I couldn't think more highly of Prince, he release Parade. I couldn't believe he had this type of album in him, so dramatically different from all the others. I loved it immediately. With the consecutive relase of four remarkably different and brilliant albums, I think this was the peak of my love for Prince. |
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I've loved it since its release. It's very poorly recorded though, but I just crank up the volume. | |
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Also a fan since day one, from beginning to end it flows incredibly well. It also has aged well. |
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When the birthday concert video was aired on TV I think that the whole world recognised the greatness of the Parade concept. | |
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On March 31, 1986 the day me and my friends cut out of school to buy and listen to it. | |
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Will Parade SDE have the `Kiss (damn near ten minutes)` version to attract the hits-sensitive buyers? I guess that the 'experts' can rather easily construct such a frankenstein? How else can we explain the case for Paarde SDE if it is just an album loved by fans but not the legendary hit machine? Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. | |
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Loved it since the day it was released. One of my top five favorite P albums. | |
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Loved it from the beginning but I just don’t recall it being a huge smash when it first came out, at least in the U.S. It’s one of my favorite Prince albums, and ‘anotherloverholeinyohead’ is one of my favorite Prince songs. Back then, I only remember this song being played on R&B stations, not Top 40, unlike ‘Kiss’, which was played everywhere. | |
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I loved it since I heard it...it'x a mindf*uck! The banging and echo of the drums of Christopher Tracy and Prince's "Haowh!" scream. The way it is all segued like one dream with the first several tracks all running/segueing into each other. New Position...bang bang...steel drums...Prince..."Hooohoo!" The way he's singing. The weird guitar note slow funk, flute, echo drum of I Wonder U sung by Wendy and Lisa. Into Under the Cherry Moon...slow...kick, kick, heavy drum, weird keyboard and piano soulful singing. This is Prince's DRUM album, with a lot of drum craziness. Girls and Boys, funky. Drum craziness and loudness and flutes of Life Can Be So Nice, Prince is singing so weird and cool. Echoes at the of Life Can lead to piano majesty of Venus De Milo.
Side One done...
Side Two...
Bass drum...electronic drum echo...guitar...Mountains...Prince singing different. Horns. Dramatic as all hell. Into...da da dum...da..."When I Lie..."...Do U Lie...Prince singing different. "Dooooo!" Then Kiss. Funky. Then...Another Lover...funky and soulfully sung. Then the sadness of Sometimes.
Shit! Like I said in another thread, Prince is different. Not boring. We found that out with Purple Rain and Around the World album. So...I just took that album as a fan and played it. He put out albums every year back then. Even if I didn't like Parade as a fan, all you had to do was wait till next year's magnum opus...Sign O' the Times.
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I've always wondered why there seem to be some intrinsic differences between European and American preferences as it relates to Prince's work?
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Poplife88 said:
Spot on, Poplife88! |
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whodknee said: One of my favorites but not one of his most popular albums. Only the hardcore fans will be checkin' for that SDE . I hope that's not what's coming up next. There's too much overlap with SOTT. I'd rather have a Dirty Mind or Controversy era deluxe edition, personally. | |
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It's an amazing album,but the mainstream Purple Rain crowd weren't too impressed."Kiss" was a major hit,of course,but the other two singles didn't do very well,at least not here in the States. | |
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Margot said:
I've always wondered why there seem to be some intrinsic differences between European and American preferences as it relates to Prince's work?
My guess is that Europeans appreciate art more than the whole pageantry thing. I'm in a minority but there are only like 2 songs on 1999 that get rotation in my brain, and I'd rather hear "HOW COME YOU DON'T CALL ME ANYMORE". Personally i tend to skip 1999 and CONTROVERSY in my brain space. Some good stuff but honestly, for folks who say Prince was inconsistent after leaving Warner Bros.... i beg to differ. Some of his most heralded albums are "duds" IMHO. it all just comes down to people and preferences and reactions. Delirious was never per4med better than it was on MUPPETS TONIGHT except for variants: All the critics - bleh something in the water is great with words International Lover is as Lukewarm as a Lionel Richie song I could go on but i won't. I think USA always goes for marketing blitzes. Has been for as long as I've been around. Sheeple do. [Edited 1/24/21 11:51am] ♫"Trollin, Trolling! We could have fun just trollin'!"♫ | |
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