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Originally released in 1982 on Corpus Christi this is Conflict's first and best record. Vegetarianism and the animal liberation movement were the main concerns for the fiercely political British Punk Band. Eight great tunes all masterpieces. Includes bonus tracks. 2006.
Personnel: Prince (vocals, various instruments); Lisa Coleman (vocals); "Dr." Matt Fink (synthesizer); Bobby Z (drums); Dez Dickerson, Andre Cymone.
Neither For You nor Prince was adequate preparation for the full-blown masterpiece of Prince's third album, Dirty Mind. Recorded in his home studio, with Prince playing nearly every instrument, Dirty Mind is a stunning, audacious amalgam of funk, new wave, R&B, and pop, fueled by grinningly salacious sex and the desire to shock. Where other pop musicians suggested sex in lewd double-entendres, Prince left nothing to hide -- before its release, no other rock or funk record was ever quite as explicit as Dirty Mind, with its gleeful tales of oral sex, threesomes, and even incest. Certainly, it opened the doors for countless sexually explicit albums, but to reduce its impact to mere profanity is too reductive -- the music of Dirty Mind is as shocking as its graphic language, bending styles and breaking rules with little regard for fixed genres. Basing the album on a harder, rock-oriented beat more than before, Prince tries everything -- there's pure new wave pop ("When You Were Mine"), soulful crooning ("Gotta Broken Heart Again"), robotic funk ("Dirty Mind"), rock & roll ("Sister"), sultry funk ("Head," "Do It All Night"), and relentless dance jams ("Uptown," "Partyup"), all in the space of half an hour. It's a breathtaking, visionary album, and its fusion of synthesizers, rock rhythms, and funk set the style for much of the urban soul and funk of the early '80s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
DIRTY MIND is the most focused and uncompromising of Prince's early albums. In 1980, the Purple one wasn't a superstar, he was an undeniably gifted weirdo, sort of a funk/R&B Todd Rundgren, composing, performing and producing everything himself. His singular vision combined a driving, spare R&B style driven by danceable drum machines, funk guitar and colorful synths, (a palpable new wave influence is also at work here) with a near-scandalous attitude towards sex. The unprecedently graphic lyrics of tunes like "Head" and "Sister" make rock & roll rebels of the past decades look like uptight puritans. Prince hadn't yet developed the panoramic production style that would define his greatest '80s album, but this leaner, more direct sound suits the visceral material well.
Rolling Stone (November 1989) - Ranked # 18 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The 80s" survey.
Q - 5 Stars - Indispensable
Vibe (2/02, p.87) - Included in Vibe's "Essential Black Rock Recordings". Dirty Mind Music Review Average Rating: (4.9 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Prince Gets Down With It!
Let's face it. Very few male artist, although they've attempted, cannont pull off what Prince has established on his own. That is, being the creative force behind virtually every crucial aspect of his musical endevours: writting all compositions and functioning as a multi-inturmentalist. And in the process, has given us some very memorable music. By 1980, and after two moderately successful albums within the R&B market, Prince delivered an album that put the "Prince Sound" on the map. DIRTY MIND oozes with sexually explicit lyrics, hypnotic beats, and great insturmentation. In essence, the first true "Prince" album. That's not to say that his two previous albums, FOR YOU and PRINCE, were bad. It's just that the musical moments were not as frequent as they are on DIRTY MIND. This record is truly, consistently enjoyable from start to finish!
Prime Cuts: title track, "Head", "Sister", "Uptown".
Submitted by Tubeway8080 (FG, Toronto, ON, Canada)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 2 of 3 found this helpful. This is what put Prince on the Map 4 ever!
I love this album. Every single song is winner. What can I say? If u think about it, how could Prince put 2gether a better album? Think about it. Half of the Album made Hits 1 and Hits 2! That is a higher percentage than any other album! I think that this album is arguablly the best album of Prince. Prince is a genius combined with pheonominal musical technique and style. The man is perhaps the greatest artist ever, and he is still putting out great music. (Check in 2 Musicology)
Submitted by Ben (Mountain View, CA, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 2 found this helpful. a good album to enjoy on a quiet time alone
This ablum contains great uptempo songs made for a old school type of party. I felt some songs should have been longer but its still great all the way.
Submitted by vanililli (brooklyn, NY) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  early prince at his best
this is prince in his early years of wild and fast fusion, glad to have this one again
Submitted by fire391c (camp victory, baghdad, iraq)
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I Was 20...
...still living at home with my parents and my father came charging up the attic stairs to my bedroom, booted open the door, scratched the needle over my Dirty Mind album and broke it (in half) over his knee. However, at that age, I KNEW the great music I was hearing despite what my puritanistic father was feeling at the time. Cut 4 cut, this album is absolutely incredible. I would be a sign of what would come from Prince. I like to think of this particular album as the one that would kick it all off for the direction that he would take for all subsequent releases. It's the crown of all the others. Now all WB has to do is digitally remaster it and maybe even throw in a few lost gems that didn't make the acutal album. Still love it to this day. I'm 44 now. :-)
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UK remastered pressing. In the ferment of Brazilian music which was taking place in the post Bossa Nova period...when the most unlikely musical figures had suddenly been thrust onto a world stage, many quite amazing musical explosions came to the surface, as Tropicalia took hold, and the unlikely sounds of funk, prog, psychedelic rock and lord knows what else were filtered through the unique sensibility of Brazil.....Som Imaginario! Rev-Ola. 2006.
Solo performer: Prince (various instruments).
Recorded at Alpha Studios, Burbank, California.
Expanding the urban R&B and funk approach of his debut, Prince is a considerably more accomplished record than his first effort, featuring the first signs of his adventurous, sexy signature sound. Although the album is still rather uneven, a handful of songs rank as classics. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" is excellent lite funk and "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" is a wonderful soulful ...
| | Prince Controversy CD (1981)
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2001 studio album celebrating their 35th anniversary. Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull guests on flute on one track. 14 tracks. including 'My Love Is In America', 'I Wandered By A Brookside' and more. 2006.
Personnel includes: Prince (vocals, various instruments); Lisa Coleman (keyboards, background vocals); Dr. Fink (keyboards); Bobby Z (drums).
Engineers: Mic Guzanski, Ross Pallone, Bob Mockler.
Controversy continues in the same vein of new wave-tinged funk on Dirty Mind, emphasizing Prince's fascination with synthesizers and synthesizing disparate ...
| | Prince 1999 CD (1983)
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Live Recording
Personnel: Prince (vocals, various instruments); Dez (vocals, guitar); Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin, J.J. (vocals).
Recorded at Sunset Sound & Uptown, Los Angeles, California.
With Dirty Mind, Prince had established a wild fusion of funk, rock, new wave, and soul that signaled he was an original, maverick talent, but it failed to win him a large audience. After delivering the sound-alike album, Controversy, Prince revamped his sound and delivered the double album 1999. Where his earlier albums had been a fusion of organic and electronic sounds, 1999 was constructed almost entirely on synthesizers by Prince himself. Naturally, the effect was slightly more mechanical and robotic than his previous work and strongly recalled the electro-funk experiments of several underground funk and hip-hop artists at the time. Prince had also ...
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Prince & The Revolution: Prince (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Wendy Melvoin (vocals, guitar); Lisa Coleman, Dr. Fink (vocals, keyboards); Brown Mark (vocals, bass); Bobby Z (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Novi Novog, Vaj (violin); David Coleman (cello, oud, percussion, background vocals); Suzie Katayama (cello); Sid Page, Marcy Dictorow (strings); Eddie M. (saxophone); Jonathan Melvoin (tambourine, background vocals); Brad Marsh (tambourine); Tim Barr, Annette Atkinson (bass); Sheila E. (drums); Susannah, Taj (backing vocals).
Engineers include: David Leonard, Peggy Mac, David Tickle.
Purple Rain made Prince sound like he could do anything, but it still didn't prepare even his ...
| | Prince Lovesexy CD (1988)
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Personnel: Prince (vocals, various instruments); Cat (vocals); Miko (guitars, background vocals); Eric Leeds, Atlanta Bliss (brass, background vocals); Boni Boyer (keyboards, background vocals); Dr. Fink (keyboards); Levi Seacer, Jr. (bass, background vocals); Sheila E. (drums, percussion, background vocals).
It's nearly impossible to judge Lovesexy as anything but a hastily assembled substitute for the withdrawn Black Album, which does the record a disservice. An exactingly sequenced song cycle -- the compact disc didn't have index markings to separate the individual tracks -- Lovesexy is quite a different record than not only The Black Album, but anything else Prince had recorded. Where Dirty Mind was single-minded in its lust, Lovesexy connects the carnal with spiritual, and the ...
| | U P Eko Terrorism CD (2006)
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The Universal Prince Eko hails from Cameroon, West Africa. He has a Christian background: his father a church planter and mother a Gospel singer; him being the youngest of five. He walked the silent groves of the cozy confines of Government Technical College Ombe and Lycee Technique Kumba before moving over to the U S to embark on his dream of becoming an aeronautic engineer.Nature defines a call. Eko was first introduced to church singing at the age of nine and today he exhibits exquisite mastery in the guitars and keyboards; skills honed at the Dallas School of Music, Carrollton-Texas, attended upon his arrival in the US. Presently, he is the music director of Agape Baptist Christian Fellowship, Dallas-Texas. It is his fervent belief that singing stems from formalized curiosity. This involves careful planning combined with good luck, mindless drudgery and some moments of inspirations as many dead ends pan-out into few rare discoveries. ...
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| | Cues Why? CD (1991) (Import) Germany
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This 28 track collection spans 1954-1956. The 20-page booklet contains photos, a group history, and session notes.
You may have heard the Cues without even realizing it. The '50s vocal group provided background harmonies on records by everyone from LaVern Baker to Big Joe Turner. As the WHY anthology makes clear, they also had an impressive career of their own, and this disc contains all the singles they recorded between 1954 and 1956 for a variety of labels. It includes "Burn That Candle" (later a hit for Bill Haley & the Comets), "Crackerjack" (a much-covered rock & roll classic), and 26 more tunes at the intersection of R&B, doo wop, and early rock ...
| | Harold Melvin Wake Up Everybody CD (1975)
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Personnel: Harold Melvin, Teddy Pendergrass, Bernie Wilson, Larry Brown, Lloyd Parks, Sharon Paige (vocals); Bobby Martin, Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker (arranger); MFSB.
Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1975. Originally released on Philadelphia Interntional (33808).
Philly soul staples Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes were in full swing on 1975's WAKE UP EVERYBODY. Sporting their trademark lush, string-laden production from Gamble and Huff (who also wrote about half the album's material), the smooth soul outfit delivers a mix of deep soul balladry and uptempo dance tracks. The title track, with its socially relevant messages, is a standout. There is no shortage of fine vocal performances all around, notably from Melvin and from future solo star Teddy Pendergrass.
An overview of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes' radio hits, including the Sharon Paige ...
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