Purple Rain Music from the Motion Picture
by Prince$10.95 Free Shipping
- Released
- 10/08/84
- Music Genre
- Pop
Description
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.
Product Details
- Artist
- Prince
- Run Time (minutes)
- 43
- Label / Studio
- WARNER
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #2581
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 1995
- Number of Discs
- 1
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #3238
- Original year of release
- 1984
- SPARS Code
- AAD
- Cast & Crew
- Prince (Guest Artist)
- The Revolution (Guest Artist)
- Prince & The Revolution (Music Performer)
- Prince (Producer)
- The Revolution (Producer)
Press Reviews
Ranked #9 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...A genre-bending smorgasbord...a monument to mad ambition... Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.29)
Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey. Rolling Stone (11/89)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Vibe (12/99, p.162)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Let's Go Crazy
-
Take Me with U
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The Beautiful Ones
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Computer Blue
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Darling Nikki
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When Doves Cry
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I Would Die 4 U
-
Baby I'm a Star
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Purple Rain
