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Jun 11
Lovesexy
Prince · 1988 Spin it Again - Prince, fresh off scrapping the Black Album, went in the opposite direction and made his most optimistic record.
genre:Pop
Jun 11
Sign o' the Times
Prince · 1987 Spin it Again - This is the album that should have been his *Thriller* — the one where the radio hits and the deep cuts are equally unhinged, and the air between the instruments matters as much as the notes.
genre:Pop
May 29
Controversy
Prince · 1981 Spin it Again - A twenty-two-year-old asking who he is over the only sound that matters: his own.
genre:New Wave
May 29
Around the World in a Day
Prince · 1985 Spin it Again - He made Purple Rain a year earlier and could have done anything; instead he locked himself in the studio and made something genuinely strange.
genre:Pop
May 29
1999
Prince · 1982 Spin it Again - He recorded it alone in a basement in Minnesota and somehow made it sound like the future was starting right there.
genre:Synth-Pop
May 10
Purple Rain
Prince & The Revolution · 1984 Spin it Again - He stripped the bass line out of 'When Doves Cry' at the last minute and it somehow has more bottom than anything on the radio that year.
genre:Funk