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| From | Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Around the World (was Re: Peter Noone & Falco) |
| Date | Sun, 16 May 2004 16:09:35 -0500 |
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Mr. Bennett:
>the deserved knock on AROUND
>THE WORLD IN A DAY is that it has a few songs that just don't go anywhere,
>whereas on his previous few albums, even the lesser cuts (like, let's say,
>"Annie Christian" from CONTROVERSY) were at least interesting. If you
>took
>the best cuts from AROUND THE WORLD and PARADE, you would have a utterly
>brilliant album.
Man, oh man. "Annie Christian" lesser? (Especially considering it in
conjunction with its sequel on 1999, "Lady Cab Driver"?) PARADE having
songs that just don't go anywhere? I'm not sure I can make an argument
that doesn't boil down to some homily about personal preference, but to my
ears PARADE is brilliant from start to finish, probably the best thing
Prince has ever done.
AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY IMO falters a bit toward the end (fer instance,
"Temptation" goes on too long after a promising start and has the silly
Prince vs. God spoken sequence), but I'd say it gets four stars instead of
five, which is no mean feat. And as someone who's never warmed to "I Would
Die 4 U" and "Baby I'm a Star" after twenty years of trying, that means
that I'd rate AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY and PURPLE RAIN about dead even. :-)
Shawn Chacon's son is a goat,
Miles
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