Batman
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Batman
Batman is the eleventh studio album by American recording artist Prince and the soundtrack album to the 1989 film Batman. It was released on June 20, 1989 by Warner Bros. Records. As a Warner Bros. stablemate, Prince's involvement in the soundtrack was designed to leverage the media company's contract-bound talent as well as fulfill the artist's need for a commercial (if not critical) revival. The result was yet another multi-platinum successful cross-media enterprise by Warner Bros., in the vein of Purple Rain. The album was No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart for six consecutive weeks. It has sold over eleven million copies worldwide. -Wikipedia
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AV Club
Batman was recorded quickly and, intentionally or not, sounded more direct and commercial than much of his recent work
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Subjective Sounds
Prince's Batman soundtrack is one of the best recordings he ever made
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All Music
Batman sounds fine while it's playing
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MTV
PRINCE UNDERSTOOD BATMAN BETTER THAN ANYONE ... HIS 1989 SOUNDTRACK TO THE TIM BURTON FILM IS AN UNDERRATED CLASSIC
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Pop Matters
Yet despite its raw, almost reductive sound, Batman reinforces classic Prince tropes from track to track.
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Bustle
The Batman soundtrack is fun, weird, wacky, and well-made
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Recorded
This is what Prince did in his prime, precisely what he chose to while stroking mainstream pop success.
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Blog Critics
The man may have been coasting, but he was still breathing rarefied air.
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Feedback Theatre
It’s a guilty pleasure, for sure, but there’s just something irresistible about a “funky” Batman soundtrack.
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The CSPN
I can’t think of a better artist to capture all of Batman in one soundtrack than Prince
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Starling
A rush job, and for all the worse sounds like it.
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IGN
it is a decent enough endeavor and at nine tracks it's a relatively short and sweet excursion into an alternate musical reality of the film
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