GAR! 172: The Prince Chronology, Part 1

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast presents a track-by-track album-by-album discussion of Prince’s career from his first album For You through to Controversy, including the self-titled Prince and Dirty Mind, as well as the debut album by The Time and the only album release from Vanity 6. We also talk about the early days of The Revolution, the tours, album art, Billboard charts, covers, radio airplay, record store memories, analog television, Andre Cymone, Ready for the World, Taylor Swift, hackers, and our new Twitter feed.

And since it’s about Prince, there’s a mature content warning on this episode, because yeah, we’re going to talk a lot about songs he wrote about vaginas. It is Prince after all.

Here’s the albums we reviewed. If you use our Amazon links, we get a small commission.

Prince, For You.

Prince, Prince.

Prince, Dirty Mind.

Prince, Controversy, pictured above.

The Time, The Time.

Vanity 6, Vanity 6. Sadly, not officially available, and ridiculously expensive, but still fun if you can find a copy.

And here’s the ad from the Courier-Post for Prince’s show at Emerald City in 1980. We mention this on the show.

The GAR! Podcast is the Glenn Walker and Ray Cornwall weekly podcast where they talk unrehearsed about whatever happens to come to mind. It’s an audio-zine for your mind, a nerd exploration of a nerd world, coming to you from the suburbs of New Jersey and the sunny lakes of Florida via Skype.

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Huge thanks to the team at PrinceVault for all the knowledge used on this week’s show.

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GAR! Podcast Episode 83: Christmas, Chris Christie, and Crud

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This week’s episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following:

sick opening / Ray’s hospital adventure / the Eagles Cowboys Christie controversy / South Jersey / Bruce Springsteen / Jersey Shore / hospital advice / crud and Purel / Longwood Gardens / Marie Gilbert – SJWG’s 2014 Writer of the Year / BBP Holiday Gift Guide / Poor Devil / The Ref / J.K. Simmons / It’s a Wonderful Life / Chevy Chase / North Korea / Angelina Jolie / Sony hack threat / MoviePass / Snow update / closing / holiday chocolate / Stryper / poor Scott Stapp /

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hangs out with Emperor Palpatine
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hanging out with Emperor Palpatine.

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Longwood Gardens

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Marie Gilbert

“Roof Oasis” by Marie Gilbert

“Roof Oasis” on the 2014 Biff Bam Pop! Holiday Gift Guide

The 2014 Biff Bam Pop! Holiday Gift Guide

Glenn’s review of Poor Devil

Glenn on A Christmas Carol

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