Dirty Mind

Artist: Prince
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075992740821
EAN: 0075992740821
ASIN: B000002KLP

Release Date: 1990-10-25

Dirty Mind

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Tracks:

Dirty Mind
When You Were Mine
Do It All Night
Gotta Broken Heart Again
Uptown
Head
Sister
Partyup

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Amazon.com essential recording

On this 1980 tour de force, Prince produced the template for most of his '80s albums: a mixture of lust and longing, synth pop combined with gut bucket rock and roll. Although this was his third CD, <I>Dirty Mind</I> was the one that truly established "When You Were Mine," which still ranks as one of his best songs, ever. The gender- and race-bending <I>Dirty Mind</I> was nasty and freaky--and you could dance to it. Still can. --Amy Linden

Customer Reviews:

Prince...Dirty Mind..........2007-02-15

This was another of the re-mastered Prince albums that I bought for ($7US). The signature song on this disc: Head! Overall though, it was my least favorite albums due to his subject matter. Let's be frank, he left nothing out on this one, and set a standard for all others to follow. Three stars!!

A Classic Album.......2006-09-03

Prince's 1980 album DIRTY MIND is one of his best albums from his decades long career. The album features a more stripped back production, but the music is still pure soul/funk. There are some really memorable, classic Prince jams here such as "When You Were Mine", "Head", "Uptown" and the title track. It's a brisk album at 8 songs, but all are integral to this album. Prince produced, arranged and composed the whole album. He found success starting with this cd, his third. Deservingly so, this is a classic album that may be his best album.

Raw.......2006-04-21

"Dirty Mind" shows how, even this early in his career, Prince was a genius when it came to straddling the line between the underground and the mainstream. On the cover Prince, clad in bikini underwear, trench coat and bandana, looks like he might have just left an S&M bar. But most of the songs on the album aren't nearly as outrageous as you'd expect from the cover. Musically, the album is a fairly straightforward blend of R&B, disco and synth-pop. Although the demo quality of the tracks does gives it a raw, unpolished edge. Maybe in 1980 the lyrics to tracks like "Do It All Night" and "Dirty Mind" were shocking, but they seem downright tame today. Lyrically, only the incestuous "Sister" still has the power to raise eyebrows. Overall, I'd say "Dirty Mind" is an interesting album that shows the early stages of Prince's musical experimentation and evolution.

Perversion for the whole family!.......2006-03-31

Dirty Mind is, without a doubt, the best album the little guy has ever put out. A 40 minute tour de force, to the uneducated elitist it sounds like a mess of shallow lyrics and Casio keyboard demos. However, open your heart to the album and you'll soon grow to love it and wonder why Prince doesn't sing in falsetto more.

It's interesting that once of the most accessible and danceable albums I've ever heard is in fact an ode to perversion and just general sketchiness. With song topics from relations with his sister to coercing a virgin on her wedding day for fellatio, Prince is in full horn dog mode here, folks. However, the album seems to harness the power of that raging sexuality and put it to a beat, creating music that would be a guilty pleasure if it weren't so darn good.

Instantly shifting into gear, the album starts with the title track, a robotic funk workout that might be the greatest song Prince has ever recorded, if you ask me. Slowly building upon itself, the song develops into layers and layers of pounding synthesizer beats, Prince crooning every note in his highest voice possible. The two other highlights of the album are 'Head' and 'When You Were Mine', the former an infectious disco funk beat, the latter a new wave/bubblegum rocker.

As Prince's production values grew along with his fanbase, he will probably never record anything else like Dirty Mind. Almost brilliant in it's minimalist nature, the album has a stripped down nature that no popoular musician would have the guts to make today. A short, yet sweet collection of 8 songs, it is essential that any fan of Prince, nay, fan of contemporary music in general has it in their collection.

The Best of Prince's Early Albums.......2006-02-28

Do you like Foucault? Do you like James Brown? If you don't own a Prince album, get this now!!!! "When You Were Mine" has to be the coolest breakup song every recorded, and all the rest of the songs are as good. THERE IS NOT A BAD SONG ON THIS ALBUM! The sort of aesthetic Prince is preaching here isn't heard too much nowadays, which is sad. Every zeitgeist has its prophet, and Prince definitely saw the 80s in all its glory and perversity.

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