I'm a huge Prince fan. I've got memories of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World being on heavy rotation on MTV one summer during my youth. I was also enthralled by his album covers when I came across them in my dad's vinyl collection. The cover for Around the World in a Day especially grabbed me and I can still remember the snap, crackle and pop of the old record player as I listened to Raspberry Beret.
It was when Prince appeared on an episode of Muppets Tonight in 1997 that my 10 year old mind really began to "get" his music. He performed Starfish and Coffeeand it lodged itself in my brain. It became that song that would pop into my head at random for the next 16 years until I rediscovered it around the time he released the albums PLECTRUMELECTRUM with 3RDEYEGIRL and ART OFFICIAL AGE on the same day.
What I didn't know is that Prince shared my love of Myst. I own 3 mobile versions and 2 desktop versions of the 1993 graphic adventure from Cyan World's that set the bars for what a point and click game could be and ushered in the age of full 3D first person adventure game. Prince loved the game so much that in 1994 he released Prince Interactive. Players explored a digital re-imagining of Paisley Park solving puzzles and unlocking more and more Prince songs as they go. I've never played it but it has reached a kind of cult status online. Featured on the game is the opening track to Purple Rain, a song that would become Prince's anthem and this weeks featured track: Let's Go Crazy.
