> the DIRTY MIND sound that Prince used pre-PURPLE RAIN (and
> on the first two Time records and Vanity Six's one LP) is one of the great
> sounds in pop and funk -- insanely trebly, but with a contrasting deep
> bottom.  Love it...

Which just goes to show that preference in sound can vary as widely as
preference in music -- I HATED that mixing style on the early Prince records
(and I submit that he never really abandoned that unbalanced approach.)  It
made all his stuff sound like it was being played through one of those steep
U-curve equalizer settings you saw in bad car stereos, boosted at the
extreme lows and extreme highs. Ugh. Good music, but often a chore to listen
to.

Drew,
who worked with a guy who hated Rick Astley and sang a lyrically altered
version of his first hit, addressed to Astley himself, called "I Am Gonna
Beat You Up."