Purple Rain (track)
by Prince And The Revolution
Year: 1984
From the album Purple Rain (track #9)
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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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| 02/20/2026 21:28 | jtrizzle35 | 9,067 | 80/100 | |
| 02/15/2026 11:44 | wizardalien | 9,169 | 63/100 | |
| 01/14/2026 04:11 | AbsurdCheesecake | 1,614 | 90/100 | |
| 11/28/2025 23:39 | mrmcrook | 11,811 | 78/100 | |
| 11/23/2025 08:04 | acematt51090 | 3,931 | 76/100 |
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AAL2014 01/12/2024 04:58 | #301102
“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.
DeusExMackia 05/28/2021 11:26 | #270121
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
llibnanoon 06/02/2020 17:01 | #252755
Masterpiece!
Fuerte candidata a la mejor canción de los 80s.
VictorVale 01/02/2019 16:25 | #228608
Obra-prima em todos os sentidos! Simplesmente fantástica!
The greatest song ever made
poppmusic 02/04/2016 09:48 | #158660
Passionate and genuine. Love this song!
strafvollzieher 01/15/2014 07:34 | #100685
should be rated higher.
Classic
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