Purple Rain at 40.

[Neutral Corner]

Yep. It's been forty years since Prince released Purple Rain.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

We should party like it’s 1999.

 

[Starman]

Let's go crazy.

(1999 had come out on an album of its own the year before which also featured LGC.)

 

[TowelWaver]

To commemorate the occasion, we'll need to purify ourselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

 

[FileNotFound]

Second-best album of the 1980s.

 

[goalmouth]

Prince didn't like rap, thus:

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

"Let's Go Crazy" was a mindblower the first time I heard it.

Prince was incredibly prolific in the 1980s. He didn't wait long for "Purple Rain" to run its course before he released "Raspberry Beret," probably among the top six in most Prince spins today even though the album it was on ("Around the World in a Day") was a relative bust.

(And not to get all Hoffy and stuff, but he did rap on a few songs.)

 

[SixToe]

Thank you for a funky time.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Let's go crazy.

(1999 had come out on an album of its own the year before which also featured LGC.)

I had the 1999 album and don't remember that, unless it was added to a later release once it was issued on CD.

 

[swingline]

1999 came out in October 1982

Purple Rain came out in mid-1984

 

[I Should Coco]

I had the 1999 album and don't remember that, unless it was added to a later release once it was issued on CD.

I believe he may be referring to Little Red Corvette. The album version of which is a much better take than the single.

Come to think of it, they hacked down “Let’s Go Crazy” for its single version too, cutting most of Prince’s opening “sermon.”

 

[OscarMadison]

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[swingline]

There was a cover band in Champaign that ended every night they played with "Let's Go Crazy" and did a great job with it.

I got really tired of "Purple Rain" and "Born in the USA" after about five months of being played in every car's cassette deck all the damn time.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

"Let's Go Crazy" was a mindblower the first time I heard it.

Prince was incredibly prolific in the 1980s. He didn't wait long for "Purple Rain" to run its course before he released "Raspberry Beret," probably among the top six in most Prince spins today even though the album it was on ("Around the World in a Day") was a relative bust.

(And not to get all Hoffy and stuff, but he did rap on a few songs.)

Prince had a top-15 single every year from 1982 through 1995 except 1993. So he was basically a constant soundtrack to my elementary school, junior high, high school and college years. He made prolific look lazy.

 

[I Should Coco]

As Mrs. Coco is a huge Prince fan, she bought some of his 1990s albums (technically credited to an unpronounceable symbol). I lost the thread when he put out a mid-1990s album with multiple versions of the same song filling it out ("The Most Beautiful Girl in the World").

But he came back strong in the early 2000s with a great tour and new backing musicians, including an all-girl rock band (3rdeyegirl) in the 2010s that was really good.

 

[qtlaw]

I slept overnight to get tickets to the Purple Rain tour. Prince was fantastic.

Even before Purple Rain I enjoyed Controversy and 1999 (DMSR very underrated).

Man I’m old.

 

[Chef2]

Second-best album of the 1980s.

Ok.
I’ll bite.
1 has to be either “Thriller” or “Born In The USA”…..

 

[FileNotFound]

Ok.
I’ll bite.
1 has to be either “Thriller” or “Born In The USA”…..

“Appetite for Destruction,” and its taillights are way off in the distance.

 

[Chef2]

Not long after Prince died, David Gilmour was performing in London. He did a mash-up of Comfortably Numb and Purple Rain that was incredible.



As someone said in the YouTube comments……Gilmour interrupted one of the best guitar solos of all time to play one of the best guitar solos of all time.