Prince wasn't on my radar in 1980. In fact, being overseas, the only music which was came from my sister's collection, and only when she saw fit to play it. Since at the time she too was not a fan of Prince, if she even knew about him, he was not in her rotation of records. Not that our parents would have allowed us to have an album called, "Dirty Mind" in the first place.
I don't know if this alburm even came to be in my collection when I was buying my own CD's in the mid to late 90's. I did, however, track it down as a top priority when I started amassing what would become my collection as it stands today.
While I've played through it before, it was never one of my favorites. Sure, it was packed with hits such as, Uptown, When You Were Mine, and of course, the title track itself, Dirty Mind. However, it just never really stood out amongst the likes of 1999, Purple Rain, and the Batman Soundtrack. In fact, it wasn't until listening to it today that I finally got a true appreciation for it.
Yes, in retrospect, I would consider it among one of the few "perfect" albums. By that, I mean I would sit down and listen to it from start to finish. There's really not a bad track to be found. Is it top tier, Prince at his best? No, but it's certainly a canvas for things to come. This could be because of the inclusion of Lisa Coleman and Dr. Fink joining the recording sessions, which would ultimately pave the way to the Revolution, or it could just be that the songs stood on their own merit to begin with. Ultimately, the sound is different from Prince's prior 70's entries, and in a far better way.
It see's Prince shifting from a more love song era of music to his lewdness, which would become his staple niche in the 80's. The party bus was firing up, and everyone was invited to join. The beginning of an era. That in a nutshell is Dirty Mind.
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