Prince

>Prince
>Batman

Is it possible for music to get better than this?

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I genuinely think this is probably in like the top 5 of most avant-garde singles to ever be a hit

lol that was my first ever record, I got it for Christmas in 1989.

Forgot the link
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And I still have it btw

The 90's Batman movies had some good fucking music.

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shame about the actual movies

That U2 track was pretty rocking, I had the cassette single back in the day. The Seal track still gets a lot of airtime even today.

I listened to the Batman soundtrack when i was going through Prince's stuff after he died and holy fuck have people heard this album?

It's a concept album that he wrote after he was shown 30 minutes of jumbled up footage from the movie. He thinks it's a dystopian sci-fi movie that takes place in the future and the premise is it's a love triangle between Batman, the Joker and Vicki Vale who all want to do nothing but fuck each other. Every song is sung in character as one of these three or as his original OC Gemini

Prince actually writes very poor quality music. Prince is the epitome of cheesy and gay. His music won't be remembered.

What musicians do you like?

Prince? More like princelet

What about
>Sun Ra
>Batman

You pretty much have to be kinda short to be an excellent dancer.

Seriously one of the most bizarre moments of my life was buying this goofy album for a dollar at a yard sale and then looking it up online and finding out it's a Sun Ra & Al Kooper album. It was like a glitch in the Matrix.

how did this manage to be a hit? why don't normies nowadays like stuff like this?

It was tied to Batman which was the pop culture event of the year. Prince was popular but his peak was 5 years before with Purple Rain and nothing he did since was as popular.

A modern comparison would be if Kanye's new album was the soundtrack to Star Wars 8. Everyone knows Kanye is past his prime but everyone is gonna hear the music and it's gonna be a hit even if though Kanye is now strange as fuck because it's Star Wars.

This make s a lot of sense. Never thought about it.

>buying vinyl in 1989
Did your house not have a CD player yet?

>Prince appeared in the studio, right, back when you and Michael were recording 'Off the Wall'?
>"Yeah, he showed up in the back of a car with a brother who was managing him, and he was like a deer in the headlights. He didn't have a top on. Did you ever see that thing with James Brown?"

>Oh yeah.
>Jones is referring to the legendary evening—August 20, 1983—when both Michael Jackson and Prince attended a James Brown show at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles.
>"That's heavy. He made a damn fool out of himself, didn't he?" says Jones, and the star he is referring to is Prince. Jackson had film of what happened that night. "Prince told Michael he'd kill him if he showed it to anybody," Jones explains, but one way or another, time-coded raw footage of what took place that night eventually surfaced. First Brown invites Jackson to the stage. Jackson sings a few phrases, spins, moonwalks, then embraces Brown and can be seen whispering to him. Brown then calls for Prince. After a delay, Prince gets onstage, takes a guitar, jams a little, then strips off his shirt. He does some mic-stand tomfoolery, dances a little more, then nearly tumbles into the audience trying to pull down an oversize streetlamp prop. It was a superstar face-off that has often been seen as a triumph for Michael Jackson, and a rare humiliation for Prince.

>He spoke to Michael after the show?
>"Oh yeah, he spoke to him. He waited in the limousine to try and run over him and La Toya and his mother."

>What did he think of what Prince had done onstage that night?
>"It was just very obvious what the hell happened—made a damn fool out of himself. Michael went up there, in 40 seconds, sang I love you I love you. Then they went up-tempo and he did a little dance and did the moonwalk and whispered in [James Brown's] ear, 'Call Prince up—I dare him to follow me.' "

Prince had to play a guitar though. I don't see what's so embarrassing about what he did.

Maybe, but in the late 80s/early 90s this type of thing gained a bit of traction for a bit, i think. Industrial music was starting to slip into the mainstream, and people were bored of the new wave sounds of the 80s.
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation was a HUGE hit (i suspect prince or one of his crew had a hand in making that record, it was recorded in minneapolis).

This song was really huge too.
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These are just hte couple that come to mind immediately; i'm sure i could think of more examples

>Prince
>Writing songs about wanting to fuck.

wow thats a new concept

>won't be remembered

ahaa okay buddy.

Scandalous is the best track in the album
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Don't try to prove me wrong

Stupid sexy midget

wtf this u2 song is actually good

You say that as if U2 makes bad songs

well i never heard a good one by them before

I remember Batman having only 2 Prince tracks in it: Partyman and Trust. However, after I listened to this album: I noticed that The Future was playing in the background of the opening scene (it's actually pretty seamless and fits the atmosphere quite well).

Also: Trust is a deliberate ersatz Baby I'm a Star because that song was used as a temp track before Prince signed on to make music for the movie.

One more thing, the soundtrack was not made by Danny Elfman alone: he co-composed it with Steve Bartek so it was pretty much made by Oingo Boingo and the conductor was Shirley Walker, who went on to compose the soundtrack for Batman TAS.

I fucking jammed these when I was a kid. That U2 song was a childhood favorite.

Black Skinhead was pretty aggressive and experimental for a hit IMO

I'm legitimately baffled this was a hit.

Thats an edited version of the U2 video.
Here the actual Music Video for HMTMKMKM

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It's patrish as fuck, you plebs.

Is this your chart?

>that vid

No I only know about half of those. Pretty skeptical because the Batman album really isn't that good. just sloppy garagey rock n roll but not as mind blowing as you'd hope with Sun Ra on keys.

What's the theme of this chart? I've heard a few, not sure what the connection is though.

they don't make em like that anymore :(

Some dude posted in a thread while massreplying and calling everyone plebs.

Nothing special about that, but the chart is extremely tryhard so people found it funny I guess.

Ah, makes sense. Make a random chart of obscure albums to troll people. That Dandelions album is actually pretty cool though.

I remember Electric Chair playing in a casino scene

Prince is probably the top 5 musicians of all time.

Any anons who haven't listened to pic related, do it RIGHT NOW

b-but I haven't watched the movie

>this
>bad in any way
virgin detected

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There is no casino scene

Listen to The Unforgettable Fire you casual.

No? Well I do remember there was a party with some vegas style poker tables near the beginning of the movie and that song was playing fainty in the background

You know what there is some kind of charity gala scene at Wayne Manor where politicians and folks are gambling. My bad.

>Prince
>Batman

Don't forget that Batman wore Nikes too