Okay, folks, so it's been kinda quiet around here the last couple days except for the "Ode to Crash" posts. And that's cool. It hit us all pretty hard. Came outta nowhere. Fucked us all up real good. But, you know what? Crash, just like the rest of us came here to talk about music. We came to talk about movies. We came to talk about life.Not to belittle anyone's loss. It's a very sad t...
I wanna have a home setup like this. Technics SP-25 turntables (w/ 14" platters and rotary pitch controls) and a Sound Workshop 421 mixer all mounted on a single plinth, photographed at my man Mika Snickars' house in Stockholm. Sweet. Theme song... The Time: Cool (Long Version)(1981)
When the single was first played on KDAY in Los Angeles, I'd almost lost my mind. Although their entire 1st album was the bomb (Get It Up, Cool, The Stick, etc.) and their next release was highly anticipated by Prince fans, they weren't expecting this. There wasn't anything out there that sounded like this! Then add the funk (I know Morris said that funk was dead) to it. The Hi-Hat pattern ...
The Time - The Time [1981]The only problem with the Time's first album is that it isn't really the Time. Sure, that's Morris Day singing. Who else could it be? The music, however, is provided by Prince. Back in 1981, Prince was a superstar waiting to happen. So you have Day's swagger and sexual come-ons ("Oh Baby"--actually, every track here!) and Prince making the whole shebang sound like a mo...