The Time (The Time album)

Occupation

• Vocals: Morris Day
• Guitar: Jesse Johnson, Prince
• Bass: Terry Lewis
• Drums: Garry Johnson
• Keyboards: Monte Moir, Jimmy Jam

The Time is the debut album of the same group The Time.

Backgrounds and images

In April 1981, Prince formed the band The Time of parts of the cast of Flyte Time, a funk band from Minneapolis. Thanks to its previous commercial solo success, he was able to a contractual agreement with his record company Warner Music Group negotiate, which allowed him to publish several side projects (partly under other names ). The Time is the first and so far the best known side project of Prince.

Prince is a songwriter and producer solely responsible for the musical and lyrical happening on the album The Time. Mostly there is the album of material recorded Prince at his home in Lake Riley in Chanhassen, Minneapolis. Although the band occupation specified in the credits of the plate and Prince is mentioned in a single word, is considered to ensure that Prince produced this album alone. A characteristic feature of this album is a strikingly frequent use of analog synthesizers and drum machines. This variety of the radio was later called the Minneapolis sound.

A special feature is that when publishing Prince was not stated in the liner notes. Most vocals were taken from Morris Day, who had to act under the direction of Prince.

The album was number 50 on the Billboard charts.

Title list

Side A

Side B

Singles

Trivia

• To play Prince reportedly said during the first joint tour at the beginning of the 80's about the talent of the musicians, The Time was the only band against which he feared rather than with her.

• The single " Cool" was covered by Snoop Dogg in 2007 on his album Ego Trippin