40 years ago today, October 8, 1980, was a great day for music.
On that day, Prince released his 3rd album, Dirty Mind. He wrote, produced, sang, and played everything (except for backing vocals on one song and keyboards on a couple songs).
The Rolling Stone review said:
Prince's first two [albums] established him as a doe-eyed romantic.… Nothing, therefore could have prepared us for the liberating lewdness of Dirty Mind.… Dirty Mind jolts with the unsettling tension that arises from rubbing complex erotic wordplay against clean, simple melodies. Across this electric surface glides Prince's graceful quaver, tossing off lyrics with an exhilarating breathlessness. He takes the sweet romanticism of Smokey Robinson and combines it with the powerful vulgate poetry of Richard Pryor. The result is cool music dealing with hot emotions.Here's "Dirty Mind":
This is "When You Were Mine" (which was covered by Cyndi Lauper):
On the same day, Talking Heads released their 4th album, Remain in Light, produced by Brian Eno.
It's been said that no song on this album has any chord changes, which is only a slight exaggeration.
"Once in a Lifetime":
And here's "Crosseyed and Painless," from the end of the great concert movie Stop Making Sense (1984):
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