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Dirty Mind by Prince
Dirty Mind is an album by Prince, released in 1980. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “When You Were Mine”, on 4 lists with a best position of #108.
Dirty Mind, Prince's third studio album, came out on Warner Bros. on October 8, 1980, and it's the record where the Minneapolis kid stopped playing nice. He produced it himself and pushed his sound hard toward rock, sent his voice soaring into its high register and let the lyrics get openly, gleefully sexual, all while cultivating an androgynous image that kept everybody guessing.
The grooves are skeletal and nervy, funk and new wave jammed together until the seams disappear: "Uptown" went to number five on Billboard's soul and disco charts, and "When You Were Mine" is a bright pop song hiding in plain sight. It only reached number 45 on the Billboard 200, but the critics went wild, and its blend of styles rippled through black music in the early '80s. Rolling Stone and NME have since ranked it among the greatest albums ever made.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Dirty Mind on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When You Were Mine | 4 | #108 | – | 2018–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.