{"id":912,"date":"2007-10-11T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-16T01:34:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:34:05","slug":"initial-thoughts-on-prince-s-lemgdirty-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/initial-thoughts-on-prince-s-lemgdirty-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Thoughts on Prince&#8217;s <em>Dirty Mind<\/em> (Well After the Time for Initial Thoughts on Said Album)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OzUDyNfu5G8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Berlyant<\/strong> kindly sent me a copy of Prince&#8217;s <em>Dirty Mind<\/em> album, an album I thought I&#8217;d heard and liked a bit in college years ago when, in fact, it was <em>Controversy<\/em> I&#8217;d remembered hearing and liking as much as any Prince album I would hear in ensuing years.  I surely did not forget the cover shot of Prince in his state of semi-undressed <strong>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Pole Dancer Look<\/strong>. Thanks, Berlyant! Thanks, too, for the other goodies in my care package!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9DfyEiw6yM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Dirty Mind<\/em> is interesting. I&#8217;m getting a sense of why Prince is such a darling with so many music nerds. This album, with its stripped down, minimalistic sound and insular world view, has all the earmarks of a great bedroom power pop album made by a guy who&#8217;s in love with both <strong>Earth, Wind &amp; Fire<\/strong> and The Rolling Stones. <em>Dirty Mind<\/em> may be the <strong>Black Vinyl Shoes<\/strong> of post-funk. Do you know that weird, little gem of the Shoes first album, recorded on a 4-track in the brothers&#8217; parents&#8217; living room, or something to that effect? I&#8217;m not saying that Prince&#8217;s <em>Dirty Mind<\/em> sounds anything like Shoes, but he shares a similar, almost unhealthy dedication to some special world in which The Artist is both king and his court. Creepy, yet familiar to the Mother&#8217;s Basement side in so many of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlyant kindly sent me a copy of Prince&#8217;s Dirty Mind album, an album I thought I&#8217;d heard and liked a bit in college years ago when, in fact, it was Controversy I&#8217;d remembered hearing and liking as much as any Prince album I would hear in ensuing years. I surely did not forget the cover <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/initial-thoughts-on-prince-s-lemgdirty-m\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}