PRINCE & REVOLUTION “Parade” WARNER BROS orig ’86 gatefold 1st press NM SUPERB

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Artist:  PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION                                   

Title:   “Parade”

Label:   WARNER BROS ~ W 1-25395.  Stereo pressing.  Labels are black and white text.  Comes with printed inner sleeve.

Year:   1986.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT PLUS with 100% of original gloss, our highest grade.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with utmost care – possibly unplayed.  Labels are pristine.  Fidelity is superb.     

JACKET:   Gatefold jacket is NEAR MINT with nice bright artwork.   Seams, spine, and surfaces are excellent.  A very faint trace of ring wear on outer panels, almost unnoticeable.  Inside gatefold is clean and pristine.  No writing, stickers, or cutout indications.  Overall a beautiful jacket.  

Disc is neatly enclosed in glossy printed inner sleeve with photos, in gorgeous Near Mint condition. 

Track Listing:

Side One:

• Christopher Tracy’s Parade
• New Position
• I Wonder U
• Under the Cherry Moon
• Girls & Boys
• Life Can Be So Nice
• Venus de Milo

Side Two:

• Mountains
• Do U Lie?
• Kiss
• Anotherloverholenyohead
• Sometimes It Snows In April

Review:

“Undaunted by the criticism Around the World in a Day received, Prince continued to pursue his psychedelic inclinations on Parade, which also functioned as the soundtrack to his second film, Under the Cherry Moon.  Originally conceived as a double album, Parade has the sprawling feel of a double record, even if it clocks in around 45 minutes.  Prince & the Revolution shift musical moods and textures from song to song -- witness how the fluttering psychedelia of "Christopher Tracy's Parade" gives way to the spare, jazzy funk of "New Position," which morphs into the druggy "I Wonder U" -- and they're determined not to play it safe, even on the hard funk of "Girls and Boys" and "Mountains," as well as the stunning "Kiss," which hits hard with just a dry guitar, keyboard, drum machine, and layered vocals.  All of the group's musical adventures, even the cabaret-pop of "Venus de Milo" and "Do U Lie?" do nothing to undercut the melodicism of the record, and the amount of ground they cover in 12 songs is truly remarkable.  Even with all of its attributes, Parade is a little off-balance, stopping too quickly to give the haunting closer, "Sometimes It Snows in April," the resonance it needs.  For some tastes, it may also be a bit too lyrically cryptic, but Prince's weird religious and sexual metaphors develop into a motif that actually gives the album weight.  If it had been expanded to a double album, Parade would have equaled the subsequent Sign 'o' the Times, but as it stands, it's an astonishingly rewarding near-miss."

(courtesy Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com.)

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