Prince - Around The World In A Day (1985)

A1 	Around The World In A Day 	3:25
A2 	Paisley Park 	4:41
A3 	Condition Of The Heart 	6:46
A4 	Raspberry Beret 	3:31
A5 	Tamborine 	2:46
B1 	America 	3:40
B2 	Pop Life	3:42
B3 	The Ladder 	5:26
B4 	Temptation 	8:21

Prince - Bass, Composer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Producer, Vocals
Ann Atkinson - Bass
Annette Atkinson - Bass
Timothy Barr - Bass
Brownmark - Bass, Vocals
Denyse Buffum 	- Viola
David Coleman 	- Cello, Composer, Darbouka, Finger Cymbals, Finger Snaps, Oud, Vocals, Wind
Lisa Coleman - Keyboards, Sitar, Vocals
Dr. Fink - Keyboards
Eddie M. - Saxophone
Susanna Hoffs - Vocals (Background)
Suzie Katayama - Cello
Jon Malvoin - Percussion
Brad Marsh - Percussion, Tambourine, Vocals
Jonathan Melvoin - Tambourine, Vocals (Background)
Susannah Melvoin - Vocals
Wendy Melvoin - Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Novi Novog – Violin
Sheila E. - Drums, Guest Artist, Vocals
Taj - Vocals
Vaj - Violin
Laury Woods - Viola
Bobby Z – Drums

Purple Rain made Prince sound like he could do anything, but it still didn't prepare even his most fervent fans for the insular psychedelia of Around the World in a Day. Prince had made his interior world sound fascinating and utopian on Purple Rain, but Around the World in a Day is filled with cryptic religious imagery, bizarre mysticism, and confounding metaphors which were drenched in heavily processed guitars, shimmering keyboards, grandiose strings, and layers of vocals. As an album, the record is a bit impenetrable, requiring great demands of the listener, but individual songs do shine through: "Raspberry Beret" is a brilliant piece of neo-psychedelia with an indelible chorus, "Pop Life" is a snide swipe at stardom that emphasizes Prince's outsider status, "Condition of the Heart" is a fine ballad, "America" is a good funk jam, "Paisley Park" is heavy and slightly frightening guitar psychedelia, while the title track is a sunny, kaleidoscopic pastiche of Magical Mystery Tour. The problem is, only a handful of the songs have much substance outside of their detailed production and intoxicating performances, and the album has a creepy sense of paranoia that is eventually its undoing. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

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