Dirty Mind
by Prince

From HoldenM 06/14/2025 19:35 | #309532

Other than the incest song, this is basically perfect.

This album brings new things to funk, but for me there is no outstanding content.

Best two tracks are the last two, "sister" and "partyup", Can listen to these two over and over but the rest of the album is average.

From Jbalbinolr 05/02/2021 23:32 | #269271

Fun album, but not much lasting impact. The production is pretty lo-fi and can sometimes detract from the songs. "When You Were Mine" remained one of his best songs, and it's a taste of what's to come.

One of his very best records. It's a great listen, but the last two tracks drag a little bit.

From planetneutral 01/03/2021 03:23 | #263729

Prince entered the 80s not playing around at all. This might prove to be my favorite overall Prince album.

Just a great funk-pop record. Definitely of its time but a good listen

From eclab 05/15/2020 05:30 | #251449

The music is definitely great, but the vocals range from adequate to downright bad, a particular lowlight is "When You Were Mine".

From teague 04/14/2020 21:42 | #249949

Holy shit. This is so good. I thought 1999 was great, I think this might be Prince's best, excluding Purple Rain. One of the grooviest albums I've ever heard. Prince is an underrated guitarist, but he's an even more underrated bassist. Listen to Uptown and try not to bop your head, I DARE YOU! New favorite Prince album for sure.

From Boltzmann 01/05/2020 23:16 | #246467

I made up my mind: This is the best album ever made. I can't get over it.

It deserves a 10/10 for inventing a style that is sufficiently different from its past and that impacts its future so greatly. A style that mixes funk and rock until the beat is almost four-on-the-floor; a style that relies on the very timbre of the percussion; a style that constantly risks everything by de-emphasising every part of the orchestration.

And the album just perfectly showcases it. It showcases the sound he proposes, and he shows everything you can do with it, without it ever getting boring. It successfully shows the style can be used on a different genre too ('When You Were Mine' which has a new wave beat or the ballad on 'Gotta Broken Heart Again'). And it even has its perfect flaw ('Sister' which is just a mess, which makes the message even more shocking).

It has a consistent lyrical theme that evokes the exact emotion the music also channels, and the lyrics themselves focus on impacting the listener immediately. No deep thinking, just pure emotions, like art should be. When he does get political, he just states as it is ("She's just a victim of society") and leaves it at that. He doesn't muddy the words with arguments (ten points for who gets the reference). You're either with him or not, now's not the time to discuss.

It does the one thing art is supposed to do: Make you feel something in a way you weren't yet familiar with.