Album
Purple Rain
1984 · Rock, Funk / Soul
287 collectors on Gatefold own this
Purple Rain is a Soul & Funk album by Prince And The Revolution, originally released in 1984. On Gatefold: 420 pressings tracked, owned by 287 collectors.
About
<b>100 Best Albums</b> You can’t very well tell a story about a troubled artist whose difficult personality belies his musical genius without, you know, actual musical geniu. In this sense, the soundtrack to <i>Purple Rain</i> began life with the highest degree of difficulty imaginable; the impossibility that its success could ever have been in doubt is the project’s greatest legacy. With half its tracklist comprising Top 10 single, the soundtrack is what truly turned Prince Rogers Nelson from <i>just</i> big enough to get to star in a summer blockbuster based on his life to one of the most instantly recognizable and distinctive pop artists ever. This is no slight to the movie, which has its charms (shout-out Morris Day), as much as it’s a testament to Prince’s all-engulfing star power and genre-fluid/gender-fluid virtuosity—nine perfect, definitive pop-soul-dance-rock-R&B-funk-whatever-else songs that couldn’t help but swallow everything in their orbit. .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Let's Go Crazy4:39
- A2Take Me With U3:54
- A3The Beautiful Ones5:15
- A4Computer Blue3:59
- A5Darling Nikki4:15
Side B
- B1When Doves Cry5:52
- B2I Would Die 4 U2:51
- B3Baby I'm A Star4:20
- B4Purple Rain8:45
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Funk
- saturated
- anthemic
- cinematic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bobby Z.BAND , PERCUSSION MUSICIAN, DRUMS PERCUSSION
- BrownmarkBAND , BASS, VOICE BASS BASS, BACKING VOCALS
- David ColemanCELLO STRINGS STRINGS , CELLO
- Lisa ColemanARRANGED BY BAND , KEYBOARDS, VOICE CONDUCTOR
- Matt FinkBAND , KEYBOARDS, VOICE KEYBOARDS, BACKING VOCALS KEYBOARDS, VOCALS
- Novi NovogCELLO VIOLIN, VIOLA STRINGS, VIOLIN, VIOLA
- PrinceARRANGED BY ARRANGED BY, STRINGS STRINGS , ARRANGED BY
- Prince And The Revolution
- Suzie KatayamaCELLO VIOLIN STRINGS
- Wendy MelvoinBAND , GUITAR, VOICE CONDUCTOR GUITAR , VOICE
- Ann AtkinsonDOUBLE BASS STRINGS , BASS
- ApolloniaBACKING VOCALS FEATURING VOCALS
- Denyse BuffumSTRINGS , VIOLA VIOLA
- Eddie MMUSICIAN , SAXOPHONE
- Laurie WoodsSTRINGS , VIOLA
- Laury WoodsVIOLA
- Marcy Dicterow VajSTRINGS , VIOLIN VIOLIN
- Mico WeaverMUSICIAN , GUITAR
287 collectors on Gatefold own this · 420 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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