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  1. And Purple Rain is Prince’s vision of the apocalypse (red (blood) rain + blue sky = purple.)

    1. I think somewhere he actually mentions the Rain as Purple and not red.

  2. I did notice that. In fact, the nit I picked with it was that the bomb went off well before the actual ending of Purple Rain, because that outro goes on forever. 😀

    1. Love that outro.

      As Prince deliberately plays a game of “holding off the resolution for as long as possible” by constantly moving to unexpected chords – new unresolved tensions, letting the nostalgic feeling ring out – for, yes, what feels like forever… before, with an explosion of all the instruments going all choatic, finally succumbing and giving you that resolved chord you’ve been waiting minutes to hear in one big “thump” at the end.

      You can tell he had lots of fun composing that outro.

  3. lol, should’ve been Soundgarden’s “Blow Up The Outside World”

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