I simply cannot think of 1984, my sophomore year, without this album playing in the background. The soundtrack of my summer that year. Phenomenal then, and today still!
Yep. Same age. Takes me back INSTANTLY. I got this album for Christmas - I had a hard home life and hearing this whole album was something to look forward to. Sounds crazy now - but that's what it was.
it's hard to describe how big this album was when it came out. it topped the charts for about 6 months and all genres embraced it (rock, R&B, soul, pop, etc.). Back then, albums were played all the way thru when people got together for a party. So I was kinda waiting to hear 'the beautiful ones' after your reaction ended, haha. Now I'm gonna listen to the full album. It's perfection.
The female lead vocalist who's singing with Prince is his co-star on the movie, Purple Rain, is actress Apollonia Kotero. But Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman do played keyboard and bass guitar. By the way, this song did peaked at the #25 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the early winter of 1985. A definitely banger song indeed!!!
@Eric4471066, By the way you're partially right in saying Apollonia is credited as co-lead singer with Prince as a duet on "Take Me With You." However, Lisa Coleman also laid down a lead vocal track on this jam doubling Apollonia's vocal tracks in the studio. And, Jill Jones sang a ghost track initially to help Apollonia so she had something to follow. As you said yourself Apollonia was an "actress" & didn't know how to sing at all when Prince first threw her in the vocal booth. Just saying... ++Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend++ 🤘😜🤘
That's Bobby Z on drums, Apolonia on vocals and The Clearing House did a lot of his string arrangements. Love the channel, It's great to see genuine love for great music. I also loved your reaction to Maybe Your Baby by Stevie. I Thought Chi was going to bounce out of his chair. Great stuff guys.
Interestingly Wendy Melvoin's dad, Mike Melvoin, was a master jazz pianist. He played on Tom Waits early albums like The Heart of Saturday Night. The entire Purple Rain album permeated everything in 1984. Every song is a masterpiece. Great reaction as ALWAYS!
I spent my first 30 years in the Minneapolis area. I was astonished the first time I heard Prince - ❤️’d his music and style!!! I moved to SoCal, but knew all the places that showed up in his videos. He was a treasure. 💔 RIP ☮️❤️
When we look back at the iconic albums, it's so easy to think that they achieved such exalted status by capturing the sound and spirit of the time. But of course, they didn't so much capture it as define it. It is albums like this that made the 1980s what it was, an era that so many of us who were there would relive right now if we could. But even more so, those that were not there yearn to experience. Incredible then to think, that this album, as with so many iconic albums, manages to be both completely of its time, but so undying in its appeal as to be timeless.
Hey La and Che! Please check out the video of Prince playing live While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Tom Petty. Prince was an amazing guitar player! Love these reviews!
Appelonia Kotero, who was the love interest in the movie PURPLE RAIN with Prince is the female singer on this song. Wendy plays guitar, bass, keys, percussion. Lisa plays synth & piano. Wendy predominantly played guitar with the Revolution because Brownmark was the bass player during the Purple Rain era for the Revolution.
This was always my favorite song on that album. Great string arrangement. Very sophisticated composition. Back then, we were calling this the "Minneapolis sound", which basically meant Prince and anybody else he wrote for, produced or collaborated with, as well as the many people who tried to imitate him...
Hearing Prince always makes me homesick, I used to run into him all over town, the first nearly got me shot by his bodyguard. You guys know me, I listen to some of the most brutal,F'ed up metal out there, Prince's guitar solos still run chills up my spine. His 1979 self titled album is a must own.
@@AirplayBeats Off stage and ff camera he was pretty normal, he had a store in uptown, he would wave and say hello to all of us that hung out in the area.I played the flute for several years and I got a new one in 9th grade from one of his donations to public schools.
Definitely do the whole album. 9 brilliant tracks and I cant wait for more of your comedic remarks. Good fun on great music. A joy to watch and listen. Cheers ✌
Dr. Fink was a keyboard player. Prince is playing the drums on the track using the Linn LM-1 drum machine, Simmons drum machine and some Tom toms, cymbals and tambourine. He plays all the synths, guitar and bass on the track too.
I've loved Prince since he came out when I was in jr high. Had every album from the beginning. Of course this album and song are so amazing. I basically memorized all the dialogue in the Purple Rain move, too, lol!
Thanks! I overlooked Prince at the time, and you show me how wrong I was. 😁 Fun watching La air-drum the riffs perfectly, and both of your appreciation. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Keep up the good work, I have my favorite reactors and you guys are tied with about 4 other reactors for 1st place. I don’t know why I dig these reaction vids so much but I do
The background vocals are “layered” with Prince, Wendy, Susannah and Lisa. Prince’s production, musical compositions- unmatched. A modern day “Amadeus”…truly missed in this world.
Glad I checked that sub list, you guys thought this was going sneak by? 😂😂 😂, I don’t think so, great reaction. RIP Prince one phenomenal player. That crew he threw together brings me back to my military days. Have good one guys.
Oh I love this song from the very first time I heard it as a 14 year old back in 1984. Didn't Apollonia sing with him on this track? No? I guess I'm getting old 😪. Nice review as always gentleman and GO BIRDS💚🦅 🏈
I'd venture to say Take Me With You was Prince's first crossover pop song. It echoes the likes of his huge hit for the Bangles, "Manic Monday". Singing duet here is Apollonia Kotero, not Wendy or Lisa. She was featured in the movie Purple Rain as his love interest after his original vixen, Vanity - RIP (Denise Matthews) dropped out of the project.
Great Song, I'm sure this is most fans favorite. Hearing this , I have to make a request for another Prince great that you rarely hear, "Pink Chasmere"
This is actually in my bottom 5 songs in Prince’s entire catalog…and I think I have something like 1,800 songs of his on my phone. It’s just way too poppy for me. And Purple Rain isn’t even in my top 25 albums. 🫣 Don’t throw rocks at me! 😂😂😂 Apollonia Kotero on co-lead vocals with Prince on this one. Lisa plays keys and Wendy plays rhythm guitar during live performances. Up to this point, synthesizers were used for string and horn sounds in Prince’s music, but you’re right, this song contained cello, viola, and violin parts. He continued using a lot of string arrangements on the next two albums as well - Around the World in a Day & Parade.
This ain't any old pop; this is gorgeous and hooky as anything! As he himself says elsewhere on this record "I know ain't nuthin wrong wich yer ears!" All good, all opinions 😊 I like him in high gear too but to me writing a GOOD pop song is one of the hardest things to do and I think he nails this. 😋
I think this is an excellent song with a unique string arrangement by claire fischer. that's an extreme take, very unusual to consider this in the bottom 5 considering a lot of the stuff he did with npg/by himself in the 90s and 2000s.
@@romulus_ See, the stuff later in his career gets so much unwarranted hate. If you look at the merit of the music alone without accounting for nostalgia or the marketing machine behind the original release, the music itself is way better later in his career. I really love Computer Blue and Darling Nikki on this album, but Take Me With U just sounds like a song any artist could have made. I don’t think Clare started doing the string arrangements until Parade; it would have been David Coleman for Purple Rain and ATWIAD, if I’m not mistaken.
@@smh93 I've listened to plenty of it and strongly disagree. ultimately, it comes down to personal taste. you're right about the string arranger -- in fact, I think prince, wendy, and lisa did that one.
When Prince passed, I listened to a lot of his music for the first time studiously. Prince would take a one or two bar riff and go YES on it. You feel me. He was a genius 🙏🍁
Prince was my first concert, in high school, for the Purple Rain tour. Saw 2 nights while he was in Chicago. It was beyond mind blowing. You were either Team Prince or Team Michael in the 80s, guess which team I was on, lol!! The purple team!
Reminds me of winter in the late 80s. The beginning of this song. I was on perkins ave. Fresh snow falling just getting dark . Life was great. Was at the video game arcade called amusement world. Just out of highschool going to the clubs to party.
There are so many good tunes on this album! I love this song. Give Darling Nikki a try, but prepare yourself! This album is my freshman year of college!! Thanks again! ❤
Please give a listen to the extended version (runs about 5 min. 40 seconds) of Alphabet St., off of the Lovesexy album - with Sheila E. on drums and a rap by Cat Glover. It is sheer FIRE.
Prince definitely had some phenomenal music! 🎶 I would love for you guys to review a great obscure Prince song called “The Cross” from the album “Sign of the Times.”
Hey guy's , Great reaction if you want to see him totally go totally nuts check out Purple Rain live in Syracuse New York in 1985. It's a long one but totally worth it, I promise you'll love it. What he did with that White Cloud Guitar that night had me in tears. Trust me, Please check it out.
Wendy and Lisa have some great albums, especially Eroica. Wendy is one of his guitarists, and Lisa is on keys in the band. But not on this song. Via Wikipedia: Prince - lead and backing vocals, Oberheim OB-8 and Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizers, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, Simmons SDS-V, LinnDrum, tom-toms, cymbals, tambourine, string arrangement Apollonia - co-lead and backing vocals Jill Jones - co-lead and backing vocals Lisa Coleman - co-lead and backing vocals, string arrangement, string conductor Wendy Melvoin - string conductor David Coleman - cello, finger cymbals Novi Novog - violin
Dig the channel!......Out of all the Prince songs y'all reviewed this one? lol...There's serious heat on PR, which was a HUGE global album that won him an Oscar as well. "Take Me With You" is a fun song, it's 3rd tier Prince. If you really want to go hard with Prince review Dirty Mind and 1999. P was on some sh*t...(Oh yeah...That's Apollonia who was one of the co-stars of Prince's Purple Rain film....)
Prince was amazing. I have a reaction recommendation that would likely get a lot of views. It's by a recording duo most people in younger generations are completely unfamiliar, but they went from being unknowns to their 1989 album going 6X Platinum (sold 6 million copies in the US) with 3 #1 US charts hits, a #2 US chart hit, and a #4 US chart hit. They won a Grammy for one of the songs. They were later embroiled in the biggest scandal in Grammy history when it came to light they did not sing a note on the album. They were lip-syncing. There is a great documentary out about them recently released. One of them (Rob) spiraled out of control and died from a drug overdose years after being stripped of their Grammy award. The other (Fabrice) handled it much better and is currently married with kids and still performing. Apparently Fabrice took some voice lessons and sounds pretty good though the crowds now are much smaller. If you haven't already guessed the name of the duo / band, I'm talking about Milli Vanilli (Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus). Blame It On The Rain is the song that won the Grammy. Girl You Know It's True and Baby Don't Forget My Number are the other two #1 hits from the 1989 album entitled Girl You Know It's True. The songs were fire. Their look and dance moves were fire. This would be a great reaction video!!!
@@AirplayBeats You're correct, Lisa did lay down a few overdub vocal tracks to help Apollonia on this joint. Jill Jones also voiced a ghost track initially as a guide for Apollonia to follow the vocal melody. ++Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend++ 🤘😉🤘
@@324cmac As Flavor Flav said, "Don't Believe The Hype!" Seriously, Apollonia's interesting, but I wouldn't waste to much time interested in what she has to say really. Apollonia makes up a lot of sh!t as she goes & been called out on some of her babbling BS she believes. Just like Apollonia saying she co-wrote "Glamorous Life" & "Manic Monday" with Prince, sure she did, OK! Let's keep it a buck, she's frontin' & FOS. Just saying... ++Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend++ 🤘😉🤘
Let's face it: on the whole, Prince's entire career is, pretty much, "a masterpiece!" 🤘🤘😛😛 Prince DID like to track the drums himself ...and I don't know the specifics of this song 🤷 ...but "Bobby Z" [Robert Rivkin] WAS The Revolution's drummer, however (and he could slay). Bobby went on to Produce Wendy * Lisa, when Prince's dissolution of The Revolution made them leave and break-off as: Wendy & Lisa {That band was GREAT! ...but their 3rd album: EROICA (NOT "erotica," no. Eroica: Greek for "heroism"-approx.) is EXTRAVAGANTLY underrated. ...And the band on THAT is **mind-blowing**🤯🤯🤯 ...SO great it's illegal to describe! Carla Azar is the drummer on that --actually, I believe she was the primary drummer for ALL of Wendy & Lisa's albums🤔🤔 ('80s-early '90s albums) [She had had a mild, scant, form of success with the band: Ednaswap, before (They were the band who wrote and originally recorded: "Torn" which became a hit for Natalie Imbruglia several years later). She is, currently; in a band (which she founded) called: AUTOLUX; who you would do yourself proud to check out! Excellent!🤘🤘🔥🔥, Carla, also, tracked the drums for some of Jack White's solo albums (I believe that it was the first 2, actually🤷-but I might not have that, entirely, correct🤷). At any rate: Carla Azar is one of the underappreciated MONSTER behind the kit! EVER! (Much like: HEART's Michael DeRosier -whom I have mentioned to you, numerous times!)!] -Anyway!: Bobby Z was The Revolution's drummer, but, yes: PRINCE DID track a LOT of drum parts himself! I am not certain "who, specifically, plays what;" on THIS song. 🤷 Wendy Melvoin is the guitarist. She played rhythm AND lead (although, certainly: Prince was "the shredder" of the band and I can't name individual solos cut my Wendy. 🤷) -Dual solos/harmony solos, Prince would, generally, double them, in studio; but: live, definitely, you would hear he and Wendy playing the parts together. Lisa Coleman was, primarily, a keyboardist ...but she did also play some stringed-instruments and horns. BOTH Wendy & Lisa sang background/harmony vocals. ...Wendy's twin sister (who was staring a relationship with Prince, around this time): Susannah, also, sang and was, in fact, the person whom the song "Nothing Compares 2 U" was written ABOUT, as well as, first recorded by (She was: "lead vocalist, female;" for another side-project band of Prince's, in the '80s: The Family. ...Naturally: it wasn't until Sinéad O'Connor's brilliant cover of that song that it became a worldwide hit and known to everyone!-💜💜💗Sinéad! 💔💔 SO beloved! SO missed !- ...As far as I am aware, Susannah did NOT become a regular performer in The Revolution until: Parade ...but: she, definitely, was, consistently, "in-and-out" of the studio (🤷 ...and may have, also, contributed to this, or other songs, on Purple Rain. 🤷♀). ...as someone else (I believe) mentioned: around this time Prince's "protégé-du-jour" was: Jill Jones ...and it is, definitely, possible that she was, somehow, involved, as well 🤷🤷 (but: I have no "proof" or "assurances of such an idea."🤷♂). As mentioned by others: Appolonia Kotero (who was cast as "The Kid's" "love interest" in the Purple Rain movie) was listed as the co-lead/female lead vocalist, on this cut. Appollonia COULD sing, but: she had no, real, experience doing so, at this period. When "Vanity" retired (felt driven to move away from music, for newly, religiously-driven reasons as I recall ...but: more than "possibly," manipulation or "asserted control" by: Prince himself, as well 😕🤷) and "blew-up" Prince's "secondary unit": Vanity 6, Apollonia gave him the opportunity to "...see? ...You don't, really, matter, Vanity" Miss Vanity; by, subsequently, re-creating "the Vanity-6" as: Appolonia-6 ...and, continuing the same ideas/"attitude," going forward. (I believe that: because of his [Prince's] focus being split and "wormed away" by: all of the issues with Vanity 6, following THAT up with: Appollonia 6 (recreating the idea), his "on-again-off-again" struggles with: Susannah Melvoin, his not appreciating, fully, everything he HAD with a band as tight and gifted and COOL as: The Revolution; his being unable to "make peace with"/"resolve" issues with his father (which, of course, Purple Rain, at the VERY least: REMINDED him of or, possibly, brought into more intense focus...🤷🤷); et al.!; that Jill Jones, actually, SUFFERED! She deserved more of his focus and more guidance. She was THAT good ...but🤷 ...can't change the past, anymore 🤦🤦....). While numerous people in the outfit (including, of course; Prince himself!) COULD, in fact, play bass, the bassist (and one of the most consistent members of Prince's band, as far as: amount of time lasted and: degree of skill!) was: "Brownmarc" [Mark Brown]. Wendy Melvoin did NOT play bass with The Revolution. Brownmarc, basically, was "the next guy in line" after: Andre Cymone (who was a H.S. buddy of Prince's and part of the ealry bands he put together, before WB signed him and brought him out to Cali. to do an album.). The Revolution DID, also, have another "keyboard player," besides Lisa Coleman. "Dr. Fink" [Matthew/Matt Fink]. Dr. Fink, basically, stuck to synths., samples/loops and such (Lisa sometimes did play piano and some other things, as well as singing). "Dr. Fink" was the cat with the stethoscope. ...Fink was, also, one of the earliest members of the band which was (in Fink's case: became!) The Revolution, he joined Prince in the '70s, at some point (I think I remember it being: 1978. 🤷I may be off by a year, either way🤷) and stuck through the time that the band became The Revolution!
B.T.W.: "The Beautiful Ones" and "Take Me With U" are/have long been, pretty much, my favorite songs on: PURPLE RAIN (if I "had to choose" which I DON'T and don't, actually, WANT to!). Most "biggest albums of their career" are NOT "their, actual, best" or "perfect" albums; by MANY bands (I would say: a majority!). THIS one: definitely IS!
Personally this isn’t one of my fav. Tracks from the Purple Album. But I’m glad you guys are checking out his catalog. He has so many good songs to discover. And his live performances eclipse anything laid down on vinyl. He is my GOAT. He’s our modern Mozart. He does it all.
"The Beautiful Ones" off this record is a masterpiece...definitely worth a reaction...
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We are still waiting for some more! And I agree Beautiful Ones should be next.💜☔️
I was 20 years old when Prince took over Planet Earth with this album & movie.....and every bit of that success was deserved. PRINCE LIVES....!!!
I simply cannot think of 1984, my sophomore year, without this album playing in the background. The soundtrack of my summer that year. Phenomenal then, and today still!
Yep. Same age. Takes me back INSTANTLY. I got this album for Christmas - I had a hard home life and hearing this whole album was something to look forward to. Sounds crazy now - but that's what it was.
The Beautiful Ones off this album is amazing. Prince's vocals at the end are indescribable.
it's hard to describe how big this album was when it came out. it topped the charts for about 6 months and all genres embraced it (rock, R&B, soul, pop, etc.). Back then, albums were played all the way thru when people got together for a party. So I was kinda waiting to hear 'the beautiful ones' after your reaction ended, haha. Now I'm gonna listen to the full album. It's perfection.
The Beautiful Ones might be the best track on this album.
The female lead vocalist who's singing with Prince is his co-star on the movie, Purple Rain, is actress Apollonia Kotero. But Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman do played keyboard and bass guitar. By the way, this song did peaked at the #25 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the early winter of 1985. A definitely banger song indeed!!!
@Eric Wendy plays rhythm guitar. Brown Mark plays the bass.
@Eric4471066, By the way you're partially right in saying Apollonia is credited as co-lead singer with Prince as a duet on "Take Me With You." However, Lisa Coleman also laid down a lead vocal track on this jam doubling Apollonia's vocal tracks in the studio. And, Jill Jones sang a ghost track initially to help Apollonia so she had something to follow. As you said yourself Apollonia was an "actress" & didn't know how to sing at all when Prince first threw her in the vocal booth. Just saying... ++Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend++ 🤘😜🤘
This is around the time Appolonia and David Lee Roth were dating. Prince told her to keep it under wraps.
Thanks for reacting to my favorite musician & artist of all time. U guys did great! Do more! 🎉 ❤ O(+> 4ever
So happy to see you doing some Prince. 💜
That's Bobby Z on drums, Apolonia
on vocals and The Clearing House did a lot of his string arrangements.
Love the channel, It's great to see genuine love for great music.
I also loved your reaction to Maybe
Your Baby by Stevie.
I Thought Chi was going to bounce out of his chair.
Great stuff guys.
OH: I miss him - SO MUCH! RIP, PRINCE!!!
I wore this album out. Been decades since I heard this song and yet still able to sing along word for word. This album was beyond huge.
So damn good! Every single song is great on this album! More Prince please!
Interestingly Wendy Melvoin's dad, Mike Melvoin, was a master jazz pianist. He played on Tom Waits early albums like The Heart of Saturday Night. The entire Purple Rain album permeated everything in 1984. Every song is a masterpiece. Great reaction as ALWAYS!
What a great album. Became a big Prince fan in 1983 when 1999 and Little Red Corvette.
Prince is the best ever. Would love for you to go through the whole album (and tons more Prince).
I spent my first 30 years in the Minneapolis area. I was astonished the first time I heard Prince - ❤️’d his music and style!!! I moved to SoCal, but knew all the places that showed up in his videos. He was a treasure. 💔 RIP ☮️❤️
When we look back at the iconic albums, it's so easy to think that they achieved such exalted status by capturing the sound and spirit of the time. But of course, they didn't so much capture it as define it.
It is albums like this that made the 1980s what it was, an era that so many of us who were there would relive right now if we could. But even more so, those that were not there yearn to experience.
Incredible then to think, that this album, as with so many iconic albums, manages to be both completely of its time, but so undying in its appeal as to be timeless.
Computer Blue and The Beautiful Ones are two of his best underrated songs. Yes, please go through his album! Actually go through his early catalog!
The Beautiful Ones is his BEST.
@@vespoint it’s definitely in my top 5 of his best songs imo
The original 12 minute version of Computer Blue shows the layers
I remember being blown away first time hearing Controversy & also Erotic City. He was an incredible artist, on another planet even.
Hey La and Che! Please check out the video of Prince playing live While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Tom Petty. Prince was an amazing guitar player! Love these reviews!
He sure was, I had no idea that he was that good until I saw that.
I requested that one too!
The beautiful ones is my fave
We used to play this entire album over and over and over back in the day! CLASSIC!
I saw Prince in concert and he was incredible! He was a true performer. He was another great talent we lost too soon but his music will live on.
One of my favorite Prince songs. Lovely
Prince is the coolest human being to have walked planet Earth.
Appelonia Kotero, who was the love interest in the movie PURPLE RAIN with Prince is the female singer on this song. Wendy plays guitar, bass, keys, percussion. Lisa plays synth & piano. Wendy predominantly played guitar with the Revolution because Brownmark was the bass player during the Purple Rain era for the Revolution.
There are so many great tunes on this album. Still cranking the tunes 40+ years later.
This was always my favorite song on that album. Great string arrangement. Very sophisticated composition. Back then, we were calling this the "Minneapolis sound", which basically meant Prince and anybody else he wrote for, produced or collaborated with, as well as the many people who tried to imitate him...
Hearing Prince always makes me homesick, I used to run into him all over town, the first nearly got me shot by his bodyguard. You guys know me, I listen to some of the most brutal,F'ed up metal out there, Prince's guitar solos still run chills up my spine. His 1979 self titled album is a must own.
Love hearing about your run ins with Prince.
@@AirplayBeats Off stage and ff camera he was pretty normal, he had a store in uptown, he would wave and say hello to all of us that hung out in the area.I played the flute for several years and I got a new one in 9th grade from one of his donations to public schools.
It's called Prince (naked riding a white Pegasus) 🤪
This album was such a huge crossover hit. Rock, R&B stations had this album playing constantly.
What a vibe...true classic...
Definitely do the whole album. 9 brilliant tracks and I cant wait for more of your comedic remarks. Good fun on great music. A joy to watch and listen. Cheers ✌
Yes! The bridge at around 3:50 with Lisa and Wendy gives me chills!
I was 9 when this album came out and I remember my Mom playing the cassette tape over and over!! Great artist and great album
Hey Gents! Thanks for the reaction s always...makes my day! But...I really wanted to wish you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!!
Dr. Fink was a keyboard player. Prince is playing the drums on the track using the Linn LM-1 drum machine, Simmons drum machine and some Tom toms, cymbals and tambourine. He plays all the synths, guitar and bass on the track too.
Favorite Prince tune. So good
💥 I'll never forget seeing the movie, I was in high school and about 7 or 8 of us went to see the movie.. 💥
🙏❤🌹 Prince 🌹❤🙏
How sad that this man, along with so many others is not alive today. The music industry eats its own.
Need more Prince ... Live
I've loved Prince since he came out when I was in jr high. Had every album from the beginning. Of course this album and song are so amazing. I basically memorized all the dialogue in the Purple Rain move, too, lol!
Thanks! I overlooked Prince at the time, and you show me how wrong I was. 😁
Fun watching La air-drum the riffs perfectly, and both of your appreciation. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Happy Holidays my friend!!
@@AirplayBeats ❤🙏
Yes, please do the whole album!
Keep up the good work, I have my favorite reactors and you guys are tied with about 4 other reactors for 1st place. I don’t know why I dig these reaction vids so much but I do
We appreciate you rocking with us!!
Apollonia is singing on this song with Prince. However, Lisa is singing very closely with Apollonia to strengthen her vocals.
The background vocals are “layered” with Prince, Wendy, Susannah and Lisa. Prince’s production, musical compositions- unmatched. A modern day “Amadeus”…truly missed in this world.
Glad I checked that sub list, you guys thought this was going sneak by? 😂😂 😂, I don’t think so, great reaction. RIP Prince one phenomenal player. That crew he threw together brings me back to my military days. Have good one guys.
Oh I love this song from the very first time I heard it as a 14 year old back in 1984. Didn't Apollonia sing with him on this track? No? I guess I'm getting old 😪. Nice review as always gentleman and GO BIRDS💚🦅 🏈
I'd venture to say Take Me With You was Prince's first crossover pop song. It echoes the likes of his huge hit for the Bangles, "Manic Monday". Singing duet here is Apollonia Kotero, not Wendy or Lisa. She was featured in the movie Purple Rain as his love interest after his original vixen, Vanity - RIP (Denise Matthews) dropped out of the project.
Great Song, I'm sure this is most fans favorite. Hearing this , I have to make a request for another Prince great that you rarely hear, "Pink Chasmere"
This is a great song off a very underrated album. I have this album in my top 10…
This entire album is unbelievable!!!
This is actually in my bottom 5 songs in Prince’s entire catalog…and I think I have something like 1,800 songs of his on my phone. It’s just way too poppy for me. And Purple Rain isn’t even in my top 25 albums. 🫣 Don’t throw rocks at me! 😂😂😂
Apollonia Kotero on co-lead vocals with Prince on this one. Lisa plays keys and Wendy plays rhythm guitar during live performances. Up to this point, synthesizers were used for string and horn sounds in Prince’s music, but you’re right, this song contained cello, viola, and violin parts. He continued using a lot of string arrangements on the next two albums as well - Around the World in a Day & Parade.
Bottom 5? You're really putting this below everything he did after 1987?
This ain't any old pop; this is gorgeous and hooky as anything! As he himself says elsewhere on this record "I know ain't nuthin wrong wich yer ears!" All good, all opinions 😊 I like him in high gear too but to me writing a GOOD pop song is one of the hardest things to do and I think he nails this. 😋
I think this is an excellent song with a unique string arrangement by claire fischer. that's an extreme take, very unusual to consider this in the bottom 5 considering a lot of the stuff he did with npg/by himself in the 90s and 2000s.
@@romulus_ See, the stuff later in his career gets so much unwarranted hate. If you look at the merit of the music alone without accounting for nostalgia or the marketing machine behind the original release, the music itself is way better later in his career. I really love Computer Blue and Darling Nikki on this album, but Take Me With U just sounds like a song any artist could have made. I don’t think Clare started doing the string arrangements until Parade; it would have been David Coleman for Purple Rain and ATWIAD, if I’m not mistaken.
@@smh93 I've listened to plenty of it and strongly disagree. ultimately, it comes down to personal taste. you're right about the string arranger -- in fact, I think prince, wendy, and lisa did that one.
When Prince passed, I listened to a lot of his music for the first time studiously. Prince would take a one or two bar riff and go YES on it. You feel me. He was a genius 🙏🍁
Gentlemen, that is the correct 😉 reaction.
I mean, it’s the one I had in 1984 when I got that album.
Yeah that is his co-star from the movie Apollonia who is singing with Prince on this song.
That whole album is kick ass.
My brother with the yankee cap i see you play drums...those hits were on point with the timing. I play drums as well.
Btw, Prince apparently played all of the drums on the whole Purple Rain album.
Prince was my first concert, in high school, for the Purple Rain tour. Saw 2 nights while he was in Chicago. It was beyond mind blowing. You were either Team Prince or Team Michael in the 80s, guess which team I was on, lol!! The purple team!
Appollonia sings the Co lead vocals on this, and Sheila E plays the drums on this.
Reminds me of winter in the late 80s. The beginning of this song. I was on perkins ave. Fresh snow falling just getting dark . Life was great. Was at the video game arcade called amusement world. Just out of highschool going to the clubs to party.
There are so many good tunes on this album! I love this song. Give Darling Nikki a try, but prepare yourself! This album is my freshman year of college!! Thanks again! ❤
Still waiting on you to hit some more on this album. I can rewatch this one only so many times.🤷♀️💜☔️😬
Hey Guys. Try Prince's 'Mountains'. Enjoying your insights. Cheers.
Please give a listen to the extended version (runs about 5 min. 40 seconds) of Alphabet St., off of the Lovesexy album - with Sheila E. on drums and a rap by Cat Glover. It is sheer FIRE.
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Yeah man do the album!
Prince did everything
Prince definitely had some phenomenal music! 🎶 I would love for you guys to review a great obscure Prince song called “The Cross” from the album “Sign of the Times.”
Its the perfect pop song
RIParadise Prince
Hey guy's , Great reaction if you want to see him totally go totally nuts check out Purple Rain live in Syracuse New York in 1985.
It's a long one but totally worth it, I promise you'll love it. What he did with that White Cloud Guitar that night had me in tears. Trust me, Please check it out.
Prince has a prog song called 3 Chains O Gold.
Would love to hear you get that a hear.
I forced my adult children to listen to the entire album start to finish while driving & they thanked me after 💪🏼winning!
This really is a great album. There is nothing else like it and there is no duds.
The female vocals are done by Apollonia, Jill Jones, and Lisa.
Guys love the reactions. You need to watch and react to buddy guy. SRV and jimmy looked up to him!
Good song. Apollonia, one of Finest ladies on the planet is singing on this with him.
my favorite song on this album by just a hair
Apollonia!❤
Nice song! Please listen to the whole Dirty Mind lp! The punk and funk aspects are awesome!
Nice one guys. The first few bars sound almost like prog rock!
It's the petite sandwich between Let's go crazy and The beautiful ones. The three together ends up being one monster burger!
Wendy and Lisa have some great albums, especially Eroica. Wendy is one of his guitarists, and Lisa is on keys in the band. But not on this song.
Via Wikipedia: Prince - lead and backing vocals, Oberheim OB-8 and Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizers, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, Simmons SDS-V, LinnDrum, tom-toms, cymbals, tambourine, string arrangement
Apollonia - co-lead and backing vocals
Jill Jones - co-lead and backing vocals
Lisa Coleman - co-lead and backing vocals, string arrangement, string conductor
Wendy Melvoin - string conductor
David Coleman - cello, finger cymbals
Novi Novog - violin
Dig the channel!......Out of all the Prince songs y'all reviewed this one? lol...There's serious heat on PR, which was a HUGE global album that won him an Oscar as well. "Take Me With You" is a fun song, it's 3rd tier Prince. If you really want to go hard with Prince review Dirty Mind and 1999. P was on some sh*t...(Oh yeah...That's Apollonia who was one of the co-stars of Prince's Purple Rain film....)
We grew up with that album. We wanted a deeper cut from the album that we haven’t heard in a while. Thanks for rocking with us!!
Prince was amazing. I have a reaction recommendation that would likely get a lot of views. It's by a recording duo most people in younger generations are completely unfamiliar, but they went from being unknowns to their 1989 album going 6X Platinum (sold 6 million copies in the US) with 3 #1 US charts hits, a #2 US chart hit, and a #4 US chart hit. They won a Grammy for one of the songs. They were later embroiled in the biggest scandal in Grammy history when it came to light they did not sing a note on the album. They were lip-syncing. There is a great documentary out about them recently released. One of them (Rob) spiraled out of control and died from a drug overdose years after being stripped of their Grammy award. The other (Fabrice) handled it much better and is currently married with kids and still performing. Apparently Fabrice took some voice lessons and sounds pretty good though the crowds now are much smaller. If you haven't already guessed the name of the duo / band, I'm talking about Milli Vanilli (Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus). Blame It On The Rain is the song that won the Grammy. Girl You Know It's True and Baby Don't Forget My Number are the other two #1 hits from the 1989 album entitled Girl You Know It's True. The songs were fire. Their look and dance moves were fire. This would be a great reaction video!!!
Wow Milli Vanilli. I loved those hits they had. I think that would be a cool video. Thank you
@@AirplayBeats Very few reaction channels have done videos on them. It would be a great choice. Enjoy your vids!
Little red Corvette
Intro feels like easy lover juuust a Lil bit 😁
Apollonia on vocals and on the back of Prince's bike in the movie when this song was played. Then Prince tricked her into showing us her boobies.
And I watched like this as a kid 🫣
Pretty sure that’s Apollonia singing with Prince on this one
I believe Lisa is in there too
If anyone is interested, Apollonia gives a great interview with DJ VLAD on TH-cam from Dec. 5, 2021.
@@AirplayBeats You're correct, Lisa did lay down a few overdub vocal tracks to help Apollonia on this joint. Jill Jones also voiced a ghost track initially as a guide for Apollonia to follow the vocal melody. ++Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend++ 🤘😉🤘
@@324cmac As Flavor Flav said, "Don't Believe The Hype!" Seriously, Apollonia's interesting, but I wouldn't waste to much time interested in what she has to say really. Apollonia makes up a lot of sh!t as she goes & been called out on some of her babbling BS she believes. Just like Apollonia saying she co-wrote "Glamorous Life" & "Manic Monday" with Prince, sure she did, OK! Let's keep it a buck, she's frontin' & FOS. Just saying... ++Peace, Funk & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul My Friend++ 🤘😉🤘
@@216Numbskull I found her believable. I'm sure Prince wasn't always honest either.
I'm pretty sure that's Sheila E on drums
Let's face it: on the whole, Prince's entire career is, pretty much, "a masterpiece!" 🤘🤘😛😛
Prince DID like to track the drums himself ...and I don't know the specifics of this song 🤷 ...but "Bobby Z" [Robert Rivkin] WAS The Revolution's drummer, however (and he could slay). Bobby went on to Produce Wendy * Lisa, when Prince's dissolution of The Revolution made them leave and break-off as: Wendy & Lisa {That band was GREAT! ...but their 3rd album: EROICA (NOT "erotica," no. Eroica: Greek for "heroism"-approx.) is EXTRAVAGANTLY underrated. ...And the band on THAT is **mind-blowing**🤯🤯🤯 ...SO great it's illegal to describe!
Carla Azar is the drummer on that --actually, I believe she was the primary drummer for ALL of Wendy & Lisa's albums🤔🤔 ('80s-early '90s albums) [She had had a mild, scant, form of success with the band: Ednaswap, before (They were the band who wrote and originally recorded: "Torn" which became a hit for Natalie Imbruglia several years later). She is, currently; in a band (which she founded) called: AUTOLUX; who you would do yourself proud to check out! Excellent!🤘🤘🔥🔥, Carla, also, tracked the drums for some of Jack White's solo albums (I believe that it was the first 2, actually🤷-but I might not have that, entirely, correct🤷).
At any rate: Carla Azar is one of the underappreciated MONSTER behind the kit! EVER! (Much like: HEART's Michael DeRosier -whom I have mentioned to you, numerous times!)!]
-Anyway!: Bobby Z was The Revolution's drummer, but, yes: PRINCE DID track a LOT of drum parts himself!
I am not certain "who, specifically, plays what;" on THIS song. 🤷
Wendy Melvoin is the guitarist. She played rhythm AND lead (although, certainly: Prince was "the shredder" of the band and I can't name individual solos cut my Wendy. 🤷) -Dual solos/harmony solos, Prince would, generally, double them, in studio; but: live, definitely, you would hear he and Wendy playing the parts together.
Lisa Coleman was, primarily, a keyboardist ...but she did also play some stringed-instruments and horns.
BOTH Wendy & Lisa sang background/harmony vocals. ...Wendy's twin sister (who was staring a relationship with Prince, around this time): Susannah, also, sang and was, in fact, the person whom the song "Nothing Compares 2 U" was written ABOUT, as well as, first recorded by (She was: "lead vocalist, female;" for another side-project band of Prince's, in the '80s: The Family. ...Naturally: it wasn't until Sinéad O'Connor's brilliant cover of that song that it became a worldwide hit and known to everyone!-💜💜💗Sinéad! 💔💔 SO beloved! SO missed !- ...As far as I am aware, Susannah did NOT become a regular performer in The Revolution until: Parade ...but: she, definitely, was, consistently, "in-and-out" of the studio (🤷 ...and may have, also, contributed to this, or other songs, on Purple Rain. 🤷♀).
...as someone else (I believe) mentioned: around this time Prince's "protégé-du-jour" was: Jill Jones ...and it is, definitely, possible that she was, somehow, involved, as well 🤷🤷 (but: I have no "proof" or "assurances of such an idea."🤷♂).
As mentioned by others: Appolonia Kotero (who was cast as "The Kid's" "love interest" in the Purple Rain movie) was listed as the co-lead/female lead vocalist, on this cut. Appollonia COULD sing, but: she had no, real, experience doing so, at this period.
When "Vanity" retired (felt driven to move away from music, for newly, religiously-driven reasons as I recall ...but: more than "possibly," manipulation or "asserted control" by: Prince himself, as well 😕🤷) and "blew-up" Prince's "secondary unit": Vanity 6, Apollonia gave him the opportunity to "...see? ...You don't, really, matter, Vanity" Miss Vanity; by, subsequently, re-creating "the Vanity-6" as: Appolonia-6 ...and, continuing the same ideas/"attitude," going forward.
(I believe that: because of his [Prince's] focus being split and "wormed away" by: all of the issues with Vanity 6, following THAT up with: Appollonia 6 (recreating the idea), his "on-again-off-again" struggles with: Susannah Melvoin, his not appreciating, fully, everything he HAD with a band as tight and gifted and COOL as: The Revolution; his being unable to "make peace with"/"resolve" issues with his father (which, of course, Purple Rain, at the VERY least: REMINDED him of or, possibly, brought into more intense focus...🤷🤷); et al.!; that Jill Jones, actually, SUFFERED! She deserved more of his focus and more guidance. She was THAT good ...but🤷 ...can't change the past, anymore 🤦🤦....).
While numerous people in the outfit (including, of course; Prince himself!) COULD, in fact, play bass, the bassist (and one of the most consistent members of Prince's band, as far as: amount of time lasted and: degree of skill!) was: "Brownmarc" [Mark Brown].
Wendy Melvoin did NOT play bass with The Revolution.
Brownmarc, basically, was "the next guy in line" after: Andre Cymone (who was a H.S. buddy of Prince's and part of the ealry bands he put together, before WB signed him and brought him out to Cali. to do an album.).
The Revolution DID, also, have another "keyboard player," besides
Lisa Coleman.
"Dr. Fink" [Matthew/Matt Fink]. Dr. Fink, basically, stuck to synths., samples/loops and such (Lisa sometimes did play piano and some other things, as well as singing).
"Dr. Fink" was the cat with the stethoscope.
...Fink was, also, one of the earliest members of the band which was (in Fink's case: became!) The Revolution, he joined Prince in the '70s, at some point (I think I remember it being: 1978. 🤷I may be off by a year, either way🤷) and stuck through the time that the band became The Revolution!
B.T.W.: "The Beautiful Ones" and "Take Me With U" are/have long been, pretty much, my favorite songs on: PURPLE RAIN (if I "had to choose" which I DON'T and don't, actually, WANT to!).
Most "biggest albums of their career" are NOT "their, actual, best" or "perfect" albums; by MANY bands (I would say: a majority!).
THIS one: definitely IS!
Lisa is keys Wendy guitar
The song's barely started and there's more ideas than is reasonable for a top-whatever pop song.
Back in the day, if you played your cards right, this is a song that could straight up get you laid. Sinatra x 10.
Actually, I think that Apollonia is backing him up on this one
Song is fire, but im not a fan of that snare sound.
Dude was musical genius. Lost a great one in Prince
Personally this isn’t one of my fav. Tracks from the Purple Album. But I’m glad you guys are checking out his catalog. He has so many good songs to discover. And his live performances eclipse anything laid down on vinyl. He is my GOAT. He’s our modern Mozart. He does it all.