Prince Special

The Albums: 

Prince: Dirty Mind (1980) Prince: 1999 (1982) Prince: Purple Rain (1984)

Hard to believe but Prince's landmark album Purple Rain turns 35 years this week (and the Purple One himself would have just celebrated his 61st birthday last week). In honor of these milestones and the fact that Prince is one of Heat Rocks' Triple Crown winners (i.e. his albums have been featured three times so far), we decided to offer you a "Best of Prince" episode that splices together highlights from our previous three Prince eps:

#7: Anil Dash on 1999 #42: Meshell Ndegeocello on Purple Rain #77: Illa J on Dirty Mind

Show Tracklisting (All songs by Prince unless indicated otherwise):

When You Were Mine Dirty Mind Controversy Sister Partyup Sister Dirty Mind When You Were Mine Head D'Angelo: She's Always In My Hair Gotta Broken Heart Again D.M.S.R. Little Red Corvette Let's Pretend We're Married 1999 Little Red Corvette Lady Cab Driver All The Critics Love U in New York Lady Cab Driver Let's Go Crazy For You When Doves Cry I Would Die 4 U Let's Go Crazy Computer Blue The Beautiful Ones When Doves Cry Purple Rain Housequake Let's Go Crazy

Shout out to our Producer Supreme, Christian Duenas, for doing the edit work on this episode and if you enjoyed the highlights, be sure to download and listen to the entire episodes!