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Batman album, Batman day! Is anyone else giving the Batman album some love today? It's Batman day! I love this album, particularly Partyman and Batdance! Gloriously free-form songwriting! Ok, I've already used too many punctuation marks 🤣😂🤣 have a great #batmanday 👍 |
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Overall, Batman is a really good album. Ok, so maybe two or three (or four) songs on there are bloody terrible by Prince's usual standards but on the flip side of that coin, this album also has some of what I consider to be among his best. Electric Chair is the big highlight for me but The Future, Partyman and Trust are all right up there for me. In fact, I've made a combined playlist taking songs primarily from Batman and Graffiti Bridge, and I listen to it more than any other Prince playlist I have. |
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It's great underrated album and I enjoy most tracks on Batman  U are now an official member of the New Power Generation
Welcome 2 The Dawn Free the  SDE now! |
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I love so much "I Love U In Me"... "Money won't buy U happiness but it'll pay 4 the search." |
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arms of orion
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) |
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I'm listening now to the wonderful Vinyl Reissue.
Great album. Never understood why people thought it was a big step down from the previous albums. The Future / Electric Chair are Probably my favorite opening tracks to any album I also love The Arms of Orion. [Edited 9/16/23 10:21am] Something BIG Is Coming. |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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Each previous Prince album offers up something new artistically from the one that came before it, conceptually as an entire full cohesive piece of work. Whether it's something you dug or not, each album was bringing something new or unique to the table. [Edited 9/16/23 19:37pm] |
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It's not underrated.
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Here in europe, older Prince albums on vinyl are often hard to find in record stores. And when you find them, prices are still high. Batman is an album i don't see all that often. Lovesexy see more. Same for Purple rain and some (new) bootleg vinyls of the (repeatedly) '84 era (shows). Although the Batman album sold well back in the day, it still remains in peoples collection it seems. Good. The CD & vinyl singles of the (first) Batman era are super hard to find as well! It was the beginning of the CD singles era, and nearly the end of 45 rpms. Althoug I remember that back in the day you could find them a lot, even a few years after the album came out. Now it's really hard to find them. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. And wiser people so full of doubts" (Bertrand Russell 1872-1972) |
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I love this record. It was so hard to find a decent pressing on vinyl and now I got the european reissue finally. |
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Which are the 2/3/4 you particularly dislike? It was the first Prince album I bought, when it came out. I don't dislike any of the tracks but I think it sags in the middle a little with Vicki Waiting/Trust/Lemon Crush. Although I really changed my mind on Vicki Waiting when he released the live version from 1995 on the NPGMC in 2001 (and then on the Live From Paisley Park EP in 2005). |
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Very good album but obv a careless project that was rushed together I like nearly all of it but admit theres many things he couldve done better as commented in the lemon crush thread But it has many bangers |
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leecaldon said:
Which are the 2/3/4 you particularly dislike? It was the first Prince album I bought, when it came out. I don't dislike any of the tracks but I think it sags in the middle a little with Vicki Waiting/Trust/Lemon Crush. Although I really changed my mind on Vicki Waiting when he released the live version from 1995 on the NPGMC in 2001 (and then on the Live From Paisley Park EP in 2005). The Arms Of Orion. It kind of reminds me of a bad Disney song. I half expected to hear Aladdin and Jasmine on vocals. Lemon Crush. Not my kind of thing, I'm afraid. Batdance. I know this could be a controversial one, but I don't like this song at all. Vicki Waiting. It's not a bad song at all. I actually quite like it. But the rest of the album is so good that this song kind of seems bad in comparison. But taken on its own merits, I like it. Like I said in my initial post, despite a few songs in here that I don't like, the good more than outweighs the bad. |
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Disney songs can be great. Arms of orion is one of the best big pop ballads he ever did. |
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My son says he often includes Batdance on his workplace playlist. He says it never fails to provoke a response, usually around the 'Vicki Vale' part. Also, it's awesome 👌 |
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funkbabyandthebabysitters said: Disney songs can be great. Arms of orion is one of the best big pop ballads he ever did. Disney songs can be great. But Arms Of Orion is not like one of those songs. Not for me. Far too corny for my liking. |
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Only song that isn't worth a repeat listen is Lemon Crush. Always been one of my favourites. Some of the best sounding programmed drums on a Prince album. "Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system" - Bruce Lee | |
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lemon crush is such a good groove though. |
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Vicki Waiting > Lemon Crush Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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Its actually one of his most consistent albums Not a bad track on there Its just that everything is about a 7/7.5 with moments that make them 6 or 6.5 lol |
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"Lemon Crush" is GOATed. That's the one song where I drop my abject proselytizing about the artistry or lackthereof of this record and truly just get the funk out.
This is a bad thing? Name one bad song Aladdin and Princess Jasmine sang in that entire movie. My reason for liking it would be written the same as your reason for disliking it. 02. Eye Luv U 'n' Me 03. The Arms of Orion 04. Lemon Crush 05. Vicki Waiting 06. Sex 07. 200 Balloons 08. Scandalous 09. Batdance 10. Partyman 11. Electric Chair 12. Trust [Edited 9/18/23 17:26pm] |
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Hahaha. This whole post me me laugh in a nice way. I even agree re: Aladdin! Though Electric Chair as the 11th best song?!?! But you and I both love Lemon Crush so all is forgiven!
Let's get trippy picture shoe here. Rankings below:
1) Electric Chair 2) The Future 3) Vicki Waiting 4) Lemon Crush 5) 200 Balloons 6) The Arms of Orion 7) Batdance 8) I Love You In Me 9) Scandalous 10) Partyman 11) Trust
Trust is so lame and the way it's used in the movie makes it even worse. Love Dancing With The Devil. I've never actually listened to the Scandalous Sex Suite. [Edited 9/18/23 18:31pm] |
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This album is peak phoned in prince.
Did he ever phone it in as well as on this album? I love u in me loses points for the surgery line. Trust is like prince doing that kc and the sunshine kind of disco. Its so stupidly upbeat i cant help but like it. 200 balloons is great for how blaring it is and how he obv made next to no effort on it but somehow still pulls it off. Maybe this is the last album he could get away with that kind of thing and get such good results? Im gonna defend AOO and say its one of his loveliest ballads. It should have been as popular as purple rain! He shouldve given it to bette Midler or someone like that. But totally agree, on lemon crush you just have to turn your brain off and surrender to the groove, the funkiness, the brilliant double tracked vocals. He had a live one there  [Edited 9/18/23 22:55pm] |
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The Future Electric Chair Batdance Lemon Crush Trust Scandalous Vicki Waiting 200 Balloons Party Man I Love U In Me The Arms Of Orion Something BIG Is Coming. |
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WhisperingDandelions said: "Lemon Crush" is GOATed. That's the one song where I drop my abject proselytizing about the artistry or lackthereof of this record and truly just get the funk out.
This is a bad thing? Name one bad song Aladdin and Princess Jasmine sang in that entire movie. My reason for liking it would be written the same as your reason for disliking it. 02. Eye Luv U 'n' Me 03. The Arms of Orion 04. Lemon Crush 05. Vicki Waiting 06. Sex 07. 200 Balloons 08. Scandalous 09. Batdance 10. Partyman 11. Electric Chair 12. Trust [Edited 9/18/23 17:26pm] Good and bad are subjective. If you ask me to name a bad song in Aladdin, I would say "A Whole New World". It's fine for the movie and the scene in which it's used. But I would never listen to it in the car or on the bus. I don't like those kinds of corny songs. |
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I highly recommend the Scandalous Sex Suite . Its really good. Especially when the saxophone part kicks in. |
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Marvellous! https://www.youtube.com/w...9MgSRibsGY |
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