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Parade ROCKS!! Aight folks.....I am sick and tired of the qausse (sic?) purist knocking on "Parade" and "Around the World In A Day".....I groove to these discs ten times more then I do the symbol or gold album...
the balance that prince reaches on these albums are of religous proportions.....he knows when to throw in wendy and lisa's sound ..when to make it funk-a and when to let the space just flow.....im fed up with people trying to say that prince was going for a "mainstream" thang...it aint right!! Parade is a beautiful tear....and im happy that he went there... NUFF SAID!!! cause face said so!!!  Space for sale... | |
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 who's been dissin parade? lemme at 'em!...or betta yet, if CherrieMoonKisses were to pop up and see folks dissin this album...oh lawd, all hell would break loose.  | |
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Parade is perfection in my book!
and puh-leeeeze, it's as far away from mainstream as you can get! Much more so than TGE, for example. Parade was the casette (heeheee) that sealed my fate as a Prince fan way back in the day. | |
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Endorphin74 I totally am feelin you! I also agree that Parade is da stuff!
That cd has funk, rock, and flava mixed Prince's style. From Christopher Tracy's Parade all the way to Sometimes It Snows In April that cd is takin you on a wild ride only the Purple One Can do. No two songs are alike, and the theme and album is just classy and unique. It's the best of the best, and thats the truth right dere! [This message was edited Sun Mar 14 16:52:56 2004 by LoveSymbolofaDove] | |
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it's as far away from mainstream as you can get!
 That album covers a variety of styles, its excellent. One of his best no doubt. ATWIAD is excellent aswell, i did take a few plays through the album to get used to it, but it is excellent after that. If ppl want to diss it then fine, as long as it don't stop me listening to it  If god one day struck me blind,
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sosgemini said: Aight folks.....I am sick and tired of the qausse (sic?) purist knocking on "Parade" and "Around the World In A Day".....I groove to these discs ten times more then I do the symbol or gold album...
the balance that prince reaches on these albums are of religous proportions.....he knows when to throw in wendy and lisa's sound ..when to make it funk-a and when to let the space just flow.....im fed up with people trying to say that prince was going for a "mainstream" thang...it aint right!! Parade is a beautiful tear....and im happy that he went there... NUFF SAID!!! cause face said so!!! Preachin' to the converted! Excellent album. Parade is an often overlooked gem during a period of sustained brilliance 1980-1988. | |
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endorphin74 said: Parade is perfection in my book!
and puh-leeeeze, it's as far away from mainstream as you can get! Much more so than TGE, for example. Parade was the casette (heeheee) that sealed my fate as a Prince fan way back in the day. Ditto, my brother!! Looking back, it's AMAZING the hits were hits, and the albums were platinum! "Raspberry Beret"!? "Mountains"!? GREAT songs, so out of character with everything ELSE in 85-86! How can you even LABEL "Parade"? Psychedelic-funky-pop? Only proves, when Prince is weird, people respond;when he tries for success, he flops! "Parade" is the GREATEST Prince lp EVER! I wish The Revolution stuck around for 1 more album just to see where the "Parade" sound led!
The ONLY reason I have stuck with Prince so long is that any man who is capable of "Parade", cannot be ignored! (Although "Rave" gave 2nd thoughts!)  | |
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I was just listenin to this over and over and over again yesterday while I was cleanin' house. Not only is this perfect music for the beginning of Spring, but every time I hear the first minute or so of "Christopher Tracy's Parade", I'm blown away all over again by how freakin' brilliant every last moment of this album is. I get one of those attacks where I freak out wondering if everyone else is hearing this music the same way I am, and if so, why ain't they freakin' out with me????
I love this album. There might be more classic albums, more critically acclaimed albums, whatever - but whereas Purple Rain has gotten old after a couple of decades of heavy wear, and sometimes even SOTT can be a chore to listen to after a while, Parade has never gotten stale and I'm ALWAYS in the mood to hear it. | |
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"The best parts of Parade: the transitional drumming from New Position to I Wonder U to UTCM. He supposedly did all the drumming for three songs in one take. The bass on New Position..sweet The slow groove of I Wonder U..and the ending of it with that heaviness...and that muted horn throughout..and the girls laid back vocal...and the geetar picking at the very end In UTCM where Prince goes "thats alright" in the breakdown bridge..and U can hear the horns having a field day with headphones How Girls and Boys has that push me pull you rubbery bottom like Bowies Fame. When the girls sing I Love U Baby, I Love U so Much--damn!The kazoo keyboard and the linn drum "kuhh!" sound at the end how Life Can Be So Nice starts up real fast and has that "kah" sound at the beginning with the keyboard lines..then it stops when Prince starts to sing...when he says "Kisses never lie" it all starts up again--this is Roadhouse Garden material--really. Then near the end it all comes crashing together with the vocals going wild! the drums live being played furiosly, then it ends how Venus just pops up giving the sense of having just reached climax and now your laying there letting it happen....and the mournful horns polaying near the end--I picture an overcast dock when they play..and that last piano key played then the very best part is the opening of Mountains..that linn drum making it like rubber and the "puhc puck' sounds interlaces throughout the fake heavy drums...the falsetto--nice and "dry"...the part that says "the sea would one day overflow with all your tears, and love will always leave ya lonely"..the ethereal choir (or is it synth) that gets higher in register...the horn blasts like staccato keyoard synths..the break fucking down...the part where he says "guitar and drums on the one, huh!"..then the guitar strumming..slurp..then part where he goes "and the girls say/sing"... the bass seprated in Do U Lie...when he says "mama mama" or something like that..and when he comes back for the bridge and says "when I lie..." the JB geetar lick that opens Kiss..almost like a reverse of when Venus starts, inside out..the push push sound like moving furniture...the denseness of the production..sounds like its "air tight"...the drum sound and that synth tha spounds like nothing else...the wah wah geetar part..saying Dynasty, one of the only few pop culture references hes ever used..the ending geetar licks like its being strangled the droning strains of Anotherlover..and the drums beating like they're waitng for something..then the boom of the piano and sludge...the bottomness of the whole song..his lackadaisical singing..(this song is POP Life inside out btw)...how the girls etc sing with Prince a few beats behind then it all comes together for the chrous after the second verse...the geetar strains in th e bridge..and when he says "baaad"...thers gonna be a riot and when they say that thers that piano key rise real quick Sometimes Snows In April..The "ahs ahs oh ohhhs", the tuba sounding Prince singing with that first ones..then the real horn blwoing...the strumming of the acoustic...the chorus voices mixed on the title part and when they sing "sometinmes I feel so bad"...when he says "now looking at his picture I realize"..." [This message was edited Sun Mar 14 17:22:48 2004 by SENSHY] Oh my, oh my. | |
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SENSHY said: In UTCM where Prince goes "thats alright" in the breakdown bridge..and U can hear the horns having a field day with headphones 
anothereditholeinyohead [This message was edited Sun Mar 14 17:28:23 2004 by Anxiety] | |
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Anxiety said: SENSHY said: In UTCM where Prince goes "thats alright" in the breakdown bridge..and U can hear the horns having a field day with headphones
anothereditholeinyohead [This message was edited Sun Mar 14 17:28:23 2004 by Anxiety] Just in case, I didn't write that, someone else did Oh my, oh my. | |
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i love parade. it's just such a beautiful and sexy CD. | |
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Loved the album. Haven't heard it much in recent years, but oh - those memories. Good times.   FREE THE 29 MAY 1993 COME CONFIGURATION!
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SENSHY said: http://www.prince.org/msg/7/25967#msg_306473
"The best parts of Parade: the transitional drumming from New Position to I Wonder U to UTCM. He supposedly did all the drumming for three songs in one take. The bass on New Position..sweet The slow groove of I Wonder U..and the ending of it with that heaviness...and that muted horn throughout..and the girls laid back vocal...and the geetar picking at the very end In UTCM where Prince goes "thats alright" in the breakdown bridge..and U can hear the horns having a field day with headphones How Girls and Boys has that push me pull you rubbery bottom like Bowies Fame. When the girls sing I Love U Baby, I Love U so Much--damn!The kazoo keyboard and the linn drum "kuhh!" sound at the end how Life Can Be So Nice starts up real fast and has that "kah" sound at the beginning with the keyboard lines..then it stops when Prince starts to sing...when he says "Kisses never lie" it all starts up again--this is Roadhouse Garden material--really. Then near the end it all comes crashing together with the vocals going wild! the drums live being played furiosly, then it ends how Venus just pops up giving the sense of having just reached climax and now your laying there letting it happen....and the mournful horns polaying near the end--I picture an overcast dock when they play..and that last piano key played then the very best part is the opening of Mountains..that linn drum making it like rubber and the "puhc puck' sounds interlaces throughout the fake heavy drums...the falsetto--nice and "dry"...the part that says "the sea would one day overflow with all your tears, and love will always leave ya lonely"..the ethereal choir (or is it synth) that gets higher in register...the horn blasts like staccato keyoard synths..the break fucking down...the part where he says "guitar and drums on the one, huh!"..then the guitar strumming..slurp..then part where he goes "and the girls say/sing"... the bass seprated in Do U Lie...when he says "mama mama" or something like that..and when he comes back for the bridge and says "when I lie..." the JB geetar lick that opens Kiss..almost like a reverse of when Venus starts, inside out..the push push sound like moving furniture...the denseness of the production..sounds like its "air tight"...the drum sound and that synth tha spounds like nothing else...the wah wah geetar part..saying Dynasty, one of the only few pop culture references hes ever used..the ending geetar licks like its being strangled the droning strains of Anotherlover..and the drums beating like they're waitng for something..then the boom of the piano and sludge...the bottomness of the whole song..his lackadaisical singing..(this song is POP Life inside out btw)...how the girls etc sing with Prince a few beats behind then it all comes together for the chrous after the second verse...the geetar strains in th e bridge..and when he says "baaad"...thers gonna be a riot and when they say that thers that piano key rise real quick Sometimes Snows In April..The "ahs ahs oh ohhhs", the tuba sounding Prince singing with that first ones..then the real horn blwoing...the strumming of the acoustic...the chorus voices mixed on the title part and when they sing "sometinmes I feel so bad"...when he says "now looking at his picture I realize"..." [This message was edited Sun Mar 14 17:22:48 2004 by SENSHY] 
I love Parade, and ATWIAD is great, too! | |
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Parade is one of my all time favorite albums.I LOVE it! ~Stephanie~
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I love Parade, It's definitely in Prince's top 5 albums. I, however, only pull it out during the Spring & Summer seasons. It's one of those albums that you pull out on a warm day. JERKIN' EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!! | |
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SENSHY said: http://www.prince.org/msg/7/25967#msg_306473
"The best parts of Parade: the transitional drumming from New Position to I Wonder U to UTCM. He supposedly did all the drumming for three songs in one take. The bass on New Position..sweet The slow groove of I Wonder U..and the ending of it with that heaviness...and that muted horn throughout..and the girls laid back vocal...and the geetar picking at the very end In UTCM where Prince goes "thats alright" in the breakdown bridge..and U can hear the horns having a field day with headphones How Girls and Boys has that push me pull you rubbery bottom like Bowies Fame. When the girls sing I Love U Baby, I Love U so Much--damn!The kazoo keyboard and the linn drum "kuhh!" sound at the end how Life Can Be So Nice starts up real fast and has that "kah" sound at the beginning with the keyboard lines..then it stops when Prince starts to sing...when he says "Kisses never lie" it all starts up again--this is Roadhouse Garden material--really. Then near the end it all comes crashing together with the vocals going wild! the drums live being played furiosly, then it ends how Venus just pops up giving the sense of having just reached climax and now your laying there letting it happen....and the mournful horns polaying near the end--I picture an overcast dock when they play..and that last piano key played then the very best part is the opening of Mountains..that linn drum making it like rubber and the "puhc puck' sounds interlaces throughout the fake heavy drums...the falsetto--nice and "dry"...the part that says "the sea would one day overflow with all your tears, and love will always leave ya lonely"..the ethereal choir (or is it synth) that gets higher in register...the horn blasts like staccato keyoard synths..the break fucking down...the part where he says "guitar and drums on the one, huh!"..then the guitar strumming..slurp..then part where he goes "and the girls say/sing"... the bass seprated in Do U Lie...when he says "mama mama" or something like that..and when he comes back for the bridge and says "when I lie..." the JB geetar lick that opens Kiss..almost like a reverse of when Venus starts, inside out..the push push sound like moving furniture...the denseness of the production..sounds like its "air tight"...the drum sound and that synth tha spounds like nothing else...the wah wah geetar part..saying Dynasty, one of the only few pop culture references hes ever used..the ending geetar licks like its being strangled the droning strains of Anotherlover..and the drums beating like they're waitng for something..then the boom of the piano and sludge...the bottomness of the whole song..his lackadaisical singing..(this song is POP Life inside out btw)...how the girls etc sing with Prince a few beats behind then it all comes together for the chrous after the second verse...the geetar strains in th e bridge..and when he says "baaad"...thers gonna be a riot and when they say that thers that piano key rise real quick Sometimes Snows In April..The "ahs ahs oh ohhhs", the tuba sounding Prince singing with that first ones..then the real horn blwoing...the strumming of the acoustic...the chorus voices mixed on the title part and when they sing "sometinmes I feel so bad"...when he says "now looking at his picture I realize"..." [This message was edited Sun Mar 14 17:22:48 2004 by SENSHY] Fuck I miss rd. 
What great descriptive writing. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. | |
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I don't really hear much negativity about Parade around here...i think it is regarded as one of his best albums. THE best in my opinion...but it is just my opinion!!
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sosgemini said: Aight folks.....I am sick and tired of the qausse (sic?) purist knocking on "Parade" and "Around the World In A Day".....I groove to these discs ten times more then I do the symbol or gold album...
Damn straight. | |
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another  for Parade. It truly is fantastic“If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists” | |
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thanks to this thread I was rocking it to Parade this morning! | |
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Handclapsfingasnapz said: who's been dissin parade? lemme at 'em!...or betta yet, if CherrieMoonKisses were to pop up and see folks dissin this album...oh lawd, all hell would break loose. And there the HELL is it!!! Who indeed has decided to unwiseingly diss my album of all Prince albums?   &  | |
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