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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Feb 22, 2003
Pros: Production, Performance, Lyrics, Versatility, Arrangements, & Vocals.
Cons: None baby!
Summary: Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here today to celebrate Black History Month in this amazing Write-Off hosted by the vivacious diva herself Cletta1201 and the King of Hip-Hop in Epinions.com, Madtheory. The Black History Month W/O is a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 23, 2009
Pros: Six of the tracks hit the 3-star mark (at least).
Cons: One-note; repetitive; overrated; pretentious.
Summary: It's evident within the first twenty seconds of this record that Mr. Nelson was entirely wrapped up in his own pretension in 1984, a year that produced some of the greatest music in the world. I'm sure that anybody who has following my series of Prince ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 3, 2009
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Summary: This is the review I've been dreading. With so many critically acclaimed reviews, there's no way I could give Prince's Purple Rain a bad review and not expect a backlash by fans of Prince on epinions. So I made it my mission to get to like Prince, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 2, 2007
Pros: High quality and inventive pop/rock/funk with personal character and musical complexity.
Cons: A couple of songs are great while the album's on, but don't stick afterwards.
Summary: Well, this is the biggie. While Prince’s 1982 album "1999" had introduced him to mainstream audiences with crossover hits like the title track and “Little Red Corvette”, 1984’s “Purple Rain” was the release that made him a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 7, 2006
Pros: Prince beating everybody at their own game. Slow songs, dance numbers, rockers- DAMN!
Cons: Wish they would've included some of that eerie incidental music from the movie.
Summary: I’ve always identified strongly with Prince. In addition to being a fellow Gemini (along with speeddemon, roheblius, and Jim Nabors, three of my favorite people), he’s had an unusual and sometimes tumultuous life. He also likes to watch exotic ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 21, 2006
Pros: Prince's most accessible album; a well-focused, radio-friendly mix of rock, pop, and funk
Cons: "Darling Nikki," but not for the reason Tipper Gore gave
Summary: Anger, he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour --Jimi Hendrix: "Bold As Love" The stakes were high for Prince in 1984. His previous album, 1999,
broke him into the mainstream and critics were ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 18, 2006
Pros: Emotional, Multi Genre Brilliance.
Cons: Computer Blue doesn't make sense, dammit!!
Summary: Such controversy has surrounded Prince and not just the album of the same name either, but the majority of his extremely prolific and impressive career. One thing I’ve noticed about most people is that they either love or hate Price. Some ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 13, 2005
Pros: This album just kicks ass all around.
Cons: Only 9 songs...?
Summary: There was a time I was listening to the song Purple Rain on a road trip with a few friends, singing along at the top of my lungs, when one of the more musically challenged of them asked me "Is there anything that could make you stop loving that little ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 5, 2004
Pros: Songwriting; vocals; ambition; guitar riffs on "Computer Blue" and "Let's Go Crazy"; "When Doves Cry"
Cons: None
Summary: Consider the following, generation y: if you had been born 20 years earlier, chances are you would have considered Prince to be one of the – if not the – coolest pop culture icons in the history of film and music. Most teenagers nowadays react ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 31, 2004
Pros: Big songs, big production etc.
Cons: Unfortunately, about half of these songs have dated. Badly.
Summary: Alright, let me get this straight before it’s 2 late and (eye) start 2 cry This is the album (eye)’ve been waiting 4, the 1 (eye) fantasized But all of U Prince’s fans out there – to U (eye) must apologize …for Purple ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 20, 2004
Pros: Take a listen, tell me do you like what you hear?
Cons: Just nine songs, makes you miss the Revolution
Summary: I have a list of perfect albums that I usually like to forcibly share to people. This album is truly a remarkable example of what one would call a perfect album. This truly has not a weak track amongst the small crop of nine songs. Purple ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 16, 2004
Pros: The most perfect pop soundtrack for a film ever recorded...
Cons: ...except for one song
Summary: Rhythm - a powerful force bending sound into palpable pressure 1985, most weeknights, 1 AM “Ok, time to close!” I probably said this phrase several hundred times over the course of my career at Taco Bell, and in many of these ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 6, 2004
Pros: This album isn't the least bit tired or overplayed after two decades.
Cons: This album doesn't come with a photo of Apollonia's bodacious boobies.
Summary: Every rock star secretly harbors one ambition, it seems-to be a movie actor or actress. If you really look at it, every popular musician from Michael & Madonna to Garth & Billy Ray to (insert name of rapper here) has decided to drop the mic for a script ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 12, 2003
Pros: Ultra catchy, vibrant, colourful, charismatic, romantic, infectious, funky.
Cons: Depends what your views on sex are, "Darling Nikki" might offend.
Summary: I have been ignorant for far too long of the talents of the short purple one. When I was a teenager, the single "1999" was one of my favourite songs of daring rebellion. More recently, for a while I've been a huge fan of one of Prince's ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 31, 2003
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Summary: December 1997. First semester, junior year of college. UNH's Hetzel Hall. Every Wednesday night the dorm held what they called "hump night." The innuendo was meant to breed excitement, rather than the reality of a cheesy get-together among all the floors, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 24, 2003
Pros: Its ALLLLLLLL good!
Cons: That younger generations probably don't know it exists.
Summary: This is the best album ever, hands down. And I am not a die-hard Prince fan, or a devout follower of funk/hip hop/dance or any other genre you want to throw this into - I'm just a BIG music fan!
From the first to the last song on this album, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 24, 2003
Pros: Nicely put together CD! For all Prince fans you will love it!
Cons: I wish it had a few more songs on it.
Summary: I like this CD alot. It took me a while to find it and I finally have. I go way back as far as being a Prince fan and this CD rocks! It has the ever most popular song on it "Darlin Niki". And Purple Rain. He did a great job!!! I would for sure buy it. I ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 8, 2002
Pros: Great guitar work, great lyrics, FINALLY a Prince record that's not over-produced.
Cons: Okay, so the Purple Rain outro is a LITTLE over-produced
Summary: One of the common mistakes when it comes to Purple Rain is trying to separate the soundtrack from the movie. Purple Rain IS a soundtrack, and there IS an accompanying movie. The two were made to go together like no other pair before them. Not even the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2002
Pros: Prince makes some of the best music of all time.
Cons: A few dated bits.
Summary: There are some artists who get so caught up in being icons that they often wind up letting the thing that gets people interested in them get overshadowed: the music. It happened to David Bowie, it happened to Lou Reed, it happened to Jim Morrison. But ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 19, 2002
Pros: His most consistently stunning album. No need for skipping tracks.
Cons: Not long enough.
Summary: Prince!!?? What a flake, I never did like him. That's the reaction I get when speaking of my affection for his music. PLEASE, when this album was released everybody liked it, they may not have admitted it, but they were singing the tunes in the ... read more
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