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All rights reserved.Around the World in a Day - Prince (CD 1990)
| Track Listing 1. Around the World in a Day 2. Paisley Park 3. Condition of the Heart 4. Raspberry Beret 5. Tamborine 6. America 7. Pop Life 8. Ladder, The 9. Temptation
Album Notes Prince & The Revolution: Prince (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Wendy Melvoin (vocals, guitar); Lisa Coleman, Dr. Fink (vocals, keyboards); Brown Mark (vocals, bass); Bobby Z (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Novi Novog, Vaj (violin); David Coleman (cello, oud, percussion, background vocals); Suzie Katayama (cello); Sid Page, Marcy Dictorow (strings); Eddie M. (saxophone); Jonathan Melvoin (tambourine, background vocals); Brad Marsh (tambourine); Tim Barr, Annette Atkinson (bass); Sheila E. (drums); Susannah, Taj (backing vocals). Engineers include: David Leonard, Peggy Mac, David Tickle. On AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY, the follow-up to their megahit PURPLE RAIN, Prince and the Revolution add a generous helping of psychedelia to their style, enlisting Prince's father along the way to co-write several songs, including the title track. Many critics at the time dismissed AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY as a turkey follow-up to the outstanding PURPLE RAIN. However, the achingly beautiful ballad "Condition of the Heart," and the stunning "The Ladder," as well as the pop classic "Raspberry Beret," could easily sit beside the band's best material. Ballads and pop gems aside, Prince is as cocky and as sexually self-assured as ever on AROUND THE WORLD. When he vamps and winks his way through "Temptation," the epic album-closer, he moans "everybody on this earth has got a vice and mine, little darlin', is the opposite of ice." Editorial Reviews Q | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||||
Reviews  Good delivery timeReview created: 04/09/08 by:  We bought this CD as a present for my mother because she loves Prince and has it on vinyl. Delivery time was pretty good I thought. Review ID: 10000000006610971 Was this review helpful? Report this review  Around The World In A DayReview created: 04/09/07 by: No complaints cd arrived in good time, no scratches it plays clearly. Thank you for the sale and fast delivery. Review ID: 10000000003374653 Was this review helpful? Report this review PrinceI am a big Prince fan. Most of my Prince music is on tapes. I am slowly replacing the tapes with CDs. This CD was in perfect condition. Review ID: 10000000001752818 Was this review helpful? Report this review Doing What He Does BestReview created: 04/18/06 by: 1 of 1 people found this review helpful. This is one of Prince's best CD's. Very funky and versatile. Condition of the Heart, one of the best ballads written next to The Beautiful Ones. I would have to say my favorite track from here is Paisley Park - kinda reminds me of Side Show by Blue Magic (not so much the music) but the lyrics. A must have in any Prince lover's collection Review ID: 10000000000878408 Was this review helpful? Report this review  A Daring Follow-Up to a Commercial SmashReview created: 08/06/07 by: floatingcity-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Music Pros: Prince incorporates elements of classic rock and psychedelics into his established funk groove. Cons: "Condition of the Heart" is a plodding ballad. A few overly earnest moments. Arriving only a year after the chart-destroying smash Purple Rain , Prince s seventh record Around The World In A Day was met with a somewhat mediocre reaction after the stunning success of its predecessor, with the artist continuing to explore texture and structure beyond typical radio fare. With a sizable number of influences added into the mix, Around the World In A Day manages to appropriate various styles with a reasonable level of success, even though it s a relative step down as cool as a sixties/seventies psychedelic Prince may sound, it doesn t quite hang together fully, even though.. Review ID: 10000000004529837 Still running hot water on the daughter of morality...but using a different hoseReview created: 06/21/07 by: pyfr-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Music Pros: Branching out into some different sounds here. Experimentation was in. Cons: <i>The Ladder</i> represents the one side of Prince I don't find appealing. Despite the money, adoration, and offers of hayloft adventures with throngs of exotic women that were pouring in, it would ve been tough to stand in Prince s high-heels in 1985. With Purple Rain setting the bar for all his future endeavors impossibly high, he had to have known that the shiniest moment of his commercial success had come and gone. Mind you, it s not like he fell on black days thereafter or anything, but the stellar success he enjoyed in 1984 hardly ever happens to an artist twice (not even to Jacko). If it miraculously does, the second time around surely doesn t feel exactly... Review ID: 10000000003846842 Prince's best - the peak of the eighties creativelyReview created: 06/17/01 by: deaser26 -- a member of Epinions Pros: Amazing Song Writing, powerful music, excellent arrangements Cons: followed on the heels of purple rain, misunderstood Prince and his band Prince is a changeling, and yet he isn't. When his musical legacy is examined whom will he be judged against? Cameo or Van Halen, will he be examined in light of the funk, the rock, the symphonic moments, the ear candy, the sex or the "spiritual noise" (as Morris Day called it in Graffiti Bridge)...will he be tried by a jury of his peers? Well no offense, but who the hell would that be? This music was the peak for the Revolution - the band that Prince started out with - the beginnings of his career and the start of his life of fame and fortune. With the release and... Review ID: 10000000000230142 Around the World in a Day, Prince & the RevolutionReview created: 09/14/02 by: cdm72 -- a member of Epinions Pros: Everything Cons: Nothing AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY is one of the brightest Prince albums ever. I'm not sure what that means, but its a sense of color and light and freedom that the music inspires. "Open your heart, open your mind," he sings, "A train is leaving all day / A wonderful trip through our time, and laughter is all you pay." The follow-up to PURPLE RAIN wasn't what ANYONE expected, but the world would soon come to expect just that very thing from Prince, a new record, a new direction, every time. So far he hasn't failed to disappoint in that regard, despite a few less-than-great records in the late 90s. But. Review ID: 10000000000230149 Prince: 4 Play Part III: Around The World In A DayReview created: 09/10/01 by: BARNZ -- a member of Epinions Pros: Prince was going for broke and letting it all hang out. Cons: Prince was going for broke and letting it all hang out. Open your heart, open your mind A train is leaving all day A wonderful trip through our time And laughter is all U pay I am ready to go and I was ready for this album when it was released, now once I actually got it and listened to it, I found a lot to like about it, but it was inconsistent and not up to the quality of "1999" or "Purple Rain" but a bad time with a Prince Song or Album is usually better than most of the other stuff that was and is still out there. Around The World In A Day All The Tracks 1. Around The World In A Day 2. Paisley Park 3. Condition Of The Heart 4. Raspberry Beret.. Review ID: 10000000000230143 Epinions.com ratings are not included in the item's average rating. Links in this review may have been removed. |
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