3x CD, DVD-Video (expanded edition)

Purple Rain

Album by Prince and The Revolution

Released 25 June 1984

Tracklist

CD 1: The Complete Album (2015 Paisley Park remaster)
1
Let’s Go Crazy
4:38
3.9 ★
2
Take Me With U
3:53
3.5 ★
3
The Beautiful Ones
5:13
3.6 ★
4
Computer Blue
3:59
3.7 ★
5
Darling Nikki
4:14
3.3 ★
6
When Doves Cry
5:53
4.2 ★
7
I Would Die 4 U
2:49
3.8 ★
8
Baby I’m a Star
4:23
3.6 ★
9
Purple Rain
8:45
4.3 ★
CD 2: From the Vault & Previously Unreleased
1
The Dance Electric
11:29
2
Love and Sex
5:00
3
Computer Blue (“Hallway Speech” version)
12:18
4
Electric Intercourse (studio version)
4:57
5
Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden
6:25
6
Possessed
7:56
7
Wonderful Ass
6:24
8
Velvet Kitty Cat
2:42
9
Katrina’s Paper Dolls
3:30
10
We Can F**k
10:17
11
Father’s Song
5:30
CD 3: Single Edits & B‐Sides
1
When Doves Cry (7″ single edit)
3:48
4.5 ★
2
17 Days (b‐side edit)
3:56
3.0 ★
3
Let’s Go Crazy (7″ single edit)
3:47
3.0 ★
4
Let’s Go Crazy (special dance mix)
7:35
5
Erotic City (7″ b‐side edit)
3:56
4.5 ★
6
Erotic City (“Make Love Not War Erotic City Come Alive”)
7:23
4.5 ★
7
Purple Rain (7″ single edit)
4:05
3.0 ★
8
God (7″ b‐side edit)
4:02
3.0 ★
9
God (love theme from Purple Rain) (instrumental, U.K. 12″ b‐side)
7:58
3.0 ★
10
Another Lonely Christmas (7″ b‐side edit)
4:53
3.0 ★
11
Another Lonely Christmas (extended version)
6:47
12
I Would Die 4 U (7″ single edit)
2:58
3.0 ★
13
I Would Die 4 U (extended version)
10:18
14
Baby I’m a Star (7″ b‐side edit)
2:49
15
Take Me With U (7″ single edit)
3:43
DVD-Video 4: Live at The Carrier Dome (Syracuse, NY, March 30, 1985)
1
Let’s Go Crazy
6:20
2
Delirious
2:51
3
1999
5:50
4
Little Red Corvette
3:38
5
Take Me With U
4:56
6
[interlude]
6:46
7
Do Me, Baby
2:00
8
Irresistible Bitch
1:53
9
Possessed
4:24
10
How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore
5:10
11
Let’s Pretend We’re Married
4:19
12
International Lover
1:49
13
God
7:43
14
Computer Blue
4:27
15
Darling Nikki
5:01
16
The Beautiful Ones
5:17
17
When Doves Cry
9:29
18
I Would Die 4 U
3:26
19
Baby I’m a Star
10:56
20
Purple Rain
16:29
21
[credits]
3:32

Recent reviews

Teifi 22 Apr 2026

★★★★★♥︎

Best start and finish to any album out there

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gentlechow 11 Mar 2026

★★★★

Not gonna lie, Purple Rain carries this album so much, that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy some of the other songs. My favourite part of the album is Prince’s voice, I love how he changes the texture of it to a nasaly, emotionally charged tone, I think it suits the tones of the guitars, strings and synths very well. Some of the things I didn’t like about the album was the super eccentric, super 80s sounding songs like I Would Die For You. I think Prince as an artist works way better on climactic and atmospheric rock tracks.

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pussyslayer2000 13 Feb 2026

★★★★★

This album caused the sassy men epidemic

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Release credits

Ann Atkinson
additional [5], double bass [5]
Apollonia
background vocals [1.2, 3.15], lead vocals [1.2, 3.15]
Bobby Z.
cymbal [3-4], drum machine [1.1, 1.4, 1.7-9, 3.3-4, 4.1-9, 4.11-20], drums (drum set) [3.12-13, 4.1-9, 4.11-20], electronic drum set [3.3, 3.3-4, 3.4, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7, 1.7-8, 1.8-9, 1.9], percussion [3.12-13, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7-9]
Brownmark
additional [7-8], background vocals [3.3-4, 3.12, 1.1, 1.4, 1.9], bass guitar [13], electric bass guitar [4.1-5, 4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.14-20, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7-9, 3.3-4, 3.12], vocal [13]
David Coleman
additional [5], cello [1.2, 1.8-9, 3.15, 2.5], finger cymbals [1.2, 3.15]
David Leonard
recording [3.1, 3.12, 1.1, 1.9]
David Z.
recording [1.9, 3.12]
Denyse Buffum
additional [5], viola [5]
Dr. Fink
additional [7-8], background vocals [1.1, 1.4, 1.9, 3.3-4, 3.12], drum machine [7], electric grand piano [9], keyboard [12-13], synthesizer [3.3-4, 4.1-20, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7-8], vocal [13]
Eddie M.
saxophone [13]
Eric Leeds
saxophone [9]
Jill Jones
background vocals [3.15, 1.2, 1.8], lead vocals [3.15, 1.2]
Laury Woods
additional [5], viola [5]
Lisa Coleman
additional [3, 7, 10], background vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.7-9, 2.10, 4.1-9, 4.13, 4.15-20, 3.2-4, 3.12, 3.15], keyboard [3.12-13, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10], lead vocals [3.15, 1.2], spoken vocals [14], strings [3.15, 1.2, 1.8, 1.8-9, 1.9], synthesizer [3.3-4, 4.1-5, 4.5-20, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7-9], vocal [13]
Marcy Dicterow Vaj
additional [5], violin [5]
Miko Weaver
guitar [13]
Novi Novog
electric violin [8], viola [9], violin [3.15, 1.2, 1.8-9]
Peggy McCreary
assistant [10-11], engineer [2-5, 7-8, 10-11], recording [1]
Prince
acoustic guitar [1.2, 3.5-6, 3.15], arranger [3.1-2, 3.5, 3.8, 3.12, 2.1-11, 1.1-3, 1.5-6, 1.8-9], background vocals [3.1-6, 3.15, 1.1-2], bass guitar [10-11], cymbal [15], drum machine [1.2-3, 1.5-6, 3.1-6, 3.15], drums (drum set) [1.2-3, 1.5, 3.10-11], electric bass guitar [3.2, 3.5-6, 3.15, 1.2-3, 1.5], electric grand piano [10-11, 13], electric guitar [1.1, 1.3-6, 1.9, 3.1-6, 3.12, 4.1-3, 4.5, 4.12, 4.14, 4.20], electronic drum set [15], engineer [6, 9, 11], guitar [10-11], instrument [2.1, 3.8-9, 3.12, 1.7-8], keyboard [10-11], lead vocals [4.1-20, 3.1-6, 3.10-13, 3.15, 1.1-9], percussion [3.2, 1.2], performer [2.2-11, 1.9], piano [3], producer [1.1, 1.3, 1.5-6, 1.9, 2.1-11, 3.1-2, 3.5, 3.8-12], programming [1], spoken vocals [3], strings [3.15, 1.2, 1.9], synthesizer [1.2-6, 1.6, 1.9, 3.1, 3.1-2, 3.5-6, 3.15], tambourine [1.2, 3.15], tom-tom [15], vocal [3.8, 2.1]
Sheila E.
background vocals [5-6], drums (drum set) [9], lead vocals [5-6], percussion [13]
Sid Page
additional [5], violin [5]
Susan Rogers
engineer [2, 5, 7, 10], recording [1]
Susie Davis
keyboard [13]
Suzie Katayama
additional [5], cello [2.5, 1.8-9]
The Revolution
arranger [3.5, 1.9], performer [1.9, 2.5], producer [9]
Tim Barr
additional [5], double bass [5]
Wendy Melvoin
additional [3, 7, 10], background vocals [1.1, 1.4, 1.7-9, 2.10, 3.2-4, 3.12, 4.1-9, 4.13, 4.15-20], electric guitar [3.3-4, 3.12, 4.1-5, 4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.14-20, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7-9], guitar [3.13, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10], spoken vocals [14], strings [8-9], vocal [13]