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Originally Posted by HaydenAsche
Purple Rain is the shit.
Don't fuck with Prince. Minnesota pride, bitches.
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Since the Trailways/Greyhound station is right down the street from 7th Street Entry, I got to see the club on a layover. I talked to a guy who was there during the early eighties when Prince and the Revolution were still playing there as a support act or (later) with their various support acts.
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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
I'm more of a "Around the World in a Day" kinda guy
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I love Purple Rain, but yeah, Around The World In a Day is a forgotten gem. It's my favorite.
I've mentioned this before, but the Purple Rain Original Motion Picture Soundtrack sparked the whole PMRC hearings thing.
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The formation of the PMRC began in 1984 after Tipper Gore, along with her daughter Karenna, heard Prince's song "Darling Nikki." This track, which appears on the soundtrack to the film Purple Rain, contains references to sex and masturbation ("I knew a girl named Nikki/I guess you could say she was a sex fiend/I met her in a hotel lobby/Masturbating with a magazine").
Gore watched other rock music videos and concluded: "The images frightened my children, they frightened me! The graphic sex and the violence were too much for us to handle." Susan Baker became alarmed when she heard her seven-year-old daughter singing along with Madonna songs that Baker considered "suggestive." Gore and Baker, along with Howar and Nevius, formed the PMRC in May 1985.
The PMRC claimed that the change in rock music was attributable to the decay of the nuclear family in America. [1] Gore asserted that families are "haven[s] of moral stability" which protect children from outside influence, and that without the family structure rock music was "infecting the youth of the world with messages they cannot handle."
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Thing is, the album has the lyrics printed right on it. Nevermind that it's also the soundtrack to an R-rated movie!
Um, I have the audio for his Superbowl XLI performance and also the warm-up gig from NFL Network. Have the video too, but alas, it's VHS. Yes, it was an amazing halftime show. Best ever.