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Prince: Parade (Original Soundtrack - Under The Cherry Moon)

Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 12 April 1986

I TOOK 'Kiss' as a signal that we were being ushered back into the compressed, airtight funkworld of Dirty Mind. Didn't flip over the song itself – slick metronome sexgospel – but what a relief to hear that funky, flecked, flicking guitar again.

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