In my opinion, the the most loudest of his recordings, and the most daring at that time. Combining all the elements of his early recordings, and then some. Definitely a good album but for me personally, i definitely have to be in the mood for it because now for me it reflects mostly the movie and i visualize the scenes from the movie when i hear a certain song from the soundtrack, which i guess is good, because therefore that makes the movie memorable right???
The question is though have you ever thought how many copies or how popular this album would really be if there was no "Purple Rain" movie to accompany it? Hmmmmmmm!
Regardless this is the one that pushed him to the stratosphere and made people sit up and take notice and once seeing the movie, made people wonder what all the hype was about this guy, which led to more sales of the album, more people to see the movie, and sold out tours from here on in.
I gotta admit, although this album is not one of the first that i grab out of my collection to listen to, but when ever it comes on cable, i cant resist leaving the channel on the movie just to re-live the moments i remember as a kid going to the theatre to see this thing.
And with this album spawned the ultimate B-side "Erotic City" and "17 Days", by this point he could no wrong, you couldn't turn on Mtv without seeing "When doves Cry" or hearing damn near every song on the album being played on the radio @ some point.
If you were one of the 20 something million to buy the actual album upon its release....yeah another poster was included. The complete band on the set of the "When doves cry" video
Standout tracks here...."When doves cry", Darling Nikki", "The beautiful Ones", and of course..."Purple Rain" (Which is basically his theme song now!!! : ) )
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