Dirty Mind
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Dirty Mind
Dirty Mind is the third album by American recording artist Prince. It was released on October 8, 1980, by Warner Bros. Records as the follow-up to his self-titled second album, Prince, (1979). Produced, arranged, and composed mainly by Prince in his home studio in Minneapolis, MinnesotaZ the album debuted at number 63 on the US Billboard 200 chart (peaking at number 45), and earned widespread acclaim from music critics. -wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Prince’s first fully actualized album is an unrelenting dance party, its kinky ambiguities blurring lines between genres and genders and pretty much everything else.
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Rolling Stone
Dirty Mind is a pop record of Rabelaisian achievement: entirely, ditheringly obsessed with the body, yet full of sentiments that please and provoke the mind. It may also be the most generous album about sex ever made by a man.
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Billboard
Throughout the record, Prince plays a brittle Telecaster seemingly free of effects. There’s little or no distortion or reverb, just a “clean” sound that’s closer to power-pop or punk than the R&B or funk he filters in via his drumming and bass playing.
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The Quietus
Dirty Mind was the point at which he embraced rock music, and combined the power of image and controversy to make a huge artistic and political statement.
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AV Music
What makes Dirty Mind the first Prince masterpiece is that it’s the first record where it was clear he’d removed all his filters. No idea was ill advised—and no impulse un-championed.
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Spin
his first great album — and his shortest
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All Music
It's a breathtaking, visionary album, and its fusion of synthesizers, rock rhythms, and funk set the style for much of the urban soul and funk of the early '80s.
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The Guardian
Incorporating the sharp minimalist sensibility of the New Wave into his own sex-funk agenda, the album with which Prince really found his direction.
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No Ripcord
revolutionary alchemy of rock, new wave, funk, disco, futurisim, soul and whatever sonic designation you want to latch onto
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Redorded
it is his signature achievement, a flawless masterpiece
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byroncrawford.com
it still stands out as a singular work within his ouerve
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AXS
unleashed the full force of the Minneapolis sound, and the end result was pure magic
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Funk My Soul
this is one of the very best Prince albums
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
every tune is memorable
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Birth. Movies Death.
Dirty Mind was his essence, a declaration: Prince revealed himself to us, and he hinted at who he would become
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Jazz Music Archives
Dirty Mind is the first truly classic Prince album
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Treblezine
a funkified roller coaster of uninhibited lust and earthly pleasures. Prince does it all on this record, Motown soul, funk, rock, and keyboard driven new wave. Almost no topic is taboo
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princesongs.org
undeniably sounds different enough to catch a wayward rock writer’s ear
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Lets Face the Music
This album is sexy, funny, funky and just that little but naughty.
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Jason Ferguson: The Archives
by far the most indicative of the man’s bravery, iconoclasm and extremely high self-regard. Which pretty much means it’s the ultimate Prince album.
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Daily Republic
for a vision of him growing and gaining confidence, “Dirty Mind” is a good glimpse
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Theater Byte
Melding new-wave, funk, punk, and R&B into a new type of dance music, it’s all new- mood, decade, and Prince.
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