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| This album is in many ways a companion album to Dirty Mind. Many similar styles are tried out and performed that were on the previous album.
However, Prince has gotten more ambitious. Controversy was his longest song to that point, I believe, and was similar to Dirty Mind yet more political. In fact, the whole album is political with Prince shouting off about his own view points which are sometimes surprisingly conservative. Not that they're anything Regan would like, but just conservative for Prince. The ballads are better on this album too. And the song rock harder: Ronnie Talk To Russia features some of Prince's best guitar work. Some say it's a pale retread of Dirty Mind: not so. It's similar, yet Prince finds enough variations on the style to keep things interesting. Must have. | ||||||
| REAL PRINCE FANS DIG THIS ONE - DON'T FORGET THE POSTER! | ||||||
| True Prince fans pre-Purple Rain own and love this one - I don't understand the many reviews on this site bagging the CD as "uneven" or "poor" - HELLO?! This was released way back in 1981, post-DIRTY MIND, but pre-1999, before Prince would breakthrough as one of the first artists on MTV (with 1999/Little Red Corvette), but it's on "Controversy" he truly hones his trademark musical style, image, and vision - look at the "cheap" version of the signature purple trenchcoat that would later become glitzy - all the tracks are stripped down and potent blasts of socio-sexual-political electro-funk NO ONE else dared to produce/release at the time - listen to CONTROVERSY (the full version w/ prayer!), SEXUALITY, PRIVATE JOY, JACK U OFF, ANNIE CHRISTIAN, LET'S WORK, and more to know where Prince's head was at during the early 80s - side two (yes, remember LPs) is a bit more experimental and off the mark, but STILL you gotta give it up for the Purple One - hurry up, someone remake PRIVATE JOY today (Gwen? Britney?) and have a #1 hit all over again...and you cannot forgot those like me who bought the original LP when it first came out were treated to a ltd. editon POSTER of PRINCE almost butt-nekkid in the shower with his cross - YOWZAH!! | ||||||
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| I had the tape in high school when it first came out and I bought the CD very recently for two songs in particular. The first, the title track, is a classic. The last track "Jack U Off" is a weird and wonderful mix of electro keyboards, New Wave-ish rhythms, a sing-song melody, and incredibly raunchy lyrics. The remainder of the album is for me, forgetable. | ||||||
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