Prince - Parade: Music from the Motion Picture "Under the Cherry Moon"
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Artist: PrinceBrand: PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Christopher Tracy's Parade - Prince, Nelson, John L.
- New Position
- I Wonder U
- Under the Cherry Moon - Prince, Nelson, John L.
- Girls & Boys
- Life Can Be So Nice
- Venus de Milo
- Mountains - Prince, Prince & the Revolu
- Do U Lie?
- Kiss
- Anotherloverholenyohead
- Sometimes It Snows in April
Free Music Notes for Parade: Music from the Motion Picture "Under the Cherry Moon"
Free Music Review: Prince Rogers Nelson's Parade
Hit: 5 Stars
During the years following the big commercial success of "Purple Rain" Prince never elected to just rest on his laurels and become a face for the jetset life or press fodder. He spent a good deal of the time almost obsessively recording in the studio and one of the projects he was working on was this soundtrack album to his second motion picture Under the Cherry Moon. This album could'nt be any more different from his first soundtrack project which was for the most part very pop focused. This album still finds Prince in an accesible frame of mind but still very musically daring and willing to integrate as many musical ideas into his generally funk oriented sound as he could. The fantastic thing about this album is how well the music bleeds together in terms of arrangement and not only does it feel more like a formal soundtrack with it's heavy cinematic touches but is one of the albums of the mid 1980's that has really aged very well for something so contemporary for it's time in a lot of ways. The album has a lot of artsy touches to the music such as the presense of steel drums,accordians and other cross continental flavors that enhance the mood it was trying to achieve. Also as with any Prince album of the 80's his use of drum machines are among some of the most adept and creative one could imagine from such an often maligned instrument. "Christopher Tracy's Parade","New Position","I Wonder You" and the title ballad all kind of form an introductory suite of songs to introduce the album-starting with a fanfare of horns,strings and rhythms and working around some slippery,keyboard loop driven types of what I'd describe as neo psychedelic funk. It's alternately dreamy,poetic and sexy and accomplishes it's cinematic flavor well. "Life Can Be So Nice" is a very carnivalsqe slice of dance-funk with a very busy top and a very tight bottom rhythmically. This album also features some of the tighest funk Prince ever recorded such as "Girls & Boys","Anotherloverholenyohead" and of course the big hit "Kiss",all strong indications of the rhythmic influences Prince was bringing to the surface from his long standing love of James Brown during this era. This album is also home to one of those great lost Prince classic eclectic pop songs in "Mountains";neither pop or rock,funk or psychedelia it's one of my favorite Prince songs here and in his entire catalog. The album also contains two very French pop-jazz sounding ballads in the instrumental "Venus De Milo" and "Do U Lie". The album concludes with the darkly chorded jazz-folk ballad "Sometimes It Snows In April" which,driven by acoustic guitar and the somewhat bittersweet lyrical focus is at least one music nod to another of Prince's musical influences: Joni Mitchell. This album and movie were not as well recieved commercially as his previous soundtrack but,than again that's exactly what Prince was going for-to be known as a respected musician as opposed to some flavor-of-the-month hitmaker. In a lot of ways he got to have both on this album because there were some successful singles here as well. But all in all this speaks a lot to Prince's rhythmic and general creative progress.
Parade: Music from the Motion Picture "Under the Cherry Moon" Poster
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Media Type: CD
Artist: PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION
Title: PARADE
Street Release Date: 07/07/1987
Genre: SOUL/R & B
Calling this one of Prince's most interesting albums doesn't do justice to how kicky and playable it is. The soundtrack from his failed romantic comedy Under the Cherry Moon, the disc often sounds like a preview of the supremely surefooted quirkiness of its follow-up, the classic Sign o' the Times. Marrying lean funk grooves to over-the-top orchestrations and trying his hand at Parisian balladry and a hushed, Pet Sounds-style instrumental, he triumphs as few other record makers did in 1986. --Rickey Wright
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