PRINCE - CONTROVERSEY; 1981 WB BSK 3601; EXCELLENT CONDITION; NO POSTER

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PRINCE
CONTROVERSEY
1981
Warner Brothers Records
BSK 3601

Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by PRINCE

From My Own Personal Collection


Album Notes
Personnel includes:
Prince (vocals, various instruments);
Lisa Coleman (keyboards, background vocals);
Dr. Fink (keyboards);
Bobby Z (drums).
Engineers: Mic Guzanski, Ross Pallone, Bob Mockler.

Track listing

All tracks written, composed, and arranged by Prince.

Side one

    "Controversy" – 7:15
    "Sexuality" – 4:21
    "Do Me, Baby" – 7:43

Side two

    "Private Joy" – 4:29
    "Ronnie, Talk to Russia" – 1:58
    "Let's Work" – 3:54
    "Annie Christian" – 4:22
    "Jack U Off" – 3:09
Though Prince invented the alluringly androgynous, tough, but sophisticated persona that would bring him to fame on 1980’s seminal Dirty Mind, Controversy was the album that saw Prince harnessing his classic song-writing skills and aggressively unorthodox production styles to the pointed lyrical acumen, at once bracingly political and sexually provocative, that would bring him adulation and derision in equal measures.

The epic title track sets the mood with a refrain, “am I black or white, am I straight or gay,” that might serve as a neat summation of Prince’s provocative popular appeal.

Though few of Controversy’s other cuts approach the jaw dropping grandiosity of the title track, the album as a whole is a tightly constructed package of slick dance floor oriented electro-funk.

On the explosive "Let’s Work" Prince manages to squeeze all the innovations of post-funk outfits like Cameo and Zapp into a neat three minute package, while even the slight throwaway, “Ronnie Talk To Russia” sees Prince ambitiously experimenting with hellacious punk noise over a bubblegum pop melody.

A dizzyingly eclectic masterpiece, Controversy marks a true turning point in Prince’s career.

CONTROVERSY is the fourth release from Prince, and it continues in the tradition of his debut DIRTY MIND, with funky rhythms, throbbing electronic accents and titillating lyrics.

Featuring the successful title cut and the club hit "Private Joy," CONTROVERSY works off Prince's infamous juxtaposition of sex and religion.

This is explicitly depicted in songs such as "Annie Christian" and the sultry ballad "Do Me, Baby" where during a long instrumental sequence, his sighs blatantly indicate carnal activity.

As with many of his recordings, Prince maintains complete creative control here by handling all the writing, playing and production himself.

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