Prince - Graffiti Bridge (1990) - The Facts You DIDN'T Know
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- čas přidán 3. 05. 2020
- 1990 saw the release of Prince's 12th album, and 4th soundtrack record, Graffiti Bridge. Whilst much of the music is up there with Prince's greatest work, the movie was not a commercial success, and led to a change in direction for Prince in the face of a new decade. But what led to this? What was the original concept for the movie and why did it change so much over time? Lay down your funky weapon and join us and we explore all this and MORE!
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Let us know your fave song from Graffiti Bridge, what you thought of the movie, and please subscribe if you haven't already! Enjoy! 💜
Joy In Repetition was EVERYTHING!!!
‘The Question of U’ HANDS DOWN!!! Classic prince sound; the electronic percussion, the synths, and that MONSTER GUITAR SOLO!!!! HO-LY %#*$
I can't believe nobody mentioned "Still Would Stand All Time". That song is overlooked too. I mean that ending of that song when he sings the title was downright gospel! 💜
Movie saved my life as a teenager, will always have a mystical spiritual & serendipitous place with me, regardless of how the general public feels about the movie.
My favorite song off the album(at the moment) is Elephants and Flowers.
"Melody Cool" is truly one of the most under-appreciated and underrated jams on that soundtrack!
“Joy in Repetition” and ‘The Question of U’
The movie was a head of it's time. Like Under the Cherry Moon. Prince was ahead of everyone. Even in death, he's still 100 steps ahead. No one will ever catch up to him.
"We Can Funk" is my favorite.
I wish Prince had made way more jams with George Clinton...
“We Can Funk” and “Joy in Repetition” are undoubtedly my favorites from “Graffiti Bridge”. They work perfectly together the same “Computer Blue” and “Darling Nikki” do.
I lucked out & ended up seeing this before Purple Rain, I was 10yrs old, but wasn't allowed to watch Purple Rain till I was like 15. So I fell madly in love with both & rightfully so. Thieves In The Temple & Joy In Repetition are perfection & 2 of my fav Prince songs alongside Se7en, P*ssy Control, Live 4 Love, Electric Chair, Elephants & Flowers, and Thunder!
First Prince CD I ever bought with my own money. It was a used copy but still... I only had $5.
I have been listening to this album a lot in the summer of 2020. I did not like it when it first came out, so it took me 30 years to really love it.
Favorite song is "New Power Generation." The music of "Round and Round" is amazing. I would say that it holds up well after 30 years.
It's got to be 'Joy in repetition'. "There's Joooooooy in repetition"
My Favorite Jam On The Graffiti Bridge Album is "Thieves In The Temple."
So many good songs...but I'm going with Still Would Stand All Time. It has a vibe similar to Purple Rain, and I plays a similar role in the film.
“Blondie” is my favorite song from the movie, but “We Can Funk” is my favorite song on the album
Another landmark Prince album for me. I memorized every syllable, beat, and note. I also had a HUGE crush on Ingrid Chavez and played her solo release quite a bit.
Thank you so much for your coverage on Prince's GRAFFITI BRIDGE album.
"Thieves in the Temple" is still my top favorite on this album but I prefer the 12" full-length version which I finally have on the ULTIMATE PRINCE 2-CD compilation.
I love "Tick Tick Bang" and the level of rock he used on the album. I could sense he was still trying to experiment with it from Batman.
"Joy in Repetition" is my favourite Prince song all-time
The Question of U and Joy in Reputation are my top two favorite songs from that album
The Question Of U, no doubt!!
Love seeing this series of album histories. It has been a much needed bright spot. Looking forward to your exploration of Diamonds and Pearls. Keep on celebrating the legacy and best wishes for your health in theses times.
Being a huge Prince fan when this album came out, I read all the bad reviews about the movie very similar to UTCM and stayed away from the movie but bought the album, of course. When I first listened to it, I enjoyed many of the songs but saw it as just a bunch of songs mainly because Prince, for the first time, was including many other artists and it was not solely him. Fast forward 19 years later, I found the cd in my Prince collection and decided to give it another listen as it was probably the least listened to Prince album I had. Wow! I was stunned at what a cohesive and completely conceptualized work it Is! It was like a light bulb came on! What a masterwork it is! From confusion to redemption the story plays out through the the song cycle and I never saw the movie! I love Joy in Repetition
Another absolutely awesome installment to this episodic journey!
"The Question Of U"
Moreover, I like this movie, but I adore its soundtrack!
Love this album. Question Of U is my all time favorite Prince song.
Question of u and joy in repetition are true masterpieces these songs r brilliant
Joy in repetition. Had the bootleg for years, and when i found it on the tracklist on release day, i almost screamed out loud in the middle of the record store 😂
JOY IN REPETITION is a masterpiece .
Eye love EVERYTHING Prince did so eye can't pick a fave.💜💜
This project had so much potential- it just seems like Prince either rushed it- or did not put much vision into it
Long live the violent reality!☔️
Thanks, excellent contribution. A deluxe version of the album and film would be really a dream come true. As others said the film had so much potential. And some songs are pure genius. But imagine the album without thieves in the temple...! The last minute inspiration God granted to Prince to have at least a hit single. I love this song. And Elephants and Flowers.
I remember my brother , who is an even bigger Prince fan than I am, if that’s possible , said he walked out of the theater during this movie. I think he did it because he knew Prince could do better, and this video finally explains it all after all of these years. Thanks for all you do! 💜Purple Love💜
Some of my favorite songs: :Thieves in the Temple", "We Can Funk", "Still Would Stand All Time", "Round And Round".
It’s so crazy how these songs come from his early works but you can’t tell because his music is so timeless.
so no one is gonna mention “We can funk” ?! That’s one of the smoothest collaborations! Elephants and Flowers is my Jam, and Still would stand all time the Question of U - the whole album is - but “We can Funk” ?!
A whoooooooooole vibe. 😍
Still Would Stand All Time is such a treasure❤❤❤
We Can Funk, Thieves in the Temple, The Question of U and Elephants and Flowers are my favourites
Joy in repetition 👌
Thanks so much! My first job was at a movie theater when this came out and I got to see it multiple times with a scant amount of folks...so we got to dance around and I also got the poster and the marquee that hangs above the specific theater showing it. Great memories!
Great video. I'd already heard I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got (86 version), We Can Funk (also 86 version. actually both were part of a 3 song medley that starts with Girl Of My Dreams) and Joy In Repetition on bootleg about a year before this movie came out. Of the 3 only Joy In Repetition sounds exactly the same.
“The sequel” 2 purple rain should have been made during the Diamonds & pearls era....it would have dated much better and been accepted by the mainstream public with strong singles like cream & gett off
My favourite song from GB is Tick tick bang
Right down Gospel Classics
"Love the one who is love
The one who gives us the power..."
- 🐘 & 💐
You better 🏃♂️ to the 💡
Leave your past behind
-Still Would Stand All Time
There is a future
A future worth 👊🏽4...
Everybody wants to find
- Graffiti 🌉
Love your content! Rewatched Graffiti Bridge and appreciated coming back for this context
Elephants and Flowers has and still is my fav song on the album. Inspires me every time I sit down to be creative.
Joy in Repetition is my all-time #1 favorite Prince song.
These videos are incredible- thank you so much for the time and effort! Bout to go for a run and put on Graffiti Bridge 🤘🏻
Elephants and flowers!☔️
My favorite song on this album is Joy In Repetiton. I almost died when finally played it live at Paisley Park..such a great song...second Elephant and Flowers
Joy in Repetition is one of my top 5 favorite Prince songs. This album, the Prince songs, are solid. I don’t listen to the songs sung by others.
Question of U and Joy in Repetition. And I also think this is the superior version of Joy in repetition. When I've heard it first, I was totally blown away...And the video for Thieves in the Temple was awsome. It got me screaming 😍.
I was enjoying the background music so much that I missed half the facts!! LOL.
One of my fav albums of his along with Rainbow Children
This album had so many great songs, now I understand why. Although Prince was always creating music. I love The Question of U and Still Would Stand all Time.
Phenomenal movie. I am fond of music and movies about music. And I have been a Prince fan since I was in grade school(I heard his songs on the radio in the late 1980s). I started to buy his albums in my late teens.
Such a pity, album has such good songs. Till now NPG and Thieves is one of my all time fav Prince songs.
Great insight as always! I was looking forward to this video, and you unveiled the reasons for so many artistic choices behind this album, many of which I didn’t know. Awesome! My favorites in this album are: The Question Of U, Still Would Stand All Time, Joy In Repetition, Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got and Melody Cool. The movie? Meh, watched it more than once but never fell for it.
Joy in Repetition is a dimension unto itself-it's almost not fair because the rest of the soundtrack is so multi-faceted and fantastic. We Can Funk still hits hard and nasty! It's like the long lost b-side to Erotic City.
I remember my sister (who graduated in 84 and was obsessed and she always wanted to meet him because she was a lookalike for all his muses) and I went to see the movie and we were the only ones there besides an older couple that walked out 15min into the movie lol it was awesome! Oh and the question of U was awesome
I love all the insights of prince’s backstory of his albums!
I love the album and the movie ❤️😍
This was so great! As are previous posts. Thank you.
MAYBE: Elephants and flowers ? Really such a great record.
Nice video. I'd love for the Time's 'Corporate World' to be released with original versions of songs. I heard them on CZcams and downloaded the audio but would definitely purchase the official project.
If the script was sanitized a bit, it would make a great high school musical. I like "Elephants and Flowers" "New Power Generation " and The Question of You". What is it about those hand claps that is so captivating anyway? A movie that didn't know what to focus on. Oh yeah, I love The Time's performance of "Shake." Lots of great music.
I love this album!
I'd say my favs are New Power Generation, Round and Round, and The Latest Fashion.
"The Latest Fashion" was another released 12" Single on the "Shake" 12" Remixes CD Single.
Hbd to my favorite artist! My favorite off this album is Joy & Repetition ☔️🙏🏽❤️🤴🏾🥃💯
These are soloo good!❤️
Prince was what Tiffany Fitzhenry called below the line by that time. The spiritual themes and shying away from past formulas put him at odds with those who can greenlight budgets. No director of note would touch it because they too knew the fix was in.
I need to go revisit this one
Thanks for confirming my suspicions about this project. Although, I probably did enjoy the album more than most people, I have always thought that a large majority of it was culled from Prince's vaults. A lot of this is masked by giving the tracks a more updated mix with studio wizardry, and perhaps some added over dubs. For example the drums on Tick, Tick, Bang are actually sampled from the Jimi Hendrix Experience song 'Little Miss Lover' (Axis: Bold As Love). Otherwise, I would've dated the lead-off track 'Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got' to be somewhere to be during the sessions for the ''Controversy '' album. Also I would've had 'Elephants & Flowers' and the 'Question of You' as being from the "Around the World In a Day" sessions because of the psychedelic experimentation, etc.
remember an interview of The Time at the time the movie was released (it must have been on MTV Europe); they said that when they received the script, it was a The Time movie featuring Prince, telling the story of the group the same way Purple Rain told the story of the Kid. But when the shooting began, things had changed quite drastically... They came across half bemused, half gutted...
Great, fascinating info (new to me!). 👍 Prince’s movies are cute but mostly trash...but obviously the music is usually excellent, like with this one.
Tick Tick Bang is my joint! Close 2nd is a tie between Elephants & Flowers and Still Would Stand All Time
Besides thieves in the temple and New power generation those are the two songs that I love on this CD
Not one of my fav P albums, but that’s why it’s great to see these videos, reminds me to keep exploring, hell if Joy was the only song on it it would still be worth it!
This was wonderful. I like the album alot and the movie is fun as early 90s cheese, though its hurt by being a psuedo sequel to the masterpiece Purple Rain movie.
Also i didn't know there was a deleted performance of the title track. I've always wanted to see Prince perform 'Graffiti Bridge' song live, so i'll have to track that scene down.
Personally I think Graffiti Bridge era is so interesting in terms of the history. I really want to hear the original Configuration of Graffiti Bridge unreleased songs w/ Madonna.
Purple Rain
Darling Nikki
Dance Electric
The Screams Of Passion
The Glamorous Life
When Doves Cry
🎶💞🎶💞🎶💞🎶💞🎶
The highlights for me are "The Question of U" and "Still Would Stand All Time". I already had "Joy in Repetition" on bootleg, along with an earlier version of "Can't Stop This Feeling I Got".
I love the '86 version of "We Can Funk" but was disappointed by the version on Graffiti Bridge. On paper, Prince and George Clinton together promise to be monumental but it wasn't.
I would have preferred it if the songs sung by others had appeared on a separate disc. The Time tracks could have easily gone on Pandemonium and the Tevin Campbell track did appear on his own album and didn't need to be included here.
This was the first time I didn't get into every track, a trend that would continue until The Rainbow Children which would be the first time since the Eighties where I enjoyed the album from start to finish.
As for the movie, it seems like two movies in one, a spiritual quest and a silly Hollywood musical, the problem being that they get in each other's way and neither idea was fully realized.
Prince may have had potential as a filmmaker, but in order to be really great at it would have required as much time and energy as he spent on music and you can't have total devotion to more than one thing.
I am eager to hear the unreleased tracks. I have "The Grand Progression" and "Big Tall Wall" but I was unaware of "Bloody Mouth" and "Beattown" until watching this video.
I remember thinking when this album was released that while there was some great stuff on there(of course there is, it’s Prince) there’s only one PERFECT song. Joy In Repetition. Absolutely perfect in every way. And perfect Prince is better than anything.
This Is a master piece but then again I think all his albums r, my favorite song in this album was graffiti bridge
I loved “Graffiti Bridge” I know their was a lot of hate towards the movie but I completely understood the concept of the movie and fell in love with it. Although, I do agree that some scenes could have been better with longer lines/better location shots it still was a good movie to me I absolutely fell in LOVE with the soundtrack the first time I heard it but if I had to pick my top favorite it would have to be “The Question of U” that song plus the guitar solo is mesmerizing and simply beautiful I’m so glad Prince picked that song to be on the album 💙💙💙 I believe that Prince was in the middle of writing Graffiti Bridge when Warner pushed him to do Purple Rain 2 and I don’t think he really wanted to do it right then so maybe he just mesh the two ideas in one movie which caused many people to not like it I think Graffiti Bridge should have been it’s own movie and Purple Rain should have been made after Graffiti Bridge it would have given P alittle more time to think of what he wanted in Purple Rain 2 with that being said I completely agree with your statement ‼️
fave song off the album for a long time was Elephants and Flowers
Graffiti Bridge failed as a movie because it lacked gwnuine structure and a solid plot. Why an actual screenwriter wasnt2brought in to synthesize the mish mash of ideas I don't know, but it clearly would've solved a lot of problems and raised the quality of the story.
The songs I like off the soundtrack are:
Melody Cool and N.P.G. (both parts).
Although as with most of Prince's albums I love all the songs on it. Tick, tick, Bang, Joy in Repetition, and Shake most notably.
Elephants and Flowers is the jam off this album.
"PIMPS AND THANGS...THEY LIKE TO HANG OUT AND CUSS!!!".......THERE'S JOY IN REPETITION.........."------MY JAMMMMM!
I've probably listened to the song Joy in Repetition more than any other Prince song. (Including today, fyi)
I agree: Graffiti Bridge led the way to Diamonds and Pearls....and....the rest of the 1990s material....Love Pink Cashmere, mind....
Fun Fact: my cousin was a dancer featured in the movie. He didn’t tell me until I saw him and he just laughed. He was a bit older than me.
Favorite song, We can funk!!!!
I luv that movie 🎥
Near impossible question.
1. The Question of U
shortly followed by We Can Funk.
Thieves in The Temple Extended version - Fantastic!
Melody Cool How could you not appreciate that song?!
Great video Casey!
If I may offer another Graffiti Bridge fact: in this movie, Prince only wears black and/or white outfits.
Prince looked stunning in this era (no homo)
We can funk was crazy esp. When he did that melodic scream at the end. One of my favorite songs period along with joy and repetition. And ? If u
Love TVR!!!