Episode 90: Prince Special

Episode 90

10th June 2019

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:

Episode notes

The Albums:

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:

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!

In this episode...

Guests

  • Anil Dash
  • Meshell Ndegeocello
  • Illa J

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Hosted by Oliver Wang and Morgan Rhodes, every episode of Heat Rocks invites a special guest to talk about a heat rock – a hot album, a scorching record. These are in-depth conversations about the albums that shape our lives.

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