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Thread started 10/15/24 8:10am

2freaky

Do you all actually listen to Take Me With You??

Put on headphones, that is a perfect pop song. Might be better than Purple Rain. That song is clever as shit. Executed to a tee. There is no better ear candy. Apples backing vocals kinda works. That out of tune sht make me smile.

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Reply #1 posted 10/15/24 8:50am

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Brilliantly constructed. Great intro/drum breaks too.
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Reply #2 posted 10/15/24 8:52am

SquirrelMeat76

One of those songs, that despite appearing on his biggest album, rarely gets any attention at all.

Worst song on PR for me. Barely played live after the PR tour. Raspeberry Beret is a very similar song, but is way better.

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Reply #3 posted 10/15/24 9:46am

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Barely played live after the PR tour.

Not true atall. Check Princevault:

https://princevault.com/i..._Me_With_U

[Edited 10/16/24 6:21am]

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Reply #4 posted 10/15/24 10:39am

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"Rock & Roll Love Affair" is also a similarly fantastic song

"Whatever skin we're in
we all need 2 b friends"
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Reply #5 posted 10/15/24 10:49am

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Also in the video is a never-spoken-of telecaster with a pickup-less mirrored body and prince inlays on the fretboard!

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"Whatever skin we're in
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Reply #6 posted 10/15/24 12:49pm

Gooddoctor23

Good "film" song but I've never cared 4 it.

Graycap23 was ME!
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Reply #7 posted 10/15/24 2:13pm

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It’s another song where JJ is mixed louder than the featured singer. For that I love hearing it.
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Reply #8 posted 10/15/24 2:48pm

SoulAlive

It is a great song but probably my least favorite track on that album.Works really good in the movie.
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Reply #9 posted 10/15/24 3:26pm

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nayroo2002 said:

"Rock & Roll Love Affair" is also a similarly fantastic song





You mean it just borrows the melody
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Reply #10 posted 10/16/24 3:30am

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Prince fans just like to hate on anything that doesn't feature 100% Prince on all lead, backing, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th background backing vocals buried deep in the catacombs of the background mix.

"Works in the movie," please. "Baby I'm a Star" is the true PR clunker that clearly only works in the movie, but let's all keep pretending that slice of cornball cheese is somehow better than this ardently-crafted piece of pop songwriting perfection.

[Edited 10/16/24 3:31am]

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Reply #11 posted 10/16/24 3:48am

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Prince fans just like to hate on anything that doesn't feature 100% Prince on all lead, backing, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th background backing vocals buried deep in the catacombs of the background mix.

"Works in the movie," please. "Baby I'm a Star" is the true PR clunker that clearly only works in the movie, but let's all keep pretending that slice of cornball cheese is somehow better than this ardently-crafted piece of pop songwriting perfection.

[Edited 10/16/24 3:31am]


lol
Was about to say. BIAS was only good on the tour, it's the only real dud on the album.
TMWU is a great pop song, and the extended or longer version is even better

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Reply #12 posted 10/16/24 6:44am

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It's the only song on the album I don't like. Would have been better if it had been on the Apollonia 6 album and the extended Let's Go Crazy didn't get edited for the album.

This is NOT because it's not all Prince vocals, that's a weird take. It's because it's too pop, too conventional, for such an avante-garde collection.




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Reply #13 posted 10/16/24 6:58am

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It's a really good song, but for some reason I don't listen to it that often smile
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Reply #14 posted 10/16/24 1:21pm

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djThunderfunk said:

It's the only song on the album I don't like. Would have been better if it had been on the Apollonia 6 album and the extended Let's Go Crazy didn't get edited for the album.

This is NOT because it's not all Prince vocals, that's a weird take. It's because it's too pop, too conventional, for such an avante-garde collection.




[Edited 10/16/24 6:46am]

"avant-garde" collection?

The album bookeneded by a generic 80s rock and roll track and a by-the-numbers Journey ripoff that he cleared with the band beforehand like Weird Al clearing a song parody? That album, avant-garde?


'Purple Rain' is hardly 'Romance 1600', it's a very straightforward rock/pop/funk hybrid record, hence why it's like the ultimate intro-to record for an artist regardless of what someone's prior background or taste may or may not be.


It's actually the complete opposite of avant-garde. It puts the pop in populist. Avant-garde records don't sell in the US like PR. It ain't Trout Mask Replica.

[Edited 10/16/24 13:25pm]

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Reply #15 posted 10/16/24 1:43pm

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WhisperingDandelions said:

djThunderfunk said:

It's the only song on the album I don't like. Would have been better if it had been on the Apollonia 6 album and the extended Let's Go Crazy didn't get edited for the album.

This is NOT because it's not all Prince vocals, that's a weird take. It's because it's too pop, too conventional, for such an avante-garde collection.




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"avant-garde" collection?

The album bookeneded by a generic 80s rock and roll track and a by-the-numbers Journey ripoff that he cleared with the band beforehand like Weird Al clearing a song parody? That album, avant-garde?


'Purple Rain' is hardly 'Romance 1600', it's a very straightforward rock/pop/funk hybrid record, hence why it's like the ultimate intro-to record for an artist regardless of what someone's prior background or taste may or may not be.


It's actually the complete opposite of avant-garde. It puts the pop in populist. Avant-garde records don't sell in the US like PR. It ain't Trout Mask Replica.

[Edited 10/16/24 13:25pm]


When Doves Cry? Computer Blue? Darling Nikki? Complete opposite of pop, at least when it came out. Due to it's success, pop changed as influenced by Purple Rain.

To each their own, opinions are just that. And in MY not-so-humble opinion, Take Me With U stands out among the rest of the tracks as saccharine. Pure pop cheese.

BTW, the term "avante-garde" was used often when discussing Prince in general and the album Purple Rain specifically by the critics at the time. If anything I shouldn't have used it because it's cliche to call it that at this point, not because it's not true.

But that's one of the great things about Prince, ask any 10 hardcore fans to rank songs (or albums) and you'll get completely different answers. Or do you not remember the excessive amount of threads about editing Emancipation down to 1CD. Everybody agreed a near perfect single disc could be culled from the 3CD collection but nobody agreed on which tracks it would include. Can't get much better than that. wink


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Reply #16 posted 10/16/24 2:01pm

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I really like Appolonnia's vocals on this track as well as the tambourines and the string arrangements used on it too. One of my favorites off the album heart

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Reply #17 posted 10/16/24 2:37pm

SoulAlive

There are no “duds” on the Purple Rain album smile
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Reply #18 posted 10/16/24 5:01pm

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SoulAlive said:

There are no “duds” on the Purple Rain album smile

Yup, got that right! No duds at all! cool

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

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Reply #19 posted 10/17/24 1:49am

JorisE73

WhisperingDandelions said:

djThunderfunk said:

It's the only song on the album I don't like. Would have been better if it had been on the Apollonia 6 album and the extended Let's Go Crazy didn't get edited for the album.

This is NOT because it's not all Prince vocals, that's a weird take. It's because it's too pop, too conventional, for such an avante-garde collection.




[Edited 10/16/24 6:46am]

"avant-garde" collection?

The album bookeneded by a generic 80s rock and roll track and a by-the-numbers Journey ripoff that he cleared with the band beforehand like Weird Al clearing a song parody? That album, avant-garde?


'Purple Rain' is hardly 'Romance 1600', it's a very straightforward rock/pop/funk hybrid record, hence why it's like the ultimate intro-to record for an artist regardless of what someone's prior background or taste may or may not be.


It's actually the complete opposite of avant-garde. It puts the pop in populist. Avant-garde records don't sell in the US like PR. It ain't Trout Mask Replica.

[Edited 10/16/24 13:25pm]


Compared to his own releases (or his protege releases) then sure it's not avant garde, but compared to all other commercially succesful records that came out back then (and the reviews using the word avant garde alot for this album back in 84) it's highly avant garde.

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Reply #20 posted 10/17/24 1:50am

JorisE73

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There are no “duds” on the Purple Rain album smile


i politely disagree, but that's the beauty of opinions right, i like what I like and you like what you like thumbs up!

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Reply #21 posted 10/17/24 6:40am

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JorisE73 said:


Compared to his own releases (or his protege releases) then sure it's not avant garde, but compared to all other commercially succesful records that came out back then (and the reviews using the word avant garde alot for this album back in 84) it's highly avant garde.

yeahthat

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Reply #22 posted 10/17/24 7:54am

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Ew no.

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Reply #23 posted 10/17/24 9:58am

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2freaky said:

Put on headphones, that is a perfect pop song. Might be better than Purple Rain. That song is clever as shit. Executed to a tee. There is no better ear candy. Apples backing vocals kinda works. That out of tune sht make me smile.

Prince and 3rdEyeGirl did a cracking version live across 2013 - 2015 (IMHO)

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Reply #24 posted 10/17/24 10:10am

RODSERLING

First Time I Heard it, I loved it, made me think of early Beatles, brillant pop song for sure, very 60's. But not a good Prince single choice, since you barely hear his voice throughout thé song. Beautiful ones instead would have been a killer.
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Reply #25 posted 10/17/24 10:35pm

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JorisE73 said:



WhisperingDandelions said:




djThunderfunk said:


It's the only song on the album I don't like. Would have been better if it had been on the Apollonia 6 album and the extended Let's Go Crazy didn't get edited for the album.

This is NOT because it's not all Prince vocals, that's a weird take. It's because it's too pop, too conventional, for such an avante-garde collection.





[Edited 10/16/24 6:46am]



"avant-garde" collection?

The album bookeneded by a generic 80s rock and roll track and a by-the-numbers Journey ripoff that he cleared with the band beforehand like Weird Al clearing a song parody? That album, avant-garde?



'Purple Rain' is hardly 'Romance 1600', it's a very straightforward rock/pop/funk hybrid record, hence why it's like the ultimate intro-to record for an artist regardless of what someone's prior background or taste may or may not be.



It's actually the complete opposite of avant-garde. It puts the pop in populist. Avant-garde records don't sell in the US like PR. It ain't Trout Mask Replica.


[Edited 10/16/24 13:25pm]




Compared to his own releases (or his protege releases) then sure it's not avant garde, but compared to all other commercially succesful records that came out back then (and the reviews using the word avant garde alot for this album back in 84) it's highly avant garde.



Its pop music. Great, original, surprising, experimental, but still pop songs. There is real avant garde music out there. Amd its not pop music, even if pop music can incorporate aspects of it.
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Reply #26 posted 10/18/24 12:29am

JorisE73

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

JorisE73 said:


Compared to his own releases (or his protege releases) then sure it's not avant garde, but compared to all other commercially succesful records that came out back then (and the reviews using the word avant garde alot for this album back in 84) it's highly avant garde.

Its pop music. Great, original, surprising, experimental, but still pop songs. There is real avant garde music out there. Amd its not pop music, even if pop music can incorporate aspects of it.


Sure, but avant garde is the term they used for many reviews back in the day and compared to all those commercial album from 84 I would say Purple Rain qualifeis as avant garde shrug

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Reply #27 posted 10/18/24 5:06am

Trufunksoulja

I don't care what anybody says but BIAS is my jam flipped off


TMWU is awesome, love the cello and violin.

However, only gripe I have is that it seems to cut short at then end with the ooh oohs.

It def needs a longer/extended version.


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Reply #28 posted 10/18/24 6:12am

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funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

JorisE73 said:


Compared to his own releases (or his protege releases) then sure it's not avant garde, but compared to all other commercially succesful records that came out back then (and the reviews using the word avant garde alot for this album back in 84) it's highly avant garde.

Its pop music. Great, original, surprising, experimental, but still pop songs. There is real avant garde music out there. Amd its not pop music, even if pop music can incorporate aspects of it.


The professional critics of 1984 disagree.

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Reply #29 posted 10/18/24 2:06pm

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Always fun to see where fans decide to take sides with critics lol
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