Parade may be my 2nd favorite P album ever, it's definitely in my top 5. And YES - if he dusted off Life Could Be So Nice I would lose my fucking mind!!

Seriously though - does it get any better than Anotherloverholeinyohead???

all's i need is the 12" version of "kiss", and it's just ova.

Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains Mountains

HEY GUYS, THE PARADE CD I HAVE ONLY HAS 11 TRACKS ON IT BUT WHERE IS THIS VERSION AT WITH THE 17 TRACKS? DO I HAVE THE WRONG VERSION? THE MOUNTAINS VERSION ON THE CD I HAVE ONLY LASTS FOR LIKE 4 MINUTES.

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE DEAL IS PLEASEEEEE!!!!!

SENSHY said:

SENSHY said:

yeah! dam straight

CalhounSq said:

So very cool that I'm seeing the love for Parade. I thought I knew something that others didn't.
I'm really drawn to the "euro" sound of it. As someone from the states I Like it when music or whatever can take you places that you haven't been. Parade does that for me. And I have much love for music across the Atlantic.
And Life Can Be So Nice affirms it's title!


Thanks Boris for info! Very cool.

Really? That Album is a CRESCENDO of MUSICAL PERFECTION.....

I absolutely adore Parade, it still blows my mind everytime I listen to it... (and I have listened to it an endless amount of times)

Anxiety said:

Totally! It's a spring album for me too.

And prolly my fav P album, if you made me choose.

Parade. . .

tackam said:

When people talk about the "mountain top" I think that's where P was at the time of Parade.



"It's only Mountains, and the sea"

Mountains!! MOUNTAINS MOUNTAINS!!

I love it!! I played this album in my bio lecture and my friend said it woke everybody up!!

I think I'll play it right now.

EvilWhiteMale said:

100% agree.

It just sounds like the kind of genius album being made by a guy who really didn't realize he was making something AWESOME.

I totally dig Parade, too..."Venus De Milo" played at my weddin'....

missfee said:

hey can someone please answer this for me!!!!

missfee said:

missfee said:

The boot Charade?

"guitars n drums on the one, huh".

."and the girls sing.."

http://www.prince.org/msg...msg_306473

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the best parts of Parade

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"...

missfee said:HEY GUYS, THE PARADE CD I HAVE ONLY HAS 11 TRACKS ON IT BUT WHERE IS THIS VERSION AT WITH THE 17 TRACKS? DO I HAVE THE WRONG VERSION? THE MOUNTAINS VERSION ON THE CD I HAVE ONLY LASTS FOR LIKE 4 MINUTES.

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE DEAL IS PLEASE

hey can someone please answer this for me!

Okay, I'm gonna try this again. My first postings here, sorry.

Yeah, missfee, Parade has only twelve tracks. Dude embellished the album with other tracks which were in the movie (Under the Cherry Moon), but did not appear on the album. Go back and read his other posts.

I think it's a cool idea... expanding the album that we love, and putting it in context with Prince's other music.

Parade is certainly my favorite album, so I'm glad to see others saluting it. The extended versions of "Mountains" and "Anotherloverholenyohead" are amazing. Did he tour behind that album?

One more thing, does Prince regularly record his shows? Is there ever the possibility of hearing some live tracks from the Controversy - Lovesexy tours?

Parade rocks.

Truly a work of art..... I love how colorful he and the revolution were in black&white.my favorite Prince album ever.

PurpleBrain said:

Ok thanks for clarifying that for me. I did scroll up and realized that the answer to my question was right in front of my face, but I guess I looked right passed it and panicked... oops!! Now I feel better. But yeah parade is one of those albums from P that I can listen to straight.

here, let me slap u. just kidding.

"its a wonderful world in paradise..."

how can anyone have sat on this album for so long?

parade is nothing short of a miracle. proabably the best album of all time

oh my, what better beginning to any album than the magic and exuberance of christopher tracy's parade! what a concept, what a vibe, what spirit!

nevermind all the b-sides and 12inch versions!

life can be so nice i always thought is so underrated.
and new postition would just smoke any place out if it were played live today.

what if prince made ths a double album, with worked out piano version so songs he played in the movie (an honest man) etc? with b-sides.
oh my lawd!