1. Space travel/Outer Space/NASA are not real. I bet a million dollars that you don't know anyone who has actually been in space. The moon landing was an orchestrated event to make us feel superior to the "evil" Russians in the paranoid Cold War days....
While Purple Rain was still a megahit, Mr. Nelson had the balls to release this album, which is sort of his take on 60's psychedelia. It was a risky commercial and artistic move. At the time, fairweather fans were disappointed, but listening to it now,...
(Cue: dreamy synthesizers...as the listeners are lulled into the calm womb of the music, the dialogue begins:
"Daddy?"
"Yes, son?"
"What does regret mean?"
"Well son, a funny thing about regret is: that it's better to regret something you have done...
I feel like it is my duty to review/listen to this band a lot, because they are most likely the most important band working today, and none of us over 25 can truly understand their music.
In other words, maybe I'm just trying to be some sort of...
