Not a bad song in the bunch. Pretty high praise for an album that was released as two 12" records back in 1982.
To give a context, this was the breakthrough, the album that pushed Prince's synth-driven sound from a guilty pleasure of those in the know into the definitive sound of the 80's, both through his own work and others' derivative works.
Though he has since rerecorded the title track (and threatens to rerecord the rest) it's worth the time and effort to give every song on this album the benefit of your full attention. Listen to "Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)" and see how it presages drum 'n bass and jungle by a decade and a half. Hear within "Little Red Corvette" a slyness and a cleverness that would blow the lid off of pop music lyrics.
While you can blame Prince for today's glut of generic R&B singers wailing out lyrics that sound like the play-by-play to a gynecological exam, you must give him credit for his bravery in being so frank and honest on this album. Understand that to make a song like "D.M.S.R." or "Lady Cab Driver" at the dawning of the Reagan era was a way of reclaiming the inherent sexuality that had been left out of pop and rock music in as punk got more pointlessly strident and disco got more robotically generic.
Pay attention, too, as you'll hear 1999's echoes in everything from Nine Inch Nails' latest CD to Maxwell's latest b-side... An essential for any person who values 80's pop.
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