Pandemonium (The Time album)
Pandemonium is a 1990 album by The Time. Much like the three previous albums, the album consists of music in the funk-pop or ballad genre, although this album breaks the Time's six-song album tradition. The album is a tie-in with the film Graffiti Bridge, and several songs from the album appear in the film. According to biographer Matt Thorne, Prince co-wrote "Donald Trump (Black Version)".[2]
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Released | July 10, 1990 | |||
Recorded | 1981-1990 | |||
Genre | Pop, Funk, Minneapolis Sound, Rock, Funk Rock | |||
Length | 65:12 | |||
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Producer | The Time Prince | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA and "Jerk Out" became one of the band's biggest singles. The second single, "Chocolate" didn't fare as well.
Track listing
- "Dreamland" – 3:08 (Prince)
- "Pandemonium" – 4:11 (Harris, Johnson, Lewis, Prince)
- "Sexy Socialites" – 0:23
- "Jerk Out" – 6:49 (Day, Harris, Lewis, Prince)
- "Yount" – 0:22
- "Blondie" – 6:27 (Harris, Johnson, Lewis)
- "Donald Trump (Black Version)" – 4:33 (Prince)
- "Chocolate" – 7:31 (Prince)
- "Cooking Class" – 0:42 (Prince)
- "Skillet" – 6:11 (Harris, Johnson, Lewis)
- "It's Your World" – 5:25 (Harris, Lewis)
- "Sometimes I Get Lonely" – 6:15 (Day, Harris, Lewis, Moir)
- "Data Bank" – 5:36 (Prince)
- "My Summertime Thang" – 6:52 (Prince)
- "Pretty Little Women" – 0:46
Reception
"The songs' obsessions with sex, food and time scream 'concept'," remarked Michele Kirsch in a 4 out of 5 review for Select, "but only in a fun, sexy, blaxploitation movie soundtrack kind of way. Lots of background jive talk, chat up lines and bogus off-tape comments make you feel like you're gatecrashing a party at the point where everybody pairs off to go to his or her place… Bastard sons of George Clinton, take a bow."[3]
Singles and chart placings
- "Jerk Out" (#1 R&B, #9 Pop)
- "Jerk Out"
- "Mo' Jerk Out" – 7" single
- "Get It Up" – 12" single
- "Jerk Out" (Sexy Mix) – 12" single
- "Jerk Out" (Sexy Edit) – 12" single
- "Jerk Out" (A Capella) – 12" single
- "Jerk Out" (Sexy Dub) – 12" single
- "Jerk Out" (Sexy Instrumental) – 12" single
- "Chocolate" (#44 R&B)
- "Chocolate"
- "My Drawers"
- "Chocolate" (12 Inch Remix) – 12" single
- "Chocolate" (Tootsie Roll Club Mix) – 12" single
- "Chocolate" (Instrumental) – 12" single
- "Chocolate" (Percapella) – 12" single
Notes
- Pandemonium at AllMusic
- Tessa Stuart (2016-04-22). "Hear Prince and the Time's 1990 Song About Donald Trump – Rolling Stone". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
- Select, September 1990