Track Listings (8) - Disc #1| All Artists: Prince Title: Dirty Mind (Mlps) (Shm) Members Wishing: 7 Total Copies: 0 Label: Wea Japan Release Date: 7/15/2009 Album Type: Import Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, R&B, Rock, Classic Rock Styles: Dance Pop, Funk, Soul, Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 4943674091461 |
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Japanese SHM paper sleeve pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan ... more » |
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Album Description Japanese SHM paper sleeve pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing* SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc* allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. 2009. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThe LP that defines the Artist is indeed a classic. namepeace | Nashville, TN United States | 12/30/1999 (4 out of 5 stars) ""Dirty Mind" sets the tone for the rest of Prince's unparalleled career. In fact, most people think it's his first album. It might as well have been because, despite his impressive first 2 LP's (For You and Prince), he really got recognized for the image he crafted through his music. But it's the great music that makes this album endure, for it created the "Prince sound."The minimalist approach to this LP is its hallmark. Stripped of all pretensions and indulgences,and centered around funk guitar and synths, it is one of the tightest -- and raunchiest -- Prince LP's. What really makes this LP are 4 all-time classic Prince songs: the title track, the outstanding "When You Were Mine," "Do It All Night," and "Uptown." They are the heart and soul of a great LP. Unfortunately, radio wasn't as liberal as it is now, but I'd like to think this LP contributed to more adventurous music in all genres. If not for this album, would Madonna, 2 Live Crew, Nine Inch Nails, etc. even gotten radio play? Maybe not.This is an essential 80's record, an essential Prince record, and an undisputed classic. Buy it." Masterpiece Sean Zimmerman | 11/30/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Let's face it... Prince's albums up through Sign 'O the Times are brilliant. Dirty Mind in particular ranks as one of his very best (some would say his very best). Unlike many pop albums this is not merely a collection of songs, i.e. some radio hits and a bunch of filler. This album works organically as a whole, i.e. each track is integral to the album. Every track is excellent and the production and sound is very stripped back and "raw". This is pure pop/funk genius. Probably my favorite Prince album after Purple Rain and just above Controversy. Essential= Get it!" Essential, nastier, funkier than you think.... Benjamin Doleac | Hollis, NH United States | 10/31/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "For such a brilliant musician (and 26 years after his debut, there can be no doubt of his pop mastery), Prince has been a mighty inconsistent album artist. Undoubtedly some of this owes to the fact that he's got too many ideas - genius can be unruly. But beyond that, what hampers the greatness of many of his best-known and best-received efforts for a college student born the same year "1999" was released is that the oft-brilliant songs are mired in '80s production gunk. Seminal though it may be, the "Purple Rain" soundtrack is so drenched in processing and outmoded digital echo that, on first listen, it barely sounds musical at all. Prince may have been ahead of his time, but few artists have been so much OF their era that the greatness of their work is discernible only through repeated exposure.
"Dirty Mind" is comprised of recordings originally intended as a demo, and as such it is remarkably free of the aforementioned excesses. At barely a half-hour in length, there's hardly room for the flab that pads many of his later full-lengths. What you're left with is a prime slice of knotty, minimalist, RAUNCHY funk rock. Listen to "Head" and "Sister" in particular and you'll be amazed that Warner Bros. had the guts to put this out in 1980, a good half-decade before the rise of hardcore rap and the PMRC's campaign to put warning stickers on albums. After two unsuccessful tries with "Purple Rain" and the much-beloved double album "Sign O' the Times," I finally came around to Prince with "Dirty Mind". Aside from synth solos on the title track and "Head", he plays every instrument on the record, and the stripped-down production just bolsters the shock of his knockout chops. Prince would emerge as a major star two years later with "1999," but in my opinion this is his best album. The most effective demonstrations of his genius outside of this record are the compilations "The Hits/The B-Sides" and the unfortunately out-of-print rarities collection "Crystal Ball," which can be had pretty darn cheap as a used item considering it's 3 CDs long (4 with the 'bonus disc', actually). Why he's been unable to make a record that's great start to finish in the last quarter century is beyond me, but if you're curious about the little guy "Dirty Mind" or the hits collection are fine starting points." |
