Confused?Īn accomplished funk and soul debut from a precocious 19-year-old, but no hint whatsoever of the outrageously gifted talent that was soon to emerge.

So he tells us on the album whose official title is the unpronounceable symbol he will later adopt instead of Prince. Still incredibly young, Prince shows he has already mastered disco and soul, and on tracks like the hard rock “Bambi”, that he’s itching to stray into other territories.Ī stopgap delivering little that Dirty Mind hasn’t already given us, but with “Jack U Off”, the iconic title track and the sublime “Do Me Baby” on board, there is joy in repetition.Ī hard, heavy funk disc whose mystique (due to being withdrawn at the last minute and bootlegged by the million) perhaps outstrips its quality, but when it fires, it really fires.Ĭontaining his only UK No1, “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”, and the astonishing courtroom-based “Eye Hate U”, this lavish record deserves more love. Highlights: the thoughtfully mature “Money Don’t Matter 2 Nite” and the hilariously immature “Gett Off”. The first of many “stunning returns to form”, but worthy of the cliché. Sequenced as one long track on CD, annoyingly. The last Prince album, chronologically speaking, from his intimidatingly Midas-fingered infallible years. The album that threw the Purple Rain kids off-balance, with its opulent psych-pop textures, but which always sounds better than you think it will, when you revisit. Incorporating the sharp minimalist sensibility of the New Wave into his own sex-funk agenda, the album with which Prince really found his direction.īold double album on which Prince and his Revolution fully embrace synthesizers, while making a blatant grab for pop glory with that “1999”/ “Little Red Corvette” one-two.

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