Posts tagged "Lisa Coleman"
Reconfigured: Prince and the Revolution, Around the World in a Day

Reconfigured: Prince and the Revolution, Around the World in a Day

In “Reconfigured,” we take liberties with revisionism by reediting, reimagining, and resequencing a particular album or albums in an effort to reconfigure the work into a stronger whole. Without a doubt, Prince’s musical output in the 1980s remains one of the most consistently innovative runs in pop music history. The only artists that immediately come to mind as matching or surpassing consistency, quality, and volume of Prince’s 1980s output are the similarly legendary runs of David Bowie and Stevie Wonder […]

Dearly Beloved: The Revolution Talk Reunion Before Rocking Minneapolis

Dearly Beloved: The Revolution Talk Reunion Before Rocking Minneapolis

Is the water warm enough for you to enjoy this interview with the Revolution, which was filmed just prior to their historic reunion show last week?

bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary MTV!! The Top 50 Videos of the Eighties

Turns out that the revolution WOULD be televised. The musical revolution, that is. On August 1st, 1981, MTV was launched. It was the first TV channel to devote itself exclusively to music videos. When it debuted (with The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”), I don’t think anyone had the slightest idea that MTV would turn into the cultural phenomenon it became.  Within a few short years, the video age began. The era of the faceless, unphotogenic rock star was […]

Share Wendy & Lisa, Why Don’t You?

I’ll skip making the obvious “is the water warm enough?” joke that I’ve made just about every time I’ve written something about Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman and say that Prince’s two most celebrated bandmates are musically talented enough that they should be judged on their own merits and not via anything Purple. Five albums as a duo, a career as Emmy-winning scorers of TV and movie music, tons of production and instrumental credits for the likes of Seal, Meshell […]

Blerd’s Notes: A Guide to the Music of Prince: The Side Projects

Besides being an overall bad-ass, another thing Prince is well-known for is his stable of side projects.The desire to be known as a developer of talent in addition to being known as a talent himself ran strong in the little guy, and Prince started spitting out proteges almost as soon as he became a hit artist. Some of the artists went on to create great music (if not have lengthy careers), while other artists came and went in the blink […]