My oldest sister LOVED Prince and has all his albums up to Lovesexy. I once snottily turned down an offer to go see him at Wembley with her and her smoking hot friend Debrina, on the grounds it wasn't The Pogues, or that my punk/thrash cronies would disown me, or some similar idiotic reason :slanted:
Definitely NOT shit - I don't like huge amounts of what he did but there was surely much, much worse around at the time. Not really keen on the ballads or stuff like 'Little Red Corvette', or when he goes a bit 'Kids From Fame' showtune-y... prefer him when he was in electro mode: 'Make Up' by Vanity 6, Controversy, 1999, DMSR, etc are great.
Last year, I was also listening to loads of the early '80s unreleased 'Vault' stuff - sounds way more raw and has all these lyrics he couldn't get away with on WB. Kinda refreshing to hear a 'parallel universe' version of the satyr, where he specialised in sleazy, electroid songs about bum sex and jealous girlfriends slicing up their rivals' faces.
Parade is one of those LP covers that always remind me of Our Price window displays in the '80s, along with Like A Virgin and Iron Maiden's Killers.