Purple Rain made Prince sound like he could do anything, but it still didn't prepare even his most fervent fans for the insular psychedelia of Around the World in a Day. Prince had made his interior world sound fascinating and utopian on Purple Rain, but Around the World in a Day is filled with cryptic religious imagery, bizarre mysticism, and confounding metaphors which were drenched in heavily processed guitars, shimmering keyboards, grandiose strings, and layers of vocals. As an album, it's a bit impenetrable, requiring great demands of the listener, but individual songs do shine through.
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TRACK LISTING
1 Around The World In A Day 3:25
2 Paisley Park 4:41
3 Condition of the Heart 6:46
4 Raspberry Beret 3:31
5 Tamborine 2:46
6 America 3:40
7 Pop Life 3:42
8 The Ladder 5:26
9 Temptation 8:21
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