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Around the World in a Day (4/22/1985 released by Warner Bros。)
相關流派
Psychedelic pop, pop rock, psychedelic funk, psychedelic soul
Track Listing
老規矩
Side One
Around the World in a Day (Prince, John L。 Nelson, David Coleman)
Paisley Park
Condition of the Heart
Raspberry Beret
Tamborine
Side Two
America
Pop Life
The Ladder
Temptation
團隊
Prince - Arranger, Bass, Composer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals
Brownmark - Bass, Vocals
Ann Atkinson, Annette Atkinson, Timothy Barr - Bass
David Coleman - Cello, Composer, Darbouka, Finger Cymbals, Finger Snaps, Oud, Vocals, Vocals (Background), Wind
Suzie Katayama - Cello
John Nelson - Composer
Sheila E。 - Drums, Guest Artist, Vocals
Bobby Z - Drums
David Leonard, Peggy Mac, Susan Rogers, David Tickle - Engineer
Wendy Melvoin - Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Lisa Coleman - Keyboards, Sitar, Vocals
Dr。 Fink - Keyboards
Brad Marsh - Percussion, Tambourine, Vocals
Jon Malvoin - Percussion
Prince and the Revolution - Primary Artist, Producer
Eddie M。 - Saxophone
Jonathan Melvoin - Tambourine, Vocals (Background)
Denyse Buffum, Laury Woods - Viola
Novi Novog, Vaj - Violin
Susanna Hoffs - Vocals (Background)
Susannah Melvoin, Taj - Vocals
樂評
AllMusic Review by Thomas Erlewine
Purple Rain made Prince sound like he could do anything, but it still didn‘t prepare even his most fervent fans for the insular psychedelia of Around the World in a Day。 Prince had made his interior world sound fascinating and utopian on Purple Rain, but Around the World in a Day is filled with cryptic religious imagery, bizarre mysticism, and confounding metaphors which were drenched in heavily processed guitars, shimmering keyboards, grandiose strings, and layers of vocals。 As an album, the record is a bit impenetrable, requiring great demands of the listener, but individual songs do shine through: “Raspberry Beret” is a brilliant piece of neo-psychedelia with an indelible chorus, “Pop Life” is a snide swipe at stardom that emphasizes Prince’s outsider status, “Condition of the Heart” is a fine ballad, “America” is a good funk jam, “Paisley Park” is heavy and slightly frightening guitar psychedelia, while the title track is a sunny, kaleidoscopic pastiche of Magical Mystery Tour。 The problem is, only a handful of the songs have much substance outside of their detailed production and intoxicating performances, and the album has a creepy sense of paranoia that is eventually its undoing。
《Purple Rain》讓人們覺得Prince快無所不能了,但哪怕他的終極腦殘粉都想不到《Around the World in a Day》會是迷幻向的。Prince在《紫雨》裡把他的內心世界描繪得如痴如醉,跟烏托邦似的,相對的《Around the World in a Day》充滿了詭異的神秘主義、宗教氣息、和讓人混淆的隱喻(which被浸潤在了變化多樣的電吉他、閃瞎眼的鍵盤、宏偉的絃樂和層層疊疊的人聲中)。作為一張專輯,這玩意兒有點不好理解,需要聽眾的腦電波和Prince能對上;不過這裡面優秀的單曲還是不少:“Raspberry Beret”是一首很不錯的非迷幻,尤其和聲十分亮眼;“Pop Life”則是對所謂明星(憨憨:現在是不是翻譯成愛豆更好)的嘲諷;“Condition of the Heart”是一首還不錯的芭樂(憨憨:當年對芭樂的要求這麼高的麼。jpg);“America”是一首還OK的funk jam;“Paisley Park”這首迷幻比較重,也有個有一丟丟嚇人的吉他;最後,專輯同名則是一首明朗的萬花筒拼貼,旨在給你一個夢遊仙境的體驗。但問題就在於,這些華麗麗的音樂元素背後,只有那麼一丟丟歌有實質性的表達;而整專那詭異的偏執感也把唱片的Vibe毀了。
(這專我也不打算翻譯倆……實際上到這兒我的吐槽已經比短評的翻譯先完工了)
憨憨吐槽
這張給人的感覺就是,啥都想插一腳,雖然都做得還湊合,但最終導致了這張專輯的整體氣質反而變得十分詭異——說不清楚想講個啥……一股濃濃的周杰倫Pro Max but放克+迷幻的味道(笑)。
另一個我覺得很迷惑的事情就是,為什麼當時的樂評都對“Raspberry Beret”那麼喜歡……這首算是我這張裡面最不感冒的了,估計是因為我覺得這玩意兒和上一張同質化過於嚴重(真的覺得在聽“When Doves Cry”2。0)反而是基本沒人提到的“Temptation”,個人認為十分不錯……對我就是薩克斯狗你咬我啊。
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Parade (3/31/1986 released by Paisley Park)
相關流派
Psychedelic pop, R&B, jazz, soul, funk, baroque pop
Track Listing
Side One: Intro
Christopher Tracy‘s Parade (Prince, John L。 Nelson)
New Position
I Wonder U
Under the Cherry Moon (Prince, Nelson)
Girls & Boys
Life Can Be So Nice
Venus de Milo
Side two: End
Mountains (Prince, Wendy & Lisa)
Do U Lie?
Kiss (Prince, arranged by David Z)
Anotherloverholenyohead
Sometimes It Snows in April (Prince, Wendy & Lisa)
團隊
David Z。 - Arranger, Engineer
Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff - Art Direction
Laura LiPuma - Art Direction
Prince - Bass, Composer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Multi Instruments, Primary Artist, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Brownmark - Bass, Vocals
Arni Egilsson - Bass
Ray Kelly, Ray Kramer, Fred Seykoura - Cello
Ann Field - Collage
Wendy Melvoin - Composer, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Lisa Coleman - Composer, Keyboards, Sitar, Vocals
Clare Fischer - Composer, Orchestra, Orchestral Arrangements
Sheila E。 - Cowbell, Drums, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Jonathan Melvoin, Bobby Z - Drums
Coke Johnson, David Leonard, Peggy Mac, David Tickle -Engineer
Marni Johnson , Joe Myer, Brian O’Connor, Calvin Smith, James Thatcher – French Horn
Mico Weaver - Guitar
Eric Leeds - Horn, Saxophone
Dr。 Fink - Keyboards
Bernie Grundman - Mastering
Brent Fischer - Percussion, Timpani
Jon Malvoin - Percussion
Jeff Katz - Photography
Prince and the Revolution - Primary Artist, Producer
Garnett Brown , Charles Loper, Morris Repass, Bill Watrous - Trombone
Atlanta Bliss, Ray Brown, Rich Cooper, Bob Findley, Larry Ford - Trumpet
Meyer Bello, Norman Forrest , Pamela Goldsmith, Allan Harshman , Margot MacLaine, Jorge Moraga, Carol Mukagawa, David Stock, Alan de Veritch - Viola
Oscar Chasow, Ronald Clark, Isabelle Daskoff, Assa Drori, Henry Ferber, Pamela Gates, Janice Gower, Eddie Green, Bill Hybel, William Hymanson, Pat Johnson, Karen Jones, Betty Moor, Irma Neumann, Don Palmer, Sheldon Sanov, Mari Tsumura-Botnick, Francine Walsh, Harold Wolf - Violin
Sandra Francisco, Mazarati, Susannah Melvoin - Vocals
Donald Ashworth, Gene Cipriano, Jon Clarke, James Kanter, Dick Mitchell, Jack Nimitz, Joe Soldo, Bob Tricarico - Woodwind
樂評
AllMusic Review by Thomas Erlewine
Undaunted by the criticism Around the World in a Day received, Prince continued to pursue his psychedelic inclinations on Parade, which also functioned as the soundtrack to his second film, Under the Cherry Moon。 Originally conceived as a double album, Parade has the sprawling feel of a double record, even if it clocks in around 45 minutes。 Prince & the Revolution shift musical moods and textures from song to song —— witness how the fluttering psychedelia of “Christopher Tracy‘s Parade” gives way to the spare, jazzy funk of “New Position,” which morphs into the druggy “I Wonder U” —— and they’re determined not to play it safe, even on the hard funk of “Girls and Boys” and “Mountains,” as well as the stunning “Kiss,” which hits hard with just a dry guitar, keyboard, drum machine, and layered vocals。 All of the group‘s musical adventures, even the cabaret-pop of “Venus de Milo” and “Do U Lie?” do nothing to undercut the melodicism of the record, and the amount of ground they cover in 12 songs is truly remarkable。 Even with all of its attributes, Parade is a little off-balance, stopping too quickly to give the haunting closer, “Sometimes It Snows in April,” the resonance it needs。 For some tastes, it may also be a bit too lyrically cryptic, but Prince’s weird religious and sexual metaphors develop into a motif that actually gives the album weight。 If it had been expanded to a double album, Parade would have equaled the subsequent Sign ‘o’ the Times, but as it stands, it‘s an astonishingly rewarding near-miss。
Prince並沒有因為《Around the World in a Day》受到的批評就望而卻步,繼續在《Parade》裡扎進了迷幻(對了《Parade》還是《桃紅色月下》的原聲帶2333)。這專一開始本打算用雙碟發行,但其實嘛這玩意兒更像是兩張專輯——儘管全長也就45分鐘的樣子。Prince和the Revolution在歌曲之間不停地變換Vibe:看看撩人的迷幻“Christopher Tracy’s Parade”是怎麼引導向自在的爵士放克“New Position”,這首又飄飄然走進了磕了藥般的“I Wonder U”;他們篤定了要讓這張專輯充滿意外,哪怕是“Girls and Boys”、“Mountains”和“Kiss”這樣的hard funk(which就是Prince的傳統藝能),尤其是“Kiss”。“Kiss”只用了一把乾乾的吉他、一把鍵盤、一架鼓機和層疊的人聲搞得效果非常好。整個團隊的音樂歷險,哪怕是歌舞表演味兒的“Venus de Milo”和“Do U Lie?”也完全沒有讓專輯的旋律性蒙羞——他們在這12首歌裡做到的東西是真的牛逼。儘管如此,Parade還是有些失衡,比如“Sometimes It Snows in April”就是一首過於急促的收尾,並不能帶給聽眾共鳴。對某些人而言,這張的歌詞也會有些不知所云,但Prince那奇怪的宗教和性方面的隱喻最終成了給這張專輯分量的母題。如果這張能擴寫成雙專輯的體量,《Parade》的成就估計可以和《Sign o’ the Times》相提並論,但就差一點——一個華麗的失之交臂。
憨憨吐槽
這專好像……和《紫雨》一樣,屬於拍了個爛片出了張好原聲帶。比起前一張funk是funk迷幻是迷幻,這張的融合度明顯好了很多;就是這電影……我真的後悔去看了,我的眼睛啊啊啊啊啊。
這張倒是有一點我不太喜歡,就是中間那幾首有點吵,全程又轟耳朵又雜亂實在是受不了。這種感受大概從“Life Can Be So Nice”開始,一直到“Mountains”才結束;唯一好的是,“Do U Lie”稍事休息後,“Kiss”一出來又回到了那個乾淨利落的聽感上(which絕對是這專的最高光,太帥了)。所以整體還算愉快。
這張的團隊是真**龐大……
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Sign “☮︎” the Times (3/30/1987 released by Paisley Park)
相關流派
R&B, funk, soul, rock, Avant-pop, psychedelic pop
Track Listing
Record one: Side one
Sign o‘ the Times
Play in the Sunshine
Housequake
The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
Record one: Side two
It
Starfish and Coffee (Susannah Melvoin, Prince)
Slow Love (Prince, Carole Davis)
Hot Thing
Forever in My Life
Record two: Side three
U Got the Look (features uncredited vocals by Sheena Easton)
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Strange Relationship
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
Record two: Side four
The Cross
It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night (Doctor Fink, Eric Leeds, Prince)
Adore
團隊
Prince - Arranger, Composer, Lyricist, Primary Artist, Producer
Eric Leeds - Composer, Guest Artist
Matt Fink - Composer
Susannah Melvoin - Composer
Lisa Coleman - Guest Artist
Sheena Easton - Guest Artist
Wendy Melvoin - Guest Artist
Sheila E。 - Guest Artist
Clare Fischer - Leader
Brent Fischer - Orchestra Manager
Spike Lee - Producer
樂評
Robert Christgau
No formal breakthrough, and despite the title/lead/debut single, no social relevance move either, which given the message of “The Cross” (guess, just guess) suits me fine。 Merely the most gifted pop musician of his generation proving what a motherfucker he is for two discs start to finish。 With helpmate turns from Camille, Susannah, Sheila E。, Sheena Easton, he‘s back to his one-man-band tricks, so collective creation fans should be grateful that at least the second-hottest groove here, after the galvanic “U Got the Look,” is Revolution live。 Elsewhere Prince-the-rhythm section works on his r&b so Prince-the-harmony-group can show off vocal chops that make Stevie Wonder sound like a struggling ventriloquist。 Yet the voices put over real emotions——studio solitude hasn’t reactivated his solipsism。 The objects of his desire are also objects of interest, affection, and respect。 Some of them he may not even fuck。
沒有真正意義上的突破,除了專輯同名主打之外,也沒有什麼所謂的社會人文關懷;不過嘛這主題那麼耶穌(猜的,槓就是你對)倒也還好。Prince,他這一代裡幾乎最有才華的流行音樂人,在這張雙碟專裡證明了他孃的有多麼牛逼。在Camille、Susannah、Sheila E。、Sheena Easton的幫助下,他又回到了之前的(偽)一人樂隊的狀態——整個創作的面貌那麼統一到粉絲得感激第二爽的Groove(在“U Got the Look“之後),是Revolution的現場。其他地方,Prince的節奏替身把R&B部分打磨好讓Prince的和音替身去大展身手:飄逸到你再去聽Stevie Wonder會覺得他是個京中善口技而不是唱歌的菜雞。然而,這樣的音樂表現並沒有讓他夜郎自大也沒有喧情的賓奪感的主。他在音樂中展現出來的渴望是興趣、情緒和尊重的集合體——這裡面有的東西他說不定也不會給它破處呢。
憨憨吐槽
一年之後終於又連著把這張專輯聽了一遍,而這一年,每次在通勤時隨機到這張專輯的歌,總能給我那段路上最快樂的幾分鐘。真的,如果要我只能推薦一張Prince的專輯的話,想都不用想就是這張——聆聽體驗的完整度、豐富度在前面八張的磨練之後來到了他自己的生涯最高峰;兩張四面卻又有各自鮮明的精神面貌:從老本行電子放克到前面一直在嘗試的迷幻,到folk到前衛流行到靈魂樂,這張專輯所囊括的東西絕對對得起它將近一個半小時的長度。
而這次專輯的主題相對於題材相似的《1999》,也是成熟了許多。與其給你一個確定的,略顯幼稚的答案;不如把選項都扔給你,自己去選。
我愛這張專輯。
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