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Track Listing
1. Let's Go Crazy
2. Take Me With U
3. Beautiful Ones, The
4. Computer Blue
5. Darling Nikki
6. When Doves Cry
7. I Would Die 4 U
8. Baby I'm a Star
9. Purple Rain
Album Notes
Prince & The Revolution: Prince (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Wendy Melvoin (vocals, guitar); Lisa Coleman, Matt "Dr." Fink (vocals, keyboards); Brown Mark (vocals, bass); Bobby Z (percussion).
Additional personnel: Apollonia (vocals); Novi Novog (violin, viola); David Coleman, Suzie Katayama (cello).
Engineers include: Susan Rogers, Peggy Mac, David Riukin.
A soundtrack to a movie so appalling that it is infinitely wiser to let the record stand on its own merits. While Prince cavorted in purple kitchen foil and rode his Harley in high heels, the real star of the film, the music, was doing all the talking. A knit of funk and rock, a heavily stylized Hendrix guitar lick here and there, and a wilfully danceable backbeat all made for a huge commercial smash, and the first real international introduction for many people to a star-in-waiting. 'Darling Nikki' accidentally set the PMRC ball rolling, but the heady lilt of the title track and the crushing 'When Doves Cry' can pardon him that.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The Eighties survey.
Rolling Stone (11/01/1989)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)
Ranked #9 in EW's 100 Best Movie Soundtracks - ...A genre-bending smorgasbord...a monument to mad ambition...
Entertainment Weekly (10/12/2001)
Ranked #15 in CMJ's Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1984
CMJ (01/05/2004)
Ranked #72 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...[The album] showcases Prince's abilities as a guitarist...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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