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Certain Songs #1650: Prince – “Partyup”

October 7, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Dirty Mind
Year: 1980

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It’s now been three and one-half years — and over 1100 posts — since Prince Rogers Nelson ascended away from this particular mortal plane (and yeah, I know that it feels like decades), and ever since that time, there hasn’t been a moment where I didn’t have some Prince music in my mix. Obviously, his estate has helped out with that, raiding his infamous vaults for projects like the reissue of Purple Rain, the solo Piano and a Microphone session, the recent Originals comp, and of course the massive upcoming 1999 reissue.

But even beyond that, there where holes in my knowledge of his music — including his 1980s albums, so I’ve spent a lot of time since April 21, 2016 filling as many of those holes as possible, and while I wrote a bunch of posts after he died, I’ve got a few more songs to discuss, if you don’t mind, starting off with the closing funk jam from 1980’s Dirty Mind, “Partyup.”

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Certain Songs #514: Prince – “When You Were Mine”

April 22, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Prince Dirty Mind Album: Dirty Mind
Year: 1980

In baseball, there is the concept of the “five-tool player.” That’s a guy who can run, throw, field, hit and hit for power. Guys like Mike Trout and Willie Mays.

I would argue that Prince was one of popular music’s five-tool players. He was a top-notch songwriter, singer, performer, producer and a masterful musician. I didn’t love everything he did, but I loved that he did everything he did.

And, of course, when he put it all together, he was a great as anyone ever.

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