What is your favorite song on Purple Rain?

[Matthew_S]

I was listening to this album today and thought this was an interesting question to pose.  I used to think that this was the rare album where it ended stronger than it began, but now I'm not so sure ...

3 huge singles of course - Let's Go Crazy, When Doves Cry, Purple Rain -- but I could see a case being made for almost every one.

[yesno]

I voted for "Baby I'm a Star" to be cool.  But really, of course, it's "When Doves Cry."  That and "Kiss," together with Kate Bush's hits from Wuthering Heights to Hounds of Love, show just how weird pop music can be.

[Wes]

Let's Go Crazy. Starts great, ends even better and is a perfect distillation of Prince from, the guitar work to the vocals to the overall peak of his gosp-perv songwriting approach.

Plus, more than anything else on the album, hearing it immediately triggers images from the movie/video, specifically Prince riding around his his Batgirl Motorcycle. So bonus points for that.

[snogrog]

Hearing it immediately triggers images from the movie/video, specifically Prince riding around his his Batgirl Motorcycle. So bonus points for that.

ZING!





AND FINALLY



...and it's "When Doves Cry."

[JonFromMaplewood]

"Take Me With U" is simple but it makes me happy. 

I'll be honest...I never liked this album all that much even though i bought it the minute it came out.  It may be that I respect Prince a lot, but do not really enjoy listening to his music that much.

[buffcoat]

Don't let the elevator bring you down.




The spoken intro is worth the price of admission.



Completely unrelated followup question: What's your favorite song on New Order's Republic?

[snogrog]

Completely unrelated followup question: What's your favorite song on New Order's Republic?

Regret. Definitely.

[Matt]

I voted for "The Beautiful Ones," but only to spread some votes around. There are no losers here!

"I Would Die 4 U" has my favorite lyric, though: "If you were evil I'd forgive you by and by."

[Gilly]

Purple Rain- Darling Nikki is a distant 2nd.

[Steve of Bloomington]

I like that 'I want to be a modernaire' song.

[masterofsparks]

I like almost all of this album, but it's got to be Baby I'm a Star. Seems like the sort of thing that could go on 10+ minutes in the right live setting.

[yesno]

My favorite Prince album is Parade.  It doesn't have the best songs but it holds together as a single work best.

It also sounds the least dated.  Prince never sounds very of his time in the way that some pop/r&b people can, but this album is the least mid-1980s sounding.

[Matt]

My favorite Prince album is Parade.  It doesn't have the best songs but it holds together as a single work best.

It also sounds the least dated.  Prince never sounds very of his time in the way that some pop/r&b people can, but this album is the least mid-1980s sounding.

It is pretty great. For most of the last two weeks, the only music I listened to in my car was a cassette of PARADE. The songs are awesome, but it's the sequencing that makes the album. (And I almost never notice that kind of thing.)

Someone called it SGT. PEPPER for the 80s, and I don't disagree.

[fonpr]

I listened to ... a cassette 

I sent Tom a cassette a couple weeks ago.   Should I ask Mike and TeRRReeZZZ to play it?

Tom didn't.  Just made a weird sideways reference to it.


Signed,

A Concerned Listener

[ChrisRawk]

Gotta be honest...I think every song is great.  I'm having a hard time deciding where to put my vote.