Purple Rain (track) by Prince And The Revolution
Purple Rain appears on the following album(s) by Prince And The Revolution:
- Purple Rain (track #9) (this album) (1984)
- Prince And The Revolution: Live (track #20) (2020)
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4 days ago | imacgill | 17,544 | 81/100 | |
04/04/2024 03:09 | ExTeaSea | 2,753 | 90/100 | |
04/01/2024 10:27 | genialbibi | 314 | 91/100 | |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 91.9/100, a mean average of 90.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 92.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.8.
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“One more! One more!!” yells (I assume) someone in the mic’d up crowd as Prince’s greatest record fades to an eye-watering silence. I love closing tracks at the end of great records that literally give themselves a well deserved round of applause. Madvillainy being one, Purple Rain being another.
This title track delivers a message through sound, feeling, and of course, color like very few songs Prince ever wrote. Purple Rain closes out the album in a hopeful, majestic, and with the Beatles psych-era strings at the song’s end, mysterious manner.
Back to the “One more!” guy. Hard to believe anybody could fathom a band coming back on stage on topping *this* performance of *this* song. And hey, maybe that’s what Prince got a kick out of the most with the album’s fade-out shouts.
The mystique of Purple Rain is as equally incredible as the song itself - the fact that no complete studio recording of it exists; the fact that the "ooh's" at the end came about because fans started singing them when it was performed live; the fact that you can hear the crowd cheering every so often; the fact that album version has rhythm guitar performed by Wendy Melvoin, only 19 and on her live debut with The Revolution; the fact that Prince never told us who the song was really written about; the rawness yet warmth of its emotions; the whole image its lyrics conjure up.
Purple Rain is one of the most scintillating and most magical moments in musical history, truly being a song that never, *ever* gets old. A timeless testament to one of the greatest performers the world has ever seen.
A wonderful fusion of gospel, r&b, and pop
Masterpiece!
Fuerte candidata a la mejor canción de los 80s.
Obra-prima em todos os sentidos! Simplesmente fantástica!
The greatest song ever made
Passionate and genuine. Love this song!
should be rated higher.
Classic
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