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Sign 'o' the Times - Prince
He'd fired his band, and his latest movie had flopped; just three years after Purple Rain, Prince was in the market for a comeback. So he recorded one of the great albums of the Eighties. Times is best known for the apocalyptic title track, the brontosaurus funk of "Housequake" and the gorgeous "If I Was Your Girlfriend." Yet the simplest moments are unforgettable: the "Sweet Jane"-style guitar plea of "The Cross," the Stax revamp on "Slow Love," a jilted girl's sadness in "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man." "I hate the word experiment," Prince said. "It sounds like something you didn't finish." Here, he finished.
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