# What's your favorite song from the album Purple Rain? (POLL) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-from-the-album-purple-rain-poll/701620 "2014-10-17T21:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eddie\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/22d042/32.png) [@Eddie\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eddie_F)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-from-the-album-purple-rain-poll/701620/41 "2014-10-20T19:17:57Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > I’ve always scratched my head why only Prince’s songs were part of the ‘soundtrack’ album, Morris Day got pushed out of some well-deserved spotlight, even if his songs did see their own separate releases. A record label decision? Prince ego? Dunno. I reckon it was a financial decision. If my own memory serves, the plan for the Purple Rain tour was for Apollonia 6, Sheila E., and The Time to serve as the opening acts for Prince and the Revolution (as Vanity 6 had done on the 1999 tour, and as the Time had done on the Controversy and 1999 tours). And in order to tour, you (arguably) needed to have an album out to tour behind, hence the Apollonia 6 tracks ended up on their eponymous album, and the Time tunes were released on their pretty excellent **Ice Cream Castles** LP. Of course, then Morris decided to leave the Time, so that cut the touring package down to three acts instead of four (or two acts when I saw the tour: Sheila E. and Prince and the Revolution). EDIT: And I’ve no idea why Dez Dickerson and the Modernaires never got a release of any kind (save a few seconds in the film). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-from-the-album-purple-rain-poll/701620/42 "2014-10-20T19:21:58Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Why can’t you link? 😕 I’d not heard the song, so it took me all of 20 seconds to find[it](http://www.jukebo.com/prince/music-clip,how-come-u-dont-call-me-anymore,vrl05.html). Thanks for the tip - what a great song! …because I am a clueless twit? :smack::smack::smack: I thought I had searched for it - but clearly I hadn’t. To make it more obvious to casual thread readers, here is the link \*\*singular1 \*\* provided: [http://www.jukebo.com/prince/music-clip,how-come-u-dont-call-me-anymore,vrl05.html](http://www.jukebo.com/prince/music-clip,how-come-u-dont-call-me-anymore,vrl05.html) I am so pleased to have easy access to it. It is just so good - and I love the piano riff and how it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-from-the-album-purple-rain-poll/701620/43 "2014-10-21T15:59:00Z")
> [@Learjeff](#): > > I really don’t know Prince’s music much; never had any of his albums. \ I wasn’t a huge fan until I met my husband, who had all of Prince’s albums at the time. I got to know his catalogue, and I was a complete convert. My favourite songs and albums of his aren’t well known at all (I did a quick look to see which album I would consider my favourite, and it’s about a five-way tie). My point is, it’s really worth it to get to know the rest of his music. Oh, I voted for “I Would Die 4 U” in the poll. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-from-the-album-purple-rain-poll/701620.md?page=2)