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The Reviews pt 3 - Dirty Mind 
Neither For You or Prince was adequate preparation for the full-blown masterpiece of Prince's third album, Dirty Mind. Recorded in his home studio, with Prince playing nearly every instrument, Dirty Mind is a stunning, audacious amalgam of funk, new wave pop, urban R&B, and pop, fueled by grinningly salacious sex and the desire to shock. Where other pop musicians suggested sex in lewd double entendres, Prince left nothing to hide -- before its release, no other rock or funk record was ever quite as explicit as Dirty Mind, with its gleeful tales of oral sex, threesomes, and even incest. Certainly, it opened the doors for countless sexually explicit albums, but to reduce its impact to mere profanity is too reductive -- the music of Dirty Mind is as shocking as its graphic language, bending styles and breaking rules with little regard for fixed genres. Basing the album on a harder, rock-oriented beat than before, Prince tries everything -- there's pure new wave pop ("When You Were Mine"), soulful crooning ("Gotta Broken Heart Again"), robotic funk ("Dirty Mind"), rock & roll ("Sister"), sultry funk ("Head," "Do It All Night"), and relentless dance jams ("Uptown," "Partyup"), all in the space of half an hour. It's a breathtaking, visionary album, and its fusion of synthesizers, rock rhythms, and funk set the style for much of the urban soul and funk of the early '80s. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AMG [This message was edited Sun Jan 25 13:03:20 PST 2004 by Milty] | |
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A genuine classic album by our genuine classic hero!!! NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. | |
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oh Dansa...where are you? this is my alter-ego altho i may act like my first ego. if you get confused just pretend it's me but like before! | |
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PapaUniverse said: oh Dansa...where are you?
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: PapaUniverse said: oh Dansa...where are you?
I love that emoticon... You can tell he's gonna do something perverted now that no one can see him. ~ I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR ~
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HobbesLeCute said: Handclapsfingasnapz said: PapaUniverse said: oh Dansa...where are you?
I love that emoticon... You can tell he's gonna do something perverted now that no one can see him. i never thought of 'im that way...he's just the "lurk" guy.  | |
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Dirty Mind: after all these years still in my top 3 Prince albums. A total classic! RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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THE BEST | |
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Dirty Mind is the shiz-nit! ALWAYS in heavy rotation in my house. It has a raw feel and sound that stands the test of time and never sounds too dated. Totally organic! The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon...dammit! | |
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The best album I've ever heard in my life, truly. It's enough to convert ANY non-Prince fan.
I like Stephen Thomas Erlewine too, he's a GREAT reviewer. | |
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