1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,800 Welcome to the Album Nerds podcast with your hosts Andy, Don, and Dude. 2 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:20,520 Dearly beloved, we're gathered here today to get through this thing called the Album 3 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,320 Nerds podcast. 4 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,320 I'm Dude. 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,600 I got Andy and Don with me. 6 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,160 Andy, you ready to wash yourself in some purple rain today? 7 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:37,840 You might say I'm ready to purify myself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:38,840 Beautiful. 9 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,160 Don, how are you doing? 10 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:43,760 Purple rain would be a good shampoo. 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,000 It would, yeah. 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Sure. 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,160 For those who need shampoo, which I do not. 14 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:55,880 Some of us need more shampoo than others. 15 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:56,880 All right. 16 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,160 So this is the Album Nerds podcast. 17 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,560 We love albums in the album format and we like talking about them and spreading that 18 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,440 gospel of the power of music. 19 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,960 So we've got a really great show for you today focusing on only one album. 20 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:15,520 We're discussing Princess Purple Rain from 1984. 21 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:20,080 Then we're going to check in with Rob from the 1001 Album Complaints podcast for his 22 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:21,960 thoughts on purple rain. 23 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:26,560 We're going to answer a question that's loosely related to today's topic. 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,040 And then of course, we'll be spinning the wheel of musical destiny to find out what 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,440 kind of albums we'll talk about next time. 26 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,160 But this week, it's all about that purple rain. 27 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,640 That's what I'm talking about. 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,340 Every so often, we like to go back to things that were discussed on the show before and 29 00:01:44,340 --> 00:01:46,760 spend a little more time on it. 30 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:48,900 Deep in the archives of the Album Nerds. 31 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:50,460 Too deep for anyone to travel. 32 00:01:50,460 --> 00:01:51,460 Do not go. 33 00:01:51,460 --> 00:01:53,020 So it was episode 27. 34 00:01:53,020 --> 00:01:56,520 You guys spent an episode talking about Prince albums. 35 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:02,440 You covered Sign of the Times, 1999, Artificial Age, and of course, Purple Rain. 36 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,880 I've actually gone to the Prince well quite a bit. 37 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:06,440 It's a deep well, dude. 38 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,400 In episode 92, you guys discussed originals. 39 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,480 And then in episode 126, you talked about Sign of the Times again. 40 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:20,720 And then back, I believe it was my first official episode, episode 143, we discussed three Prince 41 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:27,760 albums, the gold experience around the world in a day, and again, Artificial Age. 42 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:33,440 But today, we're finally going to really delve into, I think what many people see as his 43 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:37,560 masterpiece, but I suppose it's debatable, Prince's Purple Rain. 44 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,520 And Prince came in. 45 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,600 That's when Purple Rain came out and Prince was the s***. 46 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,600 Prince had on like a, it was like a Zorro type outfit. 47 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,880 He had the ruffle come down the front. 48 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:51,880 Learned something they did. 49 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,880 They never judge a book by its cover. 50 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,600 This cackle ball, man. 51 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,760 Okay, well, let's get into the album. 52 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,520 This is the title track and closing cut of the album, Purple Rain. 53 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:23,800 Well, Prince reportedly said, when there's blood in the sky, red and blue equals purple. 54 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,380 Purple rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting 55 00:03:27,380 --> 00:03:32,040 your faith or God guide you through the purple rain. 56 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:37,800 So that song was originally written as a country song and it was meant to be a potential collaboration 57 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,560 with Stevie Nicks. 58 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:46,400 Supposedly Prince had sent the 10 minute instrumental track to Stevie Nicks for her to write lyrics 59 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,880 and I guess she was just overwhelmed and said it was too much for her. 60 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,720 So Prince took it back to the revolution. 61 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,520 They created the song that you hear now. 62 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:03,000 That's one of three tracks that was recorded at the First Avenue Club in Minneapolis. 63 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 So it was live. 64 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,480 Of course, it was significantly overdubbed later in the studio. 65 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:14,560 Anyway, so Purple Rain is the sixth studio album by American singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. 66 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:20,640 Also a producer, Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson in 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 67 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:27,040 So it is actually the soundtrack album to the film Purple Rain in which he also starred, 68 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,720 which came out the same year. 69 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,160 Sold over 25 million copies worldwide. 70 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:40,420 It was his first billboard number one and it's billed as Prince and the Revolution. 71 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:46,360 The key members of the revolution at the time were Wendy Melvoine on guitar and vocals. 72 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,600 Is that Mark Brown or Brown Mark? 73 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,480 I wrote it backwards, I think. 74 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,600 I should double check that. 75 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:55,600 Is it possible? 76 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:03,920 I think if someone were named Brown Mark, they would not use it as a performing name. 77 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:04,920 I don't believe. 78 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:05,920 Okay. 79 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:15,560 Well, I'm going to go with, we'll go with Mark Brown then on bass guitar. 80 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,120 Well guys, I just looked it up. 81 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:25,120 His birth name is Mark Brown, but he actually went by the stage name Brown Mark. 82 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,920 Sometimes it would just be one word Brown Mark. 83 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:28,920 Okay. 84 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:29,920 All right. 85 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,320 I stand corrected. 86 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:36,400 Sorry, Brown Mark. 87 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:37,400 Good on you. 88 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:42,600 Also have Lisa Coleman on keyboards, piano and vocals, Matt Dr. Fink on keyboards and 89 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,520 Bobby Z on drums. 90 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:45,520 Okay. 91 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,760 Well, let's hear another cut on the album. 92 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:48,760 This is the Beautiful Ones. 93 00:05:48,760 --> 00:06:06,840 Yeah, that's track that really stands out to me as kind of being like the first really 94 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,920 impressive moment on the album for me, at least. 95 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,920 It starts out being such a beautiful little ballad and then transitions into this very 96 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:21,000 emotional heartfelt plea for this person to pick them over the other guy. 97 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,320 Just really awesome book performance and the guitar comes in and just kicks ass. 98 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:31,760 But yeah, the three words I use to describe this record are purplest shade of purple. 99 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:38,000 I think this really, I mean, arguably is his best selling record, arguably his best album. 100 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,960 I think it really defines who he was at this time. 101 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:47,280 As much as it is about this character in the film, the story, but I think it's very reflective 102 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:51,120 of Prince himself and he really puts himself out there on these songs. 103 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,920 It's a very open personal record, I think. 104 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,800 It's interesting because I don't think it really falls into a lot of the genre tropes. 105 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:03,900 I mean, it's a pop record, but I think there's so many unconventional things that happen 106 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:04,900 as you're listening to it. 107 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:08,400 The way the songs are put together, the different effects, and obviously Prince just has such 108 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,000 a unique personality. 109 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,760 It doesn't sound like a lot of the pop records at the time or even today. 110 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:14,760 That's right. 111 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:20,560 It kind of reminds me of The Beatles in that I think there's just something about Beatles 112 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:25,800 records that just kind of, they just sound a little bit different than everything else. 113 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,760 Even though they're doing sort of typical things in the pop realm, it just has a different 114 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,840 sound and yeah, Prince is definitely the same way. 115 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:38,880 Well, by this point, by album six, I believe he felt empowered. 116 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:45,600 He had had success with 1999 and I believe that he just felt like this was his canvas 117 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:46,600 to paint. 118 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,720 Nothing was holding him back. 119 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:54,080 As far as the movie goes, I read that he was refusing to resign with his management if 120 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,420 they didn't make the movie happen. 121 00:07:56,420 --> 00:07:57,420 He wanted that to happen. 122 00:07:57,420 --> 00:08:01,520 They had a hard time getting someone to want to distribute it and all that stuff at first 123 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,280 to sign on for the project. 124 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:10,520 Yeah, I think he knew that this was a magnum opus of his career. 125 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:11,520 I think he knew it. 126 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,880 Yeah, that's the perfect word for it. 127 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:20,100 The unbridled passion of this particular performance for this song, letting it go vocally where 128 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:26,360 he is just screeching, it's real enough that it's not like an annoying loud sound. 129 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:27,360 You know what I'm saying? 130 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:29,280 Like it actually is full of emotion. 131 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:30,280 Yeah. 132 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:34,960 It sounds like he gets overcome by the end of the song and the movie performance, he's 133 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,000 laying on the ground by the end and he looks exhausted. 134 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,360 I feel kind of emotionally exhausted when I get to the end of the song because it's 135 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,960 like you've been through something with the guy. 136 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,480 What do you guys think about the movie in general? 137 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:45,480 Do you enjoy it? 138 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,440 Do you ever, you guys have both seen it, I assume? 139 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:53,160 I didn't see it until I was in college and I was a little underwhelmed because it's not 140 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:59,120 the best acting in the world, but in subsequent years, understanding his story, understanding 141 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:06,440 who he is and really getting deeper into his music, I watched it again and I enjoy it now 142 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:12,160 because it's just cool to see the performances in particular are amazing, but it's just cool 143 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,680 to see him at his height like that. 144 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:20,400 Yeah, I think I had seen bits and pieces of it over the years, either like on HBO or VH1 145 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:21,400 or something like that. 146 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,640 I think finally, maybe 10 or 15 years ago, I think I sat down and actually watched it 147 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:30,360 and it was okay, but I wasn't blown away by it or anything. 148 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,400 The album, I think just kind of stands alone. 149 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,400 I almost feel like the film doesn't need to exist. 150 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,800 It gives a little bit of context for some of the songs, the content of the songs. 151 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,120 I think it makes more sense if you're thinking about the story of the movie, but I agree. 152 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,600 I think that probably the quality of the album is a little higher than the quality of the 153 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:50,600 movie. 154 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:56,000 There's also the aspect of the movie soundtrack, like the album is kind of the movie soundtrack, 155 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:03,660 but the movie has the time in it, Morris Day in the Time and Napalonia and there's songs 156 00:10:03,660 --> 00:10:09,080 by them in the movie and so then they have their own albums, so that completes the soundtrack 157 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,600 is if you got Ice Cream Castles by the Time for instance. 158 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,260 But the movie was like thriller, right? 159 00:10:15,260 --> 00:10:20,120 It was the music video for the album. 160 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:25,760 And that's, I think it's very necessary to making, at least to what it became commercially 161 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,840 and to how people felt about Prince as a passionate performer. 162 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:35,100 You got to see this guy ripping it up on stage and it wasn't some boring concert video. 163 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:43,360 It was a movie, so I think people got to understand him better and the Minneapolis music scene, 164 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,200 which no one was paying attention to. 165 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,280 All right, let me play another cut from the record. 166 00:10:47,280 --> 00:11:01,360 This is a little bit of Take Me With You. 167 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,600 That is a duet with Apollonia Cotero. 168 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:09,680 It was originally supposed to be performed by Vanity and I believe she was supposed to 169 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:13,840 be sort of the female lead in the film, but she moved on. 170 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:21,000 The song was supposed to be released by Apollonia's group at Apollonia 6, but it ended up being 171 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,240 a late addition to the film soundtrack. 172 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:29,520 When they added Take Me With You to it, they ended up shrinking, Computer Blue, I think 173 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:34,280 which initially was supposed to be like seven or eight minutes long and now it's only about 174 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,280 three minutes. 175 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,560 I just like that song a lot, particularly as the second track. 176 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:41,960 It's a nice contrast after the Let's Go Crazy. 177 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,400 I'm just a sucker for those strings and the synth line. 178 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,200 The, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. 179 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,600 Yep, you and your synths. 180 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:56,480 Well, to me, it sounds like a song that could have easily been on around the world in a 181 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:57,480 day. 182 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,920 It's got that more psychedelic sort of sound that I think he focused more on on the follow 183 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:03,920 up to this. 184 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:04,920 Yeah, that's true. 185 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,200 The strings were arranged by a Revolution member, Lisa Coleman. 186 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:15,880 The three words I chose to describe the album are end times pop or pop for the end times, 187 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:16,880 I guess. 188 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:23,480 I'm kind of going with this theme of Purple Rain being the end of the world. 189 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:28,000 I feel like this is maybe, well, some of the subject matter I think is kind of about how 190 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,360 to live until you sort of get to the end. 191 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,320 But also, it just seems like sort of like the ultimate pop album. 192 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,840 This is the last thing humanity produces is this. 193 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,800 It's like the celebration at the end of the world of great pop music. 194 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,480 Yeah, just a cool musical journey. 195 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:56,880 When Doves Cry is just such a fantastic pop song, an all time favorite. 196 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,560 Yeah, it's such a weird sounding song to me. 197 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:04,280 I always never could place why that track always stands out as being so different. 198 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:05,280 I was reading about it. 199 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,280 I was like, there's no bass guitar in that song at all. 200 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:13,040 It just kind of has like this emptiness on the low end and it's just kind of unsettling. 201 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:19,720 That drum machine sound, that's a driver and it does sound empty and alone. 202 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:25,320 These people in a relationship, Doves are the sign of peace, but they butt heads and 203 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:30,660 have drama between them and trying to find a way that you make that love work. 204 00:13:30,660 --> 00:13:36,920 But it's hard to find in that emptiness of that baseless drive, I think really does. 205 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,920 Yeah, it feels purple. 206 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:39,920 It does. 207 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:40,920 It's funny. 208 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:41,920 It does. 209 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:47,440 Yeah, one other thing I want to comment on was going back to having the three live tracks 210 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:48,600 on the album. 211 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,520 That's usually something that kind of bothers me. 212 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:55,040 I don't like a live song thrown into the middle of an album because it really, I think, can 213 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,360 throw off the flow. 214 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:02,360 But they did a good job of actually kind of making you not even notice that those are 215 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:03,360 live tracks. 216 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:08,960 Although it's sort of like there's that space in the sound or something that makes it feel 217 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,220 live, but it doesn't throw me off at all. 218 00:14:12,220 --> 00:14:16,920 To me, it's more like the way that rock and roll records and all records were recorded 219 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:23,120 previously, which is live performances, not with a crowd cheering and stuff, but like 220 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,200 the doors, all of their stuff, they would perform the band in one room and Jim Morrison 221 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:28,200 in the other room singing. 222 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,440 It was happening in real time. 223 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:36,140 And I've always preferred that and enjoyed that because you can kind of feel it. 224 00:14:36,140 --> 00:14:37,960 You can feel it, especially in the mistakes. 225 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,360 Now, of course, you can go fix some stuff here and there, but I like that organic feel. 226 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,560 What are the other two songs that were recorded live? 227 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,480 It's that last suite of songs basically. 228 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,280 So the I Would Die For You, Baby I'm A Star, and Purple Rain. 229 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,240 All right, well, let's go back to the beginning of the record. 230 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:56,240 Here's Let's Go Crazy. 231 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:09,360 So yes, this is the album opener. 232 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,600 I mean, Prince invites the audience to go crazy. 233 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:17,880 And this has been interpreted a lot of ways, going against the silent norms, being yourself, 234 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:23,560 you know, celebrate life, digging into this, which has been one of the best times of my 235 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:24,560 life. 236 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,400 Having an excuse to just listen to this album over and over and over again. 237 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:31,600 There was an interview that Prince did with Chris Rock in 1997. 238 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:37,400 And he said that this song served as a metaphor for the battle between God and the devil, 239 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:38,600 good and evil. 240 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:43,160 And he kind of had to obscure it because he didn't, you know, there was a lot of, as we 241 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:51,560 talked about, a lot of religious undertones and faith, you know, beneath the surface on 242 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,320 some of this stuff. 243 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:59,360 He said that as he wrote it, that it was about God and the de-elevation of sin, and that 244 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,080 the de-elevator was the devil. 245 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,840 And I think to him, I think God was that creative side of him. 246 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:13,920 I think the stuff he was able to do was his way of touching God, you know, and I think 247 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,840 that's what he was celebrating here. 248 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:17,800 Let's rip this thing open. 249 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,720 Let's do this on this record. 250 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,000 Let's let it all hang out. 251 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,400 Let's beat the de-elevator and make the perfect record. 252 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,400 Wow. 253 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:26,400 I just blew my own mind, guys. 254 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:27,400 You kind of give me a minute. 255 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:36,600 I just love that Prince comes up with these little terms to disguise his concepts. 256 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:37,600 Such a Prince thing to do. 257 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,920 So you're kind of saying that Prince is creating his own God, essentially, on this record. 258 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:50,480 Well, I'm saying that his talent, his creativity, I think to him was in some ways the creator 259 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:51,720 flowing through him. 260 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,200 That was his way of touching his faith. 261 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,680 Reach out, touch faith. 262 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:01,480 So yeah, obviously I enjoy this record. 263 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:07,200 The three words I'm going to use to describe it, mystical, sensual, and revolutionary. 264 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,000 Oh, I get it. 265 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,360 Yeah, revolutionary. 266 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:15,480 So mystical kind of touches on what we were just talking about, the spiritual aspects 267 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,760 behind it, the emotions. 268 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:23,240 There's something ethereal about the melodies and there's this other worldly atmosphere 269 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:24,800 that is created. 270 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,480 Sensual, pretty obvious. 271 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,720 He's a very sexual being. 272 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:33,360 It comes through in the songs, some of which more than others. 273 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:39,600 And then revolutionary, it shattered boundaries, blending rock, pop, funk, R&B. 274 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,200 And the album isn't totally perfect. 275 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,240 There are some weird moments, but I think it's experimenting too. 276 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,440 There's a lot of experimentation here. 277 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,840 And that's a bold move, right? 278 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,960 And that's what he continued to do throughout his career. 279 00:17:53,960 --> 00:18:00,280 And he had some huge successes and then some less successful projects, but he never stopped 280 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,080 trying to revolutionize who he is as an artist. 281 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,640 And this album, I think, is a great example of when he gets it right. 282 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:13,280 I think he was always reaching for that Sistine Chapel moment where his fingers touching God's, 283 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:14,280 you know what I'm saying? 284 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:15,320 Like always. 285 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,800 And that was beneath it all. 286 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:23,680 And I think people had a hard time seeing that because of his sexual nature, his energy, 287 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,560 and people had a hard time accepting that you could be both. 288 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:31,480 Let's talk about that sexual energy for just a moment. 289 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:38,840 Listening back to this show here, I was struck by Darling Nikki in particular and how explicit 290 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,960 that track is. 291 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,560 It really is, especially for the time. 292 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,240 But yeah, it's spicy. 293 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,040 Does it make more sense in the context of the film or something? 294 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:53,400 Because I think he's using the song to sort of humiliate the girl or something. 295 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:59,880 Yeah, at some point, she's trying the lead singer from the time is courting her, trying 296 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,040 and telling her he's going to help her with her music career, but he's really trying to 297 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:05,240 get to the kid. 298 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:11,520 So then in a performance, the kid, the character is kind of a douche and is singing about all 299 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:18,040 of his naughty exploits with Darling Nikki to break the girl's heart. 300 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,960 She runs off. 301 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,320 Dick move, the kid. 302 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,320 Prince, you're cool. 303 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,400 I don't know about that kid character though. 304 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:32,080 Yeah, I'd read supposedly though that Darling Nikki was the song that pushed Tipper Gore 305 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:33,080 over the edge to- 306 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,240 The tipping point for- 307 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:39,680 The tipping point for Tipper, I guess, to go forward with that little sticker there, 308 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,960 the parental advisory sticker. 309 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,280 The PMRC, that's how it all started. 310 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:49,500 Yeah, they had like hearings and everything, but yeah, she got the record for her kids 311 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:53,960 because it was the new pop sensation and then heard that song. 312 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:59,920 I mean, if there had been a sticker on that, maybe she would have listened to it first 313 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,120 by herself before playing it for her children. 314 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:05,040 But yeah, little kids probably shouldn't hear Masturbating with the Magazine. 315 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:11,800 I feel like there's a song on every Prince album that makes me just a little uncomfortable. 316 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:12,800 Yeah. 317 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:13,800 That's true. 318 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:18,320 So yesterday, I was listening to the record and I was in and out of Zoom meetings and 319 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:22,280 stuff and I usually have music playing in the background, but I'm in a meeting and then 320 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:27,320 that song starts and I'm like, skip, skip, because I didn't want anything from that. 321 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:28,680 Sometimes people say, what are you listening to? 322 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:33,600 So I still feel that too, Don, where I was a little like, eww. 323 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,360 Well, that's good. 324 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:40,120 Because he doesn't, I mean, usually in rock and roll, it's innuendo, right? 325 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:44,880 And so there's little metaphors and euphemisms and stuff like that that are sort of hiding 326 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,640 the meaning or something. 327 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:49,480 But Prince just says it. 328 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,280 Yeah, he's a pretty open guy. 329 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,840 I mean, what a record, guys. 330 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,080 I continue to be impressed with it. 331 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,360 It's one of the few albums where it just keeps getting better for me. 332 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:02,160 That's like impossible, right? 333 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:08,080 I mean, by the time I'm 80, I'll be listening to this and then sitting on the floor, like 334 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,800 floating above the floor because I've reached some kind of spiritual enlightenment because 335 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:17,360 I've really got, I've finally gotten it all the way. 336 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:19,280 Record has become purple rain. 337 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,280 Yeah. 338 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,680 I'll start glowing purple and floating above the floor. 339 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,120 That's going to be awesome. 340 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:31,960 No, I think it does warrant those closer listens and there is a lot going on, especially sonically. 341 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:38,700 I think it's such a rich and textured record with some really inventive ideas and just 342 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:42,920 outside the box thinking from a production standpoint that, and to know that Prince was 343 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,320 so involved with that aspect of it too, it just gives it a whole nother level that you 344 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,840 wouldn't get for most records of this time period. 345 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,080 Well, it sounds like this is Einhoff material. 346 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,080 You think? 347 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,040 Yeah, it might be heading that way. 348 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,960 All right, it's in. 349 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:06,960 Right, we don't need to do a ceremonial vote for the record. 350 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,960 Of course. 351 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:08,960 I vote yes. 352 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,240 I guess I also will vote yes. 353 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,640 I vote yes. 354 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:14,640 Which is yes. 355 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,640 Congratulations to Prince and the Revolution. 356 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,640 Well deserved. 357 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:26,040 Is this our first Prince album in the Hall of Fame? 358 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,040 I think so. 359 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,880 We're going to be doing some other revisits, I imagine. 360 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:31,880 Rectify that situation. 361 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:32,880 Yeah. 362 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:33,880 I'm good enough. 363 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,680 I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me. 364 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:41,600 If you're enjoying the show and we hope you are, do us a solid leave a review on Apple 365 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,400 podcasts or your favorite podcast app. 366 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,440 Maybe we made you laugh or you discovered an album you enjoy. 367 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,600 Leaving a review keeps the show going and helps other music fans find us. 368 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,280 Say hello to my new friend. 369 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,280 All right, gentlemen. 370 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:04,680 Well, we have a special guest review from another podcast called 1001 Album Complaints. 371 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:05,680 Great show. 372 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,680 Yeah. 373 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,600 So they, if you haven't heard it before, they're actually responding to this list that's out 374 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:11,600 there. 375 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,600 It's like 1001 albums you must hear. 376 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,780 And so each episode they choose another album on that list and they give honest reviews 377 00:23:18,780 --> 00:23:23,320 and kind of decide whether they truly are albums that you must hear. 378 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:29,160 So anyway, so here's what Rob from 1001 Album Complaints thinks about Purple Rain. 379 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:34,680 Hey guys, this is Rob from 1001 Album Complaints delivering my Purple Rain review. 380 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:40,040 So let me start by saying for a pro songwriter Prince, these songs just aren't that good. 381 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:45,960 Listen, I understand Prince is an insanely prolific writer that's worthy of great respect. 382 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:46,960 Certainly. 383 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,600 It also means his sheer quantity gets in the way of his average quality. 384 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,560 There are a lot of high highs on this record. 385 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,600 There are some really low lows. 386 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:59,600 Prince has killer vocal range and is a multi-instrumentalist of epic proportions. 387 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,920 And quick diversion while we're on that topic, Prince is a terrible actor and the movie Purple 388 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:09,400 Rain is laughably bad, save forgetting to see Prince live, which is indeed cool. 389 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,080 But okay, here's a couple of specifics. 390 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,000 Let's Go Crazy is a high point. 391 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,840 We're talking full rock and roll excess on display from start to finish. 392 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:22,700 When Dove's Cry still sounds like nothing else ever put to tape, Purple Rain is a classic, 393 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,520 but it's longer than Hey Jude. 394 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,760 And yeah, I know it's a live take, but still it goes on a bit. 395 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,600 Low points are stuff like the half baked jams of Darling Nikki and the beautiful ones where 396 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,320 Prince runs out of production tricks and ideas and just starts screaming over the track to 397 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,320 try to sell it. 398 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:43,080 In conclusion, Purple Rain is rightfully thought of as a classic album, innovative and fun, 399 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:48,800 but not without its dated eighties fashion excesses, the kinds you find in a secondhand 400 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:49,800 store. 401 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:50,800 He's on fire! 402 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,920 Ooh, that was spicy. 403 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:59,760 So here we are, showering love, kissing Prince's butt for the last 20 minutes. 404 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,560 And then Rob comes in and kind of ducks on us, right? 405 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:09,320 It is refreshing though to hear a different perspective. 406 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:14,680 I think I grew up with that album being held and regarded so highly that I don't know any 407 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:15,920 other way to look at it. 408 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,040 What did you guys think of hearing someone point out some of the blemishes that I hate 409 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,240 to admit there's some truth to? 410 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,400 I wouldn't trim a second from the title cut personally. 411 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,400 I think that's great. 412 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,400 Whether it's eight minutes or not. 413 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,280 Yeah, I mean, eighties are a time of excess. 414 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,360 I mean, he's not wrong about that. 415 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,280 I'm not going quite as far as he going though. 416 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,760 I think it's a pretty great record. 417 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:42,560 Well, he thinks that, yeah, he admitted it's a great record, but he had the, you know, 418 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,000 those guys have the guts sometimes I think to even those things that are held so highly 419 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,480 to point out some blemishes. 420 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,600 I don't see any of them. 421 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,360 Yeah, I think maybe my problem is I start to find the blemishes charming or something 422 00:25:56,360 --> 00:26:01,640 or because I think an album is great, but you know, the flaws maybe become something 423 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,520 I actually like about it. 424 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:04,520 I don't know. 425 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,160 Maybe we do need to be a bit harsher moving forward. 426 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:08,760 Yeah, so thanks, Rob. 427 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,360 Thanks 1001 Album Complaints. 428 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:12,360 Great podcast. 429 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:13,440 You guys should go check it out. 430 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,600 These guys are unafraid and it's fun to listen to. 431 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,600 So thanks again. 432 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:21,600 Excuse me. 433 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,000 I'd like to ask you a few questions. 434 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,480 It's time to ask ourselves a question. 435 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:33,240 So the Purple Rain film is famous for Prince's great stage performances. 436 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,040 What other concert films would you recommend? 437 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,200 Well, I think there's a bunch of good ones. 438 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,600 I'll throw out a few that came to mind initially for me. 439 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,560 Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, if you haven't seen that. 440 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,160 It's more of a live concert performance with some minor production flourishes. 441 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,160 Pretty awesome. 442 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,600 Ziggy Starr Residence Parties from Mars, similar concept, also pretty awesome. 443 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:59,720 But I just watched recently more of a documentary type film about the Ruin Stones called Gimme 444 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:00,720 Shelter. 445 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:01,720 I think it's on HBO right now. 446 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:06,120 It's about a specific concert in their career and some events that surround it. 447 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:10,320 But it was also pretty interesting and some really good live performances from the group. 448 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:17,000 Yeah, that Festival Altamont is considered basically what ruined the summer of love after 449 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Woodstock. 450 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Yeah. 451 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Yeah, exactly. 452 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,200 The first thing that came to mind was Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park from 1978, which 453 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,320 was on ABC television. 454 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,200 Oh, wow. 455 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,320 Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Kiss... 456 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,320 Hanna-Barbera? 457 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,800 Was this animated? 458 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,480 Parts of it were because they had cartoon lightning bolts and stuff coming out of them. 459 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:44,400 So there's some performances at this amusement park, but then an evil guy that makes the 460 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:50,040 animatronics hates that Kiss is getting all the attention and he makes robot kiss that 461 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,800 fight the real kiss. 462 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:58,560 Anyway, there's a few performances of Bath and Shout It Out Loud and stuff. 463 00:27:58,560 --> 00:27:59,920 And I saw that when it was on. 464 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:01,420 I was a little kid. 465 00:28:01,420 --> 00:28:06,680 That was the first time I probably saw live concert footage really that impacted me. 466 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:13,080 So that came to mind, but it's not really on the level of Purple Rain in any way, shape 467 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:14,320 or form. 468 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:20,720 Stuff that I would throw in that category, the song remains the same, Led Zeppelin, The 469 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,680 Band, The Last Waltz. 470 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,720 That's really a documentary, but also concert performance stuff. 471 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,040 It's pretty awesome. 472 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,520 And then things like Bohemian Rhapsody, right? 473 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:37,580 I mean, it's one of the few of those kind of biopics that have done it to that level 474 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:42,480 that make people moved by the performance, even though it's not the real performance, 475 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,840 which drove people to go watch the Live Aid Queen performances on YouTube and stuff. 476 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,360 So it's kind of anti, but it kind of fits. 477 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,860 Yeah, it actually reminds me of the recent Elvis movie by Baz Luhrmann. 478 00:28:55,860 --> 00:29:01,240 At the end of the movie, they actually have real footage of Elvis, seemingly not long 479 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,640 before he actually passes away. 480 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:07,600 And he does a version of Unchained Melody that's really just fantastic. 481 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:14,880 And it's kind of emotional because you see just this fat guy that's just like a shell 482 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:20,720 of himself physically, but you're still hearing inside the magic underneath. 483 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,800 And so that was actually my favorite part of the movie was the live Elvis footage. 484 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:34,440 But yeah, probably my favorite kind of concert doc film is Depeche Mode 101, surprise, surprise. 485 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,080 It was done by D.A. Pennebaker, who actually did Dylan's Don't Look Back and the Monterey 486 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,200 Pop films. 487 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,560 But it's actually interesting because there's like two things going on. 488 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,480 So it's Depeche Mode on their Music for the Masses tour, touring the United States, which 489 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:52,160 culminates in them doing this giant show at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles. 490 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,960 And this is, you know, they're an alternative band that, you know, nobody would expect to 491 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,280 fill a place like that. 492 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,640 But at the same time, it's a contest where all these Depeche Mode fans get to ride a 493 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,620 bus from New York City to L.A. and see Depeche Mode a bunch of times. 494 00:30:06,620 --> 00:30:09,520 But they document what these fans are doing along the way. 495 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,580 And so some people say it might have helped pave the way for things like the real world 496 00:30:14,580 --> 00:30:16,280 and road rules and stuff like that. 497 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,280 Well, thank you, Depeche Mode. 498 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,280 Depeche Mode and D.A. Pennebaker. 499 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,200 What a legacy to leave behind. 500 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,560 I want to throw one more in. 501 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,940 I got to say this because of today's theme. 502 00:30:25,940 --> 00:30:28,200 Go watch Sign of the Times prints. 503 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,600 It's a concert footage of all the songs from the album Sign of the Times. 504 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,780 I haven't seen that. 505 00:30:34,780 --> 00:30:35,780 It's awesome. 506 00:30:35,780 --> 00:30:37,280 What's your favorite concert film? 507 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,280 Let us know. 508 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,760 Hit us up on the socials, Facebook, Instagram, threads. 509 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,440 Also Discord, AlbumNerds.com slash Discord. 510 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,440 I'm your density. 511 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,440 I mean, your destiny. 512 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,440 All right, boys and girls, gather around. 513 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,440 It's time to go. 514 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,440 Let's gather around. 515 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:10,760 Once again, do you see what fate has in store for us on next week's episode? 516 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,440 Make love, not war. 517 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,680 Next week, you will be exploring albums that feature songs of protest. 518 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,760 Protest comes in many forms and for many reasons. 519 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:24,000 Some artists have made it their mission to speak out for those without a voice. 520 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,040 So go out and fight the power. 521 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,040 Protest music, okay. 522 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:36,320 So when artists have an opportunity to call to arms or to shine lights on injustices and 523 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,840 wrongs in society, a little protest. 524 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:39,840 Sounds fun. 525 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:40,840 All right. 526 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:41,880 Well, what's your favorite Prince record? 527 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,560 What's your favorite protest album? 528 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:44,560 What else are you listening to? 529 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:45,560 Let us know. 530 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,280 Join fellow Album Nerds on Discord at AlbumNerds.com slash Discord. 531 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:54,640 You can email us at podcast at AlbumNerds.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and threads 532 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:55,880 at Album Nerds. 533 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,480 Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcast app. 534 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,680 And if you'd like to support the show, you can do so via PayPal at AlbumNerds.com slash 535 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:03,680 support. 536 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,440 Thank you so much for joining us on this very special purple edition of the Album Nerds 537 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,440 podcast. 538 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,240 We'll catch you next time with some protest music. 539 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:11,240 Thanks for listening, everybody. 540 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,240 Catch you next week. 541 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,520 Are you going to dare sing Prince songs? 542 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:18,520 I don't know. 543 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,520 I don't know. 544 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:24,520 How can you just leave me standing? 545 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,520 I'm going in this world. 546 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:29,520 Sorry Prince. 547 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:30,520 I heard that pretty low there. 548 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,240 He does it a little better. 549 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:33,960 Dig if you will a picture. 550 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:34,960 No. 551 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:35,960 I feel like... 552 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:36,960 Stop. 553 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:37,960 Shatner should do that. 554 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:38,960 This is like the British version. 555 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:39,960 Dig if you will. 556 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,400 See, right now you're being the D elevator, my friend. 557 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:43,400 Stop it. 558 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:51,740 It's ridiculous.