A Divine Woman

Once upon a time there was a girl who deicded to make a album of Folkish Fairy Tale music. Drama and elegance was the game, Milla was her name. A blue eyed beauty who eventually became a Resident Evil and the color Purple - oops! I mean Ultra Violet.
That's her. Yes, really its Milla Jovovich at the age of 19 who sounds like a woman beyond her years.

The Divine Comedy is a album full of lush melodies and soft lullaby like tunes. Don't let that fool you because its an album to put on when you want to be taken away with. Its fun to listen to the charming mandolin workings in the songs.

The song "Gentleman Who Fell" was a single but really didn't reach the music masses who were too busy listening to grunge and hiphop. The song was good enough for me to see that Milla was at ease doing what she likes best. We even get a guest vocalist on this song, the ever talented Martha Davis of The Motels.

Its hard to describe this album so you wont think its full of nothingness. Its pure folk music with ukrainian influence flittering in each tune. Its an album that is Milla herself. Where she is from and her roots. I like that she didn't do the usual Pop/Dance album that most models do. She went far from that - almost on another level.

I will say my favorite song on the whole album is "Clock." This song is so neat with its keyboards and mandolins dancing around each other while Milla sings about being 'locked in a box with a window and a clock.'
The song was good enough that my sister did a cool mix of the song on her computer.

Driven by poets and artists, Milla puts out an masterpeice that should be in a museum next to a O'Keefe or a Monet.

Prince and His Revolution

Everyone has to say they love at least ONE Prince song. I don't care if it's "1999," "Uptown" or "Cream." There is at least a song of his that someone likes to dance to or to tap your foot to. The only album of Prince's that I had heard of was "Purple Rain"
which is a fantastic collection of songs.

I wanted to write about this album "1999" in particular because I NOW just realized why its the popular favorite of long standing Prince fans. I will start off by saying the amount of sex played up on this album is just incredible. I can see how the sex factor progressed from the song "Let's Pretend We're Married" to Purple Rain's "Darlin' Niki." :)

This album starts off with the most popular Prince tune "1999." Who knew that Prince would do just what he wrote about, crossing 4 decades and well past most would think the exparation date. This man won't expire anytime soon folks this man is just getting started. Like he sings "I don't wanna die, rather dance my life away." I love the album cut because it the end extends with Jill Jones and Lisa Colman chanting along with Prince to "Party."

"Little Red Corvette" follows next with its chitterchatter drum intro. The synthbass slides right into the song before we hear that she 'Had a pocket full of horses Trojans and some of them used.' Dez Dickerson, Prince's guitarist does an outright awsome guitar solo that proves that the song has made pop history. A pretty simple song about a car, or is it? Prince alludes that maybe Little Red Corvette needs to slow down and don't forget to COVER YOUR SELF at night! Lisa is on par with Prince singing that your gonna "run your body right into the ground" This is easly one of my favorite Prince songs.

The 3rd single follows, "Delirious" is a top turner. Squeaky synths pipe in on the chours. This song has a bit of a rockabilly feeling to it with those synths. Lisa sings co-lead vocals. Not to much to the song leaving it to the listener to find out the hidden sexual meaning to the song. Because every Prince song has one, don't you know! This song i never did like when I was younger. I still don't care much for it, but its ok.

This next song is quite a head turner. "Let's Pretend We're Married" is full of sexual innuendos before he gets explicit near the end of the song. Quite frankly he states that he wants to "Fuck the taste right out of your mouth" WOW! Thats right. But I think thats why i like Prince so much more. He can throw those words into a song and make you blush from head to toe or just to turn you on, right on the spot and you don't feel guilty at all. He makes it fun and not dirty. Some people do this wrong and it comes off as being raunchy. Not Prince. A great dance beat and a little "Ooh-we-sha-sha-coo-coo-yeah
All the hippies sing together"

This next song was originally omitted from the cd because of time restraints. Most of the songs were long going for 6 minutes or more like this one "D.M.S.R" going for 8 minutes. "D.M.S.R" (which stands for Dance Music Sex Romance) sounds like it could be the next "Brick House" type of song. Not saying that's bad, but it really shows some inspiration for that mix of Funk/Motown/Pop flowing though.

Now this is when we would flip to Side 2 of the lp. I have heard that people say its not as fun and upbeat as Side One bringing in more longer songs for filler. I don't think so.

This side starts things off with "Automatic." I really like this song. I think I like it because it makes me think of The Pointer Sister's song titled "Automatic." Prince's "Automatic" is more upbeat from the start. I like the beat and the snap of the hit-hat.
Another song with Lisa and Jill's vocals filling in the "A-U-T-O Matic" chorus. Most would be bored out of their minds with this song with the repetitive progression of the song before any change happens. Hang on with it, can be a good song.

I really wanted to listen to this album because of this next song. "Something In The Water Does Not Compute" is a Linn Drum ladden song. That's about it for this song with some synth chord progressions. This song for me is to be compared to Genesis's "The Brazillian" with its drums and synths playing around each other. A Mysterious song for the dark ones out there.

The last song I like really like is "Lady Cab Driver." When listening to this song I thought it sounded familiar. Then it hit me.
2 things. First the bass sounds like it was lifted from a Chic song. Bernard Edwards anyone? Nope. Not here. The next thing, is that it reminds me of this other 80's song called "Oh Sheila" by Ready For The World. Anyone agree with me? Go take a listen to the two songs and compare the verses and how they are sung. Brought a smile to my face.

The rest of the album is good, but these are my favs. I do like the song "Free" because its the only real ballad on the whole album. Got to have something to bring it down before running to the top again. Anyways, overall i'd give this album 2 thumbs up. Prince at his best swooning and begging for more.