Dirty Mind is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter and musician Prince. It was released on October 8, 1980, by Warner Bros. Records.
The album is notable for Prince's increasing reliance on rock music elements, high register vocals, sexually explicit lyrical themes and an androgynous image. Critics have hailed its fusion of genres for influencing urban black music of the early 1980s, and its lyrics for influencing more sexually explicit music.
The first single from Dirty Mind, "Uptown", reached number five on both the Billboard Hot Soul Singles and the Billboard National Disco Action Top 30 charts. Although the album only reached number 45 on the Billboard 200, it was met with widespread critical acclaim. The album has retrospectively been ranked by Pitchfork and Slant as one of the greatest of the 1980s, and by Rolling Stone and NME as one of the greatest albums of all time.
A fusion of funk, new wave, R&B and dance, Dirty Mind also contains more rock-oriented beats than Prince's previous albums,[1] as well as elements of punk rock on the track "Sister".[7] Half of the songs were composed by Prince on tour, when he and his band had a slot opening for Rick James.[8]
The album was recorded in a makeshift 16-track studio in the basement of Prince's home on Lake Minnetonka, with Prince engineering the album himself, credited under the pseudonym Jamie Starr.[8] Sessions occurred in May and June 1980, with Prince playing nearly all of the instruments himself,[1] and several of the songs were recorded in one night.[8] The album contrasted with Prince's previous ones in its raw and unpolished production style, with several of the tracks being essentially demos.[7] The production presents a clean sound with minimal distortion or reverb, more akin to power pop or punk rock.[9] Barry Walters of Pitchfork later observed that, "Whereas Prince's '70s albums proclaimed his virtuosity, here he achieves much more by confining himself to the simplest, boldest strokes."[10] It is the only Prince album to not feature a "slow jam".
Dirty Mind peaked at number 45 on the Billboard 200 and number 7 on the Billboard Top Black Albums chart. The first single, "Uptown", reached number five on both the Billboard Hot Soul Singles and Dance Club Songs charts,[9] but only 101 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. The title track was released as the second single and was modestly successful on the R&B chart. The songs "Uptown", "Dirty Mind", and "Head" were released together, reaching the dance chart's top five.
On June 6, 1984, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[13] Following the death of Prince in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 and also entered the album charts in France, Switzerland and the UK for the first time.
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