PARADE
| Prince
PARADE
Parade is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Prince, and the fourth and final album to feature The Revolution as his backing band. It also was the soundtrack album to the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon, directed by and starring Prince. It was released on March 31, 1986 by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
breathtaking. Raw, spare, and unflaggingly eccentric, it sounds radically unlike Purple Rain, Around the World and everything else released in 1986
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BBC
Not quite a classic Prince album, but Kiss is a minimalist masterpiece
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Spin
The most confounding album of Prince's golden years is also his most rewarding
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NY Times
One, it's very good.
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Pop Matters
mixes genres and sounds, compiling and intermingling influences that range from James Brown and Al Green to Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie and Miles Davis
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All Music
Prince's weird religious and sexual metaphors develop into a motif that actually gives the album weight
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Rolling Stone
But even the tracks without strings merged new-funk snap with cinematic sweep. “Kiss” was nothing but snap, and the closing ballad, “Sometimes It Snows in April,” was “written on the spot,” according to guitarist Wendy Melvoin.
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The Guardian
The sound of Prince at his most effortless and assured. Cohesive and ice cream-cool, nobody would guess it was a soundtrack for a (sub-par) film. And it has “Kiss” on it.
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Wilson * Alroy's Record Reviews
an interesting mess
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Now It's On
a coup for Prince fans and collectors
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The Tiger Manifesto
Parade is strong, effective music that hints at deeper currents, being more introspective, wilder, and more pleasurable than most pop could hope to be.
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movingtheriver.com
It’s a trip, an anti-boredom album full of glorious contradictions
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