Purple Rain (Deluxe Expanded Edition – Remaster) by Prince & The Revolution (2015 – Hires 192khz 24bit)

Sometime during the half-year stretch when 1984’s Purple Rain was the most popular album in America, Tipper Gore, wife of then-senator Al Gore, walked in on their 11-year-old daughter listening to the song “Darling Nikki.” She was shocked. The lyrics—with their references to pornography, masturbation, sex toys, and sex itself—seemed inappropriate for a child. Within a year or so, she’d formed a committee called Parents Music Resource Center, designed to raise awareness about the moral evils of pop music—a campaign that went so far as to put stickers on the albums themselves: “Parental Advisory: Explicit Content.”  Of course, to hear “Darling Nikki” as a song only about sex is to miss the point, and to reduce “sex” in the world of Prince to the physical act is to miss it further. The brilliance of Purple Rain is how it stirs seemingly contradictory moods—lust, devotion, intimacy, alienation—into a brew where nothing can be separated from anything else. He makes trauma sound erotic (“When Doves Cry”) and salvation sound reckless (“Let’s Go Crazy”). His sexual escapades are spiritual, disorienting, and almost psychedelic (“Darling Nikki,” “Computer Blue”), while his spiritual journeys are grounded in the mechanics of a guitar solo (“Purple Rain”). In putting together Prince’s wardrobe for the movie that the album soundtracked, costume designer Marie France noticed the way he was drawn to contrasts: a silk trench coat with punky silver studs; clean, masculine lines with feminine fabrics like lace and chiffon; the edgy and the romantic. He often drew comparisons to Jimi Hendrix for the way he mixed music that felt Black and white, sacred and profane (even though, as he pointed out, his playing was more like Santana’s). The reality is that he had no precedent then and no comparison now. Tipper Gore may have been right in her panic over “Darling Nikki,” but not for the reasons she thought: The song’s power isn’t just that it’s explicit, but that it manages to be mysterious at the same time.June 25, 1984 35 Songs, 3 hours, 18 minutes ℗ 2017 NPG Records, Inc. under exclusive license to Warner Records Inc.

1. Let’s Go Crazy (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
2. Let’s Go Crazy (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
3. Take Me With U (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
4. Take Me With U (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
5. The Beautiful Ones (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
6. The Beautiful Ones (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
7. Computer Blue (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
8. Computer Blue (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
9. Darling Nikki (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
10. Darling Nikki (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
11. When Doves Cry (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
12. When Doves Cry (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
13. I Would Die 4 U (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
14. I Would Die 4 U (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
15. Baby I’m a Star (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).lrc
16. Baby I’m a Star (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
17. Purple Rain (2015 Paisley Park Remaster).m4a
18. The Dance Electric.lrc
19. The Dance Electric.m4a
20. Love and Sex.lrc
21. Love and Sex.m4a
22. Computer Blue (Hallway Speech Version).lrc
23. Computer Blue (Hallway Speech Version).m4a
24. Electric Intercourse (Studio Version).lrc
25. Electric Intercourse (Studio Version).m4a
26. Our Destiny _ Roadhouse Garden.lrc
27. Our Destiny _ Roadhouse Garden.m4a
28. Possessed.lrc
29. Possessed.m4a
30. Wonderful Ass.m4a
31. Velvet Kitty Cat.lrc
32. Velvet Kitty Cat.m4a
33. Katrina’s Paper Dolls.lrc
34. Katrina’s Paper Dolls.m4a
35. We Can Fuck.m4a
36. Father’s Song.m4a
37. When Doves Cry (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
38. When Doves Cry (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].m4a
39. 17 Days (7_ B-Side Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
40. 17 Days (7_ B-Side Edit) [2017 Remaster].m4a
41. Let’s Go Crazy (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
42. Let’s Go Crazy (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].m4a
43. Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) [2017 Remaster].lrc
44. Let’s Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix) [2017 Remaster].m4a
45. Erotic City (Let’s Go Crazy 7_ B-Side Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
46. Erotic City (Let’s Go Crazy 7_ B-Side Edit) [2017 Remaster].m4a
47. Erotic City (Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive) [Extended Version] [2017 Remaster].lrc
    26EROT~1.M4A
48. Purple Rain (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
49. Purple Rain (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].m4a
50. God (Purple Rain 7_ B-Side) [2017 Remaster].lrc
51. God (Purple Rain 7_ B-Side) [2017 Remaster].m4a
    29GOD(~1.M4A
52. Another Lonely Christmas (I Would Die 4 U 7_ B-Side Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
    30ANOT~1.M4A
53. Another Lonely Christmas (Extended Version) [2017 Remaster].m4a
54. I Would Die 4 U (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
55. I Would Die 4 U (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].m4a
56. Baby I’m a Star (Take Me With U 7_ B-Side Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
    34BABY~1.M4A
57. Take Me With U (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].lrc
58. Take Me With U (7_ Single Edit) [2017 Remaster].m4a