"Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds..." - Prince - BATMAN POLL.

Everybody hail new king in town

(ie Partyman)

Attack ships on fire off the arms of Orion.

First two tracks are pretty unbeatable but I went with "The Future"

"Electric Chair," no contest, though most of this album rocks.

lemon crush

Howard Stern had the best line in his Prince eulogy last year: "I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Prince made the greatest motion picture soundtrack of all time, and that's a controversial statement, because most people didn't like the Batman movie."

This is actually a far harder choice for me than I thought... at first I thought 'Scandalous', but then 'The Future' and 'Electric Chair' are both (rightly) highly regarded on here... what about the underrated 'The Arms of Orion', or 'Partyman' which has grown on me a lot over the last couple of weeks? Or the absolutely batshit 'Batdance'? Or, christ, 'Vicki Waiting' and 'Lemon Crush', which both rule?

Only one I wouldn't consider voting for is 'Trust', which did actually appear in the movie...

There are about 5 tracks I could earnestly vote for on here, guy says electric chair but I'm gonna relisten

Gut not guy

There is no guy telling me to vote electric chair

I have to vote "Lemon Crush" to honor how I felt about this album when I first got it but every song on here is great except "Partyman".

I didn't like the movie and I didn't like the album at the time. I was not a very popular 4th grader.

This album > The Black Album

maybe

this doesn't have Bob George on it though

on the plus side, it doesn't have anything as crappy as Dead On It on it

Yeah, this doesn't have 'Bob George' on it, but as a front-to-back album experience it's far more enjoyable, and darker too.

for sure

The second part of 'Batdance' makes me chuckle a bit in its sample choices etc. "Stop the press, who is that?" ... "Vicki Vale, I like" ... "BAT-MAAAAAN!" followed by "ooh yeah, ooh yeah, I wanna bust that body!" makes me laugh for some reason. Probably because it's Prince not being able to resist being Prince.

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vicki vale

impossible for me not to vote "Partyman", that scene was the first Prince I ever heard in my life, this album was my first album ever

I don't like any of these tbh but love this performance of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY_xsUpABiQ

ha I have a comp DVD of Prince TV performances and that is p much the last one before he starts to look not quite so into it/actively bored/disengaged

It's a fuckin' brilliant performance!

Yeah, it's intetesting you should say that, Shakey, especially since post-Batman and with the NPG, Prince put more emphasis on the live band/live musicianship than he'd ever done before and re-cast himself as a JB-style bandleader.

Patrice Rushen on keys!

Voted for 'Scandalous'

the jam at the end of the unreleased 12" "vicki waiting", so good!

This was a great era for B-sides too: 'Sex', '200 Balloons', 'Feel U Up', 'I Love U In Me' etc.

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one of the best revelations that came out last year was that Batdance was originally a remix of 200 Balloons and they pretty much just left it the way it was, for the single release.

I think you can tell that 'Batdance' came from '200 Balloons' (which I'm sure was actually meant to be on the album to begin with but got dropped for some reason or other) - I remember reading somewhere that Prince thought that it sounded like '200 Balloons' came from 'Batdance' even though it was the other way around, but I disagree.

If Prince had never recorded another note of music after the Batman period, it would have been a great way to go out. There was absolutely no chance of that happening, though.

Was listening to some of the 12" mixes earlier today. "Trust" is still just okay at length but "Vicki Waiting" is really great

Vicki didn't laugh at all

I love 'Scandalous', but the 19 minute suite, although well put together and featuring some stunning vocal work on the second part and great guitar work on the third part, is a bit much!

Dave Weigel, of all people, noted today was the fourth anniversary of this Charlie Jane Anders piece

http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-synopsis-of-tim-burtons-batman-based-only-on-the-pri-758183831

Chances are most of us have seen the 1989 Batman movie at least once. But what if you'd only ever heard the soundtrack album by Prince? What would you think the plot of the movie was? Basically, it's the story of Batman's nemesis Partyman, and his ultimate weapon: the Lemon Crush.

I would love a comic book adaptation of this.

Ha, I'd never seen that piece before... I kinda half-wish that was the actual plot of the film.

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Sheeeeit!

All hail...new song in town!

'The Arms of Orion' was robbed, but this kinda proves just how strong a release this is.

Man, 'The Arms of Orion' is such a beautiful song... Prince was still on fire during the Lovesexy and Batman eras.