Ice Cream Castle by The Time

Ice Cream Castle, the third studio album from Minneapolis funk rock band the Time, came out on Warner Bros. in 1984 with Prince producing under the name "The Starr Company". Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had left the year before, but Morris Day was still out front, with Jesse Johnson on guitar, Jellybean Johnson on drums and Monte Moir, Mark Cardenas and St. Paul on keyboards.

This is the Minneapolis sound at full swagger: funk, new wave and dance music mashed together, rubbery synth bass, choppy guitar and Day's vocals dripping with cool. The singles were "Ice Cream Castles", "Jungle Love" and "The Bird", and the last two are the kind of party records that make a dance floor forget its manners. It follows What Time Is It? and was followed by Pandemonium.

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