Prince - Purple Rain (w/ guest Bill Ackerman)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Podcaster Bill Ackerman (nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingcharacters) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Prince's multimedia spectacular, Purple Rain (1984, Warner Bros.). Bill talks about falling in love with this music as it saturated the airwaves in his youth, and then revealing that access to this film and album would have been denied to him if it not for a precocious baby sitter willing to collude with him. The Bills and Brian discuss the Minneapolis scene, First Avenue, the Revolution, Wendy & Lisa, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.3	And I'm Brian.
0:03.1	What are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.5	1984's Purple Rain by Prince.
0:32.5	Yeah. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:39.4	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do by talking about how we got into the music, what makes it cool, and then we're going to get to a track-by-track review.
0:44.8	Ooh, you know how I love my track-by-track reviews.
0:48.8	And we're not going to do it alone this week, Brian.
0:50.9	No, not today.
0:52.0	Not today.
0:52.9	I've got a fellow Bill that joined us earlier. We're recording this after, Brian. No, not today. Not today. I've got a fellow Bill that joined us earlier.
0:56.2	We're recording this after, but Bill Ackerman from the Supporting Characters podcast.
1:02.3	Yeah, drove up from his home in Maryland, actually, to join us in studio.
1:07.3	So that was cool.
1:07.9	We were going to originally do it, you know, via Skype.
1:10.9	Yeah, that's what I assumed. And then he kind of just swooped in last minute. He's like,
1:14.5	well, you know what? It's not that far. So he figured he'd just take the, take the drive up. And we
1:19.9	appreciate that. That means a lot. Especially since he was a pinch hitter for this weekend. We originally had something else scheduled,
1:31.0	and that person unfortunately had to reschedule.
1:35.3	So Bill was like, yeah, I'll do it, and it just worked out perfectly.
1:36.5	He's like, yeah, I've got the time.
1:39.5	So, you know, it really worked out well, which was exciting. And it was also great because, you know, it was nice doing prints, honestly.
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